In which the pond realises that the bromancer might be the biggest threat of all ... at least if silliness is a factor ...

For a nanosecond, the pond thought that the bromancer might have been making an astute point about the immensely silly Frank Furedi lurking below him ...

Or the blather about provincial and deeply unrealistic mindsets might have been about fellow reptiles suddenly gripped by a delusional euphoria on the basis of a single speech ...

The Catholic Boys' Daily is on the march and on the warpath ... fire with fire, blowtorch to the meringue ...

But the pond is loyal, and the bromancer will always deliver the goods ... 

There's some classic Trumpist rhetoric in that flourish ...

Absolve Trump and crank the chat up to eleven by talking of the most fantastic ignorance, in a way that only the fantastically ignorant could manage ... huugge ...

Besides, there's also likely to be a little historical revisionism, a little triumphalism, perhaps unnecessary abuse of innocent bystanders, and a resolute willingness to ignore stories of interest  ...

Anyone interested in that story can google it at the NY Times or do a Greg Hunt on Julius Evola ...

It's not the citation that's of interest so much as other bits of the text, which Buzzfeed thoughtfully reproduced here ...

...I certainly think secularism has sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals, right? 
If you go back to your home countries and your proponent of the defense of the Judeo-Christian West and its tenets, oftentimes, particularly when you deal with the elites, you’re looked at as someone who is quite odd. So it has kind of sapped the strength. But I strongly believe that whatever the causes of the current drive to the caliphate was — and we can debate them, and people can try to deconstruct them — we have to face a very unpleasant fact. And that unpleasant fact is that there is a major war brewing, a war that’s already global. It’s going global in scale, and today’s technology, today’s media, today’s access to weapons of mass destruction, it’s going to lead to a global conflict that I believe has to be confronted today. Every day that we refuse to look at this as what it is, and the scale of it, and really the viciousness of it, will be a day where you will rue that we didn’t act [unintelligible].

Unintelligible? The rest with its monstrous paranoia and hysteria and talk of WMDs was intelligible?

But of course that war with the wicked secularists and the dangerous 'leets is one the Catholic Boys Daily reptiles fight on a daily basis ...

There you go, right off the bat. The pond promised some slagging off of innocent bystanders, and what better way to do it than to tear apart the ANZAC alliance?

Stupid, unreal, provincial, fantasist Kiwis, take your boot polish and get lost ... oh okay, we stole that brand too, but you dumb clucks deserve no better with your useless debates and hopeless world views ...

And now that the scent is in the nostril, and the Flehmen response has been activated, how about a bit of sublime historical revisionism?

 

Indeed, indeed. Now here's a pond challenge. The kindly souls at english.illinois.edu reprinted an excerpt from the Oxford Companion to American Military History regarding the causes of the Vietnam war ...

The challenge is to find Australia's name just once ...

What? You failed? You couldn't find a mention?

Why, you must be perfectly demented ...

And while the pond is at it, anyone interested in Malcolm Fraser in Laos might actually want to see what the trousers man had to say on the subject himself here ...

The trouser-less Fraser is no darling of the pond - the pond has spent a lifetime perfecting its contempt for the head prefect - but the pond would love to see the bromancer produce actual specific evidence for what he alleges ...

Here's part of a press release by Fraser from 27th May 1962 ...

The one thing that is likely to avert a conflict in this area is the obvious and clear determination of America and the SEATO powers to resist Communist aggression. If the Communists for one moment feel that we will not fight to save a country from Communism then they will attack that country. It is my belief that the Communists have eased tensions in Berlin because the United Kingdom and the United States made it quite clear that they were not going to be forced out of West Berlin, and made it quite clear that if the Russians tried to force them out the result would probably be a nuclear conflict. In the result, the tensions over Berlin have become reduced, because the Russians know as well as we that there will be no winners in a war involving nuclear weapons... 

The pond has no idea of its accuracy, though it echoes precisely what Fraser said in his interview,  but it would seem it's the sort of bluster the pond usually associated with the pompous head prefect, always willing to get out the cane and threaten anyone standing nearby ... much like the Donald ...

But does rhetorical bluster translate into actual desire to drop the bomb? Did he actually head off and urge the Yanks to drop the big one?

Well we'll see how we go with the codes in the hands of a man the bromancer has pronounced not the slightest threat to the world order ... while his key advisor struts the world pronouncing that the US is at war with Islamics, China and anyone else close to hand ...

Meanwhile, the bromancer closes his piece with an urgent desire for everyone to shut their eyes and ignore that Trump exists ...

The comedy here?

Surely it has to be the bromancer denouncing people for getting ever shriller, while scattering adverbs, adjectives and random insults to the four corners of the earth ...

The pond has only one observation to make about the bromancer's idle chatter about the unsophisticated, provincial and deeply unrealistic public commentary ...

GREG SHERIDAN IS A FUCKWIT ...

But why the caps? Well the pond is only emulating the sophisticated, urbane and deeply realistic public commentary of the POTUS ...

Thankfully at times of crisis in public discourse, the pond can always revert to cartoonists, though it prefers to think of David Rowe as an artist (which is why the pond rails against the AFR's cruel gallery format). More Rowe here ...

Is there an upside to all this madness?

Well the Donald has produced a Colbert bump ... for the first time, Colbert recently won his timeslot, though not all of the key demographics. Ratings have surged thanks to the endless opportunities that the Donald offers ...