I've been exploring some vintage political cartoons and I'm going to start repurposing them as meme/cartoons for today. I'll post both my edited version and the original version with historical comments (if there are any). This is the first one.
The Original:
English: Nina Evans Allender (1872-1957), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia Commons:
Drawing of a woman holding a treat labeled "vote" for an elephant and a donkey
A woman tries to train the Republican Elephant and the Democratic Donkey, using her "Votes." This cartoon was originally published in "The Suffragist" on February 1, 1920. The caption on the original drawing is: "Training the Animals." Dimensions H-11.5 W-13.75 inches
Nina Evans Allender (1872-1957)
This meme also appears on my website, The Asylum. The website also has several things that are not possible to do on Substack: The World Economic Forum Members Reference (thanks to Dr. Malone), Red State/Blue State reference showing Senate and House percentages by party affiliation, quotes, a large resources section, a robust search feature and some other things unique to the site: quizzes, word games and leaked communications. These latter three are satirical and funny, at least in my mind, but you'll have to be the ultimate judge on that.