Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 12, 2024

You would think Trump’s lawyers would be willing to work pro bono out of sense of patriotic duty.

The verb is garnishee. So’s the noun for the pictured guy in the kitchen. Here endeth the trivia lesson for today.

No billionaire should have to put his hands in his own pocket should they?

This would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. Gee, maybe they could get a couple of his Trading Cards. They should be worth….nothing.

This is so accurate that it HURTS! My heart aches for these ignorant fools!

A good point about much of the North American working class being so brainwashed by oligarch-owned propaganda media that they vote strongly against their own interests.

Why does that middle class family feel the need to support the Orange Baboon? He only favors the super rich!

This would be fall down lose your breath laughing funny, if it wasn’t so accurate.

MAGAts are incredibly proud to pay legal bills for someone who stole money from children who have cancer.

Compassionate Conservatives

“A fool and his money are soon parted.”

Great ’toon, but I doubt anyone who can analyses and count like that would support the Orange Clown.

It’s actually part of a more general problem in post-capitalist America. Competing for honest profits stopped being adequate a long time ago. The orange puppet isn’t actually smart enough to play the game, but the puppeteers pick the suckers for him while considering what kind of BS he’s going to spew. As it applies to the largest corporate cancers, they try to pick the most profitable customers. That’s where the big profits are and then they buy out the little companies.

You don’t want to be an “aggressive” shopper like you’re truly. You’ll be in for a whole lot of frustration. Recent example involves smartphone batteries…

Trump does not have Zelenskys` influence to het 300 BILLION $ for free from your government

Trump’s lawyers don’t know it yet, but they’re going to be doing it ‘’pro bono’’ because trump never pay’s his lawyers.

To all parents who receive SNAP benefits. Are your children getting too much food? Think billionaires aren’t wealthy enough? The by all means, vote Republican. They’ll be happy to slash your benefits and let your children starve while using the savings to make the wealthy wealthier.

They are working pro bono, they just don’t know it yet.

Maybe they could cut back on the gold sneakers this month.

Doesn’t seem like a good investment. Maybe they should buy lottery tickets

Meanwhile, the “billionaire’s” business model is stiffing people.

If they let me borrow $100,000,000 and only pay back half, I’d be rich, too.

“I call myself the King of Debt. I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me. I’ve made a fortune by using debt. And if things don’t work out, I renegotiate the debt. I mean, that’s a smart thing, not a stupid thing.”

Q. “How do you renegotiate the debt?”

“You go back and you say, ‘Guess what, the economy just crashed. I’m gonna give you back half.’”

I have never understood the concept of sending money to a billionaire.

I dunno…for a family on the financial skids, that looks like a fairly nice kitchen.

A MAGA was being interviewed and proudly stated that he had $2,000 of Trump merch. But the price of food and gas…..

Steps to solution:

1. Get rid of Biden and his Biden-flation.

2. Get Rid of Biden and his regualations that drive up prices on energy and all energy related items (which is everything).

3. Ger rid of Biden who steals money from working class through taxes to redistribute to pay college of loans of people with worthless degrees who still live in their mom’s basement,.

4. Stop sending your kid to day care and stay home with them, you will save money that way and have a better family and better kids.

5. Get Rid of Biden so we can secure the borders and get rid of the tens of millions driving down pay as cheap labor floods the market.

6. Re-elect Donald Trump who will gave us an amazing economy.

7. Tell Biden to stop weaponizing the law and the DOJ to launch politically motivated lawfare against Trump.

8. Get some common sense.

Thank Bidenomjcs for it.

Remember Garry, the dollar is worth 22% less now than under Trump. All in just 3 and a half years. All thanks to the potato and Bidenomics.

Do not feed the troll, for it is mindless and smells funny.

By all means, send more money to the criminal who can’t stop noastong about how rich and successful he I.

Ah, a documentary to go with my morning coffee…..

Poor have been willing to fight and die for the rich forever. It was a huge battle to establish the Labor movement. Depressingly easy for Reagan and the right to dismantle it.

