Tom Toles for November 20, 2017

And he’s stuffing it to adults too, and the planet, and his whole staff is shoveling.

I hope he didn’t bring that through Canada. (Not, at least, duty-free. Softwood tariffs, and all, donchaknow.)

VIRTUES of the COAL ECONOMY {a set of 2 limericks}

#1} When everyone burns his lump,

up will the temperature bump, -

- and without any snows

our toes won’t get froze,

and we’ll thank Mister Donald Trump.

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#2} By digging the coal we bestow

on Wall Street more money-flow. -

- It’ll trickle down

and spread all aroun’.

Reagan himSelf said it’s so.

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Yes, boys and girls, start investing in Hazmat suits while we convert the Earth to Mars. (At least we won’t need to travel there now. It’ll become us.)

HISTORIANS ON TRUMP – {rhyme}

What will they write

for their Trump-era history?

Perhaps they might

use phrases quite blistery: -

- “They didn’t indict;

yuugely a mystery”.

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Wouldn’t the US be a better place if we had set standards so that those who closed their minds to math, science or religious tolerance could not hold office?

UP th’ CRICK – {rhyme}

My belly’s in knots, // my belly feels sick.

We’re fouled by the snots // who think they’re so slick, -

- but with brains of low watts, // they’ve led up th’ crick

and left us without a durn’ paddle.

And a leaky canoe we’re astraddle.

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Takes your breath away, doesn’t it?

Coal is dead, and the sooner Trump is too the better off we will ALL be!

[Kindly excuse it that this rhyme is ’way off-topic:]

NOTORIETY – {limerick}

The Trumpites they perform

‘way ‘way under the norm

of normal “propriety".

They’ve “notoriety”

for kicking up a whale of a storm.

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He’s right, you know. We do have enuf for everyone in the world, given that so little of the stuff is wanted any more. Nose-diving demand is why the price of coal keeps dropping as well — vast oversupply in desperate search of a market. And all those “free market” advocates running the big fossil-fuel companies turn out to be pretty happy that they can get the government to artificially prop them up when the market itself has turned to cheaper, cleaner alternatives.

Republicans would rather destroy the earth than give up Koch coal bribes.

The Republicans never, ever learn. A tRump administration official tried to promote coal and gas at a climate change conference in Bonn, German and was sung and shouted down by the audience. Former mayor of NYC said “Promoting coal at a climate summit is like promoting tobacco at a cancer summit.”

Here is the link to the article, and I find it hard to believe this was actually on FOX:

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/11/15/trump-admin-tries-promote-coal-climate-change-conference-it-doesnt-go-well

Now, lets talk profit margin, Santa, how much do you charge the little beggars?

Hey, that’s the clean coal. Liddle Donnie said so.

Guess that low carbohydrate diet is a moot point for our children and grandchildren, thanks Republicans.

The Grand Canyon is Trump’s waste bin now!

So that’s how Trump plans to bring back coal jobs. (There are more people working for Arby’s than in coal.)

Then we need to open more Arby’s mines.