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More Schmaltzmark Channel Holiday Specials   Recently updated !

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Just two weeks till Christmas and I’m making a recurring bit of a thing I did last year to give me some lead time to wrap things up to meet my end-of-year deadlines. Most of these are silly little gags that could be evergreen except for the unprovoked attacks on Venezuelan boats.

The administration and Pete Hegseth are widely loathed for their actions, but Congress just renewed the National Defense Authorization Act to keep funding their atrocities. Too much of the economy is wrapped up in that bill to shut it down, and whatever’s left is trapped in the A.I. bubble that’s about to burst.

Anyway, happy holidays!

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Leaked MRIs   Recently updated !

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They’re trucking Trump up to the National Zoo every other week to put him in the large animal MRI, and the official line is that he’s in perfect health with a good brain. Whatever it really is, it needs to hurry up and be extremely painful. Hopefully it happens over the holiday break so we can all celebrate as a nation.

I’ve referenced the movie Innerspace before and like everything Joe Dante made in the ’80s it was extremely influential to me. Gremlins 3 might finally be happening, but Chris Columbus is attached to direct, which seems specifically designed to infuriate nerds like me. I know everyone’s watching Home Alone this time of year, but that guy’s not good!

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Winter Reading List

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I’ve been drawing the end of the A.I. bubble for a while, and now even economists (opinion with hints of math, not a science) are starting to notice something’s fishy with all the financial schemes used to prop up this technology no one but the managerial class wants.

There’s some other gags in here about stuff in the news, but if you’ve managed to go this long without learning the details of the Nuzzi-RFK Jr.-Lizza triangle of sadness, I don’t want to end your blissful ignorance.

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Recession Recipes

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How is it a week before Thanksgiving already? The holidays are always a mess of early deadlines to accommodate publications that have staff who get time off, unlike myself. This happens predictably every year, so naturally I’m scrambling at the last minute once again to get things out before everyone hunkers down while we wait to see what horrors 2025 still has in store for us before it’s 2026’s turn to kick our ass.

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Chuck Schumer: Shutdown Negotiator

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Ol’ Chuck once again caved to the Republicans for nothing. Over a month of pain to get to exactly where he was before the shutdown. It took eight Democratic accomplices who won’t face their voters for years, but Schumer got what he wanted: everything for his imaginary Republican friends The Baileys and nothing for his party’s base voters, who actually exist.

Maybe by this time next year, all will be forgotten and the Democrats sweep the midterms. But if that happens, I’m not sure what will be left to salvage. It’s only been ten months of this fascist administration, and it will take decades to undo the damage they’ve already done.

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Actually Affordable Health Insurance Plans

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It’s open enrollment season for those who rely on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, and people are being confronted with extreme sticker shock as premiums skyrocket because of Republican insistence on eliminating the subsidies that made the whole thing nominally “affordable” in the first place. Was it good even with the subsidies? Nope, but it was better than what came before, which was tens of millions opting to forgo health insurance entirely.

As a freelancer, I spent years relying on these plans. First when it was Romneycare in Massachusetts, then when it was implemented nationally and called Obamacare. The subsidies are what propped up this rickety system and stifled demands we finally join the rest of the modern world with single-payer health care.

Millions will get sick and die prematurely without health care, and (for once) the Democrats aren’t caving on the shutdown to protect the minimal coverage we do have. Still, any Democrat who’s not forcefully demanding Medicare for All should be primaried and have their own generous congressional coverage revoked.

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Mike Johnson’s Food Bank

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The federal government’s been shutdown for a month and SNAP funding is about to be denied to tens of millions of hungry families. Republicans are threatening to starve people in order to deny them medical care. Real cartoon villain shit, yet somehow there’s a good chance Democrats will blink and throw their constituents under one evil bus to avoid another.

Mike Johnson is a vile little worm, and he’s not even fun to draw. Just your basic Heritage Foundation nerd who’d eat his own grandmother if it gave him a sliver of power. Johnson’s refusing to seat Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election months ago. She’d be the deciding vote to release the Epstein files, so Speaker Worm is refusing to swear her into Congress.

The House has barely been in session this year, so Johnson and his son have had a lot of time to monitor each other’s porn habits while the country burns.

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