Becky: I want a Winnebago.
Robin: What?!
Becky: Fully equipped. Big kitchen, water bed, AM/FM CD, microwave.
Robin: It’s not a car dealership, pal!
Dina: She wants a Winnebago.
Robin: All right. A Winnebago.
Becky: Thank you. Burgundy interior.
Galasso: Ah, I have never taken my wife to Europe.
Robin: I’m sorry to hear it. Give me the Tweets.
Galasso: You will buy me two round-trip, first-class tickets to Athens, Lisbon, Madrid, and Scotland.
Pamela: Don’t forget Tahiti.
Galasso: And Tahiti.
Robin: Tahiti is not in Europe!
Conquest: Excuse me. When you get re-elected, you give us geography lessons. Until then, this man goes to Tahiti.
Robin: Fine! Tahiti!
Joe: The young lady with the Uzi… She single?
Danny: Y’know, Joe, excuse us. This is the brass ring. Now you’ve got to think bigger thoughts.
Joe: I just want her telephone number.
Becky: How about a lunch? You can chaperone.
Robin: No. I will not do this.
Becky: Hey, Robs, Robs. Come on, the FBI would give him twins.
Robin: NO!!
Malaya: Wait a second. You can have anything you want, and you’re asking for my phone number?
Joe: Yes.
Malaya: [smiles] 273-9164, area code 415.
Joe: I’m Joe.
Malaya: I’m Malaya.
Robin: I’m going to be sick.
Jacob: I want peace on Earth and good will toward men.
Robin: Oh, this is ridiculous.
Dina: No, he’s serious.
Jacob: I want peace on Earth and good will toward men.
Robin: We are the United States government! We don’t do that sort of thing.
Dina: You’ll just have to try.
Robin: All right. I’ll see what we can do.
Jacob: Thank you. It’s all I ask.
Interesting tidbit: The technical consultant for ‘Sneakers’ was the same one who did Wargames. He was the real deal and helped BUILD a lot of NORAD’S security and is the reason those two movies got so much of the hacking stuff right.
Now look, she wants the Heki 2 roof lights, uh, the stylish ash frame furniture, and the scatter cushions with, uh, matching shag pile cover. Yeah. Right. And she’s terrible partial to the periwinkle blue, boys.
Sneakers is one of the best hacker/suspense movies of all time. I love watching it even though I don’t think my first girlfriend ever saw it all the way through.
And frankly, I suspect, something of a sneaky plan of Robin’s.
By having Becky work as her campaign manager, and Becky still hanging out with Leslie, Robin will have a kinda legitime reason to “Bump in to” Leslie again.
Yeah, if Becky has to pick two of the her three terms, those are definitely the best two. Though I think she should try at least one more time to convince Robin to agree to all three of her terms.
Hear me out, I know it seems superficially wrong, but I feel as though she should not choose campaign honesty. If she gets elected with the young liberal vote and betrays them, she’d be shooting herself on the foot and basically guaranteeing being disgraced on the eyes of both parties afterwards. On the other hand, her being elected would also prove that the young liberal vote is worth seeking, meaning true liberal candidates will benefit afterwards.
And all that without mentioning that Robin may end doing the right, smart thing, anyway (if only out of self-gain, but who knows, she may actually learn and grow) and thus, Becky would have cheated herself of either tuition or a place to live.
That’s just not true. Politicians have a tendency to go back to the party line when they’re elected to a specific party – and it’s too late for Robin to drop the letter beside her name just because the party cancelled its endorsement. Robin betraying what she campaigned on would ensure she’s not elected with the liberal crowd again but a) That doesn’t ensure she won’t get her old Evil Bastard crowd back and b) Her losing that kind of support isn’t worth the damage said betrayal would do to LGBT+ people, immigrants, and AFAB people.
How does this work if you wish to study later in life? When you might have kids, or just don’t care about dorm life with a bunch of youngsters? Or is that not a thing at all in the US?
Probably won’t apply then. I believe the reason is that some 18 year old kids have no idea at all how to live independently, how to cook, how to budget, etc. So the school requires them to live in a dorm with a meal plan for the first year to avoid problems with clueless kids starving, etc.
The catch-all term for later-in-life learners is “non-traditional students”. Most universities realize that most people over 25 (the general cut-off point at which you become a “non-trad”) already have a life, possibly a spouse, and a place to live and are not that heartless that they would force someone to uproot all that just to satisfy some chicken-shit rule about how “all first-year students must live in on-campus housing and sign up for the meal plan”.
Usually it just says “I’m living with my parents/aunt/grandparents” but if you’re already an established adult you can get an override, too
Partly it’s as Slartibeast said, that kids don’t know what they’re doing. I was in a mixed year dorm one time and my roommate didn’t turn 18 until the end of her first year of college.
However, living on campus also helps to strengthen your bond with classmates and makes certain mishaps less likely. Many students don’t have a car, so being able to walk to class helps remove a barrier to attendance, as well as using the library or attending tutoring. This also gives students the opportunity to be independent in a way that their parents might not let them (mine still gave me a bed time at 18- not curfew, BEDTIME) while still providing a degree of supervision not found in regular apartment living. Also, I would rather live with an annoying classmate than the asshole I found on Craigslist
I worked a summer cleaning dorms for a Southern Baptist College. The first day I ate lunch with some of the other workers. One of the girls was complaining about needing to try to convert 10 people (or some other random number) but her parents forbid her from leaving the campus so she couldn’t do it. She was 18. (And I wisely kept my mouth shut, ‘cuz I’m not a Southern Baptist.)
Well, you can’t have that, but if you’re an American citizen you are entitled to:
a heated kidney shaped pool,
a microwave oven–don’t watch the food cook,
a Dyna-Gym–I’ll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home,
a kingsize Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
real simulated Indian jewelry,
a Gucci shoetree,
a year’s supply of antibiotics,
a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth!
This is actually pretty dumb of Robin cuz all she has to do is Tweet some liberal stuff. That’s all Becky’s doing, she’s not a professional campaign manager.
Ohioan here, right next door, living in a Congressional district “represented” by a human-shaped empty suit who knows only how to recite the Tea Party punchlist. It is, in fact, a job requirement.
No, that’s the list of approved topics and positions, to be recited with the certainty of one who has their thinking done for them. Our congresscritter has not had a thought of his own in the entirety of his political career.
We’ve seen Robin try to “meme”. Becky knows how to ape Robin’s style of speech while deploying effective social media usage. Most politicians aren’t AOC or Mike Gravel, you know. Robin’s not an idiot about this particular thing.
