Tom Toles for May 17, 2019

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    DD Wiz Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Under the new standards for LEGAL immigration proposed, Trump’s own grandfather, Fred Trump, née Friedrich Drumpf, born in Kallstadt, Germany, in 1869, with no skills and no knowledge of English or ability to pass a civics test, would never have been allowed into the United States, to which he was trying to escape the threat of a military draft in Germany. (No Trump [or Drumpf] has ever served, in the U.S. or Germany or anywhere else.

    So also, Trump’s own mother, Mary Ann McLeod Trump, would never have been eligible to immigrate from Scotland. Nor two of Trump’s own wives.

    The only way these elitists proposals would be acceptable would be if they are made retroactive far enough back to prevent the U.S. from being devastated by the Trump scourge.

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    Mominexile Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Excellent, Mr. Toles…

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    Dtroutma  almost 5 years ago

    He wouldn’t find any staff if they did that.

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    feverjr Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    … and no anchor babies, unless they’re Russians staying in Trump hotels….

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/birth-tourism-brings-russian-baby-boom-miami-n836121

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    Walter Kocker Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Ahem. That would be fewer family connections . . . not less.

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    GreggW Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Not to mention grotesque hypocrisy.

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    cdward  almost 5 years ago

    Superb observation!

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    sipsienwa Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Pinocchio t rump git his in-laws in so now they stop the family connection.

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    brit-ed  almost 5 years ago

    Will it also apply retroactively to Melania’s family?

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    moderateisntleft  almost 5 years ago

    Once again, Toles is right on the mark. Good job!

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    Bookworm  almost 5 years ago

    Perhaps a candidate for the Presidency should have to take a civics exam. Just a thought.

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    magicwalnut Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Perhaps a sitting president should have to take a civics exam and pass it or be deposed!

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 5 years ago

    Jared is proud of his ignorance, he can go into old deals and see it in a new way, since he has no knowledge of how or why those old deals were formed.

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    Masterskrain Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Jared knows ALL ABOUT irony! He LOVES IT when the laundry does a good job when they irony his shirts…

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    Dani Rice  almost 5 years ago

    Read Kushner, Inc. to see what a clueless, tone deaf, idiot Jared is. He nearly started a war with Kuwait, not realizing they are an ally and we have several military bases there. The ONLY thing that interests him is Israel, possibly more than American interests.

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    fishbulb239  almost 5 years ago

    The obvious hypocrisy aside, is it in the people’s best interest to bar those who are willing to take jobs that citizens don’t want while increasing competition for the best jobs? It’s yet another instance of favoring corporations over actual people – drive down labor costs by ensuring that the supply of skilled workers exceeds the demand.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    America’s legal immigration system is a mess, and Washington gridlock is preventing us from doing anything about it. I don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel this year, either.

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    tabby  almost 5 years ago

    Good thing Melania’s family already got here, isn’t it? s/

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    Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    I do not normally think of Mr. Toles as a caricaturist, but I recognized his version of Jared without the label.

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    The Lone Panda Kemo Sabe  almost 5 years ago

    “Obliviousness to Irony”..They were a great band, I saw them open for Iron Butterfly. They brought down the house.

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