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May 19, 2026

George Santos

by David M Willis on October 1, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: robin

Discussion (141) ¬

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  1. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    October 1, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    oooooooooooooh here we GO
    she just HAD to bring up George Santos
    the crook wasn’t even fuckin gay
    shouldn’t believe anythin his lying ass ever had to say

    what Robin speak of is how gays get erased from history
    how the establishment be silencing you and me
    if there anythin clear from what’s bein’ spoken
    is that the system is fuckin broken

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      October 1, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

      If I had a Death Note, I’d write “George Santos” in it, just to see if that’s actually his real name.

    • Blume
      Blume
      October 1, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

      Why have you been rapping recently? What Inspired this change?

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        October 1, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

        If ya wondering why we started the rhyming talk, you can thank the G.I. Joe Roadblock!

        • EtchJetty
          EtchJetty
          October 1, 2024 at 1:03 am | #

          Roadblock is like… the Lil’ Cal of Dumbing of Age.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            October 1, 2024 at 3:10 am | #

            You put some respect on Lil Cal’s name.

          • Kaz
            Kaz
            October 2, 2024 at 5:09 am | #

            Why am I seeing more and more Homestuck references lately why is it coming back?

        • Laura
          Laura
          October 1, 2024 at 1:13 am | #

          OK, maybe I could try some too,
          after listening to all of you:

          It’s important to rhyme
          when you’re talkin’ ’bout slime.
          Up the ladders they climb,
          fill their pockets with crime.

          It’s important to rap
          when you’re dealing with crap
          like the hatemongers’ trap
          of the poor sucker sap

          who gets hooked by the grift
          thinking crypto will lift
          him out from the night shift.
          Without anchor, adrift,

          he just follows the herd:
          believes all he has heard.
          Buys the latest absurd
          trifle from the gold turd.

          When the cheaters will cheat,
          always speak to the beat!
          Let your voice rise to greet,
          as you vote with your feet!

          We can march, we can give.
          We can sing, we can live.
          We can trust one another,
          and learn to recover

          from lies and division
          that heap scorn and derision.
          Never once lose your vision.
          Keep ahold of your mission.

          ‘Cause we’re rockin’ and rolling,
          Walking and strolling,
          to the ballot drop box
          that will open the locks

          that have bound us too long.
          For together, we’re strong.
          Take my hand, come along.
          Let us sing our new song.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            October 1, 2024 at 1:22 am | #

            WOW Laura where do I even start?
            this feel like a wonderful message from the heart!
            you poured out a marvelous flood of bars
            from spirit so high like they can touch the stars!

            im impressed, and a little less depressed
            thus I thank you Laura, this is the best! ^^

            • Laura
              Laura
              October 1, 2024 at 1:32 am | #

              Aww, thank you, friend. That makes me glad to hear.

        • PedanticJerkass
          PedanticJerkass
          October 1, 2024 at 3:25 am | #

          But now that he’s been revealed, Roadblock is omnipresent. You can’t ever be sure that Roadblock isn’t watching, so you’ve trapped yourselves into having to rhyme forever, now. Even if you think he’s been hidden away, he’s still watching.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 1, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

      Did you get possessed by roadblock these last few days? I could try to get you an exorcist.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        October 1, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

        HA! an exorcist ain’t what i need
        hardly holds a candle to rappin and takin weed

        i been doin these rhyming sessions
        to aid my depression
        and i don’t even mean the kind
        that make ya go “brotha can ya spare a dime”

        • Laura
          Laura
          October 1, 2024 at 12:47 am | #

          Artistic outlets do help with depression. Playing piano and singing blues and sad jazz always makes me feel better.

          It’s important to do what heals ya.

          • Laura
            Laura
            October 1, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

            I haven’t rapped in a while but I could try a haiku:

            Robin’s Taylor’s stan:
            “But it doesn’t mean I’m gay!”
            Future lesson plan.

            • NGPZ
              NGPZ
              October 1, 2024 at 1:06 am | #

              awe that haiku is cute ^^
              and the point ya made really astute
              haikus usually don’t need to rhyme
              but i really glad it did this time 🙂

              • Laura
                Laura
                October 1, 2024 at 1:14 am | #

                Thanks, fam fam.

                • NGPZ
                  NGPZ
                  October 1, 2024 at 1:27 am | #

                  ✊🏽

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      October 1, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

      I don’t know what he is, but I’m guessing he’s some flavor of queer.
      Which doesn’t really matter, but just like some other politicians seems to be the only thing we’re being constantly told about.

