Tom Toles for June 23, 2020

Yeah. He’s not the stinkiest pig in the st… Wait. He is that pig.

And his supporters feel that’s just fine.

He’s never played with a full deck.

I never knew it was possible for an arena to be ALL nosebleed seats!

Didn’t his son come out first (to warm them up) and say something about it being a big crowd?

Astigmatism can cause multiple images. Maybe he really “did” see yuge crowds.

Trump Ethics Arena looks like a toilet bowl to me. I wonder how clean those seats are.

Big surprise – it’s empty!

Bats in the Belfry – {4 beats/line}

In the brains of folks who wear MAGA hats,

it’s empty except for the feces of bats.

His base is as crazy as sh*t-house rats.

We oughta kick ‘em quite hard on their prats.

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Those two words Trump and ethics just don’t go together.

Lots of empty blue seats, not his favorite color these days.

Trump is going to have to find smaller venues for his hate rally’s or be forced to pay more people to show up. He can’t Sean Spicer the empty seats away.

“Looks like Okla-Stayed-Homa”. – Stephen Colbert

And the bottom ones too…

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Cornered – {3 beats/line}

America he threatens; – let’s warn ‘er.

He’s dangerous when jammed in a corner,

when knowing that soon he’s a [goner] gorner.

In a corner The Donald is stuck,

enraged that he’s out of luck.

Good riddance. Goodbye to the schmuck.

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—) —) Donald Trump is, by his own humble admission, a stable genius — but that is a grievous understatement. If one studies in depth his writings and impromptu utterances, one discerns the formation of a Great Philosophy that should rightly be given the eponymous term “Trumpism.”

Trumpism is a mixture of several philosophies — those of Nietzsche, Buckley, Rand, Hefner, and Bannon, to name but a few. Let us very briefly examine the additional influence of Alfred William Lawson, founder of “Lawsonomy.”

Lawson claimed that billions of tiny entities inhabit each human brain. There are two types: Menorgs (“mental organizers”) responsible for good, creative deeds; and Disorgs (“disorganizers”) that connive to frustrate the noble intentions of the Menorgs. Trump’s core philosophy corresponds the Menorgs vs. Disorgs concept to, in his terms, “Repubs” vs. “Democs.”

With usual raw brilliance, Trump adds two forms: “Magas,” as cerebral cheerleaders that assist the Repubs; and “Medias,” that besiege the Magas with insidious Fake News. These are rich elements in a fantasic concept that Trump continues to exude at his helicopter news conferences and rally seminars.

Thus, in constant Repub vs. Democ struggles, the Repubs and Magas are sometimes at diminished influence, as illustrated in the above cartoon. But according to Trump (ever the philosophic optimist) they will heroically prevail.

This is a brief and admittedly inadequate explanation of Trumpism that I think will take its rightful place among the Great Philosophies of the 21st Century. It will be the role of future scholars to consolidate all its teachings into definitive form. And I ask, who will take the honored role of Plato to Trump’s Socrates? (— (—

It’s not the virus that is disappearing, it’s his fans.

https://www.facebook.com/thelincolnproject.us/videos/276953070088577/

We haven’t been playingthe covid game with a full deck either. Trump’s joke about less testing = less covid was backed up with the suppression of $14 billion of the funds provided for testing:Senators Find Unspent $14 Billion After Trump Admits to Slowing COVID Testinghttps://truthout.org/articles/senators-find-unspent-14-billion-after-trump-admits-to-slowing-covid-testing/

Before everybody gets all gloaty and complacent over a (probably temporary) perceived falling-off of support for Disaster Pumpkin, remember how badly the game has been rigged. Not saying that the following scenario is at all likely, but it’s theoretically possible given the way the Electoral College works. Let’s say Joe Biden wins 11 large states (CA, FL, GA, IL, MI, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TX, VA), with a total population (2019 est.) of 184,624,301, and he does so in stunning fashion by a margin of 99% to 1%. That would be 182,778,058 to 1,846,243. Let’s say that he loses by a margin of 49% to 51% in the other 40 states (population 143,615,222) or 70,371,459 to 73,243,763. So Biden would’ve picked up 77% of the popular vote, 253,149,517 to 75,090,006. But he would’ve lost the Electoral College, 258-270.

