Tom Toles for February 28, 2020

He doesn’t care about the stock market: He’s in real estate (and debt). But I did hear what I thought was a comment about the market in one of his sound bites Thursday. And he has already set up Pence to take the fall. I mean what could possibly go wrong when you put an anti-science person who’s personally waiting for the rapture in charge of a pandemic.

Donald Trump has spent the last three years bragging about a soaring stock market that he inherited from Obama, like he takes credit for everything he inherited (or stole) from others.

Now, Trump’s own mismanagement of our country’s risks in a pandemic — closing the CDC’s department of pandemic control that Obama set up to successfully halt Ebola, silencing public health officials trying to keep the public informed, minimizing and dismissing and ignoring serious risks, mishandling testing procedures, allowing evacuees from the Princess Diamond cruise ship to mix infected and non-infected passengers in direct contravention of CDC recommendations and then bringing them to Travis Air Force Base in Northern California where a nearby civilian could get exposed — has put his precious stock market into freefall.

Dow lost more than 3,200 points — 11% of total value — in four straight days of plummeting this week.

Trump, already of precarious mental health, ties his reelection hopes to the soaring stock market and, as his precious stock market collapses, he is freaking out.

Right wing religious conservatives may see babies in cages as the price someone else pays for their conservative judges and tax giveaways to the rich, but once their own health and safety is endangered, how long before they decide that their own survival — a price they have to pay themselves — is no longer an acceptable price?

Well, the market has listened to Bonespurs’, bull.

Let’s hope he jumps out a high-rise window when the bubble bursts.

That will leave the EPA Super fund with a YUGE cleanup.

His fall-back position is ’It’s Obama’s fault’!

The Veep is Anti-virus Czar – {4 beats/line}

We’ve nary a fear, not even suspense,

‘cause the czar o’er the virus is Michael Pence,

who about such things has savvy immense.

With such a veep, the prez saves the day

in this and in many anOther way.

Let’s vote ‘em back in; – whaddaya say?

… PS: My muse says it’s chic // to rhyme tongue-in-cheek.

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Dow futures DOWN another 350…

Poor Twisted demented rat ….hasn’t a clue about anything! Only his self preservation….all 300 lbs of special sauce, Lettuce, pickles, cheese, hamburder on a sesame seed bun…Gag me….His brain has turned Him into HAMBURGLER…

Yeah, I’ll admit that setting up Pence as the fall guy was brilliant.

He’s already blaming the Democrats for the market downturn — says it’s a reaction to the debates.

It is doubtful that many of the resident’s supporters own stock, or worry about COVID-19 as their longevity and health have always been sub-par. In the era of deep partisan revenge politics, the more that liberals whine and complain (and do nothing else) they’re very satisfied with the resident’s policies and don’t care about his lies.

pence is in charge…speechless

I saw a headline advising that investors may expect to see “zero growth” in 2020. Except in Petri dishes, maybe. /s

“Virus Crowned as Winner, Trump Trumped”

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Within the sanctum of his mind

(If sanctum such a fetid place can be),

The thoughts of Donald can unwind,

The tapeworm segments breaking free.

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Fed well within the body of his Base,

The segments break off piece by piece,

And flushed into the public space,

From there get dispersed in wide release.

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But along bullies a virus small,

Not easily seen, for sure not heard.

It stirs Trump’s tepid rally call,

His own infective force deferred!

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He may be upset but efforts fail

To fire the virus as he’d like.

So he makes a very rushed task force,

Commanded by his VP, Mike.

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Oh hurry, please, the Donald prays,

Before the Fall election’s here.

I must resume my invective ways

And soothe the economic fear.

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But prayers are useless in this case,

Nor compromise as Donald pleases:

As with thieves among the human race,

There’s no honor among diseases.

{Off-topic:}

Rightwingers and this Virus – {4 beats/line}

Our hopes re healthcare the Right is unraveling

with against it their foolish carping and caviling.

An attack by this virus // idn’t desirous, -

- and to’ard us it’s scarily speedily traveling.

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Exactly what I thought, it’s trap Pence.

So PяesiDuиce Very S. Genius has put Ayatollah Pence, the Grim Veeper, in charge of our response to the incipient coronavirus pandemic. I am SO reassured. You just know that the CDC will soon be recommending that we all should prepare for it with thoughts, prayers, and getting right with Jesus.

Myself, I’ve long said that I’d happily give back all of my vaporous gains in the stock market from the last three years just to be rid of the Orange Menace. Looks like I’ll get my “wish.”

have you checked the market this morning?? friday 2- 28? it’s now 6 consecutive days

On NPR yesterday, I heard 3 “Republican ladies” in Alabama, saying God sent him to save us, and that they stand firmly behind “Our President”. Now y’all just wait an’ see, cuz “He works in wondrous ways !”

Yep, he’s using a product of 19th Century technology to watch a 21st Century economic system being flushed down the toilet.

Lying hypocrite Trump the abomination said any president should quit if the market falls over 1,000 points in a day. He should take his own stinking advice but the fraud won’t.

Down 865 @ 10:00 A.M.

To misquote the Bible: “In the end, there abideth these three – faith, hope, and money – and the greatest of these is money!”

He’s testing the breeze, if you please/ and he doesn’t much like what he sees/ the markets are falling/ at a rate that’s appalling/ and his fate is dependent on these…

High time to battle Covfefevirus by washing our hands of DFT and the Gops.

We need an amendment to the constitution to allow Mr. Obama to run again!

NPR reports the stock market is in “freefall” -down`~3% at 1200 EST…

Spin doctors are calling it a “correction.”

When irrational exuberance becomes irrational panic………Oh, and IS there a doctor in the house, or an adult in the room? No? Well, THAT’S a bleedin’ pity……….

Fearless prediction: I know that Merriam-Webster won’t announce its word of the year until December, but I’m gonna go out on a limb right now and say it’ll be “coronavirus”.

So now Mulvaney is saying the dow is plummeting because of “media coverage” of the coronavirus, like the media is supposed to say nothing about a deadly pandemic circling the globe. LOL, I guess they’re abandoning the “Bernie caused it!!” turdburger. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow’s excuse will be.

Meanwhile, our new coronavirus chief sees that bus in the rear view mirror, and is rolling up his sleeves, ready to spring into action – by going fundraising in Florida!

{Off-topic:}

Trump is a Symptom – {4 beats/line}

Our body politic is badly diseased;

by deplorable maladies harshly we’re seized.

A primary symptom’s our president Trump, -

- who’s why we need a stomach pump,

and why we so often take a dump.

And Trump is the slimy infected pus

so nastily [oleaginous] o-le-a-gi-nous.

… Coda:

Malignant’s the snot which the president sneezes.

We’re bigly displeased by his spreading diseases.

We citizens suffer, thus brought to our kneeses.

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Biggest stock market loss for a week in history, thanks Republicans!

Back to 1929. Wonder how far it will fall on Monday….