Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 15, 2022

Is donating money to a billionaire tax deductible?

If we can’t save the world’s second richest man, what have we come to?

I’d rather lose buck than some doe.

Howzabout we all send Elon an e-mail saying that we are a Nigerian prince, and that if he sends us all his remaining money, he’ll get it back tenfold?

Sorry Pig, no sale!

Do I detect a decimal point on that tote board? Tsk tsk, Pig, you’ll never make an evangelist. Why, they don’t even need to track anything in the "1"s place, let alone fractional bucks. “How much do you love the Lord, sucker, I mean believer? A measly dollar’s worth? Two dollars? Whatsoever you give today you’ll get back ten times over in heaven, so dig deep, my chumps I mean champs, and don’t insult your Heavenly Father with dirt-common pictures of Washington and Lincoln.”

They are selling all the assets (furniture, beer coolers?, gym equipment, everything from their offices in Jan)

Why is Pig’s tie attached to his snout? He seems to have a neck to accommodate it.

He said he bought a crime scene.

Gee, at first, I thought this was about Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX

I am going to kick the first Tesla I see, that’ll show him!

As a Tesla investor I feel the one thing wrong with it is Musk. Not in a political sense but rather that his inexplicable turn to twitter is unnecessary and detrimental. He should focus on Tesla.

I wonder how long it will take for Stephan Pastis to be banned from Twitter, because of this current strip?

He spent $44 billion on a company run by deranged/wicked/both people and gets to reveal information that embarrasses and enrages other wicked people. What fun. It’s a bit steep for me, but he considered it a bargain. “Everybody needs a hobby.”

It’s a bit of a fixer-upper, but when he’s done, he may end up with a company that’s worth more than what he paid for it. If so, he’s got a hobby that paid for itself. Nice.

This is getting more and more scandalous. Looks like Elon-Gate is gonna be really drawn-out.

When I hear that someone paid 44 billion dollars to buy a company that didn’t make money, I think “financial genius.”

Tell him to have a yard sale in addition to his auction of office furniture

Fee for services rendered.

I’m very glad our government is getting rid of tick tock. It’s sponsored by a communist government that wants to over throw all free governments and free countries by poisoning the minds of its followers.

Pig needs musical accompaniment on his telethon, I’m thinking Larry the Croc with an accordion. It could be called Busk for Musk!

What’s he talking about? Crypto?

The amount pledged needs 11 digits. With 9 you can only get up to 1 billion – 1.

It’s that fake crypto currency guy.

i’ll tell you what. send the donations to me and we can try to overtake those stuffy rich people. come on people, let’s do it.

Poor Elon, even his Tesla stock has taken a hit and he’s no longer the world’s richest man. Bernard Arnault is.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63963239

But he still is the world’s most obnoxious twit (er)!

Nobody is gonna donate money to a cause like that.

Come now, people. It’s a sad case indeed when you, virtually overnight, become no longer the world’s richest, the title now held by Bernard (Louis Vuitton) Arnault.

How much is Pig getting paid for this gig?

Did Pig tie his tie to his nose? It must be rather hard to breathe in that…

His intentions are good, but that’s about it.

I’m guessing that Steph’s not on the Birdsite anymore, if he ever was.

Jerry Lewis he ain’t.

What do you call a dooosh with $188,000,000,000? A rich dooosh.

Elon has huge profits from sales of Tesla stock, so he needs to lose $44b to offset the gains on Sched D. It’s just taxes, folks.

But…

But…

It’s Christmas.

And then he’ll invest it all in crypto.

May we have a drum roll,please?

Whaddya mean the drum has been repossessed?

Musk just announced he’s refusing to pay the back rent on the Twitter offices.

If I were a rich man…dyddle dyddle dydle dee…

Why didn’t we see cartoons like this when Netflix was charging more?

Maybe Bezos will donate…

Maybe he should just sell digital trading cards with pictures of him in his little superhero costume like the one he wears in his Twitter profile pic.

Oh, hang on: that’s been done.

If Elon ever finds himself on fire I’ll happily drink a six-pack and then put him out.

to a worth while cause

Elon spent 44 billion to turn Twitter into another 4 chan or Truth Social, where guys like Wasa can spew their bile until they weary of their own ignorance. Meanwhile decent people will flee the increasingly toxic platform and there will be one less venue for civil discourse and information.

At eight bucks a head, he will need 5.5 Billion donations.

This time, Pig’s heart and head are in the same place.

It’s a tough racket, PIg; especially when so many people love to hate your cause….