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
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.
“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…
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🙂
@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:
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.
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.
Missouri re-legalized abortion, through a public referendum, but the GOP won every statewide office.
The Democratic party should have been worrying sooner, and doing something other than trying to be GOP-2 and pretending bipartisanship is a virtue. It’s a dogshit party that’s wasted the past 4 years and past 40 years, and it’s the party’s fault because it doesn’t try.
XD Well it could’ve gone worse. At least she only accidentally texted it to her bestie.
Also – I’ve seen a lot of Americans freaking out tonight so please remember we likely won’t have final results for a little while. Deep breath and look at something that’ll distract you.
Is it out of line to say that if someone voted for the guy who wants to round them up into camps and kill them, they don’t deserve to be upset when they find themselves in line?
it got me so worried about my future that i talked to a friend and started crying and shit
but good hopeful crying, this spiritual experience in which i realized my true calling
the backbone of a democracy is an informed public, hence the importance of the education system. and to all too many kids school is but a chore, but if this democracy is to survive that needs to change for realz
i recall in my past, that which got me interested in learning was educational games, the likes of Magic School Bus CD-ROM games, EyeWitness, Carmen Sandiego, JumpStart, Living Books, ClueFinders, Pajama Sam, BrainPOP, that in which my young autistic self learned and found a pleasure like no other
i want to bring this way of learning and that very same great feelings surrounding it to the youth of today, and if only by accident I now have the means to do it
to think game coding was just my rebound from Physics academia since the pandemic, but may have been my true calling all along, and I never would have embraced it otherwise
no matter what happens, as long as there is life, there is HOPE 🥹
All these motherfuckers want to take from us is our hope, and I swear they won’t take it without a good fight. You’re doing great!! And all of you are doing great!
May Trump choke in all his own dirty.
(Literally fell asleep at 6:30, woke up at midnight, checked the results so far, and have been doomscrolling since then. I should’ve just rolled over and gone back to sleep…)
….TMI, one time I was using Snapchat, which I barely used, to send nudes to someone, and I accidentally set one as my Snapchat story because, again, I barely used the app, and then I had to scramble to figure out how to take it down.
See, I did it old-school, by sending my racy Polaroids through the postal mail. Before cellular telephones existed. When I walked to class alongside dinosaurs…
Friend of mine has (maybe got rid of it by now?) a shoebox of polaroid lewds and nudes that he’s taken of his lovers, through the years. His (then) wife showed it to me. It was very interesting, seeing the differences and variety. 🙂
This comic is gold.
I am all about the continued oblivious irony of Joyce, happy Sarah being firmly decimated by Joyce alongside any sapphic subtlety subtext
Q.: Viewing Joyce’s pic sent to Dorothy as a Rorschach inkblot or an optical illusion, what’s something ELSE it might be (besides boobs, or 80085, as it were)?
A.:
*Butt cheeks with a thong down the middle.
*The top of a valentine.
*A forehead of a heart-shaped face with a “widow’s peak” hairline.
*A trendline mapping moods on election night…
I suspect advocating things that are currently illegal would be… frowned on?
But at least currently, per the letter of the law, it’s not illegal for someone who isn’t specifically a prohibited person to acquire weapons, train with them, and be prepared to use them in the defense of themselves or others.
Always take steps to defend yourself. If you can’t trust half the country to de-escalate violence on your communities, then definitely always take steps to defend yourself.
I am going to bunker down for the next four years, avoid all political news, or political jokes. Try to look after my family and close friends. Also wish I lived in fictional worlds like Dumbing of Age or my own books–hell, even the Cthulhu Mythos is looking pretty good right now.
Everyone doing okay this morning? We survived the first four, we’ll survive the next. Unless he somehow changes the laws to make himself King of America forever even after he dies. I kinda believe Trump can get away with anything after last night.
To talk about the comic for a bit Dorothy looks less disgusted by a Joyce boob pic than I would expect.
Except for the ones that didn’t. A lot of those pandemic deaths were entirely preventable. Hundreds of thousands more of “us” would have survived those first four years if the party in power hadn’t fucked up the response so bad.
I was actually making preparations to leave the country at the time (learning the language spoken in my bestie’s country, who had even spontaneously offered to marry me to get me citizenship), but the shitshow of America’s pandemic response got it travel-banned from most of the civilized world, including from that country. By the time restrictions were lifted, it was too late.
