Billy knows it's THAT time of the year again! (And it's probably not what you think!)

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This douchebag is STILL president. Come on, 2019!!

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Barbie still wants her answers and finally, she gets one!

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Yep, that's what I'm saying--because people couldn't deal with reality, we dreamed up religions. Like gods. We can face reality together and together we'll can deal with it. Or, we can look for ways to unite together and make the world better for all of us instead of tricking each other to make it MUCH better for just some of us. I'm lookin' at you 1%ers!!

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Yes, this comic is about #Republicans. Well, the punchilne is.

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The latest episode in "That Entitled Woman Adventures"! Is this the final episode? Tune in next week to find out!

In the meantime, the punchline refers to Republicans or anyone who wants it "their way." The universe does not give a shit about your way. So, treat everyone with respect and politeness and maybe they will help you get it done your way. I don't care if sometimes raising a big stink gets you to "your way" faster. Do you want to shit on people to get "your way"? Just be nice whether it gets you what you want or not.

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Barbie begins to recognize how unfair life is to her.

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Can you tell I've worked in retail? This person is horrible.  I mean, not "Hitler" horrible, but compared to where she should be?  Chill out, lady!

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Billy and Barbie explore the United State of Futility

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I'm often the canary in the coal mine shaft, so this week's Ballpoint may not resonate with you. That said, I've been noticing more and more truly pointless arguments from all kinds of people on all sides of politics and non-politics. Even arguments that seem important often aren't because we've been tricked into distraction. There are times when I listen to people complain and I just don't understand what they are looking for. Like the expectations they've formed in their minds don't match anything fair to this reality. I feel like many of us are swirling down the drain of futility in this country and on this planet.

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Good old @realDonaldTrump gets the treatment he deserves (and it's a laugh!)

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Just once I wish we could see this happen in a press conference. I mean, the UN was great, but the    press really needs to stop treating this guy like a real leader.

In other news:
RIP Stan Lee. He literally taught me how powerful people should behave.

With great power comes great responsibility.

That was the lesson he taught readers in Spider-Man comics. Now, if only the idiots in Washington DC could learn the same lesson.

When you don't know who to lash out at, do what Billy and Barbie do!

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What a mess. Who should we hate the most? The catalyst. Especially the catalyst who knows he is a catalyst. President Baking Soda knows vinegar is just waiting out there for a purpose.  Yep, Baking Soda has a Twitter account.

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Billy and Barbie are sad about Khashoggi, but for more than you think.

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This strip was hard to do because there was so much more I want to say about this. This comic started out as an ultra-violent reaction to the things I saw that were wrong in the world. I thought violence would be a fun/funny way to react to things that you would not normally react to violence with. Then the world met my violence and surpassed it.

 Dude. Khushoggi was apparently dismembered while still alive. As the comic says, we've been heading in this direction for a long time, which is why I have let the violence fall away from the comic over the past few years. Violence should not be the answer to everything that we, as a species use it for. Anger is the easiest of emotions to give into when challenged. But just because it's easy doesn't mean we should just roll with it. We are better than this. 

We just need to remember who we are as a species. We are humans and we are capable of untold horror but we're also capable of untold beauty.

Let's try to focus on that more, huh?

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Billy and Barbie are about to tell YOU why the media LOVES/HATES @realDonaldTrump

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I know I've covered this before but seriously! The only glimmer of hope is that Fox News has stopped live coverage of Trump's Nazi-style rallies due to low ratings. Hopefully this will continue, but I know better than to hope too much.

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Liars, Liars, Everywhere--so many, Billy and Barbie have plenty to spare :(

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It's the trifecta! No, not that the Republicans control all three branches of government--it's that they've compromised all three branches of government by putting known, demonstrable liars in prominent positions making the US government pretty much entirely untrustworthy. Before now, we couldn't trust them, but now it's just out in the open. This is what many of us have been seeing coming but we just get ignored because no one wants to believe the worst could ever happen again. Well, folks, if it happened before, it can happen again. And it is. Right here in America. Good luck to We, The People. I know we can survive, but it won't be without us trying.

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What's so unreasonable about #Kavanaugh, anyway? Oh we know...

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I really really really hope the Republicans in the Senate have at least enough decency to not confirm a guy who has literally embarrassed himself in front of the world.

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Billy knows EXACTLY what #Kavanaugh should have said to make this all go away!

