It depends. If she is going to run the social media platform for her campaign, that’s likely a paying gig funded by the campaign itself. It’s the congressional staffers who might not get paid, which still doesn’t make sense since those funds would come from their congressional budget paid by the taxpayer, so refusing to pay is an ideological choice rather than a practical one. It also ensures that most staffers be from rich families as those are the only people who can afford to live in DC without a real salary.
Actually, there is a practical reason as well. In theory, if they aren’t getting paid, the only people who will do the job are the ones who want you to get elected (for whatever reason). If pay comes with it, people will take the job who just view it as a job and will may just go through the motions. Of course, that won’t guarantee they will be competent, but nothing is perfect.
Reminded of a thing someone said when BuzzFeed was using a similar argument to say an unpaid journo was a dedicated and impartial journo: If you’re not paying them, who is?
Correction: only people who are wealthy or corrupt will take the job. If they’re interested in getting all their income through bribes, it’s a great job.
You have it the other way around. Congressional staffers are paid through the feds, it’s one of the perks of the job. Campaign staffers are paid by the campaign and MIGHT NOT actually get paid, especially if they work for cash-strapped candidates.
She could be one or the other, but if she’s smart she’d be a Congressional staffer. That way she’d be able to work from Indiana doing tweets and Facebook posts and Instagram posts, and if she did have to travel to DC she’d have it picked-up as a write-off as part of the job.
Some misconceptions floating around here: Congressional staffers are paid – Congresscritters get a budget to staff their offices. However junior level staffers are paid relatively poorly, especially for an expensive town like DC. AOC made the decision to bump her staff’s minimum salary to what she considered a living wage for the area. This still came out of her staffing budget, I believe at the expense of the normally better paid top level staff.
Official campaign staff are also normally paid, though a lot of the low level work is done by volunteers – Robin commented at the start of the rally arc about the bros being unpaid interns.
Either way, low paid by Congressional staff standards is still almost certainly more than Becky’s making at Galasso’s unless she’s really cleaning up on the tips.
Have you ever used tamarind paste? It has a very similar combination of sweet and acidic to maple and lime. In fact, I have often seen people recommend lime juice and molasses to replace tamarind in recipes if you can’t find it locally.
Mmmm, tamarind. 🙂 My MIL has jars of tamarind concentrate, I was using it like Marmite last time I petsat. I totally forgot to find out where to buy it!
Average Congressional staffer makes $40,000 a year…
Campaign staffers make next to nothing unless they are the chief of staff or chief of communications or a hired consultant. These are the folks you are thinking of, it sounds like Robin isn’t hiring her for this job.
That reminds me of this one experiment our teacher showed us in high school. You put in salt or sugar into some liquid and stir it until you can no longer dissolve any more into the liquid and then you heat up the liquid so you can dissolve in more salt or sugar so you got a super saturated solution. Then add a grain of salt or sugar once its cooled down and the whole thing just precipitates out of the liquid into a tower. Have Robin do something similar.
I’m also sorry for the double post of paranoia with the same link. I just assumed I got the HTML tags wrong and somehow posted a blank post. Here’s the link just in case.
Thanks!
I’ve done similar experiments, so the appearance and effects of the crystallization process wasn’t anything new to me, but it’s still cool to learn that you can just leave supersaturated fluids sitting for a year and still activate them much like you would an instant ice pack, via a simple chemical contact trigger. Much appreciate you digging that up for me. 🙂
Dessert pizzas are served cold, though, in large part ’cause dessert ingredients tend to taste a lot less tasty after they’re melted [seriously, try melting gummi bears at some point, and see if you can manage to keep them down].
So maybe a bit hard to half-and-half-it, unless Galasso serves a cold cuts version of the meats pizza. 😛
I’ve been to a bakery that sold it by slice, room temperature. I was like 12 but I remember liking it a lot. Chocolate cookie crust, chocolate spread of some kind (this was maybe pre-nutella, definitely pre- nutella being a trend and acceptable for decent bakeries to replace their own chocolate with), and I think like, nuts and m&ms on top?
I’ve mostly had warm dessert pizzas, but they also have an entirely different… everything. Not the same crust, for starters. Certainly not the same sauce.
Well, I mean, there are the kind of desserts you get at pizza joints, typically cinammon, apple, or a combination of both, but those usually aren’t- to my experiences- listed as “dessert pizzas”, even in those instances when they do use the same kind of dough. I’ve typically seen the label applied to [cookie or pastry crust] offerings with assorted toppings (to a resulting visual effect similar to that of a pizza with assorted pizza toppings).
But yeah, hot pizza-esque desserts definitely do exist, and that may certainly have been the intent of the comment I replied to. Even still, it’d be pretty hard to match the cooking temperature if you were to half-and-half those, since they cook a lot quicker than normal pizza.
Well, I guess they can always just cut two pizzas into halves and append the halves together like frankenstein’s monster parts. 😛
That’s the only way I eat gummi bears. Toast them on a toothpick over a candle flame until they just melt. Gooey and delicious.
Otherwise, they’re like sweetened rubber.
But.. but gummi bears instantly turn into a fluid when they melt, so how do you even manage that? Or by “just melt”, do you mean “warm and soft”? ’cause yeah, that’s not bad. It’s the chemical reaction that happens with the gelatin [remember, that’s crushed bone powder] at high temperatures that’s the issue that results in the disgusting flavor I mentioned. So long as you don’t get to that point, it’s fine. 😛
This is a universe where Amazi-Girl’s skintight uniform conceals a grappling hook AND caltrops. I think we can safely assume that the apron strings will stretch out to whatever length is required to make visual sense.
In other words: “Forget it, Jake. It’s the DoA-verse.”
Amazi-Girl’s uniform is a jump suit. Unless you were Diana Rigg as ‘Emma Peel’ in “The Avengers” (the Brit TV show, not the super-hero thingie) I can’t recall the last time anyone ever considered a jump suit to be “skintight”.
