Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 27, 2019

How many times does Trump have to betray his country before any Trump Disciple believes it is an impeachable offense?

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#TraitorTrump

Chairman Don. Get out your little red books. Die or be dead. (Sales on now. Black Friday today, Christmas all December.)

We can still have Mark saying “Guilty ! Guilty! Guilty!” but this time on NPR or MSNBC.

I prefer Marx’s take on history: “History repeats itself; first as tragedy, next as farce.”

It’s all cyclical anyway. Generation after generation there have been wars, disease, poverty, dictators and even mass extinctions.

It’s all true, but Nixon didn’t play the type of offense that Don Juan does. No one in my lifetime has played that type of offense. So the strategists have not yet devised their optimal method of countering it. No one else has experienced it either. The only issue is whether today’s US citizens are going to rise to the challenge of rescuing the republic created by John Adams and the rest. Many, if not most, generations have had to save a functioning democracy from some would-be tyrant or criminal enterprise. It is our turn.

So Trudeau thinks Trump hasn’t done anything against the interests of the US? I’m surprised!

Let’s not forget the question Zonker was asked when he had to register for the draft: “Would you be willing to go to war to protect the interests of American Oil Companies?”

For the second time in the past few months, an illegible Doonesbury. Somebody in the production department is asleep at the switch. The three reprinted strips are from , 19740522, 19740723, and 19940513. Rick Norwood, Comics Revue

My 75 year-old eyes could barely read the comics from the 70’s – any chance they could be repeated or at least provide the date(s) they originally showed up with the possibility of finding them in ‘readable’ size??? I’ve followed Doonesbury for more years than I can remember and he’s all-too-often spot on – Many thanks for including Trudeau’s works in Go-Comics, along with all the others !!

Here is the almost illegible dialog in the “daily” strip in the last panel.Panel One: “No impeachable offense!” How can his lawyer keep babbling that. Trump left no part of the constitution untrampled.Panel Two: Obstruction of justice, emoluments, sexual assaults, hush money, seven aides convicted or indited. My word, what does it take? What does it take?Panel Three: SighPanel Four: If only he’d betray the country! By George, we’d have him then.

Rick Norwood, Comics Revue magazine

While I think Democrats will have to fight as hard as possible in 2020, I’m seeing things turning around in the world of politics. Trudeau was re-elected. Netanyahu was not re-elected. BoJo in GB is having a rough go of it. Things are slowly improving as a general trend. Democrats will probably need a centrist candidate to defeat Trump. I loved today’s strip though I think Klobuchar or Biden may be more likely to be able to lead us out of the nightmare than Warren in terms of having a plan for that. Next, Trudeau will have to come up with all new strips as we turn the page with a new news story at any rate. I may be wrong, but I don’t see someone from Massachusetts winning POTUS anymore. It is not 1960.

Like it or not, I’m giving Trump all the credit for riding the Middle East of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Congrats POTUS!!

The reps NEVER seem to learn from history. . .

I just saw Trump giving himself credit for killing the al-Baghdadi, claiming it was a bigger deal than Bin Laden being killed. Excuse me, did al-Baghdadi kill approximately 3,000 American civilians? No? Then, STFU, Trump. He also got a bit carried away in the description of the operation involving al-Baghdadi, going into great detail. This is obviously not to be done so that our operations will be effective in the future, no matter how excited Trump was about his attempt to top Obama’s achievement with killing Bin-Laden.

When Hair Groppenfuror was elected in 2016, how many felt this was the inevitable conclusion?

It’s…Uncanny!

“The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”

Sort of makes you wonder about the USA when you think of the fact that the President(all of them) had enough supporters to get elected in the first place. I mean we can complain all we want but he did get the job. The interesting thing will be if we re-hire him.

It seems Trump is sometimes allergic to the truth..

Surprise – another Sunday Trump comic! I wonder if someday there will be a “Doonesbury for that.”

Relatively speaking, yes.

Nixon, although seriously mentally ill, had fewer serious mental illnesses than Trump does. He was also FAR more intelligent. And he was less “guilty guilty guilty” as well. Nixon didn’t have the advantage of having the nation dumbed down for decades before he was elected, with so-called “reality” TV, anti-social media, the Fox Propaganda Channel, and a huge increase in hate radio. (Not that there weren’t worthless people on talk radio like Father Coughlin long before Nixon, it’s just there’s been a huge increase.) Trump did have the advantage of having the nation dumbed down. Trump is living proof that you don’t have to be intelligent to be a successful con artist or cult leader (Trump was both, for a while): you merely have to be slightly less of an imbecile than the victims of your con games or cult. Trump is slightly less of an imbecile than the people who voted for him.

At the rate America is changing for the better (worse) under the Republicans, the population might soon be getting a chance to learn Russian as a first language. V O T E 2020.

Every time I hear a pundit say that this White House is trying to stonewall the impeachment inquiry, I think of the strip(s) of the bricklayers building a wall in front of the White House. What’s old is new again!

See the strip on Go Comics for August 12, 1974. Plop!

How about this. Nothing changes in Washington. Some are just better at not getting caught.

We know Trump is not a Christian nor student of History, You may kill a leader, but not defeat the ideology.

THOSE WHO DENY THE PAST ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT .

Don’t like this half-tab format. Where’s the full-page?

I just bought “Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse” by John Lithgow. Maybe Trudeau should come out with his version.

Since one of my posts seems to have been removed, I’ll say it again. The fact is that the dead slaveowners’ electoral college has been used twice in the last couple of decades by Republicans to win since they were unable to win without it. Gore won the popular vote in 2000 and Hillary won the popular vote in 2016. This is getting rather old. The EC was originally used to appease the slaveowners. Now that we have the 2020 election almost upon us, it is time to use the popular vote in the same way that it is used in every election in the US, other than the presidency of the United States. In every other election, the popular vote is simply known as the vote. As it should be. I appreciate that Call me Ishmael has also referred to the dead slaveowners’ EC and I have heard others refer to it as such as well. The proponents of the EC may not like it being called this, but it is well deserved regardless of whether they like it or not.

In using this term of the dead slaveowners’ Electoral College, proponents of EC may not feel they have the reputation they wish to have, but they have the reputation they deserve.

One parallel nobody mentioned was the similarity of the Republicans storming the secure hearing room to the 1933 putch of the Reichstag by Hitler’s brownshirts.

Trudeau needs to come back and start bricking up the White House again

Did they have a strip during the Salem witch trials?

And by the way, did anyone notice that in Trump’s speech the VERY FIRST entity he thanked was Russia?!

funny.

This did not age well. Betraying the country didn’t work either.