@Red, if its any help, where I come red is the colour of the left?
Lysbeth
Communism is red. I think as far as the GOP is playing the game of being obtuse to get people on not even technicalities but weird thought associations and random accusations that make no sense, the dems really missed an opportunity to call the GOP commies and watch the die-hard cultists self-destruct
Needfuldoer
The GOP is relying on the majority of the American voting public being breathtakingly stupid and responding to emotional manipulation in a way that favors them. Explain things all you want, but they’ll just get a visceral reaction from “Brandon maked things expensiver” and you can’t logic someone out of an emotional reaction. Appeal to the lower brain and they’ll be eating out of the palm of your hand.
Idiocracy was prophetic.
Adept
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
—
You couldn’t keep it. The majority ended up too bigoted and ignorant, and now the great American experiment is probably finished. This will f*ck over the whole planet.
Environmental crisis will not get addressed, Gaza will burn and be emptied of Palestinians, Uncle Sam will give in to Putin and Xi…
We are in the worst timeline.
Sirksome
I think the truth is even more sinister. The US was founded by white men, and is majority white men and they want to stay in power. Kamala lost because Biden’s base of white centrists just didn’t go out and vote for her. The MAGA fanatic turnout didn’t move much. White dudes in suburbs just don’t want a black woman as their leader. It’s been this way since the country was founded. It likely won’t change this century.
Lysbeth
Dems spent 4 years appealing to none of their increasingly large left and trying to convince the mythic “good Republican” to switch teams. Results are in: they appealed to even less of their own base, and Republicans didn’t change their votes at all, 94% of them still voted for Trump, just the same as 2020. Turns out that rhetorical framework of the “nice” guy inside the far-right cult is only a rhetorical framework and when you’ve got people whose reason to vote is enabling more genocides you should not court their vote in the first place
jflb96
Hopefully another four years of Trump will be enough to remind people that fascism is for opposing, not imitating
jflb96
Idiocracy is lazy bullshit based on eugenics and classism, and less of a reason that you lost than your habit of citing it as a reason that you lost.
Liberalism cannot defeat fascism in the 21st Century any more than it could in the 20th. The future begins now, time to get to work rather than sitting around blaming everyone else for being too idiotically subhuman to vote for the genocidaire with the blue rosette.
Yeah as much as people like Mike Judge he ain’t above right-wing psy-ops :/
Liberalism by itself is not fully equipped to deal with the problem of reactionaries and fascism, not to mention the unfortunate reality that a majority of white liberals in the United States simply are not fully committed to their own democratic principles. Eyesores like Linda Walkerton remind us that much. -_-
No matter which way you cut it, tolerance which is tolerant of intolerance is a tolerance which cannot withstand.
Tolerance which can actually benefit people outside of a social vacuum is one which cannot be blind.
A liberating tolerance can only be one which compels us to favor the weak and restrain the strong in all that we do, say and think.
Right? I am not American, and this election has stressed me out and at the same time I just do not want to hear about it any more. How do Americans deal with over a year of campaigning? Seriously, you guys have my sympathy. Good luck.
Azrael
Exhaustion, cynicism, and 99% of a fatal dose of coffee every day.
Mark
Mostly by tuning it out. It’s all lies anyway. Look at what they do, not what they say.
At their lowest, seemingly buried under the world, with pressure from all sides… diamonds are made. This isn’t a business without blood, sadly, but that cannot diminish their shine or the fact that diamonds can be used to monitor the progression of cancers and hopefully one day lead to their destruction. It may not be in our lifetime, but that cancer will be defeated.
if “porno” purge happens, it means DoA and all our favorite works will be banned
if SSI is gutted and vaccines banned, disabled people like me will not be able to live
but all the more reason for me to hope for the best
no matter what happens, just know I love and appreciate all of you, very thankful to have this comic and community, to all of you and Willis for so many precious memories and finding and embracing myself
Same. But at this point it looks like the Senate is going Republican and Harris has to pull in all of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin or it’s over. It’s not impossible yet, but it’s not looking great eather.
Taffy
It looks like absolute dogshit, is what it looks like, and there’s honestly no consolation in the case of a red win.
