Credit: JAMES YAMASAKI
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JAMES YAMASAKI

This is the most consequential fucking election—midterm or otherwise—in our fucking lifetimes, and anyone who doesn’t show up for it can go to fucking hell.

Yeah, yeah: The threat of eternal hellfire hasn’t kept a single dick, joint, or “fuck” out of our mouths. That’s why the Stranger Election Control Board (SECB) ordinarily prefers swear words and dick jokes to fire and brimstone but—Jesus Fucking Christ in a pussy hat—THIS IS NO ORDINARY TIME.

Roe and Obergefell are on the chopping block. Hundreds of kids are still separated from their families. Puerto Rico is still reeling. The Muslim travel ban is still in effect. Donald Fucking Trump is still pushing a transgender ban in the military. Nazis are still marching in the fucking streets. The Russians are still coming after our election infrastructure. And is it just us or are we about to bomb Iran? Is North Korea about to bomb us? We don’t know—and neither does the idiot in the Oval Office.

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