Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 29, 2021

Trump told the crowd at his rally in Alabama to get vaccinated. They booed him. Trump isn’t the monster. He’s just someone that exploited a monster that has always been around. But the monster will turn on him if doesn’t feed the monster what it wants.

Some guy in Texas who led a group calling itself “Freedom Defenders” against mask restriction just died of COVID. He was 30 years old and left behind 3 children and a pregnant wife.

The only black forTrump hides behind the sign.

I like this, but I’m slightly disappointed with Trudeau for continuing both the “only the unvaccinated die of covid” and “the unvaccinated are all wilfully ignorant dumb dumbs” notions. It is more complicated than that. Some vaccinated people are still getting Covid. Some have died. Not a lot, but “only the unvaccinated die” is wrong. Shaming of “The Unvaccinated” is not going to help. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/unvaccinated-different-anti-vax/619523/

A Black? Dude, they’re legion. Do some research.

A new mascot of the GOP.

Sad story. Still not enough to convince me there’s a just gawd.

Amazing how Covid is mainly infecting the unvaccinated. It’s a conspiracy!

I am not surprised.

The Country is getting smarter one by one.

Does FREEDOM include freedom from ignorance, freedom from responsibility [for self, family, friends, community], freedom from disease/death, freedom from civility, freedom from common sense?

And what’s REALLY scary is that the MAGAotts depicted here are NOT Caricatures, rather these are quite accurate depictions of how they REALLY Look. Just watch ANY video of Twitler’s “ME!!! ME!!! ME!!! LOOK AT MEEEE!!! SEND ME YOUR MONEY!!! ME!!! ME!!! ME!!!” rallies, and you will see every one of them!

Karens for Trump…lol

Trudeau has always been spot-on.

I was listening last night to Peter McCullough’s testimony to the Texas Senate’s HHS committee. He’s an MD with a huge set of credentials.

He made a number of charges and claims that my memory says are all true.

One charge was that the standard of care for new CV19 patients has been “do nothing”. People were sent home to quarantine themselves and told that if their condition worsened to go to the hospital. He asserted that that was despicable and the antithesis of responsible clinical behavior. MDs and NPs are ethically bound to try to cure sick people who come to them, not send them away (another MD said the same thing in an article that appeared online awhile back, and I was taught the same thing in my field).

He treated the people who came to him with different combinations of known-effective substances, such as zinc, looking for the best combo for each patient. His cure rate has been 85% or 88%, I can’t quite remember which.

But, he said, it’s been impossible to get a treatment paper accepted by any journal. They simply refuse, focusing completely on vaccination.

He also posed the question: why is there only one national spokesperson for the pandemic (Fauci) ? Normally there are 4-5 sitting as a panel. Why is this different?

If we look at this whole debacle, we see a joint, interacting failure of medicine, civil government, and media. It’s very hard to imagine something like that suddenly occurring by chance, especially since the experience of every doc who provided immediate, aggressive treatment saved most of their patients’ lives. Who profited by preventing publication of treatment information? We had those 3 docs, strangers to one another, who independently cured their patients by using a combination of zinc, hcq, and an antibiotic—-but those were the only accounts of treatment we heard about early on, and they quickly vanished from view. Why? Who profited from letting people die?

I can understand the dopes resisting. In Mass. we have healthcare people protesting the Vaccine Mandate. These people are face to face with the threat everyday, and yet they deny the risk.

I just want to launch an F-bomb at the TV. Dopes.

What frustrates me is how such people are whining and crying about their so-called “freedoms” being infringed by vaccines and face masks, when in reality, their behavior has been and still is far more tyrannical than anything their political enemies could ever dare consider. These folks don’t seem to understand that they are aiding the true enemy of this crisis, the COVID-19 virus, by not taking preventative actions to fight said virus and spreading malicious misinformation while endangering the rest of us who are fighting to return our lives to as close to normal as possible. Even American capitalism is insisting that people get vaccinated. The healthcare system is again burnt out from consistent flow of COVID-19 cases, and so are the poison control centers because the anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers are taking livestock dewormer against the advice of anyone with more than two ounces of sense. Maybe these idiots are upset because they’re facing a problem that their guns have no hope of solving.

The sad part of that is that there will be 4more to replace him unless they are smarter than him.

