The Muse

"Make no mistake; we have a year before this country becomes a full-on autocracy, and democracy completely leaves us." - Rob Reiner

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Inconceivable.
Bucket list.
These go up to 11.
As you wish.
You can't handle the truth!
I'll have what she's having.
You guys want to see a dead body?
Have fun storming the castle.

The above phrases and memes are now part of the public lexicon thanks to film-maker Rob Reiner. He made a career of amusing and entertaining the world, and he did an excellent job of it.

Yesterday he and his wife were fatally stabbed by their son. No doubt part of the reason was the failure of the American medical system to address mental health.

For the historical record, because Mr. Reiner made no secret of his distaste of a criminal rapist stealing a presidential election, twice, Trump's Troof Social reaction to Rob Reiner's death was to call him "deranged" and dismissively added "thing's happen". Which is exactly what you might expect from any dollar-store mob boss.

But when a notorious fascist and racist like Charlie Kirk gets murdered his pal, Trump, couldn't command that U.S. flags be lowered to half-staff fast enough.

Also dollar-store mob-boss stuff.

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Rob Reiner was 78 when he died, one year younger than Trump, but the last time Mr. Reiner made the media circuit publicizing his latest Spinal Tap movie he was as lucid and as funny as ever.

Trump's mind, on the other hand, has obviously reached Stage Four Fuckity-Bye and so he probably has to have someone else tie his shoes for him as his porcine proportions not only prevent him even seeing, or reaching, his feet. In his current mental state he'd be hard-pressed to understand what shoelaces are, much less how to tie them, and yet this is the guy deciding the fate of this world, not someone as intelligent and amusing as Mr. Reiner.

Fuck!

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I’m beginning to think that Trump likely went back on his campaign promise to release the Epstein files because Pam Bondi told him “You’re in them. You're in them quite a LOT.”

That news may have actually come as a surprise to Trump as he’s so far up his own ass he believes that no one would think anything he did was illegal or immoral or, horrors, that someone was actually keeping notes about his shenanigans. That’s the sort of thing one does to one’s enemies and Trump was everyone’s friend, right? To Trump, the whole world was in love with him because he's just the best, gosh-darn-it smartest guy in the whole wide world.

The word you're looking for here is "retarded". Trump is proFOUNDly retarded in ways that go far beyond simple brain malfunction.

But Trump will die someday, hopefully soon, and the 99% of the world that hate his fucking guts will rejoice long and loudly.

In fact, I'll be the first to say "Hey. You guys want to see a dead body?"

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Technical note: The dialogue in the first three panels are as close to the original text from "A Christmas Carol" as I could comfortably squeeze in.

Also, if you're wondering about the color scheme I wanted to indicate the grim, coal-choked streets of London.

- Lefty