Clif
Actually, there is still a remote chance that Harris could eak out Georgia and that would change the look of things. But it’s a long shot.
Taffy
What I meant was, in the event of a blue loss, there’s no “at least can/can’t happen now” that could provide any comfort. I tried typing several and just kept coming up with reasons they were wrong.
Clif
And with more resuilts, that remote chance is gone. Hope the blue wall holds.
Clif
Fox has called it for Trump. But that’s Fox.
Clif
But Pennsylvania isn’t looking too good.
Clif
More networks are calling it for Trump, but not yet the Associated Press.
There are several causes, a big one of which is a 33-point swing amongst Latino men to Trump, despite Trump spending an entire campaign promising a mass ethnic purge against Latinos.
Yes, really.
Willis, if you don’t know, your strip will literally be illegal if the Project 2025 agenda towards LGBT people is enacted.
Yeah. Associated press still hasn’t called it, but without Pennsylvania, it’s over.
It looks like he picked up some black and latino voters that wouldn’t vote for a woman. It wasn’t a majority, but that was enough to do it.
Clif
AP has called it. I’m going to bed.
Taffy
Those fucking idiots.
Miri
“I won’t vote for you even if voting against you is voting to shoot myself in the foot”?
Zaxares
I’m deeply disappointed that a conflux of factors all conspired against Kamala (people still feeling the effects of a bad economic slump, Palestinian+Arab-Americans largely staying home in protest against Israel-friendly stance from both camps, a lot of Black/Latino men apparently not yet willing to vote for a female President, angry protest votes against the establishment from disaster-hit areas etc.), but for what it’s worth, my US friends, you survived 4 years of Trump before. You can do it again. 🙂
Skorpeyon
@Zaxares, please understand, a Trump win isn’t just about the presidency and the next 4 years. We saw it last time he was president, and we’re about to see it again: he’s going to get to appoint likely two additional judges to the Supreme Court, making sure it holds its conservative stance for another 50+ years. It’s not about now. It’s about the future. But too few of us were able to comprehend that.
it wouldn’t be long after that this country would soon split into pieces
if that is necessary for there to be PEACE, so be it
who needs the “one and only” USA anyway? I refuse to identify with a nation which has now stooped as low as to elect a rich asshole who’s gonna be serving a term in PRISON, a fucking eyesore and an embarrassment to the world over ?
Oh so kind of God to arrange matters such that, no matter where on this planet or when in history you happen to be born, the country you were born into by pure chance just so happens to be the one most worthy of apotheosizing.
Do you count yourself oh so lucky that you just so happen to be born into the Most Free Country Ever™?
Here we are compelled to take a step back and reflect:
How lucky is TOO lucky?
Stay woke, and may peace be with you. ?️
Lysbeth
There is a non-remote chance that mail-in ballots change some things that were called too early. It also looked like a GOP win this early in 2020.
Screw that, I’m grabbing the hand of the fucker who put me in the incinerator to begin with. If I’m getting roasted alive, I’m taking that prick with me.
even if worse come to worse like zombie apocalypse,
we can make it like the anime Bucket-List of the Dead
just like my uncle used to say,
“life gives ya lemons, ya chuck em at people” :p
Charles Phipps
I have the insane comfort that I think he’s suffering late stage dementia and will be unable to do much. He’s clearly declined massively over the past year and it only gets worse from there.
What would Kamala have been able to do anyway, if not be a novelty I would have loved but wouldn’t have been able to do much, as Dorothy has realized the hard way?
If there’s anything we’ve learned from the passing of the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments and the Jim Crow South and systemic bigotries designed to circumvent it, it’s that declaration of social justice in Law does NOT make it so in life.
What needs to happen is that we need to work towards the antithesis — that is, we need to start establishing social safety nets derived from means OTHER than formal government.
Cuz let’s face it, there’s no use trying to win from an established game that’s demonstrably been rigged against us from the very start.
Black woman president or not, things like Universal Public Health Care, student debt relief, they would have never happened because the establishment needs those as enticements to join the military and uphold the United States’ global imperialist hegemony, and all the violence and desolation there-of in places like the Middle East which they absolutely RUINED
the United States government simply can no longer accurately represent our interests, period.