I haven’t heard from bestie in nearly a year now (hopefully due to unrelated reasons), so that avenue does not seem to be open anymore. And I’m kind of terrified as to what might happen if I try again.
That’s the thing. This feeling of dread isn’t a lack optimism, it’s because they keep saying “we will get through this” when the reality is “No. Not all of will make it through this.”. We all know that’s not true anymore.
I’m not sure what to feel today. I’m in Puerto Rico and we had elections too, but the crappy part about living in a colony (I’m sorry, Commonwealth) is that I have to worry about two governments. The people who won here last night have all been investigated or involved in corruption scandals and are basically the Trumpers (and ardent supporters of his) here. I also don’t need to tell you guys about how that administration treated the island after hurricane Maria AND the Pandemic. And the worst part? At least you guys GET to vote for president, we do not. We have absolutely no say in American government and our local government is more corrupt than Gotham city. It’s the first time in my life that I’m hopeless for literally everyone, including the MAGA crowd.
Hopelessness is not necessarily complete despair, and if it’s any consolation, lack of certain KINDS of hope I wreckon are actually a good thing.
If there’s anything this comic can teach us (really hoping we don’t eventually gotta break the law to enjoy it), it’s that often times progress can only be made once we stop hoping for the impossible:
– hoping for a just universe
– hoping for destructive, manipulative individuals to magically change into decent human beings with some magic sequence of words like IRL is a disney flick
– hoping to reconcile ideologies and visions for the future which are simply incompatible
– hoping for novelties like “first XYZ-demographic president” of this nation we were born into by chance to magically solve what’s deeply wrong with how things are done here
If we’re to get anywhere, we gotta start seeing things in this country for what they ARE, not merely going off of what they’re *supposed* to be.
Time for us to do as Dina says: “renounce magical thinking, and embrace empirical evidence”.
i might have to migrate to outside the continental US to escape persecution, just like my black and Jewish ancestors did,
as we have seen throughout history, people having to migrate because of persecution, poverty, ignorance and apathy, and the splitting up of countries into sovereign pieces surrounding, division like this, I guess all that for the time being is but an ugly fact of life on earth 😔
I’m honestly not sure Dorothy knows what she’s looking at. If you get a picture of badly-lit, badly-composed might-be-skin from your trying-to-be-less-fundie bestie, I don’t think that would be your first assumption.
Hope, maybe, but not assumption. She probably thinks she’s supposed to be diagnosing if Joyce has a skin condition.
Gawd, thank Willis for reminding me how much I needed a laugh this morning. I’m deliberately avoiding Gocomics because I dread the MAGAt comments crowing about how they’re gonna revenge on us lefties. At least this arc will remind me that trans people haven’t been erased everywhere. I had four years when I could look at the morning news and not be horrified at what That Man was doing to my country. That’s over, for now.
Delaware elected Sarah McBride to represent them in the House. At least that’s something we can rejoice in! Not a whole lot, but definitely a sign of progress.
Ahh, rookie mistake, Joyce. You sent the photo to “Lover 1” in your contacts. Then you sent the typed text message to “Lover 2”. [clearly you numbered them chronologically]
How is this feeling, Joyce? To have an entire life of christian fear and heavy shelter by parents, to be allowed herself to talk dirty, have sex, drink and show it to everybody?
I was just re-copying those for you. Here are a few.
And, yes, I reported your comment to DW (sorry!) because of the mention of methods. Last thing we want to do is give others ideas about specific methods.
Some of the top resources, beyond just calling 2-1-1 (United Way local resource navigator) or 9-8-8 (like 911 for suicide, but may implicate local mandatory responses). It’s often hard to get through to a hotline, and sometimes you don’t want to risk involving EMS or police, so here are a few more self-directed options to explore at your own pace.
mhanational.org/crisisresources
Peer-led support
warmline.org/#directory
DV:
thehotline.org
Sexual trauma support, 24/7
rainn.org
To report a hate crime or civil rights violation:
civilrights.justice.gov
(Don’t want to get others curious about specific su* methods, I mean.
I was named for an ancestor who died during the Witch Trials, so I grew up very sensitized to the risk of specific trauma-response contagion through public media.)