Robin’s politics in DoA were, at the start, indicated to be a sort of parody of real world, extreme rightwing politicians [with Trump and Palin seeming to be the two primarily referenced], but with her intentions being based less in maliciousness and more casual thoughtlessness.
She panders very much to expectations [as her real world counterparts do], without consideration of the consequences [again, as per real world politics], but without any ill intentions [to her distinct credit].
A clearer example of that is in Robin’s reactions to Roz’s sex video [link], where she shows absolutely no hostility to her sister, despite having a clear focus on meeting voter expectations; On the other hand, she also showed little awareness or consideration for her sister’s motivations, treating the whole matter as a publicity affair, thus further showing how thoroughly Robin’s perspectives lay only on surface considerations.
Of course, the encounters with Leslie seem to have given Robin a more thoughtful perspective on things, and Becky’s political considerations should be in line with Leslie’s, so Robin may actually be giving the matter a touch deeper consideration than her norm. ..on the other hand, with her line about her popularity, it’s easier to just assume that she’s adapting by switching her superficially held political views to ones that are giving her improved popularity.
Hence, while she does cater to tropes and memes for the sake of being ‘hip’ or otherwise catering to voter expectations, the real basis for what dictates her actions is just her desire to stay in office by utilizing whatever rhetoric keeps her there.
In short, despite her extreme character, she’s actually just a pretty average politican, I think. 😛
I never think I’ve seen her as scared as in panel 2. Pleading to be kept out of jail. It speaks to Robin’s credit that she is genuinely surprised that Becky ever thought that was a thing that could happen.
Heh, I commented two days ago on the EPIC entry Robin did. I’m glad to get confirmation that it was staged 🙂
Not sure if it’s to her credit or not, since Robin tends to be rather myopic. Since her focus was on the positive feedback she was getting from the twitter changes, it probably simply never occurred to her to respond negatively, which is the more fundamental reason she was so surprised at Becky’s expectations.
That said, Robin isn’t really the grudgey, take-it-to-heart sort to begin with, so it may be fine to credit her on the matter regardless.
I’m not sure joke-threatening someone with a GULAG [we’ll assume that just means ‘labor camp’ in modern application, since the soviet union no longer exists] is really a negative response, or at least not to the serious, harsh sense I was referring to.
Well, it’s not like the United States doesn’t currently have active labor camps.. and, to a pervasiveness the typical American likely isn’t aware of. There are ones you can sign up for voluntarily, ones you can get forced into by being homeless, the judicial concept of forced community service, and even states or private prison chains where forced penal labor is still a thing.
Still, probably wouldn’t refer to any of those things by ‘gulag’ if you were being remotely serious about the intent to punish. 😛
Robin often has the instincts of a decent person; recall how her immediate, no-questions-asked, no-need-to-think-about-it reaction to finding out one of her interns was a rapist was that she’d get him thrown in a cell.
Unfortunately, those instincts are mostly buried under her unique combination of self-absorption and seemingly deliberate lack of substance. And she did kind of threaten Becky with jail last strip.
If we give rich people all of our money, they’ll end it and you might eventually have a few dollars trickle down.
It’s a justification used for politics that give rich people more money and not anybody else.
It didn’t work, shocking nobody. Despite it demonstrably not working, politicians still mention it occasionally.
No, just an intentional misspelling of ‘piss’ that I’m in the habit of using which gets past the autocensor on most other websites. Although, in retrospect, it could…
Trickle down economics is simply the way Reagan’s critics tried to brand a completely non-controversial economic theory, believed by a large percentage of economists, as being crazy because Reagan liked it.
Or, you know, because Reagan’s economic policy was something that greatly increased the US debt-to-GDP ratio while undermining public goods that poorer people depend on, exactly like his critics said.
“Whereas general supply-side theory favors lowering taxes overall, trickle-down theory more specifically targets taxes on the upper end of the economic spectrum.
The term “trickle-down” originated as a joke by humorist Will Rogers and today is often used to criticize economic policies which favor the wealthy or privileged while being framed as good for the average citizen.”
— Wikipedia
It oughta be called Ontario pizza, because that’s where it was invented. And ham and pineapple are great together, but pineapple and tomato sauce…I don’t believe in taste-shaming, but this combination comes close to making me rethink that policy.
My pizza order is simple – crust, marinara sauce, as much pepperoni as can humanly be piled on, done. Occasionally with other meats as well, like bacon.
I’m being pedantic, but no cheese? You gotta have cheese to bind the pizza together, it’s one of the unifying forces of the universe, like gravity, or magnetism, or nice throw rugs.
I’m allergic to the mould in cheese and don’t care enough to memorize what cheeses have that kind of mould. Seriously, I had a bunch of cheesies the other day (and some rat bastard decided about 8 or so years ago to go back to real cheese, not whatever fake stuff they had before) because goddamn they’re delicious, and I had a stomachache for three days. So no, no cheese on my pizza. I will risk it for cheesies and crunchits and that is it. The only fake-cheese snack I really eat consistently these days is Doritos.
No worries, it’s okay to forget things. I just wanted to complain about that stomachache tbh because seriously, body, three days? I get it, you think cheese is a threat, you don’t need to punish me for that long. XD
I don’t think I called it publicly, but this is the outcome I’ve been expecting since Becky took over Robin’s Twitter and I know several people were predicting something like this whenever that topic has come up since. It’s hard not to predict, mind, when one considers Robin’s clear “whatever does the trick for me to keep this gig” approach to public office.
A lot of us called it. I was definitely hoping Robin would ask Becky to work for her campaign. As long as Robin pays better than what Becky’s currently making at Galasso’s, I think Becky should take the offer.
Well, a reasonable mistake, considering your “pessimism” is also realism. Politicians of Robin’s sort (who campaign actively against their own personal interests/the interests of those like them with the goal of reelection) follow the money. The young people on twitter making her popular are doing just and only that: making her popular. That’s not going to stop the NRA/churches/big oil from funding her campaign, and that’s really what it’s all about y’all.
