Tom Toles for October 19, 2020

Swing states could give trump a real kick in the head on election day. He’ll lose the presidency but won’t suffer any brain damage.

The political pendulum DOES swing, but it’s still in the middle of swinging toward the left right at the moment. And he is pushing it!

Yes, and they will kick him in his smug, lying face…

Logic and reasoning are not operative in this divisive deeply partisan era when the most important issue is political ID.

Stiletto spiked heels first!

*VOTE BLUE 2020!! It’s the only way to save this country.

They might look purple until they swing back looking blue.

In Trump’s own words, “knock the sh*t out of ‘em!”

Take-off, “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”

(Duke Ellington, 1932) — Hear it on YouTube

”It’ll All Mean Nothing If I Don’t Get That Swing”

It’ll all mean nothing

If I don’t get that Vote Swing.

(Lock ‘em up, em up, em up, em up

(Lock ‘em up, em up, em up, em up

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It won’t mean a thing

If I can’t be crowned King

(Crown me now, me now, me now, me now

(Crown me now, me now, me now, me now

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Is that a Red Velvet Swing

Stained with blood or something?

(I saw “Ragtime” the show,

And ‘bout such things I know)

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I need some enticing flashes

When my steroid med crashes.

It makes no diff to me

If some dislike my misogyny.

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Saved your damned suburbs, chicks!

So don’t play me no tricks.

I’ll have nothing to gloat

If I don’t get your vote.

(Vote for Trump, for trump, for trump, for trump

(Vote for Trump, for trump, for trump, for trump

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Please, please like me again,

And nag all your men!

(Basement Joe’s down below, down below, down below

(Basement Joe’s down below, down below, down below

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‘Cause it won’t mean a thing

If once again you don’t swing,

Into jail they me might fling,

Hope it won’t be Sing Sing!

Like me! Please! Why aren’t you liking me? Wah! Wah

I keep looking at the map of electoral votes and seeing that red swath of shame right down the middle of the country and I keep wondering “What in hell would he have to do to get these people to vote against him?”.

Electoral votes:

 • Wendell Willkie®, 82 (1940)

 • Barry Goldwater®, 52 (1964)

 • Walter Mondale (D), 13 (1984)

 • Michael Dukakis (D), 111 (1988)

These serious, sober, responsible, principled, experienced, respectable candidates combined managed to pile up a grand total of 258 electoral votes in 4 separate presidential elections. Disaster Pumpkin may get that many all by himself in 2020.

Like a steam roller.. we, on this side of the fence are rooting for.

If Trump doesn’t move he will get kicked in the teeth, but you can’t tell that stupid fat headed covid spreading racist anything.

Hey, Anthro? Whistle as you walk through the graveyard that is your bequest to the American people.

Excellent Mr. Toles! I’m savoring your cartoons even more, ever since I heard about your retirement from Washington Post on November 1. I will miss your illustrations, commentaries and particular quirky viewpoint! Please tell me you’ll publish an election result strip somehow, somewhere!

Biden will listen to the scientists! Now that’s a scary thought – a president who listens to voices that aren’t in his own head? /s

Don’t worry, it’s COMING (to kick your sorry a… outta here!)

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Adieu to his Id – {limerick}

How far this nation has slid

because of the president’s id.

“Adieu,” we must bid

and soon get rid

of all the damage he’s did.

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WHY !!

Plenty of sitcoms over the years have had an episode involving a truly bizarre cult. The writers always attempt to outdo the previous cults in terms of weirdness. The dumbest person or persons on the show fall for the cult until they are wised up by the rest of the characters. NONE of those cults have compared in sheer raw idiocy with the Trump Cult!

What concerns me about the election shenanigans is the evidence they are providing about the dumbing of America. No matter how outlandish the conspiracy theories promoted by the Repulsicans or how stupid the lies they utter, 46% of the Repulsicans still support the ORANGE IDIOT. The caters must be serving powerful KOOL-AID to the rank and file.

Without the Electoral College he’d be nothing more than a bad dream! ;-)