Tom Toles by Tom Toles
- February 08, 2010
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With his singular style, Tom Toles tackles the complex issues of the day. This Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist skillfully targets political, economic and social concerns — in particular complicated environmental issues — with a clear-eyed precision that hits the mark every time.
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Ken Warren said, 1 day ago
??? I guess this is a anti-GOP cartoon, or maybe it’s just saying that a elphant says it’s going to jump you shouldn’t try to catch it.
Ira Nayman said, 1 day ago
The only reason the elephant can get away with its threat is that the people below remain directly under where it would fall. If they moved - and, not even that much - in either direction, the threat would be completely empty.
omQ R
said,
1 day ago
^ I’ve been on a few walkabouts with elephants in the bush and we’re told what to do when an elephant charges: nothing. Usually they are bluffs.
I did a quick search to confirm my naturally good advice (‘cos I’m an African and we all know what to do in these situations. :-| ).
Here is even better advice <- Click here.
JDG
said,
1 day ago
Thanks omQR, LOL.
Fairportfan2 said, 1 day ago
omQ R: I read somewhere that one is advised/forbidden to travel in elephant-infested areas in an original VW Beetle, because, for some reason, heffalumps take stringent exception to their presence.
scottfreitas
said,
1 day ago
This cartoon is so childishly insulting and pointless I’m surprised even the moonbats aren’t offended.
What in Hell does the above cartoon have to do with ANYTHING actually occurring in reality?
NOTHING.
It is just pure fifth grade immaturity.
bradwilliams
said,
1 day ago
What does it have to do with what is happening? It nearly a direct quote from the GOP leadership.
Anthony 2816
said,
1 day ago
Aw, Scott is insulted by the actions of the Party of No.
DrCanuck said, 1 day ago
omQ R said, ” we’re told what to do when an elephant charges: nothing. Usually they are bluffs.”
Same is true with the grizzly bears in my area. They are “usually” bluffs…..
leipsicbob said, 1 day ago
Poor Scottie is rebelling against a Reality Surge …
Remember to pray for him.
dtroutma said, 1 day ago
Doc- having experience with grizzly, and black bears, and cougars, along with other “outside critters” this is usually true. I would NOT however trust that to a Holstein bull!
It is not the”wild” animals, but the domesticated ones, like party faithful, wiling to accept any ignorance, that are most dangerous to us.
It is wise to keep THEIR numbers down. So to mime their crowd “Jump, Jump, run, Sarah run”!!
rekam
said,
1 day ago
Should she run, and I pray not, think I’ll move to Canada. Was born there but lived most of my life here.
treered said, 1 day ago
as Max said:
What’s going to happen’s going to happen. Just make sure it doesn’t happen to you.
i.e., let him jump and just get out of the way!
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 1 day ago
How do you stop an elephant from charging?
Take away his credit card!
(Gotta make that a tee shirt!)
Chromo sapiens said, 1 day ago
The last time I checked, the elephants were in hiding. Why are the Libs afraid they’ll jump? Answer: Because they are not afraid of the Elephants: they are afraid of the people who will vote for the elephants.
Next question, and maybe even more important: Why are they afraid of the people voting for Republicans?
freeholder1 said, 1 day ago
Wow, Scott, how appropriate to use as your avatar the only Prez to ever shut down freedom of the press. I suspect the elephant is going to jump because he sees Palin coming.
DrCanuck said, about 23 hours ago
rekam said, Should [Palin] run, and I pray not, think I’ll move to Canada.
Hey, I said the same thing about Bush!
Did, too.
d_legendary1 said, about 22 hours ago
The elephants are in hiding, yet they are getting all this press.
How left wing is the media again? I keep forgetting…
oldlegodad
said,
about 22 hours ago
DrCanookie, Always figured you were a wuss. No guts at all, or cajones either.
fritzoid said, about 21 hours ago
If Palin runs, she’ll have to get through the nomination process. That means debates, against people who agree with much of what she says, but by no means all. All those Republicans who’ve treated her with kid gloves because she’s an effective lightning rod for Democrat sputterings are going to “suddenly discover” that she’s “not what they’d thought.” She’d have to deal with “gotchya” questions from her own side of the aisle. Probably, she’d be toast before the convention. Alternatively, she splits the party and either she or the top moderate opponent runs as an Independent, resulting in another win for the Democrats.
There was a Horsey cartoon during the 2008 election pointing up the uneasy split in the GOP caused by Palin’s performance. A man is sitting across the table from a woman. The man is dressed in a bow tie and wears wire-rim glasses and is sitting straight as a ramrod in his chair, with his folded hands on the tabletop. Basically, he looks like George Will.
“Doesn’t it concern you that Governor Palin seems a trifle, er…underinformed?”
The woman is leaning over the table, shaking her fist in the man’s face, with wild eyes, and projecting spittle from her gaping mouth.
“WHATTYA MEAN, ’UNDERINFORMED’?!? SARAH PALIN IS GOD’S CHOSEN VESSEL, HAND-PICKED TO LEAD AMERICA IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!”
dtroutma said, about 20 hours ago
“free” not the only one- the Bush’s did too.
d_legendary1 said, about 20 hours ago
<======That’s right infidels! God’s on my side!
Tolestoy said, about 20 hours ago
If scotfreitas could draw his thoughts he’d be the funniest cartoonist ever.
ahab
said,
about 20 hours ago
If Sarah Palin farts in the woods, did she have to rely on hand notes?
HOWGOZIT said, about 9 hours ago
just yours.
doppyeast
said,
about 8 hours ago
When charged by a raging bull elephant
Standing your ground may be eloquent
But I think you’ll agree
That climbing a tree
Is the only procedure that’s relevant.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 5 hours ago
“If Sarah Palin farts in the woods, did she have to rely on hand notes?”
Fart hand notes? Is that where you put your hand in your armpit and then squeeze with your arm?