Another reminder of the bad meme problem Jeff Hawkins wrote about. He used flat earthers because he wanted to avoid religion and politics: (1) Focus on the part of the meme you can see for yourself. (The earth looks flat.) (2) Gather with people who believe the same thing. (The Internet has made that much more possible.) (3) Avoid contact with nonbelievers. (As applied to religion, consider the Ten Commandments. Almighty Gawd stared with (3), apparently because He’s afraid of the competition.)
Freedom works. The decline of the culture arose with the creation of economic regulators, and the erosion of individual freedom is perfectly corelated. Only the totalitarians among us wish to impose the bureaucrat’s predilections over those of millions of people voting with their dollars.
Kind of like being upset that Trump, Musk and Desantis are already running the clean-up after Helene without waiting for the feds to sign off and get FEMA involved.
So half the country (according to the polls) are sanctimonious, misanthropic, racist, nihilists that want to “Make Amerika White Again” while the other half are atheistic, woke, communists indoctrinating tolerance and acceptance in the public school system
Top 10 Countries with the Highest Gross National Product (United Nations 2020 GNI, current US$): United States$25.59 TnChina$18.15 TnJapan$5.31 TnGermany$4.53 TnIndia$3.39 TnUnited Kingdom$3.30 TnFrance$3.08 TnItaly$2.25 TnCanada$2.06 TnRussia$1.87 Tn
Not quite. When both sides are diametrically opposed on what they believe the problems are (and what their solutions would therefore be), winning becomes the imperative before the real work can start. Without naming names, one side is comprised of wackos, half-wits, and conspira-twits but the other isn’t.
Dictatorships occur INCREMENTALLY – Germany, even with social/economic problems, was a thriving Democracy with rights/freedoms, etc. Enter Hitler, who FALSELY CLAIMED (like Trump) he could solve ALL people’s problems: So Hitler and Nazis WERE ELECTED BY CITIZENS, and once in power they installed loyalists to the Dictator, terrorized citizens, businesses, threats, violence, murders, social/economics worsened, abolished democracy, took away citizens rights, rampant bigotry (racism, etc.), LIES, undermine institutions, rewrite history, deny free speech and press, ban books, voter suppression, control your body, media, Religious tyranny put into law, etc.
2. Americans, PAY ATTENTION AND YOU WILL SEE that the above IS happening in America under Republican leadership, WITH HELP FROM CORRUPT GOP SC majority (Supreme Court Under MAGA – or SCUM), GOP Congress, and Republicans, taking rights/freedoms incrementally, one by one, from Americans (i.e. women, different races, minorities, LGBTQ+, “religions”, voting rights, etc.), LYING that they know nothing about Project 2025 (Hitler’s playbook), but SECRETLY planning to implement it if they are elected, and then Americans will wakeup one day and say to themselves:
“How did we lose our rights/freedoms, and how did U.S. become a Dictatorship?” The answer will be American voters did not come out in DROVES and vote downballot for Democrats, and NEVER vote for Republicans, who turned America into a Theocratic Nazi Dictatorship.
“Feelings” and emotions have always steered peoples’ votes. Maybe now more than ever. Trump is very good at stirring up that monster under the bed. I just hope that there are enough who see through the flim-flam and remember what a disaster his first term was.
BasilBruce 15 days ago
The same mindset that preaches nuclear superiority in the name of peace.
orinoco womble 15 days ago
If he gets solutions to problems Rat won’t have anything to complain about.
finzleftright 15 days ago
The kind of thought that destroys a bipartisan bill to fix the border problems!
sirbadger 15 days ago
Fixing the country is different from fixing the world. It is nice to do both, but sometimes you have to pick one.
Crow Eatery 15 days ago
Goat does not have a beard. I just now looked it up on Google and not all goats have beards, so that’s OK.
Bilan 15 days ago
We want victories, not solutions!
And that’s whats wrong with this country.
Ninette 15 days ago
People don’t want victories, they want others to suffer losses.
iggyman 15 days ago
You hit the nail on the head, Rat!
markkahler52 15 days ago
YES! Time to nail the candidates to their platforms on hard oakwood!
shanen0 15 days ago
Funny, not funny.
Another reminder of the bad meme problem Jeff Hawkins wrote about. He used flat earthers because he wanted to avoid religion and politics: (1) Focus on the part of the meme you can see for yourself. (The earth looks flat.) (2) Gather with people who believe the same thing. (The Internet has made that much more possible.) (3) Avoid contact with nonbelievers. (As applied to religion, consider the Ten Commandments. Almighty Gawd stared with (3), apparently because He’s afraid of the competition.)
Gent 15 days ago
Whaaaat? Rat no want solution? This unbeliefable. Rat forget alcohol is solution eh.
1Friendo 15 days ago
So Rat is a democrat. I knew it.
Huckleberry Hiroshima 15 days ago
Somebody please list the problems that you personally really have in your day to day life that some politician can fix.
jbmlaw01 15 days ago
Freedom works. The decline of the culture arose with the creation of economic regulators, and the erosion of individual freedom is perfectly corelated. Only the totalitarians among us wish to impose the bureaucrat’s predilections over those of millions of people voting with their dollars.
morningglory73 Premium Member 15 days ago
Scary isn’t it? I really miss the comments section in the political cartoons.
Ellis97 15 days ago
Politicians are the worst.
