The pond rarely broods about the Donald, but every so often allows itself a treat, such as the sight of the bromancer doing yet another of his famous patented chicken littles ...
Now it's clear enough that the bromancer wants to trade off on Sean Spicer ... how else to explain the use of "holocaust" in the header?
The bromancer cunningly got around the problem by refusing to capitalise the "H", but immediately the pond was swept up into the world of Pepsi, Nivea, United, Spicer and memes, as in Time here, and 'hold my beer' at the NY Magazine here ...
Of course the pond has enjoyed the Jimmy Kimmel spoof and the #NewUnitedAirlinesMottos ...and the assorted Spicer memes doing the rounds - by golly he's racking them up - but the pond is a professional student of the Oz reptiles and should never get distracted from the main game ... which is to say, the fun of seeing the bromancer in full, featherless, flapping flight ...
The way this lobster quadrille works is to advance astonishing and unimaginable horrors, and then to walk them back or dance around them ...
There, in a nutshell, is the bromancer gambit: "Most plausible actions will be essentially symbolic but still carry potentially enormous costs, which is not to say they may not be worth a try."
The pond immediately understood what the bromancer was saying:
"Most implausible actions will be essentially realistic but still carry potentially minor costs, which is not to say they may be well worth a try."
Life is a state of mind, and as long as the plausible roots are not severed, all will be well in the garden, for first comes the potentially enormous costs of nuclear winter, but that is not to say that after the fall and the winter, we won't get a spring and a summer again ...
In short, it's as fine an example of equivocating blather as might be found anywhere on the full to overflowing intertubes ...so let there be more refreshing and optimistic and possibly intrinsically organic insights ...
There it is again. After starting with "It is for all these reasons that support for Trump's actions has been so muted and so qualified", there must be endless wading through guff to arrive at "Trump's willingness to confront problems is certainly preferable to Barack Obama's determination to run away from them."
Indeed, indeed. That willingness has already resulted in tremendous outcomes in Syria ...and as for a decent sit-down serve of chocolate cake ...
Chance himself couldn't have put it better. Better to confront problems, but beware confronting problems ...
We should hear the drumbeat and expect something, but beware the drumbeat because it means we should be expecting something.
We should hear the drumbeat and expect something, but beware the drumbeat because it means we should be expecting something.
Why there's only one place where it's better to get a policy insight, courtesy of the good folk at Adelaide.edu.au here ...
Meanwhile, speaking of bringing the memes together, David Rowe knows how to stay tuned, with more Rowe here ...
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDelete“Stay tuned. And beware”
That’s nearly as stupid as telling people to be alert as the world needs more lerts.
Still it does give the opportunity to mention the inadvertent creator of North and South Korea, the gloriously named Charles H. BoneSteel III.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Bonesteel_III
Panicked by the rapid advance of the Soviets in August 1945 through Manchuria and then into the northern border of Korea, US military leaders called an emergency late-night meeting on August 10. Two colonels Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel were assigned to find an acceptable dividing line in Korea. 30 minutes later Bonesteel had chosen the 38th parallel and so the northern half of Korea would be occupied by the Soviets and US troops would occupy the southern half. The plan was sent to the Soviets who agreed.
In their haste to reach an agreement neither side bothered to consult Korean leaders.