Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 05, 2024

Think about the other guy; his vote is no better than a rat’s.

If that is the best you can come up with we are all in trouble.

As far as voting values go, I’m not sure of where to place Rat’s in respect to the Pig’s. However, if a grain of sand sealed in multiple layers of nacre should vote, it, in respect to Pig’s value, would go before him. If you understand the joke, please let me know.

A drawback of democracy; all those dipsh*ts.

If RAT, only now, just figured out the real deal (with Bill McNeal) is with our democracy, then it’s too late for us all….Dan aka…ps Really, it just boils down to: RAT is a day late and a dollar short, and that leaves us all with no hope….According to RAT, that is….

To me the purpose of an election is to not necessarily elect the best candidates into office but to choose from the lesser of 2 or more evils presented. ;/

I sometimes think that Rat overrates his own intelligence.

The rest of the world except the UK uses one person, one vote. No taxation without real representation!

Churchill"“The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Is Rat proposing a system by which we get one voting point per recorded IQ point?

Voting is tiring. I had to visit every county in the state to vote today!

Luckily I could mail in grandparents, great grandparents and great-great grandparents ballots.

When we fight we win?

But when the cornered rat fights it lies and kicks and bites and cheats and scratches and farts and climbs into the wrong end of the garbage truck and lies some more and…

Dear Gawd, please make the orange albatross go away. But You will have to drag the ugly bird. It would take a miracle to fly with three right wings and no left.

My ballot had 4 choices for president, but most folks would ignore the 2 (Besides the D and R) as they have no chance of winning.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. — Menken

oh yes, even idiots should vote!!!

I hope today’s election doesn’t end up like the election of 2000, where the Supreme Court had to decide who got Florida’s electoral votes, which were enough to seal the election. We know all about the bias of that Court.

The US is not a democracy but rather a Democratic Republic.

Constitutional Republic, not democracy.

Question for Rat. What if that guy voted for the same person as you did?

Orange idiot or light brown idiot. Take your pick. That’s it. The white idiots all chickened out.

Office is the perfect place for someone like Rat.

Actually, thanks to the electoral college, his vote counts a lot more than yours.

Well, Rat, maybe he’s dumb enough to vote the same way as you.

Rat’s a Liberal?

Yes, sadly MAGA votes count the same as normal people’s votes.

The problem is, depending on what state they’re in, it may count more.

Sorry, Rat, everyone’s vote gets the same amount of weight. Unless you live in certain states that are dominated by one city.

No, Rat. That’s the good news.

I said that all along. No more political parties just candidates.

So sad and true.

Just figuring that out Rat?

Just remember that you are the idiot in the booth next to idiot that you are next to.

sSo

The party doesn’t get to choose its members, they choose the party, and there is no mechanism for throwing anyone out short of ticking them off enough that they leave willingly.

Both political parties are private organizations. They have no responsibility to represent the voters. They sponsor the candidate they prefer, which is always going to be the one that they think will win, even if they might prefer another. To be upset about that fact is to misunderstand that the parties exist to push their agenda, and to support the candidates that they believe will further that agenda. If you agree with their agenda, then support them. If you don’t support their agenda, then that would be a dumb thing to do, because they don’t represent you, they never promised to do so, and they have no responsibility to you. And, it doesn’t make any more sense to allow them to determine your opinion of any candidate than it would if it were your local YMCA. However, a third party candidate in our current system has pretty much no chance of winning, so it comes down to choosing the candidate whose party annoys you less than the other one.

For that, you need to actually do a little research. Read the party and candidate information available on line—what they say, not what is said about them, by either side. Then try Open Secrets and find out who does best represent your opinions. Then decide if you think they have any chance, or if voting for them would just elect someone you really hate. The result of that decision making is where you should send your money, volunteer and vote.

And that’s why at the beginning of the Republic, only land owners could vote.

I live in NW Indiana, which has always been blue in a generally red state. A few minutes ago, I drove passed the polling place in beautiful downtown Beverly Shores, and I haven’t seen a crowd that big since the 2008 election. In 2008, Indiana went blue, giving its electoral votes to Obama. I hope that’s a good sign.

Equality gets in the way.

So much propaganda. A Constitutional Republic isn’t mob rule.

Congrats on publically admitting to a felony. DOJ at your door in 5…4…3…2..

Good news, Rat! If one party wins, you might get your wish and have some votes worth more than others. Unfortunately, the group whose votes will count the most are middle-aged (or older) wealthy white males. But I’m sure everybody else is fine with disenfranchisement, right?

Vote and vote—vote again.

Liar Trump loves the uneducated, they are the only ones who will vote for his thieving racist fascism.

Amazing! No one here has mentioned the obscene cost of these elections. We probably could have cured -x-x-x( name your favorite disease) with the billions that were spent to get winners and losers on those stages. Let’s go British.

What democracy?

D.T.’s tax return said he had six wives, all blind and over 65.

It’s not the vote that counts, it’s who counts the votes! (Look up the actual quote- Stalin 1923)

It never ceases to amaze me how many people have to stop and look at the posted sample ballot before they go in to actually vote. My ballot had a state constitutional amendment and a parish (county) charter amendment. Talk about an (un)informed electorate!

Funny, the guy in the next booth made the same complaint.

The fact that Trump is allowed to even run is a testament to the equality of the U.S. In most of the world he would already be dead.

Yeah, the stupid people are voting for Harris. Communism is on its way.

The standard distribution means that for every idiot voting, there is a genius voting. ideally they cancel each other out and middle wins by the most average vote. That’s why elections are always so close.

not even funny, steph.

My T-shirt says: When I die, please don’t let me vote Democrat!

I’m a little sad about the election, but it’s your choice about who you want to be president. I just hope he’s not as bad as 2017.

And if you really think about it, if Trump’s court cases come back up (which they might), it’s gonna take them another 2 years just to convict him in one state. His “friends” aren’t helping him. They’re making the process longer and more difficult. If it takes this long again, he’ll probably die in his 80’s, and only have a few states decided on the cases.

The whole country just got some bad news about democracy

Heinlein put forth requiring a basic test of arithmetic (as language can sometimes be fuzzy).