Tom Toles for April 20, 2018

With any luck, a rising tide will sink him

I’m hoping the door will jam just as he needs to go to the bathroom.

As usual, marginal man delivers the final rebuttal.

More evidence of the massive corruption of Trump and the Republicans.

This country is getting a bit too czarist.

SCOTT PRUITT’S HOROSCOPE – {rhyme and coda}

Pruitt has read his horoscope:

“Do your traveling in the style of the Pope”, -

- with air-conditioning

‘cause the climate’s transitioning.

Perhaps the A/C will help Scott to cope.

… Coda:

Both Bullet- and Climate-proof,

‘tho the cost goes up thru the roof.

And meanwhile our earth goes Poof.

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What was his spending like when he had to look after himself? That time is coming back. As soon as Trump needs another distraction.

Not only do we have to deal with a rapidly deteriorating environment, we taxpayers have to pay for the protection of the man responsible for the acceleration of the deterioration.

{Off the cartoon’s topic:}

TRUMP’S CULT OF LOYALTY – {rhyme}

Why not believe the Prez?

It’s simple. We simply can’t.

Every durn’ thang he sez

is ignorant blathering rant. …

… Yet his fans their credulity grant,

e’en tho’ his honesty’s remarkably scant, -

- e’en tho’ his nakedness starkly he shows

when wearing his garish Emperor’s {clothes} cloes.

His sycophants’ cult of loyalty

enable his pretense of royalty.

“Long live the King!! -

- and his Emperor’s bling.

May forEver to his office he cling

while we sing and kiss his ring.”

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The courts have decided that a person’s religious belief does not have to be rational, and is protected as long as their belief is sincere. Has this been extended to political beliefs? Is Scott Pruitt sincere in his beliefs?

http://thememoryhole2.org/blog/pruitt-bio

Why would he be so worried about titanium missiles???

Does it have sirens & strobes for when he’s late for a dinner date?

If only it were hermetically sealed, so he couldn’t get any air … and we could watch him suffocate.

Definitely a Pruitt design. It looks like rolling coal.

I would have no objection to his ordering, entering, and sealing an air tight chamber.

I wouldn’t put it past Pruitt. . .

What a shoddy piece of equipment: it’s not even sound-proof, like his phone booth! (Otherwise we couldn’t read his speech balloon, you see. And no fair calling “cartoon physics”!)

The head of the EPA driving his tax payer funded clean air bubble through the pollution he allowed so he can tell everyone it is fine.

PRUITT’S TITANIUM AND LEXAN E.P.A. MOBILE" (See Pope)

Yes, they will all need them when the skies turn brown again, smog returns, burning bodies of polluted water full of the floating corpses of dead fish, dead coyotes, dead birds and withering plants, shrubs, and trees rotting away. While they leave in hermetically sealed bubbles full of filtered air and organically grown non-GMO foods. The inextricable merging of luxury and military defense. They will need it as people choke to death and others decide they would rather go with a blaze of weapons fire and flowering of bloody gore as they die they take the ones responsible with them. Or not.

I would be willing to ‘front’ the use of the type of vehicle used by the Germans, initially, to transport small groups of prisoners from their holding camps to their graves in the forests. They’d force-march them into the trucks (whose exhaust systems ported into the back of the truck), and, by the time they reached the gravesite, they all would have been asphyxiated on engine fumes. The sonderkommando were charged with dragging them out of the truck and into the grave where they’d be covered with soil and left. Very efficient in the small numbers some “camps” processed. Doing the same to Pruitt and his crew would at least be a productive use of his desired pollution!

The Polluting Pope Mobile

Precisely!

President Trump, please consider granting Cosby a pardon in one case if he fills this particular vehicle with chocolate pudding.