Actually, I don’t think I’ve seen Robin actually lie or break a promise yet. Yeah, she is self-interested and has crappy policies, but she does seem to be pretty honest. This might be a moral point with her, though I might lean more toward her just being naive (she really does act like a child) and keeps her word because she never actually considers the idea that she could just break her promise.
I never said Robin for sure would betray Becky (though if it got her more votes – and it likely would with the GOP, I could see it. I don’t trust this Robin). I said if Robin WERE to betray Robin, I’m not sure what Becky could actually do about it. Which is why it’s a very good thing Robin’s so incompetent.
Robin has shown that she’s personally fairly reliable, in her own garbage way. She’s just awful with her politics because she separates the consequences of her votes from herself.
Tuition and a representative voting record, right? Leslie will probably be okay with Becky sticking around for a little while. I like where this is going!
In practice, Robin can’t be trusted. So only the “place to live” item has any sure value. Of the other two, “don’t betray us” is the more likely to get tossed aside, so Becky should go with the home and tuition.
Actually, the realpolitik that got us where we are today was all about abuse of the powerless and catering to the lowest common denominator, rather than mistrust of those who have earned mistrust.
Drawing on the moral of the The Scorpion and the Frog, it would be very nice if the frog could trust the scorpion. But only a very foolish frog would, given the scorpion’s nature.
How does Becky expect Robin to pull off being a RINO in Indiana of all places? Even if the magic R can save her this time around, her record from this past term is set in stone, liberals won’t trust her this time around, and she’ll almost certainly get primaried when the next election cycle comes around.
Though two years is as good as forever to the DoA timeline…
There is a small chance that Robin will win or even if she does not win this election how Becky chooses now might will effect whose side she is on going forward when she recovers and still has influence.
But lets look at it from another angle, right now Becky is getting a place to live from Leslie. She is also dependent on Leslie for food and basic hygeane supplies, and Becky is dependent on her friends for luxuries like cloaths, phones and going out. Right now the cash value of there good graces which choosing to sell out good people would risk might be greater than a couple months of housing. And feeling like a bum is not a good feeling but neither is knowingly working to make the world worse.
This is how Robin finds out Becky is living at Leslie’s, though, and I never thought I’d see their (Robin and Leslie) paths cross again. God, Willis is so fucking good.
Oh, right. Part of me thinks that Robin doesn’t remember that detail, but another part of me thinks that’s just covering for not remembering. I had forgotten how Becky even got access to Robin’s Twitter.
If she sticks to her guns, enrollment and honest campaigning. Honestly, though, the three demands are reasonable. I’d say, “Hell no. I already cut out half of what I really want in an effort to give you a discount. All three. I’ll still be the cheapest campaign manager around.”
Hmm.. I think she will choose school + tuition and Robin’s voting record. If she chose living situation, that would be ridiculous at this point. You could couch surf till next semester easy.
Even with only 2 out of 3, it’s amazing that Robin’s willing to give so much away for what is only, what, about 3-4 weeks of work from Becky before the election?
Robin can’t make too much of an about-face; remember when she pointed out that what will appeal to the liberal university crowd won’t necessary play further downstate in redneckland. Anybody think that if Robin gets re-elected, all deals — especially the one about “walking the walk” — are probably off the table?
If re-elected, Robin will have to toe the party line, at least the majority of the time, or it will be the *PARTY* that throws *HER* under the bus. And what would Becky be able to do about it then? Sure she could go public, but I predict the masses would believe a seated congresscritter before they’d believe some 18- or 19-year-old kid.
If Robin can only win by campaigning on Becky’s social and economic platform, then that’s likely to continue to hold true after the election. The party’s already thrown her under the bus. The whole premise here is the about face is supposedly the only thing that can save her political career.
I’m not sure I actually buy that. It doesn’t match my understanding of politics. It may be that Robin’s just delusional about her chances.
Maybe if her opponent is the kind of very conservative Republican-lite Democrat that often runs in red districts, then she could actually peel of votes to his left while the Republican base voters sit this one out?
Becky’s going to need some congressional help to get admitted by next semester, seeing as it’s mid-October already.
If she were a transfer student, she’d still have time. But since Toedad withdrew her from Anderson, she’d be a first-time freshman applicant, and without some kind of deus ex machina, the odds are not in her favor.
Isn’t Toe Dad basically the deus ex machina himself though? The whole gun-on-campus and high speed chase that ended with him in the hospital and jail story must have made regional news- maybe even national.
It wasn’t like she just dropped out, she had legitimate fear for her life. I’m sure she can get some sort of override
I think it was implied that if they just went to the powers that be at IU they’d be able to get Becky in…or at least that Leslie was thinking along those lines. They haven’t, really, so it hasn’t been considered administratively.
Becky can play the sympathy card, too. Hell she could play a sympathy card full house. (Mother passed, father tried to abduct her at gunpoint, involuntarily withdrawn from college, homeless, next-to-no-wage job, just wants a better life for herself…)
Holy God, Becky! Incredible girl! Look at her out here wrangling with politicians, driving hard bargains, pulling power moves on her social superiors…look at her face!
I’m not sure I understand the part of the ploy where she tells Becky that the only way she’ll move off the sofa is either giving up her dream or being complicit in Robin being elected under false pretences, but it probably makes sense in Robin logic.
Well, of that particular fuck, marry, kill, she should absolutely jettison the housing, cause a full carry on the other two might as well be the equivalent of romancing a unicorn atop a fantasy island made of delicious poppyseed bagels.
I’m so incredibly in love with Panel 3 so much I want to gush about it. Like, the sheer push, the emotion, the way the theoretical camera pushes in from Panel 2, so she dominates the frame?
It’s such a beautiful composition, especially building on Panel 2, her face set and determined, her eyes almost seeming to bore through, as if ready to inflict a moral damage on their perceiver.
It is the queer rage of the betrayed. Those who have trusted and been broken. Who have seen the promises of the love of community and family disappear in an instance when their reality threatens the ideology. Those who have seen the pain before and will not be subjected to it again and as we see in Panels 4-6, Robin is caught almost completely unaware and unprepared for it.
Like, sure, she got a small taste of the filtered, controlled, and watered-down version from Leslie. The version with the benefit of years of recovery, which can be sanitized for a presuming straight audience, which seeks to edify and invite.
