In which the pond goes full bromancer, and the bromancer goes the full Donald ...

Here's the funny thing ... the pond was wondering when the bromancer would bite the bullet and go full Trump, and at last the day has arrived, though dressed in the guise that it's the Asian suckers who've actually gone the full Trump ...

But when the pond went looking for the yarn, it couldn't find it at first, hidden as it was by the reptiles amongst the usual flurry of Trump news, starting with CNN saying exactly the opposite to the bromancer ...

And then when the pond dug deeper, it discovered a piece without any apparent author, any apparent notation, any acknowledgment it had been written by a human bean, let alone a bromancer.

It might just have tumbled out of the in-house lizard of Oz robotic wordsmith designed to produce euphoric, forelock-tugging, bowing and scraping pieces ...

It's almost as if the bromancer felt a sense of shame and wanted to be distanced from the piece, but of course this presumes the bromancer has a sense of shame, and the pond confesses never to having seen an example ...

Words and deeds? Here, have a cartoon or two ...

Uh huh. Now here's the other funny thing. However it's cut, the Donald is a desperately needy narcissist, and a habitual, congenital liar, on little things, and big things, and even biglier things. Recent little thing lies have included a tweet about the size of the audience for his SOTU speech ... causing pundits and people to wonder why?

It's no big mystery.

All politicians lie, it goes with the art, and when not lying, disingenuous dissembling is an important skill. But very few have lied as consistently, as extravagantly, as boldly and as brazenly as the Donald, and got away with it, and he has encouraged the Republican party to venture down the same path ...

In Tamworth in the old days, no one would muck about. Everyone would know that however rich he might be, the Donald was a bullshit artist ... in life as in business. Just check out the bankruptcies and the trail of creditors he's left behind him ...

The notion that Asian politicians are as deluded as the bromancer - or Republican cultists - or even the Bomber - is a hoot. They can spot a bullshit artist as easily as anyone ...and they also know when they've got their hands on an all-day sucker ...

The New Yorker, for example, recently wrote a piece about Jared Kushner and Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai and all the rest of it, currently outside the paywall here ...

It's a healthy corrective to drinking too much of the bromancer in one gulp, and now with antidote supplied, and all care and absolutely no responsibility, it's on with the sycophantic fore-lock tugging, foot kissing and pavement grovelling ...oh how the bromancer loves the taste of tar in the mouth in the morning ...

The thing about the bromancer is that when he goes in, he always goes all the way ... he doesn't just want to drown in the shallow end of the pool, he loves to get out of his depth in the deep end ...

The amazing thing is the way that the bromancer wants to pin the blame on the liberals and the 'leets, as if junketing around Asia on the chairman's dime doesn't brand him as some kind of 'leet...

Here's another funny thing. At one time the Republicans were at the front line denouncing Russia, and raging at the way liberal 'leets wanted to undermine institutions like the FBI and the CIA, and were outraged at any legislative act that might increase the deficit ...

Where did they go? Into a thicket of grovelling lies and dissembling claptrap ... much like the bromancer heralding a new dawning of the US in Asia, just as the Donald kicked away the TPP the reptiles had once done so much to love ...

And like the Donald, it's all refracted through the trashing of Obama ... because there's nothing like a military dictatorship or a killing machine like Duterte to get the bromancer's juices flowing ...

It's touching really, the loyalty the bromancer shows to the Donald, but then, he must be astute enough to know who provides the butter and jam for his toast in the morning, and the chairman remains a Donald supporter, because blowing things up makes for great headlines ...

And so to the last gobbet, and the pond must stress again that it has no idea of knowing whether this is actually a piece by the bromancer ...

But if it is, it seems he's transferred his affection from the onion muncher to the Donald, and so the Donald's SOTU speech may thus mark a defining inflection point in the bromancer's developing infatuation with the Donald and his story ... unless of course dastardly liberals and hideous deep state inquiries conspire to do the Donald down ...

Now bromancer fans will note the get-out in the last line. With a leap and a bound we move from wholly great to wholly destructive, in a way typical of the Donald's style.

It seems that everything that the bromancer has written to that point might just be a pile of bullshit because it might yet all be destroyed by hyper-partistan liberal hatreds, faithfully echoed by liberals in Australia ...

Well the pond isn't buying that sort of cop-out. 

The bromancer went the full Donald, all the way with DJT so to say, with only a few minor quibbles and opt-outs, and now he should live with the full Donald that he spent 99% of his piece celebrating ...

And then, no doubt, at some future point,  bromancer fans will be able to look back and marvel at the way once again, he managed to get it all wrong and/or helped fuck it all up ...