The only inflation here is the fat orange pederasts ego!

in humore est saepe veritas

nice twist ending

I hate it when the IRS adds parsley to my wages…

Wow! Bidenomics has really put this poor family in the hole! And as for the IRS, those taxes must be paid in order to support the Biden college tuition giveaway, and the unlimited munitions to Israel and Ukraine, as well as free phones to illegal immigrants and free relocation anywhere in the USA! And don’t get me started on the price of everything from gas to eggs thanks to Sleepy Joe and kooky Kamala! That’s what I get from this comic strip, how about you guys?

Trump leads Biden in every major pole in every major category, and on some issues by 10-15%. I saw it on CNN which is not a Trump friendly network. Say what you will and parrot the talking points you favor, but this does not bode well for the country and I don’t know what the Dems are going to do about it in the next 6 months. A lot of folks including myself prayed for the Dems to put someone else up for the presidency, maybe a young, smart, centrist John F. Kennedy type but no, apparently our Democrat power players are as dumb as the Republicans. P.S. The choice for VP will be more crucial than ever for reasons that should be obvious. Sorry but Kamala is a no vote for me. I may skip the top of the ballot all together. I want to wash my hands of this potential disaster.

“…so rich…very rich…i gotta lot of money….”

I am bloody sick of trump.

I like kids, but, they’re always hungry. Give them a poptart for breakfast and 12 hours later “I’m hungry” just never ends.

Trump can pay his own bills. Feed the kids.

They should’ve shown them sneaking across the boarder with the punchline, “Everything free in America!”

A long, but insighful read about some of the most recognizable MAGA personality types …

“… If you want to know if you are a Tribalist Troll, ask yourself this — when something horrible happens in the news, does your mind impulsively hope someone from the other tribe is responsible? Nobody wants to admit that they do this. But social media has laid bare our darker angels, and we can now see in real time that a large swath of the participants in our civic dialogue have reduced themselves to the most base type of Tribalist. Veterans of the very online Washington wars have warped themselves to such a degree that every news item, every action, is not something that requires a real-world solution that mitigates the suffering, but is just the latest data point in our online forever war. …” — politico .com/news/magazine/2022/07/01/tim-miller-trump-republican-operatives-book-excerpt-00043279

This cartoon makes me sad.

Mr Trump loves the ignorant, they are the only people who will vote for a lying criminal.

Nailed it, Mr. Trudeau. This situation has troubled me for years — why send your hard-earned and insufficient money to a “billionaire” when you’re pinching pennies and/or your kids are hungry?

Bidenomics in action.

For those wondering why lower-middle class might have IRS issues (except for self-employment and not setting aside for taxes as you were paid), many got caught by the tax changes in 2017 when kids went from being an exemption (something for your W-4s) to just being a tax credit (at half the amount). If on the edge of a bracket change, kids could no longer keep you on the lower bracket.

Granted, the increased standard deduction was supposed to help with that, but it still caught many in a particular window by surprise.

I’ve long ago lost what little sympathy I might have had for these willfully ignorant idiots.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”― Lyndon B. Johnson

Now there are Trump supporters who, after hearing a comment from Michael Cohen purporting that Trump is incontinent and uses adult diapers, started a movement claiming “real men wear diapers”.

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We can’t help these people. They’re too far gone.

Sadly, there are sooooooooooooo many brainwashed idiots like this in our country.

Can’t they just put a tarp on the leaky roof and send him that money? jk

They aren’t poor—they have a kitchen table! At least, according to some people…

The reason we were, and remain, subjected to trump and his evil is simple.

He discovered that, idiots will give you money, if you ask them the right way. trump ran charity scams for veterans, orphans and you name it. His run for the white house was just a huge scam, that got away from him. It’s that simple.

I’d love to see an adult film with Stormy and Avanka in the leads. “adult film” is a misnomer, should we say a “Dirty Movie”? Title? Down and Dirty in D C ?

Who remembers when trump boasted that he wouldn’t need anyone’s money for his campaign because “The beauty of me is that I’m very rich!”?