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Does Kav not remember what Arnold did when he was running for California governor and got accused of groping several women? HE APOLOGIZED, copped to it, said he was wrong for doing it and everyone forgave him... aaaand went on to do plenty more of it, but hey, sometimes denying it outright is a pretty good indicator of guilt.  Like that time your friends were going to out your first middle school crush and all you could think to do was scream "IT'S NOT TRUE!!!"

It's like that, only with sexual assault guilt.  You can trust my opinion, I'm an untrained amateur psychologist.

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Oh, crap, Barbie's not sure how to deal with ANOTHER white dude getting accused of #SexualAssault...

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Yeah, it's pretty fricken obvious Kav is the wrong guy for the job but then, we knew that the minute TRUMP picked him.

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Billy and Barbie know the main takeaway from last week. Well, the main 2 takeaways, really!

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Will MUELLER... PLEASE... SPILL THE BEANS!!!

Oh, man, I am so tired of this...

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The Most Disturbing Thing of All Re: @POTUS

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Here's hoping that the MainStream Media catch on to this little fact and STOP SAYING HIS NAME every five seconds. Or even better, they might STOP REPORTING ON EVERY DUMB-ASS THING HE SAYS. It's not ALL news, you morons! Who's the bigger moron? The moron or the morons who think everything he says is news?

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Billy tells Barbie: No, That's Not the Sky Falling...

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I want to believe the letters of Trump's name will keep falling!! The catch is, I'm just too cynical!  This asshole has been getting away with all kinds of horrible things for decades.  I hope this will end soon.  This guy really needs to go to jail for the stuff he's done.  I just hope all the details come out.

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Every Wonder Why Some People Insist on Speakerphone Calls in Public? Billy finds out why!

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Sadly, very few people are ever honest enough, or self-aware enough to admit when they are being idiots.

Some of us, CAN admit it. Like me, for ever thinking humanity could ever be even generally this honest or self-aware. I'm an idiot to hope for it. I'll hope anyway though! My cynicism be damned!

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THIS JUST IN from the ALL TRUMP NEWS NETWORK! What You Need to Know!

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Just the other night I saw Andrea Mitchell, a TV news reporter with decades of experience covering politics basically say that as long as Trump is president and Trump tweets, the news media will report on it--like it's the only reality possible.

Billy has news from the All #Trump News Network!

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Now, I don't agree with Trump and his whole "Fake News" thing, but, at this point, about 80% of news about Trump is fake.  There's no point in reporting the same BS coming out of his mouth every time he opens it but every day, that's what the American MSM does.  Let's be honest, the press also lets him get away with lying through his teeth every day.  Real journalists would call him on every last lie--to his face.  Hell, they don't even call him on it NOT to his face.  Lies are being told endlessly and very rarely are they referred to in news reports AS lies.  We've devolved into some sort of parody of America.  The government is run by amoral, cowardly, conservative corruptionists and spineless, meek, pretend liberals.  Meanwhile, the milquetoast media is too scared to confront the damn truth.

It's FUN watching America rot from the inside in real time! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Billy Ballpoint is VERY worried about the #BlueWave but Barbie sets him straight! (Please visit the site)

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America was stupid once (well, MORE than once)... what if it's stupid again? It's going to be hard, but we need to educate our friends and family (even many of the liberal ones) to understand that reality is the most important thing. Hard facts need to be prioritized over all else. None of this "I define this word as XYZ" crap or "that's not what I saw in the video/photos" BS.

Look in the dictionary. Look at video footage. Look at photos. If you can't prove something with evidence you are inaccurate or possibly even lying. If we don't ALL agree that facts are paramount, then we have not just lost our country but the right to be taken seriously by any country or any person.

Seriously: this isn't about whose narrative wins. It's about whether we survive as anything but a literal country version of Trump. A sycophantic bubble baby who literally denies any part of reality he doesn't like and FAR too many of us do the same.  The more we ignore science and logic and reality, the more we become Trumpmerica. Please. Let's stop this together!

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Barbie Ballpoint Can Teach You the Secret to Eternal Happiness! (Kinda!)

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I thought about what to draw this week and had this idea Barbie forgetting to watch the news for a week and realizing how good she felt. Then I realized turning the whole thing upside-down would make it much more funny. Was I right?

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Billy and Barbie Know Why Comparing Presidents is a Dumb-Ass Game...

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Obviously, George H.W. Bush was not the worst president America has seen. However, calling George HW "honorable" to anyone who remembers the dark side of his service to America is offensive. I mean, dude ran the CIA, FFS. How honorable can a guy who ran the CIA even be?  I suppose it depends on your definition of the word "honorable."

