Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 30, 2018

Maybe Zipper can make another one for Zonker and they can double date.

Wow, almost 9AM in Moscow on a Sunday! Do they pay you guys shift diff to work weekends?

дасвиданийа товарищ!

Now, you see folks, this is why we, collectively, need to not feed the troll. DO NOT POST COMMENTS DIRECTLY TO THE TROLL’S INITIAL POST. THAT WILL MAKE THE TROLL THE “FEATURED COMMENT” TO ANYONE WHO CLICKS ON THIS COMIC. Post your replies as an entirely new comment. You can specify to whom you are replying with your comment by starting it with “@Igor of St. Petersburg.”

What you can do NOW to rectify the situation is go to your own reply comment, select all the text, and copy it with your word processing tool. Then DELETE your reply comment using the little red barrel that appears at the top right of your comment box. Come back here, click into a [new comment] box and paste the text you just copied. Put “@Igor of St. Petersburg” at the beginning of your [new comment]. Now you have deprived the troll of one reply. If enough people will do this, Igor can be replaced as FEATURE COMMENT.

I really don’t know what’s more pathetic; a guy who needs a 3-D printer to get a girlfriend or Igor and his other multiple personalities posting mendacious political comments on a cartoon that has nothing to do with politics.

Both the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts were passed by a Democratic controlled congress and signed into law. The senator that lead the filibuster was Storm Thurmond, who switched to the Republican Party in 1964. The Senator that guided the passage of both laws in the Senate was Lyndon Baines Johnson, who as President signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act.

https://mobile.twitter.com/newshound41/status/1046283542232215553

Clarence Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall, the first African American appointed to US Supreme Court by LBJ. Before going to the Supreme Court, he served as Solicitor General in the Johnson Administration. And before that, he was appointed to Court of Appeals, 2nd District by President Kennedy.

@Igor of St. Petersburg Funny, good satirical take from a certain perspective. Presumably you consider yourself essentially conservative. I cannot comprehend how American conservatism has come to embrace Russia as an ideal to be emulated. Nor can I imagine how you will explain yourselves to future generations, when it becomes thoroughly documented, proven, and accepted truth that Russia blatantly, repeatedly, successfully, and continuously including right up to this minute, executed a broad plan to influence the outcome of all U.S. elections, up to and including the President. If I had to predict, I would say you will end up lying about who you supported during these elections.

And Oh Yeah, there was a DOONESBURY comic here too. On a purely dispassionate level I can see why Zipper needed to work heavy OT. But, dude. No.

This is Weird Science! Is Zonk playing Anthony Michael Hall?

wth

In case anyone is wondering about the actual cartoon, I believe this is the original (and only) reference to Thumbelina.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2017/10/08

Flag it

Bernie Sanders and others are calling for an FBI investigation into perjury by Kavanaugh, which is a felony. Call or write your congressman. Check it the article on HuffPost. Don’t give up.

Applications for 3D printers can be great and not so great. Medical assistance with body parts is great, 3D weapons, not so much.

The troll has diarrhea of the pen today.

I will not drawn into a political troll that has no relevancy to today’s Doonesbury, which BTW, – for everyone who went off on tangents – is a very funny commentary of the evolution of 3D printing. Weirdly prophetic since doctors are now reproducing human body parts through 3d printing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-35581454

https://qz.com/616185/this-3d-printer-creates-human-muscles-and-tissues-that-could-actually-replace-real-ones/

Well, I, for one, have been reading the comments by both Igor and Liverlips and, of the two, Igor made me laugh. Liverlips did not. Therefore, I look forward to Igor’s next contribution. Folks, he’s not a troll and he’s definitely not a Russian. He’s someone who can look at issues with a skeptical eye and by exaggeration make them funny. And all of the above commenters fell for it!

All right! An update to “Weird Science”!

That’s one big, expensive 3D printer. The boys must be doing very well at their business.

He made a bong?

@igor – When you used the phrase “We can safely assume”…. you shot down your argument. When you assume, you’re not stating facts, therefore it is opinion, and means little to me.

Great, stay with comedy, we are all sick of politics.

Watch the stock market. Some 3D printer company is about to become the next Apple.

“and like a bad dream, these false memories can be very clear and detailed”

So clear and detailed, in fact, that corroboration of them can be found on the contemporaneous calendar of a future US judge and political hack. What an amazing dream!

This is a much better use of a 3-D printer than just about anything else. Except for artificial limbs.

I read the posts from “Ivan” and a lot of the posts in reply (those I could understand, anyway) and I especially enjoyed the posts regarding the Historical Democratic Party, and, for the most part, they were completely accurate – just not complete, and they stopped at about the time of Richard Nixon being in the White house. So, in the interest of “fairness”, allow me to add a few additional ‘brush strokes’ to the picture!

The Democratic Party, in the 20th Century, was known as a bifurcated party – you could be a “Democrat” – or a “Southern Democrat”. Southern Democrats were ALSO known as “Dixiecrats”! And just to add to the confusion, a person could be a “Dixiecrat” without ever stepping foot in “Dixie”!

Southern Democrats “officially” stood for “States Rights” and, unofficially, for “Keeping the ‘Negro’ in his place!” This was the reason Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats split from the main Democratic Party in 1947 and ran as a “third party” against both Dewey AND Truman. Why? Simple really – they wanted the “right”, on a state by state basis of ‘correcting’ the Truman Executive order of integrating the Armed Forces – up to this point, the states had had the ‘right’ to block any black from serving as a soldier on any base within their state and they knew that integrating the services would destroy this ability – forever. So Thurmond ran for president, Dewey thought he had the election in the bag, and Truman thought he was screwed. But Truman won by a hair’s-breadth and the Democrats said, “welcome back, all’s forgiven!” to the Southern Democrats – thereby setting the stage for the next great upheaval in American politics!

I thought the comic strip was creepy (which it is), then I read Igor of Saint Petersburg’s comment. Yikes!

During the 60s and into the 70s the Democratic Party with the implicit and explicit help from members from the Republican party kept pushing for more and more “civil rights” legislation while the Southern Democratic Party grew ever more incensed. Richard Milhous Nixon and his minions were developing what came to be known as his “Southern Strategy”, however which offered Dixiecrats a perfect exit strategy from the Democratic Party. "Come join the G.O.P. and, together, we will thwart the Democratic strategy of giving ‘blacks’ control over their destiny, control over “white” women!"

(and as disgusting as that scenario sounds, I heard it with my own ears at a political rally held in my hometown in the South, and it was spoken by a Republican political operative sent from the State Capital to appeal to democrats to change their affiliation)

The South basically changed their political affiliation while never altering their political perception. Strom Thurmond, the arch Dixiecrat died in June of 2003, still professing his “States Rights” position, but he did so as an honored Republican.

Remember, always, that to an amazingly large proportion of what’s left of the Republican Party, today, “State’s Rights” STILL MEANS “keeping negroes in their place”, only they’ve expanded it from “negroes” to include “minorities”! In their own deeply perverted way, they, too, are becoming more inclusive.

BTW, Maga man, I worked with and have friends in Poland and Hungary, and I’ve visited those places. They celebrate their liberation from Russia just as gladly as they do their liberation from Nazi Germany. Their biggest fear about Trump and his allegiance to Putin is that it could lead to them being enslaved under brutal and vicious Russian oppression again.

Personally, I’m sticking with Video Girl Ai.

She’s much nicer and she’s a much better conversationalist.

Spinmeister to help us decide. While they have a grotesque KGB thug as their govt.

@daedalusomega: Is this what you’re reduced to, Alex Jones?