Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for December 30, 2020

At first… I had hoped he was talking about a chess game. Mostly because he looks unbruised. But then the punch-line came along. And all my head screamed was – CHAOS!!!!

“No strategy survives first contact with the enemy”Helmuth von Moltke circa 1880

The Huns are using strategy!!! START RUNNING AROUND LIKE A CHICKEN WITH THEIR NOODLE CUT OFF.

Shirley you jest! and no I’m not calling you Shirley!

First we should establish if the King even knows what a ‘strategy’ is.

Poor Rodney. Attila the Hun was a strategic general of the first order. No matter what modern history books say, one cannot run an empire as big as Attila had, (from modern day Germany to modern day Kazakhstan), without having a first-rate strategic ability.

It also doesn’t help when you have an army of Id-iots!

That seems to be a problem we have had – Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – at least no CLEAR strategy. And no clear goal.

Rod has a strategy too: When you see the whites of their eyes, turn back and run for your lives!

Strategies are for wars. Plans are for battles. I used to like the board game Risk for that lesson.

What will those foxy Huns think of next?

Back to the drawing wall…

What happened to your “run for the hills” strategy , Rodney?

Huns = Covid 19

King of Id = tRump

Rodney = Ivanka tRump

A full and complete description of the tRump Administration response to the cover pandemic.

You mean they didn’t run?

Definition of strategy:

(1): the science and art of employing the political, economic, psychological, and military forces of a nation or group of nations to afford the maximum support to adopted policies in peace or war

(2): the science and art of military command exercised to meet the enemy in combat under advantageous conditions

2a: a careful plan or method : a clever stratagem

b: the art of devising or employing plans or stratagems toward a goal

3: an adaptation or complex of adaptations (as of behavior, metabolism, or structure) that serves or appears to serve an important function in achieving evolutionary success

Definition of tactics:

1a: the science and art of disposing and maneuvering forces in combat

b: the art or skill of employing available means to accomplish an end

2: a system or mode of procedure

3: the study of the grammatical relations within a language including morphology and syntax

Definitions per Meriam-Webster.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy….

too bad we didn’t have one for distributing/administering the Covid vaccine and people weren’t cutting in ahead of those that are more at risk.

Oh no! Not Mary Ann….

Dawn Wells, the wholesome castaway Mary Ann on “Gilligan’s Island,” died of covid-19 on Wednesday at 82.

Pitiful.

Sounds like ID’s military is run by Republicans.