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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] NevermindNoMind 57 points 2 months 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 58 points 2 months 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 18 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months 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 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months 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/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That one's clearer in its satire

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I believe I am. I guess I ate the onion