Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 04, 2023

Dutchman isn’t going to lose his house because of how Mark “suckered” him in.

This strip used to be funny most of the time, now it’s only funny once in a blue moon.

I wonder if Mike is listening to this broadcast.

As long as you’re honest about outing me for a fraud.

To be fair, Mark’s only doing what Jim did to his investors.

What goes around, comes around. But in his case he looses nothing. So much for balancing the scales.

Doonesbury is way beyond just funny, geez give it a break comic police.

You can’t criticize capitalism! All I need is one big break and I’ll be rich too!

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It’ll happen any day now!

Does George Santos still get his pension?

It takes a suckerer-in to appreciate another.

NPR tries really hard not to lean politically left or right, so it interviews people from all over the political (and economic) spectrum. And many of the interviewees are willing to put up with a few of the challenging questions that journalists with integrity throw at them as a small price to pay for the platform they’re given to sweet-talk people who otherwise wouldn’t spit on them if they were on fire.

Trudeau really had his finger on the pulse of the emergent economy. Scams all the way down.

Over the years, I’ve noticed that Trudeau only employs his ironic, satirical snark against conservative public figures, conservative issues, and conservative ideas. Never yet seen him satirize a leftist anything. Doonesbury isn’t a comic, it’s an op/ed in color.

I am constantly amazed and puzzled by commenters who insist a comic is not funny, is offensive to them, and they don’t like it. My question is, why the heck are they even reading it? There are many time many comics covering almost every taste. Why keep reading something that offends them?

These kinds of stock “bubbles” go back as far as the Tulip Mania of 1634-1637, which was based on no more than a fashion in tulips. Beware any new industry that develops its own jargon for existing terms to obfuscate its operations to prospective investors. Beware CEOs who buy yachts and overseas properties before the company shows a profit.

It’s all reruns, except for Sundays, so it’s EXACTLY what it used to be. You have changed, not the strip. You’ve probably just gotten more fed up, like everybody else has.

The strip has been decades of “The king has no clothes” and those around him are royal tailors or disparaged from telling the truth.

“Just so we understand each other.”

Thank goodness it’s still honest, even for me, an Eisenhower Republican.

Guess we won’t finish the Joanie storyline.

I was just thinking . . . a few weeks ago I found a little box set of thin paperback collections from the first few years of the strip (Kim coming to America as the last orphan out of Vietnam, BD and his frenemy Phred, Zonker and his plants, Joanie and the daycare kids…..). Those strips from the 1970’s have held on to their humor a lot longer than the story arcs I’ve been reading here.

This is why you never bet more than you can afford to lose. The game is rigged and it’s perfectly legal.