The viewable area of comments is set. Go past it, and it’s killed by the right column. S’why I used the abbreviation tag, so you’d be able to at least read it.
I am legitimately ready at a moment’s notice to leave. Got my passport updated, confirmed my Canadian citizenship by descent, have an entire half of my family there so I can build up my support network, have ten grand Canadian with me, have all the paperwork necessary to get an account with a Canadian bank filled out, and have enough tanks of gas to get across the border. Been helping get things ready for both my brothers as well. Hopefully I don’t need these things, but better safe than sorry.
“[H]ave an entire half of my family there so I can build up a support network” sounds like you ordered them to move past the border and fortify. Is this family real? Is this *Canada* real? Are–are you sure you’re not just playing Civ 5?
My father actually moved from Canada to the US after he met my mother. And he made sure to wait until myself and my brothers were born before taking the citizenship test in order to make sure we had citizenship by descent, just in case. As a result, his entire side of the family lives in Canada. Alberta province to be exact.
I felt this way as a much younger (18) year old mad when JW Bush got in, and again on his second term. I’d do it. This time around I won’t lie about moving. However I may actually being collecting guns and other sorts of permit-able weaponry. So I am armed come the economic collapse and a Great Depression 2. No reason why the regressives should have all the arms.
That’s pretty much a truism. Don’t go live somewhere if you’re not committed to living in the local language.
I lived in Japan for a while and had friends who had lived there for years and never made any effort to learn even basic Japanese. They were perpetual tourists. What’s the point?
Not only are you seriously comparing apples and oranges, but why the hell would I bother mentioning this if it wasn’t because there are serious problems about this? Think about it for 2 seconds.
Japan? 99% Japanese.
Montreal? 50% English speakers. Even though the only official language is French. There are tons of shops or restaurants you go where you can’t even be answered in you language. The last federal government did all they could to weaken the laws Quebec passed to protect the French language, that we had finally passed after fighting 110 years (since the forced confederation of 1867). So now the Quebec Board of the French Language has about no powers left. For example, companies have the right to sell us products without offering any client support in French. How the hell do we put warranties into effect then? Because yeah, Canada is pretty much still in war with us, they’re not satisfied with incomplete assimilation.
So I don’t want any ignorant immigrants coming here, increasing anglophone numbers and acting like we’re too stupid to mention things that have a meaning.
vs the version of Trump that only exists in the mind of some of his supporters.
(I have come across not one but TWO that think the Wall is a metaphor and he is not saying he will build a actual wall)
It means, in the DoA universe, every Republican politician running for office is, in effect, being tainted through association with the party that chose that blowhard braggart as their candidate.
This, of course, would NEVER happen in the real world. (/s)
“Robin DeSanto? Of course I endorse her! Who wouldn’t! I mean, she’s a nine, ten easy! I’d totally marry her if I didn’t already have a hot model wife! I mean, look at those knockers!”
It never was. Considering “Ugandan Discussions” was the euphamism used by British papers for a long time for having sex in a closet in a party. So called because a Ugandan Diplomat and a fellow guest caught in the act at a cocktail party in London in the 60’s claimed to be discussing the situation in Uganda.
Still used occasionally by the satirical magazine Private Eye.
I recall that, many years ago, the Eye had a caption competition with a photo of the then chief inspector of schools, who had been in a relationship with a former(??) student when he was a teacher, looking intently at a textbook with a female student. The winning caption was something like “Look, there it is next to Kenya.”
I know this joke may SEEM like it will become dated, but as a time traveler I can assure you that God Emperor Donald’s descendants will still be ruling the planet Trump well into the 24th century.
I don’t care if it’s a fixed point in time, I am stealing your Tardis and stopping that! I don’t want an episode of Doctor who fifty years from now where you tell somebody to put Trump in the closet because that’s where we put bad things!
I would however take a Deadpool comic with him punching Trump in a tribute to the classic Captain America cover in as little as fifty minutes from now.
Yeah, it’s interesting to see who becomes more interesting and positive with the universe switch to playing by non-superhero non-slapstick rules and who doesn’t. And who’s normal antics suddenly become way more menacing or awful given the real-world context.
Yeah, it’s a really interesting shift.
Although, considering Robin’s canon sexuality is “straight with an exception”, I am hoping perhaps her ideology shifts once she properly identifies said exception.
That’s what Walkyverse Robin claimed her sexuality was quite a long way up that river in Egypt. It underwent a fair amount of revision as her relationship with Leslie developed. Last time she elaborated on it, I believe she was identifying as “kinda indefinably queer”. And Leslie was not her only “exception”. Looking at her actual behavior and known attractions, I’d say she’s probably somewhere between 2 and 4 on the Kinsey scale. Definitely not the maaaaybe 1 she was claiming at that point.
IIRC Robin’s “canon” sexuality according to Willis on tumblr was that she feels more comfortable admitting attraction to men than woman, so she identifies as “generally indefinably kinda queer.”
Eh, “generally queer” is a hard way to hide from being bi because it culturally covers a lot of the same area. Honestly, bi/pan/queer/(othermultigender sexuality terms) are best just taken as what they mean for the person.*
*Side rant: I wish there were more terms for sexualities that were multi but not all encompassing, like what would be the term of sexuality for someone into non-binary folks and women but not men?
I’ve started to use polysexual to define all groups that express attraction to more than one gender identity. Also it helps cut down on retyping bi/pan/ace/demi/etc
I generally just prefer using Queer, though. I like the unity in the word.
You honestly hadn’t noticed the Donald’s enormous moobs? (Of course, that might be an optical illusion—y’know being juxtaposed with his tiny orange hands and all).
I’m just saying, we can’t conclusively declare that all the deaths of awesome celebrities WOULDN’T stop if we threw Donald into a volcano until we try it.
Please stop!! It’s hard to deal with the elder gods when they’re angry!!!
Err…
I mean…
Uh…
Ah Screw it. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!!
Really? You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t pull the mask of the ol’ Lonely Ranger, and most importantly, YOU DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SUMMON AND ELDER GOD.
I like Lonely Ranger better, it sounds like an emo parody version. The Lonely Ranger… and his imaginary sidekick Taunto! It’s just a bunch of adventures where he tries to make friends and stuff, but Taunto’s mocking causes him to screw that up while accidentally saving the day. It’d be terrible, and maybe last for five stories, but I would read ’em. Also, Silver is replaced with Bronze, a dead horse’s skull that he talks to.
Meh, it’s not like they were calling on the King in Yellow. Cthulhu’s just a herald.
Hell, Cthulhu got put down by a steamboat – not permanently, but it hurt. That suggests that modern military technology could have signigicant effect on it, if not on the more potent entities.
That’s actually a good point provided be can be targeted remotely and actual people don’t have to look at him. If not, we’re looking at a lot of insane soldiers who happen to be right next to some nasty fire power.
Nah, the Elephants are starting out at max sanity to start with, so they shouldn’t be getting plummetted to 0. Plus, partially mad elephants will basically be charging in a straight line anyway, because elephants, and Cthulhu will be eating them as part of its attack, shielding some of you.
I boasted I could ignore Trump and Clinton if Sanders finally, totally loses on the 28th. Another guy said, ‘No, you won’t. It’s like a train-wreck. You can’t stop looking away, even though it’s so damn distraughting.’
I want to know what super pheromones Trump spent the last of his monies on that gets the whole world to look at him like he’s Helen of Troy or Narcissus.
Marketing. He’s playing the right’s “they’re taking away your country”, “you should be angry about this even though it’s not 100% true” rhetoric that appeals to the lowest common denominator at an emotional level. It’s almost impossible to redirect an emotional response with a logical counter-argument.
Similar things are happening in Britain. After decades of pacifying the masses with far-right hate speech, the Conservative establishment have woken up to find a monster they’ve created but can’t control.
Actually, I’m looking forward to him losing the election and EVERY politician and media personality he’s insulted gleefully trying to fit the words “Trump” and “loser” into the same sentence as often as possible, for the rest of his life.
This comic’s either gonna be really dated by December, or no longer funny.
OTOH: There’s a prediction out there that Trump being elected will be good for the Canadian housing market, on the grounds that the subsequent cratering of the U.S. economy will result in a. low interest rates and b. an exodus to Canada.
Me an’ da boyz don’t care ’bout no skully throne!! Wez fightin’ fer Gork ‘n Mork!!! Or iz it Mork ‘n Gork? Whateva’, WWWAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!! Die stoopid spikey humies!!!
There are alternatives, but it has just become ubiquitous. And it is a simple way to link together conversations/thoughts across social media, both single sites and multiple sites, with people who you may not know, but shows that you do have something in common, and perhaps become friends over, if explored. Plus the pound sign to my knowledge wasn’t used much for anything code-wise, so that helped create a flag for it, like how an asterisk can be used for a spelling correction, or a slash (or maybe it’s the backslash) for an action.
