In which the bromancer explains everything to the pond ...

The reptiles attracted attention this day with their photo of Australia fist-pumping away with a psycho killer ...

The reptiles so liked the image that they made it a feature of their digital edition too ...

It seemed vaguely disturbing, bopping along with a thuggish sociopath, and Warner had the eerie look of someone who had just emerged from the corn field celebrated in It's a Good Life ...

The pond has seen many examples of brazen lickspittle, forelock tugging, servile fellow-travelling, but this seemed exceptional ...up there with other examples that litter history ...

The pond knew that once again it had got the wrong end of the stick, and needed to be booked into a facility for correctional rehabilitation. But who would reform the pond's deluded moralism?

Well yes, there's every good reason for Warner to visit the Philippines, but did he have to get snapped doing a fist bump with a sociopath?

Indeed, indeed. No doubt the pond is a little slow this morning, and there's every good reason for Warner to visit the Philippines, and no doubt he's a fine and worthy chap, impeccably born and bred of genuine merino stock, and there's no doubt bribery is the diplomacy for the future, but did he have to get snapped doing a fist bump with a sociopath?

Say what? The two fist pose wasn't his idea? So who put his fists in that pose? Was he drugged, was he hypnotised? Was he deluded, was he a fool, or was all that merino breeding a dastardly form of in-breeding?

Oh wait, it's all in the nation's service ... so that makes it fine and dandy ...

I't's all in the nation's service ...

Meanwhile on another planet, where the media sees there's more to being a journalist than joining in the servile, lickspittle forelock tugging ...

More optimistic Rowe here, with the pond feeling the need for a short break, because this day the reptiles, and so the pond, have been doubly blessed by a second visitation from the bromancer ... and sure enough the Donald is featured ...

Naturally the thought that the bromancer was confessing to insanity instantly had the pond intrigued ...

We all know that's his natural condition, but it's always a beautiful thing when the crazy embrace the crazy, as the pond does every day ...

Okay chief let's get through the window with the bromancer ...

Of course Green was speaking before the recent Phoenix speech stirred all the usual possums and Morning Joe was getting hysterical about the nukes and the codes, and the minutes it would take to trigger an attack, and so was James Clapper in "Ex-intelligence chief: Trump's access to nucleaer codes is 'pretty damn scary.'

But it seems all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and there's an important contribution to be made in terms of ideas and analysis.

Like if you don't get your way, stomp around and act like a bully in a creepy way, and threaten to shut down everything, as in the NY Times' Trump to Congress: Fund the Wall or I'll Shut the Government ...

On a lighter note, the Donald is now going the full Lenny ...

There's more at WaPo here, but the pond couldn't resist a further gobbet ...

Well the funny thing is that the Murdochians, via Fox News, did their level best to help get the Donald into power, and now they're busy explaining how the Donald can be subverted or walked around, and how everything is looking rosy for Australia and the world ...

For that we don't need talk of Lenny, and a comedian on his last legs, we need the bromancer ...

Good news for us?

There's a failing Lenny Bruce wannabe in the White House and it's good news for us?

Well at least the Pope has caught on to the idea of a missile-led recovery. with more advanced papal military planning here ...