Tom Toles for August 20, 2020

Bend over and drop’em Donnie. Vlad wants to stick you with something.

He’s trying to eradicate Democracy like polio!

Maybe he sucks up to Putin because he’s a much more successful grifter. I wish there was an anti-everything your grandma warned you about vaccine to protect us from those pestilential bastards.

Like what the little man in lower right corner says.

He’s already volunteered to be your bit*h.

“Well that’s better than the enema I got last year”

Putin’s RX – {4 beats/line}

Trump takes a shot // from Doctor Putin: -

“Gimme a lot // of whatever you’re shootin’

to subdue the pesky ‘democracy’ germ,

and then I can win a second term.”

… Coda:

- Against ‘democracy’ Putin injects

a hex so potent that America it wrecks.

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

This is what it’s come to: The Democracy Party vs the Anti-democracy Party. It’s just that bad. Take care to vote. It’s the one power most of us yet still have, mostly…

Trump’s exit interview from his handler : the special Polonium shot …

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A Prayerful Lament – {limerick}

O Hear Thou our mourning’s lament

o’er our failing nation’s descent

thru this Trump-era’s errors

and hubris and terrors.

Will Trumpism NEVER relent?

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

The ☠resident wants a shot of the staying-power vaccine that Putin uses to retain effective control of the Russian federation while enhancing his personal wealth.

And enjoy a cup of hot tea while I give you this shot.

And another Putin critic was hospitalized because of poisoning.

REMEMBER… In November, you can vote for a Loyal, Law-Abiding candidate who RESPECTS the rule of law, and the U.S. Constitution, and will work FOR the American People… or you can vote Republican. IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT!

Careful there, Mr. T. It might be a shot of the same vaccine given to Alexei Navalny. Silly accidents do happen, you know.

Putin is giving the U.S. another dose in preparation for November 3, 2020.

A vote for a Republican is a vote against democracy in the USA.

Side effects may include but are not limited to blindness, insensitivity, impetuosity, arrogance, pomposity, loss of moral fiber, disdainful outbursts, and treason.

Trump was the leader of the free world! He didn’t know that. Thus he ponies up to the evil dictators, trying to be them. He didn’t know when he had it good. Too stupid to know what was good for himself!

I think I’d be wary of Putin’s vaccine. Putin volunteered his least favorite daughter instead of himself to take the vaccine.

Pretty sure a lot of taxpayers would be glad to sponsor that trip… so long as they were assured trump would get the real stuff and not the placebo.

‘Straightforward fraud and embezzlement’: Ex-prosecutor breaks down Bannon’s criminal liability for border wall scam

“So this is essentially a massive embezzlement that is being alleged here, and a fraud,” said Honig. “First of all, is in the way that the defendants, including Steve Bannon, who is one of the four charged defendants, marketed this Build the Wall operation. They essentially marketed it as an operation where, if you donated this money, is going to be used to build the border wall, but instead — this is the embezzlement part — Bannon and the others essentially pocketed the money, they used it to fund their own lavish lifestyle.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/straightforward-fraud-and-embezzlement-ex-prosecutor-breaks-down-bannons-criminal-liability-for-border-wall-scam/

Let’s just not let it be ‘patently contagious’…

You’re going to feel a little prick

He just poisoned one of his political foes and you want to trust him. This is proof you are not too bright

If given a choice between tea with Putin or a dose of his unproven vaccine I’d go with the vaccine.

Republican-led Senate Intel Committee made criminal referrals of Don Jr. and Jared Kushner: report

Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman contradicted testimony from Don Jr. and Kushner, senators told prosecutors

AUGUST 19, 2020 7:20PM (UTC)

Leaders of the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee last year made criminal referrals of Donald Trump Jr., presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner and several other associates of President Donald Trump over suspicions that they might have lied to the panel, according to multiple reports.

Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., who chaired the committee before Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took over earlier this year, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the top Democrat on the committee, notified federal prosecutors last year that accounts from Don Jr. and Kushner were contradicted by former Trump deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates’ testimony to former special counsel Robert Mueller, according to The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Burr and Warner also told prosecutors that they believed former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, former campaign co-chair Sam Clovis and Trump associate Erik Prince — the founder of Blackwater and brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos — lied to congressional investigators, which if proven to be true, would be a felony. (Mueller’s report previously concluded that Prince had lied to prosecutors about his dealings with Russians during the 2016 campaign.)

https://www.salon.com/2020/08/19/republican-led-senate-intel-committee-made-criminal-referrals-of-don-jr-and-jared-kushner-report/

Putin, the stable evil genius.

Alternatively, there’s Mr. Pillow’s lovely oleandrin.

They don’t call him “Vlad the Impaler” for nothing!

“Democracy—-rule by the people—-sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.” – Abbey

[excerpt from my “Battle Hymn of the Trump” and sorry for re-posting—but at least it wasn’t the whole dang thing!]

Trump is Putin’s Poodle, he’ll do anything for Vlad

He’ll tell him all the secrets of our nuclear triad

Whoever would have thought that treason could become a fad?

The way he carries on!

Glory, glory you can’t reach him

Glory, glory you can’t teach im

Best to out-and-out impeach him

The way he carries on!

[I originally wrote this a couple years BEFORE Trump’s actual impeachment]

Gosh, their hands match.

Kinda what I’d LIKE to hear: “Donald, tovarisch, have some of this excellent tea. It’s same kind I serve to my excellent friend Alexey Navalny.”

looks like dopey donnie is wearing a MyPillow

Gee, many it’ll have the same poison he gives his Russian pals.

Dr Putin and Mister Hide.