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Election 2020

Jake Richmond on Oct. 30, 2020

- The American election is in just a few days. Please vote. Vote against Trump, even if you don't love Biden. I'm begging you.

- As a side note, any time I post something political here (or more often, on my other comic Ghost Kiss) a lot of people come out of the woodwork complaining that they don't come here for politics. They also very often want to argue. Over at Ghost Kiss I've been arguing with readers about the murder of Heather Hayes and the Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right" rally for literally 3 years. So let me be very clear: I’m not going to argue with you about Trump. If you support Trump and plan to vote for him I don't want to hear your opinion, I don't want to know you and I don't want you reading my comic.

If you don't like this strip than just skip it. Come back next week. In the meantime, go vote Trump out!

Your ad here, right now

Zero Hour at 12:44PM, May 30, 2023

i can't vote in american election for a good reason

SnowTheHedgehog at 7:19AM, Nov. 1, 2020

... You do realise that with the way you phrased this (comic and author's notes), you're going to get a majority of those reading this that were on the fence until now to vote FOR Trump? Look, I'm all for booting the guy, but you're going about this absolutely the wrong way. "If you support Trump, I don't want to hear your opinion". Extremes like that only add oil to the flames.

benjin at 2:32PM, Nov. 3, 2020

I think that very few trump supporters tend to read a comic where the main theme is friendship without any concern of skin color or even species.

picosux224 at 3:57PM, Nov. 1, 2020

exactly.people like that are one off my pet peeves.

Jake Richmond at 8:57AM, Nov. 1, 2020

I honestly don't think I'm going to win people over. I don't think anyone is still on the fence. At this point anyone who plans to vote for Trump already is aware of everything he's done, and has decided that they're okay with that. Even if they find some of what he's done objectionable, they're still willing to support him. They've had 4 years to decide that enough is enough, and they haven't. So I'm not expecting to win anyone over. It would be really, really nice if that happened, but I don't think it will. I do hope that people who weren't planning to vote might be encouraged to do so. What I am doing is making it clear that I don't want to associate with anyone who supports Trump. A vote for trump is supporting his bigotry, and anyone that supports bigotry has no place at my table. I don't think its an extreme to have no tolerance for bigotry.

benjin at 2:31AM, Nov. 1, 2020

What I really want to way is that I hope that you Americans are sane enough to do the right thing.

Jake Richmond at 8:51AM, Nov. 1, 2020

Me too.

benjin at 2:25AM, Nov. 1, 2020

I'm a German. So I'm only an observer of your presidential election. From what I have learnd about your voting system and your current president, I came to the conclusion that America did a better job when enforcing democracy in Germany after WW2 than it is doing at home up until today. Your government is re-shaping the electoral districts so the population within is most likely to vote for the currently leading party. Your voting system includes several steps of 'winner takes it all'. From the view of someone who can handle numbers I can see that this has lead to a situation where one party can rule with only 30% of all votes. At the same time this prevents any other party to ever reach a seat in parliament or senate. The number of polling stations is greatly reduced, mainly in districts with colored people, and at the same time your president attacks postal vote. Democracy looks different from what I can see in your country.

carora13 at 7:51PM, Nov. 4, 2020

Yup! The US political system is garbage. I live in a state that's been about 50/50 GOP/DEM. For the last 10-20 years the GOP has rigged it so they have 75% of the legislature positions. Add to this the fact that the US hasn't really had left-wing politics in 100 years and it gets worse. We're basically stuck with either the CDU (with a few SPD people that aren't allow a say) and the AFD. Fick dieses Land!

Jake Richmond at 8:51AM, Nov. 1, 2020

yup.

hkmaly at 5:30PM, Oct. 30, 2020

We already had an election and Trump was not between candidates, does it still count as voting against him? :-)

dellyyo5000 at 4:58PM, Oct. 30, 2020

For all the people who would stop reading the comic because the artist took a stand, good!!! You just show the artist is right. Considering the blatant disregard for comment sense, failure to listen to knowledgeable people about an illness killing thousands and sicking millions, holding "super-spreader" events during a pandemic, openly contradicting the very people trying to help fight the illness, a corrupt family taking millions in taxpayer money (what does his daughter, who he would like to date, do again? Golf every week at his golf course?!), the gross failure to serve the office of the presidency with any type of class (firing people by text, really?!), and the lack of a senate to hold the president accountable, I am surprised more artists are not speaking out. Leave, just more comic for the rest of us. I voted, the first day it was open...

Jake Richmond at 2:30AM, Oct. 31, 2020

Well said.

LegendXp at 3:59PM, Oct. 30, 2020

lol at people who are getting butthurt at what basically amounts to an ad.

legacy at 10:44AM, Oct. 30, 2020

Good on you for saying something!

Jake Richmond at 10:50AM, Oct. 30, 2020

Thank you

picosux224 at 5:05AM, Oct. 30, 2020

ugh politics...no thank you.

hkmaly at 5:32PM, Oct. 30, 2020

Problem is that people have enough of the elections due to all the other places they hear about them.

Jake Richmond at 6:18AM, Oct. 30, 2020

1 political strip in nearly 1100 over 10 years. Is this really a problem?

Dragonfire10503 at 5:03AM, Oct. 30, 2020

Well I will no longer be reading this comic good bye

Crazeyal at 8:30PM, May 7, 2021

I hope you read this. I hope it pained you to see your Orange god die.

Jake Richmond at 5:58AM, Oct. 30, 2020

You won't be missed.