But the last thing I wanted to do was to shame or invalidate your experiences.
The world needs more disabled, trans Elders like us.
Of course out of all the people she accidentally sent an inappropriate image to it’s Dorothy. Atleast she didn’t send it to her brother, that would be awkward
It could be worse. It could have been Becky. I can only imagine the drama if Becky thought that Joyce had finally accepted that she’s into girls and were meant to be together. Becky being impulsive, she’d go into a tizzy worrying about what to do about Dina, and ask the wrong people for advice. When it got back to Joe he’d find himself conflicted. New Joe would be concerned that Joyce was going off the deep end and wondering if she was cheating on him with Becky. Old Joe would wonder if the door had just opened to a Becky-Joyce-Joe three-way. I feel sure he’d also ask the wrong people for advice.
It could be worse, Scenario Two: Joyce sends the photo to Walky, who would take it at face value. He’d be concerned about betraying Joe. I imagine Walky going to Joyce to ask about it in person. Joyce would be terminally embarrassed and explain that she meant to send it to Joe. Walky would delete the photo and move on. Both would agree to forget about this minor incident and decide to go get lunch as usual. There, they run into Joe. They’re both a little nervous but no big deal. Moments later, some huge dramatic event occurs, signaling the beginning of the next story arc.
Several months pass. Joe discovers the photo, which wasn’t deleted. He sees the timestamp and remembers that about an hour later he saw Walky and Joyce together and that both were visibly nervous when they saw him. Drama ensues.
I wish. It’s no Republican party, but our most recent election here in Aotearoa resulted in a coalition between our centre right and far right parties. I’m so sorry.
Canada was my first choice, but they may not be able to support every migrant there. down south is the border, border patrol gonna attract the very worst of the Trump cult, same with heartland to the east
It might be wise to put an ocean between myself and the bigots who want to exploit the continental US.
if i gotta live as a stateless pirate or wind up on some island where i live on the land, so be it
Hawaii has legal medical weed if it gotta come to that,
and i don’t mean no tourist whitebred hawaii, but actual Honolulu Hawaii, where real people actually live, including a thriving Japanese community thankfully enough
Next week Joyce is going to get into roleplaying with Joe. :O
(They’ll start with D&D 5e (how vanilla!), of course, but quickly get into the spicier Pathfinder 2e. By their sophomore year, they’ll be into Promethean: The Created 2e and Coyote & Crow 1e.)
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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
I have terrible news. 🙁
Remember how yesterday’s comic started with “Doomscrolling?” Yeah.
Sexy.
Dorothy’s expression.
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
Crap. Accidentally hit the report button when trying to scroll.
The universe knew who her true Paramour is.
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)
I’m tellin y’all, there’s a reason she’s so obsessed with polycules lately!
I ship it. You ship it. We all DHL/FedEx/UPS all over this.
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*
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.
@Red, if its any help, where I come red is the colour of the left?
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
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.
“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.
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.
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
Hopefully another four years of Trump will be enough to remind people that fascism is for opposing, not imitating
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.
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.
Exhaustion, cynicism, and 99% of a fatal dose of coffee every day.
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.
I’ll read the news tomorrow when all the votes are counted. Until then it’s just noise.
Last I heard PA won’t complete their count until Thursday AM.
And PA’s likely going to be decisive.
Still, I feel that if we at least know where most of the electoral votes lie, it’ll be a lot less pointless stressing
aaaaaaaa
Could mail in ballots actually flip any results? ( Where)
I haven’t seen any media outlets talking about them
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*
Yes, many of the battleground states had 50% early voting turnout, so it’s possible for that to reverse in-person voting tallies.
Pretty fukken worried but by god do I hope you’re right
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
🥹🥹🥹🫂
🕯✊️🤗🫂
I’m sweating bullets over here, but at least I did my part and voted, like a responsible citizen.
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.
It looks like absolute dogshit, is what it looks like, and there’s honestly no consolation in the case of a red win.
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.
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.
And with more resuilts, that remote chance is gone. Hope the blue wall holds.
Fox has called it for Trump. But that’s Fox.
But Pennsylvania isn’t looking too good.
More networks are calling it for Trump, but not yet the Associated Press.