But Becky’s version is fresh, almost venomous, it is raw with fresh wounds and almost invites a different visual response. The response of seeing the blood still running from the harm caused and an unsettling impression carried by that rawness.
It’s a power derived from pain, very rarely harnessed so effectively and yet, she employs it, not out of any means of deception but out of pure honesty and raw emotion and that can cut through the usual dance people are used to. Especially bigots and you see how well it lands in those two panels of silence.
It’s a capturing of something real and powerful in a powerful artistic way and that’s just amazing enough to gush over. At least for my nerdy ass.
Becky is SO AWESOME. She may be too poor to have principles – but when push comes to shove she stands up for what is important. And she’s not forgetting to be paid what she’s due either.
Heeeeey Cerberus! Hadn’t seen you in a while!
(Then again I haven’t been too active in the comment section since a bug set my main browser’s comments to “waiting for moderation” permanently.)
How ya doin?
I’d advise Becks to collect “insurance” of some sort during her career. Y’know, for when the Representative inevitably decides her savant of a PR manager is no longer useful to her. And when that happens, release that insurance as a lesson to every other opportunistic hack politician who tries to fuck her and hers over.
“Goofus and Gallant is an American children’s comic strip appearing monthly in Highlights for Children. The comic contrasts the actions of the titular characters, presenting Gallant’s actions as right and good and Goofus’s as wrong and bad.” (Wikipedia)
Regarding getting paid for your work, I think it means Mary is doing it wrong, Becky is doing it right. Be like Becky.
Hmm, I don’t know, though. I don’t see either as being very Goofus-like. Mary complained about not being paid and agreed to perform work that she personally enjoys for a low fee (a couple pretzels) because she doesn’t actually need money, and just doesn’t want to be taken advantage of. Becky is being offered a position that she has more of a strong bargaining position for and has a much greater need for financial support, so is haggling. Both of these are pretty valid compensation strategies for their individual situations.
Oh, I think I got it. He’s not talking about the pretzels thing (unless he is?), he’s talking about the strip before that, where Mary reveals that she accepted exposure
I know who Goofus and Gallant are, it’s just kinda hard to think over the sound of how much I want a goddamn drink rn, sorry
Goofus and Gallant are characters in a kid’s magazine called Highlights. You can usually find it it doctor’s, dentist’s, etc. offices. Basically, it’s a comparison between Goofus (who always does the selfish or stupid thing) and Gallant (who is always polite and does the right thing).
I’m a cynic and I can tell you right now that Robin will betray Becky because why wouldn’t she. Robin gets elected and flips the whole thing on her and loses nothing.
So… Becky… You are going to make damned sure you have this in writing, multiple copies signed, witnessed and notarized, before actually acting on it, right? The clause about her voting record going forward will be absolutely unenforceable in any legal sense (and may even be enough to get her removed from office should she actually win) but forcing her to pull the strings to get you into school or getting an equivalent monetary compensation (plus yer legal fees for pursuing it) if she fails to bother trying should be.
At the same time, there would be a fair argument for the fact that she is employing Becky to post these specific messages and could be seen as lying in her campaign to get elected. More than most politicians do, at any rate. It’s one thing to make promises that you can’t keep or exaggerating what you intend to accomplish, it’s quire another to say that you support a more liberal agenda while always voting on the conservative side.
I’d skip the place to live (since it’s only until enrollment), even if that means a long time living with Leslie (forever in real life), it’s only like 3 months.
I like DeSanto’s response. It shows that she can provide Becky with a place to stay and trust with her voting policies, but to do so she would have to not take any money from corporate lobbyists and financial backing from the private sector. She could be corrupt and pay for Becky’s school and a lot of whatever else including board , or she can become an ally and likely have a place for Becky to stay but not enough money to send her to school (college be expensive yo!).
Get whatever deal you work out in writing.
And obviously, this deal evaporates if De Santo doesn’t get reelected. Which means they both have reasons to want this and assures a reasonable amount of loyalty. Plus Becky seems to genuinely believe in some political ideals.
So, uh, yeah, rah rah go Becky, but let’s look at the “Pick One To Abandon” conundrum:
She picks College to give up? That’s the dream she’s wanted, and it’d disappoint Dina.
She picks a place to live to give up? She’d continue to impose on Leslie.
She lets Robin screw over LGBTQ? She’d be hurting Dina, Leslie and herself.
No matter which she chooses, someone that she cares about isn’t going to like it.
…I’d say pick “a place to live” and “no fucking over LBGTQ” as the thing to keep, btw. College is EXPENSIVE and not a guarantee of a successful career, and this might be Becky’s wheelhouse.
Screw a guaranteed successful career. There’s nothing to guarantee anyone on this planet is going to have that, no matter how thorough their education is. Learn what you want to learn and screw anyone who tries to stop you.
A place to live seems the least important pressing issue. Leslie doesn’t seem to mind Becky continuing to stay with her and if Becky does get hired and paid a decent salary, she could get a place to live herself instead of getting Robin to set up some housing situation for her.
Leslie welcomed Becky into her home for as long as she needed. I highly doubt she’d be upset if Becky stayed for a lot longer than the two months left in the semester
Apologies if this is in the alt-text, which I can’t see on my tablet, but I need to point out that Robin is totally doing the UK version of flipping the bird (flicking a V) in the final panel. I don’t think either of them realise this, but still.
We had a homeless student hanging out in our building fall semester. I don’t think the administrators knew, and I sure AF wasn’t going to tell them. He was active in a student group that focused on homelessness issues.
I’m pretty much dead-set on emigrating from the United States as soon as I can, now. I’m at a point where I don’t feel like I can catch up on the things I haven’t accomplished by now, and it’s mostly because of my environment. Everyone who knows me just sees my past behavior and lack of accomplishments, and the only reputation I seem to be able to get around here is That Goofy Slacker Guy, which isn’t what I want for myself.
I can’t keep being the guy who used to have temper issues when he was a kid because everyone kept telling him how “bright” he was just because he was autistic, so now he’s crumbled under the weight of those expectations and just reverted to being the sorta weird but harmless funny guy in every friend group. It’s just another set of expectations I have to live up to, and I can’t see a way out if I live anywhere my past can find me by just driving a few hours.
The only way I can see all of that that changing is for me to move as far away from everyone who knows me as possible, even if it means I might not see people I love again for a very long time, if at all. I’ve got a lot of existential angst, lately (thank you Twitter), and I can’t stop thinking that when the planet is on fire and I’m dying alone in radioactive mud, my last thoughts will be that I’d never given myself an opportunity to really prove I could be something, even if I’m the only one I’m proving anything to.
