(Above: and more monsters rising from the deep from Rowe here).
The great thing about the rise of the Donald - ill wind and all that - is the way the pond has been able to go cold turkey on US cable television ...
What a surreal experience that temporary addiction produced. Nausea, disbelief, along with an understanding of how anyone who watches cable can be reduced to a gibbering idiot within a Morning Joe day.
Now the pond can return to the joys of romping in the field with addled old farts of the Adams kind ...
Last week the pond actually caught up with a tree killer edition of the AFR - four bucks for a Rowe and Laura Tingle and not much else that was useful (not many trees were killed in producing that edition).
And folks still leave out copies of the SMH and the Terror on the train. No doubt somebody is already experiencing the joys of digital clickbait in tree-killing form ...
That was Peter Hartcher in digital click bait form - and now for a spoiler alert. The secret weapon? Pine Gap.
Yep, according to Hartcher, the Donald is so dumb, and so are Americans, Pine Gap will come as news to them all ...
And just to make sure that the pond was gob-smacked, Hartcher concluded with this tremendous insight ...
There you go Mr Adams.
Time for a plan B for your legacy nonsense ... if Hartcher is the best the Fairfaxians have got left, they truly are fucked.
As for the rest, the reptiles were quick to hop on the migrant-bashing bandwagon ... just like brave Bill Shorten himself ...
Damn you furriners, damn you Asian invaders, we're being swamped.
But how, you ask rhetorically so the pond can answer, will the pond, distracted by local fear-mongering, keep up with events abroad?
After all, there's much happening, from "lock the bitch up" turning into "don't want to hurt a hair on the good woman's head" and the re-stocking of the swamp with a prime selection of aged swamp creatures ...
Well, courtesy of gleeful, gloating, still triumphant reptiles the pond can stay in touch, though it seems that the Caterists are still in the "we won!!" "we won!!" phase, and haven't yet turned the corner into the "we won???" "we won???" straight ...
Yes indeedy and it's safe to say that nobody gets out more from Canberra and surrounds than a Caterist living off taxpayer grants ... and it would be wrong of the pond to point out that week in, week out, the Caterist is a media pontificator who spends his time whining about something or other ...
So let's get on with the whining gloat ...
Actually if we're talking of cultural revolutions, might the pond suggest to both the Caterists and Eric Lobbecke that portraying the defacing of the American flag is a tricky business in these troubled times.
Sure, painting the flag red isn't what it meant in the 1950s - dirty Commie Ruski swines - but defacing the flag isn't favoured ...
And more here ... the thousand dollar fine would pay for quite a few tree killer editions of local rags.
The pond just mentions it, in case the Caterists actually bother to get out and about in actual middle America, and discover how the American flag proudly litters every flag pole, porch or other display perch ...
Never mind, the Caterists are still in gloat mode ...
The great joy in this sort of fuckwittery is that the Caterists, making a living at - gawd help us all - an out of touch, taxpayer funded, irrelevant and totally useless research centre, will be amongst the first of those to go ...
It was exactly the same in the French revolution, when the machinery of the terror state ground down, or beheaded, anyone who got in the way ...
Up against the Breitbarts of the world, the Caterists are just muddle-headed, taxpayer funded, grant loving welfare bludgers of the old school kind ... and the Breitbarts of the world are now at the centre of things ...
The Caterists think they're immune, that they can keep on mocking the easy NY Times and Facebook targets and all will be well ... but suddenly these smoothies are starting to look left of the new centre.
First they came for Klugman, but how long before they come for grant-loving welfarist Caterists ...
Phew, the heat's on for 2017 ... watch out, if middle Australia ever learns where its hard-won, precious tax dollars get spent, scoring that grant in aid might get a tad tricky...
Cosmically comic, and enormously stupid, but that's the Caterists for you ... daring to talk of half-truths and distractions when scribbling about a reality TV star who won by peddling major lies, impossible to fulfil policies and who has never lain straight in his bed for the entirety of his routinely bankrupt business career ...
This isn't a matter of pontificating, it's a matter of maintaining a grasp on what in past years was called the real world, as opposed to the world of Alice that the pond routinely lives in, thanks be unto the reptiles and the Caterists ...
How stupid is it for a columnist to celebrate Middle America, or Middle Australia, switching off and not listening any more ...
Only in the world of the Caterists, rabbit down the hole, would ignorance be seen as a form of sublime bliss ...
But at least it keeps the grants safe, even as Malware receives a buffeting from Indonesia and the Americans get agitated about that Obama deal, and the infallible Pope summarises the situation, with more popery here ...
And that midnight run will be the least of it during the next year ... and then we'll all see how the gloating Caterists hold up ...
The Rowe vortex has stopped me in my tracks. As usual he has caught the mood. The Terrible Churn.
ReplyDeleteFunny too how Turnbull's ears now stick out at right angles like Abbott's.
But getting back to the Man-of-the-Moment.
Will his wife take the example of Jackie Kennedy and 'do up' the White House?
Versailles in Baghdad appears to be the Trump style. Lots of gilt and velvet. Mirrors. Huge crystalline light fittings. Hard surfaces. Echoing spaces. AND a white grand piano. I swear I saw the ghost of Liberace at the keyboard.
Miss pp
I hear that Trump after lengthy battles to trade mark his stuff in China has just been granted the upper case "TRUMP" as a trade mark there. Is it a coincidence?
ReplyDeleteI've heard Trump in interview say about the way he conducts business "threats are merely negotiation the outcome is the deal." A Trumpism? Keep on rewarding the bully, world, and make it a truism. So what's a Malware gonna do?