Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 07, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  about 3 years ago

    Trump is going to get much bigger, bigger book deal, people are saying.

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    RAGs  about 3 years ago

    Before going to Vietnam, I was sent to boat school at Mare Island, California for 3 months, where we were taught the boats and the weapons mounted on them. During that time we were sent to CI-SERE (Counter Insurgency – Survival, Resistance, Evasion and Escape). Since early in Trump’s time in office I’ve had several “dreams” about SERE, including the field problem. I have also had thoughts and remembrances of the Counter Insurgency part of the raining. They do seem appropriate when applied to the republicans.

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    Argythree  about 3 years ago

    What is really depressing is how quickly history repeats itself…

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    RonaldByrd  about 3 years ago

    Godwin’s Law remains in retirement, then. Shrug.

    I think there’s going to be quite a bit of repetitiveness in the comments for today’s strip. “Trump again”? “Nothing about Biden”? Prepare for it. :-|

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    comic4matt  about 3 years ago

    So… The democrats want to send Trump to prison so he can come back later as a dictator?

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    eromlig  about 3 years ago

    The modern rule of political debate is that the first person to bring up Hitler loses.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member about 3 years ago

    If Trump learned his lesson, he wouldn’t be Trump!To tell the truth, I feel a perverse admiration for people who don’t learn from their mistakes. (It’s an oddly American quality…)

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    jvo  about 3 years ago

    Trump is no Adolf, nor is he even a Benito. At least Il Duce actually DID drain the swamps.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I dreamed of Trump the other night. He was stealing my television and my iMac, babbling something about coal.

    I wonder: I am Italian and I should dream of not a few politicians that I don’t like.

    For the sake of fairness it wasn’t a nightmare.

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    pepwine  about 3 years ago

    Unlike Hitler Trump has good buddies Putin a Xi as examples and very possibly backers for his ambitions. He certainly has a way with the weak minded and uneducated. Many seem drawn to the “strong man” image that they see him as. Because of this he holds power through intimidation. You have seen the republican senators and congress quivering at his every directive have you not. Just send out the sort of people that stormed the capital to stop any politician that gets out of line. Send in an even further right wing politician against any one of them that gets out of line or at least threaten to. He has his base and he can direct them.

    He has learned no lesson other than to cheat more and to cheat more effectively. They are already trying to suppress the vote for 2022 and again in 2024. If you can’t win with a fair election then rig the election even better the next time. And lie biggly and lie more often. Make up the most outrageous lies about your opponents that you can and repeat as often as you can. It is much easier to lie and keep it up than to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. He has much more practice with the lie than the truth.

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    nosirrom  about 3 years ago

    tRump did learn something from his second impeachment trial. The spinectomy operation on the Republican party was a success.

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    shanen0  about 3 years ago

    Actually you could argue that getting convicted didn’t do any good in that case. But Trudeau didn’t mention the biggest supporters of the latest big lie. Cruz and Hawley come to mind. Maybe sending them to prison for sedition would help? Some people are asking, you know.

    But I’m not holding my breath.

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    superposition  about 3 years ago

    Learning anything from history is one of America’s greatest weaknesses.

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    braindead Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Not a lot of Trump Disciple comments yet. Maybe they don’t quite understand the cartoon.

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    ACW1  about 3 years ago

    And for those wondering, as I was, if this was a real Times article, yes it was: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nyt-1924-hitler-tamed-by-prison/

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    David in Webb Premium Member about 3 years ago

    So, is that like all the book deals the Democrats are getting? You know- like Cuomo’s book on Covid Leadership.

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    Liam Astle Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I can’t wait to see Trudeau stick it to Biden.

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    drvidmar Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Keep at it. You are needed.

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    Tomscomics70  about 3 years ago

    The people that really need to learn from history are the Russians. If Trump is the next Hitler then they have a lot to worry about.

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    Stocky One  about 3 years ago

    Trump did indeed learn a lesson. He learned that he can do anything he wants, and Republican bootlickers will absolve him.

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    babka Premium Member about 3 years ago

    he is the child of Adolph Hitler, Roy Cohn & Norman Vincent Peale. no doubt has access to the Epstein kompromat, keeps his base “up” with breast-implanted trophy eye-candy, brought back the firing squad, indoctrinated his audience for 13 years pretending to be competent, is a dry-drunk drug addict narcissistic psychopath. move along, nothing to see here. only the long shadow of despair in the DNA of generations crippled by the trauma of slavery, of the Holocaust, as the symbols of white nationalism rise & the swastika sprouts new feral flowers. Springtime for Hitler indeed.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 3 years ago

    The idea that Trump can be chastened and learn assumes that he isn’t crazy. But he is.

