Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 25, 2019

A little guillotine would have come in handy at this moment.

It’s not like Rat to give in so easily.

good try, Your Lowness

Evidently, change starts with other people doing things your way!

That’s the old school way, Rat. Today, you create your Facebook account and then create thousands of fake Facebook accounts that “follow” you.

Nice “King of the World” costume, rat. A little dated, perhaps.

The Chariot.

I’m surprised Rat didn’t get a face full of hot tea.

I thought Rat was President.

Try a different self-help book: “How To Be Nice— for Dummies!”

You only have as much authority as other people let you have.

All I can say to this one is …….. Croc Power !

Glad you came to your senses, Rat.

But Rat is actually a Royal pain in the a$$!

No, Change starts with C. Umbrella starts with U.

It only works for four years.

That only works with Republicans. And even some of them are coming back to their senses …

Panel 3 is the POTUS mission statement.

Change starts with the perception that one’s changes are determined by choice. Good choices have desirable consequences. Bad choices have undesirable consequences. Wishful choices have unpredictable consequences, but History has shown that, more often than not, those consequences will be undesirable. The consequences of random choices may be observed in the animal kingdom, where roadkill and the food chain usually prevail.

Not sure that’s how it works. He might try starting at the other end of the spectrum and connect with humility (not that rat ever would).

Seems to have worked in Venezuela.

Rat should’ve tried it on that dumb Pig…….he would’ve fell for it.

It meant the change in his pocket. Oh wait, no pockets…

Change also sometimes ends with you, Rat.

“Spare change?”

Rat would have been better off reading The Nutcracker.

“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”

I thought it started with the cashier!

Need a dedicated CROC day! (e.g. every Friday?)

If decreeing change into existence doesn’t work, proceed to Plan B.

Today is the first day of the rest of your reign.

I feel your pain, Rat. I tried that, too…

I get a laugh out of every single politician running against an incumbent says, “It is time for change…I will be that change”. Well duh. The only thing that doesn’t change is that they preach change.

Take a hike … Leonardo.

Strange. Nothing changed.

Did Rat also run up against Nancy (as I call her)?

God Save the King.

He ain’t no human being.

Good for you Goat!

This is so convenient! Our great books study group just started reading “Lord Of The World”, by Robert Hugh Benson, an early SciFi novel published about 2 years before Bleriot flew his plane across the English Channel in 1909. Instead of airlanes, it uses Vernesque airships or STOLs called volors. I think Rat may soon make his debut in higher literary circles.

“God save the King? God DAMN the King!

It’s true. Just because the advice in a book sounds good, that doesn’t mean it is good….

Well, Rat, you gotta say something first.