New Zealand is looking like a decent choice, if I can find work there in a relatively affordable place and establish a career of some sort. I’ve always been interested in filmmaking, and some of my favorite TV has been produced there. I’m sure it’ll have its own set of weird, arbitrary problems, but if I can get there, I’ll learn to adapt. It won’t be the same problems for all the same reasons, with all the same people constantly hammering in the consequences of me not succeeding immediately, and that’s all the change I really need.
Sorry for dumping this (and my other meltdowns) on all of you folks. It’s probably disjointed and might not make much sense, but I had to at least type it out, y’know?
I left the UK four years ago (for moderately similar reasons) for a country where I couldn’t speak a word of the language, doing a job (teaching English) which I knew fine I was unsuited for, and have no regrets what so ever. Go for it!
Honestly, teaching English someplace where I don’t understand the language also sounds good. I still wouldn’t fit in, but it would be because I’m the Foreign Guy, instead of all these things I’ve had no say in. You’ve given me another option to consider, so thank you.
If she has to give up one of those it should be the house one tbh she has temporary places to stay until enrollment ideally she should get all 3 but robin is unfortunately like that
I love the complete lack of self-preservation instinct it takes to say to a potential employer that she’ll legit just stay homeless rather than help her get elected just to stay evil. Like oof been there kid and I love you.
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Becky: I want a Winnebago.
Robin: What?!
Becky: Fully equipped. Big kitchen, water bed, AM/FM CD, microwave.
Robin: It’s not a car dealership, pal!
Dina: She wants a Winnebago.
Robin: All right. A Winnebago.
Becky: Thank you. Burgundy interior.
Galasso: Ah, I have never taken my wife to Europe.
Robin: I’m sorry to hear it. Give me the Tweets.
Galasso: You will buy me two round-trip, first-class tickets to Athens, Lisbon, Madrid, and Scotland.
Pamela: Don’t forget Tahiti.
Galasso: And Tahiti.
Robin: Tahiti is not in Europe!
Conquest: Excuse me. When you get re-elected, you give us geography lessons. Until then, this man goes to Tahiti.
Robin: Fine! Tahiti!
Joe: The young lady with the Uzi… She single?
Danny: Y’know, Joe, excuse us. This is the brass ring. Now you’ve got to think bigger thoughts.
Joe: I just want her telephone number.
Becky: How about a lunch? You can chaperone.
Robin: No. I will not do this.
Becky: Hey, Robs, Robs. Come on, the FBI would give him twins.
Robin: NO!!
Malaya: Wait a second. You can have anything you want, and you’re asking for my phone number?
Joe: Yes.
Malaya: [smiles] 273-9164, area code 415.
Joe: I’m Joe.
Malaya: I’m Malaya.
Robin: I’m going to be sick.
Jacob: I want peace on Earth and good will toward men.
Robin: Oh, this is ridiculous.
Dina: No, he’s serious.
Jacob: I want peace on Earth and good will toward men.
Robin: We are the United States government! We don’t do that sort of thing.
Dina: You’ll just have to try.
Robin: All right. I’ll see what we can do.
Jacob: Thank you. It’s all I ask.
Robin: What about you?
Joyce: Oh, I’m fine. =D
Well played, sir, madam, or nonbinary.
Well played.
I salute you and all who sail on you.
And I need to go rewatch a movie.
In this universe Robin legislates world peace not through the use of cereal, but simply to get Becky in her employ.
*chef kiss*
I am amused and curious as to who you’ve placed in each speaking role.
Also, holy hell do I love that movie so very, very much.
I love how you introduced the world-peace bill
Ah, Tahiti. It’s a magical place.
We can rebuild him better than he was before. Better, faster, stronger.
Interesting tidbit: The technical consultant for ‘Sneakers’ was the same one who did Wargames. He was the real deal and helped BUILD a lot of NORAD’S security and is the reason those two movies got so much of the hacking stuff right.
Bandit: I need a car.
Little Enos:
Bandit: Speedy car.
Little Enos:
Bandit: Speedier that that.
Now look, she wants the Heki 2 roof lights, uh, the stylish ash frame furniture, and the scatter cushions with, uh, matching shag pile cover. Yeah. Right. And she’s terrible partial to the periwinkle blue, boys.
Top comment of all time.
I have never seen this movie, I don’t even have idea what it’s about, but now I wanna see it.
Sneakers is one of the best hacker/suspense movies of all time. I love watching it even though I don’t think my first girlfriend ever saw it all the way through.
Enrollment and campaign honesty. You can tough it out until dorms become a real thing for you.
Yeah, I thought the same thing.
Indeed. She has other housing options.
That or sticking to her guns. But yeah, definitely the two I’d recommend- although it’ll be even more awkward with Leslie…
And that’s a real concern
And frankly, I suspect, something of a sneaky plan of Robin’s.
By having Becky work as her campaign manager, and Becky still hanging out with Leslie, Robin will have a kinda legitime reason to “Bump in to” Leslie again.
It will be painful
Yeah, if Becky has to pick two of the her three terms, those are definitely the best two. Though I think she should try at least one more time to convince Robin to agree to all three of her terms.
I’d go with those two as well. It can’t be THAT long until the next semsester begins.
(Re-checks what comic this is.)
Uh, actually she might want to give this some thought.
Don’t freshmen have to stay in the dorms, anyway?
Hear me out, I know it seems superficially wrong, but I feel as though she should not choose campaign honesty. If she gets elected with the young liberal vote and betrays them, she’d be shooting herself on the foot and basically guaranteeing being disgraced on the eyes of both parties afterwards. On the other hand, her being elected would also prove that the young liberal vote is worth seeking, meaning true liberal candidates will benefit afterwards.
And all that without mentioning that Robin may end doing the right, smart thing, anyway (if only out of self-gain, but who knows, she may actually learn and grow) and thus, Becky would have cheated herself of either tuition or a place to live.
No. Robin shooting herself in the foot isn’t worth the harm she’s going to cause to immigrants, afab people, or LGBT+ people.
I think they mean that Becky needn’t include campaign honesty in her terms because Robin will inevitably have to do that anyway.
