Holy shit....(Today's Doonesbury)

[Aviation Pro]

...as everyone knows sometimes my hyperbole is way over the top. However, when a national figure like Gary Trudeau profers an idea like armed insurrection and the potential response in the face of a delegitimized election there is a possibility that we are getting dangerously close to a tipping point.

To the Republicans who lurk here do not fuck around with this.

[Duppers]

1. that thought send shivers up my spine.

Not that it's hasn't and shouldn't be contemplated.

[ancianita]

2. He's right. AND we're too comfortable in our oppression to revolt.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. "we're too comfortable in our oppression to revolt."

When we Boomers are gone, there will be few memories left of what the '60's and 70's were really about, just as we had little awareness what our grandparents were rebelling against in the 1900's and before that.

People born after 1970 will have to find out for themselves where their bottom line is.
And hopefully do some reading in history to realize we have been in a cycle that has repeated itself over and over before this country was even founded.

[1-Old-Man]

3. Not a chance. We did nothing in 2000 and less in 2004.

The only rioters were in Brook's Brother's Suits.

[peace13]

4. Actually in 2004 we were on the Statehouse lawn every Sunday for six weeks and the message...

Wake up America..count the vote. This was Columbus Ohio. We took a stand but no one else came. The rest of America slept and Kerry rolled over. So...not everyone ignored the call. Just saying.

[geckosfeet]

5. You are correct. That last frame should say "Best riot police if the media supression fails"

[Hells Liberal]

6. Frustration has been building since those elections.

You're also forgetting that Barack Obama is the first African-American president. How do you think blacks are going to react if there's a perception that a black man lost re-election due to chicanery? I hate to say it, but African-Americans are much, much more likely to take to the streets and demonstrate than most whites are.

I think the right in this country is expecting that and hoping to use it to stoke some violence. I wouldn't be surprised to see those assholes who brought guns to political events start offering their "help" to the best riot police in the world.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. African-Americans are much, much more likely to take to the streets and demonstrate than most whites

Pls tell me your thinking on that comment.

[Hells Liberal]

18. My thinking is that

in my experience, whites are more likely to not want to shake things up. Many of us may not like it if Rmoney wins, but let's face it - most white Americans see themselves as too middle class to take to the streets.

If there's going to be a rising up, like happened when Marcos stole the election in the Philipines in '86, or the cheating in the Ukrainian election in '04, it's going to start with minorities, particularly African-Americans. I can only hope that large numbers of white Americans do join in the fight, but I really doubt it.

[NoMoreWarNow]

7. wow, brutal!

probably the sharpest Doonesbury I can remember in a long time.

[skydive forever]

9. Holy s**t

scary, but so close to the truth. Wonder if this will go viral and have to be picked up by the media.

[Rain Mcloud]

10. You do not start a land war in asia.

For the same reason,you do not pock with the American people.
Come on now,think!

[Gothmog]

12. Great cartoon

This is a case where satire is too close to the truth.

[Brigid]

13. I saw this.

All I can say is, yikes!

[Kurovski]

14. So true.

plus all kinds of technology to smash you whiners up real good.

Wasn't that called the Project for the New American Century?

I keed!

How Romney can lie and hide so many things so confidently is a puzzlement.

[kath]

15. I agree -- HOOOOOOOLLLLLLEEEEEEE SHIT!

Makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up...

[win_in_06]

16. After what we went through in 2000, anything that makes the voting process more legitimate

is a move in the right direction. As an African-American, I find it unsettling that people assume that it is more difficult for blacks to acquire a photo ID than it is for anyone else.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. Biting. First thing I did was open the Trib to see if they ran it

Half expected to see "Doonesbury was unavailable at the time of printing. Please enjoy this strip from July 5 ,2009" or something.