Blowback
Blowback
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TRUMP
Thank you for giving eight more reasons to vote for Trump.
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STOP
Today's strip: Not entertaining, not funny. Stop wasting ink.
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QUOTES
Re today's strip: The quotation marks indicate actual quotes. Low class and tasteless? You said it!
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CONCERNED
In light of Mr Trump's intentional, overblown, exaggerated, celebrity-fueled, cartoon character of late it'd be impossible to go "too far" with him. The fact is any cartoonist/comedian could make an entire career out of Mr Trump's ludicrous behavior/quotes/platforms for at least the next decade or so. Suffice it to say the man is a fool; a very wealthy fool, but a fool nevertheless. Every and any thinking, rational individual (worldwide) with a modicum of common sense, watching the US de-evolve from one of the most educated countries in the world into Entertainment Junkies unable and/or unwilling to separate fact from fiction, is concerned.
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DESPERATE
Usually your cartoons are kind of funny, but you stepped way over the line with today's strip about Trump. I don't really care for him, but your toon was really low class and filth, and shows how desperate the liberals are, knowing they are going to lose.
Editor's Note:The quotes featured in today's strip are all things that Trump actually said.
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CUBISM
Ah, today's Cubism strip is not only a Classic and a masterpiece, but a personal favorite -- and beautifully colored this time around. Kudos.
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30 YEARS AGO
Yesterday's 30-years-ago Flashback strip starts one of the great moments in the history of Doonesbury. President Reagan is visited by his economic adviser Tinker Bell. What is remarkable is that the Republican Party is still using the same economic adviser after 30 years of objective failure. Later in the week, as I recall, truth will spoken by a schizophrenic street person.
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THE MUNCHIES
Zonker and his bar mate must have had the munchies in today's Classic strip; the peanuts are spent by panel three.
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TRUMP
The genuinely frightening thing about Trump and his recent triumphs in the polls despite himself is that he exemplifies everything this country has become of late. Twitter-based, preferring celebrity over content, mass-media-addled entertainment junkies behaving more like immature lemmings than rational human beings. Proving once again that Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death) got it right .
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HOPE
As one who has checked out the other thirteen, I can assure you that it does hurt me to do so. A lot. My only hope is that it hurts the Republican Party much worse, and that they go the way of the Federalists in 1815 and the Whigs in 1856, two previous parties of Big Business divided over whom to hate most.
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TO BE CONTINUED
"To be continued," indeed. President Trump, anyone?
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ALSO
Rev. Scot Sloan and Rick Redfern look like identical twins! Also, one cannot help but note, both are in love with Joanie.
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THE STRIP
What I've always loved about GBT and the strip: If you're acting/speaking like a damn fool, he's gonna getcha! No matter where you are in the political spectrum.
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TV NEWS
I gave you a standing ovation for the portrayal of network news on Sunday. When they started breathlessly showing us Facebook and Twitter stories that had been around for days and weeks I knew that TV news had died.
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NEWSCAST GIMMICK
Despite his visceral mushbucket liberalism, GBT has "forever" been a national treasure for his seemingly inexhaustible capacity to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" with humane humor. Having long been driven batsh*t by the massively obnoxious mainstream-media newscast gimmick that GBT superbly shredded on Sunday, I was on my feet cheering and clapping when I encountered that strip. Yes, yes, YES ! ! !
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EASIER
It's easier to not commit yourself if you never complete a sentence. Modern "leaders" and newsreaders have a "wonderful" way of interrupting themself mid-sentence, making a self-mocking aside to a different idea that metaphorically explains their inner, deeper thoughts, before returning to the original answer to paraphrase John Lennon's words, "We'd all like to change the world" and/or "We're doing what we can." A completed sentence would get in the way of them letting the audience space out on their wit and think the politician, newsreader, sees the same solution as they do. "Hey, I know what he means but he's not allowed to say it ... As soon as I finish this wine (or joint) I'm going to write my big idea down. It's time has come."
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BREATHLESS
Today's strip really hit the mark. I can't watch World News Tonight any more because of the breathless, overly dramatized way they present the day's events. Well done.
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EYE-OPENER
The 35-years-ago-today Flashback was an eye-opener -- I had no idea that J.J. had been involved with Zeke before she met Mike. Maybe I should study up on the Timeline!
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RICK
It's interesting that the week of Rick cluelessly blogging about his failure as a husband and father is followed by the time Alice came to see him and he met Elmont. His humanity shines through whenever he's with Alice and her crowd. I guess it's easier with strangers.
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VACUOUSNESS
I just love the SayWhat? and Mudline reports from those deep thinkers such as Trump and Palin, increasing the depths of human knowledge and understanding, wondering when the carnival is going to end and hoping it does before too much damage is done. In the meantime the entertainment and the sheer vacuousness of their rhetoric (and amazement that the voting/general public has let it go on so long) continues to amaze.