In which, after a cursory nod to prattling Polonius, the pond again Tootles away from the lizard Oz hive mind tracks ...

At last the full, unvarnished, startling truth is starting to emerge ... 

Sceptics, doubters and neighsayers should eat their words, because truly the pond saith unto them, eating comes from faith, and whatever is not faith is the sins of the wicked.

Best if all, there's a new colour for the year ...

Unvarnished, free flowing, utterly transparent truthiness aside, the pond's problems with the lizard Oz carried on into the Sunday.

An Anon correspondent summed up the diabolical situation:

As well as providing every Reptile, both major and minor, an opportunity for self-righteous “We was right and it was all Albo’s fault!” rants, last Sunday’s tragedy has also allowed them to avoid less attractive topics. There appears to be little to no comment on such matters as the “Vanity Fair” interview, Grandpa Trump’s televised Christmas ramblings and the ongoing controversies of the Epstein files. It would have provided some welcome light relief to see the likes of the Bromancer twisting himself into knots trying to provide a Trump-positive spin on such events.

Indeed, indeed, so it would, and in that spirit usually this Sunday meditation starts off with Polonius kicking his usual bee in bonnet cans down the road ... but this weekend he too was part of the jihad.

Polonius was determined to make a massacre of the innocents political...

As the pond has repeatedly noted, it isn't just Islamic fundamentalists that chant from the river to the sea, it's hardcore Zionist fundamentalists too ... but for those wanting more, it's off to the intermittent archive ...

Bondi follows ‘catastrophic descent from civility’
From the Opera House anti-Semitic chants to beach massacre, John Howard first warned about Australia’s downward slope two years ago. (archive link)

That's way more than enough already. 

The only pond duty here is to note the references by Polonius to the ABC ... because surely the massacre was entirely the fault of the cardigan wearers.

Here Polonius disappointed, with just two references ....

Speaking on the ABC Politics Now podcast on Tuesday afternoon, Laura Tingle said the actions of the terrorists 'have got nothing to do with religion'.

Earlier, on Monday, academic Greg Barton (who presents as an expert on Islamic politics) told ABC TV’s News Breakfast that the alleged Bondi Beach shooters “were one or two gunmen acting alone”. How would he know?

That's the best he could do?

Nothing to see there. 

Meanwhile, in another country ...speaking as Polonius was of catastrophic descents ...

The pond has no doubt the current reptile fever will pass, though likely there will be long Covid-like symptoms for years to come.

There will surely however be some reptiles who will revert to ancient, familiar lizard Oz sports, but unlikely before the pond heads off on an Xmas break, travelling down to the deep south.

In the interim, what to do in this self-induced reptile famine?

Perhaps pander to the pond's Queensland-based correspondent. They're always barking mad up there:

Chooks 1 (archive link):

Chooks 2 (archive link):

Not that cockroaches have anything to crow about... not that he got the pond's vote or will get it in the future ...

Proud party of street protests, standing up for workers and sticking it to capitalists? More like close-bosom'd companion to Orwellian overlords and property developers. They know the key hate preacher behind much of the ugliness, take it out on him.

Enough already, it's nice work if you can get it, but that's more than enough time wasted on deep north and local small time grifters. 

The pond always knew that toads were a little weird, but what about some genuine industrial scale grift?

Screw it, after the Kennedy Centre, they need to rename the moon as Trumplunarlandia ... or at least give his name to the big monolith to the solid rock plinth the aliens left behind. Instead of the Tycho Magnetic Anomaly-1 (TMA-), it could be called the Trump Narcissist Anomaly (TNA). Then when the aliens come back, they can speak directly to the King, or perhaps to the worm in RFK's head.

Now, what to do when nasty files hover through the air? 

Declare an oil war ...

There's nothing to be said for Maduro, but the same could be said about sundry rulers of Libya, Iraq, Syria, Iran and the monstrous Taliban, and didn't those attempts at regime change work out well?

Still, a great excuse for a few Sunday 'toons ...

Meanwhile, WaPo carried on about climate change, a topic entirely alien to the hive mind at the lizard Oz, but as the pond is Tootling well off the reptile tracks  ...

The NYC subway is drowning. Here’s how to save it.
Subway systems around the world are struggling to cope with flooding as the planet warms. (*archive link)

Not the subways! The planet's warming? There's surging moisture in the skies above?

Oh to be back in the blissfully ignorant world of lizard Oz climate science denialists...

Meanwhile, as the pond's Anon correspondent mentioned King Donald, why not go there, in the spirit of Xmas?

Susan B. Glasser sent a letter in The New Yorker, * archive link:

Actually Joe the Gadget Man would work better for older Australians. There was never a gadget Joe couldn't make work ...nothing his gift with the gab couldn't flog to suckers...

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Bring your money with you suckers ...

Glasser ended up this way ...

...One of the most revealing details in Whipple’s article is about Wiles’s West Wing office, in which she keeps a freestanding video screen next to the fireplace, with a live feed of Trump’s social-media posts. Was she sitting in there, watching the screen when Trump posted on Monday morning about the death of the Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner, blaming his gruesome murder on his liberal politics and “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME”? Was she there when, a few weeks ago, he called for the death by hanging of members of Congress who dared to remind U.S. military personnel that they do not have to follow illegal orders? Does she bother to speak up when he demands outrageous acts of tribute, such as renaming the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after himself? Or when he continues his vengeful campaign of politicized prosecutions that she claims to have told him to stop after his first few months in office?The point is that it’s Trump’s unreality that governs Susie Wiles now; whatever her vestigial connection to the truth, it’s the President’s truth-challenged world whose trains she has tasked herself with making run on time.
Which brings me back to Wednesday night’s Presidential address. When Trump was done speaking, the press pool observed the handful of staffers who had gathered in the room, praising him for a “great” and “really good” job. Wiles, for her part, remarked not on what he had said but on the fact that he had stuck to the timetable. “I told you twenty minutes, and you were twenty minutes on the dot,” she told him. If what he says is wildly untruthful, enraging to millions of his fellow-citizens, or just outright bizarre, what does she care? It’s not her fault if he can’t close the sale. “I don’t think there’s anybody in the world right now that could do the job that she’s doing,” Whipple quoted Marco Rubio as saying of Wiles. And maybe he was right.

That's fair, and worth a 'toon ...

And so to close with TT, with the pond having previously missed out on this week's instalment  ...

As for that Vanity Fair piece, and the accompanying photos, the pond did enjoy this exegesis on the art of nailing ne'er do wells by discreet framing and use of light and depth of field ...

And here's a serve of the usual update from America ...