Tom Toles for August 19, 2020

Josef Stalin famously said, “It doesn’t matter who votes; it matters who COUNTS the votes.”

Josef Stalin — now there is another great dictator whose rear end Trump would have loved to plant his orange lips on.

The good news is that there is not one national election about which a president can dictate by fiat. The elections are run by the states — essentially fifty separate election contests, and Trump has no power over the operation or the counting. When the Secretaries of State certify their respective state counts, it is final.

Trump’s re-election committee is suing New Jersey for mailing ballots to every registered voter. Also, in North Carolina, the republican committee sent out ballot request forms with Trump’s picture on them.

What we have to worry about is that Trump will not honor any vote that does not return him to office. We need to get ready. Don’t believe me? Turn on any TV station.

The Orange Buffoon proves that you can fool some of the people all of the time but the rest of us aren’t fooled. We know he’s a fool all the time especially if he truly believes he can destroy our republic by stealing this election. The Orange Buffoon must go, preferably to prison in the SDNY.

One Man, One Vote – {4 beats/line}

To despotism it’s tantamount,

whenever der fuehrer controls the count

himSelf to choose // by devious ruse

the Red voters over disfranchised Blues.

… Coda: – {3 beats/line}

They didn’t mean THIS when they wrote

about counting “one man, one vote”.

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Saddam Hussein used to get 100% of the vote.

I just have to wonder HOW Hair Furor will try to dispute the election WHEN HE LOSES IN NOVEMBER… it’s not a matter if IF he loses, just HOW BADLY HE WILL LOSE…

So Melania didn’t vote this year? Must have had the “I don’t care” jacket out again.

Didn’t (don’t) Communists do this?

The sad part of the extreme right propaganda is that the ☖residents supporters — in spite of actual reality — feel that they are going to be protected from a diverse future where merit counts more than race as long as their billionaire monarch holds back the constitutional democratic republic from functioning as it should.

I’ve said it before and I think it needs saying again, my country is starting to look and feel like the United States of Belarus

We are one election away from becoming a Russia/North Korean/Turkey Trumpian dream State with Trump as dictator for life.

Taking lessons from putin?

Trump is bound to get 1% of the votes, after all he has paid them off for four years.

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Trumpism’s Effects – {3 beats/line}

Because of the dadgummed Trumpists: -

- my nation’s glory has faded,

its vibrant culture degraded,

its spirit depressed and jaded,

its once-bright karma blockaded.

… and Yet the very same Trumpists: -

- are somehow quite persuaded

that ’twas GOOD that they had invaded,

and that somehow my nation’s upgraded{??!!}.

{They don’t want their prez to be traded.}

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“My dad was a healthy 65-year-old. His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that, he paid with his life.” —Kristin Urquiza, daughter of an Arizona man who lost his life to COVID-19, speech at opening night of 2020 Democratic National Convention

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Vote ‘em Out – {4 beats/line}

This Trumpite regime is not adept: -

√ No expertise; – they’re yuugely inept.

√ Civility’s bound’ries they’ve overstepped.

√ Fraudulent promises’re not a-tall kept. …

… Out of office they oughta be swept.

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It’ll be either gloating or whining. Pick your poison.