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   leftwingpatriot said, 10 months ago

   I knew something was missing!
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   Linguist said, 10 months ago

   Hints from the ole Master.
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   Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist said, 10 months ago

   Or go the route I use for my strip – zero budget. Looks grainy though :|
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   Radish said, 10 months ago

   The minds eye says you have a white wall behind you.
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 10 months ago

   The value of Doonesbury has never been in the art, but in the skewering political commentary. One line of evidence: the reich-wingers who sometimes squawk on this website, hiding their pain with bravado.
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   The Nihilist said, 10 months ago

   End this already…
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   MiepR said, 10 months ago

   @DylanThomas3.14159

   This is social and economic commentary. Perhaps Trudeau is addressing the failings of federal politics by focussing more on such things. I like this arc more all the time. If Trudeau was really about axing the grifters, why would he do it this way? Grifters are very much a part of the USA gestalt, and Doonesbury has always been very much about the USA.
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 10 months ago

   “Grifter” today is yesterday’s “con man”. “Gestalt” is a German word with psychological connotations, meaning roughly “wholistic”, referring to therapy for the “whole person”. In my opinion George W. Bush and Condoleeza Rice are two grifters of historic proportions. I don’t see that Trudeau treats “grifters” wholistically. I don’t think he cares about such constraints. He doesn’t have to care. He just unsheathes his rapier.
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   MiepR said, 10 months ago

   @DylanThomas3.14159

   I agree about conflating “grifter” and “con man.” But the gestalt of the USA is not Trudeau’s gestalt, nor mine, nor yours.

   I can’t come up with a better word, but it’s all about value systems.

   We can all agree that we don’t like con men, but their presence in the strip is part of what keeps it a genuine mirror of this culture.
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    DylanThomas3.14159 said, 10 months ago

    @MiepR

    I have no quarrel with either of your two posts.
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    Bill Weinberg said, 10 months ago

    One week of this fourth wall routine is quite sufficient, Gary…
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    Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist said, 10 months ago

    Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Pi…when did you get back? Missed you, man.
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    MiepR said, 10 months ago

    @DylanThomas3.14159

    Thank you. I remember you from before you went away. I wish and hope you good health, around all of your self from stem to stern.
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    Randywriter said, 10 months ago

    Alright, GT’s gonna continue this. I’m gone.
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    DeeCee Bee said, 10 months ago

    Wake up, Michael! Summer Daydream almost over! Please, please, please!!!
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