It’s streamlined. Easier to search for. Pop a hashtag into a search engine, either website or internet, and it lets you easily see different conversations about the same thing. It’s like character tags. Or location tags. Conversation tags just make sense to me, but maybe I’m weird that way.
Donald Trump has kind of made the idea of an underqualified loudmouth idiot with too much ego look like an actual bad thing rather than just endearingly funny, hasn’t he?
Yeah, my consolation thought this election is just the hope that when he gets elected President by the neofascist movement he’s stoking, I’ll get sent to the same internment camp as my friends and loved ones so I can at least see some familiar faces while I rot.
On point 3: While I don’t want to see him elected, if he is I anticipate him being a great unifier. Specifically, I anticipate a powerful, bipartisan impeachment within a year of his inauguration.
If he gets elected, the first thing he’ll do is start writing executive orders to cancel his debts. He’s already using his campaign to denigrate the judge in the Trump University case.
A new Presidential Guard with Gold Uniforms.
A gold Air Force One.
White House? Gold House!
The US – and world – economy will be in tatters, death squads and concentration camps will be the norm, but at least it will look, um, awesome!
I’m holding out hope that the Russians, Chinese, and Cubans work together to assassinate him before the election ends. Which, while admittedly a horrible thing two wish on a…being capable of speech, is better for the world than the alternative.
I do not personally wish that anything ill befalls any of the candidates.
However, if Trump’s obituary were to be published in next week’s newspapers, I would derive great pleasure in reading it.
Unfortunately for us (and possibly for them), I think the Secret Service is obligated to guard presidential candidates: not just present and former presidents, but potential ones too.
Like, I know the fear, but he /is/ pretty likely to lose.
I mean don’t stay home. Vote against him. But he /is/ pretty likely to lose as long as the left doesn’t fracture harder than the right. I *am* really annoyed at a bunch of White People I know who keep insisting Bern or Bust, but given that it’s mostly the yoofs I think we can reasonably safely ignore it as long as they don’t vote Trump.
Remember the PUMAs 8 years ago? How all the Clinton supporters were going to sweep McCain into the White House?
Bernie’s starting his shift. The vast majority of his supporters will follow.
The scary thing is that US politics on all levels is full of dumbasses. Just look at the cranks who get elected to the office of County Sheriff, school board member etc.
Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here.” I can’t recommend it highly enough, if you haven’t read it. The hazard isn’t in the Orange Dead Tribble in the White House, it’s all the mouth-breathers at the local level who see its presence there as a sign it’s OK to hate what they hate, and do something about it.
It’s Trump. There’s a shit ton of issues. People aren’t ignoring them when they’re poking him on a sore point. Like, do you remember people making fun Obama’s ears? Because Obama was chill, it wasn’t funny and nobody did it. But Trump genuinely feels insecure about his carny-hands, so…
Plus it’d drive me bonkers to have to contemplate the depths of his terrible every time I commented on him.
That’s the problem with Drumpf, he doesn’t have any actual real political issues or plans laid out. Other than hating Muslims and Mexicans. So we gotta make fun of what we can!
Maybe if the dude could not change his stance on any given issue for more than twelve minutes at a time it would be possible to talk about his position on the issues but as it is his tiny hands and terrible hairpiece are about the most consistent thing about him.
Seriously. They don’t even try. I mean, their stylist dressed the Tributes last year as bread. As bread! Did they even have a proper stylist? Or names? Did they come up with that “bread” thing themselves?
Does it count as hot if the early morning tarmac temperature is down in the 50s (Fahrenheit, duh) and certain parts of the anatomy are reacting accordingly?
Given that he has likely already finished this storyline in the buffer, it is certain that this is the case unless it’s all Robin DeSanto, all the time for this one.
What is Robin’s personality exactly in this comic?
I read Shortpacked many years ago without knowing anything about the walkyverse. I didn’t understand much of it, obviously, and I don’t even really care to read all related stuff and then re-read it. But I definitely disliked Robin for the way she talked, plus I just found her character to be very annoying. I wonder if that’s gonna carry over. I see she has the obnoxius ghetto talk, so that’s one point to the dislike scale.
Robin is desperate for attention and for people to like her. So she acts wacky and outrageous despite people not really wanting her to. So she’s perfect for politics.
Actually I think it is very simple, Robin smiles a lot, Malaya don’t.
Strangely it’s the opposite reason with Mike, never thought about if before, but I believe there excist a certain double standard there.
If a girl wants to be both a an asshole and popular, she has to smile, if a guy wants to be the same, he has to never smile.
Just try to picture a smug bastard, he is smiling, right ? Don’t you just want to hit him ? Then picture a MAGNIFICENT bastard, and I’ll bet he has a stoic face with only the tiniest of smirks every now and then.
Do the same with a girl, most people would probably find the situation turned around.
Probably some bullshit vestigical biological functions left in our brains, like maybe a smiling egotistical man was more likely to steal your mammuth skins, I dunno, I’m not an anthropologist.
I would actually like to take a moment to say how much I love the change to Robin DeSanto in the Dumbing of Age verse. It would have been very easy to just have all of the characters be exactly the same as their Shortpacked versions and some of them are basically the same. However, the changes to Amber, Robin, and Mike all have been very interesting. Well, not so much Mike but Amber and Robin especially. You take the elements which were endearingly wacky in the previous world and place them in a more realistic one so they become more interesting. In Amber’s case, her past and how it relates to her superhero fantasies so now she’s bordering on the brink of a psychotic break. In Robin’s case, you take all of her selfishness and causal indifference to anything then put it in politics to show exactly how a lot of politicians react. It creates the interesting fact of Robin being the sort of girl which Leslie would love in SP! but just about the worst sort of person in DOA. I’m still hoping they have an affair but I’d love to see Robin actually go full evil in this universe. Except with no Ethan Blue Screen of Death to save her. Is that so wrong?
Except for the fact that all alleged “fossil evidence” of Spinosaurus was destroyed during WWII, so we can’t really be sure if the species even really existed. At least, last time I checked. Granted the last time I checked was about eight years ago, so I don’t know if any new fossils have been discovered.
There are other fossils of Spinosaurus. It even got a recently revised morphology due to more complete fossils so now it has a larger sail and much shorter legs which meant it would have to walk on all fours and probably spent a lot of time swimming in water. It’s funny that the only thing kinda right in Jurassic Park 3 was having a Spinosaurus that could swim before we learned this.
I always preferred smaller tyrannosaurs over rex. Giganotosaurus was bigger anyway, but Allosaurus and Albertasaurus just always seemed more interesting.
So…I don’t really find this comic very funny.
It’s kind of the most obnoxious kind of reference, in that it’s like “This thing exists. This thing exists. Remember” with out an cleverness or subversion really.
This strip feels like it REALLY wants to be a shortpacked! strip, the difference being, Shortpacked didn’t have a 3 + month buffer. The only part of the strip i found funny really was panel 4, and honestly I feel like if this was just a strip about literal Trump and just replace breast size for dick size or something it’d be pretty great. This strip feels like it needs to go out of its way to establish previously made “Trump” jokes that 100 people have already made so that the punchline can work. I don’t know. I just found myself kind of cringing at the delivery of this one
He’s just talking about today’s particular comic. Honestly, it was probably way funnier when it was written a couple months ago, but now it’s kinda worn and depressing. For which I blame the omnipresence of Trump in the media.
Let me put it like this. If I was more outspoken about things I don’t like, I would either be driven crazy by all the backlash or just out and out banned. Instead I try to focus on drawing the things I do like and don’t speak up unless something REALLY bugs me. I censor myself pretty heavily on this site.
If you don’t like a comic, you don’t tend to even bother criticizing it.
Personally, I think the joke works because of where it goes afterwards, but to each their own.
And, so I don’t make yet another post: Yotomoe: you don’t strike me as the type of person who would get banned. A lot of backlash, since you’re like Walky with better self-censorship, but nothing that would get you banned.
I’ve been a pretty big jerk at times and nothing has happened to me.
Man, don’t sweat it. It’s not like you just rage at length about anything. You always clearly define your criticism and why you feel the way you do. That’s a lot more than I could say for myself.
I mean, if things were that strict here the car chase would have been a massacre. Also you draw cute Malayas so we’d probably forgive if you killed a man just to watch him die.
The Willis is pretty on the ball with censorship and deletion, so I’m guessing the latter.
Personally I feel he’s a little overzealous with it at times, but eh, it’s his site.
(A) I think that “#MakeDistrict9GreatAgain” is a pretty good take down of “MAGA!”.
(B) Robin grabbing her breasts is a decent take on DT’s and Senator Rubio’s dick-talk.
On the other hand, how do you satirize/parody DT? The other day I was reading a story about his antics to my wife. She t hough that it was The Onion. It was the New York Times.
The Onion’s best re DT was a story asking whether he really said that he would pay the legal fees of abortion clinic bombers or that just sounds like something he’d say.