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    awcoffman  about 3 years ago

    I have always said that Trump is not the problem. He is merely a symptom of a much larger problem, namely his spineless enablers and the voters that elect them. While the majority of voters would prefer bipartisan leaders, a bipartisan candidate cannot win a primary, because enough of the voters who turn out for primaries tend to be extremely partisan. So we often have to choose between two extremists in the general election. And even if they are not extremists, each will try to convince voters of the other’s extremism and resulting danger to life as we know it. In the end Trump and Hitler both recognized, tapped into, and stoked deep seated racial extremism in the electorate. Anyone who thinks racism was conquered by the Civil Rights movement is sadly mistaken. It kept a low profile for decades, only to re-emerge when Obama was elected.

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    79nysv  about 3 years ago

    A Trump book? Guess I better buy some crayons.

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    Nyckname  about 3 years ago

    It is highlarious how republicons spent decades insisting that electing Democrats will lead to a dictatorship.

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    montessoriteacher  about 3 years ago

    Indeed, Trump never learned his lesson and probably never will.

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    Aladar30 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I can see this happen.

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    barkleyspam  about 3 years ago

    Fortunately, Trump is a lot older than Hitler was. I hope that’s enough to keep this piece of history from repeating itself.

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    tddrmchl  about 3 years ago

    I call a “coup” walling off ten blocks of downtown Seattle, expelling the police, murdering two people, and declaring yourself the nation of CHAZ.

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    maxiesmom2 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    This is so disturbing.

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    rs0204 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Keep digging Reporters.

    There is a direct line from trump to the Insurrectionists to the Pentagon’s delayed response, you need to expose it. Congress was suppose to fall that day, so trump could stay in power.

    Guaranteed there is Fifth Column still in the Pentagon and many other places in the Government. This is not over, and trump is not done yet.

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    phritzg Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I have a New York Times subscription, and using its TimesMachine feature, I looked at the December 21, 1924, issue. It was a Sunday paper, 168 pages long, so to save time, if you have access to the Times archives, it’s on page 16.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I think people would do better to take a hard look, and some action, against the people who financially support Trump. Probably those who gain financial advantage from his actions. Follow the money.

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    Fred flintstone  about 3 years ago

    i saw this yesterday, in my Saturday newspaper for some reason.

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    notjimothy  about 3 years ago

    One big difference. Trump hasn’t done his JAIL TERM. YET!.

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    cbgoldeneagle2  about 3 years ago

    LMAO he lives on in your dead brains

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    swift7oaks  about 3 years ago

    Boycott any book that would put money in his empire. It will be written by some hack. He is not capable of reading or writing. Has never written anything in his life.

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    COL Crash  about 3 years ago

    I’m constantly amazed at how few people fail to recognize all the parallels between Trump and Hitler. It’s almost like proof of reincarnation.

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    paul GROSS Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Let’s ask Biden or is he busy issuing another executive order?

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    bwalk7217 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Don’t forget that Hitler was Times Man of the Year on Jan. 2, 1939.

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    Squoop  about 3 years ago

    Psychopaths never learn, they always just double down. To “learn” is to admit mistake, and they are incapable of that because it would mean they’re less than the flawless creatures they think they are.

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    mourdac Premium Member about 3 years ago

    He learned so well: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/481486-collins-trump-has-learned-a-pretty-big-lesson-from-impeachment

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    Durak Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Where is Aldo the Apache when you need him?

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    ChessPirate  about 3 years ago

    “Mein Camp”? ☺

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    rionmorrison69  about 3 years ago

    Don’t share this on Facebook. Saying anything AGAINST Hitler will get you in FB jail. Speaking from experience!

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    tmc  about 3 years ago

    Prescience appears not to be an inherent ability for GOP political enablers. Nor does learning from history. Applause for the research and holding accountable the gutless politicians who think more of their reelection than the country’s civic health.

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    nancywilson51  about 3 years ago

    First he will have to find a ghost writer who is able to keep his lunch down as the Great Orange Ass spins his lies.

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    Bradley Baker Premium Member about 3 years ago

    You are such a wimp. To call Trump an authoritarian and to compare him to history shows your appalling lack of perspective. The current thugs running things are the authoritarians. Draining the swamp should probably start behind your eyes.

