Politicians are not necessarily or automatically evil. Instead, they screw up in large part because of perverse incentives.
That being said, they should be mocked rather than admired (with St. Ronald being the obvious exception).
With that in mind, let’s enjoy another edition of politician humor.
We’ll start with a potential fringe benefit of facial recognition software.
Next we have some evidence that cattle may be smarter than people.
Our third item is a joke from George Carlin.
Last but not least, I thought about using this meme for one of my columns about “statism in images,” but the second frame leads me to think it mostly about mocking elected officials.
P.S. Last October, I wrote a two-part series about America’s venal political class (see here and here).
P.P.S. If you want more political humor, click here, here, here, and here. I also have satirical columns about selected politicians (Biden, Trump, Sanders, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Obama).
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