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Panel 1:
The Democrat Donkey and Republican Elephant are flowing in Bold Glory, next to an unstable Betsy Ross flag — stars and stripes everywhere.
Caption: "When we last left our political mascots, they were lost in an abstract dimension of pure patriotic nonsense."
Donkey: "Maybe this is infrastructure week."

Panel 2:
Elephant: "If this were infrastructure week, I would have figured out how to get out of it by now."
Donkey: "These red ribbons are a good sign!"

Panel 3:
Elephant: "A sign of what? We need to start finding answers!"
Donkey, holding novelty scissors to cut one of the red flag stripes: "And what better way to start anything than with a ribbon-cutting ceremony?"
Caption: "TO BE CONTINUED..."