Don’t bother. The media has given more than 50 years of free undeserved publicity to Trump and that’s all they will ever do, unless you boldly inconvenience Trump for at least 2 minutes.
Stopping people going to work or picking up their kids causes a traffic jam, which in turn can also stop ambulances and fire trucks. Why do people think this is a good idea? And, when it’s to protest climate change, it makes all those cars idle, which causes even more pollution. I think somebody hasn’t thought this all the way through.
Rat Lives Matter with a page out of the Black Lives Matter Peaceful Protest Playbook. Don’t forget the looting. And assaults and arson and shootings and rapes and murders and the oh so trendy anti-Semitism. Destroying or defacing a work of art in the name of Climate Change is trendy, too. And equally bright. The Count recently saw a t-shirt with a graphic that pretty much sums it up: “I may be old but I’m old enough to remember America before it went to sh!t”.
They are usually very young, and almost all young people are fundamentalists of one kind or another, and they inhabit an insular environment where almost everyone thinks like them, so it becomes tribal. What they believe or want is the only important thing in the world, and they approach it with no pragmatism or sense.
Now imagine the reaction if the liability of running over a person intentionally blocking the right of way as part of an unauthorized protest was removed.
The MAGAt Cubans in Miami want to protest a billboard by protesting on a highway. Their MAGAt hero governor has signed a law that permits drivers to hit protestors blocking highways.Pardon me, I have to go for a drive.
The lunch counter sit-ins of the late 50s were an excellent model. The students who sat-in were claiming and exercising a right without interfering in the rights of others and they were willing to take the consequences on themselves. The Freedom Rides were another example.
“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the [Black person]‘s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the [Black person] to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letters from a Birmingham Jail
I’m disappointed in your message today, Mr. Pastis. We ignore history at our own peril.
Hmmm…Rat starts out a highly annoying woke climate protester simpleton, but by the final panel is reconsidering his past as a full-blown Antifa thug… an individual Leftist ’s evolution?….
Society shouldn’t hang people who disrupt traffic by the neck because they disrupted traffic, society should hang people who disrupt traffic by the neck so that traffic will not be disrupted.
If Rat wants to be in a viral protest video, he should try super-gluing himself to a Lamborghini. Then we could just search for “200 mph screaming Rat”…should be an impressive Doppler shift as he goes by…
Most people don’t care about causes. they just want to sail along on the smooth course of everyday life. Forcing them to pay attention usually just scares them.
And to think that in the lead up to the American Revolution mobs frequently tore down the houses of Royalist governors by hand, bit by bit, board by board.
BasilBruce 11 days ago
Protesting on a bridge is a bad idea, Rat. Ever see “The Blues Brothers”?
Bilan 11 days ago
Can Goat explain that to the people throwing paint on Stonehenge or those paintings?
sirbadger 11 days ago
How many drivers would stop for a rat?
orinoco womble 11 days ago
Rethinking senseless behaviour? Rat? C’mon now! No one believes that!
enigmamz 11 days ago
Just paint historical landmarks yellow.
“Not orange, like in the news?” You don’t want to just copy what some idiots do.
GeorgeInAZ 11 days ago
Protestors like that are not trying to attract believers. They are working to demoralize others, to erode their confidence in civil society.
tudza Premium Member 11 days ago
Really, this sounds like Rats reason for being. Burn them business, Rat!
crosscompiler Premium Member 11 days ago
Don’t bother. The media has given more than 50 years of free undeserved publicity to Trump and that’s all they will ever do, unless you boldly inconvenience Trump for at least 2 minutes.
rshive 11 days ago
It’s really easy to aggravate people these days, Rat.
Purple People Eater 11 days ago
Stopping people going to work or picking up their kids causes a traffic jam, which in turn can also stop ambulances and fire trucks. Why do people think this is a good idea? And, when it’s to protest climate change, it makes all those cars idle, which causes even more pollution. I think somebody hasn’t thought this all the way through.
juicebruce 11 days ago
Just not Goat’s cup of tea ;-)
El-Kabong 11 days ago
They don’t want you on their side, they want you to succumb.
Timothy Abraham Premium Member 10 days ago
Call in Guard Duck to take care of the situation.
bpscg 10 days ago
Simple solution for people who block traffic:
Pepper spray. Apply liberally.
Stupidity should be painful.
Steverino Premium Member 10 days ago
I knew New York had a Rat problem, but this is worse.
