Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 29, 2020

And Jeff used to work for the Central INTELLIGENCE Agency.

So neither of them voted .

My braces have been suspendered.

Except for Trumpland there is no where in the world that you wouldn’t know about the pandemic.

Does Zonker carry Z+Z Tops™?

Ahhh! It’s only October in Doonesburyland! A clever way to deal with the lead time for submitting art and the strips that will deal with the election and fallout.

How quaint to show a character reading a hard copy of a newspaper.

I currently live with a 23 yo who is thankfully very aware of everything it would seem. She definitely will be thrilled to get out in the world again, but realizes the importance of not doing so now. She has 3 cousins who have tested positive in the past 3 weeks, people who live elsewhere in the US ( an hour outside KC and in Wyoming). They were doing their best to avoid the pandemic, but couldn’t. Her grandmother’s facility in St Louis is on lockdown after a resident got the virus, but she didn’t get it and is doing ok at almost 99.

I keep getting the sense that Trudeau does not like young people.

We miss a lot as we concentrate on the important fantasy lives we lead. Sometimes, that’s not such a bad thing. I was overseas with the Marines and when I got back I saw bumper stickers saying “Who Shot J.R.”. I wondered who J.R. was. I learned, to my disappointment, exactly who he was. …sigh

I don’t remember Jeff wearing Red Rascal garb in real life, just in his fantasy sequences.

The turban is a stand-in for the red MAGA hats?

The perfect Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa gift: The Gift of Life in the form of an N95 mask or a KN95 mask. The big-box grocery store near me is selling KN95 masks so they are more plentiful than they once were. Then give the gift very early, like now.

This is the Information Age and many people prefer to be willingly ignorant.

And the establishment couldn’t be happier.

Trump is setting up for a run in 2024. Of course, that seems deranged at the current time. But Trump’s plague isn’t going to magically disappear when Biden takes office. It is out of control and we can only wear our masks, stay away from other people and hope for the vaccine to really work. The way to make a plague disappear is to never let it get out of control in the first place. Trump cut the team that Obama set up to do out of the 2018 budget.

We also have a financial mess crated by Trump’s failure to manage the pandemic, or even make a legitimate effort to do so. This is going to take years and a massive effort to correct. Small businesses are closing, people are out of work. Managing to avoid a depression like the 1930’s is going to be the goal. Returning to normal is a dream.

Now, when we don’t have sunshine and lollipops by the first of March, the media will start picking at Biden’s administration. Mistakes will be made, and they will highlight them instead of the good being done— because they get better ratings. And, frankly, because we need to know about those mistakes.

The Republicans have created messes every time they have had the White House in my memory, which means that we can’t make any progress because the entire Democratic administration has to be dedicated to repairing the damage. Since we will still be digging out of the mess the Republicans left in 2024, there is a good chance that people will be stupid enough to put them back in the White House, so they can create more mess for the next Democrat to get stuck with.

FLASHBANG what happened to trump? Is he OK? Did I miss the Coronation?

and that’s why we are where are today. b/c of idiots.

I suppose the “logic” is that since there’s nothing they can do about any of it one way or the other (except in those cases where there is, of course), keeping informed on current developments will only give them more worries and no solace. OSLT. Whatever. :-|

Poor kid was so Stoned that he missed Halloween AND Thanksgiving.

Trump

Some day we’ll learn the story of what kid pissed GBT off so much that he had to create Jeff as revenge

If ever there was a time for the 25th Amendment to be evoked, now is the time. December 14, 2020 can’t get here soon enough.

What is Rick holding? It looks like a bunch of paper.