Tom Toles for January 07, 2018

This situation reminds me of my youth when we’d sit on a neighbour’s driveway wall and watch one other family have their weekly public fight. It was funny but sad and disgusting too.

At this point, their little dust-up seems like a knife-fight in a homeless camp. Hope they both lose.

They’ll need a lot more nets for the worthless Cabinet and hypocritical GOPigs.

Insane right wing extremists are destroying the country.

Trump threw Bannon back in the water!

It’s hard to lose something you never actually had.

It up to the integrity of congress to make the decision about the suitability of the president. Too bad the opinions of 70% of the electorate are masked out by house rules. Too bad that the elections are so close that gerrymandering and registration purging must be applied get the “right” people into congress. Too bad even this feud with Bannon will not cause anyone to take positive action. Have we lost our self-respect?

These two didn’t lose anything, they have always been morons. It is the GOP who has lost their mind, and allowed these people to take over their party.

[This is the first of my too-many {4} rhymes are this toon:]

LOVERS’ BETRAYALS – {2 verses and footnotes}

Don’t we find it quite curious

that lovers can get so furious, -

- so furious that

in public they spat,

toward each other injurious.

…

Even when Steve and Donald are lovers,

a cloud of betrayal ominously hovers: -

- They maneuver with tactics quite deviously spurious*

to “do ‘em MY way”, our schemes quite usurious**.

… Footnotes:

“spurious" – intended to deceive, plausible but false

•• “usurious" – greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

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EACH WOULD BURN ROME – {rhyme}

Regarding Brump and Tannon

{Oops – re Trump and Bannon}:

√ Each thinks himself a hero

and the other a big fat zero.

√ Each would burn Rome like a Nero.

√ Each should be handcuffed and hushed

and drawn-and-quartered and flushed.

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PROGRESSIVES HAVE REVELED – {1.20 limericks}

Even more he’s now disheveled,

now that by Trump he’s bedeviled.

But Trump too’s a mess

from Bannon-caused stress.

My, how Progressives have reveled

while mutual accusations they’ve leveled.

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{Here’s the last of my too-many re this ’toon;}

BURNED BY BANNON – {1.60 limericks}

The erstwhile biggie Steve Bannon

flounders as now a loose cannon.

Not now in demand,

by backers quite canned, -

- yet fires he continues a-fannin’.

Can The Donald withstand

the heat ampersand

the fury of Steve-the-Firebrand?

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Kinda like watching two mules fighting over a Turnip…

It’s unfortunate they weren’t captured early enough for the spay and neuter program.

Uh, yes.

What made the Emperor Nero tick, Suetonius writes in “Lives of the Caesars,” was “a longing for immortality and undying fame, though it was ill-regulated.” Many Romans were convinced that Nero was mentally unbalanced …

Chaotic, corrupt, incurious, infantile, grandiose, and obsessed with gaudy real estate, Donald Trump is of a Neronic temperament. He has always craved attention. Now the whole world is his audience.