Tom Toles for January 12, 2017

His press conference cab be described as:Nobody likes me.Everybody hates me.Y’all can go eat worms.

In the words of Bette Davis: Hang on! We’re in for a bumpy ride!

Where’s all the “dirty commies” and “better dead than red” outrage from the Trumpistas?

So Trump thinks CNN is fake, but Breitbart and the Nat’l Enquirer are legit…….

Well “commies” are yesterday’s news in Russia. A tiny minority party with just a few diehards in it.

The level of contempt Mr. Trump showed for the American people in his ‘press conference’ yesterday was astonishing. The man is an absolute disgrace.

It doesn’t actually matter who is in charge in Russia, as far as their political label. Putin has proven that he has ambitions that include expanding his territory. He is depending on Trump not to interfere and believes that he has him duped into going along with whatever he does. Trump is now in the position that he will have to defend anything Putin does to the American people. The alternative is to look like he was so naïve that Putin is playing him like a puppet, which will allow Putin to continue to do exactly that.

TRUMPISM VIEWED ASKANCE {1.60 limericks}

Trumpism takes its stances

and Trumpism makes its advances.

We view this askance.

This won’t enhance

our nation’s circumstances.

Trumpism lubes

our slide down the tubes

to the nether region’s expanses.

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Putin’s approval is based on the Russian economy , which is based on oil exports. He needs to keep the economy (exports) going to maintain his popularity. Long term, Russia will have to find a more sustainable way to keep growing. I don’t believe that Putin will be able to do that.

Putin just wants peace.A piece of the Ukraine, the Baltic states, Eastern Europe….

As someone said: “We’re going from a black male president, to a blackmail president.”

So now we go from Russia hacking to Putin having pictures of Trump naked with a billy goat. All we need is James Bond and we have ourselves an action flick.

Kissy, kissy!

Russia has enough on Trump to keep America in line. His love for Putin is as real as they want it to be. As long as he keeps paying, we are all being threatened. And 20 percent of the country doesn’t mind because they think they got their way.

How do you “blackmail” someone who tweets all his stupidity, or speaks on live microphones all his foulest attributes? Maybe if we broke the non disclosure agreements with his first two wives, and various ex-business partners?