Tom Toles for July 02, 2020

I get so sick of tRump’s anti-Biden commercials, trying to say Joe can’t keep up any more. Hell, if Joe Biden lost 90% of his ability to think and reason; he would be miles ahead of dumb-ass Donnie!

The disestablishment administration is self-extinguishing and every utterance from the ☠resident accelerates the process.

Glasses plural!? He can’t even lift one glass, let alone two!

Another good reason to VOTE BLUE 2020!!

Does Trump’s binge watching Faux and Flunkies and incoherent ramblings qualify as having high energy and mental competence?

His Name-Calling Fails – {4 beats/line}

In his name-calling too, The Donald’s disabled.

Tho’ his name-calling penchant is widely fabled,

the descriptors he’ll use in his diatribes

oft fail to suit the foes he describes. …

… and they’re “projections” with which himSelf could be labeled.

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Tell us again what are the things you want to accomplish in your second term. Hannutty says he can’t release his notes, they’re being audited.

Joe Biden has TEN TIMES the public service experience of the Down-Old. Of course, this formula didn’t work for HRC, Complacency from the blue Candidate, combined with voter fatigue and some external meddling, showed us that ORANGE IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN BLUE STSYS OUT OF THE VOTING BOOTH!

JB had 8 years to watch how a talented man makes careful decisions; that man being his boss, BHO.

Trump has only one example to study and apply critical thought about – that man in the mirror. Sadly, he chooses not to do even this, letting a blind faith in his gut be the only deciding factor.

A good night’s sleep and a good breakfast is all JB needs to punish DJT on a debate stage…..

LET’S ROCK…..

Trump couldn’t read the note even with glasses. That’s because he’s functionally literate.

Ever listen to Dumb Donald read something from a teleprompter? " My…fellow…Amurikuns…I…want…to…say…that…you…all…have…to…love…me…no…matter…what…I…do…to…be…real..Amurikuns! Many…people…have…said…so…the…bestest…people…all…agree…with…me…except…for…the…lying…press…"

Donald Trump’s style of public speaking is usually half distorted fact, half fiction, and overall reliant on self-indulgent performance effects. He uses facial contortions and exaggerated physical postures to make fatuous points. Sing-song rise and fall of his voice signals sarcasm, and gives pungent flavor to words and phrases. A Trump performance is a silly symphony with sour cacophony of themes, motifs, and instrumentation.

How did he learn this method, that is far distant from standard elocution? It is vapid and poorly organized, but maybe that is its charm for some audiences. Vocal and physical effects distract from the content of his utterances. It’s a method that mountebanks of all eras develop to full potential to enable their scams. It seems at times that Trump, in full swing, would affect speaking in tongues if that would ingratiate him with a particular audience.

Trump’s detours from a defined trail of thought, and excursions into stream of consciousness provide a sort of white-water experience on river rapids for his rally crowds. His staff often must translate afterward toward his supposed true meaning. Transcriptions of his speeches are usually patched to make sense despite constant sentence fragments, ellipses, and non sequiturs. Verbatim transcripts would appear so ludicrously disjointed that few would consider them thoughts of an educated person. But Trump makes this an advantage, stringing thoughts like items on a crazy shish-kebab.

He is ingenious in these regards, if in no others. In summation, his words are vapid and poorly organized, and exhibit cheap knock-offs of potentially great ideas, falling apart on close examination. His comments will never appear in any collection of Great Speeches alongside of those of Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Churchill — unless in the section that features those of infamous dictators and autocrats. He calls to mind a rooster crowing on the dung hill he has thus far created.

This cartoon..is a good expression of what a debate with trump will be.. a lot of words.. many words, some biggly but “none” dealing with the question.

We learned over the last couple of weeks incompetent Donald can drink water, walk down ramps with help, and he can read, even tho he does not.

We have leaned this year that dictator Donald does not care if you die of a deadly contagious preventable disease or if our soldiers get shot for Russian bounty money, or if every protester against right wing racism is rounded up and put in jail for 10 years.

He can’t read because he has no glasses? >HOWWWL!!<

He can read? He can read at all? Who knew?

Cant read WITH his glasses.

Not to mention Trumps numbing speeches!

The Black v. Kettle debate.

Assuming he’s even capable of a coherent one by November.

His endless rambling does more for Biden than if Biden attacked him directly!

Elementary school playground bullying is all Trump has…

Conservative pundit Michael Gerson: “Outrages committed by President Donald Trump generally come in an undifferentiated mass of scandals, travesties, betrayals, absurdities, and abuses of the public trust. Consider recent days. The president approvingly retweeted a video of a supporter shouting ‘white power’ to distract from his apparent inaction on Russian-paid contract murders of American troops, which had drawn attention away from his tragically botched pandemic response. This is an enormity, wrapped in a treachery, inside a debacle. Discerning a hierarchy of depravity among Trump’s provocations is not easy. His increasingly strident racism is complicating America’s reckoning with current injustice and grave historical crimes. His politically motivated sabotage of essential public health measures has likely cost thousands of lives. [note from Godfreydaniel: Probably a hundred thousand, and counting, are directly attributable to Trump’s dishonesty, cowardice, imbecility, and insanity] But there is something uniquely debased about a commander-in-chief who receives the salutes of soldiers while his administration does nothing about credible information on a plot to kill them.”

And this also from Gerson, a little later in his column: “It is possible that Trump disbelieved his briefers, on the theory that the so-called ‘deep state’ was once again trying to undermine his brillian strategy of preemptive concessions to the Russians on every front. But this explanation requires admitting that the president actually believes in insane [emphasis added] conspiracy theories about his own government. And this raises serious questions about his mental capacity. […] Trump has a long history ofmaking excuses for despots. And this ethical failure makes him incapable of the most elementary skill of statecraft: distinguishing enemies from friends. Trump’s apparent failure of nerve in confronting Russian aggression reveals a man unworthy to be commander-in-chief.”

Screen door on a sub.

Lipstick on a pig.

Glasses on a Trump.

#Traitor Trump, Tweety, Cadet Bonespurs. Short fingered, ferret wearing Cheeto faced sh!tgibbon.

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Trumpist Polemics – {4 beats/line}

Trumpist polemics // don’t help with pandemics; -

- it’s DEMs who inspire us // to fend off the virus.

With people’s health The Donald is trifling,

when his dadgum’ mouth he oughta be stifling.

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32% of likely Dem voters think Joe has dementia. Zogby https://www.zogbyanalytics.com/news/943-the-zogby-poll-a-majority-of-voters-believe-biden-is-in-the-early-stages-of-dementia-60-of-younger-voters-think-so-swing-voters-less-likely-to-think-biden-has-dementia

20% of likely Dem voters think Joe has dementia. Rasmussen https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/38_of_voters_think_biden_has_dementia

But look at the numbers for the Independents. Doesn’t matter how much folks dislike Trump. A whole lot of people you are counting on to dump Trump are going to look at the ballot and remember the lying dog faced pony soldier. They may not be able to bring themselves to vote for Trump, but many of them are going to leave the box blank or vote TP.

All I can say is that the DNC had better put a lot of thought into the VP pick. Anyone with an ounce of brains understands that this election is going to be Trump vs whoever is in the VP slot.

Spot on, Tom ♥