Tom Toles for January 22, 2018

Teenie weeny tiny weinie?

Those widow and orphans aren’t going to oppress themselves ! Chop, chop Mitch and Paul !!

Well, Donald, if you weren’t so full of crap you’d weigh less!

Makes you wonder how bad does inequity have to be before the middle class gets upset about losing access to heath insurance and affordable health care?

COMPLAINTS AGAINST TRUMPISMS – {a limerick and a ps}

While pundits diss re his weight,

he steps up his giving the gate

to hopes for procurance

of health insurance

by folks in a difficult strait.

… PS:

And about the Dreamers: -

- Trump and his schemers

try government-stalling.

The Rs’ stone-walling

is yuugely appalling.

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Yeah, let’s drop all those severely underpaid Millionaires, and keep the Billionaires (especially those who contributed, and who continue to contribute to my campaign). MAGA!

Republican Philosophy: Health insurance is for losers. Real Americans have private physicians.

{Off the cartoon’s topic:}

ESSENCES of TRUMP – {rhyme}

Trump’s the quintessence

of: – √ pre-pubescence

and √ prolonged adolescence,

’tho √ dulled by senescence,

and √ a child-like old toot in acquiescence

to long-since-failed notions of obsolescence.

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Old news: Health care, gun registration, women molestation, Russia. Americans and media are all ADD. If it’s not “Breaking News”, it’s forgotten. Just what the Dumpster and GOPigs want.

The Republican billionaire donors need all of our tax dollars so they can keep republicans in power to service the one per cent.

{Off the cartoon’s topic:}

SHAPE-SHIFTER – {limerick and coda}

Trump’s an accomplished grifter.

At swindling there’s nobody swifter.

He fakes us out

about what he’s about, -

- a highly accomplished shape-shifter.

… Coda:

Trump says This, – but then he does That.

He talks populistic, – but then as Fat Cat

he takes our nation’s helm.

Trump’s is a demagogue’s realm.

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Trump doesn’t understand what the poor are complaining about – they MAKE him do an annual physical and he HATES it. Why don’t they just get their doctor to make up a report like Trump does?

Trump is the weakest and worst negotiator of a president ever.

The 1% want more of the wealth, greed is an appetite that cannot be quenched….

From a Citigroup memo in Sept 29, 2006

“The Global Investigator

The Plutonomy Symposium — Rising TidesLifting Yachts

➤ Time to re-commit to plutonomy stocks – Binge on Bling. Equity multiples appear too low, the profit share of GDP is high and likely going higher, stocks look likely to beat housing, and we are bullish on equities. The Uber-rich, the plutonomists, are likely to see net worth-income ratios surge, driving luxury consumption.Buy plutonomy stocks (list inside).

➤ Plutonomy stocks at a premium, but relative pricing power is key.

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➤ Plutonomy and the Great Conundrums of our age.We think the balance sheets of the rich are in great shape, and are likely to continue to improve. Don’t be shocked if the savings rate worsens as equities do well.

➤ What could go wrong?Beyond war, inflation, the end of the technology/productivity wave, and financial collapse, we think the most potent and short-term threat would be societies demanding a more ‘equitable’ share of wealth."

America is the victim of mental Trump’s “Defiance Disorder.”

Whatever is worst for the country, that’s what the GOP wants.

The obvious problem in America these days is that the rich don’t have enough money and the poor have too much.

All I ever really wanted to be was a very wealthy remora but now I want to be the biggest president ever; so I’m coming after you Taft.