Tom Toles for August 01, 2019

The corporate media — entirely owned by ginormous media corporations and multi-billionaires — try to sell the FALSE idea that you can’t win by standing up for working people and the middle class and standing up against the big corporations.

Democrats thought it would be best to “play it safe” and nominate the most “electable” in 2000 (Gore), 2004 (Kerry) and 2016 (Hillary).

In 2016, no serious person thought Trump was “electable.”

In 2008, Democrats were terrified that an African American with the VERY African name of “Barack Obama” was unelectable (we’re all used to the name now, but remember how exotic it sounded the first time you heard it?). And to make matters worse, his MIDDLE name is “Hussein” while we were fighting a war against the atrocities of Saddam Hussein.

I am old enough to remember 1980, when Republicans’ biggest fear was that a washed-up B-movie actor with extreme right-wing views was unelectable, and we Democrats were champing at the bit for Reagan to get the nomination.

What Trump, Obama and Reagan all had in common was “what you see is what you get.” And all three of them had the number one most “electable” quality: they knew how to frame and control their message.

Ask Hillary about e-mails and she gets bogged down in it.

Ask Trump about paying off porn stars, Access Hollywood, serial adulteries, barging in on UNDRESSED UNDERAGE Miss TEEN contestants, multiple bankruptcies and business failures, corruption, tax returns, WHATEVER, and he deflects and talks about whatever HE wants to talk about.

OH, they fell off the scale some time ago.

What’s hilarious is people referring to socialists as “the extreme left”. They have no idea what “extreme left” means. The Communists weren’t even as extremely left as it’s possible to get. Think of those who want to nationalize every industry larger than a megabuck per year, let alone those for whom “eat the rich” isn’t merely metaphorical.

It’s going to take quite a few to get things in balance.

Pete was right — it doesn’t matter what the Dems do, the GOPers will call them socialists. So just get on with it and don’t worry about the GOP slander.

Since the birth of the nation, there have been those who want to build something greater than themselves and others — who cannot even dream of such an overwhelming thing — that would rip it apart, as they fear the loss of control of their small portion … preferring to be the (seemingly) big fish in a small pond.

This is perfect.

The few, have and continue to, deceive the many.

What do you call someone who tells you a lie/promise, just to take money from you?

Republicans vote to help themselves; Democrats vote to help everyone. (if they bother to vote, that is. just say’n…)

I’ll have to agree. Free stuff is never really free.

Reagan and Nixon would be WAY too far left for today’s Rethuglican Party…

Not a move; it’s a race.

Republicans HAVE to lie.. When people are given a choice of two statements on issues that actually affect their everyday life, one that describes the Republican position and the other the Democrat’s, the Democratic position is chosen by about 80% of Democrats and Independents. No surprise there. The weird part is that just under half of Republicans also choose Democrat positions, unless they are told which position is supported by each party. Then they fall into line and choose the Republican option- 78% of the time. So, it is entirely reasonable for Republicans to lie a lot. The people running the Republican party are in that half of the Republicans who actually believe in Republican positions. They are roughly 25% of the voting public. They have no chance of ever winning a national election unless they keep as many people as possible from voting and keep the rest of them confused enough to vote against their own best interests.

This is as opposed to the AAP (All Aryan Party formerly know as the GOP) moving to far Reich – excuse me, I meant Right, of course. /s

The republicans borrowed money from china to give to billionaires

and they want to cancel Social Security and Medicare to pay for their socialist gift to the Republican donor class.

Why do people vote for their thieving insanity?

Today’s mainstream Democrats could have run as Republicans in the ’50s.

Their greed is insatiable, just ask Betsy DeVos if ten yachts are enough….

And once again Tom Toles shoots and scores! Any team in the NBA would give millions.

Spot on, Mr. Toles – well done!

Ah, yes. The American scale of Justice! (For those who can afford more justice!)

For Republiklans, 100% Surrender is Not Enough. They demand More.

As of 2007, the richest 1% held about 38% of all privately held wealth in the United States. while the bottom 90% held 73.2% of all debt. According to The New York Times, the richest 1 percent in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.

Define “too far.”

When the RepubliCON elite choose their “Pied Piper”, the rats fall in line by the score.

Stand in, oh say 1965 and look slightly to the right into the now. Nobody there. A little further right, and you start to see Obama, Biden, HRC, etc. Right in the middle: Harris, Warren, Sanders who only want for the US what all the real first world countries have for theirs.