Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 14, 2024

Cognishly umpired? Is Trump talking about Ángel Hernández?

(Baseball fans will get this.)

This is why Keith Olbermann calls him “Dimentia J Trump”.

This is the guy whose picture is next to “word salad” in the dictionary.

LOVE these anti-Trump Sunday strips! Wish they could be carried over into the week, instead of reruns.

That explains Florida. Land of the senile seniors.

MONDAY!!!!

Another cartoon beyond the MAGAt comprehension.

There’s some guy running for senate or dogcatcher or something dumpty endorsed. He claims residents of nursing homes votes are invalid because they can be filled in by caregivers because they are too senile to know who they are voting for. Trust me, don’t p**s off the elderly, we aren’t as out of it as you think we are. I am 72 and still do the New York Times crossword puzzle in ink everyday. I’ll run rings around the MAGGAT booger eating base.

Oooh, I’m saving this one. I’ve found the perfect place already to post it as a reply!

The thing is, that MAGAts no longer even listen to his speeches or statements in terms of complete sentences, let alone paragraphs.

When he says really stupid things like “We have to be crime back to law and order.”, all they hear are a couple phrases, like ‘crime’ and ‘law & order’ and they cheer like hell. They don’t know what they are even cheering for, just that they have heard the triggering words and / or phrases.

Trump has no coherent policy about anything except lower taxes for rich people and corporations and they don’t even understand that none of that will benefit any of them.

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MAGAts’ only other ‘policy’ has been Hatred Of Obama, followed by Hatred Of Hillary, now transitioned to Hatred Of Biden.

All of them should be locked up because Trump has presidential immunity.

I like that Trudeau has latched on to Trump’s invisible squeeze box hand motions.

trump is payback for President Obama.

This would be fall down funny if it wasn’t so accurate.

Imagine being an ASL interpreter at his rally. Might be the reason we do not see one. Of course, as he said about disabled veterans, he does not want to be associated with “those kind of people “.

Okay, even I think two Sunday strips on Trump in a row is a bit much. Who cares what I think?

;-)

But the credit for destroying public education goes way back. Quite a bit with super-hypocrite Bill Bennett, Secretary of anti-Education back in the ‘80s. Last I heard he was still around and supporting the orange puppet, fruit of Bill’s poisoned schools.

Truly an embarassment that such a person can be proposed as a presidential candidate in the U.S.

How many of these odd phrases were actually said by Trump?

Wonderful cartoon. I hope GT didn’t permanently bend any cognitive faculties by forcing hisimagination down such a twisted and filthy rat-hole.

I think the only way I could vote for Trump is if my I.Q. plummets below 100 and matches his.

Starting his Orange-Man-Bad already. Poor Garry.

@Local 574: "“Orange-Man-Bad”. Well, Trump is very bad, in very many ways; his shaky cognitive state is just one.

I’ve chosen to spend my senescence/

Governed by a white-booted putrescence:/

I just turned eighty-four/

But I promise, Señor,/

I won’t vote for the Orange Excrescence !

Hands are drawn too large

And right on time, another Trudeau TDS episode. I think how funny it is that guy has lived rent free in all of your heads for so long.

If he actually took the Montreal Test (which I doubt he did) he would have known ahead of time the questions and practiced or had the five words: face, church, red, velvet, daisy written down. Proof?? He was unable to recall any of the actual words and could only come up with man, woman, person, camera, TV. Or even more likely he just order Dr Ron to say he “aced” it.

Senile seniors and a GOOFY guv.

Look at his tiny tiny hands!

Finally, the small hands show up.

Wow, it’s like I’m in the room in conversation with him now.

I mean, 74,000,000, at what point do you have to admit to yourselves that maintaining support for THIS is just dysfunctional?:

I do enjoy the “5th Dimension”.

It’s only sarcasm if you do it intentionally to mock someone. No cluelessly. Trump would happily do it maliciously though, there is no bottom to the level of low to which he and his ilk will not stoop.

Frighteningly, Trudeau doesn’t have to make up much of Trump’s speech.

I can’t wait until I’m old enough to invent my own language

I’m reminded of the writings of agatha christie- when peroit will tell someone getting worked up “Do not derange yourself”

It all makes sense to me…should I be concerned?

Hands are still too big.

“Losing words,” as she put it, was one of the first signs of my mother’s dementia.

Did Biden vote for Trump?

guh…too much like him.

Why is there never a Sunday strip of a satirical nature of that dementia filled talking head the Dems have to run against him? Too much financial power to run up against? Fear of retribution.I think you are a coward Trudeau.

You have to grudgingly admire Rupert’s script writers for Fox News that Trump’s disability is kept hidden.