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.
NO
NOT IF I CAN HELP IT
👁️ PARASITE POWER: HORNY HYPNOSIS 👁️
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.
AP has called it. I’m going to bed.
Those fucking idiots.
“I won’t vote for you even if voting against you is voting to shoot myself in the foot”?
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. 🙂
@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 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. 👁️
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.
you are correct
hope exists brothaz!!!!!
*plays “Hip Hop Choir Theme” from Boondocks on hacked muzak*
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.
*holds hands with all you like in Toy Story 3*
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
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.
whether he wins or not, praying to Satan his dementia sends him into the Sunken Place
Charles: Vance is worse. He’s less stylistically bad, but his politics, and his beliefs? They’re worse.
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.
The fact that Trump isn’t getting housed like he would be in a sane world is enraging enough, win or lose.
We definitely don’t live in a sane world, that’s for damn sure.
Truth.
yeah, this is fucking bleak
Can we worry now?
More people should have been worrying a lot sooner. Anyone who didn’t vote, it’s your fault too and you don’t get to complain about what happens next.
If “Didn’t Vote” was a candidate, they’d sail to victory every election.
Missouri re-legalized abortion, through a public referendum, but the GOP won every statewide office.
The Democratic party should have been worrying sooner, and doing something other than trying to be GOP-2 and pretending bipartisanship is a virtue. It’s a dogshit party that’s wasted the past 4 years and past 40 years, and it’s the party’s fault because it doesn’t try.
It doesn’t help that most Americans are apparently completely braindead.
And it’s stuff like this that’s why they won’t vote for your team
Cry me a fuckin’ river.
it’s just as Lysbeth said above,
just when all hope seems lost, mail-in ballots gonna pull a fuckin JoJo to save us!!!!
HAHAHAHAHA
XD Well it could’ve gone worse. At least she only accidentally texted it to her bestie.
Also – I’ve seen a lot of Americans freaking out tonight so please remember we likely won’t have final results for a little while. Deep breath and look at something that’ll distract you.
I dunno, I think Becky would have exploded if she got that pic instead.
Yet another first Dorothy has sniped from Becky and Joe!
Hard to not be freaking out when the opposition is currently making orders for the construction of actual concentration camps if the orange man wins….
Yeah, anyone pretending there’s not a definitive Bad Outcome to this shit is fucking braindead.
They voted for the “Everybody Else Gets Diarrhea Forever” party, forgetting that we’re all “everybody else” to everybody else.
Is it out of line to say that if someone voted for the guy who wants to round them up into camps and kill them, they don’t deserve to be upset when they find themselves in line?
“I never thought the leopards would eat MY face!”, sobbed the Leopards Eating Peoples’ Faces Party voter.
I know it’s callous and probably a little cruel, but they’re grown adults. They had a choice in the matter.
it got me so worried about my future that i talked to a friend and started crying and shit
but good hopeful crying, this spiritual experience in which i realized my true calling
the backbone of a democracy is an informed public, hence the importance of the education system. and to all too many kids school is but a chore, but if this democracy is to survive that needs to change for realz
i recall in my past, that which got me interested in learning was educational games, the likes of Magic School Bus CD-ROM games, EyeWitness, Carmen Sandiego, JumpStart, Living Books, ClueFinders, Pajama Sam, BrainPOP, that in which my young autistic self learned and found a pleasure like no other
i want to bring this way of learning and that very same great feelings surrounding it to the youth of today, and if only by accident I now have the means to do it
to think game coding was just my rebound from Physics academia since the pandemic, but may have been my true calling all along, and I never would have embraced it otherwise
no matter what happens, as long as there is life, there is HOPE 🥹
Thank you for this hope.
All these motherfuckers want to take from us is our hope, and I swear they won’t take it without a good fight. You’re doing great!! And all of you are doing great!
May Trump choke in all his own dirty.
Thank you, Amós.
Are those cells undergoing cytokinesis? The zoom on her camera is unbelievable!
Joyce really wants to be “normal,” but she does not realize that no one is normal
You take that the fuck back. If nobody’s normal, how will I get that mass appeal with my music?
Massive advertising funded by someone who needs a tax write-off.
As an electronics tech I’m always heartened by the concept that “normal” is at right angles to current reality.
