In which the bromancer does Nvidia, and the dog botherer and the Ughmann do bog standard "won't someone think of the coal?" turns ...

 

So the pond was lucky that it had banned Microsoft products from the house.

Speaking of tech bros, the pond wasn't so lucky at not having banned the bromancer from the blog.

He was at it in a bigly way this weekend, and all the pond could do was sit back and watch.

There were only two matters that carried the pond through the bro's interminable forensic examination of the bros.

Would the bromancer offer his usual both siderist patter about mad King Donald doing some very good things during his reign, and how goes the war with China - is war by Xmas a lost cause?

So nothing to get excited about, just the world blown up, and chaos unfolding and marching on Surry Hills, as if in a W. B. Yeats poem.

The pond guessed that the bromancer would maintain a rock steady calm in the face of his determined attempt to lather up hysteria ...

What happened to the many good things the mad King has done during his reign? How are we suddenly plunged into a whiff of Watergate?

Is there no hope of redemption, no way to avoid what Faux Noise and News Corporation has wrought?

Yes, yes, all that, but can't someone just step up and take the fall?

But didn't the mad King and his minions actively conspire to give Nvidia comfort? 

Didn't the mad King negotiate a killer deal? Wasn't it the very best example of government socialism?

After initially restricting the sales of Nvidia’s H20 chips to China, Trump reversed course last summer, allowing the firm to sell the chips — which were developed with U.S. exports in mind — to China for a 15 percent cut. Trump also cleared the way late last year for Nvidia to sell its more powerful H200 chips to China for a 25 percent cut of revenue. (The Hill)

Didn't the mad King cut himself into the action? Per the Graudian:

Trump bought up Nvidia stock as he decided on policy that would benefit chipmaker
President purchased up to $5m of stock before revoking Biden-era rule that limited Nvidia’s ability to sell to China

DeKleptocracy wrote in its analysis: “While the country debates how a possible Chinese spy may have manipulated White House policy for one AI company, it must grapple with how Trump’s corruption may have motivated him to deliver the entire AI industry’s technology to China.”

The pond suspects that this time the bromancer might struggle with the proposition that the mad King and his minions did some good things along with the bad and the deeply corrupt.

Time now to check out that leather coat ...

There you go, total failure on the part of the mad King ...and at last the bromancer is cooking with the absolutely weird...

It's as if a light just clicked on in the bromancer's head ... as if he'd reached some kind of inflection point.

Now about that war with China by Xmas, what with the bromancer once famous for being a China hawk of the first water ...

Is there a shred of the old bromancer left after all that?

Of course there is, as the bromancer turns to the disgraced Pezzullo for a comment, dressing up the disgraced former cardigan wearer as "one of Australia's shrewdest strategic thinkers", so shrewd The Mandarin managed to get a whole series out of Mike Pezzullo's spectacular fall from grace (sorry, paywall, but you can surrender your details)

The pond will keep on dropping in on the bromancer to see if he ever recants his routine about the mad King doing some good things. And about that war with China...

In the meantime, a cartoon will suffice ...

Speaking of dicks, early in the morning the reptiles were wildly excited by talk of dicks ...

Later that was downgraded, with "Ned" put top of the "news" section with a rehash of the lizard Oz Albo and Jimbo jihad, but the pond has enough on its plate and will save "Ned" for the morrow.

But the pond should at least note the malignant Magnay's work ...

COP31 EMBARRASSMENT
Albanese, Bowen hot mic ‘dick-gate’ gaffe under review
Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen caught in ‘dick-gate’ gaffe by hot mic
COP31’s co-president Chris Bowen missed several key climate negotiations after he and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese were caught on camera in a crude exchange at the Antalya summit.
By Jacquelin Magnay

The archived version was an early one, but a compare and contrast did reveal how reptiles go about their business.

This in the archived version ...

Delegates at COP31 in Turkey are well aware of Mr Albanese’s infamous remarks earlier this year about wanting to shag and date Kylie Minogue.

... became this in the final copy ...

Many delegates at COP31 in Turkey are well aware of Mr Albanese’s infamous remarks earlier this year about wanting to shag and date Kylie Minogue. On a radio interview in June, Mr Albanese made a suggestive joke about melons and he used hand gestures near his chest in reference to being gifted two prized melons in May from the Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi. He later apologised.

