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The Decline
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A webcomic for processing American decline. Not affiliated with GYWO/David Rees. Also on IG: https://www.instagram.com/declinecomic
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The Few, The Proud #art #comicart #webcomic
Pane 1: Imagine being a servicemember marching in a dictator-style military parade. Pane 2: Or blowing up tiny civilian fishing boats with missiles. Pane 3: Or being deployed to fight "the enemy within" American cities. Pane 4: These servicemembers are gonna get the Vietnam Vet treatment.
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Something Nobody Wants for Something Nobody Needs #art #comicart #webcomic
Pane 1: How would you feel about more mercury and arsenic in America's waterways? Pane 2: This really is the Pro-Cancer Administration. Pane 3: What if it boosted coal production to power AI? Pane 4: We'll have content to watch during chemo!
September 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Your Local Police Probably Help the National Joint Terrorism Task Force #art #comicart #webcomic
Pane 1: Look—Trump’s executive order targets anti-fascist, anti-police, anti-American, and anti-capitalism activity as “domestic terrorism”. Pane 2: Haha—they better investigate this webcomic.
September 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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"Work" Until Your Bank Account Looks Like a Phone Number

#art #comicart #webcomic #ice #tomholman #grindculture #davidgoggins
Pane 1: You seeing this Tom Holman shit? Dude took a $50,000 bag of money to "secure future government contracts". Pane 2: Even before he was in office, my man was taking no days off—rising and grinding to invest in his dreams! Pane 3: Are you listening to that Greg Goggins bullshit? Shouldn't grind culture be against /literal bribes/? Pane 4: Hustle for respect! Never lean back!
September 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Literal Bag of Cash #art #comicart #webcomic #ice #tomholman
Pane 1: How the fuck does ICE Director Tom Homan legally take a $50,000 bag of money for "future government contracts"? Pane 2: Well, the Supreme Court thinks that kind of thing is just a gratuity, so no big deal. Pane 3: Or maybe Holman was just offering to lobby—since he wasn't in office yet. No big deal! Pane 4: Or maybe you're referring to the fact that there's no rule of law anymore.
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The Duality of Man #art #comicart #webcomic
Pane 1: Under Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree. Pane 2: If you are a university professor... you should not be celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death and if you are, maybe... your university should face a loss of funding.
September 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Chilling Effect #art #comicart #webcomic #jimmykimmel
Your free speech rights are more tenuous than you realize.
September 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Speak Truth of the Dead
“Listen, pal. Charlie Kirk was a massive piece of shit. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”
September 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Critical Condition
"lol"
September 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Keeping It Real #art #comicart #webcomic #charliekirk
Pane 1: Charlie Kirk Calls for an ‘Amazing Patriot’ to Bail Out Alleged Pelosi Attacker Pane 2: Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment Pane 3: Charlie Kirk Is Assassinated at Utah College / "Maybe he wanted it this way?"
September 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Weaponized Incompetence #art #comicart #webcomic
Pane 1: The government's cutting public service student loan forgiveness programs while offering loan repayment for new ICE agents and lawyers. Pane 2: So I could take the job, lose a bunch of cases on purpose, /and/ get my loans forgiven? Pane 3: Could be a viable career path for young lawyers being replaced by AI.
August 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Preventable Incel Status #art #comicart #webcomic
What do you look for in a dating profile? A guy concerned with big things. / Yeah, even if he's older! I'd settle for basic human decency. Jake, 27. Interests: Joe Rogan, Separating Mothers from Their Children
August 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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American Beliefs Border on Religion #art #comicart #webcomic
We can't afford these government programs. Someone's gotta pay for it all. And that someone's gonna be me. When I make my first billion.
August 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Do Floods Cure Measles?
Pane 1: [Chalk Board] Elections Have Consequences Pane 2: [Map of 2024 Electoral College Map] Pane 3: [Map of Hurricanes by State] Pane 4: [News Headlines About NWS/NOAA Shortages/Turmoil] Enjoy!
June 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Look, Kids! Santa Brought You Austerity! #art #comicart #webcomic #tariffs
Ruh-roh! Toymakers are canceling holiday orders and consulting bankruptcy lawyers because of tariffs. [NYTimes, 4/29/25] Whoa—an actual War on Christmas? Imagine all the kids without cheap, plastic shit that's destined for a landfill. Sad! Which is what Jesus would actually want. Just sayin’.
