Garry Trudeau gets it.

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Damn this is so fucking accurate.

It is almost impossible to talk about anything these days without it somehow coming back to Donald Trump.

I know, I've tried.

He is essentially our new 9-11.

He's a national disaster that we would all like to forget, but we can't because everyday we are faced with the ramifications of that terrible day in November.

Garry Trudeau uses misdirection to remind us that we are all worried about the same thing.

I love this!

There is no doubt that both Trump supporters and detractors leaped to the same conclusion while reading this, because we are ALL experiencing this lunacy at the same time.

The comic subtly takes you down a road that we are all traveling on a daily basis, and then abruptly changes direction, reminding us that we are all very narrowly focused on what is happening with the presidency right now.

It also demonstrates that despite our partisan differences we are ALL spending an inordinate amount of time worrying about what happens next.

And that is simply not good for the country.

Doonesbury nails it again.

Let's face it this guy is going to HATE being president.

Garry Trudeau nails the typical Donald Trump press conference.

Trudeau has been shining a light on this fascist megalomaniac since the 80's and still nobody does it better.

I swear nobody understands Donald Trump better than Garry Trudeau.

Trudeau has been exposing Donald Trump for almost thirty years now and and was mocking the Trump campaign before it was even a twinkle in the eye of Cheeto Jesus.

Words of wisdom from Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau.

This might be the most accurate description of Donald Trump that I have ever read.

I heard somebody else describe Trump as a comic book villain come to life, and I thought that was pretty spot on as well.

The problem of course is that we have to deal with this idiot in the real world, and cannot simply close up a book or fold up our newspapers and ignore him.

I know exactly how Mike Doonesbury feels.

Actually Donald Trump's attempts to bed just about every woman he saw are quite well known.

He even stalked Princess Di, and bragged only months after her death that he could have "nailed her."

Such a class act.

You know I really need to start reading Doonesbury more often.

Garry Trudeau is the master of combining humor with cutting political commentary.

Let's start the day with a little Doonesbury shall we?

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I think I have already shared with you all a dozen times or more how much I love Doonesbury, and what a huge part it played in my political point of view.

However I have to admit that as of late I have stopped reading the strips and I am glad to see they are just as pointedly humorous as always.

Really need to catch up on my comic strip reading. Does anybody know if Dagwood and Blondie are still together?

A Sarah Palin news roundup: The Sarah Palin Channel receives fewer visits than wealthy neighborhoods on Halloween, Sarah sees God in the clouds, and Garry Trudeau tries to figure out what in the hell she is talking about.

Occasionally an intrepid reporter puts on their mooseshit resistant galoshes and trudges on over to the Sarah Palin Channel just to see if their is anything worth discussing with their readers.

Recently Lloyd Grove of the Daily Beast did just that.

What he found was a video of Todd beating Sarah at a game of HORSE, Sally's "Word of the Day." a link to Brancy's blog, and not a whole lot else worth mentioning.

Though he did have this to report: 

The goal, (TAPP owner) Klein says, is to try to replicate, or at least approach, the astonishing success of former Fox News personality Glenn Beck, whose subscription-based Web TV operation, TheBlaze.com reportedly boasts hundreds of thousands of paying customers and is said to be minting money. 

Yet while it’s impossible to know, absent hard figures, whether the Sarah Palin Channel is succeeding in attracting an audience, it’s significant that the channel’s Web traffic, expressed in terms of unique visitors, is a tiny fraction of The Blaze’s 15.3 million in September (the most recent available numbers from Media Trend). The Sarah Palin Channel, by contrast, had a barely measurable 36,000 visitors in September, according to Quantcast.

36,000 visits in one month?  Not to brag folks but this little defunct blog of ours gets ten times that much traffic in a month. Maybe TAPP would like to invest with us?

Man that is just sad, there is NO way, despite the protestations to the contrary from Klein that the Sarah Palin Channel is seeing a profit. No way!

I imagine that there will come a day in the not to distant future where the channel will simply stop posting any new content, and then one day it will simply disappear from the web as if it was never there in the first place.

Which, by the way, is very much like I hope will happen with Palin herself one day. Poof, no more crazy out of Wasilla.

And speaking of magic this was the latest post on Palin's Facebook page:

This picture paints a thousand words – hope it does for you – illustrating rays of hope that peek through the clouds to light a right way forward. With thankfulness for the wisdom of involved Americans this week, I know we can count on the guiding illumination our nation needs when we look up. My brother photographed this glorious open sky while walking with his baby girl along Alaska's Cook Inlet shore. In our eyes, anyway, we see the hand of God in this, and we are grateful. 

- Sarah Palin

It is interesting that the woman who can see no man made impact on the climate, cannot help but see the work of an invisible presence in a simple cloud formation.

You know perhaps I spend a little too much time on the internet, but this was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the image.

Actually that's the cloud formation I would expect to see directly over the Palin compound. You know if there were a God.

