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YES!!! Finally Roland returns to ANOTHER VAST WASTELAND, a Republican âpresidentâsâ Brain! And there even less to see here then there was in Reaganâs brainâŚ
As far as I can tell, âconservativesâ think that George Soros is the ONLY billionaire who shouldnât be allowed to use his money for politics.
Putin hates Soros because Soros helped bring down the Soviet Union by funding its resistance. And the American Right is now taking its cues from Vladimir Putin.
Yelling âSorosâ rather than âMuellerâ shows how very, very, very sensitive the Capo-in-Chiefâs amygdala is. Had he yelled âMueller,â Roland might well have been crushed in the debris.
Itâs sad to see a person like the resident who is showing clear signs of mental dysfunction being exploited by political ideologues that do not seem to have any remnant of human compassion.
It is great to live in a country where this sort of cartoon can be published and discussed without anyone going to prison or getting a death sentence. We are blessed with a great country, no matter who the president du jour is. Happy New Year all!
It occurs to me that this doesnât fit Roland as he has been depicted recently. During the old strips, he was supposedly working for ABC. Recently, though, heâs been shown working for Fox News and being a total Trump apologist.
Roland used to be a tool (no, NOT the kind of âtoolâ that Trump is!) for Trudeau to ridicule people like, you know, Reagan. (Letâs be honest, Reagan was a model who tried to act, an announcer who tried to talk, who sat out WW II making propaganda films while Bush was a war hero. Yet there is no doubt that when Ronald Reaganâs handlers were the president, they did accomplish a few things.) Nowdays, of course, Roland is ridiculous in and of himself. And here we go with conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg: âFor a very long time now, I have been predicting the Trump presidency will end poorly because character is destinyâŚ.Weirdly, itâs gotten to the point that when I say President Trump is not a man of good character, I feel like I should preface it with a trigger warning for many of my fellow conservatives.Most of the angry responses are clearly rooted in the fact that they do not wish to be reminded of this obvious truth. But others seem to have convinced themselves that Trump is a man of good character, and they take personal offense at the insult, even though I usually offer it as little more than an observation. They rush to rebut the claim, citing banal or debatable propositions: He loves his children! Heâs loyal to a fault! Heâs authentic! Never mind that many bad men love their children, that loyalty to people or causes unworthy of loyalty is not admirable, and that authentic caddishness is not admirable. Moreover, he is not remotely loyal to his wives or the people who work for him.â
Let me toss in a little bit more from conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg: :âWhatâs most worrisome is that these defenders are redefining good character in Trumpâs image, and they end up modeling it.Others assume that I am referencing the presidentâs style, specifically his insults and Twitter addiction. What his defenders overlook is that his insults are not simply an act; they are the product of astonishing levels of narcissism, insecurity and intellectual incuriosityâŚ..But Trumpâs refusal to listen to advisers; his inability to bite his tongue; his demonization and belittling of senators who vote for his agenda but refuse to keep quiet when he does or says things they disagree with; his rants against the First Amendment; his praise for dictators and insults for allies; his need to create new controversies to eclipse old ones; and his inexhaustible capacity to lie and fabricate history: All of this springs from his character.â
Iâve been re-reading The Presidents Club, about how presidents behave once they are out of office. Itâs an excellent reminder of the character flaws, and virtues, of many of our previous presidents since WWII. Bush 41, alone of practically all of them (the book was written in 2010, I think) comes across as particularly gracious. Iâm not comfortable (not that anyone cares) with snarky comments about âthe brains of Republican presidents.â Nixon, one of the most corrupt, had one of the best brains for foreign policy, one of the worst for people. Reagan maybe best for people, worst for the economy. Every president weâve had has been unique. That goes double for Trump. I wouldnât lump anyone else in the same category with him.
The stripâs reference to a âvast echo chamberâ made me smile, since the strip itself (and this comment section) are both reverberant echo chambers for feeding the US political frenzy. Your two political tribes are opposing faces of the same coin, and are both equally guilty of shouting to hear your echo.
Hmmm scalp hair follicle root structure connection to cranium as if thru the skull directly. Turns out the connection of the cortex to hair follicles is grandly misunderstood. Itâs not thru the skull but down and around.
In the womb every region of our developing cortex grows an output conducting nerve fiber that joins up with the other such fibers from various parts of the cortex and together they form into a cable of thousands of fibers that migrates within the skull down along its back to its bottom, and rounds the corner at the skull bottom and climbs up outside the skull and then fans outward with each fiber guided to hook up with a particular hair follicle by dorsal-ventral and left right chemistry at their tips.
