Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 09, 2010
Transcript:
Overkill: So you thought because he had a beard and a funny accent, you'd give him my money? Jeff: Uh... well... Overkill: Were you out of your mind, kid? Only a total idiot could possibly be that careless with $50 million! Idiot! Overkill: IDIOT! No reply. Because even the Red Rascal had to admit... the man had a point.
GrimmaTheNome almost 14 years ago
There are two idiots here.
dataweaver almost 14 years ago
The idiot, and the idiot who pays the idiot.
Coyoty Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Overkill did say they had a lot in common.
Sandfan almost 14 years ago
“Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?”
pbarnrob almost 14 years ago
He’s gone to get it back; this could get -um- interesting!
randgrithr almost 14 years ago
What Grimma said. It was Overkill that was careless with his own $50 million. Accountability rises to the top.
Jeff was an idiot for getting involved with this wack job in the first place, but at least he seems capable of learning when it’s time to get the f* out of dodge.
Potrzebie almost 14 years ago
Going Rogue? A new book by the Red Rascal?
Wildcard24365 almost 14 years ago
Holy Walter Mitty! I get it! First I thought Jeff was just building a street rep with all the Facebook tales and all, but Red Rascal is just Jeff retreating into Fantasyland.
It’s a funny strip, but it’s sad to see the kid’s not coping well.
babka Premium Member almost 14 years ago
“dis-association……is funny….. it turns….sure death into Money……”
randgrithr? what is the Order of the Pentacle, please?
RegHartt almost 14 years ago
It is simple enough. Who knew the money was coming? This is a state where corruption is the norm. Overkill should have known in advance and have warned Jeff what to expect. it. What better way than to get double what you want then by having the first shipment diverted.
As Jeff can acknowledge he was an idiot he is not retreating into Fantasyland.
He is accepting his responsibility. The next step is co correct his mistake.
Of course, we should correct our mistake and get the hell out of there.
Dragoncat almost 14 years ago
Um… One question…
What floor are they on again?
alan.gurka almost 14 years ago
“Idiot?” Who’s out $50M?
pirate227 almost 14 years ago
Oh snap, he went Rascal on him.
WaitingMan almost 14 years ago
Not to worry. Overkill and his ilk can always count on a bailout from the federal government, regardless of which party is in power. Eisenhower had no idea how massive the military-industrial complex would become.
diggitt almost 14 years ago
Fifty million? What’s Overkill carrying on about? For fifty million he doesn’t even say kaddish! Unless he’s more of a loser than we’ve been led to believe.
Dragoncat almost 14 years ago
Poor Jeff…
Does this mean the bounty on his head has been raised 50-fold?
Tune in tomorrow for…RED RASCAL: OVERKILLED!!!
Coming soon to a Doonesbury strip near you.
MisngNOLA almost 14 years ago
Why does everyone who quotes Eisenhower and the “military-industrial complex” not go ahead and go with Ike’s first draft of that speech which called it the “military-industrial-political complex”?
Dtroutma almost 14 years ago
British tried the same thing in 1841- departed with deadly results in 1842 (leaving their money behind)- Russia didn’t do to well-with our help- and we STILL haven’t learned our lesson? Afghan culture is VERY varied, and they don’t want “our” form of government- as it simply doesn’t work for their culture. We call them “primitive” because of their violent nature, while we drop “smart bombs” on their kids. So who is teaching whom about “civilization”?
alan.gurka almost 14 years ago
“Civilization,” as is “History,” is defined by the conquerors.
Nemesys almost 14 years ago
@ MisngNOLA, for the same reason that Ike revised his speech and took the word out. If you don’t know how the system really works, “political” causes unnecessary confusion for the unenlightened and ruins the talking point. If you do understand how government really works, the word is merely self-obvious and duplicative.
As WaitingMan correctly points out, it doesn’t matter which party happens to be in power. The government is not run by elected officials, but by a million civil service embedded bureaucrats and lobbyists who like their power and piece of the action just the way it is, not withstanding campaign messages of :”Hope and Change”. Where do we really think all those billions of “economic stimulus” really ended up?
FriscoLou almost 14 years ago
Todays cons would say, “Ike’s been hanging out with the French so long that he went soft on national defense”.
Spyderred almost 14 years ago
I hope everyone knows this payment of a bribe to an impostor is based on a real and recent event in Afghanistan.
FriscoLou almost 14 years ago
… for the last 700 years.
gaebie almost 14 years ago
Jeff is just the fool, but Red Rascal is going to get the 50 mil back