      I sincerely don’t even know if he was half-way decent at the job.

      I assume not from the outrageous number of lies he kept telling, but still.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        October 1, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

        he was a cross-dresser, that fuckin it
        and of course the shithead was a hypocrite

        • Mars
          Mars
          October 1, 2024 at 12:49 am | #

          nah dudes pretty openly gay. The most recent news story about him is involving him shitting on an ex-boyfriend more than a year after said ex-boyfriend talked to cnn about him.
          Him having been married to a woman is true but it seems like it was only for immigration reasons or a way for him to make money which falls neatly in line with everything else about him.

          • Decidedly Orthogonal
            Decidedly Orthogonal
            October 1, 2024 at 9:16 am | #

            > him shitting on an ex-boyfriend

            Figuratively, right…?

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              October 1, 2024 at 1:51 pm | #

              That hasn’t been established yet. Not going to kinkshame but that’s not very hygienic. Make sure to shower and wash thoroughly.

        • Devin
          Devin
          October 1, 2024 at 3:49 pm | #

          He was a hypocrite in many ways, but you’re pretty much never gonna get me on board with saying someone who presents themselves as queer actually isn’t. It’s not like being queer automatically comes with being progressive or a good person, and I refuse to make validation of queerness contingent on acceptable behavior in any sector.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            October 1, 2024 at 7:52 pm | #

            like this ain’t just ANYONE presentin’ as queer, which i can’t refute
            but like, this fucker lies when he don’t even HAVE TO

            “queer” don’t mean “good person”, that very true
            nor good politics mean good folk, wat ya gonna do?

            Santos lost the right to good faith with all his crooked crap
            truth itself become suspicious when it come outta his trap

            • Devin
              Devin
              October 2, 2024 at 12:08 pm | #

              Yeah no, I’m not gonna agree with gatekeeping queerness, I don’t care who it is.

              • NGPZ
                NGPZ
                October 2, 2024 at 12:55 pm | #

                i ain’t gonna deny Santos’ queer solely on presentation
                but like this guy ain’t above impersonation
                he literally pretended to be a Jew
                and joked about Hitler, fuckin EW
                all for the sake of pullin’ strings
                stealin from charity and nasty conspirings
                within the party of “Freedom”, God and Guns”,
                he done all kinds of shit that left us stunned
                he’s queer but still someone we should rightfully shun
                in any case the dude is fucking DONE D:<

    • Furie
      Furie
      October 1, 2024 at 6:25 am | #

      Whether he’s gay or not don’t matter
      So long as he sprinkles it in his patter.
      Gotta lay down lies to own the libs
      While the other guys dribble into old man bibs.
      But why we talking ’bout that old kink son,
      When Robin brought up the lovely and hilarious Ms Tomlinson?

    • Byron Orpheus
      Byron Orpheus
      October 1, 2024 at 12:51 pm | #

      Wait, George Santos wasn’t gay? He lied about everything, but why that? I can see the logic in lying about being gay if one was running as a Democrat, but as a Republican? That makes no sense.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        October 1, 2024 at 2:11 pm | #

        No, he’s gay, plenty of reason to believe that. He did marry a woman, but likely to help her with immigration (and make some money for himself). He has been in multiple relationships with men both before and since.

  2. Nono
    Nono
    October 1, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Weirdly enough this strip almost makes Robin seem like a halfway competent teacher.

    She’s even stopped dressing up in gimmicks like the tweed jacket and glasses and spinny tie.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 1, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

      Honestly, she’s not bad. She’s a clown, but what we’ve seen from her is relatively trenchant and she’s definitely experienced.

      • DashWallkick
        DashWallkick
        October 1, 2024 at 7:34 am | #

        She’s honestly a decent teacher, in an interger overflow kind of way. She is teaching American politics as someone who is flagrantly corrupt, incredibly incompetent, and somehow miraculously thrived because she knows how to present to people in ways they want to see.

        So she’s been teaching the class along those lines. “You shouldn’t believe anything I say or do because I’m a total fraud — all that matters is that I fill what people need and know how to play by the rules.” Sounds like a politician to me!

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      October 1, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

      I think she’s running low on the chaotic energy and honeymoon period of teaching and realizing this is actually a job. Like in the boring way.

    • Dday
      Dday
      October 1, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

      Noooo bring back the outfit and the Masterpiece Theater music and the bubble piiiipe. She’s not Robinning anymore!

