In which the pond gorges on Foxtel, the Devine and petulant Peta, and immediately regrets the indulgence ... too much Xmas pud always produces a bellyache ...

The Sunday Terrorists managed to do it yet again this weekend ...

Please, bear that front page in mind when we get to Miranda the Devine, offering a more than usually silly scribble this weekend, which at least answers the question that tormented the pond's comments section for a moment.

Yes, the answer is dumb, the reason people buy the Terror or vote for the Donald is that they're dumb, the sort of sheep and marks and johns and tricks always there at the country show when the snake oil sellers arrive to do their ritual fleecing routines ...

Speaking of which, before proceeding further, the pond happened to note this report in iTwire here, including this substantial gobbet in relation to HFC and Foxtel ...

So there's the real (as opposed to unreal) villains on parade.

Bloody Malware, useless Foxtel, and behind it all, the shadowy figure of that monster, Chairman Rupert ... a bloody American, ruining broadband for the nativists ...

Is there any upside? Well yes, as the chairman continues to clutch at old-fashioned media, this was noted in Crikey (no link, paywall protected, by Glenn Dyer for those with access) ...

And so to the Murdochian feast for the day ...

Now by way of a preamble, could the pond just explain that it's not going to comment much this day. 

The routinely barking mad Devine goes off the reservation, and there's nothing much to be done except send out a search party.

The pond will, however, issue an unreserved apology to sandgropers. Somehow this Sydney cockroach turns up in Perth Now, which just goes to show that it isn't cane toads alone that poses a threat to life in this country.

The pond is mortified. Nobody in the east pays the slightest attention to what happens in the west, and next thing you know the easterners are dumping intellectual asbestos in your western backyard, and you just sit back and take it ...

See how the Devine takes her rabid place amongst stories of interest to Western Australians ...

As noted, this is so fucked up and fundamentally weird - in a way that can only be attributed to the Devine's fucked up Catholic fundamentalism - that the main question seems to be whether she might not be better off in a nunnery ...

What, like the chairman, an honest and honourable man, as they all are, all honourable men, who thus far has accumulated a number of wives - counted in The Independent in 2013 here - or the Donald's efforts, including this noted in Vanity Fair here ...

...Propping up Donald’s sexual prowess called for some public self-degradation, but Melania, as his girlfriend, was willing to do it. In 1999, shortly after they began dating, she participated in an on-air phone call with Trump and Howard Stern, as they discussed her chest, and whether she stole money from Donald’s wallet. When Stern asked to talk to “that broad in your bed,” Trump put her on the line, and she spoke about how they had sex more than daily, and revealed that she was nearly nude. Stern replied, “I have my pants off already.” Thanks to her relationship with Trump, she finally got her glossy-magazine spread—nearly naked in British GQ, handcuffed to a briefcase on a private jet, which Trump supplied. Managing the career moves of his companions was part of a pattern. While he was still married to Ivana, Trump pushed his girlfriend Marla Maples to pose nude in Playboy and reportedly negotiated the fee himself. (The deal fell through.)

Ah yes, the age of chivalry isn't dead, not while we have the Donald ... but the pond can only find so many distractions, so it's back for a last Devine gobbet ...

See? The pond suggested that the lascivious, lip-licking Terror front page might come in handy ...

And so to petulant Peta, and what's interesting is the way her meme is just a pale reflection of so many other members of the right wing ...

And so on ... because inevitably almost any discussion of immigration of the Donald kind will be tinged with fear, loathing and racism ...

See how petulant Peta, deprived of a chance to slag off Malware about the Bennelong by-election, tries to step around the cow pats...

Real people?

As the pond's already noted, that's a real joke.

Of course it's stupid, like talk of real reality, and real Australia, and real Australians and real villains and all the other real realities ...

Where are all the unreal people? Well apart from the cockroaches that infest News Corp ... but then outside of Kakfa, how many unreal people are scuttling cockies?

And now - after the obligatory talk about supporting continued immigration - petulant Peta will soon cut to the fear and the loathing, but first, how about a suitably exotic and appealing shot of aliens looking very unreal and very un-Australian ...

Oh dear, that last snap is alarming, and now for the sophisticated bit of dog whistling.

You see there are good, sound economic and planning reasons to explain why STOP THE WOGS AND ASIANS COMING is just good old plain-fashioned real Australian sense ...

And so petulant Peta and the onion muncher and all the rest of the mob give comfort to the Pauline Hansons of the country, because that's the way they see to electoral success, trudging the by-ways of fear and loathing, and yet not a word about that wicked foreigner, that dire American, who has helped ruin the country's broadband ...

And as this is where the pond started, a few more cartoons from the land of the free, where Republicans have achieved wonderful success and there's Record inequality: The top 1% control 38.6% of America's wealth ... and better results still to come ...