Sweet Summertime Prankster

@prankster36

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Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jul 4

My dog, doing a sploot on the deck chair

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 29

Wait a minute.
I'm not ascribing to any belief system until I read it
or somebody gives me the gist of it.

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 25

Elmo with closed captioning saying "No one loves you, and no one loves you, and no one loves you and Tim USA, and everybody who's playing"

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 24

Smithers pointing at Malibu Stacey and yelling, “but she’s got a new hat”

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 23

You're right. We must all worship the one true god

Illustration of the Moses-era Hebrews worshipping the Golden Calf

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 22

Cris Cris Did you know they gave him his own little podium

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 18

Name a TV show you’re sure no one remembers but you Delta State. Bizarre, experimental animated series, based on a comic, about a bunch of…psychics, or something? It required a lot of work just to follow the plot, it started as if it was on S4 of a petty dense storyline

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 15

That Bob's Burger's scene with a woman yelling "No. It's a lie. A lie is not a twist."

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 9

Sub-Mariner: Do not TOOT it!
Dr Doom: Fool! Doctor Droom toots as he PLEASES!

(He toots)

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 9

Artists, QRP with your style range!

A punk rock blonde lady with a retro-SF aesthetic hiding behind a gigantic mushroom-like plant from some hostile-looking tentacle aliens

A senior citizen superhero with flaming blue hair and a polka-dot costume, holding a small bonbon, against a blazing Kirby-esque background

A gelatinous cube in a Hanna Barbera style, with a little cap.

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 5

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 4

My favorite, of course:

"Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying." A nerdy scientist wanders the streets in a Sci-Fi helmet. All around him are dogs, yelling, "HEY! HEY! HEY! HEEEEEEEEY!"

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 4

YOU GUESSED IT, they're going with "the source of the problems is actually that we haven't doubled down on the source of the problems"

Many of the problems that animate Gen-Z socialists, like high rents, are the result of markets that are insufficiently free, not excessively so.

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 4

Yeah dude it has, it never convinces anyone in the long term, and then you switch over to hitting people in the face with batons to keep them in line

Populists have the wind in their sails; it can sometimes seem as though market liberalism is doomed to political failure. The Economist disagrees. A robust defence of the ideas that have brought unprecedented riches has barely been tried.

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 4

LOL this is their proposed strategy, good call guys, this will definitely work

Resisting Gen-Z socialism is therefore an urgent task. The first step is for free-market liberals to stop apologising. A series of popular criticisms of capitalism, each containing a grain of truth, has in aggregate obscured the fundamental wisdom that private enterprise is at the root of human prosperity. Yes, people aren’t always rational, as behavioural economics shows. True, inequality matters and growth is better when broad-based. Free trade and globalisation create losers as well as winners. But this is the best time in human history to be born, given record real incomes, high life expectancy and low rates of extreme poverty. A punchier defence of capitalism would work better in the social-media age than hand-wringing by uncharismatic centrists like Sir Keir Starmer.

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 4

CITATION EXTREMELY NEEDED

The profit margins of big supermarket chains, demonised by Gen-Z socialists, are already wafer-thin after years of ruthless competition—a miracle of modern capitalism.

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 4

I mean, where to even start with this:

“This country is awash in wealth,” says Avi Lewis, freshly elected leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada, a country where productivity has been all but flat for a decade. “We can have nice things.” Saying that prices should be capped to keep your bills down while someone else pays for your public services is a seductive, shareable message.

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· Jun 1

The illustration looks like Richard Jenkins

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· May 28

I SUMMONED HIM

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· May 28

Mayor Quimby telling the Hollywood guys "Uh, there's a $1,000 leaving-town tax"

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· May 26

In addition to Dash Platypus, you can now read every issue of NIGHTBEACH for a one-off purchase on my Patreon! Lifeguards vs. the paranormal for a measly $3 American! Hard-hitting, life-guarding action! Art by Dan Butler. www.patreon.com/collection/2...

Three badass lifeguards, a tall muscular blonde, a dude with a kind of a mullet and shades, and an Asian woman with a purple bandanna, all holding their badges out to the viewer. The man is saying "NIGHTBEACH. That's right, Nightbeach. The last line of defense against the STRANGENESS that haunts the night at Enigma Beach. We're Lifeguards. We guard LIVES." Art by Dan Butler.

Sweet Summertime Prankster@prankster36· May 25

This is an early attempt at a cover image for Dash Platypus. I like the concept but I don't think it came out really well. Expect to see a better version of this soonish! (The statue came out well at least. Hmmm, who could that be...?)