In which the pond drops in on the Bolter, but gets distracted by the impending apocalypse ...

The pond keeps in touch with the memes, thanks to the logarithms, and they came to mind again today when the pond, for reasons of absent-minded stupidity, dropped in on the Terrorists and the Hunsters and the Bolter doing his usual routines ...

Now it's just the Bolter going over the same old ground for the nth time and as tedious as sniffing a wind full of sparrows' farts ... but something caught the pond's eye at the end of the first bit of the rant ...

There it was, that link - the pond of course won't provide a hot link to any Murdochian publication, but especially one which runs "At least Bernardi stands for something ..."

With that sort of logic, you could scribble "at least Adolf (or Benito or Uncle Joe or Mao if preferred) stands for something ..."

Now the pond would rather go for a swim in a cesspit for its skin-enhancing powers, or perhaps trip through a pit of snakes with Indy, than actually read Panahi. Actually, choking on vomit might be better than choking on Panahi's regurgitations...

But the pond was reminded what Bernardi stands for, which is Trumpism, which reminded the pond of a recent story in the Huff about the dark master, and what he stands for ...

You have to read all of Steve Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is Coming And War Is Inevitable to get the full flavour, but if you indulge the pond and allow it to skip over the nonsense about historical cycles, swallowed whole by the delusional Bannon,  here's a snifter ...

...Bannon bought it (the cycles nonsense) ... 
 “This is the fourth great crisis in American history,” Bannon told an audience at the Liberty Restoration Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, in 2011. “We had the Revolution. We had the Civil War. We had the Great Depression and World War II. This is the great Fourth Turning in American history, and we’re going to be one thing on the other side.” Major crises “happen in about 80- or 100-year cycles,” Bannon told a conference put on by the Republican women’s group Project GoPink that same year. “And somewhere over the next 10 or 20 years, we’re going to come through this crisis, and we’re either going to be the country that was bequeathed to us or it’s going to be something that’s completely or totally different.” The “Judeo-Christian West is collapsing,” he went on. “It’s imploding. And it’s imploding on our watch. And the blowback of that is going to be tremendous.” War is coming, Bannon has warned. In fact, it’s already here.
“You have an expansionist Islam and you have an expansionist China,” he said during a 2016 radio appearance. “They are motivated. They’re arrogant. They’re on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat.” “Against radical Islam, we’re in a 100-year war,” he told Political Vindication Radio in 2011. “We’re going to war in the South China Seas in the next five to 10 years, aren’t we?” Bannon asked during a 2016 interview with Reagan biographer Lee Edwards. “We are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism,” he said in a speech to a Vatican conference in 2014. “And this war is, I think, metastasizing far quicker than governments can handle it.” In a 2015 radio appearance, Bannon described how he ran Breitbart, the far-right news site he chaired at the time. “It’s war,” he said. “It’s war. Every day, we put up: America’s at war, America’s at war. We’re at war.” 
To confront this threat, Bannon argued, the Judeo-Christian West must fight back, lest it lose as it did when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453. He called Islam a “religion of submission” in 2016 — a refutation of President George W. Bush’s post-9/11 description of Islam as a religion of peace. In 2007, Bannon wrote a draft movie treatment for a documentary depicting a “fifth column” of Muslim community groups, the media, Jewish organizations and government agencies working to overthrow the government and impose Islamic law.

This is a tie-less man who can wander in and collar the ear of an attention-deficit narcissist of the first water?

Truly, deeply scary stuff, though pace the dimwitted Panahi, at least Bannon stands for something ...

But then at least Panahi stands for rampant fuckwitted stupidity ...

Now this distracted the pond from the Bolter, who spent the bulk of his column yearning for a Superman, because that's what proto-fascists do ...

   

The pond scuttled through all this like a squid through dark ink, because at some point the pond suspected that the Bolter would get around to the alternatives and then the laughs would flow.

Would he return to the onion muncher, or had the Devine degutted the Bolter's deepest love?

Uh huh, speaking of dogs chasing cars, the Bolter's out in the streets, and when not baying at the moon, he's gnawing on the bone of hot contenders ...

Hmm, that's very cool on the onion muncher, when once the Bolter was ever so hot to trot ...

Maybe the Devine has turned him into an eunuch ...

Who else then?

That's it? The mutton Dutton, who even his friends will acknowledge is as thick as a brick, and who has all the personal charm and appeal of a week-old leg of lamb, or ScoMo? Or maybe the Xian or the wiki master?

Truly, if it's as if the Bolter's fulminations were expressly designed to give Malware a little more time in the job ...

Well after all that, the pond's feeling apocalyptic, so it's time for a little hard rain to fall, recording bumps and all, and dead time at the end of the recording...