Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 01, 2024

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    BasilBruce  15 days ago

    The same mindset that preaches nuclear superiority in the name of peace.

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    orinoco womble  15 days ago

    If he gets solutions to problems Rat won’t have anything to complain about.

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    finzleftright  15 days ago

    The kind of thought that destroys a bipartisan bill to fix the border problems!

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    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.

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    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.

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    Bilan  15 days ago

    We want victories, not solutions!

    And that’s whats wrong with this country.

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    Ninette  15 days ago

    People don’t want victories, they want others to suffer losses.

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    iggyman  15 days ago

    You hit the nail on the head, Rat!

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    markkahler52  15 days ago

    YES! Time to nail the candidates to their platforms on hard oakwood!

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    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.)

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    Gent  15 days ago

    Whaaaat? Rat no want solution? This unbeliefable. Rat forget alcohol is solution eh.

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    1Friendo  15 days ago

    So Rat is a democrat. I knew it.

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    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.

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    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.

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    morningglory73 Premium Member 15 days ago

    Scary isn’t it? I really miss the comments section in the political cartoons.

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    Ellis97  15 days ago

    Politicians are the worst.

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    SquidGamerGal  15 days ago

    NO NEGOTIATION!! NO COMPROMISE!!

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    Znox11  15 days ago

    Exactly what’s wrong in America in a simple comic strip.

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    rossevrymn  15 days ago

    FALSE EQUIVALENCY ALERT!!!!!

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    Slowly, he turned...  15 days ago

    This would be realllyy funny if it wasn’t so reallly true.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Charles & Susan  Premium Member 14 days ago

    Bravo!

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    jegfolay  14 days ago

    I know a ‘Benyamin’ that is also seeking for victories instead of solutions… what a waste!

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 14 days ago

    “Why Not BOTH!” ~ The Obnoxious Little Twit in the Twix Commercial.

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    JosephShriver  14 days ago

    And both side think this way

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    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.

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    KEA  14 days ago

    It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

    —Harry S Truman

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    Itty-Bitty  14 days ago

    Vote for Kamala and end the dramala! ;-)

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    ChessPirate  14 days ago

    In the current situation, a Victory would be the Solution… ☺

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    ncorgbl  14 days ago

    Typical Republican response.

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    ssejhill  14 days ago

    I guess I should have realized that Rat would side with GOP/MAGA.

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    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

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    Tachyon the Samurai  14 days ago

    Spoken like a true……..

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    [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?

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    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.

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    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$

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    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.

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    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.”

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    moondog42 Premium Member 14 days ago

    “vote blue no matter who!”

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    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.

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    caring55  14 days ago

    if you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem

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    CeceliaWD Premium Member 14 days ago

    Pos-si-ble.

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    willie_mctell  14 days ago

    It’s not everything. It’s the only thing.

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    eddi-TBH  14 days ago

    No matter who wins, the public loses.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  13 days ago

    I’m with Goat on this.

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    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!

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