Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 30, 2018

I was expecting: MUELLER, MUELLER, MUELLER…

See the panel dealing with the ‘prefrontal cortex.’

He should be wearing a full hazardous environment suit, and will need a severe disinfectant shower on exit.

Oh my, the horror!

Exit DJT up the golden escalator.

And the world thinks Zombies are bad. Roland just unleashed a horror beyond horror’s.

I’m glad to see this story line return! How long has it been, since Reagan? I don’t remember it for bush.

His brain was accessed via a colon tube

Don’t trip over his bone spurs. They are all in his head.

YES!!! Finally Roland returns to ANOTHER VAST WASTELAND, a Republican “president’s” Brain! And there even less to see here then there was in Reagan’s brain…

Yes, PLEASE don’t wake him. The more he sleeps, the better off we are.

azzir: i hate to repeat myself however, when a brand new john deere 8400r tractor flies out of your butt…

I always thought of Trump as the brainless president.

Can’t find fault with his record of accomplishment so make fun of his hair and mind, sad.

MAGAAD (Make America Great Again After donnie)

Roland should also check out the Democrats brains. That way he looks unbiased.

Trump’s brain is currently under siege by some GOP pundits who questioned his manhood.

As far as I can tell, “conservatives” think that George Soros is the ONLY billionaire who shouldn’t 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 “Soros” rather than “Mueller” shows how very, very, very sensitive the Capo-in-Chief’s amygdala is. Had he yelled “Mueller,” Roland might well have been crushed in the debris.

It’s 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.

These Republican presidential brain strips are much smaller than the normal strip.

Did Doonesbury do a tour of Reagan’s brain once?

Someone call the CMDF.

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 doesn’t fit Roland as he has been depicted recently. During the old strips, he was supposedly working for ABC. Recently, though, he’s been shown working for Fox News and being a total Trump apologist.

Roland used to be a tool (no, NOT the kind of “tool” that Trump is!) for Trudeau to ridicule people like, you know, Reagan. (Let’s 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 Reagan’s 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: “For a very long time now, I have been predicting the Trump presidency will end poorly because character is destiny….Weirdly, it’s 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! He’s loyal to a fault! He’s 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.”

Let me toss in a little bit more from conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg: :“What’s most worrisome is that these defenders are redefining good character in Trump’s image, and they end up modeling it.Others assume that I am referencing the president’s 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 incuriosity…..But Trump’s 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.”

Where is the spirochete that connects his two last neurons?

No one brings the pain quite like Trudeau.

That’s assuming that the anatomy of its seat of consciousness is in any way similar to that of an Earth human.

I’ve been re-reading The Presidents Club, about how presidents behave once they are out of office. It’s 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. I’m not comfortable (not that anyone cares) with snarky comments about “the brains of Republican presidents.” 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 we’ve had has been unique. That goes double for Trump. I wouldn’t lump anyone else in the same category with him.

Did he misspell “Clinton”? :)

Finally a cartoon that makes the President seem to be big, big man!

The strip’s reference to a “vast echo chamber” 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. It’s 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!

If you think that “Soros” is the only Trump dog whistle, you’re wrong. Border Wall is another.

I love how it’s never been remotely explained just what sort of technological miracle has been used to shrink down Roland and his crew and transport them into people’s brains. It’s just a thing that happens. XD

Pelosi. Pelosi. … she needs ESTROGEN. Therapy