Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 09, 2019

There’s nothing in the Constitution prohibiting a dead person from becoming president.

Desperation leads to seeking desperate solutions.

Family never forgets.

The other problem is that Joanie’s wrong. The country very much does NOT yearn for decency, probity or common sense, or this baboon never would’ve been nominated, never mind elected. Liberals have to stop thinking that We Just All Need To Come To Our Senses and realize that Trump’s the sort a large number of people want in office.

I do wonder what happened to the Republicans. Is it just misplaced nostalgia to imagine that Lacey’s brand of conservatism ever existed? Was the Republican party hijacked by malevolent forces? Or was what Lacey represented really so benevolent as it seems and actually contained the seed of what we see today? I don’t know. I genuinely wonder.

I love that characters die in Doonesbury. I can’t think of another strip where that’s happened, can you?

“Fiscal restraint, personal responsibility, collegiality, probity . . .” That these values are no longer part of today’s spineless group of republican sycophants is exactly the reason I stopped being a republican. Of course, the democrats are as incompetent as the republicans are lacking in moral courage. Tough as an independent finding people to vote for.

Gary this is your first good Sunday strip in months

Trudeau for President. At least he’s alive, has a sense of humor, and remembers the Good ‘Ole Days.

Clearly being brain dead does not a disqualify. What could one step further matter?

“but this is an emergency”. Now, all we need to do is find someone with Obama’s brain and OAC’s body.

Trump is back from his European vacay. Dan Rather:” as a taxpayer, I would have rather paid for the Griswolds to go on a European family vacation than the Trumps.”

Oh shit—they still wouldn’t vote for her—saying you could see through her agenda!

Nancy, if you are referring to Hillary, the majority of Americans did vote for her. If you are referring to Lacey, she is a fictional character.

Has Trudeau mentioned Muller’s report even once?

Instant Classic!

Sometimes I wonder why I follow this strip.

Hell – we’ve got a zombie right now !

I do miss Lacey, though. We don’t have “conservatives” anymore, and there is no “republican” principle in the Trump Worshiper Party. Not any more….

Nice to see Lacey after all these years. Welcome back, old friend.

Where can I pick up my copy of Covfefe?

Some years ago for a local vote in an Italian town , a dead person was elected , and it’s not a joke .

I always like to imagine Lacey speaking with Angela Lansbury’s voice.

Maybe Betelgeuse as a Write in Candidate?

Wouldn’t be the first Necrocracy.

Lacey said in the sixth frame “Fiscal restraint, personal responsibility, collegiality, probity . . .”; We don’t find that in Republicans. We don’t find that in Democrats. We don’t find it among the people in many settings, such as on college campuses. The country is more divided than it has been in decades… I am unsure how far back there were those qualities among most politicians, most people, …

When children had fights like that, our parents would separate us and tell us to stop playing with so-and-so for the time being. We might be better off with loosening that ‘more perfect union’, and giving blue states and red states more freedom to do as they wish, without being mandated to do this or that by WashDC.

A corpse could do better than this mess.

The majority of players on both sides of the political aisle used to have those ideas as core values. The whole political spectrum has managed to become childish, left and right. Each blames the other like my children fighting at the dinner table.

@Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus: never mind an Italian town some years ago, try Nevada in 2018. Dennis Hof was elected to the State Assembly despite having died in the month before the election.