Tom Toles for January 10, 2020

I think the guy with the stogie probably understands his plans better than he himself does. And he’s been dead a long time.

It’s what Putin would have wanted. He certainly got a lot out of his investment in trump.

Groucho’s TV show was “You Bet Your Life”. Bonespurs just bets other peoples’

Just say the secret woid….

Just when you think it couldn’t get any nuttier, it does.

The secret woid is “covfefe”.

Tragedy, not Comedy – {rhyme}

This Age of Trump is a bunch of tragedies

resulting from oafishly bungling strategies

of an oafish bungler’s choosing, -

- which aren’t in the least bit amusing.

… Coda:

A “tragicomedian” the president’s not.

A funny-bone he’s simply not got.

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Ah, the songwriting team of Kalmar / Ruby. “Who’s Sorry Now?” “I Wanna Be Loved By You” And also “Three Little Words”: “Trump’s a Dope.” (Remember their biopic, with Fred Astaire and Red Skelton?)

“Duck Soup” is my all-time favorite movie, but let’s not live that in real life.

Hooray for Captain Spalding!

Guess the secret word, it’s a common household word used everyday….M O R O N !

The mantra of the world’s most Machiavellian, narcissistic, psychopathic, despotic Grouch.

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Regimes Estranged – {rhyme}

Will peace result if regimes get changed? -

- if enemy states get re-arranged

by all the bluster

that Trump can muster?

Or will our nations be further estranged?

… Coda:The latter {not peace}, // ‘cause Trump’s so deranged.

He must get impeached // or otherwise exchanged.. . . . . . . . . . . .

To Paraphrase… “You’re the President, and I’m the Foreign Minister? America’s in a HELL of a fix…”

AND…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSsUoxlSADk&list=PL514B7D4578D5BD6D&index=2

there is no sanity clause…

Mideast plan? What plan? It kind of reminds me of what Nixon did with Vietnam. He made some crazy military moves in order to make his enemies think he was crazy. And as it goes, normal people don’t mess with crazy people! Trump has managed this without even trying…… The Iranians are smart enough to back off because they think he’s crazy (with his finger on the button). The problem is the “crazy plans“ cost lives which is no plan at all! It’s crazy…

it’s SCARY that THESE GUYS are smarter then trump and his crime cartel!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyeKYQdYISg

Freedonia was very well governed in comparison to certain other nations.

Donald J. Trump: Where’s my Stradivarius?

Michael R. Pence: Here, sir.

DJT: I’ll show ‘em they can’t fiddle around with old Trumpy!

[he pulls a tommygun out of his violin case and opens fire]

DJT: Look at ‘em run! Now they know they’ve been in a war!

MRP: Your Excellency!

DJT: Hahahahahaha, they’re fleeing like rats!

DJT: Remind me to give myself the Trumpy Medal for this!

A go to Groucho quote for me has always been: “outside of a dog a book is a man’s best friend; inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” We are INSIDE the dog. All these statements of certainty…

It’s a four-letter word, Donny, but it isn’t “plan”.

This is Lord Julius from Cerebus. (obscure reference)

I love the way Groucho is depicted in grayscale, which is the way we all remember him from his movies and TV shows.