DT is immune to parody by others because he does it so well himself, while the Republicans tell us this is ok, really, nothing to worry about, and the media goes “Isn’t this great!!”
I really don’t think that’s the case. She still seems to be caught up in her superhero “I must honorably defeat the villain to complete my character arc” fantasy.
That ain’t good or even that much better, because even if Amber dresses it up in flowery language she’s still planning on beating the hell out of Sal in the name of some kind of vindication, but if she tried to actually kill Sal, hell, even if she thought about it, then Amber’s done. She would need to be gone from the comic forever. That’s taking her to a place that she won’t be able to come back from.
The “on the verge” thing is the point, though. Amber in DOA is seriously mentally ill and needs a Paul at Damascus life changing event to set her straight.
Robin could well be equally changed in this world.
Again, the horrifying thing is she’d be his perfect VP. Sadly, Trump won’t make Palin his so it could be some kind of horrifying singularity of ugly Americanism which absorbs both into an alternate universe where the Crime Syndicate rules.
“I want to grab these boobs but…I’ve got these tiny hands. And those Double DeSanto’s on Robin? It’s gonna make them look even tinier…”
“What if I hold them for you?”
The Double DeSanto chest. Twice as much meat as the Manley’s chest and only worth one vote.
You know it is okay to quit, regroup, and try again in two to four years. The sleep deprived orange monkey with access to nuclear launch codes is not worth it.
Really? How could one sleep when they live where the books live? Especially the magic books? Heck, I didn’t sleep for two nights in a row when I first discovered webcomics!
Yes, deliberately. Robin was the character who debuted in the Walkyverse following Dina’s…sudden exit, and the fact that they looked so alike yet behaved so differently was a Thing.
*Imagines Mike smiling evilly at his phone screen for hours on end, switching Wi-fi networks and at twitter accounts every half hour.* So that is what he is doing! No wonder he hasn’t been seen recently!
Anybody else find it more than a little bit hypocritical that Robin created a hashtag flaunting her own sexuality (#DeSantoHugeHonkers) while at the same time she has called out her sister for flaunting hers?
Would that be more or less hypocritical that what real-life politicians do, like all the anti-gay republicans that have been caught having sex in public restrooms, and like all the politicians from both parties saying they’re oh so very sorry and devastated about mass shootings while failing every piece of gun control legislation that passes in front of them?
Hell, you can just point to all the family values Republicans who cheat on their spouses. Albeit, the Republicans actually get half a pass as John Edwards broke the scales on that one.
The tiny hands thing is my favorite running gag on Last Week Tonight! It’s even better than the ‘a country you think about so little that you didn’t realize this is not it’ meme xD
I always notice the “a country you think about so little” things, because I was a poli sci major and know way too much about geography. The only one that got me was the very first Uruguay/Paraguay one.
Mr. Willis, I have a behind the scenes question – did you go back . Or did the buffer used to be slightly smaller.
I seem to remember the story about Drumpf’s tiny, tiny, cheeto-colored hands coming out in March. But were the buffer the same size it is now you’d have comics drawn up to July by then, right?
I’m still expecting Robin to target Carla as a easy ‘moral outrage’ campaining target and for it to blow up in her face. Possibly this may be how she and Leslie cross paths again and, maybe, it will be the dilemma of being attracted to someone who is her ideological adversary (even if it is just words she’s spouting to get votes) may make Robin to rethink her values.
Or maybe the backlash destroys her campaign (with some help from Roz). Leslie will finally realize what an incredibly awful person Robin is and stop pining after a sleazy bigot.
The “inspirational” story would be Robin realizing what a monster it would be to side against Carla and/or with Toedad so she does the honorable thing and stands against them–politics be damned. Because Robin is supposed to be a good person after all.
The only way to end that story, though, would be for Robin to lose the election and end up a disaffected Poly-Sci teacher.
Have we seen any evidence that this version of Robin is a good person?
The walkyverse version of her had people who could call her on her selfish bullshit,
but this Robin is surrounded by yes-men and underlings.
And the very fact that she’s running on a “family values” platform tells me that she’s morally compromised
The tiny hands thing isn’t as insulting to women, since it isn’t implying she has a tiny penis. Still, never pass up a good opportunity for Trump jokes.
(Aspiring cartoonists take note: this is what happens when you use up all your faces.)
Still holding out hope for her being Mary’s sister (or at least appears with her together in the same room), so when they inevitably visit Roz she does a long double-take and nopes out of there so hard she wills herself into another plane of existence.
So, if #tinyhands in this universe is about a local politician rather than Donald Trump, does that mean Donald doesn’t exist in the DOA universe? Because I want to go live there now if that’s true.
She looks kind of like Ethan… which is to say that when an artist draws hundreds of different characters there’s going to be similarities between random unrelated people.
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#GoTeamRobin
#ujelly
#wtfiswrongwithmyhashtagsyoujerks
#fickleconstituents
also is this the District 9 with aliens, or grain
Aliens. But most people call them immigrants these days.
Prawns!
crayfish!
Xeno-organic Americans
#nodiscriminationagainstxenoorganicamericans
#killthealienbeforeitcanspeakitslies
Years later into the future:” I will build a force field to keep immigrants out!”
THE FOKKIN’ PRAWNS, MAN
Not having seen that movie, I have to ask – could one have become the other?
The movie plays in Johannesburg, South Africa. I hope that helps answer your question.
which movie lolololol
(srsly, I can think of at least two)
Tailgate: Even I know you don’t write hashtag…
#nineteencharacterhashtag
#nineteencharhashtg
nineteen is a bit excessive
18’s the limit for acceptable use? Because #BlackPantherSoLIT started last month.
#theplanistobringitallthewaytoonehundredandthirtyninecharactersandwearenotgoingtostoptillwegettherenowareyouallwithmeonthisoramIonmyownnow
#howdareyouthinkyoucanwritealongerhashtagthanmeIwillhavemyrevengeapoxapoxonyouwhowritesthehashtagIhaveofficiallynoideahowmanycharactersIhavewrittenandmyfingerskeephittingthespacebuttonitsgetttingveryannoningheyhasanyonehereseenspaceballsthatwasagreatmoviewasn’titokayI’mgettingalittleoftopicherehmmaccordingtosomesiteIfoundwerecurrentlyoverthreehundredandseventycharactersthisjokehasprobablygoneonlongenoughIshouldgonow
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howdareyouthinkyoucanwritealongerhashtagthanmeIwillhavemyrevengeapoxapoxonyouwhowritesthehashtagIhaveofficiallynoideahowmanycharactersIhavewrittenandmyfingerskeephittingthespacebuttonitsgetttingveryannoningheyhasanyonehereseenspaceballsthatwasagreatmoviewasn’titokayI’mgettingalittleoftopicherehmmaccordingtosomesiteIfoundwerecurrentlyoverthreehundredandseventycharactesIshouldgonow.
wait why is it cutting off?
The viewable area of comments is set. Go past it, and it’s killed by the right column. S’why I used the abbreviation tag, so you’d be able to at least read it.
#whatisahashtaganyway
So its Hands to hooters is it 🙂
Hoot twice if you agree!
So Robin is Trump in this universe?
If that means the DoAniverse has no actual Trump, then I’m moving there immediately.
She IS preferable to Trump. Just barely.
Plus she’s only running for congress
You should. I mean, in my country we just had a coup, yet you USA people seem to be in a lot more danger. Run to Canada while you can.
I am legitimately ready at a moment’s notice to leave. Got my passport updated, confirmed my Canadian citizenship by descent, have an entire half of my family there so I can build up my support network, have ten grand Canadian with me, have all the paperwork necessary to get an account with a Canadian bank filled out, and have enough tanks of gas to get across the border. Been helping get things ready for both my brothers as well. Hopefully I don’t need these things, but better safe than sorry.
“[H]ave an entire half of my family there so I can build up a support network” sounds like you ordered them to move past the border and fortify. Is this family real? Is this *Canada* real? Are–are you sure you’re not just playing Civ 5?
We’ve gone from Canadian girlfriend to Canadian family now, have we?
My father actually moved from Canada to the US after he met my mother. And he made sure to wait until myself and my brothers were born before taking the citizenship test in order to make sure we had citizenship by descent, just in case. As a result, his entire side of the family lives in Canada. Alberta province to be exact.
Or as we say in Canada, better safe and sorry.
I felt this way as a much younger (18) year old mad when JW Bush got in, and again on his second term. I’d do it. This time around I won’t lie about moving. However I may actually being collecting guns and other sorts of permit-able weaponry. So I am armed come the economic collapse and a Great Depression 2. No reason why the regressives should have all the arms.
Please stop this. We have real refugees to accomodate and make space for.
Also, don’t come to Quebec if you’re not committed to living in French. No, not even in Montreal.
Wait! I have a better solution!
