Tom Toles for June 05, 2020

Excellent

Well, I concede, at THAT he really is the greatest I’ve ever seen and heard.

Guess what, America?…you got BUNKED!

He IS bunker than thou.

Trump is a scared, pathetic little man hiding in his bunker. He continues to place new fencing and barricades around fortress White House. I think he’s having his Nixon “the walls are closing in” moment. Because of those “terrorist” protesters he had to cancel his golf weekend. I’m sure Lincoln and Churchill would have done the same thing.

Crackers? Lindsey, is that you?

Bunkum – {limerick}

I never would of thunk

that a prez could be THIS full of bunk.

Our nation he’s junked;

we’re durn’ near defunct.

Our ship of state’s almost sunk.

… Coda: – {4 beats/line}

Our nation’s greatness The Donald has shrunk.

He’s punked us and dunked us into a funk.

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Where are the bunk-beds? There should be bunk-beds.

Trump has surrounded the White House with armed brown shirts.

Trump has done a hostile takeover of the country, he just hasn’t told us yet.

Barr is Attorney General, why is he leading an army of Magas and Blackwater?

Are these hostile forces being paid with our tax dollars?

China hater Trump has turned Lafayette Square into Tiny Man Square.

This is only tangential to the cartoon topic, but I tire of giving Donald Trump matters space in my head. And Father’s Day is close, so …

My father was third child in a large family during the Great Depression. He left school at age 14 to do various odd jobs. Among them, he scavenged items from the alleys in town: wood scraps for the stove, metal to sell to the junk man, furniture that could be fixed and reused. None of it brought in all that much money, but it helped the family somewhat. He took more conventional jobs later, until at age 17 he hired into one that lasted 46 years.

He kept his Depression mentality all his life, and continually gathered what we considered junk. It was both funny and irritating to us kids, and certainly to my mother. He wasn’t a neurotic hoarder; but his stuff took up a lot of space in the garage and basement. It wasn’t junk to him, but “parts” for future use: screws, bolts, and nuts of all sizes; old tools; knives, big and small; wiring, switches, and small motors; old radios; and innumerable odds-and-ends.

He felt security in having those things, and sometimes they were useful. We could not have anything new unless the old, worn-out item couldn’t be fixed: new things were to him wasteful luxuries.

The Point: Whenever he felt unhappy or put-upon, he’d retreat to the garage or basement to peruse his stuff. Alone among his junk treasures, he’d find a sort of comfort. We kids called those stashes his underground “Junker” or “Mom Shelter.” Sometimes we went with him to listen to him explain what he had, like a curator in his museum.

Most of that stuff was offered in garage sales, or discarded into three big dumpsters when my parents moved to a condo. I know my father felt as if part of his life was thus discarded, too. He would have been one hundred years old this Father’s Day.

“I like presidents who do not cower in the bunker beneath the White House.”

~ The ghost of John McCain.

The fence around the WH makes it look like a Chicken Coup.

Bonkers in the bunker.

“But…But…But… I JUST HAPPENED to be ‘inspecting’ the Bunker during the Demonstrations! Yeah, THAT’S the ticket! Inspecting it, sure! They’ll buy that one…”

Bunker boy!

Send in the bunko squad to bust the perpetrator.

Bunky Brewster

{Off-topic:}

Storm: an Analogy – {limerick}

Lightning’s thunder approaches

and frightens the nasty cockroaches. -

- To the wall they scurry

to hide in a hurry

to elude the storm’s reproaches.

… Analogy: – {4 beats/line}

Furious citizens frighten the Trumpsters, -

- who thereupon hasten to return to their dumpsters.

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“Where are my hamberders?!!?”

Just one word…C O W A R D ! ……Which applies to the GOP-her party and senate!

A good start for his library.

Small mistake, Tom Toles. He actually has “enemies”. Start counting with me!

The Barr-ed door is a nice touch.

His bone spurs got him there… wonder if they hurt so much he had to be carried?

I was told the bunker has only an elevator and it has only a “down” button.

{Off-topic:}

Trump-virus – {4 beats/line}

These Trump-times are sickening, // distress-evoking.

Melanchiolia is thickening, // so our throats are choking.

Our pulse-rates are quickening, // so our hearts might be stroking. – - -

- – - We want Trump’s tenure to soon be revoked

before our ailments he’s TOO much provoked.

… Coda:

Is this a Virus we should name after Trump

{a Virus which causes America to slump}?

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The creature who often towers/ o’er the GOP Senate, now cowers/ in the White House basement/ despite his defacement/ of the “separation of powers”…

 World Records in Ball Dropping

2001-08-06 • Presidential Daily Brief: “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US” • Bush did nothing.

2001-09-11 • 5 weeks after PDB • 9/11 attacks • Death toll: 2,977

2020-01-07 • Presidential Daily Brief: “Analysts concluded [coronavirus] could be a cataclysmic event.” • Trump did nothing.

2020-03-11 • WHO declared a global pandemic.

2020-04-15 • Trump suspended US funding of WHO.

2020-06-05 • 21 weeks after PDB • US death toll: 110.173

For comparison • Korean War (33,686) + Vietnam War (58,220) + Afghan War (7,970): 99,876

Future targets • WW1 (116,516) • WW2 (418,500) • Civil War (~620,000)

The Twitter twit tweets bunk from the bunker. What a twat!

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His Tenure We Ought to Abort – {4 beats/line, then 3}

Trump is panicked by his losing support

‘cause his ways with democracy don’t comport:

√ He plays his politics as a contact sport;

√ He makes his White House a fort

and √ builds up his armed escort;

√ In LOTSA ways he falls short.

… Coda: – {4 beats/line}

The Donald’s tenure we ought to abort,

and his base and minions we ought to deport.

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The box of “crackers” on the desk was a nice touch. Is Senator Lindsey Graham in it?

Bill Moyers writes re the ruination of American democracy: “It’s happening before our very eyes” -https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/bill-moyers-its-happening-before-our-very-eyes/

An article on “the key minds that have shaped America’s bursts of radical right-wing attacks [on economics and governance and rights, etc]” – https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/meet-the-hidden-architect-behind-americas-racist-economics/