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1. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

   The appearance of Trump (or other such characters as are now in the wings) is a direct result of the moral and intellectual collapse of liberalism. “Blue tsunamis” will not solve this problem, as any person with a modicum of common sense can observe. It’s what we’ve got now, and it’s either incompetent or malevolent. I don’t know what you can do about it, but at least face the truth.

2. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

   The last “blue tsunami” brought us Gaza, Ukraine, the war in the Red Sea, and God knows what other wars we haven’t found out about yet, since we can no longer rely on the corrupt, sold-out media. Not that Trump is any gem either, but at least he’s not suffering overtly from dementia. Or maybe he is, too. I’d advise you to think about what you’re wishing for, but you’re probably not going to get it anyway regardless of how you vote or what you think. If any of you think beyond what you’re told to think by the tube.

   Side note: the dictatorship of Caesar began in 49 BC, when he defied the Senate. He was sort of the blue tsunami of his day. Blue tsunami indeed — yeah, that’ll solve all your problems.

3. 8 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   I’ve noticed lately that stuff that doesn’t follow the party line gets disappeared. So, not so different from Musk. I remember when liberals and Democrats were supposed to believe in free speech. Not any more.

4. 8 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Musk gave the Ukrainians Starlink in the first place. Imperial wars, including those of the US, are funny things. Hard to tell who paid off who. The US taxpayer already lost 150 billion on this one, and counting.

5. 9 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   Usually, you can’t lounge around in a pizza joint or a deli waiting for your Connection to show up.

6. 9 months ago on Doonesbury

   It does not appear to me that any of you have learned much of anything from history. Trump is not Hitler, for one thing; Trump is a buffoon, Hitler was a madman. But the important thing is that the political energies that gave rise to a Hitler and to a Trump and a number of other nasty characters don’t go away because you jail or kill or otherwise get rid of the figurehead. You have an elite than cannot run the country so it works while it gets itself cushy jobs. Meanwhile the life expectancy in the US is falling, the standard of living is falling, while its government pursues a useless, dangerous, and apparently failed war on the other side of the world. This government cannot even confront the current resurgence of COVID. Can’t recognize it.

7. 10 months ago on Lay Lines

   Clearly the two were in a sadistic-masochistic relationship swinging both ways. Otherwise there was no reason for him to stick to the relationship or for her to take him back. The only question unanswered in the story is why they broke up. But going by the third-to-last panel, he seems bored and she seems impatient, so I’d guess the S&M had become too vanilla for both of them.

8. 12 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   This comment belongs with Rall’s comic.

9. about 1 year ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   They’ve moved their attentions north. And they’ve been joined by a lot of one-time liberals, so “reich” wing is no longer as appropriate as it once was. I guess it depends on who’s in office. The most important thing is to have at least one war going somewhere.

10. about 1 year ago on Bloom County

    Never mind paintings. The most difficult of all is “Do I look fat in these pants?” By the way, what was the ethnic slur? Could it have been the actual Polish word for a person of Polish ethnicity? It’s pretty bad when a whole, highly respectable European language is held to be an ethnic slur.