Tom Toles for November 27, 2017

Now, now, he wouldn’t do that. Too much water content. First, he will auction off organs, and sell the blood. The rest, except for the bile, which he will make the repubs drink, will go in the oven, minus gold fillings. He’d outdo the Nazis on profiting from death.

Oh yeah, I forgot that the ones with colorful tats are skinned for lampshades.

Train’s got a fireman, but no engineer.

Clean coal?

TAX-and-BUDGET PLAN – {limerick and footnote}

The Middles provide the fuel,

and the benefits are dual:

(1} The Rich get a boost

and {2} The load is reduced*, -

- so faster comes money’s accrual.

… * {{ “The load is reduced” by the budget’s cuttin’

the programs for the middle to virtually nuttin’. }}

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THE MIDDLE PIDDLES – {1.80 limericks}

The Trumpites who sit in the middle

applaud The Donald, – yet Otherwise piddle, …

… not noting that Trump is a riddle*

‘bout fuel for the Richies’ griddle.

Too long they’ve been fiddling,

inert, finger-twiddling, -

- enabling the Plutocrats to diddle

their own middle class

and the people en masse.

- – - {{ * “riddle” = “a difficult problem” }}

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Except that in reality, it is 180 degrees the opposite. It is middle class consumption that drives the economy and creates wealth.

Yup. Right off the rails, just like ANYTHING ELSE he tries…

Republican economics makes far less sense than the Voodoo religion that it is often compared to.

At the rate we’re going, America soon won’t even be able to produce a ‘trickle-UP theory’…

Yep, just another trickle-down theory in the making, just a different engineer.

By the time this “tax reform” scam is all over, the voters, even some of the Tea Party types, are going to be coming after the GOPigs up and down the ballot like a pack of rabid Tasmanian devils with inflamed hemorrhoids that they got from what the GOPigs did, and didn’t, do. It won’t be fun for anyone.

They have been firing that engine since Reagan.

Real wages have been stagnate for 30 years and the rich keep getting richer.

Anyone who still believes that supply side economics works should be used as fuel.

With Trump upon his golden throne

The country’s (mostly) on its own

Our teeth all gnashed, our garments rent

Propping up the one percent

Swiftian Immodest Proposal time. If we burn up the minorities, the immigrants, the Muslims, the union workers, the scientists, the economists, those pushy Feminazis, schoolteachers, mouthy teenagers, the disabled, fact-based reporters, the retired on Social Security and Medicare, everybody on Medicaid and Obamacare, and the non-Tea-Party Republicans, then the remaining White Supremacists and other Deplorables can pay the taxes to support the ultra-rich. I hope they are looking forward to getting nothing but coal for Christmas.

Once again, history will repeat itself, simply because the rich are too self-centered, Too Greedy to learn from past mistakes.

Where are the Trump Disciples claiming that transferring even more to the rich is good for the country?

And showing how Trump is ‘on our side’?

I thought you would use “clean” coal.

By all means, let’s use all deliberate speed as we head into the next sharp curve.

Really an excellent metaphor of a cartoon I must say.

finally someone is doing something for the rich in this country. At least we’ll cut programs for the poor and raise taxes on the middle class while gutting healthcare.

Is it great yet?

Philanthropy is not in their vocabulary.