Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 06, 2012
Transcript:
Trff: Duke, at least listen to my plan... Duke: Trff, you don't get it-- nobody wants you back! I mean, your departure triggered two weeks of celebration in Berzerkistan! Fireworks every night, open bar at all the brothels, a massive Michael Buble concert out at the stadium. Trff: A what? Duke: After years of repression, people wanted to swing.
DylanThomas3.14159 almost 12 years ago
I smell a setup. Since when has Duke ever cared about democracy or human rights?
Linguist almost 12 years ago
Michael Buble ? These people must have been REALLY desperate !!
Beekeeper62 almost 12 years ago
Given the record of Egypt, perhaps the place already has a new dictator.
DylanThomas3.14159 almost 12 years ago
“Do you think [Duke] does care?”
No. I think Duke sees Trff as hard to handle. He wants to make him pliable and obedient so that Duke can arrange with his CIA cronies to return Trff to power in Berserkistan. (My prediction only; I could be wrong.)
DylanThomas3.14159 almost 12 years ago
Trff didn’t pay for his extraction from Berserkistan; the CIA “black ops” did. (YOUR tax dollars at work!). Likewise, Trff won’t pay for his reinstatement; the CIA will. (Again YOUR tax dollars at work!)
runedune almost 12 years ago
You’re all wrong. Duke is smart. He knows which way the wind is blowing and is telling it like it is, pure & simple.
Varnes almost 12 years ago
Didn’t have a clue about who Buble was. Thank god for Google. We didn’t get the flying cars or the jet packs, but we got instant information about almost everything known to man….fair trade….
Varnes almost 12 years ago
It really is the greatest thing since Alexander’s Library….
LeoAutodidact almost 12 years ago
Duke has ALWAYS been concerned about Human Rights – HIS!His right to get by with doing as little as possible, getting Drunk when he wants, doing whatever Drugs he wants . . .
roctor almost 12 years ago
Stepping back in the breach is a fools errand.Unless your goal is to remove the asset.
YatInExile almost 12 years ago
But Trff let his people swing…from the end of a rope.
ckeller almost 12 years ago
I think Duke doesn’t want him to leave his household because he’s probably claiming Trff as a dependent on his income taxes.
Flip side, he might not want to call attention to Trff’s presence, if he’s in the US illegally and Duke could be in trouble for harboring an illegal alien.
montessoriteacher almost 12 years ago
Ok, still in Duke’s world…
ossiningaling almost 12 years ago
Interesting. Trff is living inside a buble.
gladlythecrosseyedbear almost 12 years ago
GT only cares about the rights of apartheidists
Linguist almost 12 years ago
Hence the reason for my original comment ! But Metalica ? Why not just resurrect The Grateful Dead ? That’d be some serious partying.
montessoriteacher almost 12 years ago
If we are resurrecting bands, I would have to go with The Beatles. I think they had major appeal to a super wide group of people.
Robert Debelak almost 12 years ago
All this week the Detroit Free Press has been running Doonesbury reruns. I wonder why.
DylanThomas3.14159 almost 12 years ago
“… Saddam Hussein got off easy compared to what they’d do to you if you tried go back.”
And you think, gmartin997, that Duke, after he pocked the $$$$$, would care ‘bout what happened to poor lil’ Trff in far-off Berzerkistan?
kaffekup almost 12 years ago
too-zonked, it’s very rare that I actually type LOL!
annieb1012 almost 12 years ago
@DTPi
“And if I did get another life, ramonesfan, what would I do with the one I have now? Give it to you? Get your own life.”
I don’t normally sit in front of my computer and laugh at the screen, even on gocomics, but “You really got me this time.” (Emmylou H.) It was so much fun I reread the thing several times so I could laugh some more!
annieb1012 almost 12 years ago
@too-zonked
And then I laughed out loud again….
pawpawbear almost 12 years ago
This is completely off subject, but, I saw a post above that mentioned Barry Manilow. I was listening to the Christmas Traditions channel on satelite radio. “Baby it’s Cold Outside” was sung by Mr Manilow and a lady named K T Oslin(sp). I thought it to be an interesting juxtaposition.
Linguist almost 12 years ago
I don’t normally comment on the snarkiness or idiocy of trolls but the person who made the inane comment directed at DylanThomas3.14159 really either needs to go off and read a strip less interactive( Garfield re-runs perhaps ), or spend some time reading the articulate and inciteful ideas put forth by my friend Pi.We are not here to act as mirrors, agreeing with everythig someone says, but the joy of being here is reading what others have to say. Not many can express their thoughts as elegantly as D.T. pi ! Don’t ever stop, old friend !
DylanThomas3.14159 almost 12 years ago
Stop! stop!, my complimentary friends. (UR givin’ me the bighead.)