Preferably before Robin gets re-elected because I’m not sure how well Sal will stick to her new ‘no more punching game’ rule if Becky helps re-elect someone who proceeds to screw Marcie over. 😛
Robin’s absurdly high sugar intake in the original universe related to the fact that her powers were fueled by sugar [much like Rikido’s Sugar Rush quirk in My Hero Academia]. I don’t think we’ve yet seen signs in DoA that she’s quite as extreme sans powers?
As I see it, in either universe her general tendency is just toward junk food in general, and that’s reflected just fine with her current meat-heavy, sugar-heavy, high-quantity order. Just, in the original universe, her eating habits were weighted towards sweeter junk foods due to the improved benefits of consuming such.
Well, let me know if I overlooked something that contradicts those impressions. ^.^
Oh I know about other universe Robin, I even littered the comment section there in real time with my comments. I was trying to make a joke that a large coke probably counted like she was trying to cut back, but I guess it didn’t come across clear… oh well it happens…
Calling it now: Dumbing of Age’s epilogue features Becky as Dorothy’s Chief of Staff. We see her relaying the funny story of how they were rivals for the same girls affection before the cut-away to Sal and Amber winning the national rollerskating cup.
Given that Dorothy would need to be 35 to run for President.. 17-18 years from in-strip time, and the current rate of strip progression, that puts that epilogue…
… Somewhere between “When the sun burns out” and “The heat death of the universe.”
Ah, there’s the mercenary-esque side of Robin we all know and love! Or know, anyway.
Seriously thought I was wondering why she didn’t just switch political parties or something- she clearly doesn’t actually believe in ANY of the stuff she spouts.
This could be a huge moment for Becky. That said, Robin’s political career seems to me to be a speedboat rocketing around a tightly-packed bay practically looking for a rock to crash into. Are you sure you want to be riding a disaster waiting ot happen, Becky?
I have to assume that Ms. De Santo is a Republican, or at least has Republican leanings. So follow one of the last pieces of advice that a Republican gave us that actually was good for us as and “Just say no”, Becky.
Of course, we all know that Becky needs money even more than a fish needs water, and poverty and the desire for financial security can cloud a person’s mind far better than the Shadow ever could (and of course, the name of this comic is *NOT* “Making Good Decisions”), so we can all see where this is going to go.
And occasionally elements of Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in case we didn’t hate her policies enough.
And yeah…eek. Robin being the kind of person who would ‘deport Marcie’s parents if it would get her more votes’ is a LOT more worrisome in the age of Trump.
Any odds on whether Becky’s updated her views on immigration yet? I know she’s heading more and more to the left but she’s probably still got some cobwebs running around and the sooner Robin gets away from that the better.
Make a ton of money (relatively speaking) and influence her policy away from the hateful crap she’s been running and retroactively legitimize her legal jeopardy for hacking?
Why not? What’s the downside? She’s not being hired to reverse Robin’s positions back to what they were originally.
Becky: “Hey babe, guess who is a political intern now?”
Dina: “Are you on the side of evil science deniers or the side of slightly less evil but centrists?”
Becky: “I just post left wing memes for an independent DeSanto.”
Dina: “That is somehow morally neutral and acceptable.”
I worked for an election, just a small, special election for state representative (not national congress). Started out as a volunteer, later got hired and was payed 20 bucks an hour. The work was a cathall of everything, like stuffing envelopes, building campaign yard signs, going door-to-door, cold calling people. Had my fill of campaigning, but yeah. (This was also in my younger, naive days when I was a Republican.)
The main question is whether Robin is making a pivot to the left, with a party change, or if she wants memes that supports the GOP.
GOP’s already dropped Robin’s endorsement. The election’s only a few weeks away (it’s oct. 16thish) and so she’s probably still going to have the letter beside her name, but I don’t think she’d be an actual member? Is crossing the floor to the Dems allowed in the States? I do know the Dems are running a candidate already so she’s not going to be able to run for them afaik.
If I understand correctly, who Robin would sit with is mostly determined by the House organisation chaired by the house leader and the whips, rather than the national party. If the GOP in the House is happy to have her then she sits with them, no matter how much that would annoy the state- and national-level RNC.
She’d still be a member – not that it’s really that official most of the time. There are definitely cases where someone wasn’t endorsed, won anyway and remained in the party. Lisa Murkowski (Sen-Alaska) lost the primary to a Tea Partier, won the general election as an Independent and was seated as a Republican Senator.
She could cross the floor to the Democrats. Or declare herself an Independent. Or some other party, but that’s essentially the same thing since she’d be the only Representative in the House from it. If she did, she’d most likely choose to caucus with one of the two parties in order to have a chance at committee assignments and the like. What kind of deal she could strike depends on how critical her vote was – if it determined which party held a majority, the stakes would be high.
I don’t where Willis is going to take this, but in reality, this shouldn’t work. She should lose. If she had years of incumbency and was well-known and popular, she might be able to survive it. If she’d switched much earlier and was able to run as a Democrat she’d have a chance, depending on the swing of her district. But there’s a real Democrat in the race and anyone who might support her change is likely to already be behind him. Even if she’s getting popular feedback on social media, that doesn’t translate into votes.
And she should really be getting hatestorms from trolls on the right.
In all universes, Robin has magical hijinks powers that make the improbable probable, as long as the end result can be punctuated with a slide whistle.
It was a dark pact she made to get these powers however, as she gave up the ability to be interesting or relatable in a comic about exploring relationships, insecurity, and one’s religious faith.
I get that Becky’s hair is transparent to see the rest of her face when seen from the front, but when seen from the back the perspective looks all messed up.
I’m thinking that Robin’s budget is small right now but what she will offer Becky is a golden future rubbing shoulders with the Elite in the highest corridors of power. Whether or not that future is realistic is something Becky will need to decide for herself.
I don’t know a whole lot about the people who work for political candidates but from what I’ve heard she may be better off waiting tables. Though if she’s just getting paid to keep doing what she’s been doing I guess she can do both
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Superpowers or no, Robin apparently still has the metabolism of a coked up hummingbird.
