Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 15, 2020

You have to protect your tax and voter base.

Back when “a geography lesson from the Flat Earth Society” could be said as a joke.

State and Federal tax revenue provides the laugh track.

That’s it. Go flat out at ‘em, Mr. Butts… you’re smokin’!

By “I must object,” the tobacco-state legislator is invoking code for “I’ve been well bribed to object.”

This is why I wish legislators would follow an idea I had way back in high school in the early 1970s. Race car drivers wear a protective suit on which they put the patches for all their sponsors. I’d love to see legislators do the same.

Trump is taking this to the next level, putting his name on stimulus checks to send our own money from the treasury back to us to try to buy our votes in the election… cynical much?

Money over health is not always a sure thing, but it is a good bet. Sadly though, I think we traded smoking problems for obesity. However, I suppose few people have ever died from second hand eating.

After reading panel four, Moscow Mitch came to mind.

The Flat Earth Society is proud to have chapters all around the globe.