Tom Toles for December 18, 2017

I’d say they’re taking it one day at a time, but they’re doing a decade worth of damage every day.

Trump always needs an audience, that’s why Zinke is still there. Who else is going to listen about how he won the electoral vote?

DINKY MONUMENTS – {1.40 limericks}

Trump and Ryan Zinke

would make our monuments dinky, -

- so their benefactors

… {who’re malefactors

such as carbon extractors} …

can dig with their tractors

and make our air smell stinky.

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They take economic pleasures

with our national treasures,

resources they’re diggin’

for deep profits a’piggin’,

it’s insanity by various measures…

“Donald Dodgers in the 21st and a quarter century!”

Drill Baby DRILL!

If nothing else, the Trump administration proves that not having high standards for office holders and candidates allows incompetents with no love for their nation and its people to thrive. Citizenship and minimum age are not quite adequate enough, it seems, to prevent an ignorant, unethical, greedy, but partisan candidate from doing great harm.

TRUMP’S EPITAPH – {rhyme}

His infamy accrued

in yuuge magnitude

from his turpitude. -

- A very foul dude, he

was rude, he was crude, he

was brutishly lewd, he

was ego-imbued, he

had no aptitude, he

had brains full of doody.

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MUTINY on the USS TRUMP – {rhyme}

Our ship of state was running aground,

steered by a captain of mind unsound.

But vigilant crewmen took closer scrutiny,

then keel-hauled their captain in an act of mutiny

and the “USS Trump” was deftly reclaimed

and with “USS Civility” was aptly renamed.

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Shouldn’t it be Zinke wondering if he still needs Trump at that point?

Thanks for your forbearance re my too-many-rhymes.

WOOSHIN’ IN WES’ TEXIS VERNACULAR {1.60 limericks and a coda}

How minny moah days mus’ be spent? …

… befoah The Donald’s dun went?

Patient Ah ain’t, -

- but Ah guess ‘e jis’ cain’t

let ’is gnarly Ego repent

an’ let anOther

candidate Ah ‘druther

be Prez upown ‘is descent.

… Coda:

O’ course Ah don’t woosh

fer another George Bush.

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People for whom the concept of “public lands” that belong to everyone is simply incomprehensible. “I live here. The land’s here. It is therefore mine. The rest of you can go pound sand.”

At least Republicans will have a good quarter year statement before they destroy the earth for eternity.

They won’t stop until there’re no public lands at all.

I love—absolutely love—how Toles draws this clown. It’s borderline obscene.

If there is money to be made it will find it’s way to the Trump family. He needs it to get out of bankruptcy again and his Russian sources of money are under tight scrutiny. So he’s putting America first again.

Mr. Toles, brilliant panel! You are a great artist! Thank you for sharing your Insight and your talent with us.

At last, Trump’s reduced things to the point that he can manage them.

Malignant Trump is reducing the country into Chaos.

Across our great land, objects of cultural and historic significance tell the story of our nation. From the Statue of Liberty to the birthplace of George Washington, preserving our American heritage means protecting these objects. In 1906, President Teddy Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act, giving the President power to proclaim objects on federal lands as national monuments and to reserve the smallest area of land compatible with their protection as part of the monument designation.

As American voters who share our public lands, it is our responsibility to ensure that these lands are used “for the benefit and enjoyment of the people,” as the words above the Roosevelt Arch in Yellowstone National Park so proudly proclaim. Under the Trump administration, this is going to change. Local voices in Utah and across America are seeing the White House land grab to give our public lands away to corporations.