Corpse Run 651: Getting help getting off
OKIE DOKIE LET’S GET A LITTLE POLITICAL.
…just a little.
I’ve tried to make it a point to not talk about politics in the strip as I generally feel as though Corpse Run should be more about games and me being an idiot than anything else.
During the last US Presidential Election, there was a Kat’s Korner reminding people to vote and a pic of me dressed up as Abe Lincoln while going to vote... and that was about it.
The second presidential debate between Clinton and Trump just wrapped up. My feelings over the course of this election cycle have been evolving from emotions like anger, frustration, hope, doses of humor…
These are things I’ve felt for every election I’ve been able to vote in (not many, for sure – this is my 3rd presidential election in which I’ve been able to participate), but for the first time, I’ve felt fear.
Not just fear; genuine terror that the outcome of this election can usher in a radical new era in American politics.
On the stage tonight, one of the candidates promised that if elected, he’d appoint a special prosecutor to put the other in jail. On a nationally televised debate, in the United States of America, a man just promised to put his political opponent in prison should he win.
And this is after the already horrendous things that he has said. In the world of Donald Trump, the only person that gets a pass is Donald Trump.
He later followed up that statement by claiming that not only does he disagree with Mike Pence regarding the use of military force in Syria, but that he hadn’t even spoken to him about it.
Specifically, Trump was asked a question about Syria which included Pence’s position and he said, “He and I haven’t spoken and I disagree.”
This is a person who is the nominee of a major political party who one month from today might be the President Elect of the United States claiming that he hasn’t consulted with his Vice President running mate on major policy positions.
This is insanity. This is absolute political chaos of a magnitude that I frankly never thought possible. Think back to the “scandals and controversies” of past elections:
- “Binders full of women” and “the 47%”
- Bill Ayers connections
- Swift boat veterans for truth
- Restoring “dignity” to the White House after the Lewinsky scandal
Think about how all of those moments seem to completely disappear under the mountain of horrible things uttered by Donald Trump. His comments of Mexicans, Putin, making late night tweets telling people to check out the sex tape of a former Miss Universe, allegedly not paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years, using steel from China that he just criticized in tonight’s debate to build a number of his buildings, treating receiving a Purple Heart from a serviceman as a nifty little doodad “I always wanted a Purple Heart, this was much easier”, criticizing the parents of a dead soldier, saying that he kisses women without consent because when you’re famous you can get away with anything, that you can “grab them by the pussy.”
Every day there’s some new thing that comes out about this imbecile that would have torpedoed the campaign of any real politician. Folks say that Trump is refreshing because he is an outsider, that he isn’t corrupted by party politics, that he speaks from the heart, and that he isn’t afraid to be politically correct.
That’s a load of shit.
Being the President takes skill, it takes political finesse, it takes charm, and it takes knowledge. This person possesses none of those qualities. What happens when he insults a foreign leader? What happens when negotiations break down because he doesn’t know the meaning of the word “compromise”? What happens when we give the authority to utilize a nuclear arsenal to a person who possesses the thinnest skin in the universe?
For fuck’s sake, he mentioned Rosie O’Donnell…WHILE IN A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.
Donald Trump is unhinged, this man is unstable, this man appears to be bordering on the edge of clinical insanity.
This man declared, to the entire country and the world, that he would personally see to it to put his political opponent in prison should he win.
At first, Trump was kind of funny, no one expected he’d make it this far so we laughed.
Then Trump started winning delegates in the Republican Primaries, but we all knew he wouldn’t make it anywhere close to the convention.
Then Trump won the Republican nomination and we all did a double take. Suddenly this was serious. Somehow this racist misogynist garnered enough support that he could actually win the presidency.
And now he wants to jail his opponents.
This is beyond fucked up. This is America, this sort of thing doesn’t happen here. Why anyone thinks Donald Trump should be President is completely foreign to me.
I understand that this might annoy a portion of you reading this. I don’t like to talk about politics, especially here.
However, this election has gotten so out of hand that I feel the need to vent a little. I voted for Bernie in the primaries so my ideal horse is already out of the race, but Clinton works for me fine. For the more right wing-leaning people reading this, I’m sorry that a madman has hijacked your party. For any Trump supporters reading this, I fully support your desire to vote for your guy as I believe that our country only works when everyone has a voice, but my gosh, I really hope your guy doesn’t win.
