Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 03, 2013

June is International Do Not Feed the Trolls month.

A hard lesson in life, but one I’ve learned: Just because you’re related to someone doesn’t mean you have to like them.

I thought that the strip switched to a new subject on Monday. Unless Mike or Zonker appear within the next two days, it’s gonna be another looong week…

(Sorry to those who are enjoying the Alex/Toggle! I’ll be quiet and go to bed now.)

Yeah Dude, you should give it a rest. I think it’s clear that you’re out-classed…..he’s obviously a master baiter.

Leave yesterdays business yesterday.Geeze its like discovering your new toy.You just can’t leave it alone.

Get inoculated to save yourself the embarrassment of suffering from Mad Troll Disease.

So Tucci … Why do you bother to follow GD then? Wouldn’t you have more fun retreading Mein Kamph?

You’re too late J.J!

It’s nice when someone like Tucci calls the War on Terror “Progressive,” instead of what it is, a fabrication of Bush and his neocon cronies. It’s a clear signal that I can stop paying any attention to their comments and move on to “Heavenly Nostrils.” I appreciate the time-saver.

A classic narcissist. Lucky her other parents are ok.

Crikey! If we ignore the trolls, we’ll all succumb to low blood pressure!

So, can she get a hairstyle that isn’t ca. 1992 now that she’s a Doctor?

Is her Mom still with the loser she left Mike for?

She just had twins and they are going to visit because of the PhD? I mean it is great that she got the PhD, but she just had twins! Guess it is a kill 2 birds with 1 stone visit…

We need more details about the new little ones. Names would be a start.

Hmm… If Alex’s mom had gotten that masters, maybe she’d know what a Ph.D. is….

Any bets on names? Twin boys. Eddie and Freddy? No, they don’t do that to twins anymore. I think they said Jacob is the most popular boy name. There is a lot of using a family last name for first names. What was Toggle’s last name?

De Luca. Could call him Luke for short. And Doonesbury could be Dooney. So, there you have it. Maybe.

This strip makes me feel guilty. I bailed on my sister’s PhD graduation last month. I’d already shelled out the entrance fee and spent several months training for a century ride to the top of Mount Mitchell before I knew there was a conflict.

You have to admit, there are an awful lot of Tylers, Taylors, Kennedys, etc. out there these days.

It great the economy is reviving. It would have recovered a little faster of the party of NO! had not been blocking everything. Well i guess trying to repeal the needed ACA was important. Fighting against same gender marriage from the federal level down was needed to get people back to work.. I imagine trying to rollback rights from the state level and now up to e house level is always a bell ringer for how well the republican/ tea party really understands America..

Yep, all that sure did help. Along with four years of we will make him a one term President. It swept the a republican nominee for President right in to a shyt can along with a few republicans.. And hey another election cycle will see a few more gone. Think the republican party will get the message or is it going to take losing another presidential election to get their notice that not every one is a far right conservative.

Despite the comments of some, I don’t think that Alex has had her babies yet (see lumpy stomach in last panel). Yesterday’s comic was just a kind of silly projection into the future, IMO.

The is comic strip commentary…take your freakin politic rants somewhere else….

The dollar amount is only relevant to the context of value. Margin debt is still significantly lower as a percentage of market cap than it was in 2007. We’re likely to see smart investors taking their profits & moving out of some stocks. I expect some drop this year. Lombardi has been predicting doom every year for over a decade. That doesn’t qualify as an accurate record in my book. Lombardi is in the business of selling his newsletters @ $195 a year.Most of us here don’t have big portfolios, so unless you want to explain how this is more credible or relevant than other stock market predictions, I’ll chalk this up as more bomb throwing. (Perfect avatar, btw)Stocks go up, stocks go down,This old world keeps spinning round…

When does the Bachmann roast start? This is boring, it’s starting to look luke Funky Winkerbean.

her mother could be a selfish, self-centered, ignorant, attention whore who has a xanax addiction, pack a day habit, and an alcohol dependence.

“The story lines centering on Toggle and B.D. are really the only reason for any sane, decent (i.e., non-“Liberal”) readers to follow Trudeau’s strip at all.”So, in your disturbing state of mind Lincoln, Albert Schweitzer, FDR, Einstein and Jesus (just to name a very few) were insane and indecent, as they were liberals.What kind of person equates generosity and an open mind with indecency and insanity?Someone who might be off their meds, and should get back on them before they experience a serious, and perhaps dangerous mental breakdown.

“Do you “Liberal” puckers have to be this stupid?Why, of course you do! You wouldn’t be “Liberals” otherwise, wouldja?”

I can’t help but imagine you angrily hunched over at your keyboard, muttering to yourself and with flecks of spittle flying from your mouth as you pound out your diatribes against the dreaded “Liberals.”This kind of fierce hatred of someone who wants good for everyone, not just the select few, is a sign of a serious mental disorder.You are a very scary dude. I expect we’ll see you on the evening news any day now.

