Tom Toles for November 15, 2016

That is exactly what they have in mind, and even all the public lands that aren’t in wilderness as well. The intent is to get rid of many trillions of dollars worth of TAXPAYER PROPERTY at less than two cents for every billion dollars of value, selling to their best buds in resource extraction of course. They ,Trump and the Republicans, are about to try the biggest ripoff in history. And that is even worse than the 1872 Mining Act that could have been revoked years ago, and there would be NO national debt just based on lease values.

“Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away…”

I had to laugh :) Sad, but funny.

WILL WE JUST IMPOTENTLY YELL? {a rhyme}

Time will tell

{after we sit a spell},

whether the election has sped us to hell.

Whither America? Have we dun fell?

Have we heard the death-knelling bell?

Are we sinking fast-paced and pell mell?

Will we Progressives just impotently yell?

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A SCHIZOID PRESIDENCY {a rhyme}

An odd array of his own odd traits,

mixed with the ways of his Alt-Right mates

and further mixed with Establishment types: -

- Is THIS the Presidency which The Donald hypes?

Lord, please help us. Egad.

It’s a cockamamy scene;

I’d call it {schizophrenic} schizophrene.

Not even a Tad

of coherency.

It’ll be quite Bad;

much errancy.

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HOW LONG can TRUMP be ENDURED? {a 2-verse limerick}

Groggy on Monday he rises

to face what this week comprises:

“Well,” he surmises,

“there’ll be no surprises

whatEVER the tricks Trump {tries} trieses.”

… … …

He’s long since become inured

to whatEVER the orangely-coiffured

president-elect

might {inflict} inflect.

Yet: – How long can Trump be endured?

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There is no foreseeable future under bigot Trump.

Hey we made it through eight years of Obama…….likely we can survive a neo-conservative. Also; though this has seemingly been forgotten, WE THE PEOPLE do have the ability to make our representatives accountable if we choose the courage and involvement to do so. On the subject of “involvement”; that is one of the most important things to consider when trying to understand President-elect Trump’s election. Those who Trump spoke to, became involved.

I don’t think we can come near to predicting what is going to happen. I keep hearing about how the Democratic Party is in disarray (and it is to some extent), but nothing about the chaos that I am seeing in the Republican Party. There must be 3 or 4 factions of Republicans in the House alone. And anyone who thinks that Priebus and Bannon can work together constructively in the White House is just fooling himself. It isn’t even clear that Trump himself has any real intention of taking on the responsibilities of the presidency—or has a real understanding of what those responsibilities are.

The probability that a period of instability globally will occur is rising due to the outsize role the US plays in the world. Fasten your seatbelts, We’re in for a real ride.

Thank you for your uplifting manure…..

Dancing around the Warren G. Harding Memorial . . .

Quite right. He’s not President yet, so how do we know exactly which promises he’s going to jettison? I do know that he chose a lying white supremacist for a key post in his staff, so things are looking good for racists out there.

I’d say the best comment I’ve seen was “Trump tried his very best to lose the election. Hillary was better.” tRump is the dog that caught the car. Now what?

Newsflash for Hen3ry567: How can you NOT know that all kinds of conservatives were against Trump, with at least some publicly calling him “unfit for commander in chief” or even “a madman”?

Trump already has promised to take his war on the press into courtrooms and the halls of Congress. He wants to loosen libel protections, and he has threatened Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos of Amazon with an antitrust suit. Individual journalists have reason to fear him as well. He has already singled out NBC’s Katy Tur, perhaps the best of the television reporters, so that she needed the Secret Service to escort her from one of his rallies. Jewish journalists who have criticized Trump have been subjected to vicious anti-Semitism and intimidation from the alt-right. For the press, this is likely to be the new normal in an America in which white supremacists, neo-Nazi militias, racists, sexists, homophobes and anti-Semites have been legitimized by a new president who “says what I’m thinking.” It will be open season.

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http://billmoyers.com/story/farewell-america/#.WCsoTF6stj2.facebook

Trump staff fit the definition of elitist.

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.In political science and sociology, elite theory is a theory of the state which seeks to describe and explain the power relationships in contemporary society. The theory posits that a small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks, holds the most power and that this power is independent of a state’s democratic elections process.

I wouldn’t stay under there! o-(b)LAME-a didn’t fix any roads or bridges!

but he also sold the highways, so you are now trespassing. there is no more public space. you can only go where you can pay. yay, freedom!

“This, too, shall overpass.” Not soon enough!

Maybe if we all take a laxative….we can get the tRump out of here!

A significant point is that many of Trump’s potential picks must seek “advice and consent” from the Senate. We can only hope that those Republicans who saw the danger of Trump still in that body, will step up, take courage, and reject the most radical and crazy the “Alt right” want in there to destroy everything this nation stands for.

Passover?

And Trump wants infrastructure to jump start jobs and the economy, the same infrastructure Obama couldn’t get “jobs and economy” Republicans to pass. So the bridge will fall before it’s replaced. And remember, the REPUBLICANS were AGAINST the auto bailout, and FOR the bank bailout. I guess manufacturing is only supposed to be the province of a Republican President?