The pond knew it wouldn't be long before the dimmest bulbs in reptile Oz land began glowing at the thought of the onion muncher ...
The news, of course, has sent the reptiles into a tizz ...
Some blame a motley bunch of deplorables ...
The pond hesitates to call the Oreo deplorable.
That sort of misses the point ... especially when 'barking mad howler at the moon' remains available to evoke the tone of the Oreo's scribbling ...
Now the pond has to admire the Oreo's cunning, which is possibly a bit like a self-criticism session conducted by Maoists ...
First there's the acknowledgment of a few errors and miscalculations ... then comes the righteous assertion, devoid of substance, or examination, that the onion muncher's policy proposals are spot on ... along with the mandatory mention of the back-stabbing of a first-term dropkick and loser ...
Will there be any detailed examination of the mindless nature of the onion muncher's policy proposals?
For this the pond must turn to a new phenomenon - Oreo-flavoured beer ...
If ever there was a better indication of why the United States is on the path to hell, and why Oreos are the ruination of civilisation, the pond can't find it ...
Meanwhile, refreshed with the very thought of a drop so pagan and perverse, the pond must press on ...
And there you go.
Or there you went, because there's not another word about Abbott's policies and the substance of his insubstantial proposals ... proposals he himself never managed to follow, or showed any signs of wanting to follow ... the most obvious one being the snowball's chance in hell of reforming the Senate by way of referendum.
Instead there's Oreo talk of the latest poll, the thoughts of reptile Hudson, the Pauline terror, bitter pills and draining the swamp, a threat of the Oreo to leave the tent, blather about classical liberal philosophy - as if the Oreo has the faintest claim to be called liberal - and more blather Abbott as "the right man" and "muscular conservatives" ... (clearly the Oreo has never heard of A. E. Van Vogt's "right man syndrome").
It builds to that immortal, quintessential Oreo line: "Abbott is providing the intellectual leadership the Liberal Party needs..."
This is why the Oreo is mandatory reading for the pond, this is why the United States is drinking itself senseless on Oreo-flavoured beer ... the best drop for these Trumpian times ...
Now the pond has already linked to analysis of why the onion muncher's five point plan has its problems, and the poodle himself has barked and marked his territory by pointing out the "say and do" world of the onion muncher ...
But the real indication that Abbott is a lying, dissembling snake in the grass came with his tactical retreat ...
Well there's not much that can be said about that level of hypocrisy, which even for the pond's parade of hypocrites, reptiles and fools, hits 11 on the scale ...
Here's the odds on the real game plan ...
The mutton Dutton as the next leader?
Is it any wonder that the pond turned to the immortal Rowe to summarise the state of play, with more Rowe here ...
He means well?
Take your pick as to what meaning well means: The Shining, Freddy Krueger, or a psychopathic raven tap-tapping, rap-rapping at the window, axe in hand, and muttering "never more, never more"?
A E Van Vogt ? Oh dear. DP, that is a real blast from the past - not quite as much past as Brick Bradford and the Time Top, mind you, but nearly so.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, good old Alfred Elton certainly had a way with him: yep, there is his thesis about "the right man" (or "the violent man" if you prefer), and that pretty much describes and defines Trump (though I haven't so far seen any indication that his violence is "literal").
But then, there's a couple of other major "stitched together" classis of his (stitched together from a large number of short stories separately published over quite a few years).
Firstly there' "The World of Null-A" which being all about npn-Aristotelian "logic" is, of course, the basis for 'alternative facts' and 'fake news'.
Secondly: "The Weapon Shops of Isher" which is all about "The right to buy weapons is the right to be free". In short, it's what the National Rifle Association (and isn't it time that completely misleading name was changed) folks - at least some of those who can read - want to think of themselves as: the "permanent opposition" defending the American people's right to walk around carrying seriously deadly weapons.
But even old A.E. missed out on one major theme; for that we have to go to Asimov's "The End of Eternity" where Isaac gives us a fine exposition of the failures of the "Administrative State"
So there we go - anything you want to know about in advance, just find a good old-fashioned scifi writer who's already described it for you.