Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 24, 2023

“What do we want? Love, peace, and happiness!”

“When do we want it? Soon as it’s possibly convenient!”

Walden is pulling out all the stops ;)

lol this strip reminds me of when my parents, my sister and i were visiting colleges and we stopped to check out Reed College in Oregon. They were essentially known as a beatnik and political college but my parents didnt know that, and neither did my sister and i, because my parents were focusing on the Catholic College part of it and figured if it was Catholic it had to be okay! lol

so these two boys were designated as our tour guides and when we got to the chapel, we paused and were looking at the massive carved doors and they said “Yeah, last weekend some of the students were throwing tomatoes at those”

my heart sank because i knew my parents would never let me go to that school and it sounded like heaven to me haha

Is a diploma from Walden more or less valuable than from Trump U?

I love how sharp and focused and competent Zip is showing himself to be. College is doing wonders for him.

Most of characters from Doonesbury graduated Walden and they turned out okay.

In rehearsals it was actually "“When do we want it? Soon as it’s conveniently possible!”… but they choked

Vague demands just add to the realism…

It’s about being demoted to the “Demonstration Squad”:

Demo Demo Demo…

A pity the madness never stopped.

Now that I think about it, I don’t remember the faces of anyone I’ve ever seen protesting except for Jane Fonda. Odd, that.

Kind of like a debate where the frontrunner doesn’t show.

Their demands are a little vague … like Occupy Wall Street’s.

Interviewer: “What are you rebelling against?” Elvis: “Whad’ya got?”

I’d enroll if they had a demo of a guy sitting mid air on an invisible platform

My college protest was against oxfam. For years students on the meal plan could fast for a day and their portion of the plan was given to oxfam, the decided this wasn’t were going to have a vote and if the majority felt it then it would be a school wide-if you were on the meal plan- protest. I didn’t have an issue with oxfam but I didn’t like 1) the majority will being used to donate to a charity I might not support the next time. The kids doing this were so self righteous they were blind to the potential abuse.

2) the fact the students thought they could interfere in a private business contract between me and the meal service. I actually got the student’s faculty advisor on my side and the food service to grant meals to those who wanted to opt out. In the end oxfam lost money n the deal. and didn’t try it again.My fight wasn’t against oxfam but the tyranny with which their agents were acting.

Okay,when DOES the madness stop.It’s only increased in the interim

…like the times….

ah . . . It’s a standard Republican ‘we don’t know what it is, but we’re against it’ protest

Panel two: Zipper and Jeff would make a good looking young couple in today’s world.

Like Occupy Wallstreet?

The hallmark of most street demonstrations are vague demands with Paris 1968 being the classic example. Started off with students complaining about the curriculum and planned school closures, morphed into demands for arrested protesters to be released, then switched to workers demands for better pay and hours, before culminating with such slogans as “be realistic, demand the impossible” and Consume less, you’ll live more”. And they won concessions on pay and forced new elections (which the left then lost to a reinvigorated De Gaulist right wing government)