Tom Toles for March 06, 2018

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. He’s not draining the swamp. He’s swamping the drain.

Very clever and timely, Tom.

TRUMP’S SEPTIC TANK – {rhyme}

It got too full, Trump’s septic tank, -

- so the White House’s yard is purty durn’ rank.

So much has flowed

into his commode

that the Prez has built up a yuuge septic stank.

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{Off the cartoon’s topic:}

THE TRUMP TOWER {of BABEL} – {limerick}

No wonder our nation’s unglued:

We’re governed by Donald Trump’s MOOD!!

And partisans enable{!!}

Trump’s Tower of Babel

{with confusion and error imbued}.

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{Off the cartoon’s topic:}

TO THE NRA: – {rhyme and coda}

Wouldst thou please, thou N.R.A,

please hie thee hence.

Please go away.

There’s too much suspense

in our childrens’ school day: -

- Might gunners commence

their bullets’ wild spray?

… Coda:

One doesn’t learn much

when one’s got the jitters

that he might get in dutch

with a dude whose brain skitters.

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Oh, IF ONLY we could strand him and his entire crime cartel family on a deserted island somewhere…Alcatraz, perhaps, or maybe Devil’s Island…

@Masterskrain, I was thinking more like Pitcairn Island. Further away from everyone…

Brilliant!

Now add the latest scoop that Russia chose Trump’s Secretary of State, and it’s even worse. Put’s a different light on Rexxon Tillerson’s destruction of the State Department; it’s not incompetence, it’s the plan.

I’m a science-fiction fan, and normally I’d be rooting for a good SF flick to finally get the recognition the field deserves (since, for the last 35 years, >80% of the top 100 box-office films have been either SF, fantasy, or comic-book adaptations), but why did it have to be this one? It’s just dopey. Get Out would’ve been a much better choice.

The swamp lives on both sides, Toles. The new DNC chair Tom Perez is another tool of the establishment. The now defunct DNC lawsuit proved that the DNC can take money from its members without staying true to its charter (the DNC charter calls for fair elections and the DNC broke the rules to have Clinton as its nominee). Until we elect honest politicians expect more of the same from both sides.

I have always wondered how Mr. Toles keeps producing so many great images with such frequency. Perhaps it might be the current administration?

Liar Trump would not be in office if the crooked Republicans were not over looking his many crimes.

I guess when the NRA washes your Russian money you better hang together or else you will hang separately.

Apparently the Russians picked our Secretary of State.

Doesn’t anyone find this alarming?

Russia blocked Trump from picking Romney for secretary of state …

https://www.marketwatch.com › Economy & Politics › Capitol Report22 hours ago -

Donald Trump and Mitt Romney dine on Nov. 29, 2016, in New York City. A newly unveiled memo from former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele details Russian assertions that the Kremlin intervened to block President Donald Trump’s choice of Mitt Romney for secretary of state…

Sam Nunberg just said ON LIVE TV that Trump talked about Russian meeting a week before it happened

Nunberg said that a few times yesterday, too. He also called Trump an “idiot” (which I suppose is better than Tillerson calling him a “moron”—or is it?) But unlike Steve Bannon, he didn’t call Don, Jr. “treasonous.” (Bannon, like a stopped calendar, is right once per year, and that was his time for being right!)

If Trump can’t drain the swamp, he’ll make the biggest swamp you’ve ever seen. he doesn’t care if he gets a statue for being a hero or a villain, he just wants his statue.

By the way…you GOTTA see this one!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-apos-fake-news-apos-222116211.html

Oh, please. Just because the Republicans are the most obvious, doesn’t mean they’re the only members of that swamp. The reason the Democratic Party refuses to eliminate corporate campaign contributions is too many people are getting richer off it. The parties and candidates receive corporate campaign contributions. In the Republicans’ case, it’s in exchange for favorable legislation. In the Democrats’ case, it’s to capitulate to the Republicans and make sure they have enough votes to pass said favorable legislation. Those bribes…. er, campaign contributions then gets paid to politically connected consultants to place ad buys and such, taking a huge commission in the process. During the 2016 presidential election, around $700,000,000 was spent by the Democrats on a handful of consultants, in a process in which even the budgetary committee had no control or idea of what was being paid to whom. Jon Ossoff lost to Republicans in his special election, but it didn’t matter because most of that $8,000,000 in corporate campaign contributions went to making consultants richer and it was one less vote the Dems had to worry about in maintaining their facade of opposing Republican corruption.

So seriously, enough of the empty partisan sniping, and more of the opposing and removing ALL political corruption regardless of which party it manifests in.

Put all the poorly behaved men on the deserted island together. I haven’t noticed anything about the oscars in the toons. One problem with the oscars and metoo movement is there were some who were punished and some who were not. Why did we look the other way for Ryan seacrest and Kobe Bryant and Gary oldman? All of these guys were accused of much worse than James Franco, for example.

It’s basically an untreated sewer for elephant poop.

Financial regulation: the bipartisan bill to weaken Dodd-Frank …

- Voxhttps://www.vox.com/explainers/2018/…/republicans-dodd-frank-financial-regulations

8 hours ago – 12 Senate Democrats are backing a Republican bill to weaken parts of Dodd-Frank. … Republicans are about to deregulate banks — with Democratic support … But in my conversations, they don’t see it as an enormously consequential rollback of their Wall Street reforms either. “I would vote against this bill …