That’s just not true. Politicians have a tendency to go back to the party line when they’re elected to a specific party – and it’s too late for Robin to drop the letter beside her name just because the party cancelled its endorsement. Robin betraying what she campaigned on would ensure she’s not elected with the liberal crowd again but a) That doesn’t ensure she won’t get her old Evil Bastard crowd back and b) Her losing that kind of support isn’t worth the damage said betrayal would do to LGBT+ people, immigrants, and AFAB people.
are you… asserting that real politicians don’t screw over their constituencies once in office?
I was thinking precisely the same thing.
does tuition include dorms?
Nope, I had to pay separately. And a lot of universities force freshmen to live on campus for their first year. It’s a big racket.
:V
Becky says “Until then”, which implies she means room and board, although technically tuition is not the same thing.
How does this work if you wish to study later in life? When you might have kids, or just don’t care about dorm life with a bunch of youngsters? Or is that not a thing at all in the US?
Probably won’t apply then. I believe the reason is that some 18 year old kids have no idea at all how to live independently, how to cook, how to budget, etc. So the school requires them to live in a dorm with a meal plan for the first year to avoid problems with clueless kids starving, etc.
The catch-all term for later-in-life learners is “non-traditional students”. Most universities realize that most people over 25 (the general cut-off point at which you become a “non-trad”) already have a life, possibly a spouse, and a place to live and are not that heartless that they would force someone to uproot all that just to satisfy some chicken-shit rule about how “all first-year students must live in on-campus housing and sign up for the meal plan”.
There’s a waiver you can fill out
Usually it just says “I’m living with my parents/aunt/grandparents” but if you’re already an established adult you can get an override, too
Partly it’s as Slartibeast said, that kids don’t know what they’re doing. I was in a mixed year dorm one time and my roommate didn’t turn 18 until the end of her first year of college.
However, living on campus also helps to strengthen your bond with classmates and makes certain mishaps less likely. Many students don’t have a car, so being able to walk to class helps remove a barrier to attendance, as well as using the library or attending tutoring. This also gives students the opportunity to be independent in a way that their parents might not let them (mine still gave me a bed time at 18- not curfew, BEDTIME) while still providing a degree of supervision not found in regular apartment living. Also, I would rather live with an annoying classmate than the asshole I found on Craigslist
I worked a summer cleaning dorms for a Southern Baptist College. The first day I ate lunch with some of the other workers. One of the girls was complaining about needing to try to convert 10 people (or some other random number) but her parents forbid her from leaving the campus so she couldn’t do it. She was 18. (And I wisely kept my mouth shut, ‘cuz I’m not a Southern Baptist.)
Some campuses also have family housing for such situations. Usually it goes to grad students, but it can go to nontraditional undergraduates as well.
Easy: Enrollment, no betrayal. Leslie’s got you covered, Becky :V
I want a big American car that gets really shitty gas mileage.
“Hey, no problem – we’ll even throw in a Blaupunkt!”
This will all end up with Robin buying Becky a pony – won’t it?
“We want beeg American automo-beel. Weeth tailfeens!”
And you may find yourself
Living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself
In another part of the world
And you may find yourself
Behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house
With a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, well
How did I get here?
Well, you can’t have that, but if you’re an American citizen you are entitled to:
a heated kidney shaped pool,
a microwave oven–don’t watch the food cook,
a Dyna-Gym–I’ll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home,
a kingsize Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
real simulated Indian jewelry,
a Gucci shoetree,
a year’s supply of antibiotics,
a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth!
…
And a baby’s arm holding an apple
Guess she’ll stay at LEslie ?
Better idea: Becky movies into wherever Robin lives, and Robin moves in with Leslie.
Naturally we don’t tell Leslie about this plan. That’s what makes it a shennanigan.
Politics and Poker, Politics and Poker
Lay out your cards and find the Joker
Neither game’s for children, either can be rough…
Becky sure drives a hard bargain.
Perfect. Choose place to live. You only have to stay with Leslie for a few months.
In fact, I bet Becky added that one to prepare for further bartering.
This is actually pretty dumb of Robin cuz all she has to do is Tweet some liberal stuff. That’s all Becky’s doing, she’s not a professional campaign manager.
Robin is an IDIOT.
She’s a GOP representative for Indiana. Think she’d hold that position without being an idiot?
Ohioan here, right next door, living in a Congressional district “represented” by a human-shaped empty suit who knows only how to recite the Tea Party punchlist. It is, in fact, a job requirement.
Is that a list of people the GOP targets to economically, socially, and verbally punch down?
No, that’s the list of approved topics and positions, to be recited with the certainty of one who has their thinking done for them. Our congresscritter has not had a thought of his own in the entirety of his political career.
We’ve seen Robin try to “meme”. Becky knows how to ape Robin’s style of speech while deploying effective social media usage. Most politicians aren’t AOC or Mike Gravel, you know. Robin’s not an idiot about this particular thing.
yeah, there’s nothing stupid about acknowledging your weaknesses, and getting help from someone who’s better at it than you are
I love Becky. <3 I'm not sure how much she'd possibly enforce such a promise from Robin but I'm glad she thought of it.
Robin, suck an egg. Or, if you choose not to hire Becky, enjoy your career as a tv talk show host.
Honestly, I kinda thing she WOULD enjoy that once she got used to it.
Actually, I don’t think I’ve seen Robin actually lie or break a promise yet. Yeah, she is self-interested and has crappy policies, but she does seem to be pretty honest. This might be a moral point with her, though I might lean more toward her just being naive (she really does act like a child) and keeps her word because she never actually considers the idea that she could just break her promise.
I never said Robin for sure would betray Becky (though if it got her more votes – and it likely would with the GOP, I could see it. I don’t trust this Robin). I said if Robin WERE to betray Robin, I’m not sure what Becky could actually do about it. Which is why it’s a very good thing Robin’s so incompetent.
Robin has shown that she’s personally fairly reliable, in her own garbage way. She’s just awful with her politics because she separates the consequences of her votes from herself.
It’s her ability to do that that worries me.
Robin whomps in this universe.
Tuition and a representative voting record, right? Leslie will probably be okay with Becky sticking around for a little while. I like where this is going!
Pretty sure Leslie would be thrilled with Becky if she can get Robin to vote better.
An excellent point – I hadn’t considered the value to Leslie of a Robin Voting Promise. That might be better than rent.
In theory, it’s the best two to pick.
In practice, Robin can’t be trusted. So only the “place to live” item has any sure value. Of the other two, “don’t betray us” is the more likely to get tossed aside, so Becky should go with the home and tuition.
That sort of realpolitik got us where we are today. Do you like where we are today?
