Blowback

Blowback
A clean, well-lit place to vent
Please feel free to contribute to this frequently-updated forum, which posts selected commentary on our favorite comic strip. If you'd like your critique to be posted, please note that civility, if not approbation, counts. Click here to submit a comment.
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NORM/NORMA
Thank you for this past Sunday's strip with Norm/Norma. Yes yes yes. This is the person we want. I cut it out and shared it with many friends at lunch. Keep reminding us, as I think too many folks have lowered their expectations, and they shouldn't. Thanks again. This person will be our next president.
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BEST
Sunday's strip may be best strip ever, worded to satisfy our polarized political environment, yet handily makes a point. I suggest a sequel, keyed on opposite sarcasm. Same panels, same word balloons, new words. Serious, subtle, even believable. Follow that up with a version with blank balloons -- Do It Yourself.
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BRIGHTEN MY SPIRIT
I want to thank you for your Trump-related cartoons, I enjoy them so very much. It's hard living in Wichita Falls, Texas and being an intelligent, liberal older woman (I moved here to be close to my kids and grandbabies). Your cartoons remind me that there are like-minded, idealist people still, and they brighten my spirit. I loved your 6/10/18 idealistic cartoon; it gave me hope and positivity. Thanks so much!
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A BETTER FUTURE
Doonesbury is the first thing I read in the Sunday paper. Yesterday's strip was one of the best that I have ever read. As usual, you were right on spot! Thanks. We needed the encouragement that we together can make a better future.
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WHITE HOUSE
I see that Elizabeth Kuhn beat me to it, but I also intend to send Sunday's strip to the president. I think it would be great if we could flood the White House mailroom with copies of this commentary!
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THE ONLY PROBLEM
Sunday's strip was great; the only problem with it is that, well, you can't elect a Canadian for POTUS.
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SAD
Ah, Lacey. Sad that the only elected official ever to take full responsibility for their actions is a cartoon character.
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HOPE
I just want to thank you for sharing your humor, intelligence, empathy and concern for all Americans. When It seems things cannot be changed, that we are living in total chaos, your perspective lightens the mood and gives us hope.
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HONEST PRESIDENTS
I'm sorry, we voted for honest presidents? Many times? Would you remind me? JFK, affairs; LBJ, Vietnam; Nixon, Watergate; Ford, no we didn't vote for him; Carter, Afghanistan; Reagan & Bush, Iran-Contra; Clinton, numerous women and the dotcom bubble; W, Iraq WMD; Obama, going after the torturers; Hillary, Bill's wom...oh, sorry, Trump got in, didn't he. Okay: Trump, everything. Or as Mark Slackmeyer once said, "That's guilty! Guilty, guilty, guilty!!"
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SANITY
Your strip today moved me to tears. Thank you for the sanity you brought to so many of us appalled by the current White House occupant. I hope this imperiled country can make it to 2020.
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AMEN
On today's strip: Amen. Great sermon, brother. Brilliant imagery, both visual and ethical. The leaders we bear in our American Democratic Republic are a reflection of the state of our Union. We the People are responsible for them, and it, whether we have been or not. We all bleed the same color. We all laugh and cry over the same circumstances. We all love and despise the same basic things, regardless of what details may differ. Most importantly, we each are members of the same human family. Dumb can be a poor decision, but stupid is its careless repetition: Dumb is readily forgivable, stupid begs rejection. May God bless those who love us, and those who hate us: May God forgive us all !
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PERFECT
Today's Doonesbury strip was perfect! I sent it on to the president.
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CANDIDACY
Thanks for Norm, for whom we will all vote. I hope there will be bumper stickers, buttons, and lawn signs. This could be a unifying candidacy.
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IRRELEVANT
That someone does or does not "worship a loving god" is entirely irrelevant to their being a decent person. To imply, in today's strip, that it's required in a "normal" person or president is bigoted.
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CHARACTERISTICS
In today's strip, I'm sure there are a thousand characteristics you could have listed, but here's one I hope for: "I'm an adult, and I act like it."
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VALUES AND BEHAVIORS
Thank you for today. Current events in the US are so destructive and destabilizing that watching the evening news is painful. Your message is a good reminder that there are millions of US citizens who model the values and behaviors that we expect in our leaders.
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NORM 2020
I don't think it's too early to crowdfund a "Norm 2020" campaign.
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FAVORITE
Today's five-years-ago strip is my favorite in the entire canon.
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MIT Ph.D.s
As a Ph.D. who tries to go by Mr., I enjoyed the 5-years-ago-today strip with a bunch of MIT Ph.D.s looking for "a real doctor."
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IRONY
Excellent juxtaposition on the website today. In the "Say What?" column, there was Rudy Giuliani describing KJ-U on all fours, begging. In the strip itself, there was J.J. in modified bondage gear. Irony, thy name is Doonesbury!