Tom Toles for July 26, 2020

How ’bout, “extinction.”?

They can all agree on “denial”.

About 1/3 of all Americans are simply nasty people. Tяцmp☠’s RatThuglican Party has degenerated to that point where it perfectly represents those who are anti-establishmentarian libertarians, right-wing thugs, fascists, gun nuts, delusional Christian Dominionists (including Evangelicals and Right-to-Lifers), obnoxious racists, “poorly educated” authoritarian followers/leaders, miserly 1%ers & ambitious sociopaths, and proud MAGA jerks who are, quite simply, general purpose haters. The one thing that this lunatic rabble has in common is that they don’t play well with others.

Siberia. I hear Ykaterinberg is nice.

If they made a sitcom of the Trump years . . . “MAD MEN” would have been great or “THE GREATEST LOSERS”. Need something original . . . .

To follow the ☠resident and cut ties with Millennial and younger generations or to be humane in a pandemic and incur the wrath of the ☠resident? That is a very hard decision for the Republicans.

If Trump is not reelected, every Republican* will be absolutely LIVID at the size of the deficit and will DEMAND tax cuts for the rich so the deficit will be reduced.

They will also claim not to know who Jared Kushner is.

To the Republican Party, a law or policy which is both greedy as well as cruel is perfect. And as one who has been watching them for over fifty years, I can testify that this is nothing new. It’s not “Trumpism.”

The RepCong in Disarray – {4 beats/line}

In disarray are the pachyderms,

as they seek to retain their congressional terms

when their dadgum’ leaders’ misleadings are such

that they’ll lose at the polls by so dadgum’ much.

… Coda:

When losing because of Donald and Mitch,

how nonetheless will they serve the Rich?

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Der Führer’s Base – {1.40 limericks}

The Donald aspires to be führer,

but he wades in a stanky sewer

in abject disgrace. -

- Yet his base won’t face

that his chances are fewer and fewer,

so they keep up their pace

to keep him in place.

… Coda: – {3 beats/line}

We Others seek to erase

the smirk from “Der Führer’s Face”.

… Addendum:

YouTube’s “Der Führer’s Face”, by Donald Duck and by Spike Jones: https://www.google.com/search?q=Youtube+Der+F%C3%BChrer%E2%80%99s+Face&oq=Youtube+Der+F%C3%BChrer%E2%80%99s+Face&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.55359j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Don’t count them out. Money wins elections, and Republicans can get all they need from the very, very rich, who like thing just the way they are.

No, they DON’T understand all those words because the words test their collective cognitive skills beyond their capacity. Once primary schools reöpen, one or more of the pupils will be able to coach them.

Siberia for yhr whole lot of them sounds good to me…

The little guy in the lower corner got that right.

“Oblivion” would be best for the world, but they’re like cockroaches…

Without a strong father figure they are leaderless and incapable of knowing what to do next.

Oliver Cromwell

20 April 1653, London, England

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place,

which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.

Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.

Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?

Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

Ye sordid prostitutes, have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?

Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people, to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.

Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.

I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.

Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.

In the name of God, go!

Ah, yes history repeats it self, again and again.

Absolutely the outcome one expects of any organization trying to follow the wishes of the trump.

Top of a soap box to declare “We wuz robbed!”

They’re aiming for wearing one of the boots that’ll be on the neck of all the “peasants”, forever.

The nation’s patriotic citizen protesters need a new chant: TRUMP MUST GO, TRUMP MUST GO. Are you with us Modesto?

Seems that Will Rogers’ comment about “not belonging to an organized political party” has changed

I’m trying to stay positive so when Trump loses bigly how many RepubliCONS will lovingly continue to talk about how great he was as President?

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…[it is] nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just a good as your knowledge.’” Isaac Asimov in 1980…

Which way is the path with the hand basket?

I find it interesting that “Oblivion” and “Humiliation” point in one direction, while “Siberia,” “Infamy” and “Disgrace” point in another.

The word they do understand and is missing from the sign post is PRISON.

It’s the Blind Men and the Elephant, only they’ve cut out the middle man and now it’s just blind elephants.

Why isn’t there an “All of the Above” sign?

How about “To Hell with them!”

Toles left out the sign that reads, “Hell”

I have noticed the GOP have fallen back on the old playbook of calling Biden and Dems ,Socialists, commies, and saying they will rape white suburbia, they only use this tactic when they are losing big !!

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Democracy’s Interrupted – {1.60 limericks}

Democracy’s been interrupted

{its institutions disrupted}, -

- but nothing’s been glitched

for the plutocrats enriched

by economics so corrupted

that it’s Money which talks

so that government balks

when poverty has ruinously erupted.

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If they’re having trouble with words, maybe they should try “person woman man camera television”.

Oblivion, please.

Doubting Republicans will start say saying three times “I didn’t support him.”