Tom Toles for February 22, 2017

The wind you hear whistling is going in one ear and out the other, no obstructions!

This is scary—anybody else notice the political cartoonists are not here this morning???

The place where the cartoon image of an empty-headed Trump belongs is … empty. Meta.

Of the ones I read, Toles, Heller and Wilkinson are not appearing properly. Just the thought they might be being censored is as eloquent as what they probably drew for today…

Give a hoot, don’t pollute.

Total air head.

“The final straw came late last month, when the Trump White House issued a directive reorganizing the National Security Council, on whose staff I served from 2014 until earlier this year. Missing from the NSC’s principals committee were the CIA director and the director of national intelligence. Added to the roster: the president’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who cut his teeth as a media champion of white nationalism.

The public outcry led the administration to reverse course and name the CIA director an NSC principal, but the White House’s inclination was clear. It has little need for intelligence professionals who, in speaking truth to power, might challenge the so-called “America First” orthodoxy that sees Russia as an ally and Australia as a punching bag. That’s why the president’s trusted White House advisers, not career professionals, reportedly have final say over what intelligence reaches his desk.

Edward Price

COMMON SENSE NEVER {a limerick}

If America doesn’t endeavor

our relations with Trump to sever,

we’ve warring forever

and common sense never

‘bout this and that and whatever.

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TRUMPIANS BEDEVIL {a limerick}

The Trumpians they yuugely bedevil.

Everything they yuugely dishevel.

We can’t revel

at ANY level.

{Hmmm. What rhymes with “bedevil”?}

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AMERICA NEEDS … {a rhyme}

We need a referee, we need an ump

to call fouls and strikes on Donald Trump.

We need a court

to cut him short.

We need a Congress which balances and checks

the ragings of Tyrranotrumpus Rex.

We need an impeacher

to impeach this creature.

We need a witch to give him a hex,

before our nation this president wrecks.

… Image of Tyrranotrumpus Rex: …

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/48/6e/7f/486e7f4266b1fdc1781af37067f7ea78.jpg

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THE TRUMPIAN BUBBLE {a rhyme}

He stays inside his bubble,

oblivious regarding the trouble

which rots in the rubble

which he makes of our nation.

Yet his fans they give him ovation!!

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You know, SOME day the idle inheritors will notice that polluted air doesn’t care much about their gated communities and will just flow right to them………..

This is what Republicans want. All that weather means is someone is getting richer.

The rich will survive until the torches & pitchforks come out.

Hopefully sooner than later.

If the people who made money by polluting the environment (with CFC’s, etc.), which is driving “climate change” (global warming) acknowledge that climate change is caused by human activities, they will find themselves obliged to spend that money to correct (as much as possible) the problem. Then they won’t be as rich, or as powerful.

When has he promised, or had, an open mind about anything? This is a man with zero intellectual curiosity.

If the climate is being ignored or worse by Trump, then the climate needs to examine its soul to see what it has done wrong. (Spoiler: The climate didn’t praise Trump!)

^ That’s right. The God is doing it.