Sunday's Doonesbury: Who's this Warren character?

[Electric Monk]

http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip

[merrily]

1. Here comes the bus.

[Enthusiast]

6. Fuck 'em!

[merrily]

16. Ewww. No---and you can't make me, either!

[nxylas]

7. Two ways to read that last line

"She hears the voices that others don't". Either:

1) She hears the voice of the people when others listen only to corporations and billionaires; or
2) The "voice of the people" is entirely in her head, representing her own ego rather than reality.

No prizes for guessing which interpretation Third Way/DLC Dems will prefer.

[merrily]

8. Only one way to read "Run, Lizzy, run" though.

I would really love for her and Sanders both to run, along with many others. I am not for Hillary, but, I am even less for an anointing. I am even less for the movement to take "rank and file" voters out of the equation as much as traffic will allow.

First, came the movement to establish super delegates. Then came the mythology/meme that Carter lost because of Kennedy and therefore no incumbent Democratic President should ever again face a primary. Then, the second vote on super delegates succeeded.

Then, since 2012, we've been hearing how "If Hillary runs, she'll clear the field. No Democrat will even bother to run against her." Now, we're hearing how Sanders has no business running as a Democrat and Warren can do far more in the Senate than she possibly could in the Oval Office ( ).

Nothing at all transparent--or highly undemocratic and unDemocratic-- about any of the above.

[L0oniX]

26. If the oligarchy runs Hillary it is because they have picked a repuke to win 2016 POTUS. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

31. They might even let her win

and preside over a crash timed to fall into the middle of her first term, thereby framing "the librul socalist wummun" with the crash--which she, of course, will have done nothing to prevent.

[rhett o rick]

38. The Oligarch Rulers have control and will run Cinton-Sachs against Jebber and be ok

with either. Sadly, there are those that still believe that we live in a Constitutionally controlled democratic republic. It's like Russia but here we get two choices that both answer to the Oligarch Rulers.

[SteveG]

21. the line should have been

"She hears the voices that others won't".

[C Moon]

43. +1

[Jackpine Radical]

30. Wow. It functions like a projective test

and reveals something about the person who chooses one or the other.

It needs a Choice 3, though: "I don't get it."

[Hekate]

2. What ho. If Doonsbury's onto this, something's up.

and

[Jackpine Radical]

29. My thoughts exactly.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. Gotta admit...

I love this 'toon.

I may not be an entirely devoted Warren fanista, but Trudeau carries some weight. He grants Lizzy some well deserved credibility.

Thanx for posting.

[CTyankee]

14. Trudeau is a good liberal and a feminist. Always has been. I love the guy...

[TeamPooka]

4. I hope the senator reads the funnies. nt

[F4lconF16]

9. +1

I sincerely hope we can show her enough support to get her to run.

Speaking of which, anyone know how I can send a letter to her?

[CTyankee]

15. Probably to her HQ in MA or to her Senat Office in D.C.

Her webpage will have an address...

hmm, I might write to her myself...congratulate her on A Fighting Chance...

[Hekate]

36. Senator Elizabeth Warren, The United States Senate, Washington DC will no doubt get it there

Or, more formally:

Senator Elizabeth Warren
317 Hart Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20510

Or, because snail mail really is delivered by snails because of security fears:

Email her through her website

Warren.senate.gov

[Enthusiast]

5. Damn! We need you, Elizabeth!

[RiverLover]

10. R/kick! nt

[LiberalArkie]

11. I think she realizes that she is really needed right where she is. But

I think she can "anoint" someone that we can get behind much like Teddy used to do.

[L0oniX]

25. I she "anoints" Hillary I'm done with her.

[Hekate]

37. Of course

[Jack Rabbit]

39. Liberal Arkie said "Someone we can get behind"

Don't worry about Hillary. She carried too much baggage in '08 and she hasn't lost as much as a bag.

[L0oniX]

41. I want the Dem party to win 2016. Hillary offers me no hope for that.

[Jack Rabbit]

42. I agree that she'd be a sorry candidate, but she's got an ace up her sleeve

Her Republican opponent will be even sorrier.

[mountain grammy]

12. just saw this, came here to post..and here you are!

Wake up to Slate (my homepage) and Doonsbury every morning. This one got my Democratic juices flowing early Sunday morning.
Thanks for posting.

[Autumn]

13. "She hears the voices that others don't." Truth

and she care about those voices.

[merrily]

17. Caring be the key.

Being a soul-less turd doesn't mean you didn't hear something to the contrary. It probably just means that, if push comes to shove, you'd rather be a soul-less turd.

[locks]

18. Makes me so mad

first the Denver Post and then Boulder's liberal Daily Camera stopped Doonesbury, the only strip I ever read.
Go, Trudeau, Go!

[beemer27]

19. Liz and Bernie

We can only hope. They get my vote!

[antigop]

20. dayum! I was going to post this...found it interesting. nt

[4dsc]

22. We have two years to make economic populism the talk of the campaign

and I don't mean more trickle down BS.

[bcool]

23. An appearance by Liz on Alpha House

In episode 9 of season 2 of Alpha House (the Amazon Prime series originated by Garry Trudeau - absolutely hilarious if you can get it!), John Goodman's character (the Republican senator from NC) runs into the real Elizabeth Warren at a book signing. She asks him, "so Gil John, when are you going to write a book?", to which he replies "ah, there's no point in writing a book unless you're running for president".

Ha! A thinly-veiled reference to her running for office because she's written a book?

[L0oniX]

24. K & R

[Duval]

27. I chuckled as I

read this over coffee this morning. Run, Warren, Run...Please!

[Gothmog]

28. Another great Doonesbury strip

[WillyT]

32. K & R !!!

[99th_Monkey]

33. Wow. Nice one. ~nt

[Fearless]

34. Sounds like a ringing endorsement to me!

[Divernan]

35. Gumptious gal, won't you come out tonight?

"What a gal! The only one with the gumption to stand up for the little people!"

GUMPTIOUS
noun, Informal.
1.
initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness:
With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
2.
courage; spunk; guts:
It takes gumption to quit a high-paying job.
3.
common sense; shrewdness.

My heading is a spin on the old song, Buffalo Gal won't you come out tonight? The chorus is:

Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight?
Come out tonight, Come out tonight?
Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight,
And dance by the light of the moon.


The song is featured prominently in the 1946 Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life and heard in saloon scenes in the 1952 film High Noon (starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly). Edgar Buchanan performs a version in the 1941 film Texas, starring William Holden and Glenn Ford.

[rhett o rick]

40. It's time for a progressive revolt. Sen Warren is doing her part but the

movement has started, much to the chagrin of the conservative Clinton-Sachs supporters. They hope for 8 more years of Oligarch subjugation. They don't concern themselves with the poverty level or any of the other problems we are facing.