SquidGamerGal 15 days ago
NO NEGOTIATION!! NO COMPROMISE!!
Znox11 15 days ago
Exactly what’s wrong in America in a simple comic strip.
rossevrymn 15 days ago
FALSE EQUIVALENCY ALERT!!!!!
Slowly, he turned... 15 days ago
This would be realllyy funny if it wasn’t so reallly true.
asmbeers 14 days ago
Kind of like being upset that Trump, Musk and Desantis are already running the clean-up after Helene without waiting for the feds to sign off and get FEMA involved.
Mel-T-Pass Premium Member 14 days ago
Once again Pastis accurately sums up the mindset of a large portion of our population in 4 panels. Unfortunately.
Charles & Susan Premium Member 14 days ago
Bravo!
jegfolay 14 days ago
I know a ‘Benyamin’ that is also seeking for victories instead of solutions… what a waste!
Count Olaf Premium Member 14 days ago
“Why Not BOTH!” ~ The Obnoxious Little Twit in the Twix Commercial.
JosephShriver 14 days ago
And both side think this way
Snoopy Copter 14 days ago
If we focused HALF as much on solving problems as your party “winning” we would be a much better society.
KEA 14 days ago
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
—Harry S Truman
Itty-Bitty 14 days ago
Vote for Kamala and end the dramala! ;-)
ChessPirate 14 days ago
In the current situation, a Victory would be the Solution… ☺
ncorgbl 14 days ago
Typical Republican response.
ssejhill 14 days ago
I guess I should have realized that Rat would side with GOP/MAGA.
oish 14 days ago
So half the country (according to the polls) are sanctimonious, misanthropic, racist, nihilists that want to “Make Amerika White Again” while the other half are atheistic, woke, communists indoctrinating tolerance and acceptance in the public school system
Tachyon the Samurai 14 days ago
Spoken like a true……..
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 14 days ago
Hi. My name is Kamala Harris and I’m perfectly normal.
Why do so many people think t hat’s unusual?
Buoy 14 days ago
It looks to me like the nuclear option is very much front and center on the table. The other side must be destroyed to save ourselves.
zeexenon 14 days ago
Top 10 Countries with the Highest Gross National Product (United Nations 2020 GNI, current US$): United States$25.59 TnChina$18.15 TnJapan$5.31 TnGermany$4.53 TnIndia$3.39 TnUnited Kingdom$3.30 TnFrance$3.08 TnItaly$2.25 TnCanada$2.06 TnRussia$1.87 Tn
Come on Rat, that’s a lot of trillion$
socalvillaguy Premium Member 14 days ago
Not quite. When both sides are diametrically opposed on what they believe the problems are (and what their solutions would therefore be), winning becomes the imperative before the real work can start. Without naming names, one side is comprised of wackos, half-wits, and conspira-twits but the other isn’t.
John Lamb Premium Member 14 days ago
Sounds downright like someone who is running for president on the platform of “I will make up stories to get your attention.”
moondog42 Premium Member 14 days ago
“vote blue no matter who!”
Walter Kocker Premium Member 14 days ago
Dictatorships occur INCREMENTALLY – Germany, even with social/economic problems, was a thriving Democracy with rights/freedoms, etc. Enter Hitler, who FALSELY CLAIMED (like Trump) he could solve ALL people’s problems: So Hitler and Nazis WERE ELECTED BY CITIZENS, and once in power they installed loyalists to the Dictator, terrorized citizens, businesses, threats, violence, murders, social/economics worsened, abolished democracy, took away citizens rights, rampant bigotry (racism, etc.), LIES, undermine institutions, rewrite history, deny free speech and press, ban books, voter suppression, control your body, media, Religious tyranny put into law, etc.
2. Americans, PAY ATTENTION AND YOU WILL SEE that the above IS happening in America under Republican leadership, WITH HELP FROM CORRUPT GOP SC majority (Supreme Court Under MAGA – or SCUM), GOP Congress, and Republicans, taking rights/freedoms incrementally, one by one, from Americans (i.e. women, different races, minorities, LGBTQ+, “religions”, voting rights, etc.), LYING that they know nothing about Project 2025 (Hitler’s playbook), but SECRETLY planning to implement it if they are elected, and then Americans will wakeup one day and say to themselves:
“How did we lose our rights/freedoms, and how did U.S. become a Dictatorship?” The answer will be American voters did not come out in DROVES and vote downballot for Democrats, and NEVER vote for Republicans, who turned America into a Theocratic Nazi Dictatorship.
caring55 14 days ago
if you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem
CeceliaWD Premium Member 14 days ago
Pos-si-ble.
willie_mctell 14 days ago
It’s not everything. It’s the only thing.
eddi-TBH 14 days ago
No matter who wins, the public loses.
sincavage05 14 days ago
The problem today, it’s not about what’s best for the country and the world, but which side wins. And we all lose.
Havel 14 days ago
“Feelings” and emotions have always steered peoples’ votes. Maybe now more than ever. Trump is very good at stirring up that monster under the bed. I just hope that there are enough who see through the flim-flam and remember what a disaster his first term was.
Otis Rufus Driftwood 13 days ago
I’m with Goat on this.
Swirls Before Pine 9 days ago
I’ll support the most God-awful buffoons that ever crapped on American politics if I means I’m a winner!