Seems not only the public, but even our scientists are unaware of any of this, like how this explains the criticality of EEG placement on the scalp. How be I the one to know this? A celebrated neuroanatomist, W. Nauta, observed this by studying embryos of various ages, tracking the migrating nerve fiber tips. He explained all this in a lecture at MIT I was lucky enough to attend but he never published. So now you can begin reading minds by watching people scratch their heads!
I love how itâs never been remotely explained just what sort of technological miracle has been used to shrink down Roland and his crew and transport them into peopleâs brains. Itâs just a thing that happens. XD
BE THIS GUY about 6 years ago
I was expecting: MUELLER, MUELLER, MUELLERâŚ
Differentname about 6 years ago
See the panel dealing with the âprefrontal cortex.â
Dtroutma about 6 years ago
He should be wearing a full hazardous environment suit, and will need a severe disinfectant shower on exit.
ajmsdca about 6 years ago
Oh my, the horror!
Petercowen about 6 years ago
Exit DJT up the golden escalator.
Watcher about 6 years ago
And the world thinks Zombies are bad. Roland just unleashed a horror beyond horrorâs.
kaffekup about 6 years ago
Iâm glad to see this story line return! How long has it been, since Reagan? I donât remember it for bush.
Brockie about 6 years ago
His brain was accessed via a colon tube
LilyGilder about 6 years ago
Donât trip over his bone spurs. They are all in his head.
Masterskrain about 6 years ago
YES!!! Finally Roland returns to ANOTHER VAST WASTELAND, a Republican âpresidentâsâ Brain! And there even less to see here then there was in Reaganâs brainâŚ
gantech about 6 years ago
Yes, PLEASE donât wake him. The more he sleeps, the better off we are.
wdgnas about 6 years ago
azzir: i hate to repeat myself however, when a brand new john deere 8400r tractor flies out of your buttâŚ
Radish... about 6 years ago
I always thought of Trump as the brainless president.
VernonC about 6 years ago
Canât find fault with his record of accomplishment so make fun of his hair and mind, sad.
2peabody1 about 6 years ago
MAGAAD (Make America Great Again After donnie)
stealth694 about 6 years ago
Roland should also check out the Democrats brains. That way he looks unbiased.
montessoriteacher about 6 years ago
Trumpâs brain is currently under siege by some GOP pundits who questioned his manhood.
Ignatz Premium Member about 6 years ago
As far as I can tell, âconservativesâ think that George Soros is the ONLY billionaire who shouldnât be allowed to use his money for politics.
Putin hates Soros because Soros helped bring down the Soviet Union by funding its resistance. And the American Right is now taking its cues from Vladimir Putin.
cocavan11 about 6 years ago
Yelling âSorosâ rather than âMuellerâ shows how very, very, very sensitive the Capo-in-Chiefâs amygdala is. Had he yelled âMueller,â Roland might well have been crushed in the debris.
superposition about 6 years ago
Itâs sad to see a person like the resident who is showing clear signs of mental dysfunction being exploited by political ideologues that do not seem to have any remnant of human compassion.
mourdac Premium Member about 6 years ago
These Republican presidential brain strips are much smaller than the normal strip.
mizdurble about 6 years ago
Did Doonesbury do a tour of Reaganâs brain once?
Masterskrain about 6 years ago
Someone call the CMDF.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 6 years ago
It is great to live in a country where this sort of cartoon can be published and discussed without anyone going to prison or getting a death sentence. We are blessed with a great country, no matter who the president du jour is. Happy New Year all!
Yngvar Følling about 6 years ago
It occurs to me that this doesnât fit Roland as he has been depicted recently. During the old strips, he was supposedly working for ABC. Recently, though, heâs been shown working for Fox News and being a total Trump apologist.
