Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 12, 2025

I’ve been a fan of Doonesbury for mumble mumble decades (and I have an autographed copy of his 50 year collection), but c’mon! We know there’s a lead time for his only-Sunday new toons, but ONLY one toon blasting the dishonest imbecile cowardly criminal Traitor Trump since more people voted against him than for him? (Millions didn’t vote at all, of course.). Where the HECK are THOSE toons?

I know that Trudeau is patriotic (unlike Traitor Trump and Trump voters), but c’mon! PROVE it!

Next Sunday is 1/10/25—the day before Il Duce(bag)’s inauguration. I hope to see something really good here, then—like Trumpty-Dumpty strung up by the heels like Mussolini!

I really hope Zipper bequeaths his brain to science!!!

get over it—she lost. kek-kek-kek-kek.

@jingles “get over it”?

You’re funny. DJT still isn’t over it, over four years since losing in 2020. He’ll never be over it.

And you notice how there was no insurrection this time? Some people ‘get over’ losing an election better than others, clearly.

I feel that Trudeau no longer satirizes politics. Perhaps because politics in the DJT era is its own satire? Actually, Trudeau does occationally have strips in which DJT is advised by Ex-President-for-Life Bmzklfrpz of Berzerkistan.

Man, these comments took a turn. And here I was thinking about my college days. Getting stoned, listening to great music, and playing catch in a dark room under a strobe light. (oops, I missed!)

TO THE ECONOMIC BARRICADES

I have realized that I have to go on the economic defensive if I want my last decade to have a semblance of the comfort and well being that we have reached barring any natural disasters that hit. We know that President Musk will do nothing for any commoner including the MAGAts.

It’s going to be a steadily worsening stream of economic setbacks in many ways over the next four years. The demented Fat Orange Clown (aka The FOCer) will have to generate a lot more distractions than he has in the past to cause the knucklewalkers to blame anyone and everyone else for why their lives will be doing a swirly after Joe and Kamala left the nation with the strongest economy in decades.

HCR reminds us of what has happened and what will happen.

Julia Ainsley and Carol E. Lee of NBC News today reported another way in which Trump is threatening to go on offense: by conducting a very visible raid targeting undocumented immigrants in the Washington, D.C., area as soon as he takes office. While Presidents Barack Obama and Biden have targeted employers who violate labor laws, Trump wants to demonstrate “shock and awe” by raiding workplaces and sweeping up migrants who are in the U.S. without documentation, regardless of their criminal status. His transition team has been talking with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials about the logistics of such raids.

And then, of course, there are Trump’s frequent references to taking over other countries. Don Jr. traveled to Greenland this week with right-wing activist and media personality Charlie Kirk, ostensibly to record a podcast, but Trump Sr. followed the trip with posts saying “MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!” That idea is getting traction among MAGA leaders, even though—or perhaps because—it is a direct affront to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), to which both the U.S. and Denmark belong.

Trump detractor though I am, I’ll be pleased if Trudeau never draws another strip with Trump in it again. That won’t happen, though.

Americans can either point fingers at each other – or pull together. The first discontent and chaos wins cause we DO nothing – the latter we work together and come out better on the other side.

Kids these days, sheesh.

HA!!

After next Monday, all people of good character will want to get wasted and pretend Felon47 was all a bad dream.

It’s a sin & a shame that The Late President Jimmy Carter served 1 term, while this ‘heathen’ gets a second term. If he’s ‘the lesser of 2 evils’, what scale were the voters using?

I’ve noticed that, in here, typically, Trump detractors mostly attack Trump and Trump supporters mostly attack Trump detractors. That seems significant in some way but probably isn’t.

Zipper tried to get baked the 20th Century way using 21st Century product. Of course it immediately put him to sleep.

Keep being funny. Election is over

Pot is sooo… much stronger today than the stuff in the late 60s and 70s.

In the UK, substitute Hendrix for Pink Floyd, doughnuts for Jaffa Cakes, and it’s just about the same.

Manifest Destiny 2.0: The Great American Merger Plan

Let’s just say, for the sake of discussion, the United States decides to annex Mexico and Canada. Boom—problem solved! Suddenly, every illegal immigrant from Mexico becomes an American citizen overnight. No more debates about visas or asylum processes; they’re just Americans now. Congratulations, everyone! You win by default.

And hey, who needs a border wall when there are no borders? We save billions of dollars instantly. Those funds can be redirected to other pressing national priorities, like repairing potholes or commissioning another Fast and Furious movie. Heck, we could even use that cash to throw a nationwide barbecue welcoming our new neighbors. Sorry—our new fellow Americans.

For those concerned about border protection, don’t worry: we can still post a couple of mall cops at the Panama Canal, just in case anyone tries to sneak in from South America. But beyond that? Easy street.

