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Frivolous Campaign Promises

  • Denmark’s Union of Conscientiously Work-Shy Elements promised tailwinds on all cycle paths.
  • Hungary’s Two-Tailed Dog Party promised eternal life, world peace, one work day per week, two sunsets a day, smaller gravitation, and low taxes.
  • Sweden’s Donald Duck Party promised wider sidewalks and “free alcohol to the people.”
  • England’s Death, Dungeons and Taxes Party promised the reintroduction of hanging, the annexation of France, and the reduction of the school leaving age to 9.
  • America’s Guns and Dope Party would replace one-third of Congress with ostriches.

(Source: futilitycloset.com)

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    With the way the US Congress is going right now, I think the ostriches would be an improvement.
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    Omg, England’s
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    In fairness, the ostriches couldn’t do a worse job
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    I would vote for all these parties.
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    I don’t know about the other ones but I am all for annexing France.
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    There is also Minnesota’s Vampyres, Witches, and Pagans party which promised that, were their candidate elected...
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