The pond hadn't intended on having a two Polonius weekend, but these days the pond must take the crumbs the reptiles let drop from the paywall table … and on the upside, Polonius for once is serving sunny side up, so where's the harm?
Besides, who would have thought that Polonius would join the Trumpists and go full Trumpian wild? And yet that's the exciting prospect …
Why is the pond surprised?
The lure of the dictator is always at hand amongst some …
Ah glorious days, and a glorious speech, and now for Polonius's prattling Trumpian moment ...
Say what? A little seed of doubt in the age of Twitter?
Not really.
You see the way that the forelock tuggers, and the dissemblers work is to introduce a few blemishes into the portrait, to provoke a sense of realism, but only so that the grander vista, the greater glory might be revealed.
In the second gobbet, the consummate con artist can then concentrate on the art of the deal and all the consequent triumphs ...
It's pretty well all good, good for the Donald, good for the States, good for Australia … so good that there's little chance of Polonius being sent to a patch in the corn field …
The full text here … and so to Polonius prattling about it being a very good thing, a wonderful thing, swell, just swell …
Yes, everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and anyone who doubts the Trumpian view of the world would be well advised to read Polonius over and over and over again …
Meanwhile, it seems that the Donald has now managed to infest even The New Yorker's cartoon division … with more cartoons available here …
A few manage to avoid mentioning the Donald altogether, which is possibly a good thing if that grave deep in the cornfield is to be avoided …
Polonius: "...Trump ...needs to win some rust-belt states to successfully recontest the presidency in four years."
ReplyDeleteReally ? Could somebody perhaps correct Polonius' error and point out that Trump will have to recontest the presidency in three years.
Polonius again: "Trump probably should not have appointed Tillerson in the first place."
One amongst quite a few that Trump "probably should not have appointed."
But notwithstanding that, according to Polonius: "...those who doubt the President's judgement in hiring would be well advised to look at the early successes of Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the UN."
Apart from being quite mystified as to what "successes" Ms Haley could possibly claim, does it really need to be said: that's one so-called success out of at least 20 failures (including Tillerson). Oh what an incomparable record of success.
But yes, I guess it does have to be said, loud and clear, because this is the ultra-thick Prattling Polonius after all.
Polonius may believe that old people do not change with age - he certainly hasn't - but the rest of us know that we decline with age. Would anybody be surprised if Trump was worse than a "moron" in a few years?
ReplyDeletePoor old Polonious he must be feeling the pinch lately as he would not be getting his payment to appear on the insiders or have I been fortunate to have missed him
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a disturbing short story. It will take a while to digest that one.
ReplyDeleteIt's many things but among them a political parable. Anthony is no Stalin or
Hitler, but he could be a Trump - practically unlimited power, capricious, irresponsible, puerile.
I'm not sure I should be thanking you for lobbing that bomb.