Alzheimer’s on Adderol

I wonder why Mr. Trudeau doesn’t care to mention some of Biden’s foibles, such as:Repeatedly pooping his pantsFalling down (or up) stairsWalking around aimlessly in circlesNot being able to put two sentences together without a prompterMaking up life stories and putting himself, Zelig like, in numerous scenarios and places he has never been inPlagiarizing speeches from other politiciansLying about his son’s cause of deathIgnoring his granddaughter, trying to ignore Hunter’s anticsI could go on but you get the point…But agenda driven grifting cartoonists can be like that…

Criminal defendant with 38 felony counts Trump’s election sedition trial starts tomorrow.

Back in the Republican primary debates of 2016, conservative pundit David Brooks said that Ted Cruz had an IQ 30 points higher than Trump’s. I did the math, and realized Cruz was at an even 100…..

Oh, god…We need a serious huge Blue tide… I can’t even bring myself to write a cute or funny retort to this one.

Hey, when did Garry Trudeau start giving us nonfiction?

I thought maybe it was going to be like when you use arithmetic to put a measurement in context. I’ve passed the test Trump took a couple of times. I sometimes call our current cat by the name of one of her predecessors. I always apologize to her.

Truly sad what has happened to my Florida. Born and raised here. 4th generation. Still is beautiful in a few parts that have not been sold to the highest bidder.

too bad Mike Schmidt from Portland never gets any attention.

trudeau often tries to get realistic with human body parts, hair’s good, but the hands are too big

He keeps using the words ‘powerfully’ and ‘strongly’. And sure, he’s powerfully this and strongly that, but odor isn’t everything.

You’ll notice that most MAGAts on this forum don’t actually list any of Trump’s supposed good qualities or accomplishments. Instead they resort to irrelevancies like “you’ve all got TDS” or “so’s Joe Biden”. It wasn’t always like this. Some of them actually used to claim that Trump was a good president, with many successes in office (strong military, prison reform, expanded workforce, detestation of immigrants, others). Well, let’s indulge in the fantasy that all of that is completely true, that all his goals were worthy and he accomplished them spectacularly well.

Let me respond using an analogy. Suppose you have a wonderful neighbor who helps mow lawns and shovel sidewalks, regularly donates blood, is kind to children and animals, serves as a poll worker, volunteers at a food pantry, and always buys Girl Scout cookies. Oh, and he also took a meat cleaver to his wife.

Substitute “tried to overthrow the US government” for that meat-cleaver bit, and you’ll understand why there aren’t enuf Girl Scout cookies in the world to redeem Donald Trump.

Well said, Garry ♥♥

I realize that Trudeau is partly retired but I do missed the daily script….

If an average kindergartener could pass it , then why is Biden afraid to take it? Can GT come up with a clever answer for that?

If he truly loves “the cognishly umpired”, then Ángel Hernández is his man!

If the possibility that Trump might go back to pretending to be POTUS wasn’t so terrifying, it would be LOL hilarious.

He goes downhill from here. But he can still win.

Off-Topic: There’s a webcomic that was one of my favorite strips for over twenty years. Charming characters, intriguing locations, thought-provoking story arcs, romance (gay and otherwise), adventure, poetry, satire, film homages, left-wing politics, and, of course, HUMOR. It was GREAT. It wasn’t by any means perfect, mind you, but it was GREAT.

Then, some time last year, something…happened in the artist’s life, and everything twisted into an opposite world view: Racism, anti-feminism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-immigrant sentimens, anti-vaxx rhetoric, baseless personal attacks on Biden, and RABID anti-semitism, worse that I’ve seen since Foreskin Man #2 ^ . The guy was out-Dave-Simming Dave Sim ^ . I held on for a while, hoping that this would be just, I don’t know, a phase or something — the strip had gone through many changes of focus over the years — but I finally recognized that that was how it was going to be from now on (unless he changes again in another twenty years or so). It was just going to keep offending me and appalling me every morning and it was probably going to get even worse.

So I stopped reading the strip. Problem solved.

Maybe the Trudeau bashers in here could stop reading THIS strip. Problem solved.

^ so look ’em up, what am I, your mother, that I should spoon-feed you…?

I wonder if Garry Trudeau does his own coloring. It would be hard to provide sufficiently precise instructions to a colorist about how to apply Disaster Pumpkin’s phony “suntan”.

He rarely completes a sentence when not reading from a teleprompter. When in doubt, he throws in some old, long-disproved lie. If he comes on too strong, he knows the media will be happy to publish the next day that it was a joke. The “jokes” are wearing thin.

He only thinks he knows it well…he is about to know it a lot better.

His hands appear to get smaller with each panel.

The Washington Post reported that his campaign mostly releases videos rather than having him speak in person where they can’t control when his dementia mangles his words, especially the word endings. That’s one reason why having him debate Biden is so important: people need to see how he really is now.

…and the current wife is ‘Mercedes’?

His hands seem so tiny. Harder to grab stuff, I would imagine.

And it’s a long flyball to Because. Why? I don’t know He’s on third and I don’t give a damm