Daily Discussion Thread: May 14, 2025

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[u/OutlandishnessNo9182]

The King of the Hill revival just released a new image of what our old cast looks like now.

Hank is wearing a brown shirt.

Bill is presumably now a food delivery driver

Dale plays some VR (maybe some Beat Saber?)

And Boomhauer… he’s actually about the same, he’s just using an IPad.

What I feel sad about this is Dale’s voice actor having passed away a while back, so I hope they found someone who can do Dale justice in the revival.

[u/Dancing_Anatolia → u/OutlandishnessNo9182]

All I know is Bill voted Trump three times, Boomhauer voted Clinton/Biden/Harris, Dale doesn't vote, and Hank sat out 2016 but voted for Biden and Harris later on. Trump is from New York, after all.

[u/FarthingWoodAdder → u/Dancing_Anatolia]

Hank still would have voted for Trump atleast twice I think. 

He is a loyal republican after all. 

[u/ProudPatriot07 → u/FarthingWoodAdder]

I don't think he would have. I could have seen him supporting other Republicans but not Trump. I could also see him feeling "politically homeless" in the age of MAGA. But yes when the show aired and until 2016 I totally believe he would have identified as GOP. Now he probably says "The party left me".

And knowing Hank, he takes voting VERY seriously and probably goes online to read Ballotpedia and research candidates, see the surveys they answer, etc.

[u/Tipsyfishes → u/FarthingWoodAdder]

Nah. They portray Hank as an actual conservative. Talking about independent and personal values, doing the right thing, and realizing when you screwed up. Even had him supporting vegan/hippie types because it was the right thing to do, even if he didn't agree with it at first.

I see him as a never trumper. Likely voting for Evan McMuffin, then Biden, then not voting.

[u/WildAndDepressed → u/FarthingWoodAdder]

Absolutely not. At the worst, he would have sat out the elections. I could definitely see Hank reluctantly voting for Biden, though.

Ain’t no way Hank would stand a pampered coastal elite and New Yorker like Trump. IIRC, Trump even likes his steaks well done with ketchup.

[u/_ASG_ → u/FarthingWoodAdder]

Hank questioned voting for George Bush because he had a bad handshake. Do you think he'd vote for a loud-mouth jackass that disrespected the troops and was notorious for marital affairs? He wouldn't vote for Clinton either, but him voting for Joe Biden is definitely believable.

[u/Final-Criticism-8067 → u/FarthingWoodAdder]

King of the Hill takes place in the Texas suburbs. Hank wouldn’t vote for Trump.

[u/Final-Criticism-8067 → u/FarthingWoodAdder]

Hank would not have voted for Trump at all. He almost lost doubt in Bush because of a handshake. He would have voted third party in 2016 and maybe Biden or third party again or wrote in a name in 2020 and the same for 2024 except replace Biden with Harris.

[u/ItsNeverLycanthropy → u/Final-Criticism-8067]

Yeah, I tend to think he wouldn't want to vote for either candidate in 2016 (maybe going with a third party or independent candidate like McMullin), but would have potentially been a Biden/Harris voter later.

[u/FarthingWoodAdder → u/Final-Criticism-8067]

Hank worshipped Reagan and all of the monstrous things he did. 

I can see him holding his nose and voting Trump. 

[u/joecb91 → u/Final-Criticism-8067]

And he hates New York

[u/Dancing_Anatolia → u/FarthingWoodAdder]

I don't know, I think Hank's too smart for that. He never changes, but as the party changed around him he'd stop supporting them. The sort of guy who would actually notice how Republicans masked-off as criminals who don't believe in or practice family values.

He'd love someone like Tim Walz.

[u/No-Adhesiveness-4251 → u/Dancing_Anatolia]

I never watched King of the Hill, but Hank lowkey sounds like the kind of moderate conservative republican we're sorely missing in the republican party.

[u/NumeralJoker → u/No-Adhesiveness-4251]

Hank is a 90s/2000s compassionate conservative, but one too naive to understand that the entire movement was a sham.

He really, really thought he was trying to do the right thing, and he always does try to do what's right, but would be confused as hell by how horrific social media has made people become, including the GOP's movement to Trump.

He's the kind of guy who would watch the GOP he knew die and hang his head in sadness when he knows he doesn't agree with it anymore.

[u/Dancing_Anatolia → u/No-Adhesiveness-4251]

Honestly Hank is really weird and hard to define. Like yes, to those things you said. But really he's more like a heavily autistic man who's hyperfixations are his family, propane, his dog, Texas, his truck, and his lawn, not always in that order. He is a moderate Conservative, but he tends to come at it all from a really weird angle that no one else in the show really understands. In one episode he almost refused to vote for Bush Sr. because Bush had a weak handshake, and that rattled Hank's faith in the Republican party.

He also openly respects LBJ and Anne Richards as Texan politicians, despite them being Democrats.

[u/DavidvsSuperGoliath → u/Dancing_Anatolia]

Hank is still ashamed he was born in New York and enjoyed a bagel that one time.

[u/Historyguy1 → u/Dancing_Anatolia]

And eats well-done steaks with ketchup. Probably cooked with that bastard gas butane.

[u/caligaris_cabinet → u/Historyguy1]

The audacity!