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….and I’ll try not to bring up politics again until November.
Ugh, my dad’s a Trump supporter, but he really is a nice guy. Lately my family evacuates the den when the debates come on, mostly because we just don’t want to watch the shitshow, but my dad watches and applauds for almost everything Trump says. It sucks watching such a good person become so passionate for someone like Trump.
Honestly, I keep on mentioning that if I had the ability to vote this year, I might as well not even bother since both candidates are both unappealing overall, but everybody immediately starts saying “I need to vote, because it’s really important to show that I care.” However, if I say that I’m voting for a third party candidate; which does about as much good as not voting, it feels like; people are perfectly fine. I dunno, man. I’m glad I don’t have to get involved in this because I’m not of voting age, but I’m absolutely mortified about this becoming the norm with presidential candidates by the time I need to vote.
Eh… Hillary may have a rather diverse past and have made some mistakes, but if you do your fact checking (I love Politifacts, they’re so nice and neutral) you’d find that only 12% of things she’s stated are outright false, while Trump outright lies …and I’m combining “false” and “pants on fire” ratings for both of these… fifty two percent of the time. The man seriously outright lies more than half the time. They might both seem unappealing, but think of it as choosing between a golf club that’s slightly bent and a tree branch. Because that’s the difference.
Fair point! I’ll definitely check out Polifacts and research some more on both candidates.
I don’t really mind the people who say they are voting 3rd party. Like I mentioned in the post above, our system only works when everyone has a voice. If someone wants to vote for Johnson or Stein, go for it! If someone wants to vote for Trump, also go for it! I’m not here to tell anyone different and fully support folks voting for whoever they want to.
What I would say however, is that people should vote. All staying home accomplishes is disenfranchising yourself. If you’re concerned that you live in a state that is solid blue or red when it comes to presidential elections, there are still down ticket candidates to vote for on the state and local levels, as well as ballot initiatives that will affect you.
Everyone should go out and vote.
I guess what I really wouldn’t mind is seeing some kind of third-party debate between candidates, even if it’s not technically official; just some candidates agreeing to go head-to-head on questions asked by a community, maybe over social media or something. Since the case is often that they can’t afford advertising, this would be a good way for them to tell people their plans for presidency whilst not having to spend money.
And yeah, I think I would still go out and vote. I was just kind of burnt out and tired after the debate.
“Why anyone thinks Donald Trump should be President is completely foreign to me.”
The answer’s actually pretty easy. Trump really appeals to dumb people. Turns out there’s a lot of dumb people in the USA. Sorry but that’s the truth.
And there’s a lot of dumb people because of how our education system is kinda falling apart…. No Child Left Behind needs to go, it made everything far worse….
I partially agree. There are some people who no matter what the evidence/issues/controversy, they will unilaterally vote for someone based off of whether or not they have a (D) or (R) after their name. That will never change.
I don’t really want to call Trump supporters dumb, however. Some of them are, just like some for Clinton are (maybe I’m one of them, I’m pretty dumb). Some of Trump’s supporters are also racist, the rise of the alt-right in this country is incredibly frightening.
…but there are also a portion of his supporters that I think just got swept up it in all; people who have never voted before and suddenly heard an outsider talking about how he can fix a system that doesn’t work for everyone. Obviously I disagree with just about everything that comes of of his mouth, and I genuinely think he is a racist and going senile, but for some of his supporters… I think they were attracted to him in the same way any politician attracts followers; they liked what he had to say.
Now that said, anyone who continues to stick with him after everything that has happened… either they agree with the crazy things he says, or they don’t care.
I’m not sure which is worse.
The comic was funny, but definitely could’ve done without the anti-trump diatribe, or at least one that fairly pointed out hillary’s countless malfeasances that get swept under the rug.
Honestly, I don’t like either of them, but whatever. Whichever one wins, we all lose, so fuck it, I don’t care anymore.
This website is not a network news segment aiming to give an unbiased view of the news. I am just one guy and am under no obligation to play the game of “he did this but she did this.”
That said, sure! I’m not a Hillary fan. I voted against her in the primaries as I believe she has ties to dirty money, I believe that she didn’t release her wall street speeches because there was something she felt worth hiding, and I also believe that her handling of the email situation was colossally negligent.
