Tom Toles for April 02, 2017

Oh, if only…of course, If Donnie Dumpster won’t pay for the extra Police Protection in Palm Beach, the county needs to Seize the property under Eminent Domain laws, foreclose on it, and auction it off to pay the bill.

if he forgot the nuclear codes he have just to ask his friend vlad. he knows them for sure.

You can just wait ‘till sea level rise swamps him outta there. It won’t be long, especially now…

The next hurricane just might do that.

CHANGE of ADDRESS – {a rhyme}

Let’s move the Trumpites to our resort in Cuba; -

- Guantanamo’s got some security money.

Ah. Suntans and Scuba; -

- life there’s a honey.

Plus a yacht upon which to float about.

And of course a fence to keep terrorists out.

… {And there we’d be rid

of the precocious kid

with the orange-colored lid.}

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Here’s a VERY-smart piece, – which addresses this Trump-era’s idiosyncratic configurations, – which configurations my academics-bunch didn’t anticipate when decades-ago describing America-as-potentially-fascistic. … It may be that author Gabler has the bottom-lines correct: – Trump’s “solipsistic” doings are an enabler for pure “greed”. Not a variety of typical fascisms. – - – http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/age-trumpian-chaos?akid=15377.1089321.zQZVe7&rd=1&src=newsletter1074829&t=4

NOT – {a limerick}

Our nation is satisfied,

delightedly gratified: -

- with The Donald instated,

America is greated.

Again we can stride with pride.

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Those cities should ask their citizens to mail their federal income tax returns to City Hall ( only if they owe taxes, of course) and hold them until they are restored to full citizenship. No one should be paying taxes to a county that doesn’t grant them full citizenship rights, and since there is no tea to throw in the harbor, so this would make a good substitute.

DUMP HUMPTY TRUMPTY, – yet STILL … – {a rhyme}

When off his wall the Trumpty has fallen,

they’ll STILL be intact, – the yuugely appallin’

Tea Party types and Alt-Righter folks

and Plutocrat perps like the brothers the Kochs.

Dump the Humpty Trumpty hoax

and STILL on these Others our nation chokes.

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NOT SO “MYTHICAL” ARE OUR MONSTERS – {1.40 limericks and footnotes}

To summarize what we fear a-

-bout things which occur in this era:

We’re being attacked, …

… brow-beaten and whacked

by a fire-belching dreadful Chimera*, -

- and a Hydra three-headed**

in our government imbedded.

… {* = The Donald}

… {** = Trumpists, Alt-Righters, Plutocrats}

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The west coast no longer recognizes the awful Trump admin.

First send out all your illegal hotel maids and groundskeepers

Donald Trump is simply the most selfish President we’ve had from the Selfish Party.

What level of classified information are the waiters cleared for?

Reagan and the Western Whitehouse (where Nancy had Watt shut down a gravel operation because she didn’t like the dust created) was still functional and cheaper. Cutting bushes in Texas was also easier to secure, and cheaper, and didn’t ring of opulence and arrogance, just a good old boy who knew he land, and a life outside a luxury apartment. Putin has his dacha, Trump has much more expensive accommodations, and the public shouldn’t be paying for the “lifestyle” that has no context to Americans who really pay those taxes.

Yet ANOTHER of my too-many rhymes:

NOT LIKELY SOON – {a limerick and a coda}

We’ll “whistle a happy tune”

and “dance by the light of the moon”

when The Donald refrains

from giving us pains.

Alas, this ain’t likely soon.

… Coda:

He’s a buffoon

in a hot-air balloon.

Cartoonable, lampoonable,

yuugely impugnable.

For our nation he ain’t no boon.

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Today Trump’s 14th golf outing, since he’s become President.

President Trump hit the links at one of his golf courses on Sunday with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.

Trump will reportedly discuss a “variety of topics” with Paul and Mulvaney, including healthcare, at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va.

Super great cartoon! If only we could make him play by the same goofy rules he is proposing for others.