Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 13, 2017

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    BE THIS GUY  about 7 years ago

    Rat should only allow journalists from Fox and Pravda cover him.

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    railwayman001  about 7 years ago

    There you go, Steph! Yeah, that’s better, Rat’s the president in the PBS universe as a satire of Herr Drumpf, not Herr Drumpf himself. At least Rat gets to have his big, beautiful piece of cake and eat it too, at least until he realizes how “peach” and “mint” can be merged with “in” and, with a slight respelling of "mint’ can become “impeachment.” Maybe Ben and Jerry’s, whose leaders usually give to the Democrats and liberal organizations as I’m sure we all know (if you didn’t previously know that, then please look it up), can make it into an actual flavor. And you know what? Since I loathe Herr Drumpf, I’d happily eat a sample and also because although my beloved paternal grandma was a Republican and a conservative all her life, she also loved Ben and Jerry’s ice cream even in her old age. She’d serve it to us whenever we ate with her on Sundays while she was still alive. If she were still here (she would have been a century and a year old this year, so I doubt she would have been able to do so), I would have asked her to buy Ben and Jerry’s Donald Trump Im-Peach-Mint flavored ice cream if it ever becomes a flavor.

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    Sherlock Watson  about 7 years ago

    How about a new flavor that’s a mixture of dark chocolate and coconut? We can call it “tar and feathers” and offer that to Donald J. Rat.

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    Boris the tortise  about 7 years ago

    What is funny is for the last 8 years the same people called anyone who mocked the last president racist and unpatriotic . But now that Obummer is gone dissent and mockery are OK again.

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    blunebottle  about 7 years ago

    The one who REALLY wanted to ban mockery was Dubbyah.

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    3hourtour Premium Member about 7 years ago

    … peach mint? Never heard of that flavor…

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    Doug  about 7 years ago

    Does anyone know when the strip was that Stephan mentioned eating dirt while playing as a child, and not knowing who to feel sorry for, himself or todays kid that is raised “germ free”?

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    jeffiekins  about 7 years ago

    In all seriousness, I didn’t vote for either of them, and I really don’t see how these 2 Presidents’ opponents’ behavior differs. It’s all the same: mockery, wild claims, dehumanization. It’s not “dissent”, but attack and hatred that we’ve seen, from both sides taking turns.

    The major difference is that when people attacked Obama, they were decried as racist, while Trump’s defenders haven’t settled on a single epithet yet for his attackers.

    Trump’s attackers are exactly as convinced of the righteousness of their hatred as Obama’s were.

    The only humorous thing about all this, to me, is that people don’t remember back 9 years ago, when President Obama, having been on the national stage for only 2 years and having no experience in diplomacy, made a lot of rookie mistakes. They (naturally) remember the way he was at the end, with 8 years of practice at being President. (Of course, “diplomacy” is hardly a word people’d associate with President Trump.)

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    jeffiekins  about 7 years ago

    If one takes the long view, it looks like an unbroken string of Presidents, each worse than the previous one, since Ike. (Not coincidentally, Ike was the last non-millionaire President, since he worked for the government all his life. Bill Clinton did too, but his ethics were different from Ike’s.)

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    F-Flash  about 7 years ago

    Ban Mockery, isn’t he the dictator of some 3rd world country? I hear that he’s dating Bak Choy.

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    Machtyn  about 7 years ago

    If they didn’t impeach Obama, they’re not going to impeach Trump. Both were egregious of impeachable offenses.

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    quinton_christopher  about 7 years ago

    WTF! This used to be my favorite comic. Thanks for ruining it for me Stephen. Politics has no place in Pearls Before Swine. I can see by many other comments, your Snowflake friends are loving it. Stick to comedy.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Ban Mochrie? NO! Whose Line Is It will never be the same!!

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    chris_weaver  about 7 years ago

    Oh, and, Mr. President, could you give a shout out to Dick Hertz?

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Heck I’d prefer Rat to be our POTUS. He’d kick men out of the country sporting a manbun. That’s common sense!

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    jeffiekins  about 7 years ago

    Stephan: this strip is funny.

    Please Note: it’s about as close as you can get to a pun and still be funny.

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    Cerabooge  about 7 years ago

    @jeffiekins: “Both sides”? I’ll repeat something I said previously.

    My neighbor on one side plays music too loudly. My neighbor on the other side puts bullet holes in my windows and walls and yells that he’s gonna kill everybody. This neighborhood is going to hell. I blame both sides.

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    rabizar  about 7 years ago

    Couldn’t laugh like that in N Korea

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    An Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove  about 7 years ago

    This is an old Johnny Carson joke from during the Nixon era.

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    wllilly1960  about 7 years ago

    ..It’s fake news! Repeal their liscences! Make the libel laws stricter!

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    Lexbrowning  about 7 years ago

    there’s a difference between hanging Obama in effigy and calling out drumpf for the idiot he is

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    Cerabooge  about 7 years ago

    Sounds like someone has a s_peach impediment.

    I’m still chagrined that “in peach mint” didn’t jump out at me. It actually took me some time to see it.

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    BiathlonNut  about 7 years ago

    We need another president like Harry Truman. They all went downhill from there.

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    Lowell Gilbert  about 7 years ago

    3rd rate used car salesman trump give us plenty to ridicule. He is a monumental embarrassment to the Republic.

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    gmu328  about 7 years ago

    Good One Stephan …

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    fregol  about 7 years ago

    Good point!

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    BE THIS GUY  about 7 years ago

    JOSBALLARD replied to BORIS THE TORTISE that George Washington was more cruel and just as unpatriotic as Robert E. Lee. Here is my reply:

    In his will Washington emancipated all his slaves except for those brought into joint ownership by his marriage to Martha. Martha emancipated the remaining before she died in 1805.

    Robert E. Lee refused to give freedom to the slaves that his father-in-law had emancipated in his will when he became the executor of the estate. Many of the slaves were the children and grandchildren of his father-in-law, and therefore the half-siblings and nephews and nieces of Lee’s wife. Lee stripped and whipped a female slave in public after she was captured and returned after running away. He did the the whipping after a marshal refused to whip a woman. The marshal had whipped a runaway male slave that had been captured and returned.

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    Dennett Premium Member about 7 years ago

    I think Rat was set up…

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    Number Three  about 7 years ago

    Just making Rat into any ice cream is laughable.

    xxx

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    GaryCooper  about 7 years ago

    No, you can’t ban mockery. That’s one thing we still have.

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    oakie817  about 7 years ago

    most excellent

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    Charlie Tuba  about 7 years ago

    America: The only country where a fictional President is held to a higher standard than an actual one.

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    ElGato  about 7 years ago

    Never seen the likes of these!

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    Sisyphos  about 7 years ago

    PBS has become the locus of the sewer of political hate-speech.

    Does Stephan Pastis care?

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    clayface9 Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Peach mint sounds terrible.

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    ND Cool Z  almost 6 years ago

    Peach mint sounds good, simply because I like mint!

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    robertiris  over 2 years ago

    Peach mint sounds yummy

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