Everybody, just everybody, loved the Donald's Fox rant … it was the bestest, and everybody had fun tracking the bemused faces of the hosts, and it quickly turned into a meme ...
Colbert had fun with it, so did Seth Meyer ...
That's for anyone who sensibly wants to avoid reading on as the pond asks, 'so where were the lizards of Oz on this great rant?'
Well this morning it's as if nothing had happened, either digitally or in the tree killer edition …
The Donald had been vanished, disappeared completely, was nowhere to be found, like the girlfriend that gets lost at a petrol station, and then has to endure a terrible re-make …
Instead they sent out prattling Polonius to utter soothing words, and spread reassurance like ripe chook manure …because it's all good and it's in the best possible hands, and please don't send us to the corn field ...
It seems everybody but Polonius knows that the Trump administration is in chaos, and finds it hard to attract anyone to work for it, with people fearing their careers will be left in ruins … as the high comedy continues and people assess the risks of being a flak-catcher for an unstable president …
Yes, Tim was briefly distracted from his Monash mission back in January, at the ABC here …
But this is surely to miss the point.
The reason we need an Ambassador is that anyone the Donald's administration is likely to nominate might well contribute to the circus, and we need to be in close touch with the circus …and what a circus it is ...
Never say that the pond never provides alternatives to prattling Polonius, as he prattles on about the way everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds … which admittedly is comedy, but surely not able to reach the high laugh bar that the Donald has set …
Lordy lordy, and no doubt there will be some deviants who pick up Polonius's prattle as a fine example of forelock-tugging, abased obeisance and sublime subservience to the Donald and to his version of the USA …
But is that because deep down Polonius actually fears that the Donald might spring a dud on us, someone who will offer a peppercorn of laughs?
Never mind, the pond is pleased to learn that US ambassadors are generally useless, and the last thing we need down under is another useless, albeit insignificant ambassador, because somehow it seems to fit the general mood in Washington …
Well that was a truly pissant effort by the Prattling Polonius today. And only Ed Clark's peppercorn by way of a deep and meaningful history lesson for the enlightenment of we benighted ones.
ReplyDeleteHe's still a bit juvenile to have come to the 'all passion spent' time of his life isn't he ? I'd register a consumer's complaint to the supplier if I were you, DP. And remember to point out that traditionally, a peppercorn rent is “a simple acknowledgement that the tenement virtually belongs to the person to whom the peppercorn is given”.
Polonius is spot on as always, the U.S. needs to send it's Ambassadors to the most strategic countries of interest to them. That's why Burundi, Chad, The Vatican and Guyana all have Ambassadors in place.
ReplyDeleteAll Australia needs is an table with a phone and a recorded message saying "We agree and how many troops do you want and where do you want them Mr. Trump.
Anyway the Ambassador to Austria is close enough.