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   anonanonanon said, 3 months ago

   Now, before you all start posting comments here about Jeff’s intelligence, or the motivations behind his CO’s actions, you are all aware taht this is a cartoon right? And these these people are drawings of characters created by a very clever cartoonist as a medium for social commentary? Just checking, because some of the comments on past strips leave me wondering whether you all get the idea of satire.

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   Margueritem said, 3 months ago

   This isn’t real?!? Gasp! I’m totally crestfallen….

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   baslim_the_begger said, 3 months ago

   Hey anon! Stop insulting our intelligence and let us worry about our involvement with fictional characters. If there’s no involvement of the reader, the writer lose readers. And yes, that applies to the cartoons on op-ed pages, too. They are meant to elicit a reaction from the reader. Go back under a bridge.

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   Susan001 said, 3 months ago

   Garry, it’s very early, I know, but I hope you’ll draw a tribute to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy soon.

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   Lewreader said, 2 months ago

   Yeah. The parents of Mary-Jo could give the eulogy

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   bmwk12ltc said, 2 months ago

   I agree with Lewreader.

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   BobMcK said, 2 months ago

   Kennedy was an evil, evil drunk. If there is a Hell, he is most certainly there right now. The U.S. is far better off today than it was yesterday.

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   humormehere said, 2 months ago

   For all the benefit his big brother had on this country (imaginary or not) Ted, (although I really don’t feel comfortable speaking ill of the dead) was an example of what is wrong with American politics. I’m sure he was a great guy and all, but his political sense was exactly wrong most of his life.

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   Nick V said, 2 months ago

   To get back on the comic - the guy at the desk sure has a way of sounding officious about absolutely nothing…

   Remind you of anyone?

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    Fer Lefer said, 2 months ago

    Gee… if you could take a look south the Rio Grande… to Patagonia!

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    RinaFarina said, 2 months ago

    I think Ted Kennedy was a pretty good person (flawed, but who isn’t? after Mary Jo I never saw him in the papers for that kind of thing again).

    And he did do some good things in politics. But it seems like he was what Americans would call “left-wing”, so any conservative/Republican/right-wing person would just automatically condemn him.

    I find American politics very polarized. You get your label (e.g. left-wing, right-wing, and so on), and then you don’t have to think about anything - your ideas about each issue (e.g. gun control, abortion, “socialized” medicine, the “nanny” state (where did that expression come from? I never heard of it until Obama was elected), etc…) are all laid out for you, and you don’t have to think. Your opinions have been prepared for you by other people, who act as authority figures.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 2 months ago

    Jeff is NOT in the US Military; therefore he has NO commanding officer. He is in the CIA. And, he is completely clueless as to what he’s supposed to be doing and the truth about that is he’s not supposed to do anything at all.

    One time when he did something right, it actually happened by accident.

    In other words, he is a parasite living on taxpayers’ money.

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    RinaFarina said, 2 months ago

    The whole point about satire is that it must look as though the author has gone too far, in order to make a point. Generally I find that when I think Trudeau has gone too far, it turns out that I don’t know enough about American politics, and actually he wasn’t particularly exaggerating at all! It’s a case of “Truth is stranger than fiction”!

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    AKHenderson said, 2 months ago

    Jeff smells something fishy - by golly he really does belong in the CIA.

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    BlueRaven said, 2 months ago

    Kennedy did far more good for many people than any of his detractors will ever be capable of performing, including all of you Kopechne-talkers here, combined. Enough. Said.

    Massachusetts native growls quietly and subsides

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    PappyFiddle said, 2 months ago

    We’re finally rid of the jerk, but the stupidity that kept him there is still in place. Maybe Redfern could go track down something.

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    Potrzebie said, 2 months ago

    If the supervisor really wanted to make Redfern feel special, he would have given him a Top Secret courier envelope stuffed with newpapers…

    Then the Taliban captures him and all hell breaks lose as they think that there is some encrypted info in there!

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    Ravenswing said, 2 months ago

    Rina’s 100% right. It’s not what ideas you actually have, it’s what side you’re on, and you’d better not deviate from the party line.

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    Ushindi said, 2 months ago

    BlueRaven: You summed it up perfectly as far as I’m concerned. It’s been 40 years since Chappaquiddick and Kennedy HAS done much for the people in that time, even the ones who still rant.

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    3hourtour said, 2 months ago

    …he’s been Obama-sized…

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    Tigger said, 2 months ago

    The Lightbulb brightens up.

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    Tigger said, 2 months ago

    @Joe Allen Doty

    Yes, just like out Current President and the one prior to him as well as Clinton, Bush 41, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, and LBJ. Our last Great President was JFK.

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    4deerinmyyard said, 2 months ago

    Rina & BlueRaven: Yes!

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    3hourtour said, 2 months ago

    Bush just killed thousands of innocent Iraqi’s

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    Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

    3hourtour said

    Bush just killed thousands of innocent Iraqi’s

    Not to mention thousands of American troops, one of whom was almost my son-in-law.

    EDIT: That is, my son-in-law survived (almost) uninjured being inside a Bradley that hit a mine (“IED” is a way of making it sound as if the Other Side are desperate and under-equipped) and was tossed through the air thirty feet away.

    Not to mention finding himself face-to-face with one of the Other Side inside a Bradley another time.

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    4deerinmyyard said, 2 months ago

    Wow, Fairportfan. How is he?

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    Nick V said, 2 months ago

    @Tigger - Sure. Save for bungling around with Cuba and surviving on sheer charisma while doing very little before he got killed. Our only Great President was Washington, lamentably. The rest have just been, at best, relatively good.

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    ldyhwkd said, 2 months ago

    RinaFarina said, 1 day ago I find American politics very polarized.

    Well Spoken Rina.