Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 06, 2023

Schadenfreude leaves a lovely taste

As long as something happens. We all know he’s guilty as sin, even those who choose to deny while running the MAGA flag (or Confederate/ Naz1, they do love losers while plugging their ears and holding their noses). Just don’t subvert justice with a plea deal thinking holding Donny to account will cause unrest and dissension. That ship has sailed.

“Guilty!, Guilty!, Guilty!” — Mark

He’s right this time, too.

Yet not a single RICO charge,are we missing something?

That’s GUILTY! GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY !!!

I’m making my popcorn now. I’ve got a fridge full of snacks and the sofa pillows are fluffed. Oh, I also bought some comfy pj’s. Readu!

MAGA: Make Attys Get Attys.

What I hate is that he gets his face on the TV each time — The cable parental blocking feature only worked on his Biggest Loser show where he trademarked “Your fired”, but not on any of the news reports.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! (who has committed multiple egregious felonies!) re: The Wizard of Oz ( 1936).

How is one supposed to schedule a vacation?

Good thing there is a writers’ strike so we have something to watch.

And I doubt any of it will bare fruit. People like Trump rarely have to be held accountable; the law is for the lesser folk like you and me.

Prove me wrong American justice system.

Not a funny comic, but I feel like there should be something funny in the mindset of people who can still believe anything TFG says after so many years of idiotic self-contradictions and imbecilic lies.

Tell me again how a tribal, cultish, mutually exclusive, mutually obstructive, binary, winner-take-all political system is so much better than a cooperative, collaborative, coherent system that deliberates all proactive arguements and strives for a consensus for all its people.

I understand that it is getting a bit crowded (both calendar wise and comic strip wise), but you left out the Georgia trial by Fanny Willis which will surely include RICO charges.

Look for the good is all things? Well there is some.

These trials have (and will moreso in the coming months), drastically delete the dumpster’s campaign chest. His PAC’s have already spent over $40 MILLION on his defense (including some transactions that will lead to more charges!). And that’s just for starters. The circus begins.

Wouldn’t it be funny if he managed to weasel out of this predicament like the rich usually do? Do we really have that much faith in the justice system?

But Ted Rall says there’s nothing here. I mean, isn’t Ted as good as Garry, not to mention tag-along Stantis?:

This should’ve been printed last Sunday — already out of date. More, please!!!

50% of us fell into the cult & left reality for an insane hateful racist traitorous delusion.

Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

Unless he can get at least one of his fanatics on every jury, he’s going to be found guilty of at least one felony. There’s just too much evidence of his crimes. Not like his fanatics care about truth or evidence or the rule of law or freedom or America.

My parents got married during the first Watergate hearings – they say it feels like their honeymoon all over again right now.

All that and there are still plenty of people who would vote for him again. Some folks just need a cause, no matter what it is. This is how crusades get started.

The Washington Post has a regular feature for this.

Is there a phone app yet to keep track of all the trials?

But will it make any difference?

From his first campaign I’ve been bringing up the comparisons with Hitler and Germany every chance I get. And this horrid sequel has been following the playbook chapter and verse. It’s been lonely shouting into the wind.

A social-costing mission, the other night some old friends gave me cold comfort by observing, “Back then, we dismissed you when you were saying he wouldn’t go and would try to stay power [July 2020 when he declared the election was rigged-if he lost]. We both thought you had gone too far. But look at where we are, you were right!”

Nodding sadly and smiling darkly, I just shared I really didn’t like where I see we are heading next. Hitler came back even more destructive after a loss as well, using the same deranged but grossly effective furor-spawning tactics we are seeing spewing now.

Nazi Germany wasn’t just one person acting badly, and it didn’t only happen to history books. It was a result of enough real people, just like us, being duped by a megalomaniac, and too many other real people, just like us, sitting passively or making selfish choices letting it all happen.

And remember, if folks are pinning their hopes on trials, or elections, or some other comeuppance, in the end, despite knowing what he was doing, but moving far too slowly, they didn’t “get Hitler” when he could have been stopped and before it was too late.

Nor did they even get him in the end. With justice closing in, he just committed suicide with his own beauty of a wife (we will never know if that was really her choice) his hand on his own tiller to the end.

Will we actually be able to stop a new installment of human horror from happening again? Considering the men that murdered George Floyd five months after January 6th are already two years into their sentences and he hasn’t even gone to trial yet, it sure doesn’t look like it.

Trump’s playbook hasn’t changed in years and it only has like 3 pages. No bingeing for me, I’ve seen all the repeats about 100 times.