*Shoves Donald Trump into Canada*
That would indeed be a better solution. He’d have ne credibility here. Go for it!
That’s pretty much a truism. Don’t go live somewhere if you’re not committed to living in the local language.
I lived in Japan for a while and had friends who had lived there for years and never made any effort to learn even basic Japanese. They were perpetual tourists. What’s the point?
Not only are you seriously comparing apples and oranges, but why the hell would I bother mentioning this if it wasn’t because there are serious problems about this? Think about it for 2 seconds.
Japan? 99% Japanese.
Montreal? 50% English speakers. Even though the only official language is French. There are tons of shops or restaurants you go where you can’t even be answered in you language. The last federal government did all they could to weaken the laws Quebec passed to protect the French language, that we had finally passed after fighting 110 years (since the forced confederation of 1867). So now the Quebec Board of the French Language has about no powers left. For example, companies have the right to sell us products without offering any client support in French. How the hell do we put warranties into effect then? Because yeah, Canada is pretty much still in war with us, they’re not satisfied with incomplete assimilation.
So I don’t want any ignorant immigrants coming here, increasing anglophone numbers and acting like we’re too stupid to mention things that have a meaning.
Gah! Trudeau gonna have to deal with more refugee lol.
As someone who has Syrian family, I find your comment offensive, nothing to “lol” about.
I doubt that very much.
The multiverse isn’t big enough for two Trumps. Mussolini on the other hand.
Now I want to see a Celebrity Deathmatch (the old claymation version) of Donald Trump, present day, versus Donald Trump in his Apprentice days.
That would be pretty hilarious!
#makedonalddrumpfagain
vs the version of Trump that only exists in the mind of some of his supporters.
(I have come across not one but TWO that think the Wall is a metaphor and he is not saying he will build a actual wall)
EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORRRRRYYYYY!
OLD TRUMP VS NEW TRUMP
BEGIN!
Well, the old Trump hates the new Trump
And the new Trump hates the new Trump
To hate all but the right Trump
Is an old established rule…
A deathmatch between Trump and one of his fictional selves!
Mussolini tends to get things turned upside down.
Nicely done sir.
It means, in the DoA universe, every Republican politician running for office is, in effect, being tainted through association with the party that chose that blowhard braggart as their candidate.
This, of course, would NEVER happen in the real world. (/s)
You forgot; Egotist! 😱😱😖😏
What da…
No *bleep*ing edit?!
…as was called 2 days ago.
i was nOT EXPECTING WILLIS TO GET TOPICAL WITH THIS
Don’t forget this was written several months ago.
I have not, and was about to express my surprise and admiration. Well played, sir.
…. wait, topical like relevant to the present day, or topical like cream applied to vote-winning boobies, or topical like both?
…. look, I just read a comic of a powerful woman in business dress groping her own boobies, of COURSE I’m going to be pervy.
“Robin DeSanto? Of course I endorse her! Who wouldn’t! I mean, she’s a nine, ten easy! I’d totally marry her if I didn’t already have a hot model wife! I mean, look at those knockers!”
What, you think she can handle your junk properly with those #tinyhands?
She’ll need both hands, and it’ll make your junk look huuuge. Like, even bigger than it already is.
Yeah, Robin needs some of Leslie’s sexy sexin’ to straighten her out!
Ironically…
she can’t even THINK straight
I’m sure Leslie would like to verify the size of Robin’s breasts.
“Look, we’ll do a test. First your hands on your breasts, then mine…”
“Do you want to come to my place and… discuss politics” is not quite as subtle an innuendo as it used to be.
It never was. Considering “Ugandan Discussions” was the euphamism used by British papers for a long time for having sex in a closet in a party. So called because a Ugandan Diplomat and a fellow guest caught in the act at a cocktail party in London in the 60’s claimed to be discussing the situation in Uganda.
I learnt something today!!!
That’s funny. I wonder if it is still in popular use.
“Uganda is my nickname for these pants. Let us discuss the situation within Uganda.”
Still used occasionally by the satirical magazine Private Eye.
I recall that, many years ago, the Eye had a caption competition with a photo of the then chief inspector of schools, who had been in a relationship with a former(??) student when he was a teacher, looking intently at a textbook with a female student. The winning caption was something like “Look, there it is next to Kenya.”
Well, considering the conditions in Uganda at the time, that was an appropriate way to discuss the situation non-verbally.
“I know what would distract the media from Manley’s attacks! hot lesbian sex with a blonde college teacher!”
…
“Please?”
I could actually see that happening…
I know this joke may SEEM like it will become dated, but as a time traveler I can assure you that God Emperor Donald’s descendants will still be ruling the planet Trump well into the 24th century.
His dynasty is gonna be YUUUGE.
So our planet will be renamed in his name? Glad that I won’t see that happen(it’s not like I’m going to live 300 years)
But wouldn’t pronouncing himself god emperor be a poor political move considering his largely Christian support base?
Unless… no…
Trump, you absolute bastard. You absolute LIZARD bastard.
We’ve all been played like damn fiddles.
I am horrified that ‘Trump’ is on Google’s autocomplete results after ‘God Emperor.’
I don’t care if it’s a fixed point in time, I am stealing your Tardis and stopping that! I don’t want an episode of Doctor who fifty years from now where you tell somebody to put Trump in the closet because that’s where we put bad things!
I would however take a Deadpool comic with him punching Trump in a tribute to the classic Captain America cover in as little as fifty minutes from now.
No Deadpool… how about Good Hitler?
http://amultiverse.com/comic/2016/01/25/trump-vs-good-hitler/
Ah, yes, I do love that comic!
If Rupert Murdoch can dose himself with monkey glands and live forever, I’m sure the Trump can as well.
I for one welcome my God Emperor Trump overlord.
I, too, welcome whoever will lord over Trump…
Or, maybe not. They could be worse….
#ILikeHugeHashtags
#ICanNotLie
#YouOtherPostersCan’tDeny
#WhenACongresswomanWalksInWithHerIttyBittyHands
ROBIN IS NOT TRUMP
shes sarah palin
No, Robin actually has a career in politics.
And she’s almost completed at least one term without resigning halfway through. Granted it’s a two year term, but still.
She doesn’t have any illegitimate grandkids, either
Now I’m imagining a complicated plot by Robin to make Joe and Roz get married without either’s consent.
I had no idea shotgun weddings were so complicated.
“Family values” don’tcha know!
Robin is both of them fused into an unholy sugar-fueled union.
Does the sugar emulsify a human being into the mix somewhere?
+1 Internet to you. I was thinking the same thing.
Robin speaks in coherent sentences, so no.
#LeslieSqueeze
Cuz you know, she has normal hands
I’m starting to feel very sorry for Leslie.
DOA Robin isn’t the same as WV! Robin. I like the fact Willis isn’t afraid to change the characters.
Yeah, it’s interesting to see who becomes more interesting and positive with the universe switch to playing by non-superhero non-slapstick rules and who doesn’t. And who’s normal antics suddenly become way more menacing or awful given the real-world context.
Yeah, it’s a really interesting shift.
Although, considering Robin’s canon sexuality is “straight with an exception”, I am hoping perhaps her ideology shifts once she properly identifies said exception.
More like “straight with a few exceptions, of which she acknowledges only one”. Remember that she was attracted to Amber before even meeting Leslie.
That’s what Walkyverse Robin claimed her sexuality was quite a long way up that river in Egypt. It underwent a fair amount of revision as her relationship with Leslie developed. Last time she elaborated on it, I believe she was identifying as “kinda indefinably queer”. And Leslie was not her only “exception”. Looking at her actual behavior and known attractions, I’d say she’s probably somewhere between 2 and 4 on the Kinsey scale. Definitely not the maaaaybe 1 she was claiming at that point.
IIRC Robin’s “canon” sexuality according to Willis on tumblr was that she feels more comfortable admitting attraction to men than woman, so she identifies as “generally indefinably kinda queer.”
So, yeah, somewhere between 2-4 on the Kinsey.
So she’s a scared bisexual.
Oooooor maybe Robin just identifies with a label she finds more appropriate to herself.
Eh, “generally queer” is a hard way to hide from being bi because it culturally covers a lot of the same area. Honestly, bi/pan/queer/(othermultigender sexuality terms) are best just taken as what they mean for the person.*
*Side rant: I wish there were more terms for sexualities that were multi but not all encompassing, like what would be the term of sexuality for someone into non-binary folks and women but not men?
A MISANDROSEXUAL
Yay, new word!
@Cerberus
I’ve started to use polysexual to define all groups that express attraction to more than one gender identity. Also it helps cut down on retyping bi/pan/ace/demi/etc
I generally just prefer using Queer, though. I like the unity in the word.
Robin, Leslie, and Ultra-Car’s canon sexualities:
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1994
If Trump had knockers…
(And now you all will have nightmares)
Goddamnit I did NOT need that image.
