Tom Toles for January 15, 2017

screwed does not necessarily mean pregnant.

Tom, your depiction of POTUS elect is a scream.

Trump supporters don’t care if the Russia komprat story goes away. Trump was right when he said that no matter what he did they would support him. Being a Russian agent seems to be in the same category as shooting someone in Times Square. They just hate the establishment so much that Trump seems like a good alternative. I suspect that even when they wind up with no border wall, no health care coverage, and a president who uses the office to expand his businesses, they won’t see what is going on because they don’t want to see it.

No matter how you look at it, we are getting the government we deserve. The quality of candidates that the parties provide encourage apathy and discourage people from voting or even registering. The divisiveness of two party politics invites meddling from foreign foes who delight in our internal weakness. How long can this go on before we realize the root causes and start to make proactive changes?

Here’s what a REAL Republican thinks:

From President Theodore Roosevelt®:

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”

“Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.”

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

But was it rape?

Wait till she finds out she has no maternity benefits, since the GOP repealed the ACA.

Surely we have enough good men to prevent that. Even 12 good republicans don’t want to, but there are 13 democrats that hate the people enough to turn down making Prescriptions cost less. Expected of Republicans but not Demos. The 2 are becoming the same.

So Republicans have ethics? If they did, they wouldn’t need to eliminate the ethics office! Ethics are for OTHERS!

Are we going to go back to the Bush era idea, that ALL women, pre-menopause, would be termed pre-pregnant?