And is imaginary because multiplied by the square root of -1.
You could switch to quartonions and get three different square roots of -1.
Maths rule number seven: you do not switch to quaternions
And is a curve shaped like a boob facing up.
Well wishes tonight. Try not to stay up too late in election panic.
Ha.
I woke up early for election panic.
(Literally fell asleep at 6:30, woke up at midnight, checked the results so far, and have been doomscrolling since then. I should’ve just rolled over and gone back to sleep…)
Too late.
I was giving up the ship, Willis
No! We must never give up the ship!
If neither Dorothy nor Joyce are the same people they were when the ship was established, is it still the same ship?
I’m pretty sure Theseus still ships them, anyway.
*applauds
NEVER
illicit boob eclipse sent to dotty
This comic will either be the one the day trump is reelected
Or america has her first female president
Sadly, most sadly, you were correct with your first statement. 🙁
Much appreciated.
….TMI, one time I was using Snapchat, which I barely used, to send nudes to someone, and I accidentally set one as my Snapchat story because, again, I barely used the app, and then I had to scramble to figure out how to take it down.
Not as bad as putting it on a less transient social media or sending it a parent, but still hilarious.
See, I did it old-school, by sending my racy Polaroids through the postal mail. Before cellular telephones existed. When I walked to class alongside dinosaurs…
Friend of mine has (maybe got rid of it by now?) a shoebox of polaroid lewds and nudes that he’s taken of his lovers, through the years. His (then) wife showed it to me. It was very interesting, seeing the differences and variety. 🙂
I know that there isn’t much we can do about it, but I wish the time was at the same time everyday.
Today was 12:07 before it changed for me.
This comic is gold.
I am all about the continued oblivious irony of Joyce, happy Sarah being firmly decimated by Joyce alongside any sapphic subtlety subtext
I guess “Paramour” and “Perfect Cinnamon Roll” would be right next to each other in Joyce’s phone
(Dotty’s contact: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/meetin/ )
Nice catch
Unless the implication is that Joe is still under “pervert,” which is very close to “perfect cinnamon roll”
as much as I love either version (paramour or pervert), their proximity is probably based on surname (Roll, Perfect Cinnamon)
Joe = Rump Royal?
Rosenthal, I think. Not Rogan as my brain initially said. Definitely not Rogan.
Roll, Perfect Cinnamon
Roll, Pervert
(or maybe Joe is Rosenthal, Joe?)
You’re fueling the bi allegations, Joyce
If she runs off in a panic after realizing what she’s done, does it become a bye allegation?
“Your mysterious mountains
I wish to see closer.”
-Jimi Hendrix
https://genius.com/Jimi-hendrix-3rd-stone-from-the-sun-lyrics
OK, we could use a distractification game:
Q.: Viewing Joyce’s pic sent to Dorothy as a Rorschach inkblot or an optical illusion, what’s something ELSE it might be (besides boobs, or 80085, as it were)?
Honestly, it kinda looks like the Playboy logo.
True! Like that bunny?
Yeah! Or Vegeta’s hairline.
Today I Learned!
https://dragonball.guru/vegeta-hairline-explained/
I can start.
A.:
*Butt cheeks with a thong down the middle.
*The top of a valentine.
*A forehead of a heart-shaped face with a “widow’s peak” hairline.
*A trendline mapping moods on election night…
…Anyone else?
A black bird’s side profile with a tree in the background.
Ooh! Nice!
a closeup of her belly-button maybe? XD
Love it!
The Eiffel tower, at an angle, viewed from almost-but-not-quite-exactly below
Exquisite!
They’re just really good friends.
Besties!
now I don’t truly expect this to turn into an awkward threesome, but I am betting on it
Okay, that is a duality I Definitely don’t understand.
So is this better or worse than if she’d accidentally texted it to Becky?
Yes.
How was she able to do that…
Book 16: And There’s More Where That Came From
If the dramatic irony climbs any higher it’ll leave orbit.
And now I truly wanna know how Dorothy will react. Her actual reaction, once the wtf subsides.
Now Dorothy has to teach Joyce how to take nudies. The right lighting, poses, and scenarios.
There’s a polycule abrew’n, I just know it!
20 years from now…
“Mom? How did you and mom end up in a polycule with dad and dad?”
