Tom Toles for March 01, 2018

Cookie Munster.

Just arrest the traitorous crook, and get this over with.

Like a bad detective, not a clue.

Tried to summarize this but couldn’t present all the details right, so here it is.

" …

Kelly made the call on Kushner’s security clearance, leading to a fresh round of leaks and bitter backbiting within an administration that had seen less palace intrigue since the exit of strategist Steve Bannon — a Kushner foe.

Kelly’s own status had been in question after his handling of a controversy over a senior aide whose ex-wives accused him of abuse.

But Republicans say Kelly handled the Kushner security clearance matter expertly and may have shielded himself in the process.

One Republican noted that if Kelly is fired now, it will look like it’s because he crossed the president’s son-in-law. And even if Kelly were fired, the White House would still have to reverse what Kelly had done to reinstate Kushner’s standing. They’d likely get killed in the press for that.

“It was political genius by Kelly,” said one Republican.

…"

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376132-kushners-future-is-uncertain-but-few-think-hes-leaving-white-house

So what’s the problem? Once Donnie get done telling his contacts from the Russian Security Forces everything THEY want to know, he’ll just tell Kushy….

Oh noes! Whatever will Jared do? I dare say that those intelligence reports are what’s been making the interest payments on all of Jared’s “loans” from the Brighton Beach Boys (Russians). Dotard Donnie Johnnie may not trouble himself to peruse the intel, but I’ve no doubt at all that the Russians dote on every word of it.

Jared can sell our secrets to support his business.

Another great plan from the Trump crime family.

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin announced Thursday the country boasts a new array of nuclear-capable weapons, including an intercontinental ballistic missile that leaves defense systems “useless,” NBC News reported.

Russia’s War on TrustPutin made the announcement 17 days before Russia’s presidential election — which polls suggest he is on track to win — saying the ICBM has a longer range than any other in the world and can reach almost any target on the planet. He described the missile as “powerful and modern and defense systems will not be able to withstand it.” Warning, “missile defenses will be useless against it.”

He said Russia has also developed supersonic missiles and drone submarines incapable of being stopped. A new intercontinental hypersonic missile, the Avangard, can fly to targets at 20 times the speed of sound. The Kinzhal, a weapons system already deployed in southern Russia, employs hypersonic missiles that can hit targets 1,250 miles away, according to NBC.

Putin’s annual state of the nation address, which covers topics ranging from health care to the economy, was accompanied by video footage of the new weapons in action, as well as simulations. He accused the West of “ignoring” Russia, saying “Nobody listened to us. Well listen to us now.”

“I want to tell all those who have fueled the arms race over the last 15 years, sought to win unilateral advantages over Russia, introduced unlawful sanctions aimed to contain our country’s development … you have failed to contain Russia,” Putin said.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-03-01/putin-warns-russia-has-powerful-nuclear-weapons-incapable-of-being-stopped

Sounds like Putin got tired of waiting for his best friend Trump to destroy NATO for him.

" When Netanyahu wants the American Embassy moved to Jerusalem, where does he go…. He goes to Jared." Stephen Colbert

Toles’ blog for today:

Had enough yet?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/03/01/the-only-important-question-about-trump-is-had-enough-yet/

The question is no longer are we winning ?? but how badly are we losing??? The movie Red Dawn makes a good case scenario for what Russia could be planning for our future. Maybe we’d better all start learning how to speak Russian so that our conquerors can tell us how they want us to run our country with them as the Puppet Masters!¡!

For a look at the “Trump Coin” to honor the move to Jerusalem.. http://www.newsweek.com/trumpcoin-israeli-group-mints-new-coin-honor-us-embassy-move-823981

Don’t worry, his father-in-law will get him some cookies to share with his foreign friends.

Ivanka = Geisha

Kushner = Mr. Geisha

The White House is full of some of the DUMBEST crooks ever, and Jared makes some of them look like Isaac Newton in comparison. Will Ivanka divorce him if he’s indicted (even though Pardoner Pence will probably pardon him along with both Donalds and numerous others)? (And, also, is it just me, or did anybody else get the feeling that Hopeless Hicks was angling to become Trump’s fourth wife?)

{Off the cartoon’s topic:}

GARGOYLE – {limerick & image & PS}

Things have come to a boil

as Trumpites turbidly roil

and venomously coil

to foil and despoil, -

- with Trump as their ugly gargoyle:

… Image:

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/trumpgargoylethumb.jpg

… PS:

MAYBE the just-above-rhyme’s theme is sound-enough, – even though pundits tend to emphasize that things specific-to-Trump-himSelf are in tumultuously chaotic disarray. That is, I’m thinking that TrumpISM will continue to badger us regardless of Trump-himSELF’s comeuppance.

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He been jarred back to reality!

Dow Jones has lost 2,000 points since Jan 26.

when will the Republican House decide enough is enough and investigate the Trumps?