Tom Toles for October 26, 2020

Seems like that from where sit, but I was shocked out of my sox in 2016, so I"m staying concentrated on getting out the rest of the vote.

One can only hope that he never rises again.

Idiot Trump is doing everything he can to lose, I hope his Maga minions get the memo.

He didn’t see that the bus had just “turned the corner”.

Yes, they can become more inept…as long as they get away with it.

The wheels on the bus go ‘round and ’round . . . . .(THUMP) . . ."Call Fox News and tell them he DIDN’T die from Covid-19 . . . .and Fauci was wrong about having to wear a mask" . . . ./s

Putin Throws Trump Under the Hunter Biden Bus-

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden’s past business ties with Ukraine or Russia, marking out his disagreement with one of Donald Trump’s attack lines in the U.S. presidential election.

Putin also reacted with visible irritation when asked about comments Trump has made concerning Putin’s ties to the former mayor of Moscow, and to an alleged payment made to Hunter Biden by the ex-mayor’s widow. Putin said he knew nothing about the existence of any commercial relationship between Hunter and the woman.

-I think tRump just got fired.

{Off-topic:} Trump’ll make things bad Bad BAD whether he wins or loses: -http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176766/tomgram%3A_rajan_menon%2C_the_nightmare_that_joe_could_inherit/#more

Under the Bus – {4 beats/line}

Campaigning time he’s saving us

by throwing himSELF down under the bus.

Let Trump be Trump and it turns out thus: -

- Voters can SEE him get [worse] wuss and wuss.

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A skunk may get run over, and it might seem that it arrogantly refused to avoid it (unfortunately, I’ve run over several and so it seemed to me). But a skunk has its final revenge, since the smell from its ruptured scent gland lingers over a wide area for days. If one compares Trump to a political skunk having been run over, his stench would stay for years. (—

Trump thought it was a photo-op, it was a freight train.

He didn’t want to win in the first place four years ago. Nothing has changed.

Next Monday is Mr Toles’ last day. Thank you so much for your decades of brilliant work.

WHAT!!!! No Tom, we need you! Enjoy a well earned retirement.

BUS-ted…

Maybe it’s me, there seems to be a general malaise in the strips lately. I suspect, the artists are as weary of trump and his rats, as the rest of us.

Hang on kids, the finish-line’s in sight. Pray to whatever deity you like, for a good outcome.

Looks to me that the Orange Meringue tripped over his excessively long tie! Do you suppose anyone will miss him?

“Can we get anymore inept?” Oh my, yes! That’s why we need four more years! /s

Poor bus.

He’s thrown everyone else under the bus ~ he was the last one left. Unfortunately, because of his virus, there’s no room at the hospital.

With the WH announcement yesterday that they won’t be doing anything else to control COVFEFE-45 (as if they did much in the first place), I was thinking how other critical junctures in U.S. history would have been handled by presidents with Trump’s mentality:

June 26, 1963: Instead of saying“Ich bin ein Berliner" and staring an airlift to break the land blockade of West Berlin, President John F. Kennedy replies “whatever, dude” and doesn’t lift a finger;

March 4, 1933: In his inaugural address, President Franklin Roosevelt announces “we have nothing to fear”, continuing the laissez-faire attitudes of his predecessor who did nothing to help people survive the Great Depression;

April 12, 1861: President Abraham Lincoln says that the southern states are just fighting for state rights and the ability to govern their peoples as they see fit and declines any offensive actions following the attack on Ft. Sumter

January 20, 2009: Shortly after taking office, President Barack Obama declares that he’s not responsible for fixing the banking/financial meltdown caused by subprime loans

“I’m not the only soul who’s accused of hit and run

Tire tracks all across your back

I can, I can see you had your fun" – Jimi Hendrix, U.S. poet and guitar virtuoso, c. 1968

“Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!” —Winston Churchill, Report to House of Commons, 1940 June 4

“We are not going to control the pandemic.” —Mark Meadows (1959- ) White House Chief of Staff under President Trump, 2020 Oct. 25

2016: “I alone can fix it.”

2020: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”

Republicans know that Fat Donny is toast. The reason for the voter suppression is to save Congressional and Senate seats.

Maybe Trump is pivoting to try to get the sympathy vote, since he’s obviously becoming irreversibly deranged. Personally, nope, don’t feel sorry for him yet. Maybe when various body parts start falling off in the middle of his rallies.

The League of Trump Voters won’t care, Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone on 5th ave and not lose them.

Sounds fair, after all the henchmen he’s thrown under the bus -

He needs to play a lot more golf..on his own time and dime.

He’s up and running around Pa. today despite calls from doctors to cancel his super-spreader events. WGAL interrupted “Gunsmoke” ten minutes from the end of the program to show him stomping around at the Lancaster airport this afternoon. They could have waited those ten minutes or put that trash on 8.1. God knows there’s nothing on NBC worth wasting electrons for.

They are working on the counter narrative of the Biden family is the ones who laundered money, works with Russia and are corrupt not Trump an his brood.

{Off-topic:} This piece describes 14 psychological traits of Trump-fans: – https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/his-fans-would-follow-trump-off-a-cliff-14-key-traits-revealed-in-psychological-analysis-of-people-who-support-the-president/

Take Things Out of his Hands – {limerick}

Common sense demands

that we take things out of his hands.

Whatever he’ll touch

puts our nation in dutch.

He deserves our reprimands.

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{Off-topic:}

A Sabotaged Election – {limerick}

The election occurs next week,

when democracy’s up the creek

and poorly paddled, -

- ‘cause muddled and addled

by acts of the Rightwing clique.

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Based on his record, the Capo-in-Chief’s incompetence and and will rise to levels that are not only unheard of, but also never even imagined, even in the fevered nightmares of our most fearful citizens.

“Can he get any more inept?” How about that speech at the “Four Seasons” parking lot!

And yet 70,000,000 Americans voted for this buffoon. Beam me up, Scotty.