Robert Ariail for December 21, 2020

The last person to recognize a con is the person who got conned. Especially when the con is so blatant and obvious to others.

If you didn’t know trump was a con-man before he was elected, you weren’t paying attention. If do not know trump is a con-man now, you are poorly informed or willfully ignorant. Yes, you have been conned.

Geezus.. . could it really be‽

I’ll never see Sharks and Jets the same way again! Really clever and oh so true!

These “Trumps” need a kindly authority figure to understand their reasons for their actions: “Dear kindly Sergeant KrupkeYa gotta understandIt’s just our bringin’ upkeThat gets us outta handOur mothers all are …………Our fathers all are ………..Golly Moses natcherly” we’ve all been conned.

Nice take on West Side Story but the GOP and who else knows who, got Trump elected so they could get kickbacks and favors while he was busy keeping the public disgusted or entertained, depending on your point of view. Thank goodness trump is out.

Deathbed realizations from the GOP.

Anti-reality Republicans are a vicious gang of losers.

You’re never alone, you’re never disconnected,

You’re home with your own when Clorox is injected.

Oops! You’re infected!

Let’s not forget that Trumpie and Moscow Mitch are finally sending out stimulus checks next week like a Black Friday Sale . . . .Half Off the regular amount. (SNARK)

And the biggest suckers are still sending him money. Him, that claims to be a billionaire, and maybe is.

Shoot, now I have West Side Story ear worms to deal with, along with Christmas Carols!

What’s his take on Puerto Rico?

Maggie Haberman Says: The White House is Getting Scary

Senior Trump administration officials are increasingly alarmed that President Trump might unleash — and abuse — the power of government in an effort to overturn the clear result of the election. (Officials concerned) that Trump is spending too much time with people they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant abuses of power

In other words there’s been open talk inside the White House about the institution of martial law. And seizing voting machines, etc.

The people pushing back against the crazy talk include WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who got his job because he’s a crazed Tea Party fanatic himself.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/19/2003067/-Maggie-Haberman-Says-The-White-House-is-Getting-Scary?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

They have crossed the Rubicon; the rubes are being fleeced and lead by the cons.

In a very short time it will be as hard to find people admitting they once supported Trump, as it was to find people in Germany in 1946 that admitted they supported that other guy.

I see a poll finds that 42% of Americans think Trump is the worst president in history. What on earth have the other 58% been smoking? I want me some of that stuff, it must be dy-no-myte.

“Gee Officer Krupke we’re down on our knees, cause no one wants a fella with a social disease.”

Very clever! Heading over to social media with it as we speak!

Brilliant, Robert! You should do an entire musical “Pest Lied Story”.

This is one of the best political cartoons I’ve seen. Funny, sad, and true all at once.

All I can say to the trumpbots is this…. NEENER, NEENER, NEENER… YOU GOT SUCKERED, LOSERS!!!

You’re trying to dent an eclair. Good luck.

RA…Very clever and creative. Nicely done. Are you ready to write the lyrics for the musical To Da Dump, To Da Dump, with Trump Trump Trump? Can I be the dump truck driver? Pleeeease?

Meanwhile, Atlantic City is auctioning off the right to Push the button that demolishes The Trumplethinskin Casino.

The thing is Collapsing all by itself because it was so Crappily Built and has become a public Health hazard when chunks break off every thing the Wind picks up.

It’s only a matter of Time before one of those chunks Kills someone. So, they are Blowing it up and some Lucky Winner will get to push the button.

And the trumpers have been deluded, grifted and conned by the trump family. Those donations they gave will support the trump family for years to come. The 2024 election will be the incentive for the trump family to continue with the grift and the millions of dollars of gifts to the trump family. “god bless those chumps for rooting for trump” is the new motto of the trump family.

right-wing populists?:

I previously wrote and posted these lyrics on Bob Shannon’s “Tough Town” on December 3, but they seemed appropriate for today’s strip given the West Side Story theme…

And tanTrump and all his cronies can sing their version of “Somewhere”:

“There’s a cell for us.

Somewhere, a cell for us.

Police and riots and gas-filled air,

Wait for us somewhere.

There’ll be time for us.

Someday there’ll be jail time for us.

Time in prison with all my heirs,

Time to burn,

Time to spare.

Someday

Somewhere

We’ll find a new way of grifting

We’ll find upscale ways of shoplifting

Somewhere.

There’s no place for us

No hiding and no space for us

‘Golden brand’ will be laughed at there.

‘Golden brand’ just won’t take us there.

No how!

No way!

Nowhere!"