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 1, 2024 at 1:09 am | #

      Robin isn’t sticking to the dryer, academic side of her class. She’s constantly filling in with commentary from real-world experience. Many class subjects benefit greatly from that input. Hopefully she’s sticking to the facts and not embellishing.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        October 1, 2024 at 5:35 am | #

        Yeah, I guess.

        The problem is … the real-world experience is how you get ahead in an effed-up system. And not even “you’ve got to be in power to change things”, because she doesn’t seem to get why someone who’s in power would want to change things.

        Like, “If yer gay in politics, I’d recommend … not” is … not great? Even if it’s true, it’s not great?

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        October 1, 2024 at 7:07 am | #

        Maybe she is, but we haven’t actually seen any of the dryer, academic side. We’ve just seen the cynical personal experience commentary. It’s hard to say if she’s actually teaching any of the material.

        Even today, she’s not talking about “in politics” like she says, but in the Republican party. Being gay to “own the libs” wouldn’t really work as a Democrat. There are openly gay Democratic politicians and have been for years. It’s still a political drawback in most places, sure, but maybe the real lesson is if you’re gay and want to go into politics, don’t go with the party that relies on “peeps who think yer a hellbound slut”.

    • Vulcanodon
      Vulcanodon
      October 1, 2024 at 1:47 pm | #

      Given how browser environments remember your stuff, you do have to be careful what you project in class. For instance, Chrome remembers my tabs, but I have to close them before connecting to the instruction console.

      I don’t want a discussion of manufacturing and design to get derailed by comic art or political stuff (or the intersection of those)

  3. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    October 1, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    That’s chalk but for a sec I was thinking “Robin smokes?”

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      October 1, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      Robin’s smokin’. Not quite the same thing.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        October 1, 2024 at 3:10 pm | #

        Robin runs so fast, her feet smoke.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      October 1, 2024 at 7:51 am | #

      Of course Robin smokes.

      It’s just usually a bubble pipe

  4. Shaith86
    Shaith86
    October 1, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Taylor Tomlinson? Robin has good taste.

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      October 1, 2024 at 1:28 am | #

      Yesh. This proves that Robin isn’t as awful as some people think. Taylor is awesome-sauce.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        October 1, 2024 at 5:40 am | #

        Wasn’t Walkyverse Robin a celebrity stalker at one point? I’m not sure being attracted to awesome people is, in itself, a sign of non-awfulness.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          October 1, 2024 at 12:16 pm | #

          She still was a celebrity stalker here. As she said in the past she showed dirty drawing in front of a celebrity guy she liked house (I don’t remember which one but she also got the wrong one)

    • fridge_logic
      fridge_logic
      October 1, 2024 at 3:22 am | #

      This is news? Robin’s bisexual summoner was Lesli, top. tier.

  5. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    October 1, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Funny George Santos’s doodle.

    • Zero
      Zero
      October 1, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

      Impressed with Robin’s chalk-drawing skills.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        October 1, 2024 at 7:50 am | #

        In-universe is it also a cartoon, or did she just lowkey draw a photorealistic portrait because it’s in the same style as the comic itself?

        • Amós Batista
          Amós Batista
          October 1, 2024 at 3:05 pm | #

          It’s Willis, allowing his own comic to mock Santos.

    • Dday
      Dday
      October 1, 2024 at 1:33 am | #

      I love how he’s already got a whole chapter in the textbook somehow.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 1, 2024 at 4:13 am | #

      Bold bet about how long he’s going to be a relevant public figure

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        October 1, 2024 at 6:24 pm | #

        Not for very long until he gets outta prison…

  6. Pocky
    Pocky
    October 1, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    something something jaguars something something faces

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 1, 2024 at 12:52 am | #

      I WAS SO SURPRISED WHEN THEY STARTED EATING MY FACE! WHO COULD EVER HAVE SEEN THIS COMING???

  7. Newlland(Henryvolt)
    Newlland(Henryvolt)
    October 1, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    *Taylor Tomlinson*

    Damn, can’t really blame a girl for being gay for all of that.

  8. Travis
    Travis
    October 1, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    Taylor Tomlinson makes me feel things. Willis picks his characters’ celebrity crushes wish great taste.

  9. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    October 1, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    Oh cool- she’s given up on the “professor” outfit and has moved onto wearing pink hoodies. Good for her!

  10. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    October 1, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

    Grindr users reported a lot of outages during the RNC in Milwaukee.

