Texts From Superheroes
I think it’s so funny how every endorsement I see of Clinton HAS to be framed as like “Is she perfect? No, but she’s better than Trump.” The problem I have with this isn’t that it’s keeping politicians accountable, it’s that this accountability is only ever applied to Clinton and its done in such a way that make it seem like she’s somehow uniquely problematic. No one, not a single god damn person reblogs pictures, news stories, or quotes from President Obama and says “Damn, I really don’t like how he bombed the shit out of thousands of innocent civilians in the Middle East or how he ramped up deportation raids and ruined the lives of tens of thousands of peaceful undocument immigrants living here in the United States, but like he’s alright I guess.” No, instead every single post I see about Obama is about how much we’re gonna miss him and I don’t disagree, I think he was a great President, I just think it’s amazing how the callous or problematic decisions he made as Commander and Chief don’t ever taint his public image, at least not the image that his base has of him. Yet we hold Clinton to a completely different standard, the handful of problematic decisions she has made during her 30 year career define her in a way I haven’t seen before, to the point that the only “acceptable” way to support her is to speak about it in a tacit or even hesitant tone, like “yeah, I know she’s a corrupt bitch, but I’ll still vote for her I guess.” The notion that she is somehow more problematic than any other candidate who’s been elected prior to her is patently false, being a world leader is a implicitly dirty job, it just so happens that we’ve come to expect men to do these dirty jobs so we reserve our judgement. I mean, people aren’t even allowed to celebrate the fact she’s the first female candidate for president because it’s apparently “white feminism” to take note of the accomplishments of women in our country if they also aren’t literally perfect feminist icons. It’s not just enough to be exceptional as a woman to be celebrated, you have to be perfect. Also, if a single god damn person brings up another candidate in this race and tells me how their record is spotless I swear to god I’ll lose my mind because the reason for that is that no other candidate in this race has a mother fucking record of having any sort of governmental leadership position. Its not that they are somehow magically more pure than Clinton, it’s that they never got promoted to a position that would actually force them to make difficult decisions of national importance. It’s easy to keep your hands clean when you’re an irrelevant congressmen from butt fuck nowhere or simply have exempted yourself from the political process altogether until magically deciding now that you deserve to be President.
Some pages from my new Comic Your Black Friend. I don’t think I’ve written about black alienation so directly. Came out alright.
If you’re itching to read it all I’ll be at MICE in Boston, Ripexpo in Providence and NOCAZ Fest in New Orleans. Radiator Comics Distro will be sellin them soon too. Also Subscribers to my patreon can read this comic and all sorts of other comics including episodes of BttmFdrs, Daygloayhole issue one and two, and all sorts of short comics done for anthologies like Irene and As You Were.
So the UK decided to jeopardize their economy and political stability in favor of fear-mongering racist rhetoric that has little-to-no basis in fact.
Well then. I guess it’s nice to finally have undeniable proof that America isn’t adopted.
In the wake of the Brexit, many have taken to Twitter to point out the irony of the U.K.’s xenophobia after years of colonialism. One tweet wisely identified the original “Brexit.”
So basically baby boomers
- Craft an economy at the end of the war that vastly benefits them
- After landing successful, life-long jobs, somehow manage to fuck up this economy for the younger generation
- Mock millennials for finding it harder to get by in this economy
- Vote for a future that the younger generation doesn’t even want
- Die, leaving a mess for everyone else to clean up
Consign America
Thoughts on Brexit?
AnonymousJust some initial thoughts.
I’ve avoided thinking about it yesterday, but check in before bed, and immediately regret it. There’s enough that’s ominous in the first set of results that the immortal words of Aliens’ Frost come to mind: “I’ve got a bad feeling about this drop.” I go to sleep before it starts to become clear.
I wake up to a text from a political journalist friend of mine: “Oh god”
I find myself in desperate need of a suicide pact breakfast. On the way to bacon, I find myself people watching. I live in Lewisham. We’re firmly remain. But still, 1 in 3 people. I look at people with suspicion, trying to guess the who and the why. C notes that’s of the people who votes, so it’s more like 1 in 4 if you include the people who didn’t vote. This is slightly comforting, but only slightly.
Still - Highest pro brexit place in the country was the West Midlands. That’s where I’m from. The gap between where I came from and where I am now is suddenly very clear. I’m aware even if Remain won, the results and the map of the results speaks to a country that’s divided by enormous, violent pressure. As others have noted, the results are a rejection of every single part of the political mainstream.
In the co-op, Karma Police plays and i manage a grim smile.
Immediate economic drop. God knows how much of it will stick, or how bad it will go, but the “I told you so” is going to be distinctly unsatisfying. “I told you Rome was highly flammable, Nero” you say as the flames lick around you.
The demographics of the votes are obviously getting a lot of comment. 60+ hugely pro leave, 30 and under hugely pro stay. There’s the “you have fucked our future and are going to die before you see what happens” argument, which I find it hard not to have sympathy for. But, average age is longer than you think now, and I suspect this will hit hard enough and fast enough for people to see exactly what they voted for. Currency collapse like this hits those on fixed incomes like pensions and savings in a particularly hard way. Don’t worry: they’ll suffer like the rest of us. If we burn, we’ll all burn together.
Cameron has clearly cemented his position as one of the worst Prime-Ministers in history. At least Chamberlain never fucked a pig. If this were a board game, I’d be congratulating Johnson (And I think we should all stop playing into his brand by calling him “Boris”) for a game well played, but sadly it’s real life, so it’s fucking reprehensible opportunism. And the “without a bullet” from Farage in the wake of Jo Cox is as unforgivable thing as he’s ever said, which has stiff competition.
This is the worst sort of political decision - both unethical and unwise, and I fear for both this divided country and Europe as a whole.
As an American I am removed from all of this (or as much removed as a participant in this world economy can be) but I find it fascinating. I connect so much with the sentiment while I watch Trump garner support where I grew up and across this country. Oddly though it makes me feel slightly more connected to a broader world and human race violently growing and fighting for/against their darker, more cynical selves.