You honestly hadn’t noticed the Donald’s enormous moobs? (Of course, that might be an optical illusion—y’know being juxtaposed with his tiny orange hands and all).
Art of exactly that has existed for ages, it’s not exactly new nightmare fuel.
Look, there’s a way to get that out of your head. Just imagine a different image instead.
…. like he got those knocker implants from the same surgeon who did his hair. …. and they’re covered in his hair.
See? Now you don’t have that awful image from before to worry about any more.
Of course there’s hair! Gotta hide those ingrown hair scars.
Does this mean Ted Cruz erotic fanfiction is just got a new subgenre?
Somewhere out there is a Trump/Cruz slashfic. I am happy that I am not at that place.
That place is Amazon.
…and I just learned that Kindle Unlimited lets you read all the Donald Trump erotica you can handle.
Forgot to add “at no cost.”
(other than your sanity, I suppose)
What’s sanity? Can you eat it?
I’ve already read all the Donald Trump erotica I can handle.
Those 3 words were sufficient.
“All the Donald Trump erotica you can handle.”
Adding those last three words makes the statement true. The amount of Trump erotica i can handle is zero, and there is at least that much of it.
Read at own risk
https://www.wattpad.com/story/63316060-donald-a-donald-trump-x-ted-cruz-fanfic
You think it’s new. I love your optimism.
Fanfiction? Yeah, I know fuck all about that. I’m all about “art” to get my nightmare fuel fix so I know it isn’t new there.
So I totally did the “tiny baby hands” song too early is what I’m seeing. #goddammit
I hope Robin and Manley get into a fight fight, where Manley has the starting advantage because of her small hands.
Manley shows up wearing oversized costume fists.
“Hey, you ever hear what they say about a man with large hands?”
Nnooooo!!!
Will Trump references pervade all my sources of entertainment?!
Is no place safe?
DAMN THIS YEAR TO HELL!!!!!
I’m just saying, we can’t conclusively declare that all the deaths of awesome celebrities WOULDN’T stop if we threw Donald into a volcano until we try it.
No!!! If we do that, then lord Cthulhu shall smite us for slaying his spawn!!!
Meh. Cthulhi are essentially a dime a dozen. Only things cheaper are Shagoth and Migo.
Please stop!! It’s hard to deal with the elder gods when they’re angry!!!
Err…
I mean…
Uh…
Ah Screw it. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!!
Really? You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t pull the mask of the ol’ Lonely Ranger, and most importantly, YOU DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SUMMON AND ELDER GOD.
Lone Ranger. I hate auto correct.
I like Lonely Ranger better, it sounds like an emo parody version. The Lonely Ranger… and his imaginary sidekick Taunto! It’s just a bunch of adventures where he tries to make friends and stuff, but Taunto’s mocking causes him to screw that up while accidentally saving the day. It’d be terrible, and maybe last for five stories, but I would read ’em. Also, Silver is replaced with Bronze, a dead horse’s skull that he talks to.
I may have thought about this too much…
How was he the “Lone” Ranger when he had Tonto?
Easy – Tonto’s not a Ranger.
Maybe we can get Johnny Depp to play Taunto.
Meh, it’s not like they were calling on the King in Yellow. Cthulhu’s just a herald.
Hell, Cthulhu got put down by a steamboat – not permanently, but it hurt. That suggests that modern military technology could have signigicant effect on it, if not on the more potent entities.
Elephant swarm, yo.
That’s actually a good point provided be can be targeted remotely and actual people don’t have to look at him. If not, we’re looking at a lot of insane soldiers who happen to be right next to some nasty fire power.
Nah, the Elephants are starting out at max sanity to start with, so they shouldn’t be getting plummetted to 0. Plus, partially mad elephants will basically be charging in a straight line anyway, because elephants, and Cthulhu will be eating them as part of its attack, shielding some of you.
I had never considered before what the plural of _Cthulhu_ might be, but _Cthulhi_ is so adorable there can be no other option now.
Cthulhu-spawn calimari is DELICIOUS and soooo cheap. It’s like the fishmongers can’t wait to get rid of the stuff.
Well the Elder Gods are cold and uncaring so it’s all cool. Cthulhu won’t mind.
#throwtrumpinavolcano
I boasted I could ignore Trump and Clinton if Sanders finally, totally loses on the 28th. Another guy said, ‘No, you won’t. It’s like a train-wreck. You can’t stop looking away, even though it’s so damn distraughting.’
I want to know what super pheromones Trump spent the last of his monies on that gets the whole world to look at him like he’s Helen of Troy or Narcissus.
Marketing. He’s playing the right’s “they’re taking away your country”, “you should be angry about this even though it’s not 100% true” rhetoric that appeals to the lowest common denominator at an emotional level. It’s almost impossible to redirect an emotional response with a logical counter-argument.
Similar things are happening in Britain. After decades of pacifying the masses with far-right hate speech, the Conservative establishment have woken up to find a monster they’ve created but can’t control.
If we’re very very lucky and we eat our vegetables, maybe this will be the only year we have to deal with said Trump references in our media.
Actually, I’m looking forward to him losing the election and EVERY politician and media personality he’s insulted gleefully trying to fit the words “Trump” and “loser” into the same sentence as often as possible, for the rest of his life.
This comic’s either gonna be really dated by December, or no longer funny.
OTOH: There’s a prediction out there that Trump being elected will be good for the Canadian housing market, on the grounds that the subsequent cratering of the U.S. economy will result in a. low interest rates and b. an exodus to Canada.
So there’s an upside for some of us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again
“Make America Great Again,” as a slogan, is older than some of us here.
I really hope it’s dated in December.
Robin needs to delete her account.
Type “woo” if you get the reference.
Waa?
Weeeeeeeee!
Oh crap, it’s everywhere!
Wah.
WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
Me an’ da boyz don’t care ’bout no skully throne!! Wez fightin’ fer Gork ‘n Mork!!! Or iz it Mork ‘n Gork? Whateva’, WWWAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!! Die stoopid spikey humies!!!
What’s the Nature Boy got to do with this?
I prefer the classic “I understood that reference.” However, since you made me smile: woo!
frickin’ hashtags, how are they still a thing?
Much like how Google is still a thing, I believe.
Not really, Google serves an important function in enabling us to find information quickly. Hashtags just looks dumb and serves no purpose.
There are alternatives, but it has just become ubiquitous. And it is a simple way to link together conversations/thoughts across social media, both single sites and multiple sites, with people who you may not know, but shows that you do have something in common, and perhaps become friends over, if explored. Plus the pound sign to my knowledge wasn’t used much for anything code-wise, so that helped create a flag for it, like how an asterisk can be used for a spelling correction, or a slash (or maybe it’s the backslash) for an action.
why do you need a hashtag to show your interested in a conversation, doesn’t engaging in the conversation express your interest already?
It’s streamlined. Easier to search for. Pop a hashtag into a search engine, either website or internet, and it lets you easily see different conversations about the same thing. It’s like character tags. Or location tags. Conversation tags just make sense to me, but maybe I’m weird that way.
#EndHashtags
#End#
End#?
*my brother the ref blows his whistle*
BROTHER: Illegal Use of Hands by number Zero of the Offense. Five yard penalty. Second Down.
… I’m noticing parallels.
Gee, Robin reminds me of someone, suddenly her campaign seems like the worst possible thing that could happen to the dumbiverse.
Donald Trump has kind of made the idea of an underqualified loudmouth idiot with too much ego look like an actual bad thing rather than just endearingly funny, hasn’t he?
Yeah, my consolation thought this election is just the hope that when he gets elected President by the neofascist movement he’s stoking, I’ll get sent to the same internment camp as my friends and loved ones so I can at least see some familiar faces while I rot.
My consolation is in the horrifying situation Trump is elected:
1. Trump actually doesn’t have any principles so any campaign promises are as likely lies or not.
2. The executive actually doesn’t deal with most of his campaign promises.
3. The Republican Party and Democrats can actually agree in their hatred of him.
On point 3: While I don’t want to see him elected, if he is I anticipate him being a great unifier. Specifically, I anticipate a powerful, bipartisan impeachment within a year of his inauguration.
I figure his election would result in four years of failure to get anything (that he wants) done.
If he gets elected, the first thing he’ll do is start writing executive orders to cancel his debts. He’s already using his campaign to denigrate the judge in the Trump University case.
A new Presidential Guard with Gold Uniforms.
A gold Air Force One.
White House? Gold House!
The US – and world – economy will be in tatters, death squads and concentration camps will be the norm, but at least it will look, um, awesome!
An orange Caesar Augustus.
And I do say that in a “this is the death of democracy” sort of way. :C
I think the word you were looking for is tacky. (Not that the current government fare looks good, but Trump’s style is a clear step down.)
I’m holding out hope that the Russians, Chinese, and Cubans work together to assassinate him before the election ends. Which, while admittedly a horrible thing two wish on a…being capable of speech, is better for the world than the alternative.
