Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 01, 2018

Mark, he’ll be sitting where you are 45 years from now.

HAPPY EASTER

Well, Ted Nugent has declared them soulless. So there goes that. Do you hear that kids, nothing but utter defeat. The Great Ted, says you are worthless, soulless failures.

There have been many changes and improvements. You just have to convince people. You can’t just force change, not until all are disarmed and even then you may not want real improvements, not what they would agree were improvements.

The big question is whether or not you have lived — are living — a good life.

History repeats itself.

Change has never been as simple as a few dedicated radicals pushing for reform. It takes decades to implement change, and decades further to truly enact it.

Happy Easter to all, whether or not you celebrate it! See your family, go to church, eat ham, smell flowers, or otherwise enjoy yourself! :D

We have become our parents.

Mark, you have settled into the life you may not have wanted but got. A job, a place to lay your head, a little security oh and true change comes from within, not from without.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

That which does not change, does not grow – and that which does not grow, dies.

happy pesach! and before someone points out its easter next time if you want someone not of your religon to honor it dont place it on the national day of jokes! happy april fools!!

“Don’t trust anyone over 30.” -Jack Weinberg

Flashback!

Shades of May 29, 1973…Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Bring back the power.

Millennials are the largest living generation in the United States. Now Millennials, convert that size into power by voting. Start developing your political expertise by acknowledging that you will have to fight the most powerful forces in the United States: money and ignorance. Beware of false friends, fallacious logic and demagogues. Good can defeat evil but there will be casualties. Then take your place with the Greatest Generation who defeated Mussolini, Tojo and Hitler, followed by the Baby Boomers who had to fight in Vietnam to get the right to vote at the age of 18.

Could we have trump as an April fool joke?

The students will be an important part of the blue wave that is coming soon. I just saw online the GOP is still running against Clinton. They must have missed the news: she lost, she is not on the ballot, and she won’t be on the ballot.

From someone of Mark’s generation – good one!

You people sat on your hands and now we have to fight the 1960’s fights all over again.

All too many people equate cowardliness with “wisdom.”

Also just saw on newsfeed that Faux news wants to know why teachers are striking. Talk about clueless! I wish I could just cut them out of my newsfeed. I already hear this POV quite often. I live in Kansas.

Depressing yet hopeful. Vintage Garry.

Just as long as the kids can keep the momentum up. It’s a long time until November, with lots of distractions in the way – school, summer, college for some of them. They need to stay focused and vote when the time comes. We’ll see what happens.

Also @momsaid, Documents contained in Smithsonian, confirm that Nixon tried to scuttle a Vietnam peace deal to help his campaign. In October 1968, during the Paris Peace Talks, the US was ready to agree to cease bombing Hanoi in exchange for concessions that would halt the decades-long conflict which eventually killed an estimated 58,000 American soldiers, 2 million Vietnamese civilians and 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong combatants. But suddenly, the day before the 1968 election, a close race between Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon, South Vietnam inexplicably walked away from the negotiating table. Direct US military involvement in the war lasted another 5 years. Nixon had interceded. He had promised (through an aide to SV President Thieu) South Vietnam bigger concessions if they waited to negotiate peace until after Nixon was elected. The idea was to not give President Johnson and Humphrey a PR victory by suspending the war before the election. — Smithsonian. com

Having had an older brother who went to Vietnam in 1970 and barely made it back alive, I can’t allow anyone to be misinformed about Nixon’s clear involvement in allowing the war to drag on much further than it had to be, especially after he was elected by saying he had a “secret plan” to the end the war. Yeah, 5 years and many thousands of American lives and millions of Vietnamese lives later.

Due to Nixon’s despicable act of interceding with the peace talks, like trump, we can add the word “ traitor” to the many undesirable things we can say about both trump and Nixon.

I see that the most recent “improvement” from GoComics is that they no longer automatically add (for example) the blue text “@Richard S Russell” in front of your reply to a specific comment from the user “Richard S Russell”. I’d be really curious to be a fly on the wall at GoComics HQ to see first-hand how their thot processes work.

Go back 40yrs or more and things don,t change

Beautiful, Garry.

Nicely done GT!

Mark has a wonderful pun in the last panel.

There comes a time when people DO want to pass the mantle. Each generation which tries creates some progress, but each one has its own flavor because times and needs change and progress builds upon progress.

Okay, that was sugar-coated for April Fools Day. The reality is that there have been generations which imposed things like the “Dark Ages”, various types of slavery, and genocides. But there also have been those in the same generations who opposed those individuals and ones afterward who rebuilt, reinvented, and relearned after the destruction.

So, Mark should do like many of us have and be glad to see younger people who are not controlled by the shallower aspects of life, but instead are working to see if they can to some degree make the world a better place.

Wonder if Laura Ingraham will be coming back from her pre-planned “vacation”……

Now they are complaining that the school they are returning to is safer but feels like a jail with all the new security procedures. Though I have to laugh when they complain about the clear backpacks as they are not the first school to have that requirement as a school where I grew up required that over a decade ago,

Note that Trudeau didn’t name the young person’s cause. It could be anything, like save the whales or justice for Stephon Clark.

We all should honor the passion, but people, particularly the young, can be mistaken about their cause and the program to pursue. Do you remember Occupy Wall Street? What did they want, again?

First two panels alone made me raff. Read the whole thing, while Paul Simon’s ‘Still crazy after all these years’ was playing on the radio.When you meet your younger self on the path of life, and you WILL, will you encourage them, tell them they’re ignorant to the ‘ways’ of things, give them a cookie or lolipop and a pat on the head and send them on their way, or just say nothing and watch them move on?‘slipsliding away’ now plays