In which reptiles return to their vomit, as a fool repeats his folly ...

It was the reptiles' favourite nightmare - white feminists on the march. 

Luckily it wasn't their extra special deluxe weekend edition nightmare featuring white crippled lesbian hairy armpit whale-loving feminists …

But enough of nightmares. The pond came to a sudden realisation overnight. 

If Vlad the impaler's agents used Novichok to take out Craig Kelly, there might well be good reasons for overlooking the crime …

Ah yes, the lesser onion muncher, the narcissist attention seeker from Hughes has struck again, and garnered the headlines he so loves …

Well all these are easily googled. A more interesting question is where it all comes from, and here the pond is a little tongue-tied.

What's the best word for the mindset? The pond thought of despotist, but was assured that this word didn't exist, and couldn't be used to describe lovers of despots and despotism. It did turn up in Merriam Webster but the pond refuses to speak American …

Authoritarian might be technically correct, but is a little diffuse … after all, the pond showed authoritarian tendencies in the classroom. That showed a lack of ambition when it came to running a country the same way ...

Other words could be twisted to the cause - autocratic, totalitarian, draconian, absolutist, repressive, illiberal - but none of them were suitably evocative.

And of course Godwin's Law imperilled the use of 'fascist' - and yet, the dictionary did allow here as its third option, "a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views."

So it is permissible to talk of the Bolter as fascist … because you see that was the source of the lesser Kelly's folly.

The lesser Kelly was trying to speak in support of the Donald when he had a stumblebum verbal slip of the Donald kind … and while love of the authoritarian despot has been sorely tested in recent days, there are still some died in the wool true believers.

Thus the Bolter has maintained his love of the authoritarian despot with the feet of clay in recent days, because, like the Donald, the Bolter hates to admit he was wrong, or that he might have bought some dodgy medicine from the snake oil salesman.

First the Bolter asked a rhetorical question …

Well no, luckily the pond never has to watch the Bolter reporting on his fascist love of despots, because the next few postings indicated where he stood ...

And it wasn't just the barking mad Bolter …

The reptiles let little Johnny out for a saunter yesterday, a thought bubble of the finest distilled Johnny kind, though it was quickly swept from view …

And so bears of lesser brain, of the Kelly kind, drink the kool-aid and step out of the tent and get a little lost in the subsequent blizzard …

But what of the lizards of Oz? Well there are the occasional hints that the kool-aid has lost a little of its power …

… and this day the reptiles featured a follow-up to the recent follies …

Only the completely clueless would have bought what the Donald had to say, wouldn't they? 

Could it not be said that it is not obvious that the Donald is not a fearless opponent of Vlad, and that it is not clear that Vlad has nothing on him? And do those double negatives mean what the pond might not have meant them to say?

And yet over at the Terror, the authoritarian fascist lovers of despots - the pond uses the words with authoritative dictionary approval - maintained their uxorious devotion to the Donald …

Back at the lizard Oz, the uncertainty continued ...

As for slightly looking over the slightly apologetic lesser member of the Kelly gang, the lizard editorialist had this to say ...

Of course it was scribbled yesterday, before Kelly stuck his foot in his gob, and it should properly have been splashed "Craig Kelly should never forget Vladimir Putin's victims" ...

Ah the onion muncher somehow gets into it again, and yet the Terror, with their love of right-wing authoritarian figures was in yet another lather this day…

They had to plot the humiliation of the onion muncher? But hasn't the onion muncher done an exceptional job of humiliating himself?

Shouldn't the headline have read "Explosive onion muncher plot to humiliate himself by relentless wrecking, sniping, undermining and sledging"?

Okay, the pond finally can confess. 

It only rambled through all this reptile silliness to get to the treat of the day, and what a treat it is, as Rowe joined the pond's love of the bible with a love for the rich comedy the Donald offers on a daily basis, and with more richly comic Rowe as always here …