# Sunday Mar 8 Doonesbury Strip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [March 8, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368 "2026-03-08T19:51:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/1 "2026-03-08T19:51:32Z")
For those who weren’t aware, Trudeau is still making new Sunday strips. [GoComics](https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury) I’m confused; is Trudeau mocking Minneapolis protesters or supporting them? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/2 "2026-03-08T20:02:41Z")
My guess is that he’s mocking the people who are mocking the supporters… But we live in the Age of Poe, so who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/3 "2026-03-08T20:03:58Z")
He’s mocking the idjits who think everyone protesting ICE is a paid provocateur. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/4 "2026-03-08T20:04:09Z")
My guess is Trudeau is well past his expiration date as a cartoonist. But I thought he never recovered from the first hiatus in the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/5 "2026-03-08T20:19:40Z")
He’s mocking the idea that the protesters are paid. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/6 "2026-03-08T20:47:00Z")
The scene reflects Trump & Co.’s absurd and illogical characterization of the protesters. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/7 "2026-03-08T20:52:28Z")
Especially with lines like, “I’m talking to Milton Milk, dean of admissions at the Minnesota Academy of Professional Agitation” or “Unlike ICE agents, our graduates are disciplined, well-trained provocateurs.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/8 "2026-03-08T20:55:51Z")
Plus talking about things like chanting as being “terrorism”. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/9 "2026-03-08T21:13:47Z")
It’s time for MAPA! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/10 "2026-03-08T23:58:06Z")
Yeah, I can’t imagine how someone could read that strip and seriously think that Trudeau intended criticism or accusation of anti-ICE protestors. No, Garry Trudeau does not actually believe that the protestors are graduates of a screening and training program, or that they get paid by George Soros, or that their blowing whistles as part of anti-ICE resistance is “terrifying”, or that their “irritating” anti-ICE chants qualify as acts of “domestic terror”. His Fox News reporter character Roland Burton Hedley Jr. evidently **does** believe all those things, but that’s because Roland’s a dumbass MAGA shill. The absurd stupidity of that sort of MAGA demonization of anti-ICE protestors is what Trudeau is making fun of here. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/11 "2026-03-08T23:59:05Z")
He’s clearing mocking Fox News coming up with fake stories about paid protestors and school kids identifying as cats and using a litter box. He has not gone Scott Adams on us. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/12 "2026-03-09T02:45:47Z")
He’s mocking the reporters who are dissing the ICE protest supporters. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/13 "2026-03-09T03:13:10Z")
Did you see that there is a comment added mentioning the strip got cited in the blog Straight Dope (probably this thread). _Blog?_ Really? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/14 "2026-03-09T03:16:23Z")
I think he’s doing some of his best work in years. It just doesn’t have the impact that it had as a daily. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/15 "2026-03-09T04:45:26Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The scene reflects Trump & Co.’s absurd and illogical characterization of the protesters. Exactly. Trump has stated that all the Minneapolis protesters are paid agitators, and you can tell, because all their signs are professionally printed, and he wishes he knew where they got their signs made, because he could use some good signs. He just shamelessly makes this stuff up. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/16 "2026-03-09T05:57:57Z")
Did you see the cartoon being referenced? It seemed as if he did a pretty good mocking of what the right is saying about the protesters. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/17 "2026-03-09T06:07:05Z")
Yeah, that strip is as good as any he did back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/18 "2026-03-09T11:58:50Z")
> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1028367/3): > > For those who weren’t aware, Trudeau is still making new Sunday strips. [Read Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau on GoComics](https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury) FYI, that link goes to the current day’s strip. Here is the specific Sunday being discussed: > **[Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 8, 2026 | GoComics](https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/03/08)** > > Read Doonesbury—a comic strip by creator Garry Trudeau—for today, March 8, 2026, and check out other great comics, too! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2026, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/19 "2026-03-09T22:41:13Z")
I went to a protest yesterday. One side says “SHAME SHAME SHAME - ABOLISH ICE” on one side (I made it a few weeks ago but hadn’t used it in the meantime) and the other says “1991 NO BLOOD FOR OIL 2026.” We got a lot of thumbs up and honks, and even one woman who was so enthusiastic, she was weaving out of her lane. This was on a very busy four-lane main road beside a popular park, and a corner across the street was later occupied by 3 young children and two moms, who had signs written on construction paper. I couldn’t read them but I thought, “You’re raising these kids right!” p.s. Where’s my $2,500? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunday-mar-8-doonesbury-strip/1028368/20 "2026-03-11T23:26:53Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > _Blog?_ Really? We are multitudes.