Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for August 25, 2012
August 24, 2012
August 26, 2012
Transcript:
Dad: I was thinking... what if you didn't get a car? Dad: Think how much you'd save! Dad: No car payments. Dad: No gas bills. Dad: No insurance. Dad: No repair bills. Baldo No dates.
Maybe it’s time to rethink the strip. Since Baldo doesn’t age, he’s essentially a Millennial now, and Millennials more than previous generations are losing interest in cars. Who needs a car when you have 24-hour access to the whole world with your smart phone? This strip is sort of stuck in the 80s/90s mindset of Hispanic kids worshipping their lowriders with hydraulics and whatnot.
The kid should move to New York. Or some country where there’s good public transportation…no car payments or insurance. But then Americans don’t want to live good lives in a country that cares. We’d rather watch big-time cops and lawyers in two thousand dollar trousers strut and pretend to a script about how great THEY are and how useless all lower status people are…broken up of course by commercials blatting about RICHREPUBLICANS with more multi-lies than a sailor home from a long trip, eager with the itch to steal more public money we herd animals have managed to squirrel away in government-protected accounts…the thieves…Wall Street and ‘K’ Street financial criminals should be fairly tried before resolution by guillotine.Three minutes each. Jury of citizens from Main Street…who have been thoroughly educated as to the money-class shenannigans…and each jury does multiple trials…with a competion for the most ‘Guilty’ decisions…the winning jury will share ten percent of the funds thus liberated, including the 23 to 32 TRILLION dollars in the accounts of so-called ‘Americans’…fewer than 3,000…in the Caymans, Bahamas, etc. Those criminals go FIRST. Those funds can pay the national debttwo and one-half times…and we will have cauterized the social parasitical blisters sucking blood from the body politic.
Still applies:A girl is trés gai, riding in a coupé,In a taxi, any girl can be jolly,But the girl who’s worthwhile, is the one who can smile, When you’re taking her home on the trolly.
Templo S.U.D. about 12 years ago
Baldo, a nice walk down the park can be a good date. I know getting to the park without wheels would be a problem, but seriously.
Gigantor about 12 years ago
Maybe it’s time to rethink the strip. Since Baldo doesn’t age, he’s essentially a Millennial now, and Millennials more than previous generations are losing interest in cars. Who needs a car when you have 24-hour access to the whole world with your smart phone? This strip is sort of stuck in the 80s/90s mindset of Hispanic kids worshipping their lowriders with hydraulics and whatnot.
J Short about 12 years ago
Dates: a good euphemism for what I was thinking.
jpsomebody about 12 years ago
Instead of a car, I’d prefer a motorcycle.
tigre1 about 12 years ago
The kid should move to New York. Or some country where there’s good public transportation…no car payments or insurance. But then Americans don’t want to live good lives in a country that cares. We’d rather watch big-time cops and lawyers in two thousand dollar trousers strut and pretend to a script about how great THEY are and how useless all lower status people are…broken up of course by commercials blatting about RICHREPUBLICANS with more multi-lies than a sailor home from a long trip, eager with the itch to steal more public money we herd animals have managed to squirrel away in government-protected accounts…the thieves…Wall Street and ‘K’ Street financial criminals should be fairly tried before resolution by guillotine.Three minutes each. Jury of citizens from Main Street…who have been thoroughly educated as to the money-class shenannigans…and each jury does multiple trials…with a competion for the most ‘Guilty’ decisions…the winning jury will share ten percent of the funds thus liberated, including the 23 to 32 TRILLION dollars in the accounts of so-called ‘Americans’…fewer than 3,000…in the Caymans, Bahamas, etc. Those criminals go FIRST. Those funds can pay the national debttwo and one-half times…and we will have cauterized the social parasitical blisters sucking blood from the body politic.
tigre1 about 12 years ago
Try POLITICS as usual one more time. Read “Deep Green REsistance”…for next year.
hippogriff about 12 years ago
Still applies:A girl is trés gai, riding in a coupé,In a taxi, any girl can be jolly,But the girl who’s worthwhile, is the one who can smile, When you’re taking her home on the trolly.
Comic Minister Premium Member about 12 years ago
Good point Baldo.
jimboylan about 12 years ago
That’s not a car he wants, it’s a chick magnet.