Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 26, 2024

I’m waiting for smallpox to comeback, and for Rand Paul to call for an investigation of Edward Jenner.

The little dots/asterisks change position between panels. I guess they’re orbiting him OSLT.

I had my 8th COVID booster a couple of months ago, yet I feel no empathy for Bill Gates. Maybe my microchips are all interfering with each other.

How is it so many imbeciles rise to the top in American society and politics? Money definitely does not buy brain power.

Guessing Mr Trudeau drew this comic at least a couple of weeks ago or otherwise I’m sure there’d be a giant worm in today’s strip as well.

Nader’s a scapegoat for Democrat incompetence!

But—where are Mr. Smallpox and Mr. Polio?

Next greeting stop for the two guys is Mar-A-Lardo.

I guess flu deaths will make a comeback now?

I know there have always been people like this – back in the 70s my grandma’s elderly gardener used to talk about the moon landings being faked, and in the very next breath blame bad weather on “those people up there stomping around stirring up the moon dust.” But he was a person who had grown up in poverty with a third-grade education. What possible excuse does Kennedy have?

Another cartoon the MAGAts will never understand.

Does anyone else feel sorry for Ethel Kennedy? Having 11(!!!) babies, losing her husband so tragically, and now this. Granted she may not be able to follow some of this since she is now 96 but it is possible that she can.

I had the measles during the uncle’s administration. The vaccine came out the next year. I still remember being sick for my birthday 62 years later. Take the vaccine! Dump this phony!

If Republicans get back in power and make good on their promise to deregulate everything, look for the plague to make a comeback in the near future.

We must elect more ethical candidates who model moral driven behavior so as to discourage the unethical voters from publicly practicing their unhelpful beliefs, IMHO. Example, how many thousands of Americans died of COVID or COVID driven illnesses because they followed 45’s “tough guy” example to not wear a mask? We can do better. We must do better.

The tombstone for the human race will read, “Killed by their own stupidity”.

RFK Jr. has so many crazy ideas that it makes me wonder if Snoozelini is considering him to be his running mate.

I don’t care if he’s got a worm in his head. As long as he doesn’t have Trump or Biden as a running mate, he’ll be an improvement.

Yea , nothing to do with the unchecked open border policies of the Xerox. No infected wandering into the country there.

74,000,000, now you know that a good 20% of you are just luvving this guy, right? In November, go with your heart.

This cartoon is accurate about the brainworm guy! He has contributed to the death and disease of tens of thousands of people and he doesn’t care!

To. the. point. Mr. RFK Jr. To. the. point.

Mr. Measles and Mr. Covid also forgot to thank world renowned Immunologist and autism expert Jenny McCarthy.

some antivaxxers are now not vaccinating their pets against rabies. RABIES!!!!

Slowly, but surely, we’re sliding back into the Dark Ages.

This maybe what it looks like to watch the death of a political party.

Jail Fauci!

The lives of tens of thousands of human beings are a small price to pay for political power.

I was born in 1943. In those days, “vaccinated” meant smallpox. I still have the scar. There were no vaccines for measles and other “childhood diseases.” We just caught them and missed a couple of weeks of school. The COVID “vaccines” don’t really immunize the folks who get them; at best, they minimize the severity of symptoms of that disease.

I see that Trudeau is parroting the views of the State. I’ve been reading Kennedy’s newsletter for four years. There is nothing on his site that can’t be verified by other perfectly legitimate sources or isn’t stated by individuals who are virologists, epidemiologists, medical doctors, etc. It won’t be long before anyone offering a different view from the official one will be referred to as a “domestic terrorist.” Maybe at that point they’ll start beheading us and hanging us from huge cranes like they do in Saudi Arabia. How about making a cartoon about beheadings, Garry?

Mr. COVID’s Oakleys are the best!

I still remember Bill Mahr and Michael Moore on their knees on live television, at the feet of Ralph Nader, begging him to please not run in 2004. Simpler times…

Flat-earthers love RFK Jr. Stupid people love RFK Jr. People who lack critical thinking skills love RFK Jr. The pattern here is low information voters who hate Trump support another mentally ill man, aka RFK Jr. His poor father is rolling in his grave right now. The one thing the Internet did is give a huge platform to all the wack jobs and freaks. Our only mistake was not realizing how many there were.

Just another shot for big drug makers to make money. Now days we need a shot for this and that and the list goes on.

There’s already a flood of drug commercials on TV as it is. It make’s watching TV no fun anymore because of the commercials and mostly drug companies.

Make Plagues Great Again

I had measles in 1954. Trust me, you don’t want to. It’s worse in adults. A man across the street from us got it from one if his kids and suffered brain damage.

…not this s**t again…

….huh? who cares??

I lived through a polio decade. The vax was a God Send…Maybe Polio will come back!

The deadly republican aversion to public health is criminal.

A little thot on the eve of Memorial Day: Which recent US president referred to people serving in the military as “losers” and “suckers”?

Ignorance kills. Pick a side.

Latest news on the political front is that Disaster Pumpkin appeared before the convention of the national Libertarian Party to ask them to nominate him for president, but he hadn’t taken the time to file the paperwork declaring himself an official candidate for the role. Kinda speaks to Mr. Preparation’s attention to detail, doesn’t it?

Smallpox has never left it is still found in Africa.

When the GOP doubles down on stupidity, the Libertarians say, “Hold my unfiltered, unpasteurized, homemade beer!”

Could Mr. Polio be far behind?

My poor mom had measles. For one of the holidays, I think.

Absolutely, between him and MAGA they are responsible for untold number of deaths.

We were so close.

This is beyond lame. Has Garry really had his head so deep in the sand that he’s missed the whole NOT efficacious NOT safe mRNA jab info that’s everywhere except the Lame Stream Media? And that the measles were suffering now is the vaccine strain? And that so few died of measles over the past many decades that it was a complete non-issue? Guess he’s stuck trusting the NYT as his source, long bought out by Big Pharma, just like Fox, CNN, and the rest. Poor guy. Probably on his 7th “booster.”

Clearly, Garry brought out every single RFK Jr supporter in the comment section. 1 million people plus dead, and still the idiots spewing their nonsense about how it either didn’t exist or was just like the flu. Tens of thousands suffering with Long Covid too. Tens of thousands hospitalized due to taking fake cures peddled by the Orange Fuhrer and RFK Jr. The vaccines worked. If you choose to not live in reality, stop taking up space here or worse, trying to get others to make heinously stupid decisions that do damage to others, including kids.

Since everyone is on birth control we don’t have to worry about the rampant spread of syphilis.

Of course, another criticism of vaccines—besides the idea that they’re both ineffective and fatal—is that they’re “. . . an interference with God’s providential care.”

vancouversun DOT com/news/metro/chilliwack-pastor-tells-congregation-vaccines-interfere-with-gods-care

I have trouble imagining a god so weak that it can thwarted by a simple jab. Or so unimaginative that it can’t will that someone be saved, by a simple jab, from getting a disease.

I will always regret that the reporter didn’t think to ask the pastor if he tried to interfere with God’s will by looking both ways crossing a busy street.

Why does Mr. Measles look like a pizza?

I’m old enough to remember Polio and the nightmares it caused. Had school mates in braces thanks to Polio. I was in school when the pink suger cubes holding the vaccine came out and were given to kids in schools across America. NOT ONE parent objected to their kids getting the vaccine. No anti-vax nuts back then.

@Geezer, Mom was born before the MMR vaccine. She was hard of hearing as a result. I had my COVID-19 vaccines, as did the rest of my family. None of us have had it. BTW, LAX is having a measles outbreak. I know people who lost their hearing from measles.