In all of US history has there ever been a former President who refused to accept defeat?

We used to kick az and take names. Now we wear mask and take shames. Darwin will make room for us, one way or another.

“But be sure to write a big check to the MAGAt Mullah’s PACs before you die of COVID so he can continue to fight for your rights”.

Let ‘em die, it can only increase the country’s average intelligence.

Those who are unvaccinated and refusing COVID-19 protocols, have other issues. They have decided to use the pandemic as a mechanism which is bizarre but seems to be their way.

Delta Dawn, where’s that mask you ain’t got on

could it be you breathing on that guy

and did I hear you say they were taking you away

to that giant ventilator in the sky…

It’s bizarre that this small number of dummies would be calling the shots for the rest of us. They’re vocal and they’re showing up, whereas the more reasonable are staying away from public places. More mandates are needed and health insurance should go up for unvaccinated. That’s only fair. If you’re a smoker, you should expect to pay more too, for example. It was different in the beginning of the pandemic, when there were no vaccines. Vaccines are now plentiful and free. No more excuses.

When is Trudeau going to mock blacks, Latinos, and young people for refusing covid vaccines? Don’t hold your breath.

I think I saw some of my In-Laws in that crowd.

Mother Nature is thinning the herd.

“Meanwhile, Dementia Joe, having delivered another unintelligible speech, abruptly walks away from reporters and takes a nap”

Is that Bruce Dern flying the Mango Blimp towards the stadium?

(“Black Sunday” is the movie reference for you Turd Reich, Dolt .45 followers)

I am a little surprised nobody commented on the proud boy being the only one wearing a mask. And Sunglasses! They’re so proud they deliberately hide their faces so they won’t be recognized. They’re just like the insurrectionists at the capitol on Jan 6th, who lacked the minerals to identify themselves for their supposed patriotism. Most all of them forced the FBI and intelligence agencies to go to great lengths to establish who they were and arrest them. Yeah, those supremacists were really proud, and when it came down to it, they didn’t have the stones to stand up for what they believed in. These knuckleheads are full of crocodile tears when they’re sitting in prison or are in front of a judge. Oh, and watch for the ones who yelled racially discriminating remarks at the minority Capitol Police; they’ll shed more tears when they are trying to convince the judge that they are not racist in an effort to get reduced sentences.

Maybe “Don’t be as dumb as a Trumper” will be a thing in 2024

What’s sad about this strip isn’t so much the fact that people refuse vaccines – it’s the comments that are discussing, with hardly muted glee, about people who refused the vaccine that died. As if their deaths somehow prove your point. Maybe so, but they were still human beings.

the un-vaxxed will kill this world of humans, that’s the good word, who is giving the wild animals the vax ? opps

Marc Bernier is Fourth Anti-vaccine Radio Host to Die of Covid this Month

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/28/2048869/-Marc-Bernier-is-Fourth-Anti-vaccine-Radio-Host-to-Die-of-Covid-this-Month?utm_campaign=trending

Right now, there are people who are taking horse dewormer to treat suspected COVID infections. I’m done with the idiots; I’m all out of sympathy. They would gleefully sentence me to a slow and miserable death just because they can’t stand other people telling them what to do; I consign them to the same fate for their stupidity. Let. Them. Die.

This is so fake. Now, in the US and the UK, more vaccinated people are dying of Covid-19 than unvaccinated. And in Europe.

[insincere apologies for once again yet again trotting out my song parody—but nobody is forced to read the damn thing, and maybe enough ridicule of the thoroughly ridiculous members of the Trump cult will bring at least a few to their senses]

Clorox your Covid, start bleaching it now

Clorox your Covid, and your innards you will wow

If you’re having bad luck with infection

Just try a quick Lysol injection

If you get no relief from your bleach sprays

Try an enormous dose of UV rays

And if Covid continues to harry ya

Try a drug that is meant for malaria

Clorox your Covid, and you’ll drop like the Dow!

Ignore my Afghanistan debacle… good… good. No mention of giving the Taliban a list of all the Americans in Afghanistan… good… good. Divided we fall.

Of course, I could’ve updated it with a mention of horse de-wormers or (which wouldn’t surprise me a bit!) flea and tick collars…..

More garbage from Trudeau.

