Tom Toles for December 08, 2017

They’re certainly working to arrange that.

SO JUST CAST ASPERSIONS – {in a limerick’s rhythm}

The Trumpites would like to stop him,

but ‘twouldn’t be prudent to chop him.

So they create diversions, -

- and cast aspersions

to discredit Mueller’s incursions.

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I would put nothing past them.

The Republican party would destroy America to keep from being accountable.

DON’T give them any ideas, or Mueller might have a sudden “Accident” arranged by Donnie’s buddies in the New York Mafia.

Remember when the GOP was for law and order?

{Not on the cartoon’s topic:}

TAXES ON WHOM? {rhyme and coda}

The tax-man won’t get much revenue

from the rich folks who iive on Park Avenue.

So income will come from whom?

On whom will they lower the boom? -

- The Donald’s fans, his retinue;

his fans and supporters: That is who.

… Coda:

{Plus us innocent-bystander Middlers

who’ve allowed this regime of Plutocrat diddlers}.

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they already are poll testing it through a smear campaign against Mueller on Fox news.

BEDEVILED – {rhyme}

In disarray our nation staggers,

nonplussed by the orange-thatched White-housed gremlin

who tweets and rages and preens and swaggers

and dances with perps such as those in the Kremlin.

Our nation’s disheveled,

by The Donald bedeviled.

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{Off the cartoon’s topic:}

HE ANNOYS – {rhyme}

Boy, is it ever annoying

that The Donald with gummint is toying.

This dude’s at least neurotic,

with brains at best sclerotic.

Every durn’ thing he destroys

with every durn’ trick he deploys.

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I was living in Europe during the Nixon years, and everything that was going on in the U.S. was filtered through the international Herald Tribune or armed forces radio. Tell me, someone, was it this depressing?

The Republicans are methodically destroying America so they can have their own 1000 year reich.

Wikileaks sent Trump private access and a decryption key to emails weeks before they were released.

Time to demand what 70 percent of Americans want: an inquiry into Trump sexual assault allegations

So killing off the concept of what “America is” is an actual option? Let me think about it. – GOP

Nearly two-thirds of Trump’s lies (65 percent) were self-serving. Examples included: “They’re big tax cuts – the biggest cuts in the history of our country, actually” and, about the people who came to see him on a presidential visit to Vietnam last month: “They were really lined up in the streets by the tens of thousands.”Slightly less than 10 percent of Trump’s lies were kind ones, told to advantage, flatter or protect someone else. An example was his statement on Twitter that “it is a ‘miracle’ how fast the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police were able to find the demented shooter and stop him from even more killing!” In the broadest sense, it is possible to interpret every lie as ultimately self-serving, but I tried to stick to how statements appeared on the surface.Trump told 6.6 times as many self-serving lies as kind ones. That’s a much higher ratio than we found for our study participants, who told about double the number of self-centered lies compared with kind ones.The most stunning way Trump’s lies differed from our participants’, though, was in their cruelty. An astonishing 50 percent of Trump’s lies were hurtful or disparaging. For example, he proclaimed that John Brennan, James Clapper and James Comey, all career intelligence or law enforcement officials, were “political hacks.” He said that “the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close.” He insisted that other “countries, they don’t put their finest in the lottery system. They put people probably in many cases that they don’t want.” And he claimed that “Ralph Northam, who is running for Governor of Virginia, is fighting for the violent MS-13 killer gangs & sanctuary cities.”

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/I-study-liars-I-ve-never-seen-one-like-President-12415652.php