Tom Toles for January 01, 2020

“Resolve to not follw in his footsteps” . And the years before too

Can you say Annus Horribilis (except for the Big Bubble stock market. Look out below!)? Sure, I knew you could! And it would appear that 2020 is nothing to look forward to…

Lika a baby sea turtle, that has no choice but to crawl into the surf, good luck to us all in 2020!

Good luck with that resolution.

And the baby says: “Goo goo, gah, gah”.

[[ to this site’s poetry editors: – Thanks for your remarks. Would my rhymes be OK-enuff if short {as below}? ]] … … [[ to meter-stumbling readers: – Try “three beats per line” for the following. ]]

May the Year 2020 Bring … – {rhyme}

May the year two thousand and twenty

bring troublesome troubles aplenty

to him of the oval office

with his unruly oral orifice.

. . . . . . . . . . .

IOW, it’s Wednesday.

And this is just in the USA

Thanks to Republicans.

Oh, the Humanity!

And who alone can fix this? The Chosen One? Yeah …

Not that much different than when 2018 was run off.. in fact there is hope now that the first step of removing one of the main causes of chaos has been taken. Still.. the world is in a pretty bad place.

[off-topic, and SPEAKING of being too heavily influenced by Dr. Seuss………]

I do not like Orange Ham-for-brains

His constant lying gives me pains

And every place he goes, he stains

From shining sea to fruited plains

(Could we feed him to Great Danes?

Or else to lions, proud in manes?)

If only Mitch would take the reins

And stop this horse**** in its tracks

Instead of claiming lies are facks

Godfreydaniel for poet laureate!

Calling all those who Comment: Is there a way to turn off the “auto correct” feature? I get some pretty weird substitutions in my comments, and sometimes they get through my proofreading. Yesterday I meant to type “Dies Irae,” and I just noticed it went through as “Dies Ira.” (Apologies to anyone named Ira.). And just now it substituted “Iraq.” Okay, you Printer’s Imp, let’s press Comment and see what happens …

As usual, the kid is left to deal with what the adult leaves behind

But to give up Hope is to admit that the barbarians are winning!