In which nattering "Ned" sounds off ...

The pond is still brooding over the cowardice of Dame Slap, and her shift to an easy target …

… and the pond's mood wasn't helped by this cheeky tweet by the wittering, twittering dog botherer …

"Strangely enough you have to opt in", and some actual loon retweeted it?

Here's the thing. If you're young, and especially if you have a medical condition with work implications, or you want data that has nothing to do with your health protected, opt out. And while you're at it, opt out of the lizard Oz because they'll want to monetize your information too …

Of course the government has made opting out fiendishly difficult, but it can be done, though it means battling a dysfunctional website.

On the other hand, if you're old, and on a pension or such like, it doesn't much matter, because the police state already knows more than enough, and at some point the data it's acquired will be hacked and let loose on the world, because that's what happens to stupid governments, whether using old-fashioned filing cabinets or newfangled digital files. Oh and if you just opt in, you're probably of the right age to go shouting at clouds with the old farts at the lizard Oz …

And there in a nutshell is why you don't need to opt in to Dame Slap to get suggestions … but speaking of old buggers shouting at clouds, the pond has a sweet tooth for nattering "Ned" when he goes on a Donald tirade …

Dear sweet long absent lord, as already noted today, let no one complain when the immortal Lobbecke decorates a column with stereotypes and caricatures of a demeaning kind, anything other than being confronted by the baleful glare of nattering "Ned" …

And now on with the fun …

Why is the pond so beguiled and delighted by this? Well in the usual way, "Ned" doesn't for a moment consider who helped get the world into this condition.

Down boy, roll over boy, suck up to your master, boy ...

Oh it's too rich, and the more "Ned" rails, the more the pond enjoys it … because if the Donald is a fraud on a gigantic scale, what to say of the gigantic fraud that enables him?

Yes, yes, but what about his chums, cheerleaders, devotees and enablers ….and not just Dame Slap?

Here's the thing, if you opt in to the reptiles, you also, in your own way, opt in to subsidising the likes of Fox and Friends, Hannity, Tucker and all the rest of the ratbag loons …a sort of unity ticket of insanity ...

Actually, credit where credit is due, the dark days for America and dangerous days for the world began long before the Donald, though he is the ultimate consummation of an unholy trinity …

But enough of all that, because for some strange reason the reptiles let Kudelka out of his paywall trap this day …

… but the pond urges the reptiles to improve their paywall so that folk can avoid opting in for free …