Tom Toles for February 11, 2018

But everything Trump is more of a circle jerk.

This brings up a question – Are the stable genius’ doctors quacks?

Trump, the Trojan horse and magicain’s confusing hand.

He’s about as stable as free mercury and twice as toxic.

BATS IN HIS ATTIC – {limerick-like rhythms}

There once was a prez so erratic

that his brain gave the seismograph static, -

- its tectonic plates shifting,

its synapses drifting

and flipping and skipping

and tripping and blipping. …

… Plus, he had bats in his attic

which often would flit

and often dripped sh*t.

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WE’LL SHOUT OUR CHEERS – “rhyme and coda”

We can see it from several angles, -

- that Trump is yuugely enmeshed

in the mess which Mueller untangles.

So soon the prez will be threshed

like a corn cob from out of its husk; …

… like chaff blown by winds so brusk

that it disappears.

We’ll shout our cheers.

… Coda:

See how his effigy dangles; -

- the perp who so badly mangles

“America First”{?} – Nay, “America Burst”

as we’re cursed with The Donald the Worst.

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COMMONWEAL = the GOOD of us ALL – {rhyme}

This Trump-era steals

the very wheels

off our vaunted ideals

that our commonweal’s

the well-being of ALL, -

- and it’s not to stall

when stomped by the Plutocrats’ heels,

when smushed by their mega-deals.

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RIDDANCE to the WHOLE SHEBANG – {rhyme}

We can’t continue to tolerate

the Rightwing’s ruining our Union’s state:

√ Plutocrats bite us with vampirish fang.

√ Fox-type talkers spew vicious harangue.

√ Violent turmoil, a “sturm und drang”.

√ Governance disheveled by the Trumpian gang.

- Question: On what does America’s future hang?

- Answer: On getting rid of the whole shebang,

of All components of the Rightwing thang,

of the whole caboodle.

There’s too much flapdoodle.

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We are blessed to have Sir Sean Hannity explain the market to us: Dow up = Trump saving the economy, Dow down = Obama screwed us. Once again Fox does our thinking for us, how convenient.

Takes an evil genius to destroy a country like America from the inside.

Thanks Republicans.

When Rex Tillerson admits that Russia interfered in our elections and then says there is nothing we can do about it, because they would just get better at it if we tried to stop them. Then Rex and maybe Exxon, who stands to gain if sanctions are removed, are the problem. Could Rex and Exxon be arranging “back channels” to the Kremlin? They could make Trillions if allowed to drill in the Arctic with Gazprom.Remember when Cheney’s company, Halliburton, made $40 billion in profits off the war Cheney promoted? It’s like deja vu all over again.

The market is giving Trump the bird for dumping Janet Yellen.

What we truly need is a leading indicter…

So, does Trump’s meltdowns lead to market meltdowns, or is it the other way round?

I look at it and I see a horsey…that I think someone should shoot, right?

It’s not the same as having a real President.

Republicans are why we can’t ever have anything nice.

Trump sees it as a huge conspiracy to Blacken the reputation of his residency in the Oval Office.

I suspect that Trump “kicks the gong around” with Smokey Joe.