Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 10, 2019

If Senators could be promised anonymity, maybe we’d see some real legislation which represents their constituents, rather than their campaign contributors and other lobbyists.

Yet they all vote for everything he wants, in lock step.

Because courage.

And honesty.

And especially patriotism.

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Trump is just the most visible pus filled symptom.

Republicans are the disease.

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#TraitorTrump

Then cowardice isn’t an all-Italian must

How many Rubles does it take to buy a RepubliCON senator?

How many Rubles (and pee pee prostitutes) did it take to buy a U.S. president?

Just look at the return Vladimir Putin has gotten on his investment, which has cost him less than one nuclear missile to buy a U.S. president and a senate majority:

• The government of the United States — Putin’s greatest adversary — SHUT DOWN three times in less than a year.

• Western alliances in disarray — including a puppet president who is trying to get the U.S. to withdraw from NATO.

• Trump literally spouting Soviet and Russian talking points regarding Syria and the justifications for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

• Trump repeatedly claims to trust Putin more than the heads of his own intelligence agencies, all of who HE appointed.

• Trump GAVE TOP SECRET CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to top Russian diplomats IN THE OVAL OFFICE, which was covered by Russian media and photographers since U.S. media was shut out.

• Trump — who has no prior diplomatic experience or expertise — holds multiple secret ONE-ON-ONE meetings with Putin that he tries to conceal even from his own staff sometimes, with no official notes or memoranda, even confiscating and destroying interpreter notes, while Putin is free to preserve HIS interpreters’ notes and possibly even makes recordings good for future kompromat.

• Total chaos in the White House.

• Financial markets in turmoil.

• Tariffs that make U.S. exports less desirable and Russian exports more desirable (China no longer importing U.S. soybeans and Putin rushing to fill the Chinese demand for soybeans that used to be met by American farmers so that U.S. soybean sales to China will never come back.)

Shutdown? Trump doesn’t care about shutting down the government, because it is not the one he works for.

Bottom line:

Barack Obama was the first BLACK male president.

Donald Trump is the first BLACKMAILED president.

These minions of Trump aren’t clean, follow the money. Matt Whitaker took cash from Donors Trust, funded by the Kochs, among others, to the tune of $63,000 in 2014, $252,000 in 2015, $402,000 as the director of FACT, Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, in 2016. One of Trumps biggest donors, Sheldon Adelson, has not only bought legislators, he’s bought a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his wife’s jewelry collection.

I was just thinking that the FAKE Republicans have already destroyed Congress and the legislative branch, but now Trump is destroying each part of the executive branch. The State Department has been demolished, apparently as revenge for Hillary’s involvement, though Trump also thinks he can do all the diplomacy all by himself. The Treasury Department does nothing but borrow a TRILLION dollars each year. The Commerce Department is reduced to endless trade wars. The Justice Department is being converted into a political hatchet machine. HUD and the Department of Energy are led by incompetents. The EPA has been gutted. And on and on. Then we get to the judicial branch, where Trump is letting McConnell completely politicize the judges for decades.

Okay, Vladimir. You’ve won. All Hail Putin!

Shining light on the cockroaches.

They “vote for everything he wants, in lock step” because they all want the same things, they are as vile as he is. They only distance themselves if the get push back from the voters but secretly agree.

Profiles in Cowardice.

Just remember: “Congress” is the total opposite of “Progress”!

No matter which side you’re on, you must be thankful for a nation that allows freedom of expression.

92% of Republicans believe that fake news is broadcast regularly by mainstream media and only Fox and WSJ can be trusted. 85% of Republicans support the resident. 64% of Republicans think the changing US demographics is a negative and 70 % of Republicans feel that we are now on the right track. 25% of voters are affiliated with the Republican party … enough to reelect the resident if traditional turnouts persist and Democrats do not consider the general election.

And if the Republican Senators did do that, his cult would swear that they were all part of the “Deep State” and Tin God Donnie was the only one who was right. Even though he’s obviously a vulgar moron. These people have a real sickness.

“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?” Will Rogers.

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.” Andrew Jackson

“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” Ronald Reagan.(!!)

