Sunday's Doonesbury - How Quickly We Forget

[n2doc]

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I swear, Garry Trudeau has a hidden camera in my workplace

Aside from a few slightly-detuned phrases, this exact conversation occurred just last week in my workplace - replete with the willfully-ignorant reply from the hopelessly clueless individual on the periphery of my diatribe.

[ffr]

17. Here, they're college educated and they still can't remember 5 seconds ago

But they can repeat the morning's Faux News talking point all day. Weird!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. It's sad. You show them clips of Bush and Rummie and they act like that was before Reagan.

[Anthony McCarthy]

2. People remember times were better during Clinton's administraion

I think more people remember than Trudeau thinks. Though there are those who fit this perfectly. Lots of them rich or affluent.

[WinkyDink]

21. But they've completely forgotten the years 2001-2008, inclusive. (Iraq? What Iraq?)

[adirondacker]

38. The lost decade. Don't people tend to forget bad things cognitively and remember the good times.

Or at least try to. Excellent Doonesbury. Trudeau is on a roll.

[Chorophyll]

3. Mr. Trudeau, sharp as ever.

[UCmeNdc]

4. My Friend's friend was exactly like this!

I could not believe he was serious at first.

Man, I wonder if a third of the US can forget its recent history so easily. No wonder Mitt is in the running.

[kmlisle]

5. If there is willful igonorance

Maybe there is also willful forgetting. We select out the (sometimes few or no) facts that fit our worldview. Explains the long pauses in response to questions of Romney supporters on why they support him.

[pscot]

9. Don't overlook native stupidity

Half the population have IQs below 100.

[bjobotts]

25. 50% have IQ below 100? Really?

Where did you get that statistic? It's depressing. I always though people understood like I did until I got really close to some really stupid people and realized they just couldn't get it on most things...yet always refused to admit it.

[pscot]

27. "Normal" is 100 and it's a bell curve

sloping away towards high and low. Most of the population is clustered between 95 and 105.

[Ghost Dog]

13. True. And then again, if all you can 'remember'

is limited to what you were programmed to see flicker across your M$M screen in the first place...

[marias23]

6. Dark Forces: Racism is NOT DEAD

As far as I am concerned the ONLY WAY to explain the broad appeal of Romney is racism. And by racism I am including prejudice against women, the poor, hispanics, gays. Sad, sad. sad. This country is so much better than this, but the Republicans have appealed to people's worst instincts and in many cases it has worked.We must once again defeat these dark forces.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

10. That...nt

[hfojvt]

18. then what explains the similarly "broad" appeal of George W. Bush?

and if you are defining racism that way, you probably should just say bigotry.

[Bozvotros]

7. This is too true to be funny

I can accept that people will vote for a Republican, but I struggle to understand how even a Republican can vote for a transparently dishonest, predatory assclown like Romney.

I don't think it is just that people forget. I think there is a huge cognitive dissonance in that voting block. Because they have been so gullible, invested so much money, time and energy trying to rationalize the lunacy their leaders were promoting and have had to absorb so much humiliation with the massive failures of Bush that it is too painful now to reject the path they are on.

They are very much like the Jim Jones cult in Guyana and Tuesday is the day they will be asked to drink the grape kool aid.

[uponit7771]

8. +1!

[BlueJazz]

11. Even the people in my other country (Australia), I've talked to, can't understand why the race..

...is so close. I don't degrade the USA in my talks with them but sometimes it's hard.....

[Auntie Bush]

16. Probably because the rest of the world doesn't get all the lying Romney ads that saturate the

media. They also don't listen to right wing radio and FOX news and are not subjected to thousands of hateful, racist, lying emails that ReThugs forward to everyone. When you think of it...it's a miracle Obama is winning. But, I frankly can't believe so many Americans would want Romney. That's sickening! What's the matter with people?

BlueJazz- You can tell them we still have a lot of racist and uninformed people who vote against their own well being.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. "That's sickening! What's the matter with people?"

We're talking about the crowd that watch HSN.