Rumour has it that at least one poster has his room in his mom’s basement decorated to look just like Glenn Beck’s studio, complete with a life size cut-out of GB.

Thanks to our “debauched dollar”, we have been able to increase exports. If we get to the point where that actually translates into something like, y’know, FULL EMPLOYMENT, we’ll need to reverse monetary policy. I suppose you’d like to go back to the barbarism of the gold standard & rotary telephones.You seem to think we should live in an ‘every man for himself’ society. You want a land where a man can rise to the level of his ability without the interference of government? Somalia is waiting.

CS Lewis also said,“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”You don’t have an inkling of what CS Lewis was about.

So if the stock market is the be-all and end-all of civilization, it’s about over?-and yet the sun is shining, the wind is blowing, I am full of fried chicken and potato salad.-Perhaps we need to learn to index those indicators too.

“jacked up even further by your Magical Mystery Muslim Messiah.”-If President Obama wanted to be Muslim, he could do so. Nothing he has said or done indicates such is his desire. Your insistence on calling him Muslim reduces your otherwise high credibility.

A man is what he calls himself unless there is clear evidence to the contrary.

A man is who he calls himself, since it‘s his name to decide for himself once he is grown.

“The dollar-denominated indices employed by obamaphiles to burble about how the economy is “recovering” under the malignant depredations of our Kenyan Keynesian don’t mean a frelkin’ thing if the dollar has been debauched so badly that it can’t be used as a gauge of measurement.”-Keynes was an idiot and it is silly to follow his economic policies, but the Kenyan complaint is a bit peculiar. Is that just another way of calling him black? Well, never mind, it obviously is.I guess that’s a black mark against him.-But now, as to money, all money is imaginary. Even if it were backed by gold, it would only have value depending on how much people valued the gold.-Money works as a medium of exchange only as long as everyone keeps imagining it has value. YOU are trying to gum up the works by pointing out the obvious fact that it isn’t real.-It’s up to you, but I might point out that all that you have and which is delivered to you depends on other people thinking your money is worth working to obtain through goods and services. If they realize the truth, you will soon die of starvation or some other malady.

I’ve had enough. I’ve contacted the moderators about the few posters here who – while stating that they don’t even like this strip – are determined to dominate the comments with completely off-topic, angry, insulting rants. And I invite those of you who enjoy the strip to view it on Slate – where it appears in its own feature, which also includes “the Sandbox”, a blog by veterans and currently serving troops about their experiences.GuardSGT, Tucci: if you folow, and try to disrupt the discussions there, you will find that the moderators are far less tolerant of your juvenile behavior than the establishment here. Just to let you know.

moderator@gocomics.com

http://doonesbury.slate.com/

Oops. Forgot about the Eli and Danny names. Sounds like a winner.

I also mentioned that the last frame may have been imaginary yesterday. It did not seem like it was definitely imaginary though.

We REALLY need to bring back Dueling! It’s like a bunch of angry Monkeys throwing Sh*t around here. Even if there is one sensible, intelligent voice on both sides in all this nonsense here you’ll never see it, cause it gets so tiresome, trying to wade through all the vitriolic verbiage.

“And whoever said that I give a damn – except in the abstract, as I’m obliged by the canons of my profession – about your “health”?”Oh, good God, you’re a doctor of medicine?And I thought that Josef Mengele was dead.

Polarization isn’t all bad. Polarization = mobilization. You have to be a little naive if you think getting through all the political-social arguments in our time or any other time is going to be easy. It is always really hard to see social change through. Still, getting through the civil rights era, for example was worth it!

Rachel maddow is giving a shout out to GT right now!

Lacy davenport = Millicent fenwick. Millicent lost against Frank Lautenberg, who died today. RIP Frank Lautenberg.

Actually I said Einstein was a genius, not FDR.

But then you’d have had to actually read what I wrote to know that.As far as your being an MD, hopefully you are a pathologist, for your likely bedside manner would only be appropriate for corpses.

The “most of us” to whom you refer are a small number overall, and time and age is taking its toll on their sorry kind. Like most reactionaries, your kind will die out, and its sad ideas along with it.Conservatives are always history’s punch line. You’ve gone far today to prove that.Anxiously await your next feverish rant. They are always good for a laugh.At you, sadly, not with you.

One thing is terribly clear about you, you became a doctor for the money. Your endless ranting about your money and your property, couple with your obvious lack of compassion for anything but your fellow reactionaries (and perhaps not even them if they wanted anything from you), makes your motive all too clear.Too bad you didn’t take your hyperactive verbosity and vulgar manner in the practice of law; you could have made far more money for being exactly what you are.And I repeat my comment that doctors who do it for the money are like corrupt cops and pedophile priests.

