Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 07, 2022

Still got the Covid mask disagreements going on, I see…

The Republicans are not going to keep us from voting against them with their piss-ant voter suppression!

One of the most amazing aspects is how many Republican heroes are Traitors.

Or maybe how many Traitors are Republican heroes.

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Especially Their Messiah.

I’m staying out of this one, sometimes I’m smarter than what I look. And that isn’t often

Bad things happen when the undereducated/superstitious/religious — needing a strong leader — are fed anti-democracy propaganda by the ultra-wealthy as a means of sustaining their wealth inequity. By designating greed/accumulation as good and envy/poverty as a sin, they have this segment of the public working against themselves.

In today’s world character and a buck will get you a cup of gas station coffee. The culture has become one that if it cannot be monetized then it has no value.

People simply fail to take note of perfection, assuming it’s obvious.

Anyone believe there will be a 1000 years from now?

There is something seriously wrong with someone who keeps pushing intentional misinformation in spite of the obvious pain it inflicts on the victims. Thank goodness there was a way to impose consequences. Unfortunately, the consequences will never be equal to the evil spewing from Jones’ lips.

Things I can’t unsee in my lifetime: Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster, the January Insurrection, Charlottesville, immigrant children housed in cages, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, 9/11/01 Twin Towers. History will give 45 the credit for three of them.

Character counts = how many keystrokes can be contained in a tweet.

firebird gunner, opspecial, ultra ammosexual, sammy snyder, kat and alfred brown, if you want to learn something of truth, here would be a good place to start.

There was a time when it did. America has now become ’Merica, where honesty, integrity, and decency have been replaced by money, greed, and power. I can hardly bear to see it anymore.

I think character talks and numerals count.

Reagan’s 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt not criticize a fellow Republican.” Reagan actually made Party Over Country the official policy of the Republican Party.

One of the only true things Donald Trump ever said was that he could shoot someone of 5th Avenue and not lose support.

They will gladly see this country crumble to dust as long as someone with an “R” after his name is in charge of the dust.

Now the Repubs are starting to stress over the possibility of a Trump under federal indictment still running for president in 2024 with the continued support of his Congressional sheeple.

So the answer is a guy with imaginary friends and appendages and a gal with an imaginary vocabulary. Perhaps all those who complain- and I do mean all – can come up with an actual solution instead of blaming each other.

They will find the Rosetta Stone of wackos when the speeches of Ted Cruz are discovered.

Character Counts, but MONEY TALKS!!

They should be wearing wet suits, because 1000 years from now, the US will be under water.

Past tense?

Charecter counts. Counts what?

I made the same observation a few weeks ago. This country is CRUMBLING. And I don’t know if it can be stopped.

https://youtu.be/QC6z0nz03JI

Maybe we should give the Presidential Race loser a participant trophy?

Politics has always involved certain degrees of studied lying, i.e. rhetoric. However, callously undermining faith in the entire democratic election system is hypocrisy on a nation-dooming scale. If a candidate will buy into an oh-so-obvious lie, everything they claim to support is suspect.

Character counts—Make yourself the biggest character so one gets lots of free attention so you win your next election on name recognition instead of goals proposed.

Don’t count on Trump’s lying traitor character.

And point out there’s more evidence the 2000 and 2016 elections were stolen and suddenly they either get concerned about “truth” or tell people to get over it.

Trump has lots of his followers running for positions where they can control election outcomes. There are election deniers up for Secretary of State positions in several key states. That’s exactly how Hitler came to power – he put his supporters into high political offices and when he made his move to take over, nobody could stop him.

That’s what’s happening right now and it’s not a joke. There’s a reason the Republicans had a Hungarian authoritarian dictator speaking at CPAC this weekend and a reason they cheered for him.

I first remember this phrase becoming widespread during Bill Clinton’s time, for obvious reasons. Sadly, after 45, it no longer even seems credible.

“Well, there was a character on an old TV Show, ‘Sesame Street’ called ‘The Count’, he counts.”

“Yeah, that’s gotta be it…”

I’d expect to see lots of cockroaches 1000 years from now. But wait, maybe I already do

“Don’t worry, a Christian politician cannot be racist.”— Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary

The real translation later turns out to be “The characters were convicted on all counts of many crimes against their nation, including perjury, fraud, inciting to riot, menacing, and sedition.”

“Clicks count.”

Keep in mind, the GQP is universally convinced that the Big One, the 2020 presidential election, was “stolen” precisely because their despicable candidate received around 58% of the White vote while President Biden, and civility, polled only around 42% of the White vote. It was the “illegal” votes, counted equally, of all of “those other people” that put President Biden in office. That was and is utterly unacceptable to the Q-publiguns, and it’s precisely why they continue to claim that the election was “fraudulent” and “stolen.” They’re just frustrated that they can’t actually say that out loud quite yet and get away with it, and they’re peeved that the rest of the world refuses to understand or sympathize with their frustration.

Democracy is crumbling around us. Yes, it is, thanks to the democrats who are now running the show.

Anyone who thinks Biden really won is totally delusional. I prefer the democrats that know it was election theft but don’t care.

Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo…

1000 years from now and they’re doubtless still searching for evidence of election fraud.

Who’s Character, and what pronouns did they go by, regardless of whether they counted?!!

In a refreshing burst of honesty, the opening of CPAC announced “we are all domestic terrorists”.

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I mean, that’s eminently evident, but thanks for the confirmation.

Their slogan should be “whatever it takes to win”

Then what does count?

This is just depressingly accurate

They will think the country was run by a bunch of two year olds

Hahahahaha…Trudeau actually thinks there will still be people here in 1,000 years. There very well might not be people here in 100 years the way we’re destroying the planet.

I don’t think Americans know what character is. “Character counts” is just another empty bumper sticker slogan, having no meaning.

http://www.blessourhearts.net/2011/10/whats-it-all-mean-mr-natural-part-ii.html

Yes. 280 characters, to be precise.

Not if you are a republican, character is a quaint useless concept.

We’ll see what happens. The investigation is complicated and it may be that we will never be able to get our hands on some of the key evidence to nail trump and his ilk.

Psst. Biden is President. The country is a mess.

Optimistic final panel.

I’m with Mel… those 90 days in Portland were hard to take!!