Turkeys voting for Christmas

I am told that the current joke going around the House is that it is the first time in recorded history that turkeys have been known to vote for an early Christmas."

A similar German idiom is "Only the most stupid calves would vote for their butchers" ("Nur die dümmsten Kälber wählen ihre Metzger selber").

Bertold Brecht alluded to it in his Kälbermarsch ("March of the calves", 1933), a parody of the Nazi anthem "Horst Wessel Song", which was included in his play Schweik in the Second World War (1943).

A similar photomontage of John Heartfield shows Hitler as a butcher with a chicken and the caption "Don't panic!

[6][7] A popular 2016 New Yorker cartoon by Paul Noth portrays a sheep viewing a billboard of a wolf political candidate whose campaign slogan is "I am going to eat you", and approvingly remarking "He tells it like it is.