In which the pond dallies with a 54 year old angry dog bothering white male reptile ...

That surely has to be the silliest splash in many a long year, and Hedley Thomas can claim responsibility for it ...

Might the pond now suggest a few follow ups ...

Islamic Lebs living high off the hog, Pesky blacks doing it easier than older white men, Gay men preferred just because older white men can't get it up, and Triggs refuses to support reptiles in legitimate task of world domination ...

The prospects of an endless series of thought crimes stretches out endlessly into the future. As for Thomas? Any pedlar of the notion that he doesn't drink deep of the kool aid should surely baulk at this one ... as the reptiles finally jump off the deep end of grievance politics ...

Why is it so comical, apart from the zillion obvious reasons?

Well, in the very same digital issue, reptile "Ned" Kelly led with this splash ...

The reptiles have been home to grievance politics for years ... look at this grievance-monger ...

Not the poor old ABC again ...

Does it get any funnier?

Well yes, because there's also this top of the digital page quest for digital relevance, which is beyond the valley of the pathetic ...

Oh fuck,  they've caught up with smileys ...

That brings them up to 1982 if you're talking online emoticons, though hard liners might argue that analogue smileys began to roll out around 1900 ...

So many stupid reptiles desperately searching for relevance, so little pond time ...

And speaking of grievance politics taking root, spouting and shooting through, look who is top of the digital opinion page...

Never mind, the pond is the sort of all-day sucker who routinely falls for grievance politics as a source of rich, ripe, fruity comedy ...

And that dog botherer splash surely qualifies ...

Now right there, from the get go, the enormous stupidity is surely admirable.

In the splash and the headline, the dog botherer, so cosmically dumb he never fails to amaze, manages to confuse the real meaning of post-truth with "reality" and with an electorate ignoring "post-truth."

No wonder they need smiley faces to describe the phenomenon.

About now perhaps, the pond should remind the dog botherer what post-truth was actually supposed to describe, thanks to The Economist - dangerous, rabid, left wing rag that it is - scribbling in Art of the Lie ...

Actually, lost Economist, reptile scribbles are more vulnerable too ... how else could they run with the meaningless, fatuous, surreal and absurd headline "Post-truth was out there, but the electorate ignored it."

Post-truth was out there, and the United States voted for it - albeit a minority, but enough of a minority to sway the stupid voting system employed by that country, which ignores the popular vote in favour of the boondoggle ...

Let's see how it works out in the dog botherer, who is routinely and profoundly estranged from fact (and let us not go relativist French in relation to an understanding of facts just at the moment):

There, you see how it works, lost uncomprehending Economist ... it doesn't matter if you build a network on the basis of lies, distortions, misrepresentations, truthiness and post-truth bullshit.

Provided there's no pretence about the bullshit, it's all hunky dory and fab and fine.

You might care to re-write the dog botherer's conclusion this way "Fox got it right, portraying Hitler as a plausible contender. Fox also was, as ever, upfront about its own national socialist perspectives. Viewers can take it or leave it, but there is no pretence, and now with Herr Hitler, we can look forward to him making Germany great again ..."

Oh okay, here's blue tongued blue heeler for the Godwin's Law swear jar, but it was worth it ... especially this day, as we see the Daily Terror emulating Fox yet again ...

But, but, billy goat, if we're going to stop no-hopers with a true blue test, how the fuck are we doing to get rid of the drop kick losers in Murdoch la la land?

A true blue test? Racism never stops its work ...

Never mind, we now must learn that any tendency for the electorate to swing off into Murdochian la la land isn't the fault of said Murdochians going apeshit la la, it's all the fault of the libruls ... and the librul media ...

Yes, it didn't take long for that hoppy toad to pop out yet again ... the prattling Polonius one about the ABC ... see how the murmuration of starlings shout in unison ... though that remark about the Donald being a compelling figure gives an insight into the dog botherer's love for the fascist strong man ...

Now here's a guessing game ... how long, after we've done a dance through the usual xenophobic bigotry and blaming of the Islamic Lebs before we land on climate science?

And there, at the very end, in this post-truth world, is a brazen lie of the post-truth kind ... Australia is at the heart of attempts to hang on to coal, and the reptiles are at the heart of that movement ...

But the pond hasn't got time for the bouffant one pleading for coal, coal, coal and the Donald, and must get back to the dog botherer's big post-truth lie.

The usual response is as outlined at The Conversation here ...

Why get worked up about our climate responsibilities when Australia’s contribution to global emissions – around 1.5% of the total - is small? Here is the usual reply. Australia’s domestic greenhouse gas emissions means it ranks 12th among the planet’s 195-plus nations. We are 16th in the world for domestic CO2 emissions alone. And our per capita emissions are among the highest in the world. So our contribution to global warming is much greater than we often recognise.

But there's a bigger point, which Peter Christoff also noted ...

But in a post-truth world, infested by a climate denialist dog botherer, the reality is that the dog botherer doesn't accept climate science, and will keep trading on lies, fudges, and distortions, because it's in his nature ... remind the pond of how it works again, poor lost Economist ...

There's just one problem with that analysis, sweet lost Economist ... the suggestion that somehow the mainstream-media source might be some sort of cleansing, cathartic source of balance and incisive insight.

You see, the reptiles of Oz purport to be a mainstream-media source, yet it's full of dog bothering nonsense of the extreme kind, as weird as a trip to Breitbart News or the National Enquirer ...

When you read the dog botherer, Mars is teeming with aliens, the reef is fine, coal is great, climate denialism is alive and well, and anyway, it's really just a matter of opinion, and that's all the fault of liberals and their media...

So let's get a final gobbet of that essential dog bothering truthiness ...

Actually, the dog botherer could proudly own that last line, except that it's clear that he actually couldn't be bothered to make things better, and is perfectly happy to make things worse.

That's the way it is with climate denialists. The more the news pours in, the more they block their eyes and skip off with a glazed look in their eyes, humming the denialist tune "la la la la la..."

Has it already begun? Has the dog bother's hopes and desires come true at last? Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on 'politicized science' ...

Oh well, as the ancient sage said, climate science denialism is a plausible contender, up there with a young earth and creationism, and the dog botherer and the reptiles are, as ever, up front about their climate denialist perspective. Readers can take it or leave it, but there is no pretence. They are the fuck-witted luddites they say they are ...

Is there any chance of correction, hapless Economist?

Uh huh, the pond thought so. Mr Trump won in November, the reptiles continue on their shameless way, and the planet's fucked and so are we ... cast adrift on an ocean of reptile lies and dog-bothering dissembling, because, provided there's no pretence in being shameless liars and dissemblers, all's well in the media world ...

Is it any wonder that the pond turns to cartoonists for signs of hope, along with light relief?

Oh please, Mr Rowe, that's fair comment, but it's inclined to bring the pond down (more Rowe and his calendar here) ... 

Perhaps the pond might call on Mr Pope for a little smiley, just a little emoticon of hope and digital relevance?

Oh dear. More Pope here, but it's going to take more than a smiley to fix things, what with the bigots now on parade ...