nudge
Original: nudge on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A red, bird-like dinosaur aide holding a folder addresses a green tyrannosaur president.
Aide: "Good news President Rex! The asteroid will miss us by over 300,000 miles."
Panel 2: The green tyrannosaur president, looking concerned.
President Rex: "But the emergency asteroid deflection program was going to put huge funding in a bunch of swing states!"
Panel 3: President Rex, leaning over a desk, in a scheming pose.
President Rex: "What if we keep this quiet and send out some spacecraft for a liiiiittle nudge. What's the worst that could happen?"
Panel 4: President Rex grinning.
President Rex: "Great idea, small cold-adapted mammal!"
Panel 5: A small, scruffy brown mammal stands on a checkered floor.
Mammal: "It's all upside, Mr. President!"
Votey:
A disheveled, primitive mammal speaks toward an unseen figure, a thought/speech bubble fading above.
Mammal: "Your kind shall be eliminated."
Aide: "Good news President Rex! The asteroid will miss us by over 300,000 miles."
Panel 2: The green tyrannosaur president, looking concerned.
President Rex: "But the emergency asteroid deflection program was going to put huge funding in a bunch of swing states!"
Panel 3: President Rex, leaning over a desk, in a scheming pose.
President Rex: "What if we keep this quiet and send out some spacecraft for a liiiiittle nudge. What's the worst that could happen?"
Panel 4: President Rex grinning.
President Rex: "Great idea, small cold-adapted mammal!"
Panel 5: A small, scruffy brown mammal stands on a checkered floor.
Mammal: "It's all upside, Mr. President!"
Votey:
A disheveled, primitive mammal speaks toward an unseen figure, a thought/speech bubble fading above.
Mammal: "Your kind shall be eliminated."
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. A red bird-like dinosaur aide tells a green tyrannosaur president, 'Good news President Rex! The asteroid will miss us by over 300,000 miles.' The president frowns: 'But the emergency asteroid deflection program was going to put huge funding in a bunch of swing states!' Leaning over his desk scheming, he says, 'What if we keep this quiet and send out some spacecraft for a liiiiittle nudge. What's the worst that could happen?' Grinning, he praises a small scruffy brown mammal standing nearby: 'Great idea, small cold-adapted mammal!' The mammal replies cheerfully, 'It's all upside, Mr. President!' The joke: a politician schemes to nudge a harmless asteroid into hitting the planet for funding, encouraged by the very mammal whose descendants will replace the dinosaurs after the extinction. Votey: a close-up of the scruffy mammal, now looking sinister, declaring to the dinosaur, 'Your kind shall be eliminated.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.