PANEL 1 Two people are walking along a cliff's edge and chatting. The first is wearing jeans and an orange t-shirt; the second is wearing black pants, a white polo shirt, and a VR headset that completely covers his eyes. Tshirt looks irritated, Polo is cheery. TSHIRT: How can you say the economy’s good? Everything’s awful! Oil prices, drug prices, yo-yo tariffs, the rampant corruption…! POLO: I don’t see any of that! PANEL 2 A closer shot of Polo shows that his VR goggles are covered with stickers for right-wing news outlets - NewsMax, Fox News, Truth Social, X, and others. TSHIRT: Of course you don’t see it — you’ve got your Fox goggles on. POLO: Hey, my goggles are the only thing that shows me the truth! Which is that— PANEL 3 Polo trips over a stone, falling directly into Tshirt. POLO: Whoops! PANEL 4 Tshirt and Polo fall off the cliff and are falling an enormous distance. POLO: We’re in a golden age! CHICKEN FAT WATCH "Chicken fat" is ancient cartooning slang for unimportant details in the art. PANEL 1: A notice posted on a tree says "WANTED: Actualization, Self-Esteem, Belonging, Safety, Psychological." Groucho Marx is lying on the grass in the background. A tiny bike-rider is riding down the other tree. PANEL 3: There's a cloud person fishing sitting on the upper-left cloud. There's a cool snake (cool because it's wearing sunglasses) wrapped around the tree trunk, and an evil bunny (evil because smoking a cig) at the base of the tree. PANEL 4: The middle cloud on the left side of the panel has a big face in it. (Rotate 90 degrees clockwise if you have trouble seeing it). THE T-SHIRT: Every instance of the T-Shirt shows a different character or thing shaped like a tube with a puff on top: Burt from Sesame Street, Beaker from The Muppet Show, Road Runner from Looney Tunes, and a carrot.B. Deutsch, patreon.com/barry

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PANEL 1

Two people are walking along a cliff’s edge and chatting. The first is wearing jeans and an orange t-shirt; the second is wearing black pants, a white polo shirt, and a VR headset that completely covers his eyes.

Tshirt looks irritated, Polo is cheery.

TSHIRT: How can you say the economy’s good? Everything’s awful! Oil prices, drug prices, yo-yo tariffs, the rampant corruption…!

POLO: I don’t see any of that!

PANEL 2

A closer shot of Polo shows that his VR goggles are covered with stickers for right-wing news outlets – NewsMax, Fox News, Truth Social, X, and others.

TSHIRT: Of course you don’t see it — you’ve got your Fox goggles on.

POLO: Hey, my goggles are the only thing that shows me the truth! Which is that—

PANEL 3

Polo trips over a stone, falling directly into Tshirt.

POLO: Whoops!

PANEL 4

Tshirt and Polo fall off the cliff and are falling an enormous distance.

POLO: We’re in a golden age!

CHICKEN FAT WATCH

“Chicken fat” is ancient cartooning slang for unimportant details in the art.

PANEL 1: A notice posted on a tree says “WANTED: Actualization, Self-Esteem, Belonging, Safety, Psychological.” Groucho Marx is lying on the grass in the background. A tiny bike-rider is riding down the other tree.

PANEL 3: There’s a cloud person fishing sitting on the upper-left cloud. There’s a cool snake (cool because it’s wearing sunglasses) wrapped around the tree trunk, and an evil bunny (evil because smoking a cig) at the base of the tree.

PANEL 4: The middle cloud on the left side of the panel has a big face in it. (Rotate 90 degrees clockwise if you have trouble seeing it).

THE T-SHIRT: Every instance of the T-Shirt shows a different character or thing shaped like a tube with a puff on top: Burt from Sesame Street, Beaker from The Muppet Show, Road Runner from Looney Tunes, and a carrot.

We’ll get straight to the point: The financial hardships that Daily Kos is facing this year are tough.

We continue to be paywall-free. We continue to be supported by our readers, not billionaires or corporations. But we need to bring in more revenue. We are leaning on our community more than ever to help make ends meet.

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