Founding Father Jokez
Added 2020-11-09 22:58:14 +0000 UTCKate Beaton, eat your heart out.
This is based off a real conversation I had with my friend Spencer, demongrified like myself in the comic above. He suggested that 'The Quaker Oats Guy" was one of the founding fathers, and I filled in the rest.
Little details-- Alexander Hamilton is of course making that notorious "Lin-Manuel Miranda lip bite" and QAnon is represented by the Street Fighter 3 character Q, who also happens to be an anonymous agent with mysterious ties to a prominent presidential figure (G from SFV)
I briefly thought about also including Ronald McDonald in the mix-- unquestionably a more ubiquitous American figure than John Adams or Sam Adams or whoever, and a more accurate distillation of the spirit of America than anything Thomas Jefferson ever wrote about Federalism or "A free man's day of work" or whatever. Still, as funny as that is it breaks a little with the aesthetics of the image-- a mix of colonial era lookalikes and assumptions, mixed in with the sort of conspiratorial illuminati stuff that pairs with it like wine to cheese. Also, a second joke about Ben Franklin-- one of the few people remembered universally among the founding fathers. Not because of anything he said about America, of course, but because he was a funny looking little horndog freak who made inventions. A similar thing happened to Taft and Teddy Roosevelt, and will almost certainly happen to Trump, assuming we suspend our disbelief and imagine an existent America hundreds of years from now. His policies? Dunno, same as everyone else in that era I suppose. But man, get a look at that HAIR!
