Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 27, 2015

What happen today? where you are all?

I wonder if little Donnie ever went to the bathroom when he was in junior high school.

Before they shipped him off to military academy?

Probably worse there

It’s been a long time since I was in junior high (and that’s what it was called, when I was in school; no ‘middle school’ back then). But my memory of the bullying types back then was that they had a collection of like minded friends hanging out with them, and each tried to outdo the other in the obnoxious things they said or did. They didn’t surround themselves with people who just stared at them with big startled eyes…

@leftwingpatriot“I wonder if little Donnie ever went to the bathroom when he was in junior high school.”.So if would seem and most uncleanDisgusting! Disgusting!

I believe the scene is more reminiscent of Mitt Romney’s high school years.

Does anyone know when this “Fun With The Donald” is going to end and we start the serious business of deciding upon who is going to lead the free world?

Two things … I go back so far we had ‘grade school’ (K-8) and ‘high school’ (9-12) … AND unless something changes drastically, Hillary will be the next POTUS.

Well, I’m not saying that The Donald is Satan, but it’s just that I’ve never seen the two of them in the same room, yanno?

It isn’t full faced taking over the strip Trump this time.

The Donald hasn’t changed a bit.

If elected, Mr. Trump will find that being president involves more than pandering to people’s base prejudices and fears.

Perhaps until now, Trump thought that women went into bathrooms to cry.

I guess we will see how it shakes out after primaries.

Makes sense to me – the Donald still thinks that girls have cooties. Except for those big-breasted models he dates. I guess he gets rid of them as soon as he finds out they use the bathroom, too.

Trump, apparently frightened by puberty and Junior High, has never advanced emotionally past the 6th grade, his followers still haven’t learned the social skills kindergarten was supposed to prepare them with. Ill prepared to be handed a Nerf pistol, do folks really want Trump to have access to our military?

I was happily relieved to learn an up-polled truth when talking to my 90 y.o grandparents the other day. They live in an assisted care facility in FL where 95% of their colleagues are registered republicans. The support those repub friends of theirs give to the Trumpeter OR Cruz is in the dumpster – thank god there are remain SOME repubs who haven’t lost their collective minds. Maybe there is hope out there.

I hope that in real- life, “The Donald” saw this strip.

^doublejake: you will make much better time sitting behind horses in a cart, with the reins in your hands, than by trying to pull the horse, or mule, from in front with a rope. And, if the horse/mule spooks, your much less likely to be trampled and killed. Remember that when fear drives the wagon, danger is always present.

“What damage? You still have kindergarten and then 12 years of school. 7th grade still happens.”.Yes, it does, but much money was spent on reorganization for no effective purpose, new buildings for no real reason, changing systems of teaching and discipline under questionable assumptions..One which amused me was the Drop Out Prevention Program. Folks noticed people who dropped out of school often committed crimes soon after. They decided to work hard to keep the children in school. Shortly after that program was begun, they noticed there were more crimes being committed IN SCHOOL by the same people they had worked so hard to keep in school..Along the way, many people who enjoyed learning found school torture because they were having to attend with bullies and thugs on a daily basis..the big thing lately is dealing with bullies but it is in conflict with their Stop The School to Prison Pipeline in which they are still discovering the people who get in trouble in school preying on other students get in trouble after school and soon commit acts which land them in prison..The sub geniuses have determined that the act of writing referrals on such sweetlings is the cause of them going to prison rather than the idea that people who won’t behave in school won’t behave out of school..This burns out good teachers who didn’t get in it to go to war, ties up potential teachers who have to deal with those who are determined to not learn and stop others from learning, gets some children raped in school, gets some teachers struck by students without repercussions..Note that I am not just talking about seventh grade where the problems still happen and the expenditures had no effect on that fact because they thought they didn’t realize the biological aspect of it..Other damage? Parents become less involved. Parents move out of communities to avoid sending their children to schools where they fear they will be preyed upon. Parents pull their children out of public schools altogether because they become convinced the schools only care about the predators. School funding initiatives aren’t passed because of distrust of the educators. Teachers lose the respect they need to educate the children.Teachers lose the time they need to educate as they deal with discipline problems..Does any of this sound truthful and familiar to you?

There is also the fact that Politifact itself is incredibly Generous in what it sometimes calls “Partially True”..

Is anti-statist gross root revolt leading to a Trump Presidency? How much do YOU like the government and how much do you CARE if 150,000 to 500,000 highly paid government administrators who don’t actually DO anything in their fields end up on the street with degrees like “Social Politics” and whatnot.

A fairly LARGE number of people would like to see someone with Trumps neb-libertarian style given the garbage we’ve been offered so far. Maybe it will force a constitutional change in how we select the President? The way we’re doing it now is only BARELY working.

Good one, GBT!

I need help withthis strip. I recognize the thought balloons associated with Ben Carson (1), Carly Fiorina (2), Jeb Bush (3), Marco Rubio (5), and Bobby Jindal (6). But who, if anyone, does (4) refer to?

T &F, I never went to kindergarten. I’m not sure if this supports your thesis or not, but it gives you another data point. Don’t care for The Donald, but my vote only affects the Democratic candidates in the primaries.

Boring….