Tom Toles for November 22, 2016

Trump’s election mighta been the country’s Last Election.

To be or not to be is a heavenly comment, one that the Donald will contemplate a lot no doubt? If he takes an easier more direct path, perhaps in vein of cutting off their noses or other body parts- (or should it be in lieu of certain parts?) Either way, he can always wish them a “fine day” before making us Great again?

What did one of the posters here say to my sardonic reply to somone claiming journalists were sitting on “3 stories”…(I said similar but multiplied by a factor of ten)…?…that that someone’s comment was more “believable” than mine. :-|

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I tell you, satire is dead. We are living in satire.

I’ve already forgotten who suggested it, but some liberal wag offered the idea that everyone should register as Muslim. Like the US soldiers in a WW II POW camp who all identified themselves as Jewish.

Ann Telnaes’s take on Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” is worth checking out ……………………….

http://www.anntelnaes.com

There’s an ancient Russian joke that may become too relevant:

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A rabbit comes running frantically down the street in the shtetl, sees his rabbit friend and screams “Quick! Run! Hide! The KGB is killing all the camels!”

Friend: “So where the problem? I’m a rabbit, not a camel!”

1st Rabbit: “Good luck explaining that to the KGB!”

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This joke is a suggested origin of the popular Russian saying “try to prove you are not a camel” in the sense of “try to prove something to someone who doesn’t want to listen.” It’s used in relation to violations of the presumption of innocence by Russian law enforcement agencies, or when someone has to fight the bureaucracy to get official papers proving that one has lost a leg or is even alive.

Beating the under the bridge dead horse presidency is moot. If folks focused as much attention on their Congressional members, we wouldn’t be in this predicament in the first place. What has your personal Congressman ever done for you? What has he/she ever done period, beyond sit in their ivory tower and follow party lines?

They are supposed to represent their constituents, not themselves. Start pressing them with ultimatums to fulfill, or get them out of there! Of course, that’s even if you know who your reps are.

Considering the media crap during past election, they should’ve come for the journalists first and everybody else would’ve applauded.

I’ve been reading Toles for years and found him to be highly entertaining. I didn’t realize that was because we had a president in office that he loved.

I can’t stand Trump either, but if the man has this kind of deleterious effect on Toles’ ability to exercise a sharp wit while actually being funny, I’m going to have to pass. I guess I’ll try again in 4 years; so long, Toles.

I imagine a lot of Germans felt similarly, once upon a time…

Like I’m still waiting for a ballplayer to admit they actually took performance-enhancing drugs intentionally, no excuses..

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I’m still waiting for someone in “Our American Media” to admit they failed the public by giving Trump a free pass in this election.

How much is this fascist Trump persecution going to cost?

This is what passes as a republicon jobs program.

Harassing others is what the right wingers love to do.

Still qualifying the response, I see. “what he meant was…”Seriously, they talk about liberals, but conservatives run around screaming “You don’t have ears!”

I’ll bet that the Guardian, RT America and Al Jazeera English reported what really happened.

“First they came for those lesser races, and I had a list I’d been working on of neighbors who were trying to pass for white.”

I meet the nicest people here.

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The more promises Trump backtracks on, the better. Objectively better for the country and the world, and subjectively better as an object lesson for his fans who voted for the guy promising exclusionary racism and xenophobia.

Maybe if those Muslims had been Christian like it says in the Constitution. Maybe if the immigrants had heeded the Statue of Liberty and not come here in the first place. Maybe if the environmentalists had tried to pull the country together instead of insisting on clean air. Maybe if the journalists had printed the news the President demanded as stated in the First Amendment. Maybe if you had taken your vote seriously, all of this could have been avoided. Welcome to Trump’s America, hope you are a white male. I don’t trust a guy who can’t sell vodka or steaks and loses money on a casino.

Not all Muslims voted for Hillary. Not all Christians voted for Trump. Not all environmentalists are liberal. Not all white males voted for Trump. Not all minorities voted for Hillary. Not all immigrants passed by the Statue of Liberty.

The hardest part of eliminating fake news will be getting concensus on what real news is.

Just give the Pulitzer Prize to Toles now and end the suspense—can’t think of a more hard-hitting political cartoon all year.

@Uncle Joe

There’s a huge difference between fake news and news that is real yet slanted one way or the other.

Not like any prior politician? Try Joe McCarthy. Or for religion, try Father Coughlin.

The competition for the Cartoon of the Year award is now officially over. Kudos to Mr. Toles!

There’s a paradox regarding political cartoons: those I find to be the best are generally the ones that hurt or sadden the most.

D Lee

A nice story and truly reflects the Danish attitudes, but the Nürnburg Edicts were never enforced in the German’s “Modellprotektorate”. When they finally got around to rounding up Danish Jews, suddenly there was a lot of ambulance traffic between hospitals and harbors, the fishing fleet wasn’t catching any fish, and all the Jews were in Sweden. In five days, the whole country went from sitting out the war to one of the more effective undergrounds of the war.

Wondering just what category you’d put the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg News and Reuters into?

Not to mention Columbus Dispatch, USA Today papers, and many other CONSERVATIVE publications who saw Trump for what he is.

This is a predictable consequence of the “perception is reality” crowd.