262 thoughts on “Paramour”
Ana Chronistic
half wish that literally every vote spontaneously turned into one of Joyce’s boob-dialed selfies
at least until the entire R party spontaneously combusts, idk
Michael Steamweed
I have terrible news. 🙁
Thomas
Remember how yesterday’s comic started with “Doomscrolling?” Yeah.
Sirksome
Sexy.
Clif
Dorothy’s expression.
anon
lol she might think it’s future ‘planning/work’ for her list and such ;p (at least it wasn’t a group chat lmao can you imagine XD
jeffepp
Crap. Accidentally hit the report button when trying to scroll.
Switchchris
The universe knew who her true Paramour is.
Lysbeth
Came here to say this. That’s gotta mean something.
(… can she date them both? Mr Willis sir I’m willing to give you all of my… seven bucks thirty if she dates them both)
Tesset
I’m tellin y’all, there’s a reason she’s so obsessed with polycules lately!
Michael Steamweed
I ship it. You ship it. We all DHL/FedEx/UPS all over this.
R. Francis Smith
I honestly expected the alt text to be “she said what she said”
NGPZ
for those who are worried currently, do not be
red states are always counted first, and are sparsely populated so are always counted the fastest
it was exactly like this in 2020, mail-in ballots are always counted last and are predominantly blue
panic not, we will be okay
there is HOPE brothaz!!!! ?
sending ENERGY to all ya!!!!
*plays “Unforgetting” by Devon Church on hacked muzak*
Red
I am stressed the fuck out, despite my name and the fact that I don’t even live in the US. I’m trying to hold onto hope, aaaaaah.
ktbear
@Red, if its any help, where I come red is the colour of the left?
Lysbeth
Communism is red. I think as far as the GOP is playing the game of being obtuse to get people on not even technicalities but weird thought associations and random accusations that make no sense, the dems really missed an opportunity to call the GOP commies and watch the die-hard cultists self-destruct
Needfuldoer
The GOP is relying on the majority of the American voting public being breathtakingly stupid and responding to emotional manipulation in a way that favors them. Explain things all you want, but they’ll just get a visceral reaction from “Brandon maked things expensiver” and you can’t logic someone out of an emotional reaction. Appeal to the lower brain and they’ll be eating out of the palm of your hand.
Idiocracy was prophetic.
Adept
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
—
You couldn’t keep it. The majority ended up too bigoted and ignorant, and now the great American experiment is probably finished. This will f*ck over the whole planet.
Environmental crisis will not get addressed, Gaza will burn and be emptied of Palestinians, Uncle Sam will give in to Putin and Xi…
We are in the worst timeline.
Sirksome
I think the truth is even more sinister. The US was founded by white men, and is majority white men and they want to stay in power. Kamala lost because Biden’s base of white centrists just didn’t go out and vote for her. The MAGA fanatic turnout didn’t move much. White dudes in suburbs just don’t want a black woman as their leader. It’s been this way since the country was founded. It likely won’t change this century.
Lysbeth
Dems spent 4 years appealing to none of their increasingly large left and trying to convince the mythic “good Republican” to switch teams. Results are in: they appealed to even less of their own base, and Republicans didn’t change their votes at all, 94% of them still voted for Trump, just the same as 2020. Turns out that rhetorical framework of the “nice” guy inside the far-right cult is only a rhetorical framework and when you’ve got people whose reason to vote is enabling more genocides you should not court their vote in the first place
jflb96
Hopefully another four years of Trump will be enough to remind people that fascism is for opposing, not imitating
jflb96
Idiocracy is lazy bullshit based on eugenics and classism, and less of a reason that you lost than your habit of citing it as a reason that you lost.
Liberalism cannot defeat fascism in the 21st Century any more than it could in the 20th. The future begins now, time to get to work rather than sitting around blaming everyone else for being too idiotically subhuman to vote for the genocidaire with the blue rosette.
Clif
What is wrong with you?
