Tom Toles for June 29, 2017

REPORTERS GET IN THE WAY – {rhyme and coda}

Reporters get in the way

of Rightists’ saying their nay

to the earth’s and to humans’ health, -

- in order to advance the wealth

of a few, to us others’ dismay.

… Coda:

So the press the Rightists discredit,

so with Alt-facts the Right can edit.

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The Putin Principle.

A HEALTHCARE PETITION – {a rhyme}

Your signature we herewith solicit

for our fervently urgent petition

that the Constitution be explicit

that America’s health condition

is so precious that it is illicit

that a Rightwing coalition

be with Plutocrats so complicit

as to cause our healthcare’s abscission.

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HEALTHCARE FIASCO – {1:40 limericks}

The Republicans’ healthcare fiasco

is suicide by a self-imposed task. So,

they continue to impose

such healthcare woes

that the public sees under their mask. Oh:

The Rs are the people’s FOES!!

Who’d vote for one of THOSE??

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Those darn nasty trees, causing pollution all over the place. Do whatever it takes to take them down — chainsaw or Ray-gun.

No worries, as soon as Trump’s gone, we’ll stand it up on the stump, and everything will be fine.

Some of the damage can not be undone for hundreds of years. Other damage can’t ever be undone.

It costs money to abide by all those pesky environmental rules. What did you expect him to do? Get rid of all those regulations and business will prosper and the tide will raise all boats! Besides, he isn’t smart enough to do anything useful.

“Who needs Breathable Air, or Drinkable Water, or all those pesky Trees when there’s PROFITS to be made??”

It’s actually going to take DECADES to undo ALL of Donnie Dumpsterfire’s damage to the environment, America’s standing around the world, American’s health care, and the reputation of the office of the President!

When the Trump falls in the political forest, will anybody be near him?

A Trump slunk on a stump.

The Trump thunk the stump stunk.

The stump thunk the Trump stunk.

Don the Con = Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.

He is doing to the environment what he is doing to your healthcare. I hope the rich can get a tax break along with the right to pollute nature. I’m sure it is what the forgotten rust belt voters would have wanted.

Conservative pundit David Brooks: This is not a conservative vision of American society. It’s a vision rendered cruel by its obliviousness. I have been trying to think about the underlying mentality that now governs the Republican political class. The best I can do is the atomistic mentality described by Alexis de Tocqueville long ago:

“They owe nothing to any man, they expect nothing from any man; they acquire the habit of always considering themselves as standing alone, and they are apt to imagine that their whole destiny is in their own hands. Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.”

The Trump Chainsaw Massacre!

The environmental protection agency was brought about by Richard Nixon. It is not and never has been unamerican.

The UnAmericans are those who ALWAYS believe the rich, and their tax cuts, will benefit everyone. We have been through this before. The Gay Nineties, the Roaring Twenties, ewtc. And don’t forget, “What’s good for GM is good for the country!”