badness
Original: badness on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark hair and round glasses, wearing a red blazer over a yellow top, stands at a podium with one finger raised, addressing an audience.
Woman: "Things are bad in this country, and the first derivative of badness with respect to time is also positive. But, there is good news - with your help, the *second derivative* of badness can be turned negative!"
Caption (below panel): There will never be a mathematician president.
Votey:
Text (handwritten): "CAMPAIGN SLOGAN: IT'S DOUBLE PRIME TIME!"
A woman with dark hair and round glasses, wearing a red blazer over a yellow top, stands at a podium with one finger raised, addressing an audience.
Woman: "Things are bad in this country, and the first derivative of badness with respect to time is also positive. But, there is good news - with your help, the *second derivative* of badness can be turned negative!"
Caption (below panel): There will never be a mathematician president.
Votey:
Text (handwritten): "CAMPAIGN SLOGAN: IT'S DOUBLE PRIME TIME!"
Alt text
A woman with dark hair and round glasses in a red blazer stands at a podium, one finger raised like a campaigning politician. She says: "Things are bad in this country, and the first derivative of badness with respect to time is also positive. But, there is good news - with your help, the second derivative of badness can be turned negative!" In other words, things are bad and getting worse, but her platform is to slow the rate at which they're getting worse. A caption below reads: "There will never be a mathematician president." Votey: handwritten text reads "CAMPAIGN SLOGAN: IT'S DOUBLE PRIME TIME!" - a calculus pun, since the second derivative is written with a double-prime notation.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.