“Basically by being complete idiots every chance we could.”
I did what I could, but I’m in TX so the most I could do was keep Fled Cruz from getting back in the Senate, and that didn’t work either.
There are only two good things about Ted Cruz:
– He is one being, not many
– The Green Eggs and Ham parodies John Oliver reads on Last Week Tonight.
Yeah, I was really hoping we’d turn Texas blue this year. Fuck, I was hoping the COUNTRY would turn blue.
I’m Canadian and just wanted to say…. best of luck to all of you to the south
stiiiiiiiill not beating the allegations that Joyce/Dorothy are gonna happen. ~<3
Interesting final panel
*takes a drink*
great strip for the “what’s gayer?” poll to appear next to
What’s gayer, Joyce’s left boob or Joyce’s right boob?
YOU DECIDE, AMERICA.
we have concluded America has trouble deciding correctly, America.exe is being suspened indefinitely. ~<3
I needed this laugh after a night like this.
ROFL!!!
Aaaaah, needed that laugh today.
Who needs a really strong Shirley Temple Black after tonight?
https://www.simplejoy.com/shirley-temple/
I’d never heard of that one before, but damn that sounds good.
Hey Willis, what are the rules about inciting real-world violence? I don’t wanna say anything I’ll regret.
Fuck it. Buy a weapon. Anything you can get your hands on. They’re coming for us. At least make them work for it.
I suspect advocating things that are currently illegal would be… frowned on?
But at least currently, per the letter of the law, it’s not illegal for someone who isn’t specifically a prohibited person to acquire weapons, train with them, and be prepared to use them in the defense of themselves or others.
Always take steps to defend yourself. If you can’t trust half the country to de-escalate violence on your communities, then definitely always take steps to defend yourself.
learn martial arts
buy pepper spray and pocket tazers, given they are legal for self-defense in many states, it all depends, do your research
I am going to bunker down for the next four years, avoid all political news, or political jokes. Try to look after my family and close friends. Also wish I lived in fictional worlds like Dumbing of Age or my own books–hell, even the Cthulhu Mythos is looking pretty good right now.
Innsmouth lookin’ downright cozy.
How about the Dreamlands?
I don’t know anything about those, but if they have sexy fish people I’m in.
How about sexy cat people?
I’m so tempted to buy a cabin in the woods; I can’t lose another four years to doomscrolling.
I’m also reaching out to all of my trans friends to literally offer them to live at my grandfather’s ranch if they don’t feel safe.
If they need it, I’ll sell it and give them the money to go to another country if they want to.
i might live the seas as a stateless pirate, or as a weed farmer in Hawaii
can’t be any worse than doomscrolling
fuckin might have to be homeless for a bit, hope it ain’t any worse than camping with change T_T
Is it really a nude if she’s wearing a Freudian slip?
Gaol for thee
Best comment
Bruh.
I mean, bra.
Correct!
Dorothy is going to have a hard time not jumping in to help Joyce learn to properly frame and light her photos, isn’t she.
All of a sudden, that is the Slipshine I need now! A full sesh of boudoir, then lewd, and then nude pix!
I can almost see Willis cackling like a Bond villain while drawing these strips
With his eye patch and white persian cat.
Huzzah! Excuse for David to canonically show us the pic Dorothy just got in the other patreon!
There is no additional detail to the photograph Dorothy received!
Curses! Foiled again!
Your brain must be high on that Freudian stuff to send the pic to the different person from the one you are messaging.
o.o
LMAO Joyce you sure are truly unhinged now
David you have no idea how much I needed this laugh tonight.
I haven’t laughed this soon after waking up in a long time. Needed that!
Everyone doing okay this morning? We survived the first four, we’ll survive the next. Unless he somehow changes the laws to make himself King of America forever even after he dies. I kinda believe Trump can get away with anything after last night.
To talk about the comic for a bit Dorothy looks less disgusted by a Joyce boob pic than I would expect.
SNL is here for us on the hacked department-store TV screen, watched thru a pane glass window…
https://www.facebook.com/DayOneAdeleFans/videos/240936784207907/
Where’s that right hand goin
Except for the ones that didn’t. A lot of those pandemic deaths were entirely preventable. Hundreds of thousands more of “us” would have survived those first four years if the party in power hadn’t fucked up the response so bad.