Cue the planes flying over, dumping medicines in their chem trails…

The whole Kill all the GOP Voters and Their Offspring initiative seems a bit misguided.

With everything going on with the current Administration all he and this Echo Chamber has is “Orange Man Bad”? Morons.

Biden took on a tough job recently with Afghanistan. Big surprise, it didn’t go off without a hitch, though many were saved from the Taliban. What kind of fairyland fantasy world do folks live in who think it was going to easy as pie to pull out of Afghanistan? There was no scenario in which it would be easy. With the fall of Vietnam, folks were not blaming Nixon, though many died and many more were left behind than have been in Afghanistan! There are 38 million people in Afghanistan. Get real. We can’t save them all. It was another unwinnable war. Per usual, Democrats are left to pick up the pieces and clean up the crap left behind by the GOP and it is not pretty. There are many brave women who will suffer in Afghanistan, however, this is also true in many other parts of the world. We can’t go to war on all these fronts. We have to have our priorities, as in situations in which our own interests are directly affected or those of our staunch allies.

Why would anyone pay money for a rally about a man who looks at you as if you are worth nothing?

4th panel, extreme right….Is that Bert from Sesame Street?

A good third of the new COVID cases are from people who’ve been vaccinated. This is why they are now talking about booster shots. I have relatives that have been hospitalized because of the COVID vaccine they’ve received (J & J and Pfizer). Some skepticism is warranted.

I’d like to see a syringe character in the crowd, and Mr. COVID sees him and breaks into a sweat, and runs for the hills.

Let the virus kill them all. They deserve it. Usually I have sympathy for dumb animals, but not when they purposefully harm others as they do every time they refuse to vaccinate or at least wear a mask. Purge the morons.

Another hero for the Freedom from Intelligence is Mark Bernier, a Rush Limbaugh wannabe from Florida who spoke rabidly against the Nazi enforced mask and vaccine mandates, died from the hoax at the age of 60. Speaking of the leader of the Dodo Heads, I wonder if Dash Numbskull still thinks there is no connection between tobacco and lung cancer? We will have to find out the next time he is on the radio.

I am so fed up with Trudeau constantly lying about facts such as who is being vaccinated and Jim Crow, etc. They say good comedy always has to be close to the truth. I guess that is why Trudeau isn’t funny.

Gee, haven’t seen ANY strips about you guy’s HERO ex-gov Cuomo.

These people are scary, and unfortunately it’s not an exaggeration (for lots of them, anyway)! I wouldn’t get within 10 miles of a group like this if I could help it. I do like the “Karens for Trump” idea: it seems appropriate.

Wasn’t there an observation that during the January 6 riot, Trump (watching TV coverage) made a comment that he wished the rioters / Trump supporters weren’t so “rag tag” but instead more “clean cut” (not his words, I can’t remember what he actually said, according to the article)?

Can someone tell me what “PB” stands for on the only masked person in this strip?

Some humans have always used intelligence and creativity to improve the human existence, then some humans have always done the opposite.

“I knew it! I knew it! Coronavirus is a lefty!”

Darwinism works

When one is advised to take any medication, there is a cost/benefit analysis of whether or not a person should be prescribed that medication. Meds are not candy. The vaccines have been shown to be far more helpful to millions of people than many other meds which are currently being marketed to millions. If you listen to the Jardiance commercial, it says it can cause necrosis to the perineum. That is in the ad. If you listen to the disclaimer of many pharmaceutical commercials, you find many other possible scary outcomes, but a medical doctor has to look at what the benefit might be vs. the low possibility that one might have a bad side effect or even whether a mild side effect may occur. My goodness, a very popular medicine for diabetes is sold to millions and no one seems to care that there is a possibility that it may cause rot to their genitals? That sounds pretty bad to me, though apparently many feel that the risk is small enough and the benefit is great enough, therefore, the medication is prescribed. Meanwhile, millions of lives have been saved with the covid vaccines. It is sad that many are allowing their political allegiance to cloud their judgment regarding their own health and that of others. Some are literally willing to die on that hill. We must move on from this as a society. We can’t allow this small number of people to continue to ruin everyone else’s life. If they don’t want it, fine. Stay away from the rest of us. They can continue to live their lives, just as smokers live their lives today. Smokers used to be allowed to go wherever and pollute the air. That is no longer true. The rest of us who are acting responsibly need to be allowed to live in a covid free space as much as possible.

