Anarchist Rudolph wouldn’t play their stupid reindeer games. Check back shortly to find links to postcards and greeting cards of this comic in the Anarchy In Your Head store to send out for Christmas and other year-end holidays.
UPDATE: This comic is now available as a postcard, notecard, and greeting card in the Anarchy In Your Head Store. The greeting cards say “Merry Festivus!” on the inside, which seemed appropriate for such a grumpy and condescending Rudolph. Save yourself some stress and get your holiday cards early this year!
shine on Rudolph!
Brilliant!
I clap for this.
Are they suppose to be voting? In the past people actually went inside booths like those to vote. You should have made the cartoon more up to date by drawing moder voting machines. Are there still states using thiose 1940’s style voting booths?
This made me laugh. However, why one of them is taking a shower is beyond me
Perhaps the one taking a shower felt dirty after voting.
Oh, it looks like they are just going in those booths to mark a paper ballot. They are not actually voting machines. A rather humorous cartoon. If Charles Jay of the Boston Tea Party were not going to be on the ballot in my state I would not being casting a ballot.
As Rearden put it, maybe he does feel dirty after voting. Then again, the masses seem to see voting as some sort of cleansing ritual in which they can bathe in the sweet waters of liberty every four years. If someone only bathed once every four years, one would undoubtedly shun them as the horrible smelling, foul toothed, mindless, self-deprecating wretch they were. Why then is the reverence of immaculate saint granted to the type of creature who only seems to poke its above ground long enough to beg some power greater than itself to think for it twice a decade? Petitioning the empty sky never brought food or survival to mankind – awareness, ingenuity, ability and drive did. The meek shall inherit NOTHING.
This one was cute, but what made me laugh the most was unrelated to the comic’s message: the “voter” in the middle booth taking a shower. That was a hilarious, random little nugget of humor. Well, apparently Central Scrutinizer thinks it might mean more than I do!
Thanks for it.
“Are there still states using thiose 1940’s style voting booths?”
Good grief! I know I’m frequently guilty of using out-dated references for parodies, but I’ve voted as recently as the last presidential election and I’ve never used an electronic voting machine. I’ve always gone into a booth and punched a card. That was in L.A. CA. If you’re just now turning 18, I guess this comic is before your time.
[...] Stupid Reindeer Games [...]
If nothing else, one can think of those “old” voting booths as a traditional form of artistic shorthand, like the cartoon bank robber who wears a domino mask and a black & white-striped shirt and carries a sack with a dollar bill sign on the side–one rarely sees that in the “real world,” but everyone understands what it represents, n’est-ce pas? Re: the showering reindeer, I ditto Mike’s kudos, though maybe a toilet stall would’ve been even more apt, all things considered…
Dale, I have been of voting age since the early 80’s and in the state I live in those old “pull the lever” machines have not been used since I have been old enough to vote. I understand why the term “pull the lever for..” is used but when I voted for the first time in 1984 in my state there wer no levers to pull. At that time you voted by punching the chads on a punch card. Now they have gone to a system in which a voter fills in circles on a paper ballot and puts the ballot in an optical scan machine. Anyways I rarely vote anymore. The only reason why I will be casting a ballot is nov. is because Charles Jay is on the ballot in my state. If he were not on the ballot I wouldn’t bother to cast a ballot this year.
Very well done Dale.
In most european countries you still vote the old-fashion way. You go into booths like this and make an x with a pen for the party or candidate you want.
In most European countries the head of state is not elected per se. What happens is the party leader of the party that is elected to majority of seats or perhaps most of the seats in the legislature becomes the head of state. The U.S. system is better because the POTUS can be of a different party that the party that controls congress and that can creat gridlock and it can be more difficult to pass new legislation.