Actually, the realpolitik that got us where we are today was all about abuse of the powerless and catering to the lowest common denominator, rather than mistrust of those who have earned mistrust.
Drawing on the moral of the The Scorpion and the Frog, it would be very nice if the frog could trust the scorpion. But only a very foolish frog would, given the scorpion’s nature.
How does Becky expect Robin to pull off being a RINO in Indiana of all places? Even if the magic R can save her this time around, her record from this past term is set in stone, liberals won’t trust her this time around, and she’ll almost certainly get primaried when the next election cycle comes around.
Though two years is as good as forever to the DoA timeline…
I don’t think Becky cares – as she said, campaign managers get paid whether the candidate wins or not.
If Becky expects Robin to lose, she has no reason to pick her third stipulation for working on the campaign.
There is a small chance that Robin will win or even if she does not win this election how Becky chooses now might will effect whose side she is on going forward when she recovers and still has influence.
But lets look at it from another angle, right now Becky is getting a place to live from Leslie. She is also dependent on Leslie for food and basic hygeane supplies, and Becky is dependent on her friends for luxuries like cloaths, phones and going out. Right now the cash value of there good graces which choosing to sell out good people would risk might be greater than a couple months of housing. And feeling like a bum is not a good feeling but neither is knowingly working to make the world worse.
Just because Robin can lose, and Becky should still be paid if she does, doesn’t make planning for the ‘but what if she wins’ option a bad idea.
She can’t have the place to live because it will cut out the incredible awkwardness of Robin coming to Leslie’s house to work with Becky.
Fucking chills. Becky is so fucking awesome.
This is how Robin finds out Becky is living at Leslie’s, though, and I never thought I’d see their (Robin and Leslie) paths cross again. God, Willis is so fucking good.
I’m amazed Robin is keeping her composure.
If she loses her shit, she probably won’t get that Kooky Bread.
Priorities.
It’s true. So long as his minions show they are loyal, Galasso has their backs.
Robin *met* Becky as someone living at Leslie’s place.
Oh, right. Part of me thinks that Robin doesn’t remember that detail, but another part of me thinks that’s just covering for not remembering. I had forgotten how Becky even got access to Robin’s Twitter.
That is a really friggen great story move and I love it.
If she sticks to her guns, enrollment and honest campaigning. Honestly, though, the three demands are reasonable. I’d say, “Hell no. I already cut out half of what I really want in an effort to give you a discount. All three. I’ll still be the cheapest campaign manager around.”
If I were Becky, I’d say ‘Okay then, have fun interviewing for cable tv talk show positions, bye.’
But Becky’s generally nicer than me.
Hmm.. I think she will choose school + tuition and Robin’s voting record. If she chose living situation, that would be ridiculous at this point. You could couch surf till next semester easy.
Panel 1 Becky still looks like she is wearing a space helmet.
Even with only 2 out of 3, it’s amazing that Robin’s willing to give so much away for what is only, what, about 3-4 weeks of work from Becky before the election?
Also: really wondering now what Jake Manley’s platform is like. Is he a liberal or just a “moderate” “Democrat”?
If he is anything like walkyverse Jake?
“I’m DeSanto but without boobs”
Those 3-4 weeks are crunch time, though, especially if the race is a dead heat.
Robin can’t make too much of an about-face; remember when she pointed out that what will appeal to the liberal university crowd won’t necessary play further downstate in redneckland. Anybody think that if Robin gets re-elected, all deals — especially the one about “walking the walk” — are probably off the table?
If re-elected, Robin will have to toe the party line, at least the majority of the time, or it will be the *PARTY* that throws *HER* under the bus. And what would Becky be able to do about it then? Sure she could go public, but I predict the masses would believe a seated congresscritter before they’d believe some 18- or 19-year-old kid.
The party already DID throw her under the bus.
It rescinded its endorsement of her after the whole ‘stayed overnight with Leslie’ thing.
If Robin can only win by campaigning on Becky’s social and economic platform, then that’s likely to continue to hold true after the election. The party’s already thrown her under the bus. The whole premise here is the about face is supposedly the only thing that can save her political career.
I’m not sure I actually buy that. It doesn’t match my understanding of politics. It may be that Robin’s just delusional about her chances.
Maybe if her opponent is the kind of very conservative Republican-lite Democrat that often runs in red districts, then she could actually peel of votes to his left while the Republican base voters sit this one out?
Bravo Becky.
Becky’s going to need some congressional help to get admitted by next semester, seeing as it’s mid-October already.
If she were a transfer student, she’d still have time. But since Toedad withdrew her from Anderson, she’d be a first-time freshman applicant, and without some kind of deus ex machina, the odds are not in her favor.
Isn’t Toe Dad basically the deus ex machina himself though? The whole gun-on-campus and high speed chase that ended with him in the hospital and jail story must have made regional news- maybe even national.
It wasn’t like she just dropped out, she had legitimate fear for her life. I’m sure she can get some sort of override
Heh, that’s not QUITE how ToeDad thought God would act through him, but here we are.
Or how did the mouse boy put it? “All the good things we do are God workin’ through us”
I think it was implied that if they just went to the powers that be at IU they’d be able to get Becky in…or at least that Leslie was thinking along those lines. They haven’t, really, so it hasn’t been considered administratively.
The Walkertons do have an in with Dean McHenry…
Becky can play the sympathy card, too. Hell she could play a sympathy card full house. (Mother passed, father tried to abduct her at gunpoint, involuntarily withdrawn from college, homeless, next-to-no-wage job, just wants a better life for herself…)
Robin’s such a politician.
Holy God, Becky! Incredible girl! Look at her out here wrangling with politicians, driving hard bargains, pulling power moves on her social superiors…look at her face!
I love her.
Aaaaaaah, I see it now.
This whole stunt is a ploy to get Becky off Leslie’s sofa.
Crafty Robin.
I’m not sure I understand the part of the ploy where she tells Becky that the only way she’ll move off the sofa is either giving up her dream or being complicit in Robin being elected under false pretences, but it probably makes sense in Robin logic.
Well, of that particular fuck, marry, kill, she should absolutely jettison the housing, cause a full carry on the other two might as well be the equivalent of romancing a unicorn atop a fantasy island made of delicious poppyseed bagels.
Poppyseeds are only fit to go on bagels if they accompany the ‘everything’ variety. Shame on you for promoting those little bits of disappointment.
No fair making me laugh when I have liquid in my mouth.