Can this really be the way the Founders intended a true democracy to operate?

Hey, I remember a guy on the top by himself holding a sign!

Oh, wait, the sign says to turn off the lights when you leave.

Some???

“Make America Gag Again”

Now, if only he were on the deck of the Titanic (though he’d be the guy pushing the elderly ladies aside while dressed like an elderly lady. Not a stretch to imagine that)…

I can’t help fantasizing that his whining about how slick that ramp was, especially in his slick, leather-soled oxfords, was a God-sent symbol of the slippery slope he’s actually on. Is the worm starting to turn? At last?

It’s only in his head that he even believes he has a place to put ethics if he had them.

Several tiers short of an arena

Empty seats in all rows if you’re looking for any ethics by THE MOLDY ORANGE FRUITCAKE (or ethics on the part of any member of the Repulsican Crime Cult.

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Lame Duck – {2 limerick-verses}

His own Self The Donald is maiming{!!},

{tho’ incongruously Others he’s blaming}.

He’s losing clout.

He’s flaming out.

He’s failing his grifter-gaming.

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This duck already is lame,

as Democrats step up their game

and try to correct

the things he has wrecked, -

- so our nation’s no longer in shame.

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‘Gangster in the White House’: Noam Chomsky explains why Trump is undeniably ‘the worst criminal in history’

“He just fired all of the inspectors general who were put into place to monitor corruption and malfeasance in executive offices,” Chomsky explained. “They were beginning to inquire into this fetid swamp that he’s created in Washington, so he fired them all. And like any tin-pot dictator, he went out of his way to humiliate the senior Republican senator, Charles Grassley, who had spent his career setting this system in implementation. Not a peep from the Republican Party. They’ve disappeared as a party. It’s worse than the old Communist Party. The leader gives an order; we (fall) on our knees.”

“Trump is the worst criminal in history, undeniably,” Chomsky told Brooks. “There has never been a figure in political history who was so passionately dedicated to destroying the projects for organized human life on Earth in the near future. That is not an exaggeration.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/gangster-in-the-white-house-noam-chomsky-explains-why-trump-is-undeniably-the-worst-criminal-in-history/

Trump falsely accuses Obama of ‘treason’ and says he was ‘spying’ on campaign – offers no evidence

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/trump-falsely-accuses-obama-of-treason-and-says-he-was-spying-on-campaign-offers-no-evidence/

Donald Trump thinks coronavirus testing is a plot to destroy him — and no, he’s not kidding

Trump, however, appears undeterred from his genius plan to “defeat” the coronavirus by endlessly lying about it and getting his base voters to agree that this disease is more of a hoax — or even a dastardly liberal plot — than an actual threat. Trump may not be religious, but his faith in his own ability to get his followers to go along with any lie, no matter how deadly or preposterous, is unlimited.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/donald-trump-thinks-coronavirus-testing-is-a-plot-to-destroy-him-and-no-hes-not-kidding/

Too bad phone booths aren’t around anymore: Trump could hold his next rally in one. Luckily, sub-atomic particles ARE around, and Trump can fit his ethics into one!

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Wearing Thin – {4 beats/line}

The Donald’s persona is wearing thin,

so much of his base won’t vote ag’in

for Looney Tunes at the Trumpian level,

{for such a malfeasant Tasmanian devil}.

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Butt-head once had an EEG, showing no brain activity, kind of like a certain “stable genius.”

Trump in AZ, big crowd, no masks, vicious suicidal racists.

Meanwhile covid burns like a wild fire because Trump didn’t rake the USA with testing.

Trump triggers outrage for doubling down on ‘Kung Flu’ slur: ‘He took off his hood today’

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/trump-triggers-outrage-for-doubling-down-on-kung-flu-slur-he-took-off-his-hood-today/

Brilliant!