Fascinating. Only the first one up yet, and he only called it a month late.

My guess is that none of the trials will start before the election. Trump is an expert at legal delays.

One more indictment will put Trump in the White House.

Trudeau has documented Trump’s malfeasance for decades. How could so many people not know what a scoundrel Trump is?

Remember Disco Inferno? Burn, orange baby, burn

I think I’ll watch something else. And I would most certainly NOT contribute to his defence fund. Let him pay his own #AM3ed bills.

Make America great again: Lock him up! (and throw away the key)

The problem is that the schedule is already superceded.

As long as Trump stays busy in court, it keeps him off my TV. :)

This is not funny or a good thing, but it is absolutely a necessary thing. This is something the Republican Senate could have stopped by voting to convict trump for his absolute disregard of his position and his attempted coup. But they put politics over country. Mitch McConnell said the Rule of Law and the American Justice system should hold trump accountable, well they are. You can thank Republicans for that.

There’s so many GUILTY verdicts on the way regarding Trump, which can only mean that we will be hearing a lot about Hunter Biden from the right. I will state right now that I am not voting for Hunter. Hunter is not a politician and doesn’t work for the White House unlike the Trump kids who a made a cool $2 billion from the Saudis. Yet, no one has any questions about the Trump kids. I realize their old man has us pretty busy in the accountability department, but come one.

Trump’s followers don’t care if he’s guilty. They don’t care if he committed crimes. They don’t care if he’s a threat to the very fabric of America. They only care about one thing: Putting him back in power so he can make the people they hate suffer and die.

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And who are the people they hate? The rest of us.

Who was it that said Trump is only 3 indictments away from clinching the Republican nomination?

Bully boy Trump’s next court date is Monday 5pm for running his big mouth and making threats after being told not to do that.

Arrogant Trump can’t keep his lying mouth closed, maybe we will be lucky and they will jail him.

how Prescient!

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.

I remember the Watergate Hearings. All day, every day, every channel. Granted, we only had like 5 channels, but still.

Let’s not forget OJ. And my favorite Jar Head, Ollie North. That was some good TV. The list just keeps getting longer. Hillary. Impeachments. Wow!

This is going to be so very, very much different.

And the politics of grievance continues……………

Is anybody else thinking what I’m thinking? Every time Hunter and Joe get exposed, boom. The next day they indict or arrest Trump. Yet Blinken has the gall to tell off Putin for arresting and jailing his political opponent? Hypocrisy at it’s finest.

Yawn…. Let me know when they finally arrest a criminal, pick a Clinton, a Biden, any Clinton or Biden and every one of them has done way more illegal stuff that Donald Trump ever did. I will say this as much as I dislike President Obama on virtually every level and realize he was at the least complicit in many shady dealings I would not back criminal charges against him. That’s the difference between me and what has become of the liberal party

Fondly remembering the transistor radio in the tent during the Watergate hearings. Feels just like that now.

We are wasting our time on this guy with an insatiable baby-like ego. In a better, more thoughtful America, just one or two of these cases should have caused us to just dump him to the wayside and we attend to more important, existential even, issues facing our country.

The only important dates are 1) When T. reports to prison, and 2) How long is his sentence?

And when former President Trump is exonerated on all charges like he was on the two feckless impeachment attempts and the half-wit-in-chief Biden is convicted of selling out America for millions of Chinese bribery Yaun, will Garrry be publishing a ‘mea culpa’ Sunday installment? I think not. Being progressive means never having to apologize!

Trump was impeached twice.

Trump was acquitted twice by Republican Senate. Acquittal isn’t exoneration.

Impressive that Trudeau got the October and December trials that everyone else is forgetting.

Must be Trumpday.

The December 11 date was the DOJ’s request for the documents trial. It’s now set for June 22, 2024

Thank you for helping me schedule all this. Popcorn is on order…

For those still trying to claim Pres. Biden committed crimes.

I have to believe Pres. Biden has no or minor skeletons in his past. He was extremely thoroughly vetted to be Pres. Obama’s Vice-President as that administration needed to be without fault because of the anticipated constant right-wing/republican/regressives attacks. They needed people who could work well with government agencies to repair the damage caused be republicans and the previous administration.

Mark, is there a bingo card or drinking game list for everyone to use while taking in these events?

At this point I think if you hooked up a lie detector to his Orangeness, like Homer Simpson, it would explode if you asked him what his name is.

It would be nice tp think the man wouldn’t even have time to breathe, but I’m probably dreaming