NGPZ
Yeah as much as people like Mike Judge he ain’t above right-wing psy-ops :/
Liberalism by itself is not fully equipped to deal with the problem of reactionaries and fascism, not to mention the unfortunate reality that a majority of white liberals in the United States simply are not fully committed to their own democratic principles. Eyesores like Linda Walkerton remind us that much. -_-
No matter which way you cut it, tolerance which is tolerant of intolerance is a tolerance which cannot withstand.
Tolerance which can actually benefit people outside of a social vacuum is one which cannot be blind.
A liberating tolerance can only be one which compels us to favor the weak and restrain the strong in all that we do, say and think.
Stay woke, and may peace be with you.
Queezle
Right? I am not American, and this election has stressed me out and at the same time I just do not want to hear about it any more. How do Americans deal with over a year of campaigning? Seriously, you guys have my sympathy. Good luck.
Azrael
Exhaustion, cynicism, and 99% of a fatal dose of coffee every day.
Mark
Mostly by tuning it out. It’s all lies anyway. Look at what they do, not what they say.
Furie
At their lowest, seemingly buried under the world, with pressure from all sides… diamonds are made. This isn’t a business without blood, sadly, but that cannot diminish their shine or the fact that diamonds can be used to monitor the progression of cancers and hopefully one day lead to their destruction. It may not be in our lifetime, but that cancer will be defeated.
yak
I’ll read the news tomorrow when all the votes are counted. Until then it’s just noise.
Opus the Poet
Last I heard PA won’t complete their count until Thursday AM.
Reltzik
And PA’s likely going to be decisive.
yak
Still, I feel that if we at least know where most of the electoral votes lie, it’ll be a lot less pointless stressing
EpochFlame
aaaaaaaa
Adam Black
Could mail in ballots actually flip any results? ( Where)
I haven’t seen any media outlets talking about them
NGPZ
every little bit counts
is just like a Spirit Bomb!!!!
let’s make one right now of positive energy for all us together *\o/*
we gonna pull through I just know it!!!
*plays “Spirit Bomb Theme” from Dragon Ball Z on hacked muzak*
Opus the Poet
Yes, many of the battleground states had 50% early voting turnout, so it’s possible for that to reverse in-person voting tallies.
Wereg
Pretty fukken worried but by god do I hope you’re right
NGPZ
I know what is at risk
if “porno” purge happens, it means DoA and all our favorite works will be banned
if SSI is gutted and vaccines banned, disabled people like me will not be able to live
but all the more reason for me to hope for the best
no matter what happens, just know I love and appreciate all of you, very thankful to have this comic and community, to all of you and Willis for so many precious memories and finding and embracing myself
????
Laura
?✊️??
Taffy
I’m sweating bullets over here, but at least I did my part and voted, like a responsible citizen.
Clif
Same. But at this point it looks like the Senate is going Republican and Harris has to pull in all of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin or it’s over. It’s not impossible yet, but it’s not looking great eather.
Taffy
It looks like absolute dogshit, is what it looks like, and there’s honestly no consolation in the case of a red win.
Clif
Actually, there is still a remote chance that Harris could eak out Georgia and that would change the look of things. But it’s a long shot.
Taffy
What I meant was, in the event of a blue loss, there’s no “at least can/can’t happen now” that could provide any comfort. I tried typing several and just kept coming up with reasons they were wrong.
Clif
And with more resuilts, that remote chance is gone. Hope the blue wall holds.
Clif
Fox has called it for Trump. But that’s Fox.
Clif
But Pennsylvania isn’t looking too good.
Clif
More networks are calling it for Trump, but not yet the Associated Press.
Dara
It’s over.
There are several causes, a big one of which is a 33-point swing amongst Latino men to Trump, despite Trump spending an entire campaign promising a mass ethnic purge against Latinos.
Yes, really.
Willis, if you don’t know, your strip will literally be illegal if the Project 2025 agenda towards LGBT people is enacted.
NGPZ
NO
NOT IF I CAN HELP IT
?️ PARASITE POWER: HORNY HYPNOSIS ?️
Clif
Yeah. Associated press still hasn’t called it, but without Pennsylvania, it’s over.
It looks like he picked up some black and latino voters that wouldn’t vote for a woman. It wasn’t a majority, but that was enough to do it.