Godfreydaniel about 6 years ago
Roland used to be a tool (no, NOT the kind of âtoolâ that Trump is!) for Trudeau to ridicule people like, you know, Reagan. (Letâs be honest, Reagan was a model who tried to act, an announcer who tried to talk, who sat out WW II making propaganda films while Bush was a war hero. Yet there is no doubt that when Ronald Reaganâs handlers were the president, they did accomplish a few things.) Nowdays, of course, Roland is ridiculous in and of himself. And here we go with conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg: âFor a very long time now, I have been predicting the Trump presidency will end poorly because character is destinyâŚ.Weirdly, itâs gotten to the point that when I say President Trump is not a man of good character, I feel like I should preface it with a trigger warning for many of my fellow conservatives.Most of the angry responses are clearly rooted in the fact that they do not wish to be reminded of this obvious truth. But others seem to have convinced themselves that Trump is a man of good character, and they take personal offense at the insult, even though I usually offer it as little more than an observation. They rush to rebut the claim, citing banal or debatable propositions: He loves his children! Heâs loyal to a fault! Heâs authentic! Never mind that many bad men love their children, that loyalty to people or causes unworthy of loyalty is not admirable, and that authentic caddishness is not admirable. Moreover, he is not remotely loyal to his wives or the people who work for him.â
Godfreydaniel about 6 years ago
Let me toss in a little bit more from conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg: :âWhatâs most worrisome is that these defenders are redefining good character in Trumpâs image, and they end up modeling it.Others assume that I am referencing the presidentâs style, specifically his insults and Twitter addiction. What his defenders overlook is that his insults are not simply an act; they are the product of astonishing levels of narcissism, insecurity and intellectual incuriosityâŚ..But Trumpâs refusal to listen to advisers; his inability to bite his tongue; his demonization and belittling of senators who vote for his agenda but refuse to keep quiet when he does or says things they disagree with; his rants against the First Amendment; his praise for dictators and insults for allies; his need to create new controversies to eclipse old ones; and his inexhaustible capacity to lie and fabricate history: All of this springs from his character.â
mfrasca about 6 years ago
Where is the spirochete that connects his two last neurons?
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 6 years ago
No one brings the pain quite like Trudeau.
willie_mctell about 6 years ago
Thatâs assuming that the anatomy of its seat of consciousness is in any way similar to that of an Earth human.
salunga about 6 years ago
Iâve been re-reading The Presidents Club, about how presidents behave once they are out of office. Itâs an excellent reminder of the character flaws, and virtues, of many of our previous presidents since WWII. Bush 41, alone of practically all of them (the book was written in 2010, I think) comes across as particularly gracious. Iâm not comfortable (not that anyone cares) with snarky comments about âthe brains of Republican presidents.â Nixon, one of the most corrupt, had one of the best brains for foreign policy, one of the worst for people. Reagan maybe best for people, worst for the economy. Every president weâve had has been unique. That goes double for Trump. I wouldnât lump anyone else in the same category with him.
lordhoff about 6 years ago
Did he misspell âClintonâ? :)
gcottay about 6 years ago
Finally a cartoon that makes the President seem to be big, big man!
Dennett Premium Member about 6 years ago
The stripâs reference to a âvast echo chamberâ made me smile, since the strip itself (and this comment section) are both reverberant echo chambers for feeding the US political frenzy. Your two political tribes are opposing faces of the same coin, and are both equally guilty of shouting to hear your echo.
joefriendly about 6 years ago
Hmmm scalp hair follicle root structure connection to cranium as if thru the skull directly. Turns out the connection of the cortex to hair follicles is grandly misunderstood. Itâs not thru the skull but down and around.
In the womb every region of our developing cortex grows an output conducting nerve fiber that joins up with the other such fibers from various parts of the cortex and together they form into a cable of thousands of fibers that migrates within the skull down along its back to its bottom, and rounds the corner at the skull bottom and climbs up outside the skull and then fans outward with each fiber guided to hook up with a particular hair follicle by dorsal-ventral and left right chemistry at their tips.
Seems not only the public, but even our scientists are unaware of any of this, like how this explains the criticality of EEG placement on the scalp. How be I the one to know this? A celebrated neuroanatomist, W. Nauta, observed this by studying embryos of various ages, tracking the migrating nerve fiber tips. He explained all this in a lecture at MIT I was lucky enough to attend but he never published. So now you can begin reading minds by watching people scratch their heads!
William Bednar Premium Member about 6 years ago
If you think that âSorosâ is the only Trump dog whistle, youâre wrong. Border Wall is another.
JLG Premium Member about 6 years ago
I love how itâs never been remotely explained just what sort of technological miracle has been used to shrink down Roland and his crew and transport them into peopleâs brains. Itâs just a thing that happens. XD
GuyLindner about 6 years ago
Pelosi. Pelosi. ⌠she needs ESTROGEN. Therapy