Tom Toles for October 20, 2019

From the venal system to the penal system.

Thanks for the new word! Venality is a vice associated with being bribeable, cruel, selfish, or of selling one’s services or power, especially when people are intended to act in a decent way instead. In its most recognizable form, dishonesty, venality causes people to lie and steal for their own personal advantage, and is related to bribery and nepotism, among other vices.

The towering infernal.

Republican business as usual.

Unlike the Hindenburg, filled with Hydrogen (a clean burning fuel), the GOP is filled with sewer gas and bile. Burns nearly as hot, with equally disastrous results but it’s source is pure(ha!)ly internal. I cannot help but hope that the party is burned completely and rises (if at all) like a phoenix, purified and ready to do the job that political parties are supposed to do: Make the republic a better place by offering us good choices about how to go forward.

Wimps, Pimps, Simps, Blimps – {rhyme}

This Republican blimp

carries {1} many a wimp

too cowed to do their duty,

and {2} many a plutocrat’s pimp

who procure their plutocrat’s booty. -

- They hover their blimp so closely

that the result is disaster, mos’ly,

when into Trump

they dangerously bump.

…In short:

Republicans tend to be wimps

who facilitate plutocrats’ pimps,

and get burned by regimes led by [simpletons] simps.

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While the Greedy Old Party like the Hindenburg is full of hot air unlike it unfortunately it will be far tougher to destroy.

Just one of the best cartoons in a while. I laughed out loud! My beautiful Dutch wife, who looks at things, well, (quite rightly), Differently, (happily), said she just doesn’t get how those republicans (in government) can go to work every day with “dry eyes “.

{Off-topic:}

Past Due – {a rhyme}

May more then more of the Trumpite base

take careful note

that hoping in Trump is a wild goose chase, -

- and help us vote

him out. America again made great.

{His ouster has passed its past-due-date.}

If we don’t thusly vote,

that’s all she wrote.

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He’s Not a Midas – {a rhyme}

No “Midas” is Trump when reigning as “King”; …

… it all turns to [censored]. Everything!!

Such trouble the Trumpians bring

when to delusion they cling, -

- their delusion that Trump is the breath of Spring.

… Coda:

The Donald he ain’t no Midas-like actor.

Instead, he’s yuugely a malefactor

{for his base’s fans as well,

as his policies give ‘em hell}.

. . . . . . .

…apparently…Hubris is flammable…who knew?….

These are the dark days in the history of America! wish I could be around to read their version when they write about all the lies, deceit, treason, etc. Depends who does the writing…..

“OH, THE HUGE MANATEE!!!”

“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.”

“Real Patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.”— George Washington

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“Throughout America’s adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free people. Any failure traceable to arrogance or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.”

“We pray that peoples of all races, all faiths, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full, that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity.” – Dwight Eisenhower

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“Impeachment should proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people must take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution. Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.”

“If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation. Legislative in the Congress, yet checked by negative of the Executive. Executive in the President, yet checked by impeachment of Congress.” – Alexander Hamilton

Oh, the whitemanity!

When tRump hangs up the phone he calls Hannity nasty names. Yet Hannity has, once again, manipulated tRump. conservatives are the enemy of the U.S. and have been since 1774.

The old joke about Limbaugh can be reworked for our dear president: What’s the difference between Trump and the Hindenberg? One’s a flaming Nazi gasbag and the other is a dirigible.

They will disappear in the wreckage.

Don’t give the Kurds ideas.

Excellent use of a historical reference.

Maybe “United States” would be more like it. Not just the elephants.

Steve Bannon says Trump will be impeached in six weeks because Nancy Pelosi is ‘very focused’ and warns Hillary Clinton and Mike Bloomberg will replace other weak Democratic challengersPresident Donald Trump’s former chief strategist and ex-Breitbart News chairman, Steve Bannon says impeachment is a certainty‘This is serious. As sure as the turning of the earth, he is going to be impeached,’ says Bannon, urging the administration to take the threat more seriouslyHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi will impeach Trump in the next six weeks, says Bannon, who warns more viable Democrats could run against the presidentHe says Mike Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton may replace weaker Democrats as Joe Biden loses momentum and Warren gets closer to the nomination

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7593483/Steve-Bannon-says-Trump-impeached-six-weeks-Nancy-Pelosi-focused.html