After yesterday’s ponderous and detailed discussion of tax compliance, it’s time for some levity.
So let’s have some fun with Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.
And we’ll start with the crazy Senator from Vermont. I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more Sanders-specific humor. I’m probably missing some examples, but a quick look through my archives reveals only the cartoon at the bottom of this post and the satirical poster included in this post.
A guy this crazy deserves more attention.
So here’s the Sanders version of the monopoly game, courtesy of Mark Perry, the must-read economist at the American Enterprise Institute.
The best part of the game is the description of how everyone decides the best option is to stop being productive and wait for handouts.
Sort of the same message from this Wizard-of-Id parody.
By the way, I have lots of material mocking socialism (see here and here), so we can count that as being anti-Sanders humor (even if he’s not even a real socialist).
Now let’s shift to “The Donald.” I don’t know how to classify him from a philosophical perspective (probably because he doesn’t have a coherent set of principles), but he is an entertaining figure.
That being said, I think I’ve only had one column that included Trump humor.
So let’s atone for that oversight. This World-according-to-Trump map is quite clever (January 15, 2018 update: The previous link no longer works, so I’ve inserted another version).
Very similar to the very amusing how-the-Greeks-see-Europe map I shared back in 2011.
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Bernie sanders has succeeded in bringing the cause of socialism lite into the mainstream of American politics… the Bern is a statist… and an opportunist… given a docile population accepting of socialism lite… and the right circumstances… by degrees… the Bern would move to install socialism 2.0 throughout the federal system… when we see young Americans looking into a television camera… and arguing the merits of Bernie’s socialism… something has changed… and it has not for the better…
there isn’t much political humor here…. after all… dangerous men have no sense of humor…
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