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    rhbrandon2  about 3 years ago

    https://theupsidedownworld.com/2016/12/25/dont-believe-everything-his-enemies-speak-about-him/

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    jski14  about 3 years ago

    Hitler was only 35 years old at the time. Lucky for us, Trump is almost 75 now, obese, addicted to poisonous foods, and (although clearly possessed of a certain ruthless cunning) quite stupid enough to make a fatal mistake at any time. Let us pray.

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    sueb1863  about 3 years ago

    The biggest differences are that Trump doesn’t have Hitler’s brains or ambition. Trump is just a dumb con man who won without really expecting to. Once he had power, he didn’t really know what to do with it beyond settling petty personal grudges and enriching himself and his buddies. He did a lot of damage but could have done a lot more.

    Plus, Trump is elderly and in poor health, unlike Hitler who was still young and healthy when he left prison. Trump most likely won’t be around in 2024, and if he is he won’t be in any shape to run for office. And his kids don’t have his talent or charisma.

    We certainly need to be vigilant. Democrats have to continue to work hard to win in 2022. But I don’t think Trump himself is going to be around long enough to follow Hitler’s path.

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    GaryCooper  about 3 years ago

    Everybody knows if you give a raging wolverine a very light tap on the wrist (or whatever wolverines have), it will stop being a wolverine and turn permanently into an adorable bunny rabbit. Right? Right?

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    scottartist creator about 3 years ago

    What they all have in common is that none of these Pollyannas have the least understanding of who and what Trump is. They simply do not get it.

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    comixbomix  about 3 years ago

    It should be noted that T Rump has never even pretended to be “sadder and wiser”. So, he’s easily out-Nixoned Nixon, out-Hitlered Hitler, and I’m pretty sure we can see where he’ll stack up against Satan.

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    Jogger2  about 3 years ago

    Senator Collins said that last year. During Trump’s second impeachment, his critics feared if he were acquitted by the Senate, he would turn the impeachment into a badge of honor, as he did the first.

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    IT Sauzeech  about 3 years ago

    Reading that newspaper article from 1924 was chilling. It sounded like they all thought they had seen the last of Hitler but he came back to take over the country 10 years later. Thankfully. Trump is much older and not likely to be around in 10 years but his spawn are still lurking. Like Hitler, Trump is more than a person. He’s a terrible movement that needs to be stopped.

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    ferddo  about 3 years ago

    Trump keeps repeating the same rhetoric and actions over and over – the only thing he learns is to do it harder next time… and in his mind he never fails…

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    Anarcissie  about 3 years ago

    Trump is no Hitler. He is old with significant health issues, and he lacks Hitler’s charisma, cunning, fanaticism, and energy. However, there are people with these resources who were watching what Trump was able to do with one of the two decayed American political parties and have taken notes, and I think we’ll be hearing from them in the next ten or twenty years as the country continues to decline. Upper Volta with ICBMs, or whatever it was they used to say about Russia. If I were a young adult and wanted to have some kind of life, I think I’d move to another country or at least to one of the more remote parts of this one.

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    John Jay  about 3 years ago

    This Trudeau guy is a total reprobate for thinking it is ok to name and make comparisons to Hitler when 75 milllion voters were disenfranchised by the actions outlined in the Time Magazine expose’. In fact Biden was run out of the 1988 presidential consideration due to his plagiarism and the fact that the DNC did not want to waste any more time and money covering up for him. It took an entire generation of subversion to rid his memory and garner votes based on fallacy. I find it appalling that so many of the DNC disciples did not do even the most cursory of youtube searches to find that out. This cartoon is not worth the paper it is printed on except that it could serve as Trudeau’s resignation soon.

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    Alverant  about 3 years ago

    To those upset about comparing Trump to Hitler, remember Trump hits all 14 points of identifying fascism and that the GOP has a lot in common with Nazi Germany (anti-LGBTQ, anti-union, anti-abortion, anti-immigrants, sexism, racism, nationalistic, Christian, etc).

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    Bradley Walker  about 3 years ago

    Get this man on felony charges ASAP.

    Get a conviction for taxes, rape, whatever it takes, but make it impossible for him to run again. Because if there’s any opening he will string it out for at least three years, milking the rubes for as much as he can.

    Then hang his bloated corpse around the necks of Cruz, Hawley and the usual suspects.

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    DanC1  about 3 years ago

    He’s 74 and looks like a walking heart attack, not to mention his diminishing mental acuity. Remember Hitler was much younger and more intelligent.

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    Dragoncat  about 3 years ago

    Trump was impeached twice! He clearly didn’t learn his lesson the first time, did he?

