Tom Toles for November 01, 2018

And it is a waste of time. Didn’t Hair Furor steal money from a lot of other budgets to fund the Border Patrol? And the law says no using troops inside the border, militarily speaking. So, paperwork anyone? Maybe they will be used to find those lost kids.

Trump is going to have more troops along the border to fight babies, nursing mothers and old people, than he has fighting ISIS in Iraq. And by law, they are not allowed to enforce civil laws, so they will not actually be able to do anything except spend a few hundred millions of dollars for a political stunt because Trump knows he can’t run on policies.

But yeah, I guess this is the only military parade he’ll be able to get.

The Trumpers can’t decide whether or not the migrants are young, strong, tough guys or riddled with disease (including diseases such as smallpox, eradicated from the face of the earth by 1980).

The migrants are still in southern Mexico. They are several months away even if they don’t give up the effort. They include nursing mothers, infants and the elderly. Some have already died en route. The original 7,000 has already dwindled down to 4,000 and, with Mexico offering provisional residency, work permits and health care and education, many are accepting that to stay in a country with the same language and much cultural similarity.

And no, Donald, a president can NOT repeal something in the Constitution (birthright citizenship) with an executive order, and no, Donald, the United States is NOT the only country that does this — 33 others do, too, including Canada and Mexico (ask Ted Cruz).

Trump cannot run on issues such as giving huge tax cuts to the super rich paid for by cuts to Social Security, Medicare and eliminating many deductions that protected the middle class, so he has to do the only thing he knows how: LIE, LIE, LIE and try to scare people.

Sorry, Donald, but Halloween is over.

Looks like Republicans are finally getting the invasion of Texas that they were convinced that Obama was executing — convinced enough that the Republican governor called out the Texas something guard to prevent it.

I sure hope someone is keeping watch on basements in Walmarts for political prisoners.

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People have told me that because there is no housing for the troops, there is talk of eliminating the third amendment — just on a ‘temporary basis’ you see.

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We have always been at war with The Caravan.

This reminds me of that time Reagan invaded New Mexico.

I swore to defend the Constititution, military and in law enforcement. Past time for the Congressional hammer to come down on Trump, HARD!

Or was that the Bowling Green Massacre ?

As the world’s climate deteriorates, and the population continues to explode, the various migrant crises will become ever greater. 24 years ago, The Atlantic published a memorably unsettling long-form article ruminating on this very subject, based on a French novel from the early 70’s, with a target date for the “apocalypse” being 2025. In several ways, we’re right on schedule: “Must It Be the Rest Against the West?” https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/immigrat/kennf.htm

Fear and gullibility are his favorite tools.

Just in time for the holidays! Daddy has to go and give Herr Trump a new photo op.

The only caravan Trump has to worry about has a blue hue about it.

Pointless publicity stunt is right! Excellent toon, Mr. Toles.

Hard to keep up. Last night Trump said it was 15,000 troops. Forget the 3rd Amendment. Trump’s going to violate the Posse Commitatus Act.

This cartoon nailed it!

In other news, according to Politico, Nixon didn’t resign in order to save the country, but he resigned because he was about to be indicted. Hmmm.

I think this doubles as an intimidation threat to Mexico. He wants the Mexican government to start killing migrants for him.

Pink Elephants on Parade

I’m beginning to think that it’s the REPUBLICANS that are behind this entire “Caravan” just to rile up their base and to distract them from the royal raping that trump wants to give the rest of the country!

I’m kind of surprised Glorious Leader does not have his soldiers marching in goose-step. I bet he likes that. He knows more than the generals, remember he told us that?

Yeah! I hadn’t thought of that, Trump sending troops to the border just so he can have his military parade. Thanks for wasting millions in tax payer money just to assuage your ego, Mr. (fake) President!

Brilliant.

Remember that WWII really started when Hitler staged several false flag border incidents as a pretext to invade Poland.

Any bets on whether the entire “caravan” issue will quietly disappear the day after the election?

May I post your comment on my Facebook Page? It is excellent.

There might be some training opportunities for all branches regarding unit movement to austere locations, but this is a waste of time and money for the armed forces. They don’t train for this nor are they equipped for this either. There are also other issues, but for the sake of brevity…

Mr Toles: You’ll be up for one of those Pulitzer Prize thingies, if you’re not careful ♥♥ Excellent ’toon.

Trump has said he expects the troops to shoot to kill anyone who throws a rock at them. Trump doesn’t seem to know the troops will not be able to legally do this. The caravan is a symbolic protest, most of them are planning to drop out.