Tom Toles for April 11, 2017

The Rump doesn’t want a clear thinking, healthy population; they won’t vote for him.

Sums it up pretty well, just ask anyone living around coal burning. Which, why do you think those stacks have always been so high? So the bad stuff lands on the neighbors down the road.

Deregulate everything, and blame Obama. Always a winner in Rumpworld.

Need to build a coal burning generation plant just down wind of the trumpster’s weekend retreat.

Toles is ALways cleverly right-on, eh what?

SUCH THINKING IS ASKEW – {a rhyme}

So it’s bad to spew gasses

at groups specifically, …

… but okay when we masses

suffer terrifically

from energy-sources’ pollution??!!? -

- Such thinking gives absolution

to industry’s distribution

of bad residue.

Such thinking’s askew.

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TRUMPOTIC GOVERNANCE – {a rhyme}

Our governance is bizarrely Trumpotic

{from anOther planet, exotic}:

√ It tends quite scarily despotic; …

… veering from ways democrotic.

√ Its White House is yuugely chaotic.

√ Its head is neurotic/psychotic.

√ Its policy-thrusts are quixotic.

√ Its supporters are stupes idiotic.

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And when the coal jobs don’t come back what does the Donald say?

He can’t get good propaganda from FAUX Noise for doing anything about this!

The pinprick attack on Syria was very likely an attempt to divert attention away from trump’s Russian shenanigans. I have a hard time believing this sociopathic narcissist with ADHD actually cares about Syrian children. For heavens sake, he CALLED the Russians to tell them the attack was imminent. Sheesh.

Global warming is bleaching out the coral. If the oceans go, we do too.

The good old days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_New_York_City_smog

But little donny says HIS coal is CLEAN. So sad.

When plutocrats go out to dine

They toast each other: “I got mine!”

They never find it least bit scary

Looking at the dead canary

“Warning systems? Must be fake news

Now excuse us (in our church pews)

While we pray for more and more coal

Profits, they just roll and more roll

And never mind the we ravage

Environments: just collateral damage

Curses, foiled again: it should be “the way we ravage” and of course there should ought to be closing quote marks running around loose somewhere…….

I think I found them! "

“I can look in their faces and say ‘You can’t come.’ I’ll look them in the face.” – Trump on the children of Syria. “No child of God should ever suffer such horror.” – Trump on children who suffered a gas attack.

“Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many — even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack.” – Trump on the gas attacks by Assad.

“focus on core legal requirements" and “ease the burden of unnecessary federal regulations”. – Trump on the gas attack on his own people.

Tom forgot the destruction of the coalmine operation itself. Unfortunately “the slow acting weapon of mass destruction” is hard to fight because of all the fast acting weapons of mass distraction.