Hopefully this is a paying gig. Like, at least on a “Can take girlfriend to Taco Bell” level.
last time i checked, republican congresspeople don’t generally pay like AOC
It depends. If she is going to run the social media platform for her campaign, that’s likely a paying gig funded by the campaign itself. It’s the congressional staffers who might not get paid, which still doesn’t make sense since those funds would come from their congressional budget paid by the taxpayer, so refusing to pay is an ideological choice rather than a practical one. It also ensures that most staffers be from rich families as those are the only people who can afford to live in DC without a real salary.
Actually, there is a practical reason as well. In theory, if they aren’t getting paid, the only people who will do the job are the ones who want you to get elected (for whatever reason). If pay comes with it, people will take the job who just view it as a job and will may just go through the motions. Of course, that won’t guarantee they will be competent, but nothing is perfect.
that argument doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny when congresspeople get six-figure salaries and a generous pension
Agreed. Also doesn’t hold to scrutiny compared to how things work… in most of the rest of the world?
Reminded of a thing someone said when BuzzFeed was using a similar argument to say an unpaid journo was a dedicated and impartial journo: If you’re not paying them, who is?
Not to mention all the sweet, sweet
bribelobbying money they’ll get while in office.This is why no one should ever be in a position to decide how much they get paid to do their job.
That’s really flawed logic. If there’s no pay, then nobody CAN take the job if they’re not already wealthy
I’d much rather have politicians who treat it like a job than rich assholes who’ve never worked a day in their lives
It’s also just wrong. Staffers get paid, though often not much – at least for the lower level peons.
Campaign staff also gets paid, but a lot of the grunt work is done by volunteers.
Correction: only people who are wealthy or corrupt will take the job. If they’re interested in getting all their income through bribes, it’s a great job.
You have it the other way around. Congressional staffers are paid through the feds, it’s one of the perks of the job. Campaign staffers are paid by the campaign and MIGHT NOT actually get paid, especially if they work for cash-strapped candidates.
She could be one or the other, but if she’s smart she’d be a Congressional staffer. That way she’d be able to work from Indiana doing tweets and Facebook posts and Instagram posts, and if she did have to travel to DC she’d have it picked-up as a write-off as part of the job.
The tax cut actually eliminated the deduction for work travel, unfortunately.
Some misconceptions floating around here: Congressional staffers are paid – Congresscritters get a budget to staff their offices. However junior level staffers are paid relatively poorly, especially for an expensive town like DC. AOC made the decision to bump her staff’s minimum salary to what she considered a living wage for the area. This still came out of her staffing budget, I believe at the expense of the normally better paid top level staff.
Official campaign staff are also normally paid, though a lot of the low level work is done by volunteers – Robin commented at the start of the rally arc about the bros being unpaid interns.
Either way, low paid by Congressional staff standards is still almost certainly more than Becky’s making at Galasso’s unless she’s really cleaning up on the tips.
I can’t imagine it’s amazing money, but it’s probably a good side gig to help put some money in the bank.
More likely waitressing at Galasso’s would be the side gig.
damnit, now I have this perverse urge to make cadbury cereal. … and easter is coming, so creme eggs should be easy to find. >.<
since I can eat sugar again, I've picked up a bad habit of mixing maple syrup and lime juice lately. it is delicious and so so wrong.
Maple syrup and… Lime. This may be what forces me out of the lurk….
I had never heard about maple syrup and lime before but it made me physically shudder.
Have you ever used tamarind paste? It has a very similar combination of sweet and acidic to maple and lime. In fact, I have often seen people recommend lime juice and molasses to replace tamarind in recipes if you can’t find it locally.
Mmmm, tamarind. 🙂 My MIL has jars of tamarind concentrate, I was using it like Marmite last time I petsat. I totally forgot to find out where to buy it!
Cadbury cereal is the same as Smarties cereal.
1) Take out bowl (preferably clean)
2) Put in Smarties/Cadbury eggs
3) Put in milk
4) ???
5) Enjoy?
a) Step 3 is ‘Profit’.
b) Step 4 is ‘Share with friends’, maybe? Or, maybe, you’d rather keep them.
Especially since calling Taco Bell “the best tacos” will likely get her blacklisted from the food service industry (except for Taco Bell)
Only until Taco Bell wins the Franchise Wars.
the secret ingredient is kook
…
does Robin for serious have any more money than Beckers tho, I mean, I know how congressfolks haveta fundraise
mad muffins
krazy kake
Kwazy Kupcakes.
Great combo of gravs there, both Sal and Joyce disliking the butt.
…
it’s
it’s joyce’s own butt though
Wouldn’t be the first woman unhappy with a part of her body.
Something something Joyce’s cake butt–
I don’t know where that was going and I’m afraid to see.
Megalo-muffins.
Schizo-schnitzel.
Bipolar Puffs.
Kook, eh? We haven’t seen Sydney Yus since she was fired.
Cupcakes, anyone?
I don’t get the reference.
That’s probably for the best.
It comes from one of the very dark corners of MLP fandom. Don’t look it up, you are better off that way
Ooh, I remember that. It is gloriously disturbing.
YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE LAST OF SYDNEY YUS!!!!
Don’t give butts ideas.
Unless you really do want to see the end of Sydney His.
wait what do i have to do with this
Ends—Rear Ends. *shakes martini by shakin’ it*
Congresscritters get a stipend specifically for hiring staff, so yeah she has the money for it.
YEAHHHHHHHHHH
(because everyone knows congressional staffer jobs pay great
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Avatar win.
Probably better than a waiter gig at a restaurant run by Galasso.
It depends if she’s labelled a staffer or as a social media consultant. As a social media consultant, though, I can tell you the pay still aint great.
Can they just make her funded by a dark money PAC or something?
Robin’s been cut off from the right’s money after her Twitter started calling for humane treatment of US citizens.
Maybe Leslie can put her in touch with left money?
Some of that fat George Soros cash.
Probably (slightly) better than minimum wage
So, Taco Bell then.
I mean that’s still, objectively, an upgrade.