The rest of us are sick and tired of unvaccinated liars who won’t wear masks keeping the USA shut down and killing children.

Marked safe from Livestock Dewormer today.

Hiding the microchips in the sheep dewormer was a stroke of genius.

Blessed are the unvaccinated, for they shall be intubated.

Covid 19:20-21

Another generation?

Odd factoid: The 14th century plague killed so may people (I think a third of the European population) that there was a severe labor shortage, which helped bring about the end of serfdom. People had the opportunity to walk off their lord’s land and go where there was better pay. the same thing seems to. Be happening now.

Unfortunately Gary is basing yet another political hit job on a easily debunked lie.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-vaccinated-people-are-dying-of-covid-19-heres-why-scientists-arent-surprised-11625227200

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/some-vaccinated-people-are-dying-of-covid-19-here-s-why-scientists-aren-t-surprised/ar-AALHnqO

Breakthrough cases are big news, even on the usual MSM venues. The numbers coming out of the UK are easily found and verified.

I can never understand why Trudeau feels the need to blatantly lie when he could easily make his point using irrefutable facts. I can’t believe he is ignorant of the facts on the ground.

A death cult is all it is now.

At first glance the “Stop the Steal!” signs in the crowd look like they say “Stop the Steau”.

I thought he WAS charging for all the Cheap Chinese Merchandise he’s got people hawking to the crowd.

Or is that all going to Ivanka & Jared?

Those readers criticize Trudeau, are the same ones who hate….THE REAL TRUTH!!

We may end up having another Jonestown.

Except they’ll all die by mass-injecting themselves with bleach.

My heart goes out to his wife and children. Hope they won’t end up needing government assistance….

Lies! Not wanting RNA injected into my body is not political.

Thanks to everyone who simply ignores the trolls. That’s by far the best way to deal with them. The one thing they crave more than anything else is seeing how much they can stir up an anthill and watch them scurry. Don’t be an ant. Don’t feed a troll.

Richard’s comment above is a perfect example of the depths of hypocrisy on the left.

Anyone who disagrees with your opinion or position is a troll. No debate is allowed. Any lie that serves the liberal agenda is acceptable and any person who points a finger at the lie is an evil villain.

Simple fact, verifiable in 10 seconds on the web from sources of all political persuasions.

A large percentage of current period Covid deaths are fully vaccinated patients.

Calling out Trudeau for his obvious blatant lie is not a troll. For those of you who think he is correct, look it up. Even MSNAZI is running articles covering, excuse me, justifying, this basic truth.

Then ask yourself why he feels the need to lie about this critically important topic.

I wonder when Trump grifter Garry Turdeau (yeah I spelled it that wat on purpose) is going to draw Biden or anybody from his administration. 8 months in and still Trumping, what a pathetic Democrat party hack cartoonist. Lost all your cred. Turned into a money grubbing capitalist , knows his money is only made by selling Trump books. Hypocrite. I know he will never see this but one of his buddies may tell him. Hey Garry you afraid to skewer the Biden administration or to even refer to it? Hoping to get invited to the Biden white house?

Hey Turdeau! Ever going to get around to drawing or mentioning Biden? Or is all your money made from drawing Trump? Hypocrite grifter. You are The Lincoln Project without the child molester.

Will somebody please show China Joe the door?.Preferably the door on the 75th floor.

Anybody who doesn’t mourn the death of another, whether they brought it upon themselves or not, lacks humanity. Both vaxxers and antivaxxers have died from COVID and those deaths don’t “prove” either side right. If anything, they show that neither side is completely right. Please don’t respond to this with justifications for your side. Be good to each other, and to those suffering, instead.

Golly, you’ll never guess who got all defensive when I reminded people not to respond directly to trolls. Could it perhaps be someone who thinks of himself as a troll?

Golly, you’ll never guess who refuses to address the basic moral and intellectual failure of his position on “trolls”. Poor Richard. Has yet to debate his way out of any topic when he is challenged by a conservative who disagrees.

So, Richard. Why is it that whenever a person on the right gets it right you label them as a troll? You must admit that attacking people who call out the cartoonist for a grotesque political LIE makes you look…well…you know.

can’t fix stupid