In which the pond suspects that Miranda the Devine is a Russian hacker bot ...

The fiends, the cunning clever fiends.

More here, and needless to say, the pond was immediately alarmed and on high alert. Could it be that Russian hackers and bots have been using the comments section of the News Corp commentariat to communicate?

The pond has no actual evidence of this, but when has reality interfered with a News Corp report?

Might Miranda the Devine not just be an unwitting fool, but also an unwitting tool of Russian hackers?

Never mind, as the theme this fine but brisk Sunday morning is the Donald, the pond thought it might start by comparing and contrasting the uxorious approach of the lizards of Oz to the news from Hamburg ...

... with the headlines in the WaPo and NY Times:

Then there was the Graudian splash, a tale of woe ...

The point? Well the reptiles have been assigned the task of normalising the Donald and heiling his various wins and achievements, and "G20 leaders adjust to Trump" is the best they could come up with. Let us hope that the declining lizard Oz readership can adjust to Trump too ...

There's no problem making this adjustment over at the Terror, where Miranda the Devine was in full euphoric 'clash of civilisations' mode ...

Now there's a saucy choice, splashing on the Devine, or pausing with petulant Peta to ravage Malware yet again.

For the nonce, the pond went with the Devine, because googling up her column put her in such pretty company ...

Yes, poor Rich Lowry and the Devine were together in reich mind, in full obsequious mode ... but being a true patriot, the pond only had eyes for the Devine ...

Hmm, so Tony Robbins is still flogging his shit courtesy of the Devine?

Never mind, moving right along, it might be worth starting off by slipping in a little bit from Peter Beinart's piece for The Atlantic, The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump's Warsaw Speech:

Racial and religious paranoia, with generous lashings of bigotry? Why that sounds like the Devine to a D:

Oh look, there's a photo of the sneering elitists of Europe sneering away ...

Meanwhile ...

Well yes, it's clear enough that the Devine is a white nationalist, sub-genre Catholic ... and it's clear enough why she's the very best sort of News Corp reptile on hand to help make the clash of civilisations talk sound perfectly normal ...

And so on, but sadly the pond must now return to the Devine for a final lump of unashamed bigotry in service of the Donald ...

No wonder they get on so famously ...

And now the pond has to confess that it checked out the Devine's comments section and didn't find any Russian hackers, but it did find a swagman doing heroic battle with sundry bots. 

The pond has no idea who this swagman is, but every day he turns up to infiltrate the Terror columnists and to troll the bigots ...

Well somebody has got to do it, and the pond salutes the swagman's service, but thinks its much easier just to run a couple of cartoons ...

Bizarre, but deeply, richly fascist in its conjuring of the Donald ... up there with early Soviet art heralding the devine Lenin and Stalin ...

There's just one problem.

Seems someone hasn't yet heard of that pagan Greek tale about Icarus and getting close to the sun ...

... though perhaps all that talk of Greek mythology is a bit grand for good old Archie ...

And as for that tale about Ruski hackers and bots, Cathy Wilcox showed off the positive side of the full to overflowing dark intertubes. With the help of Devine bots, you too could bring back a loved one ...