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Republicans are not going to admit that Trump is trash as long as he is delivering right wing supreme court justices, signing right wing legislation and keeping the progressive agenda from making any headway. As soon as he has been milked for all the value they can get out of him, they will suddenly notice that he is a piece of trash and become appalled. That is, unless they represent people who will vote for him anyway, and they want to be on that band wagon, even if it is morally bankrupt.

Gotta LUV the 5th panel.

Well, the implications of the latest Trump scandal, aka PECKERGATE, may change everything as far as people coming forward to denounce Trump, right? Nah…

I don’t know but it seems to me no one has had much of an issue with speaking their mind about our elected officials. Particularly, our elected officials. Makes me wonder exactly what pool of people are we pulling our ‘elected’ officials out of. I mean really, we chose them. Was it the lesser of two, or three, evils?

This Trump hit-piece fantasy brought to you by LSD and psychedelic mushrooms.

The never Trump republicans, power hungry swamp creatures, statists, open border globalists and all who hate freedom continue to engage in these fantasies. Keep indulging your Trump Derangement Syndrome. While the support for Trump’s policies continues to have widespread support among those who dont drink the Trump-hate koolaid.

I enjoy your comics but you are out of order mocking the president, where were you when Obama was tearing the nation apart, race against race and religion against religion??

Republican legislators: the only group that still FEARS Trump.

Get those people into the Gutless Protection Program.

Better yet, get them out of it.

On Trump’s latest physical, his doc says he is in excellent health and will remain so. No doc can predict the future. Trump has turned everyone around him into an accomplice for lying at every turn.

There is no shortage of Republicans (or conservative former Republicans who left the party in disgust at the infantile Trump and his corrupt nannies) denouncing Trump in public: George Will, David Brooks, Michael Gerson, “Morning Joe”, Kathleen Parker, Jonah Goldberg (at times), and plenty of others. Problem is, they’re pundits, not members of Congress. Other Republicans have privately denounced Trump (to Mueller’s team), but in their cases, many are his fellow crooks! By the way, no intelligent, honest, patriotic person would ever call the meticulously scrupulous Mueller probe of organized crime, a “witch hunt”—and NONE HAS!

Name-calling. Afraid to debate substantive issues. That’s you, Trudeau.

Trudeau is merely repeating the facts surrounding the situation in the current White House and Trump supporters can’t take it. Reminds me of when someone told Harry Truman, Give em hell, Harry! and he said no, I will just tell the truth and they will think it’s hell.

Truman also said, “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” and “the buck stops here.” Trump is about as far from the way Harry Truman conducted himself as anyone could ever be and that is sad for us all.

For the basic good of our country…. GET YOUR SORRY ASSES OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND GET THAT S.O.B. OUT!

All the need are the requisite gonads.

How many of them are worried that, if they turn on the Trumpanzee, Vlad Putin will poison their Whiskey?

Nope, they’re owned men.

This week Garry Trudeau wrote a comic that is long on what Liberals want to believe about Trump. Liberals love it. I an many of the rest of us find it tiresome because there is not a single nugget of truth behind all the attempts at humor.

Senators voting to please businesses that pay for their campaign advertising is actually what you want. These businesses are effectively lobbying on behalf of the consuming masses, who cannot practically lobby individually. The money for those campaign ads comes from consumers, who get more in return than they pay, i.e. they benefit when the business sells more product. (The business’ investors benefit too, but so what?)

Example: one way to make drugs cheaper is to reduce FDA testing bureaucracy. Drug companies want drugs to be cheaper so they can sell more. So they pay to get anti-FDA senators elected. The cost of making drugs goes down. The drug maker lowers the price of the drug almost as much, out of simple greed: they want to sell more drug. Sick people get more drugs.

People have to remember: the companies that sell you things are not your enemies.

When this really does start to happen, the collective response to these profiles in courage should be “Go #$&% yourselves with a rusty spiked bat.”

I’m no Trump fan, but there is no humor here. Only hate. I had hoped that Trudeau would be better than this.

Patience, grasshoppers. 2024 is not that far away…

Don’t worry, they’ll come out against Trump in time to write their tell-all books and become lobbyists. They helped destroy the country and will continue to reap benefits long after they are done “representing” us.