Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 09, 2017

Poof! Just raised taxes!

And then Trump found out the magician is an immigrant and cancelled his work visa.

We never were a democracy; we are a constitutional republic.

America, home of the Best Politicians Money can buy!

Sorry any extra money went to some kid’s lawyer’s fees.

What gets me the most is that even with the gerrymandering, mud slinging, lobbies, foreign influence and vote rigging, the politicians think they have a mandate.

Guys, you should check out the last 7 years of hungarian politics :D

Our democracy was gone when Trump was elected!

I have only ever truly liked exactly one politician since I passed age 18, and she was a state senate member. A few years ago, she visited a local library, and I managed to corner her afterward and asked her if she could do something about my state-run health insurance people, who simply refused to get back to me. She gave me an E-Mail address, I wrote to it, explained my problem, and one day later, these idiot insurance people called back in a virtual panic, bending over backwards asking if there was anything more they could get me. She got MY vote every time she ran after that.

Those pesky rights to free speech and petition the government!

I could have saved $17 buying “Democracy in Chains”.

Me want mor crocs, any crocs!

And now we have “Demo-crazy”.

If that’s Magic Mike, how come he’s still wearing all his clothes?

That’s where we are in the US now. Bribery is legal. Except we call it “speech.”

I am a fiscal conservative, and I agree that lobbyists , no matter the special intrest group funding them, should be illegal. But I also think there should be a balanced budget. neither of which will ever happen.

For a second I thought Magic Mike was the Comics Censor

Watch me pull a habbit out of my rat :~)

Also in that hat are unverifiable or unverified electronic voting and tabulating. And yes, democracy is gone.

We are now in a post constitutional government. – Kevin Shipp

…It’s fake news! I’ve got alternative facts! And I have the biggest crowd watching me of all time, Hu-ge! And I have big hand! The better to grab ’em by…

For a really funny take on democracy, watch the first episode of Blackadder the Third.

Or any Black Adder episodes……….“Pay no attention to the traitor behind the curtain!”

No act. California.

Of course he can. He’s a magician.

I sure wish he could make some of these worthless comments disappear…

xxx

I don’t like Magic Mike the Magician. He is an evil character.

Never darken my comic page again, you spawn of Satan and/or Cartoon-Boy!

@pastis: bullseye!

Pretty good summation… every attempt at political contributions  reform helps… for a few days or weeks, until the money finds another route to the campaign bank accounts. ..

Is this an editorial cartoon now?

He’s a real Magic Man!

Pig doesn’t understand, does he

doo doo doo pretty sure gerrymandering is against the first amendmenttt

You expect a lot from a magician!