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Barbie Fights for Human Rights with an AX

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Soooo tired of the binary landscape we live in. Granted, Barbie's not dealing with it in the best way, but her way sure feels good, doesn't it?

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Billy, Barbie, and Baxter call @realDonaldTrump on one of his many #lies

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I think we should all use Starburst candy as a sign of resistance against Trump. He was such a jackass to use them in some weird passive aggressive way against Angela Merkel at the G7. We need to remind him of how powerless and weak he felt at that moment, all he could do was throw candy at another world leader. Good plan, PUNK.

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Billy's butt and #Trump have something in common!

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Seriously--Trump would claim ANY investigation exonerates him of colluding with Russia--even one examining Billy's butt.

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Billy remembers a time when another president was messing up in the White House

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This is how full of shit the Republicans are. A single adulterous affair in the White House is the worst thing that could happen, according to the GOP. Of course, two failed wars, Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, and now everything with Trump, are all MUCH worse than Bill and his intern, but you wouldn't know that from the GOP speaking out about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Billy and Baxter Have Discovered a New Stench (smells like #TRUMP)

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What more is there to say than: this comic is now absolutely a documentary. :(

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You'll never guess what #Trump Tweeted! OK, Maybe You Will...

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Seriously... there are no more adults in Washington, DC. An adult would stop Trump.

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Billy Brings Home Reality...

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With the Trump Administration doing so much amoral, illegal, and horrible things and not immediately getting in trouble for them, it's hard to think that any facts matter any more.

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Baxter the cat understands the #Trump #Russia story in a way no one else does!

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OK, OK! I admit it, I copy-and-pasted the ball drawing. It takes an artist more skilled than I to nail an identical ball four times in a row!

Anyway, this is how I feel watching the news for a big announcement from the Mueller Team.

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Now THIS is how to deal! (According to Billy, Barbie, & Baxter Ballpoint!)

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I actually thought about listening to the news from NPR this morning but decided I was just absolutely sick of hearing Trump's voice.  This is worse than it was under George W. or his pop.

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Baxter the Cat is DONE with #Trump news!! Are you with her?

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Wow, this is so autobiographical, it's not even funny.  Well, hopefully it's a little funny.

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So, #MissionAccomplished? Barbie knows the truth!!

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Definitely venting through my characters this week, folks!

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Billy realizes Trump actually blamed Putin for something--kinda...


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This Trump shit is getting pretty old.  Shame the Republicans are so spineless and don't seem to care about the logical fiber of this country fraying at the edges.

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Billy, Barbie, Baxter realize that America needs a FICTIONAL #Trump!

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The saddest thing about Trump is that this is absolutely true about him. He was raised to completely overlook the good in anyone. Probably, even himself. His utter lack of shit-giving for anyone else on the planet informs every choice he makes. Goodness, love, compassion, informs nothing. He is one sad jackass.

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Barbie and Baxter discover what @realDonaldTrump is REALLY saying...

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Wouldn't it be nice if Siri could actually do this? Of course, all the TRUMPets (rhymes with "puppets") would just yell "FAKE AI!" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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It's #Trump who wants #PoliceState #schools. Baxter knows why!

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Slowly but surely since 9/11 at least and probably since the FISA courts were established, we've been losing little bits of our inalienable rights.

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Barbie, Billy and Baxter the #Cat "celebrate" #PresidentsDay!

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Seriously, I really don't want to live ANOTHER Presidents Day with this amazing asshole as president.

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Billy, Barbie, and Baxter all know what #Trump's #America is at this point.

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We have nearly spineless Democrats and amoral Republicans have all the power but refuse to use it for the forces of good. MAGA actually means "Make America Gross and Amoral".

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What does the #NunesMemo tell YOU?

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I mean, seriously. Truth is dead at this point, right?

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Billy is shocked that #Trump hasn't been impeached!

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Of course, Billy knew it. This is the most predictable storyline since the second half of Star Trek Discovery's first season! We might as well live it--the entire Republican Party has escaped to our planet from the Mirror Universe!  Meanwhile, the Dems have escaped from the Milquetoast Universe. :/

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Wow--Barbie and Baxter are shocked at who has returned!

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Yeah, this is not where I'd hope we'd be after one year in to the Trump Era. I'm not surprised he's not been impeached yet, just disappointed...

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