Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 03, 2023

Someone has to play God, it might as well be Rat.

According to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Pig is more qualified than Rat.

let’s see if that works for you Rat!

The person we want controlling the world is someone who sincerely doesn’t want the job.

There are a lot of rats these days that rule the world… add your own names.

It’s not who is in charge that runs the world. It’s the advisors, they tell the big cheese what to do. They are the problem.

And not a moment too soon, Rat.

Rat’s at a diner. He mentions idiots. Now he just orders them…… could someone please tell the chef to serve Rat a fresh order of idiots?

A world in control of rats eh. This got to be an improvement .

And Rat just started a cult or a YouTube channel, sometimes hard to tell the difference.

I love how calm rat looks

Rat in charge, perish the thought!

Now it’s true. That doddering old fool in the White House today can’t even find his pants in the morning, much less read a teleprompter. So his fascist handlers just prop him up — until he trips over a sandbag — and go on about their work to make America a land of limited opportunity.

So who’s gonna suggest to rat how he should live his life?

But We Decide Which Is Right Which Is An Illusion …. Moody Blues ;-)

Pinky and The Brain.

Someone has to take charge of this world and it might as well be women because the men seem to have a horrible track record unless you continue to let the men rewrite history.

Some people definitely need guidance. Maybe something like a life coach with a taser.

Stalin said " it is not how many votes there are " it is who counts them that makes the difference : )

Rat wants everything to be the way he says it is, even if it’s completely irrational or wrong.

Rat must have been taking lessons from Dogbert about how to run the world – that is, before “Dilbert” was canceled…

The sad thing is I agree with him.

The challenge, of course, being that a lotta people who think they are not the idiots are also believing in things like Pizzagate.

I order and the idiots deliver to me.

Uh oh, sounds like a new presidential candidate being born.

And thats how wars start.

I’ve tried that, Rat, but no one pays attention.

Hope Rat’s health insurance is paid up. …life insurance too…

The ordering is the easy part, but if you don’t understand the subject, you’re going to get mixed results

So Rat’s a politician

You have Rhonda Santis on his way to take control now.

Anakin Skywalker wasn’t wrong… “Well, if it works…”

You can’t tell me what to do, Rat. You are neither my husband nor my mother.

Rat has hit on the prime directive of government bureaucracy.

Is there a solid definition of “an idiot” that can be used to all people?

Perhaps people in a certain percentile of intelligence.

Especially the 5-Standard Deviations Card Carrying Political Party Members.

Someone does? Why?

The world is fine. It’s the people who want to take control of it that are the problem.

““Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -“The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment,” in God in the Dock” — C.S. Lewis

Sorry Rat, the people running the world are more “Rat” than you are.

Not to worry, guys, someone will.

Rat is a rat is a rat!

Frighteningly, this seems to be the Conservative game plan.

Get in line, Rat. We’ve had too many people like that. It’s the one to help us help ourselves we need.

I’m disappointed that the last frame wasn’t Rat giving Goat his orders.

Not that I think Goat is an idiot, but I’m sure Rat thinks everyone other than him is.

I guess what the world needs is a Volodomyr Zelenskyy. Someone who can be a hero and not a dictator. Someone smart, young, agile, very likeable and an incredible sense of humor.

“If I ruled the world…”

When Rat becomes Emperor of the World, all will run smoothly and efficiently—for him….

invisible PIG: well, you might also add…

RA RA RATS OUR MAN, IF HE CANT DO IT NO ONE CAN!

Ah,but will the idiots LISTEN??