Tom Toles for September 21, 2020

Apparently, Trump cult worshippers have become so disconnected from reality that they no longer even know who the current “president” is!

(Isn’t that one of the standard questions on the dementia test, who the current president is? Apparently the dementia is pretty far advanced … starting with Trump … must be all those mini-strokes he accidently admitted to.)

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

COVFEFE. Hamberders. Bowling Green massacre. Thigh-land. George Washington protecting the airports…

Well, that DOES have a nice ring to it!!!

Wha? He didn’t blame Obama for the gazillionth time?

We can only pray that it will be President Biden. VOTE BLUE!! Make it so.

Has Biden been President for almost four years already? Whew, what was in that last Long Island Ice Tea ?

Trumpie the clown, clueless, clueless !

A Freudian slip, perhaps?

He’s known for not admitting mistakes and not accepting responsibility.

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Apocalypse Now – {2 beats/phrase}

Our crystal ball’s clear: // it’s not vague and cryptic

that disasters are near. // Apocalyptic. -

- Our nation’s premier // is a feckless dipstick

with psychoses severe. // And he’s narcissistic

and wholly fascistic. // And he goes ballistic

in moods quite sadistic. // {We’re not optimistic.}

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45* is not firing on all thrusters.

Aristotle believed Man was a “political animal,” by nature social, with the power of speech and moral reasoning. This White House Administration has been rabidly political, and its speech nuclear powered — but its moral reasoning questionable. Thus, The White House could be called a political “Animal House.”

It does seem that Trump’s entire term has been a wild toga party. And drunk with power, his uninhibited “frat boys” have trashed the house. The ethics destruction and projectile vomit will be left for the next tenants to clean. And it had better be done well, so that the next likely “animals” (bull elephants in must) have a nice place to trash again.

This has become the American politics Circle of Strife.

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A History of Trumpism – {limerick-rhythm}

King Donald misguided his realm

as he steered at his ship of state’s helm,

and he hit some shoals

and he sank in the polls; -

- then Biden grabbed the controls.

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Reminds one of Obama’s tenure. He was then blamed for “everything”, including the Housing Bubble burst, the “recession”, and the TARP debacle, all of which the previous Republican President, and Congress, caused.

As almost always, the Republican’ts have difficulty with “when” things have happened …

It’s interesting the many different versions of what Trump looks like.

It’s difficult to imagine how a future president would have to mess up to equal or surpass the utter failures of PINO Trump.

Doesn’t that sum it up pretty well? The republican platform seems to be, the only way to protect the country from Trump is to re-elect Trump, who takes no responsibility for anything. Perhaps even the Trump supporters will be able to see through this one. Nah, never happen. Just vote, okay?

The GOP strategy seems to be push the idea of how bad things will be if they are not re-elected. If all a party can offer is “Yeah, we’ve screwed up pretty good, but we’ll fix it all if you give us another chance,” sounds like the kid who didn’t study for his exam but would excel if he was given another chance.

So he admits he’s going to lose and be replaced… How much of the structure of the Republic will he destroy before January?

“If I told the truth, you’d vote against me.”

Hey Pongo? Straighten up and die right!

Regarding the little fella in the lower right hand corner comment – I started to panic 3 years and 10 months ago.

 New World Record in Ball Dropping

2020-01-07 • Presidential Daily Brief: “Analysts concluded [coronavirus] could be a cataclysmic event.” • Trump did nothing.

2020-03-11 • WHO declared a global pandemic.

2020-04-15 • Trump suspended US funding of WHO.

2020-09-21 • US coronavirus deaths: 204,126 (36 weeks after PDB)

For comparison …

9/11 attacks: 2,977 (5 weeks after PDB warned Bush about it)

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

WW1: 116,516 (83 weeks for US)

WW2: 418,500 (195 weeks for US)

Civil War: ~620,000 (213 weeks)

Spanish flu: ~675,000 (~117 weeks)

This strip is perfect! Thanks for the excellent work!

Trump does not know the meaning of the the word “truth”. Trump supporters need to get their head out of their “you know what”. He is only interested in Trump. The rest of the world can go to HELL.

Salesmen do best when they can point to an example.. and trump has so many to chose from. The fact that he created them is lost on his following.

I keep thinking that the way voters can make it to the polling places past the intimidating Trump supporters is to wear improvised MAGA hats or buttons (unless the Trump campaign is handing them out for free) VOTE BY MAIL IF YOU CAN.

“President Bidens fault " ? For 3&1/2 yrs. he has been telling us it was president Obama’s fault . I ‘M CONFUSED ! Next he’ll be telling us it was B. Franklins fault because he founded the Post Office to make voter fraud easier. Oh wait ,he already said that . NOW I’M REALLY CONFUSED !?"})

Well, him telling the truth would be a sign of the apocalypse

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Tyranny Unsurpassed – {3 beats/line}

Is Democracy a thing of the past?

Is Trump its iconoclast?

Is our Constitution harrassed?

Is Lady Justice sassed? …

… We Lefties are left aghast

that The Donald’s hype has amassed

a cult which will vote to recast

us as Tyranny unsurpassed.

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Exactly so, Tom – well done ♥

This is so like the ads various trumpian PACs have been running here in Wisconsin. Showing clips of the troubles in Kenosha, but then claiming Biden is to weak to fix it.