Biting Bigly

Donald Trump isn’t just a hypocrite. He’s an amazing hypocrite. He contradicts himself in basically every sentence that escapes from his face hole.

He’ll call Hillary Clinton a liar while stating he’s leading in a poll in New Mexico. He’ll slam the Clinton Foundation for being corrupt while his Trump Foundation is buying him Tim Tebow’s autographed “I Love Jesus” jock strap. He’ll state how much he respects women then proceed to tell us his latest accuser is too fat for him to sexually assault.

Amazing! Couldn’t Republican primary voters and Vladimir Putin find a better candidate than this?

So while he’s telling his supporters how the election is rigged and massive voter fraud will be taking place, the only way to combat it is if they commit voter fraud. In Colorado he’s encouraging his supporters to do the mail-in ballot thing, and then go to the polls and vote. He claims that’s to double-check to make sure their vote is counted and their first vote will be voided, but Colorado doesn’t work that way. Another way Colorado doesn’t work is that Trump will win the state. He’s got about as much of a chance winning Colorado as he does winning that state with the word “Mexico” in it.

Widespread voter fraud is a myth. But occasionally an individual will try to manipulate the system. It happened in Iowa last week where the state is currently engaged in early voting. A woman went to one polling station and voted and then stopped by a satellite office and voted again. Turns out she’s a Trump supporter.

Maybe Trump is right and we should have poll watchers to make sure his supporters aren’t cheating. They’re deplorable, ya know.

Time for a rant about creating this cartoon:

This cartoon took me five hours to draw. Five hours. Usually they don’t take more than three. Why did this cartoon take five hours? One word answer: Microsoft.

For those not in the know, and not that it’s important to you, but I don’t draw on paper anymore. For the past six months I’ve been creating these things on a Surface Pro. It’s really cool though I’m still getting used to drawing on a smaller scale and on glass. I don’t plan to go back to paper, though I was really missing it this morning.

The pen used to draw on a Surface Pro has to be synced with the system and it takes a battery. An AAAA battery. That’s four A’s, which apparently very few places carry.

I started drawing around midnight and about 1:30 AM the pen decided to stop working. At first I thought the computer had frozen because it’s done that before. I rebooted the computer and the pen still wouldn’t work. Then I realized the computer wasn’t frozen as my finger would work on the touch screen. Well I can’t draw a cartoon with my finger. Seriously, Microsoft. The $60.00 pen has to be synced but it recognizes a finger? I’m gonna give Microsoft a finger.

I went to trouble shoot. I checked the battery life (It lets you do that) and it said it was at 72%. The button on the pen would still work but it wouldn’t draw. I went to Microsoft’s website and it said I needed a new battery. So, I took a ten-minute walk to Sheetz through a neighborhood where people occasionally engage in shootouts with police. Guess which battery Sheetz does not carry? I took another ten-minute walk home, cursing all the way, to see how much more trouble shooting I could do.

I get home and check the battery in the nose-hair trimmer. Dammit as that one is a triple-A battery. I attempt to continue with the trouble shooting and cursing and the Surface doesn’t want to turn on. Then it finally turns on and wants to run updates, which it likes to do every other day apparently, usually in the middle of a project. It runs the update very slowly. It’s at 17%. I go make coffee, use the restroom, throw in a load of laundry, watch half an episode of Family guy, eat some left-over Halloween candy. It’s at 19%. I do a little more cursing. Finally it reboots. Then my art program freezes. I reboot again. It freezes again. I reboot again. I curse some more. Finally, it worked….and so did the pen. I promise you, I have never opened a suspicious file or watched porn on this thing.

It’s a really good thing I was able to save the cartoon when I first experienced problems (I saved it with my finger) or I would have totally forgot what I was doing (I think it had a fish in it?). I finally completed the cartoon around 5:00 AM.

I love my Surface Pro. I love my Surface Pro. I love my Surface Pro. I love my Surface Pro. I love my….Grrrrrr.

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