I was actually making preparations to leave the country at the time (learning the language spoken in my bestie’s country, who had even spontaneously offered to marry me to get me citizenship), but the shitshow of America’s pandemic response got it travel-banned from most of the civilized world, including from that country. By the time restrictions were lifted, it was too late.
I haven’t heard from bestie in nearly a year now (hopefully due to unrelated reasons), so that avenue does not seem to be open anymore. And I’m kind of terrified as to what might happen if I try again.
🤝
That’s the thing. This feeling of dread isn’t a lack optimism, it’s because they keep saying “we will get through this” when the reality is “No. Not all of will make it through this.”. We all know that’s not true anymore.
I’m not sure what to feel today. I’m in Puerto Rico and we had elections too, but the crappy part about living in a colony (I’m sorry, Commonwealth) is that I have to worry about two governments. The people who won here last night have all been investigated or involved in corruption scandals and are basically the Trumpers (and ardent supporters of his) here. I also don’t need to tell you guys about how that administration treated the island after hurricane Maria AND the Pandemic. And the worst part? At least you guys GET to vote for president, we do not. We have absolutely no say in American government and our local government is more corrupt than Gotham city. It’s the first time in my life that I’m hopeless for literally everyone, including the MAGA crowd.
*Sits with you.*
☕️🫖
Hopelessness is not necessarily complete despair, and if it’s any consolation, lack of certain KINDS of hope I wreckon are actually a good thing.
If there’s anything this comic can teach us (really hoping we don’t eventually gotta break the law to enjoy it), it’s that often times progress can only be made once we stop hoping for the impossible:
– hoping for a just universe
– hoping for destructive, manipulative individuals to magically change into decent human beings with some magic sequence of words like IRL is a disney flick
– hoping to reconcile ideologies and visions for the future which are simply incompatible
– hoping for novelties like “first XYZ-demographic president” of this nation we were born into by chance to magically solve what’s deeply wrong with how things are done here
If we’re to get anywhere, we gotta start seeing things in this country for what they ARE, not merely going off of what they’re *supposed* to be.
Time for us to do as Dina says: “renounce magical thinking, and embrace empirical evidence”.
Like the scene in Avatar when Aang deals with the need to abandon hope, while crossing the mountain path.
i might have to migrate to outside the continental US to escape persecution, just like my black and Jewish ancestors did,
as we have seen throughout history, people having to migrate because of persecution, poverty, ignorance and apathy, and the splitting up of countries into sovereign pieces surrounding, division like this, I guess all that for the time being is but an ugly fact of life on earth 😔
I’m honestly not sure Dorothy knows what she’s looking at. If you get a picture of badly-lit, badly-composed might-be-skin from your trying-to-be-less-fundie bestie, I don’t think that would be your first assumption.
Hope, maybe, but not assumption. She probably thinks she’s supposed to be diagnosing if Joyce has a skin condition.
Gawd, thank Willis for reminding me how much I needed a laugh this morning. I’m deliberately avoiding Gocomics because I dread the MAGAt comments crowing about how they’re gonna revenge on us lefties. At least this arc will remind me that trans people haven’t been erased everywhere. I had four years when I could look at the morning news and not be horrified at what That Man was doing to my country. That’s over, for now.
Delaware elected Sarah McBride to represent them in the House. At least that’s something we can rejoice in! Not a whole lot, but definitely a sign of progress.
GoComics comments are “below the fold” on my screen. And darn well stay there.
Ahh, rookie mistake, Joyce. You sent the photo to “Lover 1” in your contacts. Then you sent the typed text message to “Lover 2”. [clearly you numbered them chronologically]
How is this feeling, Joyce? To have an entire life of christian fear and heavy shelter by parents, to be allowed herself to talk dirty, have sex, drink and show it to everybody?
So my posts got taken down. Am I banned?
Were your posts really dumb?
No, I mentioned suicide. Somebody put up resources, I was going to read them but those are gone too.
It’s possible someone else in the thread got theirs deleted and yours, being lower down the chain, were claimed along with them.
I was just re-copying those for you. Here are a few.
And, yes, I reported your comment to DW (sorry!) because of the mention of methods. Last thing we want to do is give others ideas about specific methods.
