politics-4
Original: politics-4 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with red hair (to a man): Have you noticed that politicians gather in giant bodies, debate all the time, make speeches, run campaigns, but nothing ever gets done?
Man: Yeah? So what?
Caption (below panel): What if real politicians do get things done, but we're in the control group?
Votey:
FACT: Any time lots of action is happening, but no results occur, it's because you're in the control group.
A woman with red hair (to a man): Have you noticed that politicians gather in giant bodies, debate all the time, make speeches, run campaigns, but nothing ever gets done?
Man: Yeah? So what?
Caption (below panel): What if real politicians do get things done, but we're in the control group?
Votey:
FACT: Any time lots of action is happening, but no results occur, it's because you're in the control group.
Alt text
A two-panel-style SMBC comic. A red-haired woman talks to a brown-skinned man with dark hair. She says: "Have you noticed that politicians gather in giant bodies, debate all the time, make speeches, run campaigns, but nothing ever gets done?" He replies, "Yeah? So what?" A caption below reads: "What if real politicians do get things done, but we're in the control group?" The votey (red button aftercomic) shows hand-lettered text inside a rough black border: "FACT: Any time lots of action is happening, but no results occur, it's because you're in the control group." The joke frames political inaction as evidence that the reader is in the placebo arm of a scientific experiment.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.