Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 18, 2017

Divided and scared.

The worst thing that can happen down there is a horrid deluge of filth catching you off-guard… all you need to do to get that up here is check the president-elect’s Twitter account.

One candidate won the election, but the other one’s getting inaugurated. That doesn’t make for a happy country.

Yeah, the majority of Americans didn’t want Donald Trump, but they wanted those who felt they had no choice but to elect him because they didn’t want Hillary Clinton, either.

Why is Paris’ nose green?

The hostile occupation of the White House begins in two days.

“Never ask a question that you don’t want to hear the answer to.”

It’s a divided world. One half hates the new Go comics format. The other half really, really, hates it.

Could I have the address of that sewer grate? I’d like to join him for the next 4 years.

Jeez, there’s no need to get sewercidal.

Not so much divided as drawn-and-quartered.

Even Pennywise is terrified.

For starters, that’s a storm drain, not a sewer. Second, whatever’s down there, if it feels safe, you can bet it’s a Trump supporter. And lastly, just pray to god it’s not dressed like a clown.

Pennywise is a Demoncrat.

C.H.U.D.

Melted snowflakes end up down the drain.

Showers wash down the sewer like gold, perfect for Trump.

True, Pig, very true

One thing no one gets is that no matter what the outcome of the election it was decided by those who bothered to VOTE!

We don’t know his political affiliation, so it’s Schrödinger’s sewer.

Pennywise is a wise man.

The bad news is that sewer guy has been down there since 2000.

Master Splinter! Is that you?

I wish I could stick my head in the sand too.

xxx

Curiously, one of the conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination was that there was a shooter inside a storm drain.

I think Pastis is not saying which candidate won, just that sewer man can’t stand reality no matter who won, and wants to stay out of the line of fire of all the conspiracy theories on both sides. As a citizen, I want our county to succeed no matter who is taking the oath, and to resist before there is anything substantive to resist is STUPID.

That is true, Pig. Let us continue to have Hope, however….

Some of the comments here just go to show that many Democrats don’t read and/or understand the Constitution. The United States is a republic, not a flat-out democracy. The Founders wanted it that way. They feared a democracy, almost as much as they feared a monarchy. We don’t always get our way. I didn’t get my way eight or four years ago and I didn’t throw a fit. I didn’t go around saying “Not my President.” I could honestly say “I didn’t vote for him,” but it would not have been true to say “Not my President.” This new President is as much your President as he is mine, like it or not. And he got there legally and constitutionally. You don’t have to like it. The great benefit of our republic is that you get to vote again in four years.

We all float down here.

Well, compliments to Pastis on writing a political strip that is amazingly fair and balanced and rotten eggs to all commenters who took it to mean one and one only thing. If the strip was unmistakably endorsing or blasting one particular candidate, that would be a different story. This way, the comments become a soap box or sour grapes that are not necessarily about the strip itself. Wonder if GoComics ever expected the comments section to become that?

“…Donald trump.”“HOLY $%##!”

Trump?