Tom Toles for January 14, 2020

He did it to distract from impeachment, and because he thinks it’ll play well with his base during the election. It worked (so far) on the impeachment, though I think he was surprised when Iran basically backed down, so the news cycle is starting to pay attention to the impeachment again (though Pelosi’s decision to pass the bill to the Senate may have something to do with that too).

I totally agree with the little cartoonist at the bottom.

Bolton on his way to testify?

The point is that unless he and his administration can firm up some rational excuse for taking the general out, they’re guilty of an international war crime, but he’s ALSO RIGHT in that none of the idiots, imbeciles and morons that support him give a rat’s “patoot” that it’s a war crime.

I can’t wait for Trump Disciple comments claiming Their Messiah was totally justified because, uh,

um, uh,

Something About Obama.

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Trump Disciple analysis skills.

Is it really a surprise that a representatively flawed democracy, with a politically flawed electoral college, would result in an ethically flawed White House resident?

It’s obvious to a lot of people that he’s up to his usual smoke ‘n mirrors routine, hoping he’ll be lauded for being a leader (??), and everyone will forget about the his Impeachment.

Would it surprise anyone if (when) this really happens?

Fear not, for The Lord Trump works in mysterious / imperious / delirious / empirical / hysterical ways.

What’s Wrong with Them? – {limerick}

The Donald’s lifetime of fraud

has left him with not much to laud.

But just look at THEM

whose delight lights up HIM{!!},

and just listen to them who applaud{!!}

… Coda:

Hmmm. We wonder. – Quite odd

is Trump’s obsequious squad.

Is it beCause he’s bizarrely flawed

that applauders’re bizarrely awed??

. . . . . . . . . . .

piece of human excretement.

Add some sniffing and some slurring, and it sound just like him. Great job, Mr. Toles.

A whole bunch of folks will always be right there with The Dotard. The ignorant gotta be ignorant, the haters gotta hate, the jerks gotta jerk, the liars gotta lie, and the entire lot of them are damn sick and tired of being called out about it. MAGA! Make America safe for ignorant haters, jerks, and liars again! tЯump☠ has shown them that they needn’t apologize. For anything. He’s their Man!

Then added to that there’s all of the authoritarian followers. Such folks are a natural part of humanity and comprise about 25% of any population. They depend on their “dear leader” to tell them who they are and what to do, and to protect them from all of the “evil” in the world. In the U. S., they are the evangelical Christianist and Dominionist believers who used to follow the historically ephemeral Jesus, but they’ve now switched their allegiance to the very real, very here-and-now, Tяцmp. He’s their new Messiah and the center of their universe. If he should fail their world will fail. That just can not, must not, happen!

Add them all up and one can get pretty close to the 40% very base base who share Tяцmp’s psychosis and support him regardless.

You realize that it’s the Iranian leadership that is being THE INTELLIGENT ONE here… NOT the lying Fat-Ass! When his own SecDef says that The Treasonweasel WAS LYING, you have to wonder WHY THE HELL PEOPLE STILL SUPPORT HIM!!! Are there REALLY that many INCREDIBLY STUPID PEOPLE wandering around on the streets, totally unsupervised???

Perhaps, now that the royals have invaded Canada, he’ll nuke London to save our neighbors???

The old ‘one from column A, column B, and column C’ foreign policy planning.

He is like every other president who is in trouble, he “WAGS THE DOG”

“Obama will start a war with Iran to get re-elected!” trump tweet.

Lawless Republicans are murderous twits.

A dog-and-pony show orchestrated by an anthropoid ape.

Amazing how he can hold a gun and pull the trigger at the same time with those tiny hands!

Yeah, but now that the slimeball has killed, its gonna be lots easier the next time!

Where O where are all the foaming-at-the-mouth righties who claimed that the embassy attack in Benghazi in 2012 was worse than the Revolutionary, Civil, and World Wars combined? “Why didn’t Obama prevent it?”, they demanded. “Why didn’t he warn the Americans there that they were in danger?”

And why didn’t Trump warn the 4 embassies he claims were under threat from Iran that they were in danger? [here insert sound of crickets]

“Why do we never get an answer When we’re knocking at the door With a thousand million questions About hate and death and war?”… In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed." Moody Blues Justin Hayward

“The Rule of Flaw” — a great description of Trump’s reign of error.

The key phrase: “My supporters don’t care.”

I’ve been expecting this one.

ABC News just found out that Trump had signed the kill order 6 months ago…

1 true statement out of 6. Much higher percentage of truth than normally comes out of the treason toddler’s oral sphincter.

So all war criminals need to be assassinated? Some Americans fit the description according to European courts don’t cha know.

His last four words neatly sum up the problem – his supporters don’t care. Not about truth, not about decency, not about America or the Constitution. Not even about Jesus. They’re garbage people who are entirely responsible for this mess.