Tom Toles for July 06, 2020

As usual he never read “Around The World in Eighty Days.” Jules Verne

Tom was behind and deadline and couldn’t use his coloring pens.

Anti science Republicans are keeping the USA shut down.

It is beyond outrageous that the US is so far behind in handling this pandemic. Ask yourself if you want four more years of this idiot in the White House together with his Republicon rear end kissing reality deniers.

From the Trump Demented Dimension:

“Would you like to fly in my beautiful balloon?

I promise you won’t die in my beautiful balloon!

We will float above the Covid Virus, you and I,

For I can lie, I can lie!

Shut up, and hurray

In my tremendously, beautiful balloon!”

(Apologies to Jimmy Webb and “The 5th Dimension”)

But he “hopes” it’ll go away soon.

It’s true! The term “Republican Party” is an oxymoron, accent on the last two syllables.

Hot-air Balloon – {4 beats/line, then 3)

May his story end in a hot-air balloon,

when like Oz’s Wizard he goes away.

And may it happen quite soon,

without much further delay.

{Trump is a dangerous buffoon

against whom we fiercely inveigh.}

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Here’s “how and why Trump’s dangerous demagoguery works”; – interview with an expert: https://www.salon.com/2020/07/04/the-secret-of-his-success-donald-trumps-six-weird-tricks-for-authoritarian-rule/

Another fine example of leadership from our highly esteemed POTUSINO.

Now if he’d just gather up all of his followers and fly over the rainbow to some deserted island and leave the nation recover…

With the never ending hot air from Trump and The GOP their balloon could stay aloft a long time. They LOVE being in power . . . .look out, you’re losing altitude in the polls, there’s a “Power To The People” power line in your path !

ZZZZZAAAAAPPPP ! Biggest damn bug zapper ever build just fried those insects!

I’ve got to cut back on my cups of covfefe in the morning.

Your crowds are going away, like magic…

Historical footnote: Tomoro marks the 6-month anniversary of the presidential daily brief warning that coronavirus “could be a cataclysmic event” and YouKnowWho blew it off. Since then the US has racked up 132,679 COVID-19 corpses. And counting.

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

Now past • WW1: 116,516

Future targets • WW2 (418,500) • Civil War (~620,000) • Spanish flu (~675,000)

{Off-topic:}

Sci-deFy – {3 beats/line}

When people proceed in defiance

of the knowledge known by science,

they’re treating science as fiction

and won’t grant it jurisdiction, -

- so with ignorance they’re quite in compliance.

… Coda: – {4 beats/line}

These nitwits are shortening our lifespan’s longevity; -

- science-defiance results in our brevity.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

But it’s OK because Trump (and no one else on Earth) says that 99% of cases are totally harmless. . .

Hopefully he’ll be good and high by the time his bubble bursts.

Trump’s campaign hopes Americans ‘grow numb’ to massive COVID-19 infections and death tolls

The Washington Post reports that President Donald Trump’s campaign recognizes that the virus will not magically go away by November — and is instead hoping to convince Americans they can simply “live with” the deadly disease spreading unchecked.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trumps-campaign-hopes-americans-grow-numb-to-massive-covid-19-infections-and-death-tolls-report/

Letting the USA die of a preventable disease is a crime against humanity.