Tom Toles for February 16, 2020

Truest words he ever spoke.

What I fear are those who despite his crimes and betrayal of America. Still support him.

The fact that he has enough support to enable him is scarier than himself.

Brilliant song: “The Day Democracy Died”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ue5F57dZMU&feature=youtu.be

Sounds like it could be Weird Al.

Thanks to Zebrastripes for pointing it out!

DJT gives another Firestorm Chat.

Thus spake Machiavelli, and Trump hath heard him: “it is much safer [from the Prince’s viewpoint] to be feared than loved because … love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men [of the People], is broken at every opportunity for their [for the People’s] advantage; but fear preserves you [the Prince] by [the People’s] dread of punishment which never fails.”’

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Fear trumps Love – {4 beats/line}

For Trump as a Machiavellian Prince, -

- it’s best if you fear that he’ll make you wince

if groveling loyalty you don’t evince.

Fear trumps Love because Love is fickle,

while Fear has you constantly in a pickle, -

- like folks under Stalin’s hammer and sickle.

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…and Aye yi yi!

“Fear Like Free Beer”

When Trump gives a speech at a campaign rally,

He thrusts in his points, doesn’t dilly or dally,

No cozy Fireside Chat, as FDR broadcast —

Instead, a Firestorm Rant that spews spite and bombast:

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“You’re surrounded by enemies — Press anti-Trumpers,

Democrats, Socialists, immigration Mugwumpers.

Greed is good, Hate is fine, I demand that you hear,

And the best thing of all is to give in to your Fear!

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“Fear is the spur to have great things conceived and hatched;

When Fear holds your mind all thoughts else are dispatched.

That old cripple bleated Fear throws your thoughts out of joint.

Know that Fear tapers Resolve down to a razor-sharp point!

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“Crown me again and all my royalist cronies:

We will stride the white path and demolish those phonies

Who preach love and forgiveness with dewy-eyed tears.

Let me lead from behind, reining you by your Fears!”

Fear, anger, and cruelty are his currencies.

His hit list grows daily. Are you on it?

{Off-topic:}

Skip my Rhymes – {4 beats/line}

Skip my rhymes when you’ve had enuff

of their huffily puffing ‘bout Trumpian stuff

{like his insolently lying nonsense and guff}

{and his policies’ barbarities I reject and rebuff}.

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I post too durn’ many, which violates decorum

{they encroach upon this Toles-’toons forum}.

So I well understand that folks might ignore ‘em.

{These Tom Toles’s fans, I ‘druther not bore ‘em.}

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Well, him, and the TRAITORS AND QUISLINGS in the Republican Party that let him BREAK THE LAW AND VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION ON A DAILY BASIS!!!!!

The inmates are running the asylum….

He doesn’t talk to the press nor the public.

This is what happens when a person that was neglected by family as a child, still craves the attention that he should have received and attempts to return not love but neglect and hatred to those who he fears might expose his incompetence by the simple comparison of accomplishments.

Toles has misstated what Tiny actually said. He said, and I quote: “My fellow Americans, the only thing (Urp) we have to fear is Me, Myself and I” After all he does represent the Trinity. Now for the doxology.

“Real Power is……I don’t want to even use the word….fear” Spoken by: Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump in an interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on March 31, 2016, at the Old Post Office Pavilion,Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C. A statement in the beginning pages of Bob Woodward’s book:FEAR Trump in the White House.

I was old enough to have heard & understand what Roosevelt said on his radio broadcast.

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Greedy Maw – {3 beats/phrase}

He’s the worst we ever saw: // His mouth is a greedy maw

which like a black hole will draw // our nation down to his craw

where all is dark and dreary. // The prospects for this make us weary.

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Dump Plump Chump trump!

GOP chat: “The only thing we have… is Fear itself.”

I like the little sketch in the lower right corner; shades of “Kelly” from the Onion!

He is NOT my fellow American.

The president is insane, the president has no brain.

Night of the Long Knives, Part II is just beginning. First within the White House and later us

Him and his minions and enablers.

I am the great and Powerful OZ (pay no attention to that Russian behind the curtain)

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Tain’t TRUMP who’ll Pull Off the MAGA thing – {4 beats/line}

Against the trolls we’re yuugely disgusted:

They send us malarkey quite densely encrusted

with unseemly praise of the Enemy {Trump,

who certainly oughta be out on his rump}.

The trolls seem likely quite maladjusted

as they cheer for the creep to whom they’ve entrusted

our nation’s erstwhile hope and fate.

{‘Tain’t TRUMP who’ll ag’in make America great}.

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It seems strange that one of the best things for America at present will be the death of a non-patriot?

If there is a God still with us, why didn’t he just send a plague of locusts to bedevil us instead of the orange toad? We would suffer less.

Think Green

Vote Blue

This piece helps advance our savvy of BOTH: – {1} Trump’s nutty-nesses, AND {2} “… [O]ur dangerous collective addiction to his unhinged behavior”: … https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/psychoanalyst-breaks-down-trumps-god-complex-and-our-dangerous-collective-addiction-to-his-unhinged-behavior/

It’s times like this I’d like to imagine what Herblock would draw about Drumpf.