Canada joining in is just the maple syrup on top. Now we’ll have all the free healthcare we’ve always envied, plus an endless supply of Tim Hortons. Sure, the cold winters might scare a few Floridians, but that’s what Arizona is for. Besides, we could finally put “eh?” at the end of sentences and make it official.

With one stroke of a pen, we’ve solved illegal immigration, national security, and a host of cultural divides. What could go wrong? (Other than having to learn Spanish and French on top of English—but hey, that’s the price of greatness.)

So let’s raise a Budweiser, a margarita, and a Molson in toast to the United States of North America: land of the free, home of the brave, and now 100% wall-free.

Vietnam 70-71 stoned out of my gourd listening to Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen with my head between the speakers of a stolen cheap stereo.

This is the only description of “old school baked” that makes stronger drugs sound like a good alternative.

Even being a stoner has gotten complicated.

Hey, everybody, here’s a copy of a post that jeffiekins made a few minutes ago (and which I might delete at any moment, hence me providing a copy"

_@RonaldByrd> …one of the most contemptible human beings…

There is a mostly unwritten rule intended to help this space be as civil as possible: post your negative opinions of another participant’s post(s), but not of the person. Saying (s)he’s “contemptible” is different from citing the things (s)he has said that led you to that conclusion.

For example, when someone posted about how disgusting (s)he found someone’s post, I replied something like “well, that’s hardly surprising, considering he’s a Nazi — he said so a couple of weeks ago. (I invite his correction if I got that wrong.)” He never corrected me. That’s different from sharing my revulsion at his being a Nazi.

I mean, if you have a deep-seated need to vent, and this is cheaper than therapy, go right ahead, but don’t expect ad hominem posts to be taken seriously._

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So, the next time a Trump supporter insults you, personally, as an individual, by publicly sharing a negative opinion about you (whether directly to you or to in contrast someone else), please consider calling attention to said the above post in order to cite the “unwritten rule” that they’re violating. A rule that was set and cited by one of their own. Thank you.

We’ve just seen something that’s only happened once before in American history. Grover Cleveland won the presidency in 1884, lost it in 1888, and won it back again in 1892, becoming President #22 and 24. Donald Trump won in 2016, lost in 2020, and won again in 2024, becoming President #45 and 47. (Cleveland had over half the popular vote all 3 times, tho; Trump never had it.)

Besides that similarity, they share a mutual interest in the federal civil-service system. Thruout most of the 19th Century, every time the White House changed occupants, there was massive turnover in federal offices, as jobs were awarded to members of the incoming president’s party. It didn’t much matter whether the new office-holders had much experience in those jobs, or even basic competence; those weren’t the primary criteria. Party loyalty was all that mattered. This was most noticeable in the favorite political plums of all: postmasterships in every city, village, town, and hamlet in the country, where party activists could be rewarded with a spot on the federal payroll without having to leave home. Of course, it meant the mail was screwed up everywhere for a couple of months thereafter, but hey, to the victor belong the spoils, right? That’s why this approach was called the “spoils system”.

Cleveland didn’t like it. He wanted the public to be served by people who actually knew what they were doing and were good at it, so his administration created job requirements, recruited people who met them, encouraged them to develop detailed expertise, and rewarded good performance and longevity, so it was possible to make a career out of government work and actually establish institutional memory within the various departments and bureaus.

But, as I said, he and Trump share a mutual interest in the civil service. Cleveland created it; Trump wants to destroy it.

Off-topic, I just noticed (as I’m sure many, many people noticed long before) that when Biden became president, he was the same age that Trump is now (78). So all the hateful remarks that have been made about Biden’s age are now, literally, just as applicable to Trump’s age. I wonder if Trump supporters will take jokes about Trump’s age nearly as well as they dished out jokes about Biden’s age. I doubt it.

KLH, a Henry Kloss company. He was a great audio engineer. About 5 feet away from me is a subwoofer made by his last company, Cambridge Soundworks. They were bought by Creative, the soundcard people around 2000. The brand name lives on in a small line of inexpensive Bluetooth speakers.

What’s with their noses?

Heck I used to do all that without getting baked.

Wow, real relevant stuff, Gary. I guess there’s no danger of you learning how to “draw” Newsom or Bass, I suppose. Shill.

Wow, we’ve come a long way when Zonker becomes the reasonable one! More donuts for me ! ;-)

As Pogo would say—“Friday the 13th comes on January 20th this year”

“Nixon had the “madman” game”

Nixon, of course, is noted for saying, “When the President does something, that means it is not illegal.” That’s one aphorism that Trump has clearly taken deeply to heart. He even seems to think it’s retroactive, that everything he did prior to taking office was just as “not illegal” as everything he’s done since taking office. :-|

Dark Side of the Moon and Bose 901s!