  11. Derek
    Derek
    October 1, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

    this strip is one step away from being fully incomprehensible to me since I have no idea who either of those people are

    • Laura
      Laura
      October 1, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

      George Santos: erstwhile “politician” and chronic fraud

      Taylor Tomlinson: Comedienne

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        October 1, 2024 at 2:13 am | #

        “chronic fraud” is the understatement of the year
        his debauchery was a whole new kinda severe
        constantly stealin from innocent folk like me and you
        Santos even lied about being a Jew,
        I myself am black Mizrahi
        so this shit real offensive to me
        and so many other brothaz hurt by his schemes
        played politics like his joy stick
        frankly his shit makes me sick
        like so many other fuckers in the ruling class
        someone needs to come along and really whoop his ass D:<

        • Laura
          Laura
          October 1, 2024 at 5:51 am | #

          You ever read the writings of Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg? She writes a bunch about Sephardim, Mizrahim, and racism. I love her work. Radical feminist antiracist queer-affirming history.

          • Hof1991
            Hof1991
            October 1, 2024 at 9:25 am | #

            She’s a great follow on blue sky. And her book on repentance and repair is excellent. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59883978-on-repentance-and-repair

            • Laura
              Laura
              October 1, 2024 at 10:37 am | #

              I just ordered it! Thanks for the suggestion!

              I keep up a daily correspondence with a dear old friend who’s serving life in prison, and we often discuss Rabbi Danya’s writings together. I’m trying to figure out how to get him a copy of the book, but the prison is fussy about receiving books at all. *Sigh.*

              • EmCaCo
                EmCaCo
                October 3, 2024 at 1:27 am | #

                Given lack of electronic devices, are audiobooks or ebooks right out too? It probably ought to be evident to me that a prison fussy about books wouldn’t be one that has offers tablets or mp3 players, but I wouldn’t put it past them to implement a system that lets them charge more money for devices or subscriptions.

      • DashWallkick
        DashWallkick
        October 1, 2024 at 7:37 am | #

        The parties rarely ever expel people so long as they show up to vote, and you *know* Santos was a colossal problem for them because even with a slim majority and a Democratic president the GOP voted to get rid of him.

        Look up the “what do you do with your family at christmas” video because it’s shockingly funny and openly corrupt.

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      October 1, 2024 at 4:12 am | #

      …how did you, or anyone with access to media including teh intarwebz, escape all knowledge of the alleged George Santos!?! Spend the rest of the day in Google.

      • Dean
        Dean
        October 1, 2024 at 5:21 am | #

        Alternatively, don’t. A comprehensive knowledge of George Santos will not enrich your life.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          October 1, 2024 at 6:27 pm | #

          This is a true statement, but it will help you understand a lot of jokes.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 1, 2024 at 7:45 am | #

      You don’t know Congressman, 2021 Emmy award winner, and World War 1 flying ace George Santos?

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        October 1, 2024 at 6:28 pm | #

        +1

    • Tan
      Tan
      October 1, 2024 at 10:38 am | #

      Lotta talk about the far less worthwhile of the two.

      Taylor Tomlinson is a really cute and really funny bisexual comedian who has 3 Netflix specials and also hosts After Midnight (a CBS reboot of Comedy Central’s @midnight, a late-night comedy panel game show). You can find her on instagram, youtube, and the like. You can also find a tier list of her After Midnight outfits on the After Midnight reddit (outdated by now, but still)

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 1, 2024 at 12:17 pm | #

      I mean, you could had google them, their names are right there.

  12. Serendipity
    Serendipity
    October 1, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

    I hate the kind of person she represents.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      October 1, 2024 at 12:17 pm | #

      Looney Toons?

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        October 1, 2024 at 6:31 pm | #

        Bugs and Daffy were doing a bit (several bits actually over the decades). It’s Yakko, Wakko, and Dot who had mental problems.

        • Marillius
          Marillius
          October 1, 2024 at 8:39 pm | #

          Well yeah. They’re Warner Brothers. They’re billionaires and sociopaths.

  13. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    October 1, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

    Between this and Oscar Isaac, Robin at least has pretty decent taste in crushes, I get it.

  14. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 1, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

    Sure, Robin, we believe you.

  15. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    October 1, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

    *checks the comic timestamp* – Yep it posted @fter midnight.

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      October 1, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

      I see what you did there. I’m Cholma, and I approve this message.

  16. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    October 1, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

    Does Robin not understand Democrats exist?

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      October 1, 2024 at 1:05 am | #

      There’s a lot Robin doesn’t understand.

