Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 07, 2025

It’s gibberish, all right—using every cliche in the book!!

The thing I love best about this strip is that it’s the perfect place for people to air their political views—even if they have nothing to do with the current story arc. That’s why i believed the message board here is a blog.

BTW, I hope Trumpty-Dumpty’s plan to dismantle USAID is a dismal failure!

Ummm, I am switching to Linux because of Windows telemetry and spying and the AI I never wanted. My docs and spreadsheets created in Offic work fine in Libre Office, web browsing and email work in the respective Firefox and Thunderbird, although you get them all in one interface if you use Vidaldi. Games are from Steam. I could go on, but there is no reason to run Windows anymore.

Plus since I am a moderate politically and a socialist socially, Linux just fits!

The real sad thing is what Trump’s team is doing overall.

I kind of like the “It’s time to put the pedal to the paradigm.”

As a Mac and Unix fan, I was happy when Mac OS X was released. The first Dell computer I bought was for running Linux.

Let’s win this one for the Gibber!

As pertinent to the comments (but not the strip!) I urge you to read this >

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“Zip-Dawg” is channeling AI, and doing a bang-up job of it – no one will be able to tell that a human wrote it; they’ll just assume, “Bad AI”.

Ol’Vonshitzhispantz playbook is open for the rubes to see. They just don’t realize the playbook was plagiarized from so many dictators before him. Grievance government is only “entertainment “ until the rubes realize their next. Read the poem, “First They Came” if you don’t believe me.

It’s a code you need to decipher. I hope Trump crashes and burns and his own people turn against him.

If this was in the present day, I’d say that was AI-generated. But, I guess it’s just old-fashioned human stupidity. Hard to tell the difference, sometimes.

I’ve had it with Linux too! It’s high time he outgrew that security blanket….

Off her lithium?

Please, no more gibberish. We just got done with 4 years of it.

Almost as bad as when people misuse past quotes not realizing the actual meaning.

Final panel could be said of any T speech. And we are NOT wrong.

Trump complaining about who made the worst trade deal ever with Canada is hilarious. It was him, in 2018. Look it up.

USAID budget can currently be found in the Mar-Al-Lago Wild Orgy Fund

We’re yelling “STOP<THIEF!” but all the honest cops have been fired or theatened…..

‘Gibberish’ is the current administration’s domestic and foreign policies.

She sounds like just Zipper’s type. Scarcely aware of her own existence.

AI?

Seems like how Q started….

You had me at Linux, Unix is better, but what ya gonna do ! ;-)

Down here in the South Pacific, all the cancelling of USAID does is throw the door wide open for China to increase its influence.

On the WaPo page displaying “Doonesbury” there are two quotes: “Very few in the bureaucracy actually work the weekend, so it’s like the opposing team just leaves the field for two days!”— Elon Musk, on the federal workforce

“You go on a driving range in golf and hit hundreds of balls, thousands of hours. I’ve never seen a ball hit another ball… Balls going up all over the place, you never see them hit. It was amazing this could happen.”— Trump, on DC plane-chopper crash

If these people are this ignorant, we cannot expect anything worthwhile for the next 4 years. This will be the era of ignorant and racist politics.

Speaking gibberish got one man elected twice.

Early AI blog? Or just a stoner with restless fingers?

Reminds me of the old SNL Cecily Strong character The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With.

Weren’t these all direct quotes of Pres. Bush?