Tom Toles for September 20, 2016

Born or hatched?

The new lie by Trump supporters is that Hillary started it.

If Trump were running against Obama, the lie would be that Obama started it.

And in a totally unrelated coincidence, Trump loves the poorly educated.

Ya gotta hand it to him. Trump the Terrible is indeed entertaining. He’s entertaining like a demolition derby, and at that he’s like a Sherman tank vs. beater cars. But I worry that it won’t end well for anyone, not even the tank.

Nope. Just clinching proof that Money talks and Bulls4!t walks….

The right says the media is liberal but they are Trump’s lap dogs.

Thank you Tom. This expresses the thoughts of many people. Mr. Trump would be nothing without media’s greedy chase for ratings.

It was a Hillary surrogate who started the birther issue, lawyer and Hillary supporter Philip Berg, who filed the first birther lawsuit. The media knows this, but pretends it’s fantasy. Doesn’t even matter, the truth is the first birther was…….Obama. His own literary press agency touted him as being born in Kenya back in the 90’s. Nothing like an exotic background when it’s to your advantage.

The press are idiots serving idiots

Real journalism takes time, money and tenacity. It’s much easier to grab a scandalous remark off of social media and air it. That way they can all sit around interviewing each other trying to figure out what they are talking about.

Trump.. is playing the media and the public for the fools they are. The Art of the Deal.. played out in real time.

Amend the laws. No tax returns, no birth certificate. No name on the November ballot.

No Bueno{… a limerick …}Candidate Trump ain’t no bueno.His opponents? – Well do they knowthat The Donald don’t say noand he don’t convey nosmart thangs. Soak ‘im in Drano™.========

Drumf never said that he BELIEVED President Obama wasborn in the U.S.A..What he did was to STATE that he was, which is not the same as saying that he believed that he was.The truth is that he always used the LIE as a means to gin up support from the voters unable to advance with the times and accept the fact that a Black man could be and was elected to the Presidency. LIE UPON LIE UPON LIE

“Plus,of course, psychological reactance (“No one’s gonna tell me what to think!!”).”Slightly different for libs: “No one’s gonna tell me to think!!”

Trump made his name on racist birtherism by beating it to death for 5 years. He also questioned Obama’s college degree.

Trump is a totally disgusting lying creep.You have to be insane to support him.

The press was not born yesterday, but they are playing to viewers with no short term memory. The Trump campaign has declared Obama was born in the US. You will notice today a sharp break from the rhetoric of where Obama was born. The entire GOP took a sharp right turn, and now lock step to the tune he was born here, and Clinton was the only one to ever question where Obama was born.Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Jonestown, the “comet crazies” who offed themselves, Masada, Kamikazi, Koresch, lots of examples of zealots killing themselves for “faith”. The basic issue is ignorant and/or weak-willed folks disatisfied with life, looking for someone with an apparently easy, even if lethal, answer, like Trump.

Thank you for that reference.

Is Donald Trump insane? The voices in my head ASSURE me that he is!

Just quit watching

Masada was during a war with Rome. They killed themselves because they knew the Romans, who had them besieged, would show no quarter. Not equal to the rest, all led by charismatic individuals, who preyed on their followers’ fears.Until retreating to Masada, the Jews had won major battles fighting for their independence.