If Taco Bell employees are paid minimum wage and aren’t tipped, then yeah it’s objectively a higher paying job.
Most fast food restaurants do not give you tips, no.
Average Congressional staffer makes $40,000 a year…
Campaign staffers make next to nothing unless they are the chief of staff or chief of communications or a hired consultant. These are the folks you are thinking of, it sounds like Robin isn’t hiring her for this job.
Next to nothing is still more than I get paid. 🙁
I don’t know if Robin’s order has enough sugar for her. Can’t we stir some Cadbury eggs into that Coke?
Maybe there’s sugar packets at the table for coffee. Just keep adding them until the spoon won’t move.
That reminds me of this one experiment our teacher showed us in high school. You put in salt or sugar into some liquid and stir it until you can no longer dissolve any more into the liquid and then you heat up the liquid so you can dissolve in more salt or sugar so you got a super saturated solution. Then add a grain of salt or sugar once its cooled down and the whole thing just precipitates out of the liquid into a tower. Have Robin do something similar.
Now I want to try that.
Nothing stopping you.
Except diabeetus.
[Wilford Brimley intensifies]
I’m sad that I can’t seem to find any videos for that. 🙁
The A tag needs to go around something, like <a href=”http://example.com”>this</a>
I’m also sorry for the double post of paranoia with the same link. I just assumed I got the HTML tags wrong and somehow posted a blank post. Here’s the link just in case.
https://youtu.be/1y3bKIOkcmk
Thanks!
I’ve done similar experiments, so the appearance and effects of the crystallization process wasn’t anything new to me, but it’s still cool to learn that you can just leave supersaturated fluids sitting for a year and still activate them much like you would an instant ice pack, via a simple chemical contact trigger. Much appreciate you digging that up for me. 🙂
Ahh, supersaturated fluids. The bane of my existence every time I make the mistake of trying to make fudge.
I have heard tell of eldritch comestibles known as “dessert pizzas.” Is it possible that Galasso’s Pizza (and Subs!) has such on its menu?
If so, perhaps Robin could order one that was half Feats-O-Meats and half Cadbury Creme Egg.
Dessert pizzas are served cold, though, in large part ’cause dessert ingredients tend to taste a lot less tasty after they’re melted [seriously, try melting gummi bears at some point, and see if you can manage to keep them down].
So maybe a bit hard to half-and-half-it, unless Galasso serves a cold cuts version of the meats pizza. 😛
I’ve never seen a dessert pizza in the wild, but Willis has. Or at least half a dessert pizza.
Come with me, friend Maryrose … to the Pizza Doctors restaurant in La Crosse, WI. More dessert pizzas than you can shake a stick at.
I’ve been to a bakery that sold it by slice, room temperature. I was like 12 but I remember liking it a lot. Chocolate cookie crust, chocolate spread of some kind (this was maybe pre-nutella, definitely pre- nutella being a trend and acceptable for decent bakeries to replace their own chocolate with), and I think like, nuts and m&ms on top?
Aha! Delusional Dessert-pizza!
…. but what if it’s, like, an apple cobbler pizza, served hot and gooey?
One, crucial, amazing counterexample: S’mores. A S’mores dessert pizza would be AWESOME.
The dessert pizzas I’ve had were thin crust with chocolate sauce, topped with chocolate chips. Perfectly suited to heating up.
I’ve mostly had warm dessert pizzas, but they also have an entirely different… everything. Not the same crust, for starters. Certainly not the same sauce.
Well, I mean, there are the kind of desserts you get at pizza joints, typically cinammon, apple, or a combination of both, but those usually aren’t- to my experiences- listed as “dessert pizzas”, even in those instances when they do use the same kind of dough. I’ve typically seen the label applied to [cookie or pastry crust] offerings with assorted toppings (to a resulting visual effect similar to that of a pizza with assorted pizza toppings).
But yeah, hot pizza-esque desserts definitely do exist, and that may certainly have been the intent of the comment I replied to. Even still, it’d be pretty hard to match the cooking temperature if you were to half-and-half those, since they cook a lot quicker than normal pizza.
Well, I guess they can always just cut two pizzas into halves and append the halves together like frankenstein’s monster parts. 😛
That’s the only way I eat gummi bears. Toast them on a toothpick over a candle flame until they just melt. Gooey and delicious.
Otherwise, they’re like sweetened rubber.
But.. but gummi bears instantly turn into a fluid when they melt, so how do you even manage that? Or by “just melt”, do you mean “warm and soft”? ’cause yeah, that’s not bad. It’s the chemical reaction that happens with the gelatin [remember, that’s crushed bone powder] at high temperatures that’s the issue that results in the disgusting flavor I mentioned. So long as you don’t get to that point, it’s fine. 😛
seen that, hot, in a pizza-joint held by a napolitan.
Lol, Robin doesn’t have money to hire people
So, basically any employer in the United States?
There’s a difference between not having money, and not being willing to give money.. :X
Yeah, the difference is how many of us go to sleep for dinner.
Apt.
@repdesanto go on chapo
Isn’t THAT a kick in the Prosciutto?
I wish it was “I need to change” and not “I need to get reelected”.
And pay her well! And maybe not wedge yourself into Leslie’s life until you stop sucking so much!
On that apron, shouldn’t the ties be longer, in case someone larger is working there? (No, it isn’t wrapped around all the way once, see http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/03-sometimes-the-sky-was-so-far-away/happier/ )
Galasso only employs waitstaff small enough that he’s confident he can defeat them in hand-to-hand combat in case of challenges to his authority.
This is a universe where Amazi-Girl’s skintight uniform conceals a grappling hook AND caltrops. I think we can safely assume that the apron strings will stretch out to whatever length is required to make visual sense.
In other words: “Forget it, Jake. It’s the DoA-verse.”
Amazi-Girl’s uniform is a jump suit. Unless you were Diana Rigg as ‘Emma Peel’ in “The Avengers” (the Brit TV show, not the super-hero thingie) I can’t recall the last time anyone ever considered a jump suit to be “skintight”.