I do not personally wish that anything ill befalls any of the candidates.
However, if Trump’s obituary were to be published in next week’s newspapers, I would derive great pleasure in reading it.
Unfortunately for us (and possibly for them), I think the Secret Service is obligated to guard presidential candidates: not just present and former presidents, but potential ones too.
They must have their hands very full.
Like, I know the fear, but he /is/ pretty likely to lose.
I mean don’t stay home. Vote against him. But he /is/ pretty likely to lose as long as the left doesn’t fracture harder than the right. I *am* really annoyed at a bunch of White People I know who keep insisting Bern or Bust, but given that it’s mostly the yoofs I think we can reasonably safely ignore it as long as they don’t vote Trump.
Remember the PUMAs 8 years ago? How all the Clinton supporters were going to sweep McCain into the White House?
Bernie’s starting his shift. The vast majority of his supporters will follow.
He’s been saying for ages, please vote for her if she gets the nomination.
McCain /lost/, so yes, that is a pretty good demonstration of my point.
I mean, I specified the yoofs. By the numbers, they bluntly don’t vote.
….
Okay, I just imagined Homer Simpson becoming president and it NOT being all awesome hijinks.
The scary thing is that US politics on all levels is full of dumbasses. Just look at the cranks who get elected to the office of County Sheriff, school board member etc.
Plus, everyone focuses on the national politics, but it’s the local cranks who have the biggest effect on your life.
The nationwide dumbasses are the ones that can place limits on the local ones, though.
It’s Sturgeon’s law, with command over nukes.
Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here.” I can’t recommend it highly enough, if you haven’t read it. The hazard isn’t in the Orange Dead Tribble in the White House, it’s all the mouth-breathers at the local level who see its presence there as a sign it’s OK to hate what they hate, and do something about it.
Wait, are we theorizing that Trump’s candidacy is the result of a massive sugar high?
I mean, it seems super plausible and actually explains a lot. I just want to make sure that’s where we’re going with this.
My theory is Trump’s popularity is due to Grand Theft Auto becoming more and more like reality.
I don’t know what Ron Howard has to do with all this.
Hillary should take notes. ^_^
#oldPeopleTryingToUSeTwitter
#HowdoIturnthisthingon
#NoDammitItsCalledAPoundSign
#ItsCalledAnOctothorpe
#isthishowkudsplaytictactoenow
‘octothorpe’ makes no sense! How do you get eight from that symbol? It divides into NINE, not eight!
Four lines crossing like that makes eight points … count ’em.
#huhhuhyousaidtits
£GetOffMyLawn
#+2
Yes yes, let’s all fixate on the candidate’s tiny hands. What’s that? Issues? Bwahahaha! This is America, we don’t do that here.
Also, I don’t know what kind of issue some candidates are getting all over their tiny hands.
Issues followed by tissues, no doubt
It’s Trump. There’s a shit ton of issues. People aren’t ignoring them when they’re poking him on a sore point. Like, do you remember people making fun Obama’s ears? Because Obama was chill, it wasn’t funny and nobody did it. But Trump genuinely feels insecure about his carny-hands, so…
Plus it’d drive me bonkers to have to contemplate the depths of his terrible every time I commented on him.
That’s the problem with Drumpf, he doesn’t have any actual real political issues or plans laid out. Other than hating Muslims and Mexicans. So we gotta make fun of what we can!
Drumpf also hates other rich people. Not himself, mind you, but anyone who makes him look less awesome by comparison.
The Drumpf thing is fucking dumb and, more relevantly, kinda attacks a peg of trans people’s rights. Knock it off. People get to pick their names.
Maybe if the dude could not change his stance on any given issue for more than twelve minutes at a time it would be possible to talk about his position on the issues but as it is his tiny hands and terrible hairpiece are about the most consistent thing about him.
And the ego.
And the hate.
And the frauds. And bribery.
And the ties to the mafia and the crime and the swindles.
He hates people calling his hands tiny.
#distictninewasnevergreat
Seriously. They don’t even try. I mean, their stylist dressed the Tributes last year as bread. As bread! Did they even have a proper stylist? Or names? Did they come up with that “bread” thing themselves?
Just embarrassing. Worst. District. Evar.
#DesanTrump
Oh, I almost forgot. 2016.
GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
My brain is still trying to decide if the third panel is hot or not
That’s odd. My brain came to a consensus immediately.
yeah…I’m going with hot.
Does it count as hot if the early morning tarmac temperature is down in the 50s (Fahrenheit, duh) and certain parts of the anatomy are reacting accordingly?
It’s not. Scumbag politicians are never hot.
Finally a campaign I can get behind.
http://imgur.com/a/ChNxV
Godspeed Yotomoe, I salute you!
hah
He gives us the images we need. And want.
Better with the flags. Go with the flags!!
A tit in every pot. Breasts for everyone.
I worry that Willis will have tried to go “over the top” with his exaggeration and will still fall short of the sad reality.
Given that he has likely already finished this storyline in the buffer, it is certain that this is the case unless it’s all Robin DeSanto, all the time for this one.
It’s hard to trump a man whose name literally is, ‘Trump’.
What is Robin’s personality exactly in this comic?
I read Shortpacked many years ago without knowing anything about the walkyverse. I didn’t understand much of it, obviously, and I don’t even really care to read all related stuff and then re-read it. But I definitely disliked Robin for the way she talked, plus I just found her character to be very annoying. I wonder if that’s gonna carry over. I see she has the obnoxius ghetto talk, so that’s one point to the dislike scale.
Robin is desperate for attention and for people to like her. So she acts wacky and outrageous despite people not really wanting her to. So she’s perfect for politics.
in shortpacked… she was very, very egocentrical and did a bunch of crappy things.
(and so, I really don’t get how people tend to really hate Shortpacked’s Malaya but Robin gets a pass)
Robin’s funny.
^ Also explains much of Mike’s popularity, despite him being a colossal jackass.
No, she’s not. She’s a LOLRANDOM teenager in the body of a 30+-year old woman.
Actually I think it is very simple, Robin smiles a lot, Malaya don’t.
Strangely it’s the opposite reason with Mike, never thought about if before, but I believe there excist a certain double standard there.
If a girl wants to be both a an asshole and popular, she has to smile, if a guy wants to be the same, he has to never smile.
Just try to picture a smug bastard, he is smiling, right ? Don’t you just want to hit him ? Then picture a MAGNIFICENT bastard, and I’ll bet he has a stoic face with only the tiniest of smirks every now and then.
Do the same with a girl, most people would probably find the situation turned around.
Probably some bullshit vestigical biological functions left in our brains, like maybe a smiling egotistical man was more likely to steal your mammuth skins, I dunno, I’m not an anthropologist.
Robin doesn’t INTENTIONALLY hurt people for the hell of it.
“Ghetto talk”
Boy of all the reasons to dislike Robin, that’s gotta be one of the least valid.
“Ghetto talk”? Can someone explain?
Ah, so Robin’s opponent keeps trumping her at every turn 🙂
LOL You said “Trump”
That’s because Robin didn’t use her trump card yet.
… would it be wrong to say that she seems to have a full hand of tramp cards?
Said the secret word?
I would actually like to take a moment to say how much I love the change to Robin DeSanto in the Dumbing of Age verse. It would have been very easy to just have all of the characters be exactly the same as their Shortpacked versions and some of them are basically the same. However, the changes to Amber, Robin, and Mike all have been very interesting. Well, not so much Mike but Amber and Robin especially. You take the elements which were endearingly wacky in the previous world and place them in a more realistic one so they become more interesting. In Amber’s case, her past and how it relates to her superhero fantasies so now she’s bordering on the brink of a psychotic break. In Robin’s case, you take all of her selfishness and causal indifference to anything then put it in politics to show exactly how a lot of politicians react. It creates the interesting fact of Robin being the sort of girl which Leslie would love in SP! but just about the worst sort of person in DOA. I’m still hoping they have an affair but I’d love to see Robin actually go full evil in this universe. Except with no Ethan Blue Screen of Death to save her. Is that so wrong?
Trevor Noah is going to Sue somebody.
I never actually thought I’d say this when I started Shortpacked! but Robin is officially boring.
I’ve been waiting for her all year. I love Robin the sleazebag.
You know who else has #tinyhands?
Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Just think, Robin! That means you have something in common with the King of
BeersDinosaurs.He was angry all the time because he couldn’t do some things with his little hands. I’ll let you figure it out.
Yeah it would be a bugger trying to tie your shoe laces.
Play his flute? I bet it was that.
He’s not Hameln’s flutist tho.
Give hugs? Yeah that’d make someone angry.
Manly will just identify with Spinosaurus to counter that. Although now I want Dina’s opinion on that scene from Jurassic Park III.
I may be one of the few people in the world that doesn’t like the T-rex best. Spinosaurus is better,bigger, and didn’t have tiny hands.
