Tom Toles for October 06, 2020

The death of Trump from his reckless disregard of the Trump Virus would be the best thing that could happen to our country. A live but defeated Trump that is no longer in office would still be stirring up hatred and division with his cult followers.

Sorry if I meddle in the politics of a country that is not mine but I think now that the orange hospital farce is over the drama begins .

Is that the results of Trump’s last lie detector test ? Why do they all look the same . . . /s

Covid’s Drama – {1.40 limericks}

This drama’s end is uncertain:

Is Covid closing the curtain

on The Donald’s stage?, -

- on the script’s last page

where he leaves his country hurtin’

{for a long time reelin’,

a long time in healin’}?

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Political correctness is just a euphemism for civilized … it sounds better if you’re just attacking political correctness. Likewise being truly independent comes through advanced knowledge and a deep understanding of how things work but independence has been equated to chaos/disestablishment [‘destabilizing’ which actually makes one a slave to circumstance]. Capitalism with many competing to serve the consumer can start to approach a system that benefits society, but the fly in the ointment is profit which leads to acquisitions and mergers, lack of competition, lack of innovation, oligopolies/monopolies with the consumer ultimately serving the corporation. So too, we now have a political system where the voters are no longer in control as they are being manipulated by the power-seekers who SAY that they will do things but in reality, do NOT do anything for the public … basically, we have two dysfunction self-serving political parties, one that does evil as a show of strength and one that does nothing to stop the evil as a show of unity. And of course, third parties are always thwarted by both of the two.

Those pictured medical chart-type graphs remind me of —

— back when I worked night shift in a machine shop. A group of us usually ate our lunches around a large metal layout table for drill press parts. One night the layout man set a large “water bug” in the middle of the table, and then dribbled white layout paint (water-base chalk mixture) on it.

As we ate, we watched the bug struggle blindly around the table, tracking white paths that resembled those graph lines. As the paint dried, the bug slowed down, and the guy dripped more wet paint on it. Finally, the paint dried solid, and the bug, thus entombed, was dead.

Yeah, I know that was cruel. I know we might be punished in the afterlife by transmigration into disgusting forms. But we watched the pathetic meandering until the end. And then one of the ladies present gagged, clapped her hand to her mouth, and turned away to puke.

This may be a lesson for us here and now. Maybe it’s that we’re all bugs these days, and that Trump drips, drips drips whitewash on us gradually so that we’re confused, stupefied, and immobilized against opposing his actions. He continues to act with arrogant confidence.

Monday, I watched the second-by-second media coverage of Trump’s “triumphant return” to the White House. (The short, dramatic helicopter flight was closely followed in the air!) I thought, here are yet more of those drips of whitewash dribbled on us bugs, avidly provided by media coverage.

And Trump climbed the White House stairs to show his glorious strength (took off his mask of course!) as if ascending Christ-like into Heaven — giving the world his thumbs-up Blessing. (— (—

Some have asked the question “Will this experience give trump empathy for the sick?”

If you run over a skunk, is it still a skunk?

They lie all the time, that’s a type of continuity.

Talk about drinking cool-aid, trump is doing his best to better the Guyana Jonestown Massacre November 18, 1978.

GIGO

For all of the concern about trump’s health, the doctors cannot provide more info than the patient is willing to share (HHPA and all that), and you know bloody well that The Patient is not going to give us the truth.

As comes as no surprise, his condition is stabull…

No! detestable. How he hogged the news cycle for 4 days.

POS-PINO Trump’s behavior/speech/tweets have shaken the remainder of the world and made them realize (if they hadn’t already) how close to the edge of insanity the U.S. really is. They see how undependable the U.S. has become as an ally and is not able to function as a normal nation does.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day. Benito Mussolini

The Perfect visual.

Maskless Trump just wants people to be THAT MUCH MORE afraid of him!

CNN Latest Poll, Biden +16! 57% to 41%

His living or dying won’t affect what’s coming down the pike, what’s now locked in.

{Off-topic:}

Fecklessly Reckless – {4 beats/line}

Trump is as feckless // as a prez can get

in being so reckless // ‘bout Covid’s onset.

He struts with his macho too tough to fret

{tho’ surely the virus will bring him down yet}.

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As planned by Jeffy.

Tom, A very accurate depiction of the current state of the U.S.