Scandinavia and the World

It's worth noting that he was already behind in Florida (if you trust polls) and he's also a little bit behind Clinton in Ohio - and that, too, is before this scandal. It's quite plausible by now that a lot of Republican voters (especially women) will write-in Pence or just not vote for anyone for President, and - if they can be bothered - just vote Republican down the ticket. That is probably the best-case scenario, at this point, for many Republican candidates in swing districts/states.

Taxes, Healthcare and Culture.

Not entirely accurate but who cares? It's funny!

Icelandic Cookbook.

I like to think such a thing happened.

Mm. New update on how Scandinavian people see the latest Marvel movie.

http://satwcomic.com/doctor-strange

Brother Sweden is so sweet when he's flustered.

http://satwcomic.com/friendship-bracelet

New update. More than you ever wanted to know about the Øresund Bridge.

In other news, the coloring book is now available for pre-order.

Bonus pair of sketches posted to humon's Tumblr! (The perils of being both promiscuous and short.)

That bridge/tunnel is freaky and awesome.

And on that note.

And somewhere in a bar is modern Germany, drowning himself in beer. :/

I think I have to quit this comic now. Not because of Humon's politics or anything but....look at that "makeover"! It's gaudy! Gaudy beyond measure!

America's new look is quite unsettling, that's for sure.

Esp since the whole point of the election, I think, was to stop change.

Nah. It was to FORCE it. Clinton wouldn't have carried on Obama's legacy after the briefest of possible intervals to show willing, as it were. And Trump made it plain that everything he beheld in politics needed to die in a fire. Even if that led to people doing the same. Don't forget he basically told the lunatic fringe of the National Rifle Association to shoot Clinton deader than a doornail when he made that quip about the "Second Amendment" guys.

Bear in mind that when Trump supporters say they want change, they don't mean social progress. They actually mean that they want things to go back to the way they were. It's a very reactionary, backward looking form of change.

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That is a very condescending, insulting and intolerant conclusion you guys demonstrate.

Before this, the rural population were largely non-voters. The rest of America ignored (or derided) their existence and, in turn, rural America ignored them and sat in the ever growing squalor that were small towns. This was a squalor born when the one local business that kept a town afloat died. This was happening alot in the vast spaces outside of cities we city dwellers generally refer to as "the middle of nowhere".

Trump acknowledged their existence and their pain, and that is literally all he had to do.

Well, that and lie more than literally any other politician in the West post-WWII, and trust that his supporters just wouldn't be the sort of people who look up facts or read papers. (Not that Clinton was honest, compared even to the average politician - but compared to Trump she was more truthful than an encyclopedia.)

@Tom: I disagree, but if you think Im wrong, then show me, dont just tell me. I think white middle class America has been watching its economic prospects decline for a generation, and was willing to vote for anyone who promised to restore them.

I mean statistically well mostly rural voters, most of them made over 50,000$ who voted for Trump, I mean granted it is close like 45% for less, but this does not look like a revolt of the poor. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html

In that part you are correct in a ways. However rushing to the conclusion that somehow racism or otherwise wanting to reverse progress on everything is to blame or is their chosen answer is the problem.

In this election cycle the Democrat Party developed a reputation for siding with extremist environmentalists, crony capitalists (if it weren't, why did Hillary suck up so much to Goldman Sachs? Also Obamacare's insurance mandate was an insurance company's wet dream), and insular elitist blowhards shielded from real criticism by a complicit media and academia. (Whether that is 100% true or not is irrelevant. The image stuck.)

All Trump had to do was say anything other than that image. That we weren't a nation of "special snowflakes" needing safe spaces from dissent or other opinions, that we weren't a society of shouting down discriminatory SJW's who knew nothing about race or history.

I personally voted Trump as a means to an end. Kick the door in and break the power hold of insular snobs in DC. That and perhaps more importantly in my case, I wanted no part in continuing political dynasties. If magically somehow this had ended up a Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton election, I would have voted third party, as would have most everyone else. I did not want 4 of the most recent 5 Presidents being a Bush or a Clinton. If that meant electing a thin-skinned blowhard from New York, then so be it.

Personally, I don't expect Trump to be a good President, at best I expect him to be mediocre enough to avoid being labeled a failure by the history books but far from good enough to be re-elected.

That last part is important as I have aims to unseat him in 2020.

I was always kind of annoyed by how Trump's campaign was so often claimed to be a popular uprising by the poor, when from the very beginning most of the reports that actually looked into it at all found that Trump supporters were doing better than the national average. I was seeing those reports long before he won the Republican nomination, yet the story that he had the poor whites from rural areas as his base just wouldn't let up. Facts are simply irrelevant these days when someone has a narrative.

I saw some breakdowns of this in certain states as the election was being tallied. That a number of counties in Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere which voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 by wide margins, turned the other way in favor of Trump. These counties were Rust Belt type communities, industrial areas long since declined from their peaks in the 40s and 50s and now a place of lower employment, struggling economics and completely ignored by the Democrat Party this election cycle.

And that's why Brother America dyed his skin orange.

@Best Of for his supporters it lionizes him and for the Liberal Middle Class it's a good excuse for classism. Anyways Brother America (that makes him sound like a monk) is going to be looking very uncanny for a while.

edited 13th Nov '16 2:14:37 PM by phantom1