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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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Trump’s Tariff Rations

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The container ships have slowed to a crawl (not because of something funny like the one that got stuck in the Suez Canal), and soon shelves will be empty. Many people predicted this would happen the night of the election. Unfortunately all of them were at home pulling their hair out while people on TV were chattering about all the other misery they’d soon be gleefully covering.

I was a kid in the ’80s when there were jokes and whole sitcom episodes about the empty shelves in the Soviet Union and its satellites. Now we’ll be the ones smuggling blue jeans and records printed on old x-rays.

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Fascism Career Fair

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We’re now three months into the regime and citizens are being detained and deported. It was already fascism when it was legal residents being shipped off to gulags in El Salvador, but now it’s “it could happen to you” fascism. That this is happening during the week most procrastinators did their taxes and kept acting like this is normal doesn’t bode well for the next three and a half years and beyond.

I’m still posting my useless little cartoons, so I’m not excepting myself from that criticism either. The Democrats are obviously not going to do anything except wait for the midterm elections, so it’s up to the rest of us to figure something out.

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Republican Economic Innovations

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While the Trump administration makes headlines wildly tearing down the federal government, Republicans in Congress are making sure nothing will be left except for tax cuts for the rich.

This has been the case since I was a tiny baby, blissfully unaware of the cult of supply-side economics.

If Trump Take Condiment, snack-motivated Americans might finally riot.

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Canada’s Countermeasures

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Trump’s tariffs have been on and off again several times over the past few weeks, with threats of annexation of various former allies sprinkled throughout. Each country we’ve turned our back on deserves a full comic, and maybe I’ll tackle them all eventually, but my proximity to Canada guaranteed they’d be first.

My mother’s grandmother was Quebecois, and made the ultimately unfortunate decision to move to New Hampshire. I’ve crossed that border many times and it’s always been a pleasant formality. Now I don’t think I can go up there without apologizing so much it’d make a Canadian blush.

Even if the tariffs never go into effect, the constant threat of them has caused tremendous instability and retaliatory tariffs that are tanking what’s left of the economy after DOGE hobbled it. Thankfully, the 401K I don’t have remains stable at $0.

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