Tom Toles for July 08, 2020

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    Concretionist  almost 4 years ago

    Fauci must be one of those people who are so honor bound to fulfill their contract that they’ll even put up with the kind of fecal material that Drumpf shovels out his mouth. I’m glad for us that he is, but it must be darned hard on him.

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    Daeder  almost 4 years ago

    Put him in federal quarantine for life!

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    KennethJ.Grider  almost 4 years ago

    Didn’t recognize Dr. Fauci with his face mask off.

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    Imagine  almost 4 years ago

    He leaves it off near the Donald. Maybe with some wishful thinking.

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    Spun_G  almost 4 years ago

    Dr. Fauci has got all kinds of connections to the science community that Trump:Ivus just wouldn’t understand. I can only imagine what Fauci’s email inbox looks like.

    Sad part is, Fauci realizes that another lockdown is not likely in the good old USA(as opposed to Australia)

    Consequently, he knows that he can only sit back and watch as Covid-19 blooms across the Sun Belt. He knows that 75K more coffins will be needed, and that they are spawned solely by Publix opinion and related inaction…

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    sevaar777  almost 4 years ago

    Is that a gun in the Orange Reaper’s hand in the background?

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    The Love of Money is . . .  almost 4 years ago
    That “Second Wave” . . . can Blue food coloring be added ? I’ve been telling everyone that a Blue Wave is coming soon. Trump believe it’s going to be deadly, not the flu like one.
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    robnvon Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Doctor, you are gracious but it is okay to say crotch deep and refer to piranha.

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    robnvon Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Doctor, his “casket of deplorables” will be dead and Trump will not be re-elected.

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    PraiseofFolly  almost 4 years ago

    My comment is beside the cartoon’s emphasis on Dr. Fauci. However, “knee deep in the first term” brings to mind the Pete Seeger song “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.” It was performed by Seeger in several venues, leading up to its performance (to great controversy) on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” in early 1968. That show was very popular among young people in America, and I watched it at the time.

    The song story line refers to a supposed incident in Louisiana where an army platoon followed the lead of a captain who stubbornly refused to put off crossing an ever deepening river, and he himself drowned as a result. The reference to the captain as “the big fool” was taken as reference to Lyndon Johnson in his perceived mishandling of the Vietnam War.

    Trump refers to himself as a “wartime president.” Like Vietnam — even worse,—Trump’s handling of the pandemic is tearing the country apart. He has churned up the mud of anti-science, racism, and misguided patriotism, and the country is near it drowning as a result. Certainly more Americans by far have died due in large part, many believe, to his foolish leadership.

    The clip of Seeger singing the song can be found at several sites on YouTube. The following are the concluding stanzas of the text:

    “Maybe you’re still walking and you’re still talking,

    And you’d like to keep your health.

    But every time I read the papers

    That old feeling comes on.

    We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy,

    And the big fool says to push on.

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    “Waist deep in the Big Muddy,

    And the big fool says to push on.

    Waist deep in the Big Muddy,

    And the big fool says too push on.

    Waist deep! Neck deep!

    Soon even a tall man’ll be over his head.

    Waist deep in the Big Muddy!

    And the big fool says to push on!”

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    “Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace.” — Donald J. Trump

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    FrankErnesto  almost 4 years ago

    If the Republicans win the Senate this election, they will block any meaningful legislation on the economy, or the pandemic.

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    Old_Curmudgeon   almost 4 years ago

    Grouchy ’bout Fauci – {limerick}

    The prez gets grumpily grouchy

    when countered by Doctor Fauci, -

    - tho’ smarter’s the latter

    than the orange Mad Hatter

    whose posture is droopily slouchy.

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    mourdac Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    The U.S. won’t survive a PINO Trump 2nd term. It will be severely impacted if the Angel of Death continues to ignore the COVFEFE-45 pandemic.

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    The “Republicans” are pretty quiet on the issue.. I suspect about a day and a half after Joe is sworn in they (the Republicans) will have lots of suggestions on what needs doing.

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 4 years ago

    Murderous Trump wants you to send your children to school during a raging epidemic that he has no intention to even try to stop.

    Did you see billionaire De Vos got millions in covid money?

    Republicans are doing everything they can to turn the USA into a 3rd world diseased dictatorship.

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    Raging Moderate  almost 4 years ago

    Much as I enjoy one sane voice amongst the BS factory in the White House, I think Fauci might best serve the public by resigning. After yesterday’s fecal festival, insisting that schools open in the fall is nothing less than homicidal.

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    Michael G.  almost 4 years ago

    Let us hope arrant ignorance is not invincible.

    Keep rallying, Trumpistas! You may yet prove to be the “last, best hope”.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 4 years ago

     Knee deep? I think the operative phrase is “up to our asses in alligators”, hoping that we don’t get to the “glub, glub” stage. But the swamp keeps rising! And the only people who still contend that “a rising tide lifts all boats” are the ones who own all the boats.

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    Godfreydaniel  almost 4 years ago

    Trump cares about the health and safety of exactly ONE child in the entire world, and her name is Ivanka. In other shocking news, solids tend to be much harder than liquids or gasses…….

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    AndrewSihler  almost 4 years ago

    And sinking fast.

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    Old_Curmudgeon   almost 4 years ago

    {Off-topic:}

    Words Ending With “-able” – {4 beats/line}

    He STILL has fans who think him able,

    as a genius who’s stable, // – so Trump they enable.

    But we Others don’t think he’s all this adorable;

    to us he’s abhorrable, // – and we wish him ignorable.

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    ferddo  almost 4 years ago

    Unfortunately, the effects of this first wave / first term will continue to infect us past November 3 – no matter who wins the elections…

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 4 years ago

    Trump has inhibited Fauci for the last 3 months.

    Republicans have done everything they possibly could to spread covid and done almost zero to eliminate it.

    Republicans are keeping the USA shut down due to lack of effort.

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    Old_Curmudgeon   almost 4 years ago

    {Off-topic:}

    He Fouls His Own Nest – {2 beats/phrase}

    Biden’s polls surge // when Trump gets the urge

    to mount a stage // and rant-rave-and-rage.

    A Trump recital // is [suicidal] suicital.

    As polls attest, // he fouls his own nest.

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