Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 03, 2023

Hopefully, the moment will pass.

He’s no genius, but he is certifiable.

instead of dry January what would happen if we had a social media-less January…i wonder what would happen?

Rat’s comment: Rat should be banned from all social media.

Response: Yes, about time.

Step 1: The algorithm convinces him that he’s a genius. Step 2: The algorithm tells him who to vote for.

Elon Rat.

Isn’t ‘everyone agrees with me’ more of the opposite to ‘certifiable genius’?

Seen an unsolicited FB post today, Elon Musk and his mother, in formal 2023 event. I scrolled through the comments. All flattering congratulatory. I was tempted to add one congratulating on his greatest innovation, butt-kissing bots and flattery filters. But I saw no points in being snarky; just be glad I don’t have a petty and tyrannical boss like him.

So true.

Actually you had your moment … and now it’s gone.

I am a certified genius. I called MENSA and asked them to certify me, they asked for a 150 dollars fee, which I refused to pay. Hence, I’m smarter than all their members, except for the founder :D

Certifiable is right Rat! Bur genius, that’s debatable!

Rat would make for a great megalomaniac.

I’m a Microsoft Certified Product Specialist, but before I got certified, I had to be certifiable.

Dr. Mallard from NCIS: Social Media is a cesspool of questionable human behavior.

Actually, The Count and Countess agree with Rat most of the time. We like the way the lad thinks.

Recently, George Takei (formerly Sulu on Star Trek) admitted to using the “mute” feature on twitter so the only responses he sees to his tweets are the ones that agree with him.

Morning Steph, will you consider another caricter called cow that dresses in punk

Rat just likes feeling superior. He doesn’t really care if people lie about his “greatness”.

Aren’t we!

Sounds like RAT is a clone of DJT!

Rat drives a Tesla. Just sayin’ :P

I only block people on SM who attack me personally instead of discussing or debating ideas. Guess what? That was about 80%.

Social media in a nutshell. “You disagree with me?” “I’m offended!” “You’re an idiot!” “What is wrong with you?!” “Censorship!” “Blocked!”

That doesn’t sound like the real Rat, OK who’s writing the Rat character…

Different strokes for different folks. Come visit my garage and feast on the rodent candy I put there.

Goin’ downtown to the hoosegow

Gotta do it right away

Gotta funky thing to get into

Gonna blow my blues away

Talkin’ Perp walk!

Perp walk!

Perp walk!

Perp walk!

- J. Holdsworth

I’m a legend in my own mind.

Maybe you’re using the new chat software that Comics Kingdom unveiled a few months ago and got shadowbanned like I did. They won’t even return my emails to tell me why they did it as I never got a single email telling me I’d violated their policies (I haven’t).

Rat certainly is certifiable.

Yeah, check out Ottawa County in Michigan in the news today.

This ‘moment’ is making us all nauseous.

Block ’em out! Block ’em out! Block ’em way out!

Sigh. So satisfying….