Speaking of convoluted reasoning ability, Garry Trudeau the creator of the comic strip Doonesbury found himself baffles by a recent quote from the Wasilla Wendigo:

SAY WHAT? 

"Despite your view -- and policies -- that government must lord over women, in keeping with radical liberalism, you have to fake support for our equal rights; so you do it in a militant sort of way to compensate for your confusion. On pretending to know what's best for us you've got nothing but a silent scream demanding, 'Hear me roar!'" 

—Sarah Palin on President Obama

As you know I have a doctorate in Sarah Palin Word Salad from WTF University, and I dearly love Doonesbury, but I got nothing on this one.

However if I had to venture a guess I would go with a bad batch of meth?

You know elections come, and elections go. But Sarah Palin will never lose her crown as the most ridiculous political figure of all time. Never.

Leave it Doonesbury to totally nail the climate change debate.

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Garry Trudeau is a master at demonstrating how certain points of view are completely without merit, while also making the strip very entertaining and informative.

I have a huge Doonesbury collection in my house, and used to read the strip religiously.

I really need to get back to reading it more often.

Yesterday's Doonesbury strip.

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Don't think it couldn't happen again, because not only might it happen, it may very well be happening right now.

Garry Trudeau explains the difference between running the country and running a private equity firm.

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Garry Trudeau takes on Mitt Romney's bullying past.

Trudeau certainly does not pull any punches here.

Here is Monday's strip, followed by Tuesday's and then today's.

"It's all part of growing up".....the privileged spoiled son of a successful business man that is.

I personally think that, while THIS on its own is not terribly devastating to Romney, the fact that it fits in with the idea that he is an uncaring, over privileged, asshole is something that will certainly continue to diminish him in the eyes of the American people.

And the fact that he claims to have NO memory of the incident, while vaguely remembering the boy victimized by it, clearly demonstrates that he is a liar.

(You can see more brilliant Doonesbury comics by clicking here.)

Doonesbury illustrates exactly where Palin-bots should put their hopes for a Sarah Palin comeback. In the trash.

Sam decides to grow up and stop playing pretend.

Which includes ridding herself of the most manipulative and false fantasy object of all. Her Sarah Palin doll.

You can read more great Doonesbury strips here.

Sometimes Garry Trudeau just sums up a situation in way that is virtually perfect.

I imagine that this is directed at you Palin-bots.  It is clearly time to move on and leave behind your childish fantasies.

And really, could anything else have been MORE childish?

(H/T to Crystal Sage.)

A Pugnacious Potpourri of Palin Presentations.

First up we have more tidbits from Jeanne Devon and Ken Morris, co-authors of the book "Blind Allegiance."

Courtesy of Mudflats:  

In writing Blind Allegiance—and even more so after listening to those who reflected on her non-political life—we struggled to understand Sarah’s lack of New Testament virtues including charity, forgiveness, and compassion. The born-again bona fides she swore were at the core of her spiritual life seemed hollow and without substance. Despite Sarah’s pleas to staff and followers to shield her with prayer when she believed evildoers were seeking to do her harm, Frank Bailey suspected that she had a different approach to faith than the one he’d embraced growing up on Kodiak Island. 

For us as authors who read over 50,000 emails and spent two years researching Sarah’s campaign and governorship, we developed more than a suspicion. The only Biblical message that seemed to resonated for the half-governor was from the Old Testament, and Sarah seemed a revisionist at that – rewriting the familiar verse from Exodus as Two eyes for an eye. Our subsequent interviews with those who knew her well confirmed and extended these observations. Blind Allegiance, we were authoritatively told, was, if anything, understated, and the devout images projected publicly were nothing more than a sham. 

One friend of the Palins commented, “I cannot ever remember a religious moment in the house. Ever. I can’t remember hearing a prayer. Ever. Todd rarely would get up and go to church with Sarah. When they did decide to go to church, it was a screaming match. ‘We’ve got to go now!’ Sarah would scream. ‘Get your asses in the car!’ The girls would roll out of bed, no breakfast, hair all messed up. Seemed that there was a lot of swearing.” Mad and stressed out, “Sarah often yelled at her family . . . the kids kind of learned to ignore it because it happened so much.”

Pictures of Sarah and family attending a church service to appear in 3..2..1

For those of us who have been covering Palin lo these many years, this information is quite will known.

Essentially Sister Sarah talked the talk but rarely, if ever, walked the walk.  For her God was a kind of cosmic Santa Claus whose job was to give HER what she wanted. However she was not one to consider herself a servant to ANYONE.  Not even the creator of the universe.

Palin did resort to prayers in times of great difficultly, or intense stress, but once again it was to ASK for something that she needed but NEVER to give thanks for what she already had.

There is more over at Mudflats so click the link to read the rest.

Now let's visit the world of Garry Trudeau to see what he, as one of only three people to read an advance copy of "Going Rogue," has to reveal about Joe's book.

(To read more Doonesbury strips click here to visit Go Comics.)

