Sunday's Doonesbury - Try not talking about him

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[connecticut yankee]

1. I find it difficult, too.

Somehow the conversation always drifts back to him.

[TexasProgresive]

2. So true!

Do you find yourself biting your tongue to keep from commenting on the gilded elephant pissing in the room?

[dalton99a]

3. Trump is like a rabid Tasmanian devil on meth that's hard to ignore

[lark]

4. Worse, he's like a rabid tasmanian devil and he's heading straight for you,

fangs out and snarling and you are wondering if you can escape or survive what's coming quickly.

[gordianot]

5. Tasmanian devils can be cute and friendly unlike Trump.

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[lark]

6. Yeah, it is an insult to them to be compared to hair furor.

I was just going with the theme. More like watching a killer hurricane approach, you know there will be devastation, and some parts will be hurt far worse than others, but hope it diverts, knowing there's not much chance of that happening.

[gordianot]

8. Apparently most animals are capable of some reciprocal social behavior.

Donald Trump like the Honey Badger and pit vipers should totally be left alone it is dangerous to get close.

[3catwoman3]

9. It is a n insult to almost all living organisms...

...to compare them to Trump. Tapeworms, liver flukes, and mosquitoes are excepted. Probably most parasites, too.

[Phoenix61]

13. Water moccasins

Poisonous and blessed with a nasty disposition. The only snake I know of that will go out of it's way to bite you.

[maddiemom]

15. It's the CARTOON (little whirling derverish) that immediately comes to mind.

Too few people know that they're real little creatures.

[dubyadiprecession]

17. Nothing like cuddling a giant rat.

I expected them to start yelling gibberish while spinning like a tornado on the ground.

[Tanuki]

26. Aw, how sweet and calm they are! I had no idea. I thought they were all like

[Scarsdale]

7. Blood pressure

medications have been increased. My doctor told me to stop reading about tRump. Impossible, he is the latest Kardasian obsession for the media. He should resign, he got what he wanted lots of publicity. Maybe too much?

[gordianot]

10. When I see him on screen my left hand throbs.

Not a healthy reaction.

[HughBeaumont]

11. No Mike. We CAN'T.

Life-ruiners kind of have that effect.

[sagesnow]

12. To keep the peace,

I find myself dumbstruck in many family and social situations. Sometimes I have to pray no one gets me started.

[radical noodle]

14. So true

and why I'm having trouble emailing my best friend from grade school who voted for him because she liked his book The Art of the Deal.

[maddiemom]

16. This man lost by nearly three million popular votes.

Can you imagine gathering that many people in one place? OTOH the behaviors of Hillary Clinton (and Al Gore before her) have been gracious and exemplary. Trump was bitching, whining and moaning about a "rigged" election many months before the actual vote... How did we get to this place in history?

[radical noodle]

19. I really still don't understand

why people didn't see him for the con man he is. I know well-educated people who would be horrified normally by a person who acts like trump, who calmly went to the voting booth and voted for the orange swamp creature. It's hard to imagine how they could be so gullible. I don't see how we got here and how we recover.

I guess this explains why an email from exiled Prince Hasseem asking for bank account numbers still works.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. RWAF compartmentalize their thinking. And they more often indulge in confirmation-seeking.

One of the characteristics of RW Authoritarian Followers is that they compartmentalize their thinking. So they can wall off the pussy grabbing from the "drain the swamp" and "build the wall". They are not troubled by cognitive dissonance and are especially skilled at rationalizing it away because of another characteristic:

They seek confirmation much more than progressives & liberals do. They don't reach out, they have less empathy, they live more in a bubble. They are the opposite of scientists, who seek contradictions to break their theories and cherish only the ones that survive many tests. RWAF find something that seems to confirm a belief or talking point and then stop looking without examining that piece of evidence much either.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Yup, I try to refer to him as the Minority President as much as possible. And re "rigged"

Re "rigged":   tRump is so stupid and reactive without much thinking ahead that he says whatever is on the top of his head. So, since his campaign was colluding with Russians (even tRump would have been vaguely aware of that), he talked about rigged elections.

Also, when tRump is in one of his more cogent phases, he likes to plant distractions and misdirections related to anticipated problems. So if he lost, he would not take any blame and would put it on other people and on "rigged" elections. If he won, he would eventually face investigations into his Russian connections, so he pre-distracts and misdirects by claiming the Democrats rigged the election by getting "millions" of illegals to vote.

But very much predominantly it is the first cause: "rigging" was in the back of his mind because that's what his campaign was doing.

[Hekate]

18. Kick and damn. My husband is in Mike Doonesbury's shoes -- he has to listen to me refrain. nt

[kentuck]

22. Excellent!

So very true!

[Lifelong Protester]

23. K & R

[Hamlette]

24. uncanny how he always nails it. I'm the same way.

[Gothmog]

25. Another great Doonesbury strip