      • staszu13
        staszu13
        October 1, 2024 at 8:07 am | #

        Oh crap someone beat me to it 😔

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      October 1, 2024 at 1:12 am | #

      To be honest, I’m not sure she’s a conservative. Might be RINO, just there because it is (was) her constituency and that stuff was expected of her. Her thoughts seem fully reality-based and not at all ideology-based. (totally possible i’m misremembering and/or misreading her)

      • Regina phalange
        Regina phalange
        October 1, 2024 at 1:27 am | #

        I agree with you. Robin seems to be an opportunist more than anything else. She doesn’t seem to legitimately stand for any GOP “values,” but will take money from the NRA etc. when they come knocking. So, like, a classic mid-level Republican politician.

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        October 1, 2024 at 2:14 am | #

        “What’s a Buttigeg?”

        • eh, whatever
          eh, whatever
          October 1, 2024 at 4:13 am | #

          Buttigieg 🙂

        • Pergola
          Pergola
          October 1, 2024 at 8:47 am | #

          “What’s a Henway?”

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            October 1, 2024 at 6:34 pm | #

            “About three pounds.”

            Badum, tiss.

            • Clif
              Clif
              October 2, 2024 at 10:31 pm | #

              Is that an African or European hen?

              • elebenty
                elebenty
                October 3, 2024 at 3:54 pm | #

                Third base!

    • yak
      yak
      October 1, 2024 at 1:49 am | #

      The game isn’t all that different for democrats. They don’t get hated as much for being gay, but they’re not allowed to “look” or “act” gay like George Santos does.

    • Newlland(Henryvolt)
      Newlland(Henryvolt)
      October 1, 2024 at 2:18 am | #

      Democrats who are way to proud about being Democrats aren’t as accepting and tolerate as they pretend to be.

      Some aren’t even progressive leftist, some are just ritch assholes like Michael Bloomberg who switch parties from across the Ile just to primary someone who you actually would trust.

    • Skater Girl
      Skater Girl
      October 1, 2024 at 2:45 am | #

      Homophobia is not limited to Republicans, unfortunately.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        October 1, 2024 at 7:56 am | #

        Not limited and it’s still going to be harder to get elected while openly gay in most places, even as a Democrat, but doing it in “a way that owns the libs” certainly won’t help you.

    • Juanoku
      Juanoku
      October 1, 2024 at 7:30 am | #

      I don’t think she even knows what political side she’s on honestly

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        October 1, 2024 at 7:58 am | #

        Maybe not, but her perspective still seems to be entirely Republican. She’s talking right here about being gay to “own the libs” or otherwise hiding it, rather than any of the other openly gay, overwhelmingly Democratic politicians.

  17. Plaaaaaa
    Plaaaaaa
    October 1, 2024 at 1:14 am | #

    Trump almost made Santos his running mate until the poll numbers suggested he might lose Ohio.

  18. Dday
    Dday
    October 1, 2024 at 1:32 am | #

    Just because I regret making this does not mean I’m sorry.
    SFW but implications
    https://i.imgur.com/oGt1W9b.png

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 1, 2024 at 1:36 am | #

      now I REALLY need another joint to light
      cuz aawwweee COME ON MAN, that ain’t right X-X

      • Dday
        Dday
        October 1, 2024 at 11:55 am | #

        Correct

    • Newlland(Henryvolt)
      Newlland(Henryvolt)
      October 1, 2024 at 2:24 am | #

      Envelope pushing humor is a bit risky but fuck it.

      Good on you for getting a shameful laugh out of me.

      • Dday
        Dday
        October 1, 2024 at 11:55 am | #

        We are a depraved cabal.

    • Chris Phoenix
      Chris Phoenix
      October 1, 2024 at 2:41 am | #

      But did he get a nickel?

      • Dday
        Dday
        October 1, 2024 at 11:56 am | #

        In this scenario, it’s more like he *was* the nickel.

  19. Sabrina Pandora
    Sabrina Pandora
    October 1, 2024 at 1:42 am | #

    I mean, Taylor Tomlinson is REALLY cute.

  20. Veronica
    Veronica
    October 1, 2024 at 2:09 am | #

    Me, a non-American: Yes, I definitely know who both of those people are and completely understand all the jokes going on here.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      October 1, 2024 at 2:38 am | #

      I know not everyone checks back on comments from the previous strip, so just going to say here that I was distinguishing between driving and taking a bus. If something is a 30 minute drive– especially from a residence in a different city as a starting point– I would not expect it to be close to a 30 minute bus ride.

