And Now ... Politics!

[theultimateend]

Boring news is generally a good thing as it means no ones dying. Unless its a scientific discovery, thats exciting... but that may just be me saying that.

Did you just throw scientific discovery under boring news .

I mean I saw you call it exciting also, so you are still good people.

Otherwise...this would have been some exciting news >: (

BECAUSE MURDER!

 

[Basement Cat]

I'm American and pay attention to politics and this comic still doesn't make sense to me.

It's about political detachment, using stereotypes. Basically we're dealing with a piece of banal celebrity news, where some Jersey shore type dweeb dying from a heroin overdose, this being big televised news as opposed to other more important issues. While irrelvent to anything of note going on both political parties try and use it to their favor in attacking the other. We have the handsome, smooth talking liberal, with a rather psychotic agenda against your freedoms if you read the "small print", and a raving older gentleman representing the conservatives, which are also a tool of special interests, the idea here being since it's about death, they are representing the interests of the Grim Reaper much like how they are accused of representing corperate intersts and such.

You'll also notice a triple whammy of banality in the first panel, the ticker on the bottom has a homeless person saying "muffins are tasty" (which made the news) but the this becomes a double because you'll notice the alleged homeless guy is apparently being quoted from a tweet meaning he obviously has a smartphone or something despite his "plight", which makes it even more insane he would be quoted on the news since he's obviously faking.


Got it now? Pretty much everyone from the media, to society (for watching this reality TV garbage and making things like a moron ODing on Heroin imporant news at election time), to both political parties got blasted within this one strip. In three panels it's pretty much a summary of the idiocy of current politics, with part of the point being that as idiotic as the politicians are, we're just as bad, as are the people covering it.

And I thought I had it figured out.

You put it better and clearer than I did and and with a lot fewer words.

Thumbs up!

 

[Ukomba]

I'm American and pay attention to politics and this comic still doesn't make sense to me.

You'll also notice a triple whammy of banality in the first panel, the ticker on the bottom has a homeless person saying "muffins are tasty" (which made the news) but the this becomes a double because you'll notice the alleged homeless guy is apparently being quoted from a tweet meaning he obviously has a smartphone or something despite his "plight", which makes it even more insane he would be quoted on the news since he's obviously faking.

Banality? I just thought Derpy was in charge of the ticker.

 

[HalfTangible]

I'm American and pay attention to politics and this comic still doesn't make sense to me.

Neither of these politicans know or care about the actual news story any more than it takes for them to profit politically. In both cases, their arguments are nonsensical, stupid and have little to do with the sorrow that SHOULD have been behind the man's death.

In addition, they're both doing what the opposition says they do: the democrat is being a slimy snake dedicated to pushing his own agenda no matter how much mudslinging he has to do, while the republican is a fat yelling blowhard that doesn't care who lives or dies as long as he gets to say the opposition sucks with it.

...

TL;DR: Politics is full of complete cunts.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

Two questions:

1) Who is @homeless_frank?

2) Does he have a blog I can follow?

 

[TWEWER]

I'm American and pay attention to politics and this comic still doesn't make sense to me.

It's about political detachment, using stereotypes. Basically we're dealing with a piece of banal celebrity news, where some Jersey shore type dweeb dying from a heroin overdose, this being big televised news as opposed to other more important issues. While irrelvent to anything of note going on both political parties try and use it to their favor in attacking the other. We have the handsome, smooth talking liberal, with a rather psychotic agenda against your freedoms if you read the "small print", and a raving older gentleman representing the conservatives, which are also a tool of special interests, the idea here being since it's about death, they are representing the interests of the Grim Reaper much like how they are accused of representing corperate intersts and such.

You'll also notice a triple whammy of banality in the first panel, the ticker on the bottom has a homeless person saying "muffins are tasty" (which made the news) but the this becomes a double because you'll notice the alleged homeless guy is apparently being quoted from a tweet meaning he obviously has a smartphone or something despite his "plight", which makes it even more insane he would be quoted on the news since he's obviously faking.


Got it now? Pretty much everyone from the media, to society (for watching this reality TV garbage and making things like a moron ODing on Heroin imporant news at election time), to both political parties got blasted within this one strip. In three panels it's pretty much a summary of the idiocy of current politics, with part of the point being that as idiotic as the politicians are, we're just as bad, as are the people covering it.

I'm American and pay attention to politics and this comic still doesn't make sense to me.

Neither of these politicans know or care about the actual news story any more than it takes for them to profit politically. In both cases, their arguments are nonsensical, stupid and have little to do with the sorrow that SHOULD have been behind the man's death.

In addition, they're both doing what the opposition says they do: the democrat is being a slimy snake dedicated to pushing his own agenda no matter how much mudslinging he has to do, while the republican is a fat yelling blowhard that doesn't care who lives or dies as long as he gets to say the opposition sucks with it.

...

TL;DR: Politics is full of complete cunts.

I wish all that was made apparent in the comic itself.

 

[Arren Kae]

At first I thought this comic was mocking how federalists think the Government's God, capable of solving every human ill it wants. That would've been a funny satire. But then the idea continued with Republicans being opposed to any improvements and aligned with evil, so we know the comic creator's a fool who thinks if the government spends our wealth with the stated purpose of eliminating problem x it
1) Is telling the truth
2) will eliminate problem x.

Also, there's only one party in America: The Federalists. Both supposedly different parties are for expanding the government until the people are sufficiently impoverished and oppressed the state's infrastructure can no longer be maintained.

 

[Harold Hansen]

Sheogorath would approve.

Captcha still says: "it's super delicious."

 

[RolandOfGilead]

I'm American but haven't kept up with the news, what's this about?