That was the whole selling point. He would never be beholden, he would pay for it all himself.

Let’s break it down once more. He…would… NOT… need… anyone… else’s… MONEY. He was VERY RICH.

And the instant he changed that to “Puhleeeeze help me out with all the money you can send” his supporters fell for it. They always fall for it.

They did it was in the 10s of millions. all paid for by donors to the Make America Great Again PAC. It’s what makes this comic boh sad and funny, All of tRump’s legal fees are being fir by the PAC.

That’s President Trump to you, backslider.   /s

Mister trump needs our help and you can make a difference.

Whatever you have of value, send it to me and I’ll be sure Lord Trump receives your generous gift.

Send it to:

Lone Panda

13 Rue de Morgue

Baton Rouge, LA

And please, no livestock, biological specimens including bacterial cultures, culture medium, excretions, fungi, arthropods, mollusks, tissues of livestock, birds, plants, viruses, or vectors for research, biological or pharmaceutical use. God Bless.

Typical!

This would be funny if not true, and I am a moderate conservative; I think we should let him panhandle in a tent in Central Park for a while, maybe 5 to 10?

Anyone looking for a glimmer of a silver lining in this massive con game can take some limited amount of heart in the fact that all the money flowing down the orange sinkhole would otherwise be going to down-ballot Republican candidates for Congress and state and local offices. Much as I loathe the Supreme Court’s atrocious decision in Citizens United, I have to recognize that it’s changed the nature of the playing field so that money doesn’t just talk, it outshouts everything else the way Vesuvius outshouted Pompeii. And to whatever extent that it’s just shouting a single name, the rest are being reduced to murmurs.

But then I wake up and realize that simply bankrupting millions of ordinary citizens isn’t going to matter diddly to the millionaires and billionaires who have yet to tap deeply into their own stupendous resources in their quest to impose fascism on us all.

Trump economics, steal from the poor and give to the despot.

Yeah. Really makes you think he cares about others.

I’m glad Malania put her foot down and Barron isn’t going to be dragged into the campaign.

Did not see that coming.

There’s irony here. Perhaps Trudeau has some deeper level embedded somewhere in his brain but I don’t see it, this is the Biden economy.

Bidenomics on display Thank Joe Bumbles for 4 buck gas and 7 dollar cereal

After they closed the kid’s college fund plustheir IRA and took the second mortgage, their hero wasn’t reelected.

Sadly, this is actually happening in too many households across the country.

Proof that Gaslighting Works.

….well bust my buttons, people! YOU’RE FIRED!!!

That was a very clever strip.

BUZZZZZZZZZZ!! Wrong answer Hans, would you like to try for double jeopardy where the scores can really change?!?

Save up for the Trump Bible…it will save your soul and keep America free from vermin and blood-poisoning. Amen.

Well, HE’S not a true believer! He didn’t call him PRESIDENT Trump!

Really? So this is what you got? Biden shill to the end, huh? Maybe if DA Baby Huey in NY would follow the law there wouldn’t be any phony charges. So this propaganda is what you go for when there’s news like “Biden tells a lie a minute during CNN interview” By New York Post Editorial Board Published May 9, 2024, 6:09 p.m. ETBy Creepy Joe can do no wrong and it’s all Orange Man Bad. Such an angry old cartoonist scrambling to try and stay relevant. Failing miserably. Nothing on antisemitism and physical attacks by pro-Hamas dimwits on campuses?

Yeah, nothing about the taxpayer’s being on the hook for Brandon’s illegal and immoral student loan forgiveness but Orange Man Bad, right Gary? Brandon boot licker.

Boo Hoo.

(peruses comments)

Kind of a shame there’s no “thumbs-down” function in here. Or, better yet, an “ignore” function. Not a big deal by any means, just kind of a shame, that’s all. IMHO.

In addition to Trump, Arab oil zillionaires have managed to convince American college students that they’re some sort of “underdog”.

Aw,horseradish.

A typical American family whole lives are upended by Joe Biden and his AntiAmerican policies and GT has to complain about Trump.