Looking at it here:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-9-comic/01-flyin-to-the-red/lamppost/
I’d say it’s still tight enough to be called a Jumpsuit of Holding if it can conceal a grappling hook.
they could have aprons is different sizes, Galasso seemed to be wearing the same apron buy yknow bigger
Ha; saw this coming.
Though granted should she be trying to reelect someone who probably won’t change once reelected.
I get the feeling memes dictate everything Robin does already. She could indeed be a force for good under a more benevolent puppetmistress.
Robin’s politics in DoA were, at the start, indicated to be a sort of parody of real world, extreme rightwing politicians [with Trump and Palin seeming to be the two primarily referenced], but with her intentions being based less in maliciousness and more casual thoughtlessness.
She panders very much to expectations [as her real world counterparts do], without consideration of the consequences [again, as per real world politics], but without any ill intentions [to her distinct credit].
A clearer example of that is in Robin’s reactions to Roz’s sex video [link], where she shows absolutely no hostility to her sister, despite having a clear focus on meeting voter expectations; On the other hand, she also showed little awareness or consideration for her sister’s motivations, treating the whole matter as a publicity affair, thus further showing how thoroughly Robin’s perspectives lay only on surface considerations.
Of course, the encounters with Leslie seem to have given Robin a more thoughtful perspective on things, and Becky’s political considerations should be in line with Leslie’s, so Robin may actually be giving the matter a touch deeper consideration than her norm. ..on the other hand, with her line about her popularity, it’s easier to just assume that she’s adapting by switching her superficially held political views to ones that are giving her improved popularity.
Hence, while she does cater to tropes and memes for the sake of being ‘hip’ or otherwise catering to voter expectations, the real basis for what dictates her actions is just her desire to stay in office by utilizing whatever rhetoric keeps her there.
In short, despite her extreme character, she’s actually just a pretty average politican, I think. 😛
But, if she has no political views of her own, how come she became a politician and ran for Congress when 25 y.o.? Is she such a careerist?
In the Walky-verse, she kind of just fell into the job. Her motivations in the DoA-verse haven’t been discussed yet. 🙂
I hope this gets explored!
Also, I wish I’d just fell into an MP job…
Just here to say that was really good, thoughtful analysis! Thank you!
She fired her staff because they didn’t like her last change, her wanting to haul in Ryan.
Yes, she does seem to have some basic decency…
I would say pretty much the entire readership saw this coming.
Hopefully it pays better at least.
Poor Becky. 🙁
I never think I’ve seen her as scared as in panel 2. Pleading to be kept out of jail. It speaks to Robin’s credit that she is genuinely surprised that Becky ever thought that was a thing that could happen.
Heh, I commented two days ago on the EPIC entry Robin did. I’m glad to get confirmation that it was staged 🙂
Not sure if it’s to her credit or not, since Robin tends to be rather myopic. Since her focus was on the positive feedback she was getting from the twitter changes, it probably simply never occurred to her to respond negatively, which is the more fundamental reason she was so surprised at Becky’s expectations.
That said, Robin isn’t really the grudgey, take-it-to-heart sort to begin with, so it may be fine to credit her on the matter regardless.
It can’t really be “never occurred to her”, since she threatened Becky with the gulag last strip.
“never occurred to her to respond negatively”
I’m not sure joke-threatening someone with a GULAG [we’ll assume that just means ‘labor camp’ in modern application, since the soviet union no longer exists] is really a negative response, or at least not to the serious, harsh sense I was referring to.
Well, it’s not like the United States doesn’t currently have active labor camps.. and, to a pervasiveness the typical American likely isn’t aware of. There are ones you can sign up for voluntarily, ones you can get forced into by being homeless, the judicial concept of forced community service, and even states or private prison chains where forced penal labor is still a thing.
Still, probably wouldn’t refer to any of those things by ‘gulag’ if you were being remotely serious about the intent to punish. 😛
Robin often has the instincts of a decent person; recall how her immediate, no-questions-asked, no-need-to-think-about-it reaction to finding out one of her interns was a rapist was that she’d get him thrown in a cell.
Unfortunately, those instincts are mostly buried under her unique combination of self-absorption and seemingly deliberate lack of substance. And she did kind of threaten Becky with jail last strip.
She just literally threatened her with the gulag, so she can’t be that surprised. I
Well I guess Becky’s money problems are revolv—wait, she didn’t pay her interns, either :/
Becky already gets name privileges, so she ranks higher than an aide, at least.
Yeah, but that wasn’t her idea.
Trickle-down economics totally works! WOOOO! http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/04-it-all-returns/frieda/
What’s trickle-down economics?
If we give rich people all of our money, they’ll end it and you might eventually have a few dollars trickle down.
It’s a justification used for politics that give rich people more money and not anybody else.
It didn’t work, shocking nobody. Despite it demonstrably not working, politicians still mention it occasionally.
A polite way for rich, powerful people to say, “Pizz on the poor people.”
Does pizz mean piss AND jizz?
No, just an intentional misspelling of ‘piss’ that I’m in the habit of using which gets past the autocensor on most other websites. Although, in retrospect, it could…
Apparently NOT an euphemism for a kinky sex practice that involve pee, to my great surprise.
A smear that was invented by Democrats when Reagan was in office. Ostensibly it refers to the theory of supply-side economics:
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/SupplySideEconomics.html
Trickle down economics is simply the way Reagan’s critics tried to brand a completely non-controversial economic theory, believed by a large percentage of economists, as being crazy because Reagan liked it.
Or, you know, because Reagan’s economic policy was something that greatly increased the US debt-to-GDP ratio while undermining public goods that poorer people depend on, exactly like his critics said.
“Whereas general supply-side theory favors lowering taxes overall, trickle-down theory more specifically targets taxes on the upper end of the economic spectrum.
The term “trickle-down” originated as a joke by humorist Will Rogers and today is often used to criticize economic policies which favor the wealthy or privileged while being framed as good for the average citizen.”
— Wikipedia
So she’s like JK Rowling, struggling to remain relevant?
Becky, honey, no, bad idea.