[BlueJazz]

26. LOL!!..At first I thought it said "mini stripper" I thought it was a robot-thing doing a striptease

Geez...shows where my minds at..

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. Comes in male and female versions.

Perfect thing for the bored housewife who is bi-curious.

[HoosierCowboy]

12. Proof Positive....

...that the early John Birch Society was right about the effect of fluoridation in the public water supply.

[left on green only]

37. Either that or.........

.........else demented through the practice of masturbation. I was partially raised in Orange County, CA, so I know all about the JBS; but somehow I managed to escape with my mind, though sadly not before I had to wear glasses.

[wicket]

14. WOW!

[mountain grammy]

15. "Slate" is my homepage and I haven't been able to download it all morning

Thanks for today's Doonesbury. It's right on, as usual.

[Octafish]

19. GT is tops!

Pegged the BFEE back in 1992 for Lies of Our Times.

[BootinUp]

20. classic.

[Sparkly]

24. Seriously!!

[jtuck004]

29. I wonder if millions of people will read that and go "huh?".

It's a funny cartoon to many, but a lot of people think, have been taught to think, have been reinforced to think that it's those who don't "try" that are the problem. I can show them a list of predatory wall street plutocrats (any of the junk bond firms, a good number of corporate executives who have control of their company assets) and they have no idea they are looking at the faces of the tyrants that control their livelihood, if not their very lives. They like their cars, too.

Then again, how does one teach them who screwed whom if we didn't investigate, bring charges and put people in jail instead of paying them trillions of dollars to make sure they didn't "lose", though? Heck, we just started paying $40 billion a month to the very richest to make sure their mortgage-backed assets don't fall in value, while millions of people still face foreclosure.

It ironic that the character asks "That the GOP would nominate a predatory Wall Street plutocrat?" while billions are being funneled to those very plutocrats from taxpayers as we read this. Top down, indeed.



Oh, wait. Not that funny.

Mi$$ RobMe would open up the funnel and put a gold seal on it. At least Obama muzzles the greedy financial sector to some extent, and perhaps the people will figure out what they need to do in the future.

[kath]

30. The film Idiocracy seems more & more & more like a documentary.

Le sigh.
We are screwn...

[codjh9]

35. It could turn out to be one, yep! n/t

[xtraxritical]

40. Yep, we've been scrod.

[Rain Mcloud]

31. Short memories of a stolen election and the whereabouts of the Bobby Brooks Brigade

From 2009:
[link:http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090810_inside_story_on_town_hall_riots_right-wing_shock_troops_do_corpora/|

[AZ Progressive]

32. THIS is the facepalm I've been doing throughout THIS ENTIRE ELECTION

THIS ELECTION SHOULD NOT BE CLOSE!

So many Americans shouldn't be so stupid enough to vote for someone who comes from the same community of people that brought down our economy! They might as well vote for the current or former CEO's of Goldman Sachs as president. This is probably even worse than electing George W. Bush back in.

Truly, this is a National disgrace!

[AZ Progressive]

33. "Dear God"

This is the madness of being an American in recent times. That so many Americans can literally push America off a cliff because they are too stupid to make good enough decisions in the voting booth. Do we really have to keep on hoping that the amount of stupid voters will not exceed 49.99%? It's just madness that we could be at the mercy of these people!

[xtraxritical]

41. I'm sorry to have to point out that greater than 50% of the popular vote does not guarantee election

There is this infernal Electoral College to screw things up, and if they can't do it the Supreme Court will.

[codjh9]

34. GOD that is so true.

And not just forgetting the recent past - how about never knowing the past, or facts (on any issue), to begin with? I have an aunt who admitted to my mother (her sister) a few years ago that she didn't read much on the issues - yet (she didn't admit this part) she's ADAMANT about her positions! Insane.

[Egalitarian Thug]

36. K&R It's epidemic. You just can't fix stupid. n/t

[Major Hogwash]

39. Great cartoon. We've got to re-elect President Obama.

And throw the rubbish out that won't help him!

[MatthewStLouis]

42. Too funny! Too true. People are amazing. /nt

[n2doc]

43. kick n/t