Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 31, 2016

They also want increased rations of prune juice and more copies of the Wall Street Journal in the prison library.

“We’d break a few heads, but their lawyers make more money than anyone in here!”

Looks like the Brooks Brothers Riot that helped seal W’s victory in Florida, with the decisive help of the 5 Supremes.

Acquiesce, then inform them that you’ll start by lowering the thermostat in the cell blocks during Winter and serving the expired packaged food that the food pantries can’t use.

Is it just me, or is he holding the smallest pair of glasses ever in the second to last panel?

Drawn in 1987, I can’t help but think that the last panel to today’s condition is apropos.

Oh the humanity! The humanity! Oh the humanity!

“By the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever.”from p. 184,Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years, by Haynes Johnson, (1991, Doubleday)

Saw the movie last night, “The Brainwashing of My Dad” about the rise of the right wing media. Learned about “ditto-heads” which I’d never heard and about Roger Ailes instructing Nixon more refined methods of scaring and tricking people: Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you. Today we’re seeing the rotten fruit of lazy people wanting their thinking done for them: Donald Trump as a (gasp) candidate for POTUS. Don’t touch that dial!

I think that curbing Federal spending is a great idea. Let’s start with the bailouts/handouts to large corporations and the outrageous salaries and retirement packages for Senators and Congress people.

Ah yes, Club Fed

“…and the tennis courts are the wrong color! I’m going to talk to my lawyer.” “Easily done – he’s in the next cell.”

Hey – these are the ones Obama’s pardoning in order to get them to vote!

These comments had me in hysterics. :-)

Well, look who’s joined the party! At least he can’t say he’s dying of boredom.

" Could a demagogue like Trump be more than a joke if that was the case in this country?"

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He wouldn’t even be that if we provided a better alternative than Hillary is.

StCleve72 said,

@DavidHuieGreen

“Don’t tell me, tell Roger Ailes, he said it.”

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Why would I talk to him? He’s never sent me a birthday card.

Brilliance.

Funny how vote-flipping machine companies are owned by large GOP donors. They really helped Bush in Ohio, where fortune favors Diebold.