I’ve never had ham on pizza, but bacon on pizza is great. So’s Little Caesar’s crazy bread.
Wait, you’ve never had a Hawaiian pizza? Ham and pineapple? AFAIK it’s one of the standard pizza flavors on both coasts of the U.S.
It oughta be called Ontario pizza, because that’s where it was invented. And ham and pineapple are great together, but pineapple and tomato sauce…I don’t believe in taste-shaming, but this combination comes close to making me rethink that policy.
Canadian bacon and sauerkraut. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.
My pizza order is simple – crust, marinara sauce, as much pepperoni as can humanly be piled on, done. Occasionally with other meats as well, like bacon.
I’m being pedantic, but no cheese? You gotta have cheese to bind the pizza together, it’s one of the unifying forces of the universe, like gravity, or magnetism, or nice throw rugs.
I’m allergic to the mould in cheese and don’t care enough to memorize what cheeses have that kind of mould. Seriously, I had a bunch of cheesies the other day (and some rat bastard decided about 8 or so years ago to go back to real cheese, not whatever fake stuff they had before) because goddamn they’re delicious, and I had a stomachache for three days. So no, no cheese on my pizza. I will risk it for cheesies and crunchits and that is it. The only fake-cheese snack I really eat consistently these days is Doritos.
I remember you saying that now and I’m sorry.
No worries, it’s okay to forget things. I just wanted to complain about that stomachache tbh because seriously, body, three days? I get it, you think cheese is a threat, you don’t need to punish me for that long. XD
Ooo, Doritos pizza with pepperoni.
Why
Okay, I know that SOMEONE called this. I just can’t remember if it was ME or someone else.
I think most of us did.
I got in pretty early two days ago, but yeah it was an easy guess.
I didn’t think we were going here, but I’m delighted we are.
I don’t think I called it publicly, but this is the outcome I’ve been expecting since Becky took over Robin’s Twitter and I know several people were predicting something like this whenever that topic has come up since. It’s hard not to predict, mind, when one considers Robin’s clear “whatever does the trick for me to keep this gig” approach to public office.
A lot of us called it. I was definitely hoping Robin would ask Becky to work for her campaign. As long as Robin pays better than what Becky’s currently making at Galasso’s, I think Becky should take the offer.
It is probably easier to count how many didn’t call it.
Is…Is that a Euphemism?
I can’t figure out if it’s a horrible euphemism or an euphemism for a horrible thing.
Let’s be fair here. It could very easily be both.
Insani tea-biscuits are always a euphemism.
… Well at least she’s pragmatic?
Yes! There is literally no way this could go wrong.
Haha, no, not at all!
Glad we sorted that out, because for a moment there I thought it sounded like a thing that could go wrong.
Nah.
Indeed, worry not, friend Bagge, for it is inconceivable that this could proceed toward wrongness.
The chart points UP
Absolutely. This is a foolproof plan, what could possibly go wrong?
Huh. I actually guessed Robin would be angry. Guess my pessimism is wrong.
Well, a reasonable mistake, considering your “pessimism” is also realism. Politicians of Robin’s sort (who campaign actively against their own personal interests/the interests of those like them with the goal of reelection) follow the money. The young people on twitter making her popular are doing just and only that: making her popular. That’s not going to stop the NRA/churches/big oil from funding her campaign, and that’s really what it’s all about y’all.
Except the NRA/churches/big oil are going to stop funding her campaign (assuming they haven’t already) if she goes pro-LGBT and pro-worker.
And god only knows the hell she’ll catch if she goes pro-immigration. That seems like a particularly good way to bring on GOP backlash these days.
Becky needs to hang out with Marcie a bit and then we’ll see.
Preferably before Robin gets re-elected because I’m not sure how well Sal will stick to her new ‘no more punching game’ rule if Becky helps re-elect someone who proceeds to screw Marcie over. 😛
That sounds a too little sugar for Robin… is she actually trying to cut back? XD
Robin’s absurdly high sugar intake in the original universe related to the fact that her powers were fueled by sugar [much like Rikido’s Sugar Rush quirk in My Hero Academia]. I don’t think we’ve yet seen signs in DoA that she’s quite as extreme sans powers?
As I see it, in either universe her general tendency is just toward junk food in general, and that’s reflected just fine with her current meat-heavy, sugar-heavy, high-quantity order. Just, in the original universe, her eating habits were weighted towards sweeter junk foods due to the improved benefits of consuming such.
Well, let me know if I overlooked something that contradicts those impressions. ^.^
Oh I know about other universe Robin, I even littered the comment section there in real time with my comments. I was trying to make a joke that a large coke probably counted like she was trying to cut back, but I guess it didn’t come across clear… oh well it happens…
Sorry~ ^.^;
“The only popular thing ’bout me right now”
…is she talking about her voters or about Leslie?
… yes?
What the F is Kooky Bread?
Presumably, it is Galasso’s Pizza (And Subs!)’s far superior answer to Little Caesar’s Cray Bread.
It’s the bread used on the kookamonga burger. http://www.kookycanuck.com/kookamonga-challenge
I’m just glad it’s not bread made with kookaburras as a flavoring ingredient.
I’m wondering if it’s their version of Australian Fairy Bread – bread, butter, plenty of 1000s and 1000s. I can see her liking that…
Dorothy is going to be so DISILLUSIONED when she learns what it takes to get into politics.
Heh, if we are lucky, we might even have a “Dorothy-is-jealous-of-Becky”-storyline.
Becky’s eyes are gonna get bigger than they did last time she saw Hank.
The way people eat in this strip is going to wreck my blood sugar.
Calling it now: Dumbing of Age’s epilogue features Becky as Dorothy’s Chief of Staff. We see her relaying the funny story of how they were rivals for the same girls affection before the cut-away to Sal and Amber winning the national rollerskating cup.
Given that Dorothy would need to be 35 to run for President.. 17-18 years from in-strip time, and the current rate of strip progression, that puts that epilogue…
… Somewhere between “When the sun burns out” and “The heat death of the universe.”
