Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 13, 2020

Too bad for these guys William Barr wasn’t the AG then.

Hey, that’s trump’s line!

They were just being sarcastic.

I’m gonna open a tavern and call it The William Bar. The drinks will be as watered down as justice and the only food will be baloney sandwiches. I’ll carpet the place so I can sweep the dirt under it.

Every time I see the name William Campbell in this old arc, I think to myself “Squire Trelane from Star Trek?”

Hah! You can easily update this one for today by listing all of Trump’s cronies and having that ratty thing Trump’s his head replace Butts and say, “But they were being sarcastic!”

When I said I’d be faithful

When I promised I’d be true

When I swore that I could never

Be with anyone but you

When I told you that I loved you

With those tender words I spoke

I was only kidding

Now, can’t you take a joke?

A Yankovic

Good to see Roland keep up his trademark “high” standard of journalism even back in the day…

It was SARCASM

All those millionaires will get their day in court. Just like regular criminals. The question is will they do time in club Fed(I hear the food is to die for) or just pay the fine, disappear and spend the rest of their lives in relative leisure. I don’t remember.

Are these the real names? There’s fame for you, being mentioned in a Doonesbury comic.

And to make matters worse, not one of them is a woman.

And the fix is in.Just like what’s going on with the taxes ;(

Wow, is this old strip timely or what!

Wow, the “just kidding” defense has it’s origins here in the 90’s?

Ah, for the days when Roland was a REAL reporter and not just a tweeting TyrantBot….

Can’t ANYONE come up with an original sin anymore? Remakes and updated treatments of all the classics. At least the whole “AG dropping charges and totally ignoring crimes before any indictments” is new. Or is it…

If everyone who lied to Congress went to jail…