Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 26, 2013

A fool and his money are soon parted. -P.T. Barnum

Awww, poor babeeee!

Suck it up.

And he includes a free tea bag!!

The real question here is whom we think we are talking to when we post comments to reruns of strips that aren’t dead. Shouldn’t we all be trading recipes, or perhaps gardening tips? Seriously, if we have to have reruns when you’re unavailable for work, Garry, why not really old ones? That would be neat. This is boring.

More likely means petty courtiers and lickspittles in the court of Versailles on the Potomac.

some people think that hawaii isn’t a state, but a foreign country. also, mississippi finally ratified the 13th amendment.

Too many Repubs are educated enough to be dangerous. Too many Dems will just eat your liver while you’re lying on the street.

so funny to read this stuff. the Rise and Fall of the American Empire. bread and circuses.

the wonders of money! lol only in America

Trudeau is using satire to lampoon how the right wing exploits their base to make money, ie Hannity, Limbaugh, and Beck.

No, just taking time to reload.

To me, what’s really creepy about this series is how enthusiastic Austin seems to be as he knowingly provides false facts.

We’ll get over Bush’s second term eventually.

A classic series; I’m enjoying it again.

Question for masterskrain …How could an atheist be President if that person won’t recite the Oath of Office “so help me God?”

Not masterskrain, but, that phrase is not part of the oath. It is added as a matter of custom (probably so the new president won’t be accused of being an atheist). In any case, no atheist or agnostic could ever be elected in this most pious of nations.

The right is making up facts now on the sequester. There is, I think, an old rumor that says if the GOP ever tells the truth they will all turn black. Explains a lot, doesn’t it?

Tons of misdirection and diversion from the right on this (as usual). The point is more related to the idea that people are entitled to their opinions, but not their own “facts”. Facts are by nature reality based, not made up to suit a distorted world view. Good cartoon me thinks.

You’re welcome, of course, Astolat. A few weeks ago, someone described it as not so much the “dog whistle” of racism as the “air raid siren”. Of course, the people who intend it always say “Why do you bring race into everything? I didn’t mean that.” Right….

Truth is kinda hard to come by with this guy given the expense he has gone to hiding his tracks. Going by how he operates, his only religion seems to be himself given a lot of his base hits the rug several times a day worshiping him.

This story arc originally ran from 2/6/12 to 2/10/12, seven months before the Benghazi attacks.Maybe, GT knew about the attacks ahead of time.OH MY GOD, DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE UNCOVERED?

The only thing more insane than calimesa-“BENGHAZI-BOY”-jim is trying to engage him in a rational discussion. For the last several months he pops in like clockwork to crap on the rug, then run away like a coward. Any responses will be lost on his “tabula rasa”brain, while he strains and grunts to drop another brilliant “observation” in tomorrow’s Doonesbury discussion. An interesting pathology, with a tiresome outcome.

Mudhead would be even more appropriate.