Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 31, 2023

Is this where Ivanka comes in?

Wake up, Mike! It’s all infrastructure and jobs!

Hebrew slaves in Egypt, Rosie. But your grandpa is 100% correct!

Not sure that Biden’s connections are so positive to the country…

Neither one of them builds the princess tower, kiddo; that’s a job for Esmeralda, the fairy queen. (Just go with it, Mike.)

Republicans will promise to build the unicorn stables, the fairy gazebo, give you a better healthcare plan and make Mexico pay for the wall, and then do bupkis.

Those things are left up to the states to build, honey.

The American political system is fatally broken. Consider that the results of the presidential elections of 2000, 2016, and 2020 could have been reversed by flipping a grand total of around 50,000 votes. (The number is usually given around twice that, but a flipped vote actually counts twice.) That represents less than 0.1% of the total votes. The candidates in those elections were NOT at all similar, and yet the system is being rigged to treat them equally.

You think everything balances out? No, sane elections between wildly different candidates should not be close calls.

Joke time: The Electoral College was actually intended to put the presidency in wiser hands than the voters’, but now they are “pledged” to whatever stupid decision the voters can be conned into—and the con artists just keep getting better at making horse race games out of the elections.

In Canada, with all our flaws we have ~5 elected political parties. A majority is a disaster. A minority government means to pass legislation, at least two parties have to agree to it. That means campaigning from the edges but governing from the centre. Usually a lot calmer. (Till this last year. We got a few extremists in there somehow.)

So, which one brings JOBS? Well, it sure ain’t Dopey Joe. Or his son Snorty the Nose Goblin, unless that job is Pixie Dust Peddler.

And, of course, it’s not the BIDEN Princess. Or a Biden Tower, either. Only one of the two has a princess and a tower.

“Biden builds bridges” Meanwhile our Sanctuary Cities are declaring that they can’t take the people crossing Biden’s bridges.

No, BIden destroys the foundations of America and opens the front door so anyone can come in and take your blocks. He then tells you that owning blocks is selfish and accuses you of racism for playing with the white blocks.

Am I the only one that disagrees with ( panel six ) ?

YOU do, sweetheart. Keep up the good work!

Aw Mike……it’s HAIR. The difference is HAIR.

Glad to see Alex is still alive. Last we saw her she had X’s for eyes. As for the difference between Biden & Trump, that’s easy: Biden is good and Trump is evil.

Mike: You could have left off the last two frames

Girl, you’re just gonna have to build them yourself.

I would comment, but I would get blasted, so happy new year, and pray for God’s protection.

Bad news sweetie… Trump’s sons hunted the unicorns, shot them, and hung their heads on the wall.

“He is a threat to democracy so we are not going to allow people to vote for him.”

Okaaaaay….who is keeping out democracy?

Hope everyone has a happy and prosperous new year!

If Trump built the Princess Tower he would move into it.

Easy, Mike. Biden wants to build a better future where the unicorns can roam and play. Trump wants to hunt them down and exterminate them.

MUST be BOOPSIE’S granddaughter.

Trump builds the Princess tower so she can be controlled. The milkmaid cottage is built by HUD and the unicorn stables also built by Trump, since he’s a stable genius and most of his beliefs are as real as unicorns.

So…much…TDS…

Omnis analogia claudet

Who builds the stables? Easy! Bunkerboy SAYS he will EVENTUALLY build them if EVERYONE donates NOW . . . then NOTHING gets built as he uses his drugs! KAGA!

HIPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

Bridges and walls. Very apt metaphors, Mr. Trudeau

The race is on and it looks like heartache and the Winner loses All!!

GoComics is kinda slim pickins today….

I don’t think his metaphor ‘hit wall’ at all. I thought the answer to all those had already been explained.

so when did Rosie come in?

Trump builds wealth, Biden builds poverty and dependance on government

Joe Biden took the time to visit Arizona on September 28, 2023 only to avoid and ignore his border crisis.

Toggle must be an excellent chef…

Trump appeals to those who are in love with themselves for being American, and are aghast at the idea that those not exactly like them might also feel pride and demand fair treatment. Trump’s supporters will gladly allow him to destroy this country so long as he promises to rebuild it in only their image.

Neither will actually build thoze things. But Biden would agree you have the right to do it yourself if you can, whereas Trump would accuze you of planning to uze them to do nasty things to children and, despite not having any evidence of this, uze it as an excuse to get you locked up. And he’ll say he’s doing it in the name of freedom.