    • JBento
      JBento
      October 1, 2024 at 5:12 am | #

      Go check out Tomlinson on YouTube and watch her Netlfix specials, she’s hilarious.

    • Kammon
      Kammon
      October 2, 2024 at 9:50 am | #

      Agreed. We need more comprehensible references such as former batty Prime Ministers of short office term and the Brassicas to which they were laughably compared.

  21. Taffy
    Taffy
    October 1, 2024 at 3:14 am | #

    Is it weird that Robin is the only character I would cannibalise? Not even out of malice or innuendo, she just looks like food.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      October 1, 2024 at 3:16 am | #

      come to think of it,
      her hoodie DOES look like bacon a bit :p

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      October 1, 2024 at 7:59 am | #

      It’s the mustard that’s usually on her elbows.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        October 1, 2024 at 5:53 pm | #

        mmmm… mustard
        I mean that ain’t a bad smell on her XD

    • Dday
      Dday
      October 1, 2024 at 11:57 am | #

      Smells like Skittles, taste the rainbow 🌈

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        October 1, 2024 at 6:47 pm | #

        Skittles the unofficial candy of the HRC.

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      October 1, 2024 at 10:17 pm | #

      Come to think of it, I *am* feeling a bit peckish.

  22. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    October 1, 2024 at 4:10 am | #

    And be careful not to get caught escaping naked from a gay orgy like a Certain super-conservative Hungarian politician.

    • Laura
      Laura
      October 1, 2024 at 4:44 am | #

      Hmm?

      • Da Boy
        Da Boy
        October 1, 2024 at 4:58 am | #

        So a couple years back a gay orgy was taking place in Belgium and neighbours called police with a noise complaint. Now this was the height of Covid and an orgy is not exactly something that would be compliant with Covid Regulations so cops took it seriously and caught a Hungarian Euro Parliament member, one József Szájer, known for his conservative and anti-gay beliefs, escaping through the window and down a drain pipe. It did not do his career any favors and he was forced to resign from the Euro Parliament XD

        • Laura
          Laura
          October 1, 2024 at 5:00 am | #

          WOW! I did NOT know that!

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          October 1, 2024 at 5:52 am | #

          It’s always the ones you most suspect.

          • misanthropope
            misanthropope
            October 1, 2024 at 4:06 pm | #

            every denouncement
            is an announcement

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              October 1, 2024 at 4:09 pm | #

              Projecting in IMAX.

              • Opus the Poet
                Opus the Poet
                October 1, 2024 at 6:48 pm | #

                I LOLed @ “Projecting in IMAX.”

  23. JBento
    JBento
    October 1, 2024 at 5:12 am | #

    Ok, but Taylor Tomlinson is hilarious.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      October 1, 2024 at 1:01 pm | #

      Is she? I’m pretty sure I’ve seen at least one of her comedy specials, but I don’t remember which one.

  24. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    October 1, 2024 at 5:51 am | #

    Is first panel Robin thisclose to saying a conservative gay is “one of the good ones”?

    • Raptor
      Raptor
      October 1, 2024 at 7:29 am | #

      No. Like, not at all. There’s nothing in that panel to suggest that, in the slightest.

  25. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    October 1, 2024 at 7:22 am | #

    Robin DeSanto (R-Closet)

  26. Suet
    Suet
    October 1, 2024 at 9:07 am | #

    It’s coz Taylor Tomlinson wasn’t the talk of the town quite yet.

    Unless, wait…

  27. thumb
    thumb
    October 1, 2024 at 9:46 am | #

    Willis making sure the references age up to being just timely by the end of the chapter.

  28. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    October 1, 2024 at 6:16 pm | #

    Akchually, Santos problem wasn’t that he was gay, it was that he was gay and a Republican, and lied about being gay. For the rest of us it was all the other lies about his mother, his resume, and his finances. His finances was what got him tossed out of Congress.

  29. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    October 1, 2024 at 7:40 pm | #

    People can learn a lot from Robin’s classes.

    The subject matter? Not really, no.

  30. Aura
    Aura
    October 1, 2024 at 9:34 pm | #

    Ooooh Taylor Tomlinson, nice taste Robin!

  31. Heavensrun
    Heavensrun
    October 1, 2024 at 11:52 pm | #

    Weirdly, I’m not even sure that excuse is an excuse. This is Robin, they *might* be for a future lesson plan.

  32. Mancuso
    Mancuso
    October 4, 2024 at 1:37 pm | #

    I mean I’m a straight guy and I’m hella gay for Taylor.

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