There's nothing like a reptile litany!

The pond's main complaint was the way that the reptiles have taken to using social media formats. with sometimes dire consequences in terms of the look ...

The pond should also note the reptiles whining and squawking at the way some refuse to pander to their assorted jihads ...

MISSING MINISTERS
Politicians get a free pass from Virginia Bell at Bondi antisemitism inquiry
Royal commissioner Virginia Bell has refused to explain why no government ministers were called to give evidence at the antisemitism inquiry, despite senior figures condemning the omission.
By James Dowling

That yarn brought out the echo Chambers to produce a whine ...

COMMENTARY by GEOFF CHAMBERS
Royal commissioner lets PM and his team off the hook
If the politicians don’t front up, acknowledge mistakes and explain policy and funding decisions, how can the royal commission into antisemitism be taken seriously?

Unfortunately the archived version was saved with an ungainly layout, and as it could be presented in a single gobbet, why not go the full whine?

The pond is betting that the Australian Daily Zionist News will keep up this whining through December and into the new year ...

And so to the most dismal task of the weekend.

This is a COP year, and so the reptiles decided the pond should cop a massive bout of climate science denialism, with much screeching, wailing and sackcloth and ashes about the fate of their beloved, dinkum, innocent, virginal coal.

Both the Ughmann and the dog botherer were at it and at great length.

As the pond's herpetology students are showing signs of fatigue, they have permission to leave the room.

Only the most devoted fanatical devotee of reptile heresies could stay this course ...

The pond has already the tendency for reptiles to adopt the uglier aspects of social media practice, glaring balefully into the camera with odd framings ... and the dog botherer was down with it ...

Dear sweet long absent lord, isn't there anyone in the hive mind to tell him that glowering at the camera in that way with his "woke" coloured spectacles is tremendously unnerving?

And then more space was taken up with a tweet, as the pond recalled that early in the morning on Remembrance Day, there was not a single reptile acknowledgment of the day at the top of the digital "news" page, or on the extreme far right ...and this was the cover for the tree killer edition on the 11th day of the 11th month ...

An ad at the bottom of the page, and not a single editorial contribution to the memory, but do go on ...

Then came yet another distracting visual break, featuring Malware, an easy way to get the pond agitated ...

By this point, some hardened souls might be wondering when the pitch for Oz coal will come...but relax, come it will ...with the usual reptile bells and whistles ...

The pond often attempts some balance by inserting a story about climate science but not this day because after this dog botherer outing, there was still the Ughmann to come ...

A man with "woke" coloured glasses has the cheek to rail at "woke policies?" 

And at the end he even has the cheek to pretend we can lower emissions and care for the environment, by way of a John Howardism?

Normally the use of "woke" would trigger the pond's contractual requirements about making a woke joke, but this time the pond will settle for the infallible Pope ...

And so to the Ughmann, there being no end to the suffering, as the unreformed former seminarian raids and ransacks his old copy like AI gone mental, so he can produce an interminable example of more of the same ...

Spoiler alert.

The entire point of this outing is that old familiar reptile routine: coal, coal, coal.

The Ughmann takes forever to get there, with the piece blessed (if that's the right word, perhaps damned?) with the usual religion-inflected theological tonalities...

Nobody said responding to climate change was easy, but you'd have to be a mindless moron to think that doing the same that's got us here was any sort of solution, but that's the way of the reptiles ... down with renewables, embrace the fossil fools, especially coal, coal, coal ...

If the pond has one complaint about this presentation - apart from the usual fatuousness the Ughmann always displays with his faux religiosity - is the way that the reptiles this time steadfastly refused to feature demonic windmills and searing solar panels gazing out at the hive mind with a Sauron-like intensity ...

What chances were missed with the next distracting snaps...

Eek, that snap's almost as scary as a demonic windmill.

And the entire point of the Ughmann outing?

It came in the last line, and really just the last line should have sufficed, and saved an enormous amount of tedium ...

Dumb fcuk reptiles anyone?

Poor world...

More ways to waste time ...