Tom Toles for November 20, 2016

Who is laughing now? Not most of the USA.

One of the saddest, and most salient, characteristics of the authoritarian right-wing is their utter humorlessness. Satire and irony are seemingly beyond their ability and/or comprehension. I believe it may say something rather profound about the right-wing person’s fundamental nature. No fun.

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Stanley Mosk, while he was attorney general of California, said the easiest way to tell an extremist is that they have no self-directed humor.

MANDATE [NOT] … {a rhyme}

“We’ve a mandate,” the Rs pretend, -

- while the Public’s wishes they seek to amend.

Repugnantans simply won’t let themselves blend

into the voting majority’s trend:

“THIS-not-THAT,” we recommend, -

- but to THAT is where Repugnantans wend.==========

Absolutely NO irony here, just typical elephantine snark.The IRONY will be what the Republicans reap from stonewalling a nominee even THEY admit was qualified.Once again, they have given the opposition a precedent they will regret.And while they will cite the “Biden Rule”, that “rule” was never used, nor was it seriously considered.

Thank God Senator Mitch McConnell had the foresight and wisdom to prevent this ‘progressive’ getting on our Supreme Court or the Constitution would now be under assault from the left who would amend it to their distorted world view! Now future President Trump can place a strict Constitutionalist on the Court assuring our rights and freedoms will be intact for generations to come.

They may have wished they had confirmed Mr. Garland in the coming days.

Sean Kelly once referred to the one and only GOP joke as being variants on “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich/white/male/ablebodied?” He was pretty close, if you consider that all those things mean “successful by GOP standards.” In any case, they’re not happy unless they’re gloating over someone else’s loss.

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NPP, your ‘Outright Lie of the Day’ calendar is defective. It’s been giving you the same one over and over for some time now.

Sigh. Once again certain people cannot seem to understand that a whole bunch of CONSERVATIVES publicly stated that they would never vote for Trump. (Which is not the same thing as voting for Clinton, of course.) The standard-bearer periodical for conservatism, The National Review, was only one example. (True, its famous issue against Little Donnie was back during the primary season, but even so…..) Of course, The National Review does frequently use two or even THREE syllable words, so I’m not sure that many Trump voters could understand it. Let me just toss out two conservative comments of more recent vintage: Conservative pundit Michael Gerson publicly wrote that Trump, in publicly praising the evil dictator and avowed enemy of the United States, Saddam Hussein, had “lost his moral compass.” (This praise was after Saddam was dead, of course, but even so…….) Conservative pundit David Brooks, the Friday before the election, stated “One of the two candidates isn’t fit to be the president, but I won’t mention his name.” There are literally hundreds of examples easy enough to find.

@The NPP

Not even you can believe that “three million illegals” voted for Clinton (or for anybody!) Illegals, as all intelligent people know, and all honest people admit, don’t vote, because there is no upside for them. It would be all-risk, no-reward.Voter fraud, as a whole, is almost negligible (unless we count Supreme Court voter fraud), and ALL the experts in the field, conservative, liberal, or moderate, agree with that.

A cruel joke has been played on us all. Except people who can pay $3,000. for 2 Broadway tickets and those who own race cars and their drivers.

Too bad dems .Trump won the popular vote in every state where he got all the electoral votes.If we did not have the Electoral College New York and California would pick the president every time.

There was a story on the news here about a woman voting for Hillary 8 times during early voting.

There was another about Dems in CA sending 200 + mail in ballots,with 200 + different names to the same address where only one elderly woman lived.

Yea I don’t think Hillary really won the popular vote except if one counts the dead voters and those who voted more then once.

Ahh, that’s the ticket. More “us versus them” ranting. That’ll really encourage unity, cooperation, and progress.

And we wonder how we got here in the first place.

My sister and I were talking about Roy Rogers and his TV show today. Roy lived in the fifties, and Pat drove a jeep, but they still had stagecoaches and telegraph offices and chuck wagons… I realized that this is the fifties the GOP wants to go back to. Never-Never-Land Fifties.