Simple, just say 1 and 2 are interrelated and thus one thing.
I’m so incredibly in love with Panel 3 so much I want to gush about it. Like, the sheer push, the emotion, the way the theoretical camera pushes in from Panel 2, so she dominates the frame?
It’s such a beautiful composition, especially building on Panel 2, her face set and determined, her eyes almost seeming to bore through, as if ready to inflict a moral damage on their perceiver.
It is the queer rage of the betrayed. Those who have trusted and been broken. Who have seen the promises of the love of community and family disappear in an instance when their reality threatens the ideology. Those who have seen the pain before and will not be subjected to it again and as we see in Panels 4-6, Robin is caught almost completely unaware and unprepared for it.
Like, sure, she got a small taste of the filtered, controlled, and watered-down version from Leslie. The version with the benefit of years of recovery, which can be sanitized for a presuming straight audience, which seeks to edify and invite.
But Becky’s version is fresh, almost venomous, it is raw with fresh wounds and almost invites a different visual response. The response of seeing the blood still running from the harm caused and an unsettling impression carried by that rawness.
It’s a power derived from pain, very rarely harnessed so effectively and yet, she employs it, not out of any means of deception but out of pure honesty and raw emotion and that can cut through the usual dance people are used to. Especially bigots and you see how well it lands in those two panels of silence.
It’s a capturing of something real and powerful in a powerful artistic way and that’s just amazing enough to gush over. At least for my nerdy ass.
Becky is SO AWESOME. She may be too poor to have principles – but when push comes to shove she stands up for what is important. And she’s not forgetting to be paid what she’s due either.
Heeeeey Cerberus! Hadn’t seen you in a while!
(Then again I haven’t been too active in the comment section since a bug set my main browser’s comments to “waiting for moderation” permanently.)
How ya doin?
Welcome back! 😀
Absolutely – Becky is cutting no bullshit. And nor should she. Robin doesn’t deserve it and Becky doesn’t deserve to have her pain glossed over.
And welcome back! How are you doing?
I’d advise Becks to collect “insurance” of some sort during her career. Y’know, for when the Representative inevitably decides her savant of a PR manager is no longer useful to her. And when that happens, release that insurance as a lesson to every other opportunistic hack politician who tries to fuck her and hers over.
杀一儆百.
Welcome back! Really glad to see you here again! Hoping all is well.
Joining the throng wishing you well, and welcoming you and your wonderful analyses back!
Hi Cerberus! It’s always great to see you drop by! Hope everything’s okay with you!
Always wonderful to read your analyses! Hope you’re doing well!
Gol-dangit, Cerberus is back. Now I’ll have to start thinking about he comic again.
Is this a ploy for Robin to be able to visit Leslie on the pretense of working with Becky?
Because obviously 1 and 3.
Yes, I’m afraid it is.
Becky. Is. AWESOME.
The “B” in Becky stands for “badass.”
Could someone please explain the alt-text to me in Detoxing Alcoholic?
because I don’t know what that language is but I sure as balls don’t speak it right now
“Goofus and Gallant is an American children’s comic strip appearing monthly in Highlights for Children. The comic contrasts the actions of the titular characters, presenting Gallant’s actions as right and good and Goofus’s as wrong and bad.” (Wikipedia)
Regarding getting paid for your work, I think it means Mary is doing it wrong, Becky is doing it right. Be like Becky.
Hmm, I don’t know, though. I don’t see either as being very Goofus-like. Mary complained about not being paid and agreed to perform work that she personally enjoys for a low fee (a couple pretzels) because she doesn’t actually need money, and just doesn’t want to be taken advantage of. Becky is being offered a position that she has more of a strong bargaining position for and has a much greater need for financial support, so is haggling. Both of these are pretty valid compensation strategies for their individual situations.
Oh, I think I got it. He’s not talking about the pretzels thing (unless he is?), he’s talking about the strip before that, where Mary reveals that she accepted exposure
I know who Goofus and Gallant are, it’s just kinda hard to think over the sound of how much I want a goddamn drink rn, sorry
Goofus and Gallant are characters in a kid’s magazine called Highlights. You can usually find it it doctor’s, dentist’s, etc. offices. Basically, it’s a comparison between Goofus (who always does the selfish or stupid thing) and Gallant (who is always polite and does the right thing).
So Becks won’t be in school until 2036?
Go for it, Becky. I’ve been led to believe that two out of three ain’t bad.
[Playing Meatloaf hacked Muzak.]
In MLB, one out of three (a .333 average) will probably win you a batting title. TWO out of three and they’d rename the Hall of Fame after you.
Yeah, Robin’s having budget issues alright!
I’m a cynic and I can tell you right now that Robin will betray Becky because why wouldn’t she. Robin gets elected and flips the whole thing on her and loses nothing.
I think you forget how long the election cycle is, we won’t get that far before the heat death of the universe =p
So… Becky… You are going to make damned sure you have this in writing, multiple copies signed, witnessed and notarized, before actually acting on it, right? The clause about her voting record going forward will be absolutely unenforceable in any legal sense (and may even be enough to get her removed from office should she actually win) but forcing her to pull the strings to get you into school or getting an equivalent monetary compensation (plus yer legal fees for pursuing it) if she fails to bother trying should be.
At the same time, there would be a fair argument for the fact that she is employing Becky to post these specific messages and could be seen as lying in her campaign to get elected. More than most politicians do, at any rate. It’s one thing to make promises that you can’t keep or exaggerating what you intend to accomplish, it’s quire another to say that you support a more liberal agenda while always voting on the conservative side.
Place to live, if she drops one. Becky has her eye on the future.
Daaaaaaaaaaaaang, Becky REALLY knows how to bargain.
I’d skip the place to live (since it’s only until enrollment), even if that means a long time living with Leslie (forever in real life), it’s only like 3 months.
If I HAD to choose.
In actuality I think she should argue more.
I’ve got to respect Becky for this. That’s a true power move she’s making.
I like DeSanto’s response. It shows that she can provide Becky with a place to stay and trust with her voting policies, but to do so she would have to not take any money from corporate lobbyists and financial backing from the private sector. She could be corrupt and pay for Becky’s school and a lot of whatever else including board , or she can become an ally and likely have a place for Becky to stay but not enough money to send her to school (college be expensive yo!).
Get whatever deal you work out in writing.
And obviously, this deal evaporates if De Santo doesn’t get reelected. Which means they both have reasons to want this and assures a reasonable amount of loyalty. Plus Becky seems to genuinely believe in some political ideals.
