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1 week ago | yeehawtheboys.substack.com | Daniel Vernon

This cartoon is a homage to the famous World War II Poster that was created to boost female worker morale, and was later re-appropriated to promote feminism, especially women's rights in the workforce. I decided it was fitting to put Brooke van Velden in a dark dystopian version of this iconic poster, after she reversed New Zealand’s pay equity movement in one fell swoop.

2 weeks ago | yeehawtheboys.substack.com | Daniel Vernon

State of the unions and budget announcements are big events followed by the press and day-to-day punters alike, but today, I’m taking the time to do my annual State of the Substack, where I preview what's coming up for the year on here and what content I have planned—all in the hopes you’ll consider becoming a paid subscriber! Paid Subscribers get early, and in some cases exclusive, comics that may or may not make it onto social media, and may end up collected in a book at a later date, last...

2 weeks ago | yeehawtheboys.substack.com | Daniel Vernon

Last week, we got an all-around clear example of what Christopher Luxon spinlessly called “A Winston way of communicating”. Winston Peters sped-ran through his current modus operandi for staying in the limelight: Say/introduce something utterly offensive that serves no real purpose aside from dog whistling to cookers, throwing a minority group under the bus, and upsetting “woke lefty shills”. Directly contradict past things he has said/legislation party has passed.

1 month ago | yeehawtheboys.substack.com | Daniel Vernon

Yesterday, the University of Otago released the results of a study that revealed female Members of Parliament are being assaulted, threatened with rape, and subjected to death threats throughout their careers in parliament and even well after they leave their roles. Eleven MPs from across the political spectrum shared their experiences with researchers from the University’s Department of Psychological Medicine.

1 month ago | yeehawtheboys.substack.com | Daniel Vernon

Last night, I finished the final episode of The West Wing. If you aren’t familiar with it, it’s an Aaron Sorkin-created show that depicts the inner workings of the administration of a fictional U.S. president. It’s very full of hope and a bit of a liberal wet dream, but it is considered one of the greatest shows of all time, and I’m a bit of an American politics nerd, so I binged all seven seasons in the background while drawing.