I also believe that she wasn’t far left enough for my tastes.
However, when I put those issues together, the amount to only a molehill when compared to the figurative mountain of Trump’s scandals.
Finally, at it’s very core, the guy is simply an unhinged human being that genuinely appears to be in the early stages of dementia, which I am *intimately* familiar with what that looks and sounds like. He answers questions he wasn’t asked, doesn’t finish sentences, constantly goes off on tangents that are unrelated to the topic at hand… his brain appears to be in the starting phases of a degenerative process in which he will become less and less coherent over time.
We are at risk of electing a man who’s brain appears to have already stopped functioning properly.
I don’t think the risk is all that high tbh (then again, nobody thought the Brits would actually vote to leave the EU and look what happened there…). Despite how alarming the things he says are, his poll numbers are absolutely in the gutter right now. Hillary isn’t the most liked candidate (Sanders voter here), but she could do FAR worse than where Trump is now. Much is scarier to me is the risk of retaliation if he loses. He seems to be setting himself up for a way to explain how the system is “rigged” against for just that eventuality even as we speak.
I think one way someone put it is, if Hillary is president worst case you have a bad president, and we’ve survied bad leaders before. But we’ve never had to deal with something as bad and disastrous as Trump.
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(Sorry, I made a mistake, here what I wanted to say) :
*As a French, I feel sorry for you Americans. But it’s not better in France : in 2017, we will have to choose between François Hollande (who is so spineless that everybody calls him General Flanby), Nicolas Sarkozy (a corrupted right-wing politician), Marine Le Pen (who hates migrants and want to bring France back back to 1940’s dictatorship) and thousand others obsolete politicians, who are still richer than anybody but complain that people “doesn’t make enough efforts” (while politicians and traders are responsibles for economic and structural problems).
I think we should change the system, not the president. That is to say: create a “direct” democraty (where everybody should rule) instead of a democraty “by delegation of power”. But yet, it still easier said that done…
hmm..Im English, Im pretty sure I could just change your politicians names for English one’s and it would still read the same.
And whilst i’m not a socialist, Power to the people!
p,s, donald trump? what was the name of that film where the president rode a nuke screaming ”YEEHAAR”?
It was Dr. Strangelove, but it was a regular cowboy/soldier who rode the nuke.
But whatever… YEEHAAR!
I honestly dislike both candidates. That being said I’m not voting for Hillary, I’m voting against Trump by voting for another candidate with a chance to win (Hillary). Some of the things that I have heard him say are so disrespectful, and moronic. If America chooses him to be our next leader, than we deserve the next 4 years with him at the helm.
I wish there was an option to say that both candidates are unsatisfactory, and to start the election season over with different candidates.
I will be writing Mike Rowe from dirty Jobs, if I want a TV celebrity I’ll go with one with actual values.
I would totally vote for the Green party if I lived in the US. The idea that voting for a third party is a wasted vote is exactly what keeps this ridiculous two party system in place.
Honestly, as a pretty reliably lib voter I’m actually glad the Republicans nominated Trump. Yes, because as you said more power to people to vote for who they want and the functioning of the democratic process. But also because at least this way we have an opportunity to dispense with this charade that any of these Republicans on the national stage are acting in good faith on behalf of their country. I guess I differ from you in one important way: there was little doubt in my mind that Trump would get nominated. I really do not see how Trump is any different from the other nominees from the primary (other than this thing he has for sexually assaulting women, gross…), so the logical conclusion is that he would be the one Republicans would favor. If you have two candidates that support a particular stance but one guy decides to go a little bit farther than the other, you’re likely to vote for the guy that goes farther, right? Welp, Trump is that farther guy.
The mainstream media deserves some blame here as well. Trump is not just the product of the support of deplorables but also of a news media system which apparently cannot thrive unless “both sides have a point”.
We even saw this in the VP debate; Pence was declared the “winner” simply because he smiled a lot and acted like a hokey, charming, “regular” midwestern Joe. Declared winner despite the fact that as governor Pence has used his power to make the things people fear about Trump a political reality.
As someone from Europe.
Trump would be a disaster for the rest of the world.
No idea which one of them is best for USA.
And poll number should never be trusted, people usually lie about voting for someone openly racist.