I love the demonstration of how being able to change beliefs on something small / obvious (her not recognising her tweets but assuming she wrote them anyhow) involves changing a whole world view (the internet speaks truth) and that a radical change of world view then requires one to re-evaluate everything (rabbit hole)
DannyUniverse
2018-01-01 21:16:02 +0000 UTC
Except in the Senate. It is boring there, you have to wear pants.
Simon Magid
2017-12-30 12:07:44 +0000 UTC
I really wish we could go back to pre-election 2016 so Robin could still be funny and not a horrifying indictment of the state of our politics.
Jordan Hiller
2017-12-30 04:18:26 +0000 UTC
Pants are an illusion, and so is death!
BBCC
2017-12-30 02:25:42 +0000 UTC
That's the one thing that's the advantage. The boring conservative had all those problems too, but could hide them. And there is a level to that that's more sinister
Stoodmuffin
2017-12-29 19:58:38 +0000 UTC
We have no idea of just how stable Robin is even in this strip. For example, we only see her upper body so we don't even know if she is wearing pants. o.o
Simon Magid
2017-12-29 16:56:07 +0000 UTC
Better the snake you can see in front of you than the one hiding in your trousers, eh?
TPRJones
2017-12-29 16:29:32 +0000 UTC
I'm older than most of you guys (been reading Willis' stuff since the Roomies days), and I've seen a few US Presidencies. While the US President scares the heck out of me, I want it to be him if I have to have a GOP person in. Because he's so sensational and doesn't say the boring things that let people ignore the fact that the party, and thus the legislation, is anti-gay, anti-muslim, anti-anyone who isn't rich or a corporation, really. They backed a frickin' pedophile, and passed a tax bill that blows a hole in our budget you could drive a semi through. And this is the purported party of fiscal conservatism and family values. So yeah, while my President scares me I'll take being scared if it also scares a lot of people who would otherwise stay quiescent.
Matthew Evan Davis
2017-12-29 14:34:19 +0000 UTC
I would still love to see Riley be the final guiding force who saves the day. We miss her.
sam
2017-12-29 14:01:19 +0000 UTC
And I definitely want boring old conservatives back, here as well.
Just look at Austria, our best equivalent of the US: conservative ÖVP + rightwing FPÖ in a coalition, and the young dynamic conservative is perhaps the more problematic among them.
(At least, their Ö's are still fun…)
Thomas H
2017-12-29 11:30:42 +0000 UTC
I feel you. And I'm one ocean away in Germany.
Robin being GOP has a long multi-universal tradition. Stand-alone strip on an earlier phase (relative to our timeline, just look):
<a href="http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-12/08-this-is-so-babies/birthday/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-12/08-this-is-so-babies/birthday/</a>
Thomas H
2017-12-29 11:28:29 +0000 UTC
I wonder if Robin returns to the parking lot to wander around between sessions, waiting for her lesbian to return. I also wonder if she's going to win her campaign by going left in the state.
C.T. Phipps
2017-12-29 10:16:49 +0000 UTC
It must be true, she read it on the Internet?
Captain Button
2017-12-29 08:50:19 +0000 UTC
BECKY FOR CONGRESS!!!!
Bagge
2017-12-29 08:14:44 +0000 UTC
And let me say this: because of media and where the money is, Even though I am Canadian, American Politics are way more Visible.
And though our new guy isn't perfect, the old guy (who was our prime minister) wasn't just from my home town. He was the federal representative of my district. So he was the leader of the country AND supposed to rep me and my neighbourhood in the house.
Though he was an anti gay, anti muslim, religious xenophobe, he could hide behind being boring. He was just "an economic" conservative. It's both what let him and his party rule for years AND his downfall.
Your guy's president? Is the opposite end of that conservative spectrum. The sensational kind. The headlines, kind. Twitter troll, etc.
Yeah. I was fucking TERRIFIED when our guy was in, and I was in the closet.
But, even though I am still on the other side of the border, i'm STILL scared for ME. Cause of YOUR guy's guy. Never mind how fucking anxious I am for any and all my friends in the states.
As funny as Robin can be, she reminds me of that shit. And as much as taking the piss out of something can help, IDK folks it stresses me out
Stoodmuffin
2017-12-29 08:13:40 +0000 UTC
I love Robin. But the choice to make her more like the GOP, rather than it's counter point, does lead to... Robin, well, scaring me more than she used too. Especially with the where the party is now
Stoodmuffin
2017-12-29 08:06:54 +0000 UTC
Well, I was hoping Robin was insane and wandering around the parking lot but good for her. I trust a 17 year old Becky much more than I trust the GOP.