Glasso’s is definitely the best pizza place for extra ham.
Heh.
Ah, there’s the mercenary-esque side of Robin we all know and love! Or know, anyway.
Seriously thought I was wondering why she didn’t just switch political parties or something- she clearly doesn’t actually believe in ANY of the stuff she spouts.
Nice job threatening someone before immediately begging to hire them, Robin.
That’s the famous Galasso managing style.
FOOLS! Galasso NEVER begs.
I really wish some politician just came to me and offer me job! *sigh*
How many popularity gaining tweets are you sneakily sending out?
This could be a huge moment for Becky. That said, Robin’s political career seems to me to be a speedboat rocketing around a tightly-packed bay practically looking for a rock to crash into. Are you sure you want to be riding a disaster waiting ot happen, Becky?
I have to assume that Ms. De Santo is a Republican, or at least has Republican leanings. So follow one of the last pieces of advice that a Republican gave us that actually was good for us as and “Just say no”, Becky.
Of course, we all know that Becky needs money even more than a fish needs water, and poverty and the desire for financial security can cloud a person’s mind far better than the Shadow ever could (and of course, the name of this comic is *NOT* “Making Good Decisions”), so we can all see where this is going to go.
Robin’s DoA (and I think Shortpacked) political career is based on Sarah Palin and that racist orange fuck.
And occasionally elements of Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in case we didn’t hate her policies enough.
And yeah…eek. Robin being the kind of person who would ‘deport Marcie’s parents if it would get her more votes’ is a LOT more worrisome in the age of Trump.
Any odds on whether Becky’s updated her views on immigration yet? I know she’s heading more and more to the left but she’s probably still got some cobwebs running around and the sooner Robin gets away from that the better.
“Robin’s DoA (and I think Shortpacked) political career is based on Sarah Palin…”
So what you’re saying is that when Becky informed her that Galasso’s was serving pickles again, her response should have been “Dill, baby, dill!”
I’ll see myself out.
Make a ton of money (relatively speaking) and influence her policy away from the hateful crap she’s been running and retroactively legitimize her legal jeopardy for hacking?
Why not? What’s the downside? She’s not being hired to reverse Robin’s positions back to what they were originally.
I’m tempted to print out that last panel and keep it in my wallet for ease of pizza ordering.
yesss
saw others saying this possibility but didn’t think it would happen, especially with outright asking.
Becky: “Hey babe, guess who is a political intern now?”
Dina: “Are you on the side of evil science deniers or the side of slightly less evil but centrists?”
Becky: “I just post left wing memes for an independent DeSanto.”
Dina: “That is somehow morally neutral and acceptable.”
On the last panel, I’m not sure if Becky’s hair is transparent, or if she is a super-saiyan
I worked for an election, just a small, special election for state representative (not national congress). Started out as a volunteer, later got hired and was payed 20 bucks an hour. The work was a cathall of everything, like stuffing envelopes, building campaign yard signs, going door-to-door, cold calling people. Had my fill of campaigning, but yeah. (This was also in my younger, naive days when I was a Republican.)
The main question is whether Robin is making a pivot to the left, with a party change, or if she wants memes that supports the GOP.
GOP’s already dropped Robin’s endorsement. The election’s only a few weeks away (it’s oct. 16thish) and so she’s probably still going to have the letter beside her name, but I don’t think she’d be an actual member? Is crossing the floor to the Dems allowed in the States? I do know the Dems are running a candidate already so she’s not going to be able to run for them afaik.
If I understand correctly, who Robin would sit with is mostly determined by the House organisation chaired by the house leader and the whips, rather than the national party. If the GOP in the House is happy to have her then she sits with them, no matter how much that would annoy the state- and national-level RNC.
She’d still be a member – not that it’s really that official most of the time. There are definitely cases where someone wasn’t endorsed, won anyway and remained in the party. Lisa Murkowski (Sen-Alaska) lost the primary to a Tea Partier, won the general election as an Independent and was seated as a Republican Senator.
She could cross the floor to the Democrats. Or declare herself an Independent. Or some other party, but that’s essentially the same thing since she’d be the only Representative in the House from it. If she did, she’d most likely choose to caucus with one of the two parties in order to have a chance at committee assignments and the like. What kind of deal she could strike depends on how critical her vote was – if it determined which party held a majority, the stakes would be high.
I don’t where Willis is going to take this, but in reality, this shouldn’t work. She should lose. If she had years of incumbency and was well-known and popular, she might be able to survive it. If she’d switched much earlier and was able to run as a Democrat she’d have a chance, depending on the swing of her district. But there’s a real Democrat in the race and anyone who might support her change is likely to already be behind him. Even if she’s getting popular feedback on social media, that doesn’t translate into votes.
And she should really be getting hatestorms from trolls on the right.
In all universes, Robin has magical hijinks powers that make the improbable probable, as long as the end result can be punctuated with a slide whistle.
It was a dark pact she made to get these powers however, as she gave up the ability to be interesting or relatable in a comic about exploring relationships, insecurity, and one’s religious faith.
Changing party affiliation happens. See: Arlen Specter, Jim Justice
I get that Becky’s hair is transparent to see the rest of her face when seen from the front, but when seen from the back the perspective looks all messed up.
(clear throat)
(deep breath)
CAAAAAAAAAALLLED IIIIIIIIIIIT
Now, will this work be paid for in any way?
I’m thinking that Robin’s budget is small right now but what she will offer Becky is a golden future rubbing shoulders with the Elite in the highest corridors of power. Whether or not that future is realistic is something Becky will need to decide for herself.
Hey, what did we say about getting paid in, “exposure”!
Becky is moving up in the world!
I don’t know what an insanibiscuit is, but I kind of want one.
I don’t know a whole lot about the people who work for political candidates but from what I’ve heard she may be better off waiting tables. Though if she’s just getting paid to keep doing what she’s been doing I guess she can do both
Come to the dark side we have cookies. The only questionis who whe dark sider isl
“Welcome to the dark side… are you surprised we lied about the cookies?”