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    brick10  about 3 years ago

    I don’t believe that Trump will ever “learn his lesson.” He just finds new, more devious ways and manipulative people to get what he wants.

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    Godfreydaniel  about 3 years ago

    As a matter of objective reality, the 2020 election was free, fair, honest, and legitimate. The only people who don’t know this are imbeciles and lunatics. So when Trump spurred the mob of traitors to attempt to over-throw our democracy he proved himself to be the HEAD traitor. And when the smaller mob of traitors (43 Republican Senators) voted to acquit Traitor Trump instead of to convict Traitor Trump, they proved themselves to be the worst type of cowards. It’s enough to make a cannibal vomit!

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    Andylit Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Looks like Gary has given Trump a long term lease in his head.

    Time to move on.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member about 3 years ago

    As Josef Göbbels knew, if you control the language, you control the conversation. It’s the same deal with right-wing phraseology: It’s a language all its own. So, in an effort to promote better communication in American politics, here’s a start on a handy right-winger-to-normal-English dictionary:

    fake news = honest reporting

    enemy of the people = free press

    alternative facts = lies

    tort reform = corporate protection bill

    tax relief = billionaire enhancement program

    right to work = kill unions

    healthy forests initiative = chop down more trees

    clear skies act = no more birds

    patriot act = civil liberties farewell tour

    patriot = vigilante

    dangerous criminal element = young Black men

    cost-effective corrections = for-profit prisons

    enhanced interrogation techniques = torture

    judicial activists = judges who’ve read the Constitution

    secure elections = voter suppression

    election integrity = preventing Blacks, Latinos, poor people, and students from voting

    chain migration = family reunification

    invaders = asylum seekers

    rapists and murderers = Mexicans

    security threats = Canadians

    decisive leaders = authoritarian dictators

    support our troops = socialism for military contractors

    good people = racists and fascists

    abstinence education = sexual ignorance

    no child left behind = standardized testing for all

    Satanic mind-rotting plot = evolution

    just some egghead’s opinion = science

    religious liberty = Christian fundamentalism for all

    values voters = shameless self-righteous hypocrites

    clean coal = dirty coal

    world’s greatest hoax = climate change

    that which may not be spoken = climate change

    [obscenity redacted] = climate change

    health-care system = health-insurance jungle

    health-care plan = don’t get sick, or die quickly

    Stalinism = Obamacare

    Benghazi = Pearl Harbor

     (to be continued)

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member about 3 years ago

     (continuation)

    Antifa = QAnon

    people = corporations

    speech = money

    peace = war

    slavery = freedom

    strength = ignorance

    This list is still under construction. Additions welcome.

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    JenSolo02  about 3 years ago

    My brain is so overwhelmed by everything, all I want to say today is, I love the paisley detail on Mark’s bandanna.

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    gmadoll789 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    GBT wins the comics, today. He wins the internet, today! Let’s hope and pray he doesn’t win the rest of history!!!

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    thedogesl Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Ouch!

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    willie_mctell  about 3 years ago

    The Trump apology appears not to be appearing.

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    Malcome1  about 3 years ago

    “My Struggle”

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    mwright-ylca  about 3 years ago

    Trudeau should concentrate on Sleepy or What Am I Doing Here, Joey. Oh, I forgot the idiot is a democrat. Sad!

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    Godfreydaniel  about 3 years ago

    As another matter of objective reality, Biden is far more intelligent than Trump, with FAR fewer mental illnesses—in his case zero. Let’s list a few of Trump’s mental lillnesses, shall we? He’s a malignant narcissist who is incapable of caring about anyone or anything except for himself. He’s a congenital, pathological, and compulsive liar. He has a messiah complex, though he is far closer to Judas than to Jesus. He is delusional. He is a sociopath. And, in his spare time, Traitor Trump is bleedin’ insane!

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    parkerinthehouse  about 3 years ago

    excellent Mr. Trudeau

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    jplynch  about 3 years ago

    The publisher will have spend a fortune on fact checkers!?

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Trump? Who’s that? Yesterday’s news?

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    librarylady59  about 3 years ago

    If only hitler had been accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts. If only trump’s forebear had kept the name Drumpf.

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    PinkFudd  about 3 years ago

    Timothy Leary said “Think for yourself and question authority”. The new “liberal” thought pattern is to think what you are told to and follow authority. I wonder if our cartoonist friend of many years will ever dare to question the authoritarian progressives. Mr. Trudeau, I double-dog dare you to create a strip about the cancel culture. I’m not holding my breath.

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