Some of the top resources, beyond just calling 2-1-1 (United Way local resource navigator) or 9-8-8 (like 911 for suicide, but may implicate local mandatory responses). It’s often hard to get through to a hotline, and sometimes you don’t want to risk involving EMS or police, so here are a few more self-directed options to explore at your own pace.
mhanational.org/crisisresources
Peer-led support
warmline.org/#directory
DV:
thehotline.org
Sexual trauma support, 24/7
rainn.org
To report a hate crime or civil rights violation:
civilrights.justice.gov
Legal aid:
lawhelp.org
Community resources:
211.org
California and beyond:
calhope.org
Mental health:
samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline
samhsa.gov/find-support
A few more, for health needs:
findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov
freeclinicdirectory.org
nafcclinics.org/find-clinic
findtreatment.gov
veteranscrisisline.net
(Don’t want to get others curious about specific su* methods, I mean.
I was named for an ancestor who died during the Witch Trials, so I grew up very sensitized to the risk of specific trauma-response contagion through public media.)
But the last thing I wanted to do was to shame or invalidate your experiences.
The world needs more disabled, trans Elders like us.
The LGBTQ+ elder hotline appears not to be working right now, but here are a few others for folks in our communities:
sageusa.org/hearme
sageusa.org/resourcehub
And, lastly, here’s some analysis of the possible risks and potential benefits of calling the 988 suicide hotline (it’s a mixed bag):
npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/11/1116769071/social-media-posts-warn-people-not-to-call-988-heres-what-you-need-to-know
Okay, who’s gonna be Miss Manners here? I need to know if Dorothy is also owed a “And there’s more where that came from” text.
Of course out of all the people she accidentally sent an inappropriate image to it’s Dorothy. Atleast she didn’t send it to her brother, that would be awkward
It could be worse. It could have been Becky. I can only imagine the drama if Becky thought that Joyce had finally accepted that she’s into girls and were meant to be together. Becky being impulsive, she’d go into a tizzy worrying about what to do about Dina, and ask the wrong people for advice. When it got back to Joe he’d find himself conflicted. New Joe would be concerned that Joyce was going off the deep end and wondering if she was cheating on him with Becky. Old Joe would wonder if the door had just opened to a Becky-Joyce-Joe three-way. I feel sure he’d also ask the wrong people for advice.
It could be worse, Scenario Two: Joyce sends the photo to Walky, who would take it at face value. He’d be concerned about betraying Joe. I imagine Walky going to Joyce to ask about it in person. Joyce would be terminally embarrassed and explain that she meant to send it to Joe. Walky would delete the photo and move on. Both would agree to forget about this minor incident and decide to go get lunch as usual. There, they run into Joe. They’re both a little nervous but no big deal. Moments later, some huge dramatic event occurs, signaling the beginning of the next story arc.
Several months pass. Joe discovers the photo, which wasn’t deleted. He sees the timestamp and remembers that about an hour later he saw Walky and Joyce together and that both were visibly nervous when they saw him. Drama ensues.
Any non-Americans taking adoptees right now? 🥺
I wish. It’s no Republican party, but our most recent election here in Aotearoa resulted in a coalition between our centre right and far right parties. I’m so sorry.
I’m just so scared! 😭
SAME BROTHA 😭🫂
Canada was my first choice, but they may not be able to support every migrant there. down south is the border, border patrol gonna attract the very worst of the Trump cult, same with heartland to the east
It might be wise to put an ocean between myself and the bigots who want to exploit the continental US.
if i gotta live as a stateless pirate or wind up on some island where i live on the land, so be it
(hugs?) T_T
If you’re gonna set up a pirate island, make sure you bring marijuana to grow.
Hawaii has legal medical weed if it gotta come to that,
and i don’t mean no tourist whitebred hawaii, but actual Honolulu Hawaii, where real people actually live, including a thriving Japanese community thankfully enough
Next week Joyce is going to get into roleplaying with Joe. :O
(They’ll start with D&D 5e (how vanilla!), of course, but quickly get into the spicier Pathfinder 2e. By their sophomore year, they’ll be into Promethean: The Created 2e and Coyote & Crow 1e.)
If the relationship is meant to last, they’ll play Fabula Ultima.