Ahhh, Guard SGT. Things seemed so relatively quiet and moderately civilized without your two cents being tossed in.Now things seem back to abnormal.Always lovely to hear from you.

It seems when reason fails one must resort to stronger methods. I went to the contact us section and filed a respectful message regarding our resident evil. I don’t know, maybe it will help. It would help more if many of us did this. John

“No, I’m a general practitioner – y’know, one of those mangled care “gatekeeper physicians” who’s supposed to hold down third-party-payor costs by denying their clients access to expensive diagnostic and therapeutic options.”Some day when you’re pulling an Ayn Rand, covertly sucking up that sweet socialist milk you claim to despise, I hope you remember the nonsense you’re spewing today.More importantly, I hope someone is there to remind you.“Not me!”, you cry, “I have provided for myself!”The best laid schemes of Tucci & men, oft go awry. Just because you’ve got yours now, doesn’t mean it can’t disappear in one stroke of bad luck.BTW, you are not forced to accept Medicaid or Medicare patients, & you will not be forced to accept people covered by Obamacare. So shut up about being “forced” to do anything.Heck, I’m surprised a charming GP like you doesn’t have a stable of rich & famous patients who pay in cash. Of course, they might really ask you to compromise your ethics. Will you take the money & serve up the propofol?Ah wait. You said “mangled care” as in Managed Care, aka, the “Real Life Death Panels of the Insurance Industry”. Methinks you rail against the wrong foe.

There’s a test done where they examine a sample of your stool. If irregularities are found, then you have the colonoscopy. Her doctor is just looking to do the expensive tests so he can bill the insurance company for more money. Truly a scumbag.Glad your results weren’t too serious, but ask about alternatives when 2017 rolls around.

My God you use a lot of German for a guy called Tucci.Are you sure you aren’t Mengele?

“Your Room at the homeless shelter????”Seriously, that’s the best you’ve got? You probably think homeless shelters are like Holiday Inn with cheaper toilet paper. Get out of your bubble, Sarge.Try this for a week:And they turn people away every day for lack of space. But, what do you care? Not your problem.

Hey, Mr. Trudeau (may I call you Garry?),Don’t know if you bother to check in on this circus at GoComics, but if you do, I hope you appreciate the amount of spleen being spilled here today.Your strip has always resulted in discourse in the forums of public opinion. It’s damned impressive that you still so tweak peoples’ emotions after 4 decades!Bravo, Garry (even if you are a 2 R Gary). well done!

“But when a patient “ages onto” Medicare – or the family breadwinner loses his job and can’t get health insurance coverage – or the custodial grandmother brings her daughter’s kids into the office asking me to see them even though they’ve got nothing but Medicaid – just what the hell am I supposed to do?”.How I feel for ya. Ain’t it a be-yotch when you have to do for those ridiculous poor people who can’t afford decent health care?Don’cha just wish they’d all die? Then you wouldn’t have to bother with them, and your life could just be one big cash machine.And isn’t it just awful when you wife says something sensible to you? How do you stand it?p.s. Repeal the 22nd Amendment!Obama 2016!.You’re so much fun to piss off, like a neighbor’s dog when I was a kid and we would pop our heads up over the fence because we knew he’d just go haywire.Now that I look back on it, it was pretty childish behavior, but we were just kids..Years from now I may look back at baiting you and think it was childish, too, but for now you remind me of the cranky yapping dog, and it is funny.

Gary McSpook said,@DavidHuieGreen “FDR made a serious mistake, tho’ it was not his alone, to be sure”.It may or may not have been a mistake. It was definitely an action taken due to racism and despite the written objections of J. Edgar Hoover. Nor was it his only mistake. Economists still argue the policies he pushed delayed our exit from the Great Depression. They gave people hope, so they were politically expedient, but that is not the same as being good ideas..

“My main point was that Tucci, in his bitter hatred of all things Liberal, would by his own words find these men insane and indecent”.More than that, very likely declare Liberal any who disagreed. That is a common thing, just as folks used to call anybody a Communist who did anything with which they disagreed..A greater danger is the tendency to act as if our heroes were flawless and their every word the WORD OF GOD to be trusted absolutely..As to Einstein, let us not forget that his first Nobel was for writing an equation explaining the photoelectric effect even though he rejected the science of quantum mechanics which grew from that understanding. .Being a genius is not the same as knowing everything or always being right.-I’m reminded of the wife of the commanding officer over some prisoners in the Philippines . She decided the prisoners should not have to eat whole rice, rather white rice. She didn’t know the favored rice lacked the nutrients to keep them healthy. .Sometimes good intentions kill. Let us be cautious, even our enemies may be right.And who knows? they might secretely be our friends.

Must be an anesthesiologist; they make the most money, have no practice, work about fifteen minutes an hour and do nithing but gripe about how Obamacare is ruining their lives.