Dina would probably approve of the spinosaurus winning.
Except for the fact that all alleged “fossil evidence” of Spinosaurus was destroyed during WWII, so we can’t really be sure if the species even really existed. At least, last time I checked. Granted the last time I checked was about eight years ago, so I don’t know if any new fossils have been discovered.
There are other fossils of Spinosaurus. It even got a recently revised morphology due to more complete fossils so now it has a larger sail and much shorter legs which meant it would have to walk on all fours and probably spent a lot of time swimming in water. It’s funny that the only thing kinda right in Jurassic Park 3 was having a Spinosaurus that could swim before we learned this.
Sweet. But at the same time, kinda disappointing cause now Spinosaurus doesn’t look as cool. But, more for the T-Rex and Gigantosaurus.
I always preferred smaller tyrannosaurs over rex. Giganotosaurus was bigger anyway, but Allosaurus and Albertasaurus just always seemed more interesting.
Every single paleontologist I know HATES the T-Rex losing.
Only relative to his massive size. It’s arms are still about the size of a beefy human’s. And its “fingers” are larger than our hands.
Remember people, dinosaurs have rejected Trump. They’ll probably reject Robin as well.
You know, just because there are ref Jokes about current events, doesn’t means Robin shares the other dude’s views on politics.
#senatorbabyhands
So…I don’t really find this comic very funny.
It’s kind of the most obnoxious kind of reference, in that it’s like “This thing exists. This thing exists. Remember” with out an cleverness or subversion really.
This strip feels like it REALLY wants to be a shortpacked! strip, the difference being, Shortpacked didn’t have a 3 + month buffer. The only part of the strip i found funny really was panel 4, and honestly I feel like if this was just a strip about literal Trump and just replace breast size for dick size or something it’d be pretty great. This strip feels like it needs to go out of its way to establish previously made “Trump” jokes that 100 people have already made so that the punchline can work. I don’t know. I just found myself kind of cringing at the delivery of this one
I thought you loved this comic, drawing guy?
He’s just talking about today’s particular comic. Honestly, it was probably way funnier when it was written a couple months ago, but now it’s kinda worn and depressing. For which I blame the omnipresence of Trump in the media.
Making fun of Trump was funny when he wasn’t very possibly the next President. Now he’s horrifying.
It stopped being funny long ago. Elected or not the damage is already real.
And he’ll never get punished for it.
Let me put it like this. If I was more outspoken about things I don’t like, I would either be driven crazy by all the backlash or just out and out banned. Instead I try to focus on drawing the things I do like and don’t speak up unless something REALLY bugs me. I censor myself pretty heavily on this site.
If you don’t like a comic, you don’t tend to even bother criticizing it.
Personally, I think the joke works because of where it goes afterwards, but to each their own.
And, so I don’t make yet another post: Yotomoe: you don’t strike me as the type of person who would get banned. A lot of backlash, since you’re like Walky with better self-censorship, but nothing that would get you banned.
I’ve been a pretty big jerk at times and nothing has happened to me.
I’ve come close already. It’s just people don’t know me super well here.
Man, don’t sweat it. It’s not like you just rage at length about anything. You always clearly define your criticism and why you feel the way you do. That’s a lot more than I could say for myself.
I mean, if things were that strict here the car chase would have been a massacre. Also you draw cute Malayas so we’d probably forgive if you killed a man just to watch him die.
Oh, when it come to comics (or most media) some people loooove to get overdramatic anytime something doesn’t go their way.
They’ll throw tantrum, threatening to leave, etc. Thanksfully we seems to be pretty spared of those here. Or maybe it gets deleted when spotted.
The Willis is pretty on the ball with censorship and deletion, so I’m guessing the latter.
Personally I feel he’s a little overzealous with it at times, but eh, it’s his site.
(A) I think that “#MakeDistrict9GreatAgain” is a pretty good take down of “MAGA!”.
(B) Robin grabbing her breasts is a decent take on DT’s and Senator Rubio’s dick-talk.
On the other hand, how do you satirize/parody DT? The other day I was reading a story about his antics to my wife. She t hough that it was The Onion. It was the New York Times.
The Onion’s best re DT was a story asking whether he really said that he would pay the legal fees of abortion clinic bombers or that just sounds like something he’d say.
DT is immune to parody by others because he does it so well himself, while the Republicans tell us this is ok, really, nothing to worry about, and the media goes “Isn’t this great!!”
Sadly, The Onion tend to be more prophetical than satirical at times.
DT keeps making me think Diamond Tiara.
Sadly, I don’t see Donald getting a redemption episode.
How did I not notice the parallels before?! You’ve made my day.
How to tell an Onion story from an an actual news story: The Onion story has tighter internal logic.
Yep, that’s my impression too. 4 months old news, ahahahahhaha. Ha. Haha…
Robin isn’t the brightest bub in the DoA universe, but she doesn’t seem nearly as dim as Tiny Hand Trump.
We’ll see.
It depends how much family values she espouses.
she espouses family values?
That’s her whole platform as I understand it.
but its robin, how well is she really gonna stick to her platform?
Yeah, but DOA Amber is on the verge of straight-up, I’m not kidding, attempting to murder Sal.
These are not the same characters.
I really don’t think that’s the case. She still seems to be caught up in her superhero “I must honorably defeat the villain to complete my character arc” fantasy.
That ain’t good or even that much better, because even if Amber dresses it up in flowery language she’s still planning on beating the hell out of Sal in the name of some kind of vindication, but if she tried to actually kill Sal, hell, even if she thought about it, then Amber’s done. She would need to be gone from the comic forever. That’s taking her to a place that she won’t be able to come back from.
The “on the verge” thing is the point, though. Amber in DOA is seriously mentally ill and needs a Paul at Damascus life changing event to set her straight.
Robin could well be equally changed in this world.
Depends on what candy she’s been eating and how sticky that left her hands.
I can’t decide if current events have made this comic better or worse than when it was written.
maybe better, since robin is far more tolerable and kinda jokey compared to the carrot man
If you excuse me I have to go get my happy juice because of this strip.
…
Never mind. I’m all out of Apple Cider. Guess Cran-Raspberry will have to do.
I see what you did there
I would prefer to vote in this election than the one actually happening in real life.
Dinklebeeeeerg!
And that’s where I’d but my second term in Congress, if I had one!
*put
That’s an easy fix. She just needs surrogate hands. I volunteer for panel 3.
I confess, the Becky situation could be horrifyingly funny.
“The incident with the shooter on campus is NOT a gun issue.”
“Agreed.”
“Oh, that was easy.”
“It’s an issue about homophobia and the culture of hate fostered against them.”
“Dammit!”
I think Becky prefers to see it as funny. Beats the alternative.
I’m still voting for Robin and Becky to team up for… something. Anything. Because awesome.
…. for the record, “because awesome” isn’t MY reasoning, it would be THEIR reasoning.
Yup.
They wouldn’t be wrong.
Robin’s now a Trump Palin hybrid and now she’s gotta go
Again, the horrifying thing is she’d be his perfect VP. Sadly, Trump won’t make Palin his so it could be some kind of horrifying singularity of ugly Americanism which absorbs both into an alternate universe where the Crime Syndicate rules.
*Cut to Ultraman and Owlman plotting an assassination because even they have boundaries.*
Roz start making more sextapes off campus pronto.
#makedonalddrumpfagain
Not the hat.
Yeah, where is the sombrero.
Lame.
“We don’t want Mexicans, we just want their somberos. …. And they’ll be AMERICAN-MADE sombreros!”
“Uh, ma’am, isn’t your ethnici-”
“SILENCE, Aide! ECONOMY!”
Y’know, Robin, if you want someone with regular-sized hands to
…
Okay, back. Creeped myself out so much I threw up in my mouth a little. Joe avatar, I have failed you.
I find that’s happens from time to time as well.
“I want to grab these boobs but…I’ve got these tiny hands. And those Double DeSanto’s on Robin? It’s gonna make them look even tinier…”
“What if I hold them for you?”
The Double DeSanto chest. Twice as much meat as the Manley’s chest and only worth one vote.
ROBIN, I HAVE MISSED YOU.
I may or may not have done a thing…
So Robin’s hands are tiny similar to the Teen Titans Go! Robin’s hands are referred to as baby hands by the other Titans?
it is a truth universally acknowledged that all people named robin are cursed with baby hands
So if I name my kid Robin, they’ll have a natural advantage working with small machinery? Tempting.
You know it is okay to quit, regroup, and try again in two to four years. The sleep deprived orange monkey with access to nuclear launch codes is not worth it.
#UnseenUniversityLibrarianforPresident
Ook!
He’s not sleep deprived and he has access to things far worse than nuclear weapons already.
Really? How could one sleep when they live where the books live? Especially the magic books? Heck, I didn’t sleep for two nights in a row when I first discovered webcomics!
Ah jeez. We’re not gonna have a wall of hashtags in the comments section are we? >.>U
#what?