Clif
AP has called it. I’m going to bed.
Taffy
Those fucking idiots.
Miri
“I won’t vote for you even if voting against you is voting to shoot myself in the foot”?
Zaxares
I’m deeply disappointed that a conflux of factors all conspired against Kamala (people still feeling the effects of a bad economic slump, Palestinian+Arab-Americans largely staying home in protest against Israel-friendly stance from both camps, a lot of Black/Latino men apparently not yet willing to vote for a female President, angry protest votes against the establishment from disaster-hit areas etc.), but for what it’s worth, my US friends, you survived 4 years of Trump before. You can do it again. 🙂
Skorpeyon
@Zaxares, please understand, a Trump win isn’t just about the presidency and the next 4 years. We saw it last time he was president, and we’re about to see it again: he’s going to get to appoint likely two additional judges to the Supreme Court, making sure it holds its conservative stance for another 50+ years. It’s not about now. It’s about the future. But too few of us were able to comprehend that.
NGPZ
it didn’t matter who would win in the end
it wouldn’t be long after that this country would soon split into pieces
if that is necessary for there to be PEACE, so be it
who needs the “one and only” USA anyway? I refuse to identify with a nation which has now stooped as low as to elect a rich asshole who’s gonna be serving a term in PRISON, a fucking eyesore and an embarrassment to the world over ?
Oh so kind of God to arrange matters such that, no matter where on this planet or when in history you happen to be born, the country you were born into by pure chance just so happens to be the one most worthy of apotheosizing.
Do you count yourself oh so lucky that you just so happen to be born into the Most Free Country Ever™?
Here we are compelled to take a step back and reflect:
How lucky is TOO lucky?
Stay woke, and may peace be with you. ?️
Lysbeth
There is a non-remote chance that mail-in ballots change some things that were called too early. It also looked like a GOP win this early in 2020.
NGPZ
you are correct
hope exists brothaz!!!!!
*plays “Hip Hop Choir Theme” from Boondocks on hacked muzak*
Dara
I was one of the people saying “not only is it not over, Biden is going to win” at this point in 2020.
This is not 2020.
Christ, I wish it were.
NGPZ
*holds hands with all you like in Toy Story 3*
Taffy
Screw that, I’m grabbing the hand of the fucker who put me in the incinerator to begin with. If I’m getting roasted alive, I’m taking that prick with me.
NGPZ
even if worse come to worse like zombie apocalypse,
we can make it like the anime Bucket-List of the Dead
just like my uncle used to say,
“life gives ya lemons, ya chuck em at people” :p
Charles Phipps
I have the insane comfort that I think he’s suffering late stage dementia and will be unable to do much. He’s clearly declined massively over the past year and it only gets worse from there.
And yes, it’s insane that’s a comfort.
NGPZ
whether he wins or not, praying to Satan his dementia sends him into the Sunken Place
Dara
Charles: Vance is worse. He’s less stylistically bad, but his politics, and his beliefs? They’re worse.
NGPZ
My take-away:
What would Kamala have been able to do anyway, if not be a novelty I would have loved but wouldn’t have been able to do much, as Dorothy has realized the hard way?
If there’s anything we’ve learned from the passing of the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments and the Jim Crow South and systemic bigotries designed to circumvent it, it’s that declaration of social justice in Law does NOT make it so in life.
What needs to happen is that we need to work towards the antithesis — that is, we need to start establishing social safety nets derived from means OTHER than formal government.
Cuz let’s face it, there’s no use trying to win from an established game that’s demonstrably been rigged against us from the very start.
NGPZ
Black woman president or not, things like Universal Public Health Care, student debt relief, they would have never happened because the establishment needs those as enticements to join the military and uphold the United States’ global imperialist hegemony, and all the violence and desolation there-of in places like the Middle East which they absolutely RUINED
the United States government simply can no longer accurately represent our interests, period.
Freezer
The fact that Trump isn’t getting housed like he would be in a sane world is enraging enough, win or lose.
Taffy
We definitely don’t live in a sane world, that’s for damn sure.
Clif
Truth.
Thag Simmons
yeah, this is fucking bleak
Needfuldoer
Can we worry now?
Taffy