The difference is, Biden represents the liberal wing of the ruling capitalist class, and Trump represents the conservative wing of the ruling capitalist class. Workers get it.

Lovely to open the comics for enjoyment and laughter, and be hit face-on with political rhetoric.

Happy New Year, Brother Teamster. Happy trails!

Biden builds bridges? More Trudeau BS.

Trump promises to build them all. Mexico or deluded investors will pay for them.

Good advice: build bridges, not walls.

“Well, now you’re talking about Congress.” :)

Just kidding, great job, guys and gals. Try to do more next year, though.

In the meanwhile, Little Rosie has become bored of the grown-uppy talk and turned on the TV to watch Peppa Pig.

That doesn’t mean he is wrong. Would not normally post something this long but I want to make sure people see this. It is from Dr Heather Cox Richardon’s letters from an American today. You want to know where the numbers come from se has a link verifying each and every one.“The U.S. economy is stronger than that of any other country in the Group of Seven (G7)—a political and economic forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, along with the European Union—with higher growth and faster drops in inflation than any other G7 country over the past three years.

Heather Long of the Washington Post said yesterday there was only one word for the U.S. economy in 2023, and that word is “miracle.”

Rather than cooling over the course of the year, growth accelerated to an astonishing 4.9% annualized rate in the third quarter of the year while inflation cooled from 6.4% to 3.1% and the economy added more than 2.5 million jobs. The S&P 500, which is a stock market index of 500 of the largest companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges, ended this year up 24%. The Nasdaq composite index, which focuses on technology stocks, gained more than 40%. Noah Berlatsky, writing for Public Notice yesterday, pointed out that new businesses are starting up at a near-record pace, and that holiday sales this year were up 3.1%.

Unemployment has remained below 4% for 22 months in a row for the first time since the late 1960s. That low unemployment has enabled labor to make significant gains, with unionized workers in the automobile industry, UPS, Hollywood, railroads, and service industries winning higher wages and other benefits. Real wages have risen faster than inflation, especially for those at the bottom of the economy, whose wages have risen by 4.5% after inflation between 2020 and 2023.

“….Who builds what actually care about??”

Gag

Thumbs down.

Disney … Disney builds the princess tower … and sometimes the employee dungeon.

builds bridges? I’ve NEVER hated a statement more and laughed harder!

Oh, that’s easy, hon. The BernieBros build the fairytale stuff.

The last president in this country who was even remotely independent and who actually cared about the people of the U. S. was JFK—and we all know what happened to him after briefly being in office. There are no “parties” and there are no independent presidents: there’s only the National Security State. When Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) becomes our form of currency, any pretense to democracy or a republic will end.

In today’s strip (12/31/2023) the dialog is incomplete. “Biden builds bridges…sustainable future for illegal aliens’ access to our country to use our resources to undermine our economy.”“But Trump builds walls…rule of law to protect us from invasion, thereby preserving our economy.” “Uh…fairy gazebo? Obama, of course.”“Uh…again. Obama.”

FJB

That’s an easy answer Mike.

Anything the #OrangeJuliusCaesar builds will be constructed using Inferior materials. That’s how all his “Properties” were built. Plus, he never Paid his contractors.

So, you have to go with Biden for a Quality tower that won’t collapse the first time the Princess runs up the stairs.

We going to be building plenty of gun towers in about a year. BTW what a joke of a doonesbury. Judging by the comments,I’m not alone.

Kind of a shame there’s no “ignore” function on this site. Because as it is, the only way I can read more posts from “our side” is to expose myself to more posts from “their side,” which are way more unpleasant than “our” posts are pleasant. IMHO. I try to minimize my exposure to Trump rhetoric because I’m suicidal enough as it is, thanks.

An unusually unhesitant remark from Leo in the last panel.

Lots of Trumpy trolls here, and getting fed.

They only read Doonesbury to moan about it.

I missed your comment directed at me.

It’s a good thing Trudeau limits his politics to the comic section rather than the political area. He makes as much sense as does his namesake Justin.

LOL Right. The Biden administration has perfect control of the southern border. No wall required

Jim Abbott should be given a mental test,starting yesterday

Oh brother! Sleepy Joe the Saint!

Marianne Williamson definately is the one bringing the fairy gazebos and unicorn stables to the party!

“Tommy Boy” could help with this answer. Grab a model car and start crashing it into all the structures. Crash and burn.