By the way according to Joe he has NO editorial control over the Doonesbury strips, nor contractual agreement with Trudeau. So for what it is worth he cannot be held accountable for how he, Fox News, or Sarah Palin are portrayed in the comics.

This is what Andrew Sullivan had to say today about the book:

One tiny nugget. Joe McGinniss sent advance copies of his devastating book on Sarah Palin, "The Rogue," to three people: me, Garry Trudeau and Rosanne Cash. Make of that what you will; but that book is unputdownable.

Update: Sullivan also had this to say:

One of the fascinating aspects of the coming Rogue whirlwind will be how the MSM handles it. Can they handle the Palinista blowback? Are they so afraid of being called "liberal"? Will they even note the existence of Chapter 19? 

I am still waiting for my advance copy to arrive so I cannot say with authority that it is "unputdownable," but I have every confidence that it will be a very good book that, despite the unfortunate drama surrounding it, will please many people who have been waiting patiently (Or for some impatiently) for more truth about Snowdrift Snooki revealed to the public at large. As for Chapter 19, I am pretty sure I know exactly what is contained in THAT chapter!

For those who like their information delivered in a more visual medium, there is this great interview from CBC News with Nick Broomfield, that may whet your appetite further in anticipation of his documentary "Sarah Palin: You Betcha!"

I have long said that this fall would be very satisfying for those of us following the saga of Sarah Palin, and I think that so far I have been proven correct. And of course as we know there is still MORE yet to come.

Update: Speaking of pugnacious presentations about Sarah Palin, what do we make of this rather interesting article from the Storm Lake Tribune?

Brenda McVinua was among the Storm Lakers Palin chatted with after the race. McVinua was working as a volunteer in the "chute" near the finish line, and was impressed with the former vice-presidential candidate's form. 

"She wasn't even breathing hard. You could tell she's an athlete. If you didn't know better you would have thought she'd just run around the block once or twice." She reportedly said, "Boy, that was fun," as she crossed the line. 

Really? Ms. McVinau said "She wasn't even breathing hard. If you didn't know any better you would have thought she'd only run around the block once or twice?"

This is a woman who has not run competitively since 2005 and she "wasn't even breathing hard?"Puh-lease!

I know people get really pissed at me for pursuing this story but seriously, who in their right mind believes THIS fairytale?

Joe McGinniss and "The Rogue" get the Doonesbury treatment. Update.

I am a little intrigued with where this story line might go, in light of what happened with Joe and the authors of "Blind Allegiance." However Joe has been urging people to read Doonesbury, so he must have faith it will not show him in an unfavorable light.

By the way let me just say that I used to be a HUGE fan of Doonesbury!  And I mean HUGE!

I got hooked on them after I bought a bunch of the pocketbooks to read on the plane on my way to college. By the time the plane landed in Hawaii, I was hooked!

Hell I even named my cat "Doonesbury." And as much as I usually shun publicity it would absolutely make my decade if I showed up in one of the strips, unlikely as that may be.

Speaking of showing up in one of the strips, check out Trudeau's evisceration of Palin in this one from Sunday.

And since I brought up the authors of Blind Allegiance, I guess I should probably report that there is still some chance that they are planning to sue McGinniss over the leaked manuscript:

One of the three co-authors of a Sarah Palin tell-all said he's weighing his options -- including whether to sue -- over the unauthorized leak of the book's manuscript. 

Ken Morris said he spent tens of thousands of dollars on attorneys to try to fight the leak -- more than he made from "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years." The tell-all by former Palin aide Frank Bailey was also written with blogger Jeanne Devon. The book was eventually published in May though Morris and Devon have said they struggled to find a publisher. 

Rival author Joe McGinniss was accused of helping leak the manuscript in February. McGinniss, a best-selling author, made headlines last year when he moved next door to Palin in Wasilla, Alaska, as he researched his own book, which is due out later this month. 

McGinniss' attorney Dennis Holahan has acknowledged McGinniss sent a copy to media outlets and others in Alaska but said he told them not to reproduce any of it without the authors' permission. A message left for Holahan wasn't immediately returned Friday. 

Bailey's book was published in May though Morris and Devon have said they struggled to find a publisher. Morris said in an interview that he believes tens of thousands of copies of the draft manuscript were downloaded after the leak and said the manuscript became "one of the most Googled stories" in the world. He said he hired attorneys and cease-and-desist orders went to publications and file-share sites.

I know that many of you feel very frustrated at how all of this played out, and yes there is reason to be especially pissed off at certain parties, but I would still discourage any of you from cancelling your pre-orders of "The Rogue."

Joe CAN be a curmudgeonly pain in the ass, but he is ALSO a very fine author, and his book may be perhaps the best, and most damaging, one written about the Grizzled Mama.

Update: It looks like Andrew Sullivan agrees with me about Joe's book.

But having now read Joe McGinniss's "The Rogue," I can safely say that reality is about to re-attach to her. Finally! Some actual, reported, unafraid journalism on this farce of a candidate. Pre-order it now.