Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 22, 2025

Yes Arlo, they can just keep their President’s Day. Washington and Lincoln justly deserve their own days.

George Washington’s Tankard? With rum?

Anyone have a clue about the third panel? Which would explain the fourth?

Indeed, Frump is a simpleton tyrant.

Let’s all hoist a tankard to honor George.

Slavery.

I would love to have a discussion with the founding fathers about that one.

Washington’s birthday WAS the original President’s Day.

I grew up celebrating George Washington’s birthday, he was out first President! It’s good to see someone else remembers it too…Happy birthday George!

“I cannot tell a lie”. I don’t get this one.

A toast from the Left and the Right?

Arlo patriotically observes Washington’s birthday, while being disgusted with our Republican “government.”

Is that a Paul Revere silver stein?

Maybe he reached over to shake the hand of George’s spirit?

Garfield without Garfield; Travis without Gary; Arlo without Janis… or a discernible point. ☺

Agreed.

Too many ways to construe some meaning:

He’s drinking with his left, doesn’t with the right.

George is log dead, don’t stir him.

Arlo didn’t manage to open the lid the first time, wouldn’t like to be seen as a fool again.

It’s too early to drink.

We don’t do Führers Geburtstag any more (20th of April).

Arlo is putting his arm over the shoulders of a sad George Washington. Sad because of the state of the democracy he gave his life to build.

Hey look at that cloud up there, doesn’t it look like a bunny? No, it looks like Trump! I see Trump everywhere! That orange-haired, little handed, big mouthed, tan-boothed Napoleon in a suit, and his trophy wife haunt every single thought that goes through my mind, please someone, make it stop, make it stop, Sob, sob, sniff.

Today is President’s Day; orginally GW’s Birthday. He is wiping foam in the third panel. For some unknown reason, he doesn’t want to continue his train of thought.

Sorry, JJ, but it’s pretty pitiful when a comic is so vague that nobody really gets it.

I think Arlo means that American’s can only agree that Washington was great without getting into a heated discussion so a toast to George and leave the rest alone.

He was the right man, at the right place, at the right time. He did not want to be a King. He wanted to share this great land with our first nation tribes but was prevented by citizens at the time from doing that. He freed his slaves at his death. AND during our Civil War,George Washington’s Birthday was still celebrated by both the North and the South Citizens. He deserved his own day and not the nondescript president’s day federal holiday…….

I’m Watters and this is my world…………

Current Events:“George Washington significantly impacted US history as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, leading to American independence when George III was king of England, and later serving as the first President of the United States, where he established crucial precedents for the presidency by setting a two-term limit and promoting national unity; he also played a key role in the drafting of the Constitution at the Constitutional Convention, helping to shape the foundation of the American government”

I got nuttin’ on this strip today….

My take is it is just George’s birthday. Happy Birthday George, and leave it at that!. No talk about Presidents Day versus actual birthdays. No political discussion about slavery during that time and who supported it and who didn’t. Was George great or a tyrant. No talk about the current politics and who is right and who is not. Who is a patriot and who is a traitor. Just Happy Birthday George! Oh WAIT!, I just read thru these comments, too late…

sigh I remember when the US had a president. It seems like it was only a few months ago.

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Lots of TDS showing here.

Or, as my Dad used to refer to it “George Birthington’s Washday.”

Arlo has a stein sitting front of him, in the first picture. A stein is used to drink ale, a sort of been with a lot of foam. He wishes Washington a happy birthday and takes a swig. Anyone that has drank real ale knows that you must wipe the foam from your mouth, which he does. And the last panel he decides that he doesn’t want to drink any more ale, which I can understand and agree with.

Actually Washington was born on February 11, 1731. In 1752 Britain and her colonies changed from Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. This resulted in a change in his (and everyone else’s) birthday by a year and 11 days to February 22, 1732.

More modern thinking people changed their birthdates, etc to the new calendar, while some older thinking people kept their old birthdates, etc.

This is something I learned in elementary school and still remember.