#awallofhashtags
#it’scalledapoundsigndammit
#prettysuresomeonepostedthatalready
#Octothorpe
#IknowtheyalreadypostedTHAT
#makehashtagsgreatagain
#StopThat.
#WhyStopNow
Is Robin just Dina without a hat..?
/conspiracy
Yes, deliberately. Robin was the character who debuted in the Walkyverse following Dina’s…sudden exit, and the fact that they looked so alike yet behaved so differently was a Thing.
Wait, I thought she was Sarah Palin…
Now she’s Trump?
aaaaaggggghhhhhh
*Drumpf
Ah, politics.
I look forward to see her posters.
There is only one way I see this ending : DeSanto and Manley. In bed.
It’s been done. Enough for it to be a cliche. Politics, bedfellows, etc.
IT’s been done. in Shortpacked 🙂
But would Roz film it, or pay someone else to so she doesn’t have to watch her sister bumping uglies with an old scared white dude?
With Leslie.
Dammit, why must Willis make the unholy Palin-Trump hybrid so adorable? Lookit that angry, hatted face.
I think that’s the motivation of about half her voter base.
Robin might not be a paragon of virtue for the Dumbiverse at present, but she is great fun to watch as a character.
Oh yeah, I love sleazy Robin.
I really missed Robin.
Anyone want to see Congresswoman DeSanto become an antagonist?
I think that it’s pretty much indicated that she will be. Willis is sort of belabouring the point in this strip.
#tinyhands is a local hashtag. Mike is behind it, I bet.
*Imagines Mike smiling evilly at his phone screen for hours on end, switching Wi-fi networks and at twitter accounts every half hour.* So that is what he is doing! No wonder he hasn’t been seen recently!
Mike doing good is disturbing.
…that’s completely unrealistic. No way Mike would be smiling. I think he’s almost physically incapable of the act.
Mike is half-drunk tweeting. It explains the good thing and the smile thing! I swear I can dig myself out of this hole!
Of course!
My God! The girl is an idiot!
Well, of course she is! She’s Robin!
robins a trump/rubio/clinton hybrid
I fear for district 9
They’re going to round up all the aliens and put them in ghettos.
Is Shortpacked back? Am I dead? Was it all a dream?
Yes, I think a Robin storyline will be a welcome change of pace after the Ross storyline.
Anybody else find it more than a little bit hypocritical that Robin created a hashtag flaunting her own sexuality (#DeSantoHugeHonkers) while at the same time she has called out her sister for flaunting hers?
If there was a vote for a character never to be seen again I’d vote Robin, l mean she’s got one heckava punchable face in the third panel
Would that be more or less hypocritical that what real-life politicians do, like all the anti-gay republicans that have been caught having sex in public restrooms, and like all the politicians from both parties saying they’re oh so very sorry and devastated about mass shootings while failing every piece of gun control legislation that passes in front of them?
Hell, you can just point to all the family values Republicans who cheat on their spouses. Albeit, the Republicans actually get half a pass as John Edwards broke the scales on that one.
Wait, WHAT???? #TinyHands is a real thing????
On that note, someone REALLY need to put some#desantohugehonkers on twitter.
The tiny hands thing is my favorite running gag on Last Week Tonight! It’s even better than the ‘a country you think about so little that you didn’t realize this is not it’ meme xD
#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain
I always notice the “a country you think about so little” things, because I was a poli sci major and know way too much about geography. The only one that got me was the very first Uruguay/Paraguay one.
#drumpfhugehonkers
more brunettes why
Because genetics. More people in the world are likely to have brown hair.
Just wait ’til the super pac catches wind of her 26-letter hashtag. That’s basically the whole alphabet.
Mr. Willis, I have a behind the scenes question – did you go back . Or did the buffer used to be slightly smaller.
I seem to remember the story about Drumpf’s tiny, tiny, cheeto-colored hands coming out in March. But were the buffer the same size it is now you’d have comics drawn up to July by then, right?
The buffer shrunk substantially after the twins were born, I think, so this could be a result of that?
I’m still expecting Robin to target Carla as a easy ‘moral outrage’ campaining target and for it to blow up in her face. Possibly this may be how she and Leslie cross paths again and, maybe, it will be the dilemma of being attracted to someone who is her ideological adversary (even if it is just words she’s spouting to get votes) may make Robin to rethink her values.
Or maybe the backlash destroys her campaign (with some help from Roz). Leslie will finally realize what an incredibly awful person Robin is and stop pining after a sleazy bigot.
The “inspirational” story would be Robin realizing what a monster it would be to side against Carla and/or with Toedad so she does the honorable thing and stands against them–politics be damned. Because Robin is supposed to be a good person after all.
The only way to end that story, though, would be for Robin to lose the election and end up a disaffected Poly-Sci teacher.
Have we seen any evidence that this version of Robin is a good person?
The walkyverse version of her had people who could call her on her selfish bullshit,
but this Robin is surrounded by yes-men and underlings.
And the very fact that she’s running on a “family values” platform tells me that she’s morally compromised
Maybe after dumping her to her face?
I’ve heard claims that Willis has jossed that, but I ain’t seen any links.
And suddenly Joe pops up.
“You know, Mrs. Desanto, if you want to dispell these rumors about your breasts I personally would be happy to serve as an independent investigator…”
He totally would do that.
Another DeSanto-Rosenthal video release?
Ahh yes, the old “my penis has been inside your sister” approach
This is pretty much why I don’t use Twitter.
Make District 9 great again? What’s she going to do, pull a George Lucas re-shoot and re-release?
I assume she wants to refilm it in America. You know, removing all of the subtext. Maybe make the aliens sexier.
It’ll be a comedy, the aliens will all be played by Jim Carrey.
Too high brow. Maybe all the aliens can be Adam Sandler.
Robin will star in it and punch a lot of aliens at super-speed.
Kevin James!
The tiny hands thing isn’t as insulting to women, since it isn’t implying she has a tiny penis. Still, never pass up a good opportunity for Trump jokes.
She should have her own fanfare at all times since she’s such a Trump-ette.
Still a better President than Donald Trump.
I just clapped out loud. 🙌🏻
Am I the only one who thinks the chick Desanto’s talking with looks looks like Dina.
Nah, she’s clearly Mary in a wig.
(Aspiring cartoonists take note: this is what happens when you use up all your faces.)
Still holding out hope for her being Mary’s sister (or at least appears with her together in the same room), so when they inevitably visit Roz she does a long double-take and nopes out of there so hard she wills herself into another plane of existence.
So, if #tinyhands in this universe is about a local politician rather than Donald Trump, does that mean Donald doesn’t exist in the DOA universe? Because I want to go live there now if that’s true.
I imagine in an alternate universe that Galasso fills the role.
Oof, Trump even worms his way into my webcomics.
Can this just be the whole storyline? I can’t accept anything other than Robin’s failing campaign.
Is Hillary in this universe too? Like as a guy but still terrible with national security and relating to young people?
if only there were some sort of dumbing of age strip that was about a politician failing to connect on social media
Lol
Here’s what’s ominous. Judging by the timing, this is probably about the primary.
Robin might be up against someone worse.
I have a feeling this is referencing something, but I’m not sure what.
Srsly though, I imagine this was written when the thought of Trump even getting close to becoming the Republican candidate seemed laughable.
Oh shit; Robin slimes up, gets rekt and replaced with someone who does target Carla.
I doubt it since the campaign will last decades at the current rate of time.
New commenter, not new reader.
Don’t eat me!
Dare I say, this strip has gotten… Out of hand?
I don’t think Frieda is Mary’s sister. The fact I don’t hate her and think she’s adorable helps.
She looks kind of like Ethan… which is to say that when an artist draws hundreds of different characters there’s going to be similarities between random unrelated people.
I’m very disappointed that #DesantoHugeHonkers doesn’t bring up anything on real-world Twitter.
Especially in light of what Willis did with Jocelyne’s website address — JocelyneJBrown.com.
Pshaw… combat it with alliteration. #DesantoDoubleDs, plus she’d totes have real world tape measures to prove it.
#Agesagotherewereconscientiousshepherdswhosesheepwerewelltendedandcarefullyprotectedagainstattackbytheirrapaciousenemies.Twelvehundredthousandyearsagothereappearedbeforethesefirstearthmenatnightaspaceshippoweredbysevenstoneandiridiumelectricmotors.Ithadoriginallybeenlaunchedonitslongtripintostellarspaceinthesearchforneighboringstarsthatmighthaveplanetsrevolvingaboutthemthatwereinhabitableandonwhichplanetsanewraceofintelligenthumanitymightpropagateitselfandrejoiceforlifewithoutfearofattackbyotherintelligentbeingsfrominterstellarspace.
I’m not sure this is what politics is supposed to be like.
Somehow Willis got even luckier with the timing on this one than he probably thought he’d get when he drew it.