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[–] classic@fedia.io 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait. So they're not some right wing pundit?

[–] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it's funny.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The character "Kelly" isn't explicitly right wing, instead he's supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than "Pro-choice" or "Pro-life" Kelly is "Pro-abortion", because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization... because police dramas wouldn't have anything write about.

Oddly, Kelly's "wrong as possible" stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.

[–] GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

My favorites are the ones where he’s dedicating a whole comic to some petty personal grievance, like a grocery store being out of a product he had a coupon for.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you. I was always confused why it was on the onion. I figured there was some weird contract or something lol.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it makes sense. The Onion is a parody, so the political cartoons would be double-parody.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It does make sense. The artist is too good though, apparently I've been eating onions for a long time.

[–] classic@fedia.io 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're really good, consistently.

I'm not sure if there's a better archive, but you can find a few more here:

https://theonion.com/the-handmaids-pigtail/

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you thinking of Ben Garrison? They're parodying his style.

[–] classic@fedia.io 12 points 1 year ago

I believe I am. I guess I ate the onion