Divine Intervention
Uh oh, here is another “political” comic, although perhaps subtle enough to not ruffle too many feathers. It might even work either way depending on your convictions, but I’d wager the only ones potentially getting “offended” by this comic wouldn’t be able to pinpoint their own country on a map anyway.
But don’t worry, Americans! I still love at least 78 million of you!
Btw, this comic reminds me: a couple years ago I made a Thanksgiving comic where Cthulhu ate Turkey (the country), which hilariously netted me a bunch of nasty Instagram messages from Turks. Here’s hoping this comic will be less controversial!
No, no, you’re right, please get rid of America.
Welp, I’m done. Thanks, it’s been mostly enjoyable.
As a Canadian, I say YES, this is ideal.
As a cartoonist, there’s a way (a button to click?) that’s like “make comic into reality”, right? Do that, please.
As a Canadian, I’m sorry.
Not sure what for, but it’s a requirement.
ouch !
big fan of your work, but not so sure I ‘dig’ this one….there are a lot of people suffering there as well..
I’m sorry, but I just can’t like this one, it just makes me sad. Usually I get a chuckle, but this just feels mean spirted. I suppose I’m one of those 78 million, but that’s a small consolation. And that alt-text, ouch man. As a New Englander I thought we’d be at least salvageable.
Sorry if I was a bit mean spirited myself, we’ve been trying to hold together and this just felt like a gut punch from a cartoonist I really respect.
Sure, I can absolutely see where you’re coming from. Maybe a bit of context is required as I originally only planned to post this comic if Tr*mp was reelected. But even as Biden won I reconsidered due to the events after the election. From the outside looking in – now as the president is refusing to concede and he’s riling up his base about election fraud – it’s increasingly hard to fathom that this is supposedly an actual functioning democracy.
Maybe without that context the comic looks more mean-spirited, I can agree with that. Apologies if it came across that way, that wasn’t my intention at all!
Also, New England is the only part of the US I’ve visited and I would hate to lose it forever. I’ll definitely put in a good word to God from you all.
You know, with that context, I do completely agree with you, he’s made the US a joke and continues to do so. And I also agree that it feels democracy is teetering on the edge here; especially with his stupid lawsuits and fraud claims. At least they’re getting thrown out of court, but still, I do imagine we are quite a mess looking in, especially the past 4 years.
Thank you for taking the time to explain the context, and thank you for the kind words. I’ve read your comic for years and don’t plan on stopping now!
As an American, I can’t really argue with this.
I’m from the US and I think this is the perfect solution for stopping all of the people from my country referring to themselves as “America” when there’s a Central and a South America sitting RIGHT THERE in which people who live there are ALSO “American”.
All the people here saying “I’m from the US and I agree”, no you don’t. You just think it’s funny, like this cartoonist, to crap on the United States of America like the rest of the world, just because the rest of the world is not better off than us. We are the one of the top countries in the world, and the fact that you believe that you’re better because you’re not dealing with problems, then yes you’d be correct: you’re not dealing with problems, but you have a lot that you like to ignore because the media likes to mass-cover the United States, because we are the world’s superpower in military, economy, and diversity.
https://theweek.com/articles/949567/americas-narrow-idea-freedom-literally-killing
Article is titled: America’s narrow idea of freedom is literally killing us. So, yeah, a LOT of the rest of the world is better off than us, by several measures.
The Week is a far left news service. The top story on their website is literally “Why Republicans’ treatment of Trump’s claims is reminiscent of authoritarian countries.” And yes, far left people will say America’s garbage, but only because they want change. Far right people will say that America’s great but won’t know why. I’m just educated enough to know that America is doing really well, and is recovering from bad leadership and only such.
The United States has had bad leadership going on 50 years in a row and counting. That’s the whole point. Good job being educated enough to know this.
And here’s a prime example of *why* the US needs a good flushing. Instead of actually READING the article and arguing with the points it makes you dismiss it as a whole because it’s “far left.” Why is it “far left?” Because it doesn’t match your world view. It doesn’t resonate with your echo chamber lifestyle so you label it as something “bad” and pretend that it can’t possibly be true. It’s you, and the millions of your fellow morons who are incapable of critical thinking, that are making the US the shithole it is right now. It’s also why each Republican president has been dumber than the last.
That’s odd. You say that it’s a “far left” news service, huh?
Well, here’s the thing: outside the USA, many news outlets are saying the same thing: Trump’s actions *are* reminiscent of dictatorships. And I’m talking about moderate, at most center-left outlets.
It doesn’t mean America *is* a dictatorship: for that to happen, first Trump must succeed with this pathetic coup d’età t… and he won’t. But in these 4 years he’s certainly behaved as a bully towards his “enemies”, *including* the ones that he put in place himself and then disavowed once they acted against his absolute will (Chris Krebs is just the last one), placing his cronies and lackies in key power positions, or even *relatives* in a blatant show of nepotism. Remember when, at the Republican convention, 5 out of 10 speakers were from Trump’s family?
*That* is, without a doubt, what dictators characteristically do. And naturally, he’s been a role model for populists, demagogues, arrivistes and narcissists all around the world, and covertly admired by *actual* dictators and autocrats.
Fortunately, USA is still far away from being an actual dictatorship and voted Trump out this time. The rest of the world thanks, but is still wary due to the fact that he *still* got something like 74 million votes…
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The Week is a far left news service. The top story on their website is literally “Why Republicans’ treatment of Trump’s claims is reminiscent of authoritarian countries.” And yes, far left people will say America’s garbage, but only because they want change. Far right people will say that America’s great but won’t know why. I’m just educated enough to know that America is doing really well, and is recovering from bad leadership and only such.
Somehow I`m not suprised you hate everybody under the voting age.