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Campaign Closers

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There’s still over two weeks left, and anything can happen, etc., but I’m voting early this weekend and ready for this to be over. And judging from Trump’s town-hall-turned-dance-party, so is he. They’ll still attempt to steal it, but if the coup has the same energy as their campaign events, it’ll be more funny than scary.

The Harris campaign is actually campaigning, and will be through election day. I’m hoping they stop kissing centrists’ butts immediately after, but for now, to avoid getting yelled at by people suffering from severe election anxiety, I won’t say anything else.

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Congress’s Climate Quack

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(panel 1 - Title like a local news weather segment.) Marjorie Taylor Greene Congress's Climate Quack
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying more stupid, hateful shit, and it’s arguably not even the worst of the lies going around about the recent hurricanes and relief efforts. It’s especially demented to scapegoat innocent people when there are real humans to blame in the fossil fuel industry who’ve been denying what their own scientists have been saying about climate change for over forty years.

The climate crisis is here and now that denial won’t work, the conspiracy theories are going to do even more of the heavy lifting to stop what’s necessary to mitigate any of it; not to mention what they’ll do to otherize people forced to flee the next disaster or the countless ones that will follow.

Progress is being made though! The poorly named Inflation Reduction Act has done a lot to boost the already booming renewable energy industry. We just have to find a way to stop all those gains from going to A.I. so it can give dweebs a picture of Smurfette with big boobs.

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Monster Influencers

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It’s spooky season, on top of the permanent existential dread season we’re all living in. So I figured why not draw some fun ghouls instead of the be-wattled ones I usually do? Halloween is our best secular holiday season. It’s unfortunate that it frequently coincides with the worst/most important election of our lives.

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V.P. Debate Preview

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There are probably a dozen undecided voters whose fickle minds will be decided by Tuesday’s vice presidential debate. For everyone else, it will be a chance to goof on J.D. Vance some more.

Nothing Republicans have thrown at Tim Walz in return has stuck. He just comes across as a normal nice white guy, whose mere existence makes the weird and evil white guys look even worse by comparison.

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Republican Stuntman Confronts His Fears

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Republicans’ cruelty, greed, and ineptitude have been covered for years, with Tim Walz recently putting their weirdness in the national spotlight. But as the great political analyst Yoda once said, all this behavior originates from fear.

They are scaredy cats, whipping up their base of terrified suburbanites over imagined threats in order to win elections they know they can’t win on the merits. It would be one thing if they stayed in the bunkers while the rest of us live our lives, but they won’t rest until everyone’s as miserable as them.

I’d feel like I’m dating myself by referencing Evel Knievel or Super Dave, but Hot Rod came out this century, so I’m clinging to relevancy among the youths.

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Meet the Election Animals

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With less than two months until the election, “Shut up and vote!” season is in full swing. Any legitimate criticism of the Harris campaign will be met with shrieks of “Why do you want to Trump to win?!”

The campaign managed the transition on such a short timeframe very well, except for Harris’s abysmal handling the current administration’s (which she’s a part of!) handling of the nearly year-long genocide in Gaza. Atrocities keep being revealed and met with shrugs. Not having a single Palestinian speak at the DNC was certainly a choice. Maybe ignoring them is the best political strategy, but it’s not the moral one.

Not that I’m some brave truth-teller. I could’ve done a whole cartoon about it instead of hedging my bets with only one panel tucked into the middle of a comic.

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Trump Campaign Events

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The week after Labor Day is usually when campaigns really kick off, but Trump isn’t doing anything until Saturday. Even Biden has done more campaign events, and he ostensibly withdrew from the race because he couldn’t keep pace with Trump.

This won’t be all presidential election stuff for the next eight weeks (plus additional time for coup attempts), but I took a long weekend and was slow to catch up on anything else this week. Unless something incredibly riffable happens at next week’s debate, I’ll probably do something about our other ongoing disasters to give my sense of dread something else to chew on for a while.

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Stranded Starliner Instructions

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Boeing botched the first crewed flight of the Starliner to the International Space Station, but at least they didn’t blow up Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore in the process. The two have been stuck on the ISS months after what was supposed to be a brief stay as part of the test flight.

The empty Starliner will come splashing (or crashing) down to Earth soon without them on board because of a bunch of problems that should’ve been sorted out long before launch.

NASA’s decades-long habit of contracting out operations to sketchy lowest-bidder companies have made them reliant on white supremacist Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Russia’s Soyuz program. Boeing becoming their only other option wasn’t great even before their planes started disintegrating mid-flight.

There should be a NASA owned and operated crewed space vehicle, but that money went to the military’s not-so-secret space drone, the X-37.

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