Where to vote: Find My Polling Place
Non-comprehensive lists: Hillary Clinton’s policies and Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments
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Sparrow: My fellow Americans, for heaven’s sake, GO VOTE today!
Bianca: If you don’t know your polling place, scroll down for a link to find it! There’s also a recap of some of Hillary Clinton’s positions. And, since actions speak louder than words: a recap of things she’s already accomplished.
Patrick: Wow! This list goes on forever!
Timothy: She changed policy at the State Department to make it easier for trans people to get the right genders on our passports?
Emma: I knew she won health insurance for millions of children, but this goes back so much farther. Her on-the-ground legal work helped make it illegal for schools not to accommodate kids with disabilities! She got adoption assistance expanded to single adults and same-sex couples. And this was all way back in the nineties!
Miranda: If she gets to pass even half the laws she wants, we could all have quality pre-K, non-collapsing bridges, affordable Internet, automatic voter registration, and solar panels.
Cohen: Besides, have you seen the other guy? He literally asked why, if the US has nukes, we don’t use them. Also retweets propaganda from neo-Nazi sites and is endorsed by the KKK. How is this even a choice?
Walker: He’s not a businessman. He’s gone bankrupt four times! I like people who didn’t go bankrupt.
Blake: And he doesn’t even pay people! Not his contractors, not his campaign pollsters, not those little girls he had sing and dance for him. Who would trust him with a vote? You couldn’t trust him with a loan of five bucks for pizza night.
Cybele: Are you still a Republican, boss?
Bennett: I’ll come out when the bad man leaves my party.
I appreciate you asking people to go vote. I won’t say any more than that to avoid political discussion in a webcomic.
Considering the subject matter and cast the only one youd piss of are the cult of orange
LOL! About halfway down I wondered what Bennett’s response would be. Can we petition everyone to just call Trump “the bad man”?
Now back to cleaning my office so I can find my “I voted” sticker. I did early vote and planned on scanning the sticker (it’s a special one using the Blue Dog this year) but I lost it in the mess. :p
I voted. I am sobbing my eyes out at the moment.
Half the people in this house are struggling with some stage of a nervous breakdown.
It’s tempting.
But I work in disability services, and us coming in to work for all we’ve got is going to matter to people now more than ever, so.
Comics like this, in otherwise apolitical media, make me glad Trump won
Comics like this, in a world otherwise insane, make ma able to get up and raise my kids.
Otherwise apolitical? When a main character was a politician and is now a pundit, when the characters are concerned with the economy and their civil rights, when main characters are emphatically portrayed as valuable while being black and queer and Muslim and trans and Jewish?
Politics is all over this comic. People like me write about it because it’s a big deal in our lives. You’re not even responding to any of the actual issues with the candidates, but the very fact that you think it’s not worth talking about is not actually a neutral stance. Or an apolitical one.
It’s ficticious politics, not real world one. There is a hell of a difference there. Pllus the fact that there is always, in all media, a bit of protagonist centered morality (which is the point of having a protagonist) and all that.
One thing is having social and economic concerns, another is telling people to outright vote for someone.
The strip doesn’t tell you who to vote for. It lists a lot of facts about both candidates. That the facts are weighted in someone’s favor is the fault of reality, not something I or any other artist did.
The KKK endorsement is not something I made up! It’s not satire! It’s not a result of Godwin’s law! This is the actual world you live in!
It’s appalling to hear “well, y’know, protagonist-centered morality” in response to “black people matter, queer people matter, Muslims matter, trans people matter, Jewish people matter.” Racism isn’t fictional, homophobia isn’t fictional, Islamophobia isn’t fictional, transphobia isn’t fictional, antisemitism isn’t fictional. And no work of fiction needs to somehow sanitize or whitewash us in order to make us seem as worthy as straight white cis Christian men.
The KKK endorsed Trump, it does not mean that Trump endorses the KKK, and saying anything that the KKK says is bad IS invoking Godwin’s law.
And the protagonist centered morality refered to the fact that the portrayed republicans seem to be on the evil side of the spectrum.
oh my fucking god, we’re not talking about “David Duke said he liked puppies!” or something else divorced from politics, we’re talking about they endorse his ability to advance the cause of white nationalism.
This is bad. This is unambiguously bad. This is not within the bounds of reasonable political disagreement. It’s not even in the same time zone as reasonable political disagreement.
Thank you. Oh God, THANK YOU. And, may God (Divine, Allah, Yin Yang, WHATEVER) keep you safe! Failing that, well, look carefully. At least you are not alone.
“Swear allegiance to the flag, whatever flag they offer…”
Wonder why that’s been running through my head??
Gotta go get my son now, and later my daughter.
As you said, Erin, a nervous breakdown is MIGHTY tempting, but…..
“The only effective weapons in the ‘War On Terror’ will be shown to be Love, Courage, and Strength of Soul, NOT strength of arms or armaments.”