So, uh, yeah, rah rah go Becky, but let’s look at the “Pick One To Abandon” conundrum:
She picks College to give up? That’s the dream she’s wanted, and it’d disappoint Dina.
She picks a place to live to give up? She’d continue to impose on Leslie.
She lets Robin screw over LGBTQ? She’d be hurting Dina, Leslie and herself.
No matter which she chooses, someone that she cares about isn’t going to like it.
…I’d say pick “a place to live” and “no fucking over LBGTQ” as the thing to keep, btw. College is EXPENSIVE and not a guarantee of a successful career, and this might be Becky’s wheelhouse.
But SCIENCE.
I think the problem of 3# is the fact Robin is the least likely to be trusted with 3#.
Screw a guaranteed successful career. There’s nothing to guarantee anyone on this planet is going to have that, no matter how thorough their education is. Learn what you want to learn and screw anyone who tries to stop you.
Pretty sure Leslie is willing to let Becky stay as long as she needs to. If she weren’t, she wouldn’t have offered.
A place to live seems the least important pressing issue. Leslie doesn’t seem to mind Becky continuing to stay with her and if Becky does get hired and paid a decent salary, she could get a place to live herself instead of getting Robin to set up some housing situation for her.
Leslie welcomed Becky into her home for as long as she needed. I highly doubt she’d be upset if Becky stayed for a lot longer than the two months left in the semester
Apologies if this is in the alt-text, which I can’t see on my tablet, but I need to point out that Robin is totally doing the UK version of flipping the bird (flicking a V) in the final panel. I don’t think either of them realise this, but still.
We had a homeless student hanging out in our building fall semester. I don’t think the administrators knew, and I sure AF wasn’t going to tell them. He was active in a student group that focused on homelessness issues.
Wow. Becky’s *good*.
So, I have to get this off my chest.
I’m pretty much dead-set on emigrating from the United States as soon as I can, now. I’m at a point where I don’t feel like I can catch up on the things I haven’t accomplished by now, and it’s mostly because of my environment. Everyone who knows me just sees my past behavior and lack of accomplishments, and the only reputation I seem to be able to get around here is That Goofy Slacker Guy, which isn’t what I want for myself.
I can’t keep being the guy who used to have temper issues when he was a kid because everyone kept telling him how “bright” he was just because he was autistic, so now he’s crumbled under the weight of those expectations and just reverted to being the sorta weird but harmless funny guy in every friend group. It’s just another set of expectations I have to live up to, and I can’t see a way out if I live anywhere my past can find me by just driving a few hours.
The only way I can see all of that that changing is for me to move as far away from everyone who knows me as possible, even if it means I might not see people I love again for a very long time, if at all. I’ve got a lot of existential angst, lately (thank you Twitter), and I can’t stop thinking that when the planet is on fire and I’m dying alone in radioactive mud, my last thoughts will be that I’d never given myself an opportunity to really prove I could be something, even if I’m the only one I’m proving anything to.
New Zealand is looking like a decent choice, if I can find work there in a relatively affordable place and establish a career of some sort. I’ve always been interested in filmmaking, and some of my favorite TV has been produced there. I’m sure it’ll have its own set of weird, arbitrary problems, but if I can get there, I’ll learn to adapt. It won’t be the same problems for all the same reasons, with all the same people constantly hammering in the consequences of me not succeeding immediately, and that’s all the change I really need.
Sorry for dumping this (and my other meltdowns) on all of you folks. It’s probably disjointed and might not make much sense, but I had to at least type it out, y’know?
Hey Taffy! Whatever you decide to do, I hope it works out for you.
Also, stop hogging that radioactive mud – if the planet’s on fire we’re ALL dying, and I hear radioactive mud REALLY opens those corpse pores.
No, my mud. I need it to give me cool visions when my last few neurons are firing off my dying dream.
I left the UK four years ago (for moderately similar reasons) for a country where I couldn’t speak a word of the language, doing a job (teaching English) which I knew fine I was unsuited for, and have no regrets what so ever. Go for it!
Honestly, teaching English someplace where I don’t understand the language also sounds good. I still wouldn’t fit in, but it would be because I’m the Foreign Guy, instead of all these things I’ve had no say in. You’ve given me another option to consider, so thank you.
*offers hugs*
Good luck, for wherever you choose to go and in whatever you choose to do.
Good luck, and I hope it all works out!
Thanks. It will, too, because I’m gonna force it to.
Good luck! 🙂
I don’t believe in luck, because mine is terrible. I’m grateful for the sentiment, though.
Hell yeah. I’ve been living in India for the past 2 years myself and regret nothing. Never plan to leave.
I mean, that one’s fair counter, considering the cost of tuition and housing.
Forgo asking for housing. Becky can continue to stay over at Leslie’s place and absorb her wisdom in everything.
Well everything except romance – Leslie’s been messy in that area.
Fangirling for becky so hard right now
1 and 3, Becky. Sleeping on Leslie’s couch for a few months is well worth Tuition and a congress person.
To be fair she’ll be able to afford her own apartment with one or two months worth of paychecks.
On an American waitress’ salary?!?
I’m sorry, but the last panel will have to go to rewrite – there you are
Uh….
Going to college + Tuition.. Doesn’t that effectively cover a dorm? Or at the worst she could get the housing loan for living on campus.. No?
So. Uni and voting record.
She said until then. She can’t enroll right away.
No, Becky, no! Not just tuition, but fees, books and meal plan. Also, you forgot to mention a salary with benefits – don’t forget to get paid!
Exactly! And don’t let Robin negotiate you down!
And not just tuition for one year, like she’s making it sound – tuition for her entire degree. D:
You have friends Becky. And you’ll have an office, which I presume will have a couch somewhere. A place of your own can wait.
God Robin is so scummy. I hope the next strip Becky tells her to kick rocks.
#3: Should have asked for a pony. You can’t realistically expect a politician to give up that much flexibility.
You mean everyone isn’t already getting a free pony after the next election?
If she has to give up one of those it should be the house one tbh she has temporary places to stay until enrollment ideally she should get all 3 but robin is unfortunately like that
But then again my angst senses say shell sacrifice the “no betrayal” one and get sad abt it
I love the complete lack of self-preservation instinct it takes to say to a potential employer that she’ll legit just stay homeless rather than help her get elected just to stay evil. Like oof been there kid and I love you.