There is an old joke in politics that goes something like this: A party partisan, we'll say Democrat for an example, would always vote for the Democrats on the ballot, even if the party ran a monkey.
Down under in Australia, they are taking this outside of party partisanship, and writing in a gorilla. Here is the story, from The Guardian:
Could Australia’s next prime minister be Harambe, the gorilla that died?
As is often the case with headlines posed as questions, the answer is: no.
But the federal election – and overseas media – has got caught up in Australian Twitter users’ running joke about the gorilla that was shot dead at Cincinnati zoo in late May after a toddler fell into his enclosure.
Harambe has found life after death online as a meme-ish punchline on social media – partly in response to the interminable online “takes” over whether or not his death was justified and partly because of the intrinsic callousness of the internet.
The next prime minister of Australia?
You have to admit, he would be better than Trump or Clinton. Maybe the Aussies are onto something here?
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