Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for April 17, 2020

An exchange that is coming:(A reporter asks Trump a question he didn’t like.)Trump: “You’re a third-rate reporter!”Reporter: “And you’re a forty-forth-rate president.”

If I had a past-changifier glove …………

I will be using a sizable portion of the check he signed on the memo line for me to make sure he is a one term president.

Immediately after the second strip:

“Well, at least they’re all imaginary too.”

“Oh, they’re real. They just have all the same imaginary friends that I have.”

“So they’re a cu—”

“A cut above the rest, exactly.”

Thanos was far more humane than Death Cheeto. Nice reference to the two part Marvel movies “Avengers Infinity War” and “Endgame”.

So that’s what the kids mean when they say “Oh, snap!” Yeah, I admit it, I’m an old fogie. Happily.

Trump tweeted a photo of himself as Thanos. Now over a hundred thousand are dead. I believe in credit where credit is due: call this the Trump Pandemic.

GOD, this is SO EFFING ACCURATE that it’s Utterly TERRIFYING!!!!

Does it bother anyone else that Trump is using our tax dollars to try to buy our votes in the coming election by putting his name on the checks? Thank goodness I have direct deposit. And then there’s the cynical use of his corona virus updates as replacements for his pep rallies.

His army marched on Michigan armed to the teeth. Texas is planned this weekend. I have seen how bad this virus is. I hope everyone of them gets a taste of it! If they don’t want to follow working guidelines then I have no sympathy for stupid. My tolerance is gone for this kind of behavior. I don’t even watch those briefings any more……when the buffoon says it’s a good thing only a 100,000 die that is so callous…..one is too many……and he knew months ago it was coming.

When Trump says, “it’s terrible if we lose even one life….. he doesn’t mean yours or mine… he means his…..”

Nothing is valuable that he doesn’t value.

Good thing Daring Donald’s ship has good Deflectors:

“Bzzzt! It’s China’s fault!”

“Bzzzt! I inherited a broken galaxy!”

“Bzzzt! State governors are stealing my Antivirusium Crystal reserves!”

The Lord of the Lies wants Donald J. Trump emblazoned on every check going out from the IRS … but he has yet to write Donald J. Trump on a single check going to the IRS!

“We won’t care we’ll believe him!”

This should be the official chant of the MAGAts.

“This Corbomite is lethal to the coronavirus, so everyone should stockpile it now!”

“Corbomite comes in the same tubes as Preparation H?”

“Medicine is medicine! The important point is I make a dime from every tube sold!”

“What a lovable little scamp!”

Said his steadfast supporters.

In 1956, during Nikita Krushchev’s so-called secret speech following Stalin’s death (https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5233399&t=1587216724752), “[S]omebody had stood up while Khrushchev was listing the torture systems and the murderings that had gone on and shouted ‘well, if he was so bad, why didn’t you get rid of him?’ And Khrushchev stopped and said, ‘Who said that?’ And there was silence in the hall. So he repeated himself. ‘Who said that?’ And there was still silence, and he said, ‘Well, now you understand why we didn’t do anything.’” That is what despots & tyrants do: they instill such fear into the hearts and minds of one and all—regardless if they were supporters or opponents—that no one dared raise a voice, much less a finger, that could be construed, regardless of how preposterous the suspicion might be, lest they and their family become victims. That is what the Capo does. He thrives on chaos, on uncertainty, on fear, on greed, on fawning, on lies, on half-truths, on unfounded hope, on all the psychological elements and levers he can corrupt or pull to get his way. He is like Beelzebub in that he’s convinced so many people that he doesn’t exist. That is his greatest lie.

Even Calvin wasn’t this self-deluded.

If 100,000 Americans die of covid-19, I would only feel sorry for 53,900 of them…