April 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Operation Enduring Freedom Is Back in the House! #art #comicart #webcomic
Pane 1: Whoa—we're red! Are we about to talk about the /Global War on Terror!?/ Pane 2: The FBI /just/ found a box of evidence about a Saudi intelligence agent, including a 1999 video of him scoping out the U.S. Capitol and a sketch of an airplane with an equation for hitting a target on the horizon. Dude was never charged and is living comfortably in Saudi Arabia. [CBS, 4/27/25] Pane 3: I'd bet my left eye the Bush Administration lost it under boxes of "intel" on Saddam's WMDs.
April 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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For the Homeland! #art #comicart #webcomic
Pane 1: Would you be more persuaded to have more kids if the government gave you the National Medal of Motherhood after you gave birth to six babies? [NYTimes, 4/21/25] Pane 2: The Soviet Union called and wants its idea back. No, seriously—they had a medal for birthing six children. [Oxford] Pane 3: But this would be an /American/ medal! Think of how awesome it would be! Pane 4: How many medals does Octomom get?
April 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The Government Has More Ideas for Women's Bodies #art #webcomic
Pane 1: Would you be more persuaded to have another kid for $5,000 /and/ government education about your menstrual cycle? [NYTimes, 4/21/25] Pane 2: My interest would be the same if they were only offering an Arby's gift card. Pane 3: Where is your FOMO? Trump says he'll be "The Fertilization President." [NYTimes, 4/21/25] Pane 4: My vagina just permanently sealed itself shut.
April 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The Men Have a Proposition for You, Ladies
Pane 1: The Trump Administration wants to boost birthrates. Would you have a kid if the government gave you $5,000? [NYTimes, 4/21/25] Pane 2: When the cost of childcare is 2-3 times that /annually/? [DOL, 11/19/24] When food and goods costs are about to go /to the fucking moon/ because the idiots have taken over? When these techno-baron shitbags are about to corner the /entire/ labor market with AI? Sign me the fuck up!
April 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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YOU DIED
Pane 1: I have an idea for a video game. It takes place in a world of splintering governments and territory being carving up into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens controlled by billionaires, protected by mercenaries, serviced by AI robots, and financed by crypto. Pane 2: Sounds sick. Can I get it on Switch 2? Pane 3: Did I say video game? Whoops—that's actually the future envisioned by Peter Thiel, Zuck, and the other techno-billionaires. [The Guardian, 4/13/25]
April 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Fox News Brainrot on Another Level
"We shipped jobs that gave men who work with their hands for a living and rely on brawn—and physicality—off to other countries to build up their middle class. And then we imported millions and millions of illegals!" [Fox News, 4/6/25] Holy shit. "When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman. Studies have shown this." [Jesse Watters, The Five, 4/7/25] Is anyone talking about the Crisis of Male Fragility in Fox's News Room?
April 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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New Lotto Just Dropped
[Britain] So then, what’s the best way for us to respond to these U.S. tariffs? Pane 2: [Italy] How do you respond to a tariff that makes no sense? The Americans, they ask-a this ChatGPT how to do the tariffs, it gives them some crazy formula—like spaghetti thrown at a wall—and boom, now that’s the tariff!* [The Verge, 4/3/25] Pane 3: [Netherlands] The Americans like this Powerball, yes? If we could have a Powerball machine to select a random reciprocal tariff, perhaps the Americans will understand.
April 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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First Time?
Pane 1: What do you think Gen-Z's Abu Ghraib will be? Pane 2: Rumeysa Ozturk getting /fucking disappeared/ by hooded ICE goons for expressing her opinion in a newspaper? Pane 3: Nah, it's gonna get way worse.
April 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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A Win-Win-Win
Florida has a solution to disappearing immigrant labor: hire high schoolers at $4.25/hour for 8-hour shifts on school nights, up to 30 hours per week! [CBS News 3/26/25; Nolo 3/3/23] Immigrant labor shortage fixed /and/ your family can afford eggs again! But isn't there a huge cost to these kids— Easy there, Upton Sinclair. We're making America great /again/.
April 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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New Joe Rogan Experience Advertiser Incoming
Remember the horse medicine all those bozos were injecting themselves with during COVID? It's back! But this time for cancer and autism. [NY Times 3/31/25] Ivermectin? I support it! I also support it going over-the-counter in Arkansas. Kentucky, West Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Texas might do it too! But... there's no proof it helps with anything besides parasites and can cause blurred vision, confusion, seizures, coma, or death... All I'm hearing from you is that a problem is working itself out.
March 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM