Tom Toles for November 10, 2019

The GOP aren’t going to read it anyway.

I dunno. The way the GOPigs play the game isn’t much different than Scott D. Weitzenhoffer’s pigeon: “Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.”

Wow… and it’s a Triple Word Score….

The focus on labeling it a “quid pro quo” is misplaced. It is shakedown diplomacy, in service of one’s own political ambitions. Subverting any rational foreign policy purpose for purely partisan aims.

It’s not new, to be sure. Nixon did the same, and got away with it. Reagan did it, and got away with it, and both of them managed to pull it off even before they were elected. Which is really impressive maneuvering, albeit illegal. And they worked so discreetly that it was only years later that the truth came out. Don Juan couldn’t spell “discreet.” He is as shameless as Jimmy Carter is honest, and he does what he does right out in the open because he always has, and it has always worked for him. Even when it hasn’t (six bankruptcies), it has.

Triple turd score!

I can understand that the resident’s supporters are loyal as they feel he is attempting to protect their status in the US as they are becoming a minority, but the resident’s supporters are unique in their belief that it’s morally acceptable to coerce foreign governments to investigate/exaggerate activities of the resident’ds opponents. The Independents, Democrats, and Republicans not loyal to the resident do not believe that coercing foreign governments for political reasons is legal or morally acceptable. Personally, this makes me feel that the resident’s supporters cannot be trusted to do the correct things for America. Allowing our political “leaders” to lie and cheat crosses a line in my moral/ethical code.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/9/20955441/impeachment-trump-poll-ukraine-2020-democrats-republicans

He’s pretty good at cross words. Cross tweets too.

Insights of Tom Toles – {a rhyme}

Huzzah for the ‘toons of Toles.

They punch a great many holes

into pols’ balloons

via right-on lampoons

which take a great many tolls.

… {For instance:}

Here, a Scrabble™ game

depicts Republicans’ shame.

{“Trump” is their shame’s discomfiting name.}

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I don’t see where he can form Guiliani. Not enough vowels.

GOP rely on investigation, hearings and deflection tactics while burying all truths and facts of reality…..they also don’t realize the whole country has their number….(45% won’t cry uncle).

Covfefe

Go for it, Dumbo, it’s a triple word score!

Sad to say, that’s probably it.

Too bad you can’t make scrabble words that read from bottom to top, because he COULD make “Guile”…

How apt is the metaphor “Scrabble”

Related to this president’s babble:

He blathers blithely away

In the “Blarney-est” way,

Yet bedazzles his loyalist rabble.

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He bristles at Latinate jargon.

“Quid quo pro,” he says, is no bargain.

You fine, wonderful folks,

It’s all just a hoax!

Those d——- Dems are just so far gone!

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This word game is rigged, so unfair.

Rearrange the letter tiles there,

And lo, here’s some more

I found, a bit warm, on the floor.

(Ignore The the wood smoke smoke in the air.)

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You say some tiles disappeared?

The C’s and H’s are gone? How weird …

Certain words that can use those

Can’t be made, then, I suppose —

Like that nasty i-m-p-word we’ve all feared.

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This game belonged to the resident previous.

He used it to his own ends most devious.

We hosed it off well

But I often can tell

That the residue left is still most gre-vi-ous.

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No taint of his smears will accrue

By the time my office terms are through.

The letters will spell

What I want them to tell —

Or the whole board I’ll upend, the letters far strew!

Wouldn’t he also need a second “L”?

{Off-topic}

High Turnout, Please – {a rhyme}

We Democrats need a high turnout

to color more States more blue,

so don’t let malaise and burnout

reduce our voters to few. – - -

- – - Dems need MANY, – to override

the √ Voter-Restrictions which Rs’ve applied,

and their √ Gerrymandering

and their √ Democrats-slandering

and their √ Racism-pandering.

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Couldn’t make if legal, you’ve only got one L. Christmas is coming and soon you’ll have no Ls

Equi!

How about “Oily”? That would fit under the “O”. And it would fit both Trump and Giuliani quite well.

Too bad he doesn’t have a “V”… then he COULD describe the ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY in 4 letters… reading down from the “E”…

I see a GLUT of possibilities.

The problem is that only Trump himself has the “bestest bigliest words”, so of course the rest of the members of the Godawful Old Party are at a disadvantage. (Oh, and also the lack of morals, ethics, a conscience, and little things like that put them at a disadvantage compared to average rabid gerbils…….)

Play the “Y” below the “O” for “OY”, and you’ve still got a great shot at “GIULIANI”.

The elephant will just cheat Sam in the end.

And there’s a Triple Word Score right there.

The word is “EXTORTION”, remember it.