What happens to a show titled Difficult People when IRL headlines suddenly feature nothing but politicians that are infinitely more difficult than the fictional Julie Kessler or Billy Epstein? That’s the question Hulu’s original comedy series had to answer ahead of its third season–and Difficult People gave the question the finger. The snarky show, which concludes Season 3 later this month, has countered the Trump era by sharpening its political barbs and (true to form) not playing nice.

Difficult People has always existed in a heightened version of reality, one where waves of instant fame and embarrassing defeat crash upon Julie (Julie Klausner) and Billy (Billy Eichner) on a weekly basis, and the show could have continued to veer off into its own world by ignoring the election of Donald Trump. Politics have only been a subtle component of Difficult People from the get-go (inasmuch as some conservatives tend to consider things like “being gay” or “a woman with opinions” a political act), but the show was way more likely to harangue Hamilton than get deep into current events. Difficult People could have avoided Trump altogether–but it didn’t, and that was the right call.

Season 3 has found fictional Julie and Billy, two aggressively self-absorbed wannabes with #NewYorkValues, trapped in post-election America and dealing with the aftermath. The very first words spoken by them in Season 3 are, in fact, “Resist!” and “Impeach!” They’re actually protesting a production of Sunday in the Park with George starring the cast of The Big Bang Theory (“No bazinga!”), but those first words let you know that Difficult People ain’t messing around in Season 3. This cold open concludes with a tourist pulling over to ask Billy and Julie (who are picking up trash as punishment for stage-crashing) where the “Trump statue” is located. Our American antiheroes respond by dumping all their collected garbage in his convertible. Cue theme song.

Episode two, “Strike Rat,” directly tackles Vice President Mike Pence and conversion therapy. In Difficult People’s America, Pence’s gay conversion program is in full swing and offering $6,000 to the licensed therapists and the “ex-gays” that enroll. Billy, looking for cash to buy tickets to Madonna’s baffling stand-up show, enlists Julie’s mom (a therapist played by the fussy and feisty Andrea Martin) to convert him. The conversion kit arrives (a Penthouse with identical twins on the cover, a hacky sack, barbecue tongs, two cans of Coors, and all three Hangover movies on DVD) and the scammers begin to scam this scam.

The #resist and #impeach vibes permeate the rest of the season, too. Billy and Julie go to one of the many protests in NYC (“They keep popping up like Cosby accusers”), and it’s revealed that the city’s health care providers have merged with chain restaurants in the aftermath of Trump replacing the Department of Health with Jenny McCarthy’s blog. There are Quiznos Clinics (“I have enough Toasty Points to see a doctor for free!”) and an egg-freezing chain bought some Pinkberry locations and renamed them Frovo. In “Cindarestylox,” Julie visits an Original Ray’s Med Spa, which offers fat freezes and hair replacement.

All of this has had a kinda unexpected–and possibly unintentional–side effect: it’s made Julie and Billy… likable? It’s definitely on point for all those that lean to the left, a.k.a. Difficult People’s entire audience (someone show me a Trump voter that also loves Billy and Julie’s biting comments about celebrity Twitter feeds). In “Rabbitversary,” the difficult duo quietly lash out at tourists enjoying a bizarre (and totally real) comedy bus tour of Manhattan, grinning and waving at them while blasting their presumed Trumpiness. No, it’s not a healthy example of how to deal with the current state of politics, but it sure as hell is cathartic. Difficult People has proven to be perfectly suited to lampooning our national nightmare because Julie and Billy get to act as angry as viewers feel inside. We need our compassionate Jimmy Kimmel speeches and impassioned John Oliver analyses–and we also need a little of Billy and Julie’s seething rage, too.

In the first two seasons of the show, the cast lashed out at minor celebrities and innocent bystanders (like poor, sweet CPR trainer Marcy!). Now the show has shifted gears, slightly, giving us moments where Julie, Billy, and their misanthropic frenemies channel their grievances into very real anger–the kinda anger that a lot of people are feeling right now. Anger expressed towards Mozart in the Jungle might not be universal, but anger expressed at a historically unpopular president whose proposed policies could wreak havoc on the lives of the groups of people represented in the Difficult People cast? Bazinga, that’s universal!

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