Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for December 13, 2017
Transcript:
undecided voter? clueless? uncertain? here's help. discuss the choices with someone whose opinion you respect. man 1: peee-yooo. man 2: eee-yuck. first-hand knowledge of the candi-dates is good. hang around outside looking undecided. they'll be all over you like a flock of cheap suits. children are our greatest resource & the hope for the future. what are they saying? girl: this guy walks funny. boy: this guy spits when he laughs. you could study up on the candidates in depth. compare their policies and records. measure the distance between rhetoric & reality. in no time you'll slip into a zomboid coma & miss the whole electio. this is the coward's way out. if all else fails, try cosmic chance, the last sign you see on the way to your polling place is it. person 1: democrat republican democrat republican lost cat democrat republicrat demoyard sale democrat nader republican republican lose weight demo crat gutter cleaning person 2: gutter cleaning it is!
Kip W over 6 years ago
I hope I don’t dream of flocks of cheap suits tonight.
Kaputnik over 6 years ago
Gutter cleaning is actually a pretty good metaphor for politics, during its brief true reform phases at least.
Mel-T-Pass Premium Member over 6 years ago
You should have posted this one yesterday.
Sisyphos over 6 years ago
All that thinking!
Why do they have to make it so hard?
And 99.9% of politicians are crooks, it seems, anyway….