In which the pond spends quality weekend time with the dog botherer and Dame Groan, with inevitable consequences ...

The pond happened to catch Laura Tingle speaking to the always interrupting, hectoring and 'reading back to his guests their own work' Gundy one on RN this week - remember the pond's campaign to turn RN's current healthy * rating into an eviscerated disemboweled degutted * rating begins in the new year - and she unwisely pronounced the onion muncher as pitiful and pathetic, as his blackmailing ploys and pleas for a job grow more desperate and screechy ...

Who could argue, but at the same Tingle also pronounced the Abbott influence on Australian politics as happily dead and buried, departed, shuffled off the mortal coil, no more than a ghost in the attic or a mad bat in the belfry...

Or words to that effect. The pond knew at once that the Tingle had tingled - as the millionaire socialist who supported Assange and so his assiduous efforts to get the Donald into power likes to joke - far too early in the Xmas silly season ...

For a start, the capacity of feral mindless simpletons to keep on using the onion muncher as a stick with which to beat Malware should never be underestimated ... thereby giving fresh hope to the delusional onion muncher and his dreams of a return to glory... and if the pond wanted a classic example of a feral simpleton, why look further than the dog botherer?

Now of course DOnald Trump's victory shows nothing at all about the onion muncher and the 2016 election, except the infinite capacity of simpletons to brood about the past, and construct alternative universes of the scifi "what if?" kind. 

No doubt the Nazi defeat in the second world war shows that the Americans could have won in Vietnam, but only a fool of the dog botherer kind would bother to write it up ...

And what was with that DOnald in the google splash? 

Well it turned out that the logarithms were only transcribing the reptiles DOing a DO DOnald DO DAh DOo DOo ...

Coulda, woulda, shoulda, and in the end even the dog botherer has to squib it, and admit that the whole Abbott gambit is just a pathetic attempt at an angle, at an opening, down there with fool's mate and the immortal line "We will never know ..."

How the reptiles pay for this sort of enormous dullard stupidity, penny a word guff, remains a mystery, but the pond guesses we will never know ...

As for the actual DOnald, it's true that he is already looking and sounding and acting as stupidly as the onion muncher once did, and some stupid media outlets are celebrating the Carrier matter, as if it was sensible business for Mike Pence to hang around in the Indiana governorship just so he could rubber stamp a big cash bribe to the manufacturer and so make the Donald look good ...

We've already been down this path when it comes to car manufacturing and white goods in South Australia, and a few American outlets were wise to the game ...

That WaPo story is here, and the Politico story is here,  and that links to a Washington Examiner ! story denouncing the deal here as bad policy with at least $7 million in corporate welfare involved ... cronyism and Wall street live!

The pond feels like it should put a ! mark whenever quoting right wing ratbags shocked at where their populism has taken them, a bit like it should put in a ! mark whenever fools like the dog botherer try to breathe life into the corpse of their onion munching monarchist knight ... when all they really want to do is keep bashing Malware over the head and push him further to the right ... because, you know, climate science is a Chinese conspiracy using corrupt American data ...

Speaking of the political/media class, which naturally includes all the reptiles,  the long, the short, the tall and the groaning, no matter how they try to pretend they are mere mortal commoners at one with the lumpenproletariat and Tamworthians, Dame Groan is also in fine form this weekend, eviscerating Malware ...

Oh that's tempting. The pond might just interrupt its time with the dullard dog botherer to get a whiff of Dame Groan in full cry ... proposing that Malware has his own planet, just like planet Janet, though without the virtue of a rhyme ...

Actually that reminds the pond, it was the onion muncher who started the childcare nonsense running, so that at end of year the pond might propose it as one of the great contradictions of the year ...

Budget emergency, deficit crisis, national credit rating in peril, so let's throw oodles of money at child care ...

Oh there's certainly better ones, as the pond has noted, but by golly, it's not a bad contender ...

And now it seems appropriate to toddle back to the simpleton dog botherer to finish off the last gobbet of chunky croweater goodness ...

What's there to say about a climate denialist delusional who keeps harping on and on? And wants to maintain the rage and the Islamic extremists v. the Christian crusaders clash of civilisations running when anybody with half an ounce of sense just wants all the fundamentalists to fuck off ...

But if they did, that would mean the pond couldn't perform its basic duty of running the rest of Dame Groan, ranting and railing at Malware, and that would be almost indecent ... so here we go, here we go ...

Well the pond thought it would be an epic rant, and how satisfying it is, to see Malware clobbered from the right, the left, the middle and ...

... oh no, there's a cry to bring back the onion muncher from the doofus dog botherer sitting in the cheap seats in the stalls ... because if all we've got is climate denialism, copper dial up broadband and incompetence, at least we can get a knighthood as a bonus ...

Ah well, the world's going to hell in a handbasket, in no small part thanks to the efforts of the climate denialist reptiles, so all the pond can suggest is a cartoon, preferably a Pope if you want that tinge if papal infallibility, and more of that here ...

Scrub that chant "who let the dog botherer out?" Who let that bloody donkey disguised as a horse out? Why is it that ideologues of the ratbag onion munching right (and now Trumpian) kind always produce the biggest managerial fuck-ups and the most splendid rorting of the government's coffers? We will never know ...