In which the pond does a mega reptile editorial, Dame Slap burst of emotional irrationality posting, before retiring to the bunker hurt ...

Trust the Pope to set the right tone for a loser, dropkick nation - more papal infallibility here - and so it's off to deal with those nasty media elites, because let's face it, the nation is hopeless at cricket, and there are only two explanations - reptile media elites or Donald Trump ...

The pond's grandmother is rolling in her grave, while the pond is with the Queen and is vastly amused.

Sadly, the pond is off to the bunker again today, and so has only one posting in it, which is a tragedy, given the superb job the reptiles are doing in adjusting to the new world order ...

There's a charming mix of the old and the new, including a man who is a legend in his own lunchtime, at least in Deakin ...

The pond instantly went into "sneering elites" mode and wondered where it might find good examples ...

Unfortunately the pond allowed its vision to slide down a little on the very same Oz digital front page ...

Oh dear, so the sneering elites go searching for the perfect coffee, update their summer wardrobe, indulge in immersion retail therapy and head off to the Barossa valley on a bespoke package ...

Never mind the contradictions, feel for the reptiles as they try to steal the AFR demographic ...

You know, it's tremendously difficult reconciling shameless consumerism and rampant indulgence, while lecturing others about the way the plight of hard-done-by, long ignored and long suffering workers is of deep concern to caring reptiles (as if they really did give a flying fuck).

Thankfully, elsewhere, unaware of the shamelessness, the Oz editorialist let fly with more of the mumbo jumbo usual ...

Yes, it's up to the media to listen to the braying of clowns, and then to propose that the braying makes perfect sense ...

Remember how the reptiles used to love to mock relativism and subjectivism and all the post-modernist, post-ironic nonsense?

Here's how you can get yourself into listening to folk wisdom of the Being There kind ...

There, that's a classic Oz line:

"Worrying as his positions are, always look on the bright side of life. When you're chewing on Trumpian gristle, remember it's not as tough as it's often characterised, don't grumble, swallow it whole, digest it later, and give a whistle, and you too will be able to re-do your summer wardrobe, find the perfect coffee, take a trip to the Barossa, and indulge in immersion retail therapy, as is your working class right ..."

Now here it should be clearly understood that Greg Sheridan calling it for Hillary and getting egg on his face is just another of the bromancer's great calls; Barrie Cassidy calling it for Clinton is just sheer outrageous festering ideological barracking ...

As for the reptiles themselves, their tremendous reporting of climate science facts has always astonished the pond with its tremendous objectivity ... and now there's a climate denialist in the White House beavering away at climate denialism, no doubt they'll listen to the climate denialist public and keep in sharing a wide variety of strictly climate denialist opinions ...

Meanwhile, on another planet, 2016 is set to break even the temperature records of 2015 ...

It is very likely that 2016 will be the hottest year on record, with global temperatures even higher than the record-breaking temperatures in 2015. Preliminary data shows that 2016’s global temperatures are approximately 1.2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to an assessment by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). 
Global temperatures for January to September 2016 have been about 0.88° Celsius (1.58°F) above the average (14°C) for the 1961-1990 reference period, which is used by WMO as a baseline. Temperatures spiked in the early months of the year because of the powerful El Niño event of 2015-16. Preliminary data for October indicate that they are at a sufficiently high level for 2016 to remain on track for the title of hottest year on record. This would mean that 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have been this century (1998 was the other one).

But of course the reptiles listen to the climate denialists and share a variety of opinions that somehow always seem to end up supporting the Donald's opinion ...

Well speaking of Trumpian opinions, it wouldn't be a mega bumper post at the pond without the pond reaching out to Dame Slap and enjoying the juxtaposition of these two digital headlines ...

Now who knows if the top story is true, though the reptiles set their tree killer front page by it ...

If it is true, watch the spending spiral out of control, and the US debt go up in even more gigantic and huuuggge leaps and bounds, with all that might do for markets, and then wonder how a 'gigantic', 'huuuggge' military force might thwart China if all it does is stroll about like a bunch of pussies, rather than bunging on a mighty do ... say world war three for starters, and then we can see how we can push it into something really gigantic and huuuggge ...

First a few skirmishes between the two huuugge gigantic super-sized militaries in the south China sea, while meanwhile Vlad the impaler makes hay in Syria and what the Poms like to call the middle east ...

But that's the way it is with mindless reptiles. Give them a catch-cry like "super-size" and they'll take the burger, the fries and the huge drink of incredibly sweet kool-aid ...

Never mind, the pond must remain loyal to Dame Slap ...

Now of course what Dame Slap means to tell her class is "harden the fuck up", but of course she's too genteel and politically correct to actually say "harden the fuck up" in the proper Tamworth way, because when you boil it down, that sort of talk is the sort of mindless stupidity that might suit a sergeant major, but is singularly useless in the real world of the Dame Slap classroom...

Yes, the class is instead certain to cop the usual Dame Slap nonsense delivered in the usual strident school-marmish way...

You see, in Dame Slap's world, facts no longer matter, and Stephen Bannon and Breitbart are tremendously positive early signs, and this shouldn't be seen as a miasma of emotion, but an accurate reporting of scientific facts.

Others might read about the Trumpian Pravda here and wonder just a little, but in Dame Slap's bubble school, it's important never to question ... any flash of self-awareness would be noteworthy, and it's important on Planet Janet never to show noteworthy signs of self-awareness ... 

This will, in due course, have major implications for Fox and the Murdochians ...

What about the relationship between the Trump White House and a publication whose former executive chair is now in power? Cassino says that “it becomes like what Fox News was for Bush”, arguing that Bannon will see it as a media source he can trust, has access to and where he can get his message out. He points out that Trump is already appearing to freeze out other media sources. If true, this would leave Bannon as the main point of contact between an administration with a “bunker mentality” and its favored outlet. Breitbart will become “an influential source for the mainstream media to find out what’s going on inside the White House”.

So what happens when the extreme right is out-trumped by the even more extreme alt right?

Buckle down,  and scribble more furious nonsense about the need to harden the fuck up and just take it, like it or lump it, and so on and so forth...

Oh fuckity fuck fuck fuck ... the usual carry on, and all the worse because it purports to be about soul-searching, as if the rise of Trump shouldn't cause some soul-searching in Dame Slap and the rest of the reptiles ...

As if we hadn't noticed what's been happening these last few decades, and who has been doing it ... and so a single image will do as a response to Dame Slap in full mindlessly stupid rhetorical flight ...

It's the oldest con in the book, and all the more poignant that Dame Slap should routinely fall for the oldest con ...

Never mind, it's time to wrap things up ...

Yes, there are some classic lines there, which will no doubt be recalled as the Supreme Court is made over, Roe v. Wade is struck down, and lines like the biggest danger to women is not Trump, but gender studies experts, because gender studies experts have urged, along with Xian fundamentalists, for the bringing back of backyard abortions and the humiliation of women and the stripping of their rights (not to mention the right to go on pussy-grabbing as an expression of healthy maleness) ...

Well others might share Dame Slap's attitude to healthy human emotions and attempts at a little cheer ...

... but if reason leads to irrational Dame Slap stupidity, then the pond is all for emotion ... especially as there's an unseemly rush by all to don new hair colouring and new hair stylings, as captured by Rowe, and as always, more Rowe here as the pond heads off  to its underground bunker for the day ...