Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 20, 2017

Wake him up in Spring 2019.

He’s gonna become Rat Van Winkle

Is Rat talking about the reality where he was President or the real reality?

Dream is definitely the wrong word for it.

And that’s how Rat disappeared from the strip

Rat, the sleeping beauty.

In times like this you have to ask yourself…“What has reality done for you lately.”

or “what have YOU done for reality”

It will never improve if people stay in bed and don’t vote!

Better stock up on the sleeping pills!

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Talk to Mueller, and tell him to hurry.

I tried that when I went to bed early in the morning of November 9, 2016. Sill hasn’t worked.

The Republicans are running everything.

So if anything is going wrong, it must be their fault.

What the heck, people make up their own reality now – believe what they want and call others liars.

Where’s Rat’s your Hillary poster?

Scooch over, Rat. I’m coming in!!

The reason we are in this mess is that too many people were sleeping. But the recent elections seem to show that Trump’s election served as a very effective alarm clock. Hopefully, the next few elections will serve as alarms too, keeping those people awake, working for better candidates, and voting until things improve.

That’ll be when both pigs and cows fly!

xxx

Didn’t realize Rat was such a wuss. Maybe a purge of (choose your favorite left- or right-wing target) would make you feel better, Rat?

The world as it is now, makes it seem like all of us died at once and went to Hell.

If only it was a dream.

“Wake me when reality improves.” That would make a nice T shirt and/or bumper sticker!

100 years later: Still no improvement and Rat becomes the next Sleeping Beauty.

Wake me up as well, I need to go to bed

So, Rat’s presidency was a dream? Phew!