Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 03, 2024

Apparently, this strip was done before Enron merged with Mobil. And the “trophy wife” looks like a mature, intelligent woman, not some peanut-brained bimbo.

I saw the documentary on ENRON!!! Disgusting!!!

Enron was a natural gas trading company supplying electrical power stations and it also traded in electricity. It began in 1985.

EXXON was originally Standard Oil Company New Jersey (Esso).

It merged with Mobil which was originally a merger between the Standard Oil Company New York (Socony) and the Vacuum Oil Company.

Both began in the 19th century and were part of the Standard Oil Trust.

“But we don’t need regulations,” some people say. “The market will keep them honest!”

“Let’s just kick in a few million more into that old prenup and I’ll keep on not knowing anything about your wrong doings” ….

Notice where that “swamp” comment originated, right where it belonged, with rich, criminal, GOPer’s, like trumpster fire. And yes, I know he was once was a Dem. So was most of the South, my home. But he and they followed the populist current to the GOP.

First beat back the racist fascist fake Christian cult our greedy billionaire’s have financed to divide us. Then stop our billionaires from stealing the obscene amount of America’s wealth they now do and let the people have a decent life like they do Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Finland. In those advanced countries, and to an extent some other countries, all with much better statistics in every way than America, people can still become millionaires but after reaching the highest tax bracket, they then have to pay up too 50% taxes. It is that simple, but impossible with FOX news convincing millions of us those greedy monstrous billionaires taking everything while contributing nothing to the infrastructure, schools, healthcare or security for workers are good, and that caring about all the working people that comprise America is woke communism.

Years before trump latched onto the phrase ‘drain the swamp.’

The swamp isn’t going anywhere

His guitar instructor told him to start shredding. Not his fault that he misinterpreted that.

panel 2 .. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who can’t draw fingers well.

The Enron scandal came from deregulation, as did the ‘Great Recession’ that came when the 1933 Banking Act, ‘Glass–Steagall’, was repealed.

Regulations are made to protect “WE, the People”. When a business or industry proves they will not regulate themselves, the government must regulate for them.

Remember, a lobbyist is merely a bagman between the corporate bribers and the political bribees…..

(On another note, Dr. Seuss would have purely hated auto-correct!)

“Drain the swamp?” Okay,so Trump DIDN’T originate the phrase…..

The idea of Obscene Profits Andrews in prison does not exactly have me organizing a protest march….

SIDE BET

Joanie’s law school friends Ginny and Clyde haven’t been seen in years. But Trudeau finished their arcs by making “Welfare Loafer” Clyde a cookie magnate;based on Famous Amos.

the actual famous Amos died last month.Maybe we can check back on these two,however briefly

“What? This stuff? I was trying to figure out how they made shredded wheat. Now, the suitcases full of cash … that’s going to be a little harder to explain. You did want a surprise trip to Bermuda, right?”

Love how all these guys are depicted as the same sort of old, bald, overweight white guy…

2002 to 2024 and the swamp is still NOT drained, to put it mildly

Ah, the beauty of unfettered capitalism.

All that work for nothing. The SEC had all the recordings.