Reverse Self-Incrimination

Donald Trump must be having the time of his life. Sure, he's facing legal headaches as his administration implodes under the pressure of multiple investigations, but where else but in America can you regularly unleash torrents of racist bile with impunity and actually be adored for doing so. Only in America where white evangelical "Christians" have locked arms with this decidedly immoral, second-rate wannabe mafia don whose claim to fame is serial sexual assault of women and a lifelong track record of fleecing his fellow man. Clearly, he must be "second coming" material.

Recently, at a fundraiser, he warned this core of his debased base, these white evangelical "Christians," that if the Democrats won the midterms, they would "quickly and violently" reverse all of their hard fought efforts to destroy any reasonable safeguards in state-church relations, populate the federal judiciary with unrepentant Scalia doppelgangers and return the U.S. to its white supremacist roots.

I guess that I could state the obvious - that white evangelical "Christians" have sold their souls to the devil - but I think that's off for two reasons. First, it's giving Satan bad name. I mean, c'mon, Satan clearly has more class than Trump; he's the Prince of Darkness, not just some bloated combover with three-card Monte game on a side street in midtown, right? Second, I'm not sure these bible humpers ever had much of a soul left after decades of tirelessly defending white supremacy. Point being, they're just much con artists as the Donald. And that's why the only thing left to say is that they prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that life truly imitates (con) art.

Enjoy the toon...

Planted by the Ape

I know, I know...every one's attention is absolutely riveted on the latest to come out of the various investigations into Donnie Trumpano and his wise guy "administration," aka, the family. Meanwhile, Trump and the Republicans continue to kneecap any reasonable effort to address social issues across any number of fronts, including and especially mitigating climate change.

We've read about his administration suspending automobile fuel efficiency standards, putting Soviet-style incentives in place in favor of increased coal production, and, of course, the biggie...pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Treaty on Climate Change. The sum total of all of these actions is a stubby middle finger being raised to our children, their children and all future generations. And, for what? A marginal increase in profits for the extractive industries? Hardly worth it.

I just hope that the various activists who call themselves the resistance are able to walk and chew gum at the same time. By all means, take to the virtual streets of social media and push back on each racist, xenophobic, misogynistic tweet, but please, please PLEASE don't forget to keep track of what's really going on behind the curtain: the systematic dismantling of every bit of progress, however incremental and unsatisfying, we've made over the last 55 years.

Now THAT is something worth screaming about. Enjoy the toon!

EVERY-body's Crazy

I guess I should be more riveted, obsessed and fascinated about the Manafort trial...but I'm not. Maybe I'm just too impatient to wait and see how this and subsequent trials play out and just want this whole nightmare to come to a quick end. Or maybe I'm just thinking that all of this strum, drag and angst are likely to amount to a big fat goose egg. The endemic, systemic corruption of our institutions being so engrained and deeply rooted at this point, it seems as if we're just all standing by as we watch them in their death throes as they flail, fail, flounder and eventually fizzle out.

Boy, do I need a vacation.

Okay, let me rouse myself from my cynical stupor. Clearly, Trump is deeply fatootzed about the Manafort trial and what it might produce and lead to. Clearly, the Republican Congress is doing everything in its power to thwart Mueller from proceeding any further. And, clearly, with everyone's attention riveted by the drama in and outside of the courtroom we are once again allowing the Trump administration to get away with a long list of heinous policy crimes: the continued separation and incarceration of  children from their asylum seeking parents as well as the continued systematic dismantling of our flimsy safeguards against institutional racism, industrial pollution and fraudulent corporate practises. It just wears me out, and all I can do is hope that there are good people out there who make these and any number of other compelling issues their cause and pursue them doggedly to seek justice and accountability.

Me? The best I can do in this lousy mess we've created for ourselves is to muster a bit of inspiration from the bearded Texan rockers of my adolescence to produce the latest toon. Hope you enjoy...