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JHB

(37,160 posts)
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 08:17 AM Mar 2019

Wednesday TOONs - Fishing Expedition? It's RAINING Fish!

Fishing Expedition? It's Raining Fish!





Meet the new crowd size, not the same as the old crowd size





It's a...





Trump School Transcripts Unburied!






No, but it hires them








Trump says whatever









Jared’s Fixer






Trump’s Vietnam Syndrome








Bad Hombres







Trump Deranged-sycophant Syndrome






Nah, they’ll just suddenly hate meatballs






Speaking of which…






Meh. There’s a long way between “may” and “did”






G Force

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Wednesday TOONs - Fishing Expedition? It's RAINING Fish! (Original Post) JHB Mar 2019 OP
Thanks for the toons! Luciferous Mar 2019 #1
Great toons, "A Fool to Rule" may be the best strategy. SAD TexasProgresive Mar 2019 #2
We need a good performer. LiberalLovinLug Mar 2019 #17
Lol, "It's a Mitch hunt." Let's hope one develops. Hortensis Mar 2019 #3
Aye, Mitch actually should be worried if he did or was involved in anything illegal especially with cstanleytech Mar 2019 #5
Oh, absolutely. :) Hortensis Mar 2019 #16
maybe that's why Moscow Mitch wants packed courts Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #18
That for sure. Can't help also suspecting that could be Hortensis Mar 2019 #19
omg, hadn't seen that one Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #22
Oh, please, Let it be a Mitch Hunt! ... (Thanks for toons!) . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #4
K&R and thanks! nt tblue37 Mar 2019 #6
Thank you for the cartoons Gothmog Mar 2019 #7
Thank you for the toonz!! Dyedinthewoolliberal Mar 2019 #8
Thank you! 2naSalit Mar 2019 #9
The winner today malaise Mar 2019 #10
kick, kick, kickety kick planetc Mar 2019 #11
KnR! Canoe52 Mar 2019 #12
Trump did get one A. TheBlackAdder Mar 2019 #13
K & R...nt Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #14
Stupidity vaccine... if only! El Mimbreno Mar 2019 #15
I'll settle for that. Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2019 #21
Excellent collection dalton99a Mar 2019 #20

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
17. We need a good performer.
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 03:13 PM
Mar 2019

Bush, was a Connecticut born transplant to Texas. Some say purposely to get an accent, and get in good with Southern Republicans, where the power center is. He came off as a brush clear'in farm boy from the good ole south. I'm sure he practiced his Texas drawl.

Trump, is a silver spoon fed elite. Add to that he created his 'brand' as an entertainment TV star. One degree of separation from the dreaded Hollywood limousine elite they are supposed to despise. But he performed as a fed up American. Who was being screwed along with his base. And he would fix everything for BOTH of them. Even though his tax bill only helped those in his bracket.

Am I saying we have to entertain the idea of deliberately fooling people? YES! If that's what it takes. I know we try, half heartedly. There is usually a photo op during a campaign of the Democratic candidate holding a gun wearing khakis, as we saw with Kerry. Obama liked to use the word "folks" and tried his best to be folksy. Hillary even tried once to infuse a speech with a Southern twang when speaking to a Red State audience. But face it, Republcans are better at it. Reagan of course was a master at the charm game. The best we had at it was Bill Clinton, who held his own in the polls even during and after the Monica L. affair. I'm afraid that I don't see anyone like that in our party.

I think Al Franken could have been that candidate outside the mold who might say unexpected, honest, unsanctioned statements. But we jettison anyone who god forbid might have, not even proven to, but might have, maybe, done something mildly un PC.

I fear that even Kamala Harris, whom I really like, especially if she retains her lead, will be pressured by the established and conservaDems to tone down the rhetoric, (she's already come out saying she is not a Democratic Socialist) chipping away at any "controversy" until all that's left is a bowl of pablum. Meanwhile, the Republican candidate is screaming about the impending Zombie Apocalypse!

cstanleytech

(26,291 posts)
5. Aye, Mitch actually should be worried if he did or was involved in anything illegal especially with
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 08:53 AM
Mar 2019

Mueller investigating because it could be discovered.
In fact I kind of enjoy picturing Mitch spending a few decades in prison.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
16. Oh, absolutely. :)
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:41 PM
Mar 2019

I’d be happy to know that he was going to die in prison.

We know he seems to keep a very careful distance from most of his party’s dirty activities, but was he able to maintain plausible deniability from everything? With his power, he must always have known a very great deal about what has been happening all around him for years now, and inevitably have to involve in some way at times.

Plus, he’s been selling his own influence to enemies foreign and domestic for decades.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,345 posts)
18. maybe that's why Moscow Mitch wants packed courts
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 07:39 PM
Mar 2019

He's expecting to have to appear in multiple courts throughout his retirement and wants to make sure his co-conspirators sit on the benches.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
19. That for sure. Can't help also suspecting that could be
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 09:32 PM
Mar 2019

additional motivation for a number of them for replacing democracy with an authoritarian government. “We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,345 posts)
22. omg, hadn't seen that one
Thu Mar 7, 2019, 12:54 AM
Mar 2019

Saved, bookmarked, labelled "McConnell wrecks democracy".

That's the best summary of Moscow Mitch I've seen yet.

El Mimbreno

(777 posts)
15. Stupidity vaccine... if only!
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 11:38 AM
Mar 2019

But then the anti-vaxers would make up a fake side effect - like killing their inner racist.

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