Today's Doonesbury outstanding

[Cyrano]

Click on link

http://doonesbury.com/

Garry Trudeau has outdone himself. Today's strip is worth a million words.

[BootinUp]

1. He's certainly decided to raise the edge of his satire up another 10 notches or so.

I hope it gets good exposure maybe it will wake up some folks.

[LuckyLib]

2. The whole weekly series is outstanding. Newspapers have censored it all over the country.

That means we have to make sure it gets out everywhere via the "internets."

[pansypoo53219]

5. nothing like not being able to see it to pique

minds.

[Electric Monk]

16. Here is the entire week

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=421405

[Bluenorthwest]

3. My compliments on offering a link and for using the author's name when posting his

work. And yes, Trudeau is just great of late....

[uponit7771]

4. He's being a little too suttle no? /sarcasm

[NV Whino]

6. Here's Rick Perry's comment on the strip (or his spokeswoman's comment)

SAY WHAT?
"The decision to end a life is not funny. There is nothing comic about this tasteless interpretation of legislation we have passed in Texas to ensure that women have all the facts when making a life-ending decision."
— Gov. Rick Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier, commenting on this week's strips

[txwhitedove]

8. The point whizzed right over her head, right? There is precisely nothing funny about their proposed

tasteless, vile, invasive legislation.

[NV Whino]

13. The GOP are irony impaired.

[Melissa G]

12. Hey, Rick Perry and Catherine Frazier...

State Mandated Rape is not funny either. Turning Texas intrusively fascist- also, no big grins.

Guess what, none of us are laughing. It is a sad, but amazingly astoundingly true thing that Trudeau is documenting and Perry is partly responsible. How Frazier, as a woman, is even a mouthpiece for this abomination astounds me.

Hint for spokeswoman CF: It's not the Doonesbury comic that is tasteless; it's the excremental legislation to which it refers that is so appalling.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. kick

rec



no further comment.


well, this:



repukes.

[Pachamama]

9. Best Summary Ever of what GOP is doing and wants to do to Women n/t

[lark]

10. Love Trudeau!!!

K&R

[marshall gaines]

11. doonesbuery

trudeau has always been right on. I wish these so-called conservative white males would back off and return to the caves from whence they came.

[TBF]

14. Tweet from Borowitz 8 m ago -

Andy Borowitz ? @BorowitzReport

There's little you can count on in life except this: somewhere right now Rick Santorum is saying some crazy shit.

[pa28]

15. He nailed it!

My paper decided to censor Doonesbury this week.

The Oregonian decided boundaries of good taste were exceeded. Apparently the Oregonian also decided the factual background behind the cartoon was not newsworthy or worthy of editorial criticism.

[chknltl]

17. Some feel liberating women in AFGHANISTAN is important

Not sure that I agree fully but I can see their point. I wonder if before having that debate we first might figure out how to liberate American women from the republicans? Imagine trying to convince an Afghani citizen about the merits of removing the oppression its culture imposes upon women when that citizen responds with the observation that Americans oppress their women too.
Before you point out the obvious differences, my fellow DUers, please consider that the noble goal here is equality for all of Earth's citizens, regardless of race, gender, station in life or philosophy about sex or religion.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. If you want a first hand account of this in practice, see the link in this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101619556

Heart-breaking. Trudeau is so accurate with what the doctors have to do.

[Fearless]

19. Phenomenal!

[BanTheGOP]

20. This is another indictment that MUST END in a total ban of the GOP

The GOP and rape are synonomous throughout history, and now it is being shown in its true light to many people. I"ve advocated for DECADES that the republican Party is NO LONGER a political entity, but the most criminally accountable organization in the history of the planet. It is even worse than the Taliban, and we wish death upon those soldiers!

I have yet to have anyone explain to me why the GOP should be allowed to even legally exist. Murderers, thieves, and babykillers do NOT deserve ANY first amendment privilege; the GOP is worse than the three combined and MUST be destroyed. Pure and simple.

[SunSeeker]

21. I told the LA Times I was canceling because they censored Doonesbury.

They transfered me to some woman who tried to talk me out of canceling by subsription, but she could not explain why they did not run the current Doonesbury strip today in the comic section (they ran some old Doonsebury strip about two guys having lunch instead). She did say she would relay the reasons for my cancelation to management.