Guess what asshole, Godwin’s Law got thrown out the window the very SECOND he said he was going to decide who stays and who goes based on religion and skin color. It was tossed right out the window the second he called an entire people “racists and drug dealers”. Trump IS a fascist, he IS a danger, and he IS going to sit back and let his supporters go hog-fucking-wild on the country. He is Hitler’s new bag boy because, to paraphrase a greater man’s writing. “He picked Hitler! He chose his ideas, he invoked his name, stole his slogans, and now must take whatever else comes with it!”
Sit your ass down and watch this episode, watch every FUCKING SECOND OF IT. Then tell me, fucking DARE TO TELL ME, that this isn’t exactly what’s fucking happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp6xM3eD1h0
The portrayed Republicans seem to be on the evil side of the spectrum because they’re portrayed as Republicans. The fact that you recognize that as synonymous with “evil” is, again, the fault of reality.
Hell, Bennett is sympathetic to the point that it strains my suspension of disbelief at times.
Meanwhile, you’re acting like “evil” is a bad thing while worshipping Trump. That doesn’t work.
I think you have a very poor understanding of what “politics” means. I agree that this comic is very political, and that’s exactly why I love it. It’s political in the way it points out real socioeconomic, POLITICAL issues. Political because economics and social issues are very strongly tied to politics. Economics is political when policies favour certain types of people in certain economic ways, and social issues are political when policies (and other phenomena that cannot be traced to a single person’s actions) disadvantage other particular types of people in particular social ways.
As for telling people who to vote? Pointing out things is not the same as compelling. Besides, hasn’t it been obvious throughout the comic the kinds of political views that are favoured? If you’re fond of whatever Trump says, have you actually understood and appreciated much of the comic? It’s not about WHO the politician is, but the kind of politician (judged by the things they say, and the policies they favour).
Politics is about statecraft, in the same way that business is about “businesscraft”, where both refer to the ability to use economic and social tools to run an organisation. The important thing in politics is the success of the country, which is why I consider Putin, for example, to be the best politician in living history.
And I am not complaining that the comic per se is one sided (although I tend to agree
with Bennet’s strawman that Beings are dangerous tools). I am complaining about this and many other comics and similar artistic productions using their fanbase to push a real world political agenda, and am glad it blew up in your collective faces.
“First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me, but when I looked for help there was no one to speak for me.”
Mark it. Mark these words down. Mark them when you see immigrants herded together like cattle. Mark them when you see mosques raided by riot police. Hear them when you find yourself watching the nightly news as another black man is shot dead. And then remember them as you’re confronted because you, too, aren’t “right” in the twisted minds of these men.
Now let’s end this trolling here. You’re done, finished, finito. You aren’t here to converse, you’re here to gloat and brag like your beloved. You’re here to fellate yourself with a win at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Yes, right now you think it is a success. Then the infrastructure will keep crumbling, the oceans will keep rising, and you will be left trying to desperately blame the Other as the rest of the world looks to another nation to lead. Leaving you out in the cold still wondering how in the hell “the greatest nation on Earth” wasn’t made great again. So I recommend to all of you, including you boss, let’s leave this fucker where they belong.
Living on their knees.
Reached this page 9/25/20. Not sure if I need to say anything more…
And I’m glad that I have the ability to block and IP-ban people who insist on being this disingenuously noxious in my comments section.
*applauds*
So webcomic authors are not allowed to have opinions now? And it’s not like conservative authors don’t push their own agendas into their comics (look at the author of Questor who is all-too-happy to work right-wing ideals and ideas into his work).
“How DARE those artists and writers not be comically evil!”
Ummm…… I think I messed up. Just to be clear, I MEANT my reply to be to YOU, ERIN! NOT the poorly-disguised Trump-Chump!!
SORRY!!!!
ERIN YOU ROCK!!
Other dude, roll. Like, roll outta here!
As a UK citizen this feels like the second punch to the gut in months. First the UK madly voted to leave the EU, and now there is an unpredictable madman heading for the White House. I’m glad there isn’t much more of 2016 left, because apart from years with deaths in my family it’s been the worst year of my life. But alas I fear future years will be no better, we have at least 4 years of Trump to survive and who knows how long the Brexit madness will take to play out.
I don’t think UK left EU. Feels more like EU is dragging everyone elsewhere and UK voted to stay.
hey, if it makes you feel any better, apparently half of all Americans agree with you about that gut punch feeling – dang it electoral college, this is explicitly what you are supposed to prevent – crazy tyrants being elected by the masses!
The masses didn’t elect him. The popular vote went to Clinton.
“Bennett” gets credit for having some of the best commentary on all the hate and drama this election has unleashed on both sides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXhFGO8R7aU
To the tune of “Fooled around and I fell in love”
“I voted hillary and lost.”
Reading this from September 2020 :( :( :( :(