SNVBD 10 days ago
Mao Tse-Tung said change must come
Change must come thru the barrel of a gun
Not thru talkin’ and not through waitin’
And sittin’ around just contemplatin’
The facts, ’cos we know what they are
So let Mao Tse Tung be your guidin’ star
Pick up a gun and learn how to fight
All thru the day and all thru the night
‘Til come the day when the last fight’s won
I want you to listen, son
colddonkey 10 days ago
BLM got away with the burning idea.
James Wolfenstein 10 days ago
“might be on my side…” They have to! I’M RIGHT!!! THEY MUST SUPPORT ME OR I’LL MAKE THEM! Don’t you dare click the block button!!!! :D
AtariDragon 10 days ago
Try gluing yourself to a runway or vandalizing art, then.
Count Olaf Premium Member 10 days ago
Rat Lives Matter with a page out of the Black Lives Matter Peaceful Protest Playbook. Don’t forget the looting. And assaults and arson and shootings and rapes and murders and the oh so trendy anti-Semitism. Destroying or defacing a work of art in the name of Climate Change is trendy, too. And equally bright. The Count recently saw a t-shirt with a graphic that pretty much sums it up: “I may be old but I’m old enough to remember America before it went to sh!t”.
aerotica69 10 days ago
St Louis, 2014
MS72 10 days ago
Stay outa my way. This ain’t Tiananmen Square.
Ignatz Premium Member 10 days ago
They are usually very young, and almost all young people are fundamentalists of one kind or another, and they inhabit an insular environment where almost everyone thinks like them, so it becomes tribal. What they believe or want is the only important thing in the world, and they approach it with no pragmatism or sense.
asmbeers 10 days ago
Now imagine the reaction if the liability of running over a person intentionally blocking the right of way as part of an unauthorized protest was removed.
mindjob 10 days ago
He’ll have to get some funding from Big Oil
twstd 10 days ago
Perhaps a dig at Just Stop Oil
Ellis97 10 days ago
Even when he thinks he’s doing good, Rat still finds a way to make people miserable.
kdandre63 10 days ago
The comfortable are never on anyone’s side but their own.
Malph 10 days ago
Spot on!
darthopper Premium Member 10 days ago
Point taken. Now do one about Charlottesville and J6 “protests”.
Goat from PBS 10 days ago
Surely there are better way to protest. I just don’t know what any of them are.
Ishka Bibel 10 days ago
The MAGAt Cubans in Miami want to protest a billboard by protesting on a highway. Their MAGAt hero governor has signed a law that permits drivers to hit protestors blocking highways.Pardon me, I have to go for a drive.
lonecat 10 days ago
The lunch counter sit-ins of the late 50s were an excellent model. The students who sat-in were claiming and exercising a right without interfering in the rights of others and they were willing to take the consequences on themselves. The Freedom Rides were another example.
Otis Rufus Driftwood 10 days ago
I’m with Goat on this.
moondog42 Premium Member 10 days ago
The purpose of mass protest is to try getting enough people to put pressure on politicians to change things.
The big problem here is that no matter which party supposedly represents you in the government, they will NEVER give one whit about what you think.
Mentor397 10 days ago
Destroy popular art and historical artifacts. That’ll get the people on your side.
redback 10 days ago
kinda like ‘we feel offended because they call us terrorists, so let’s explode a bomb to show them’
zeexenon 10 days ago
Ooh, electronics career and BBROUGBVGW.
diverleo 10 days ago
Good idea. Let’s shut down the Golden Gate Bridge and see how that works for us. Kind of like spraying orange powder on Stonehenge?
Solitha Premium Member 10 days ago
“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the [Black person]‘s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the [Black person] to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letters from a Birmingham Jail
I’m disappointed in your message today, Mr. Pastis. We ignore history at our own peril.
minty_Joe 10 days ago
“We’re not gonna protest! We’re not gonna protest!” ~ PCU (Movie, 1994)
Holden Awn 10 days ago
Hmmm…Rat starts out a highly annoying woke climate protester simpleton, but by the final panel is reconsidering his past as a full-blown Antifa thug… an individual Leftist ’s evolution?….
JoeMartinFan Premium Member 10 days ago
This is why I live by this simple motto: “It’s not just WHAT you do, but HOW you do it.”
Paul Hampson Premium Member 10 days ago
Yep, been wondering for a long time about the logic in that sort of thing.
El-Kabong 10 days ago
Society shouldn’t hang people who disrupt traffic by the neck because they disrupted traffic, society should hang people who disrupt traffic by the neck so that traffic will not be disrupted.
razzledazzle295 10 days ago
Far be it from Rat to do a peaceful protest.
Cameron1988 Premium Member 10 days ago
Why does Steph love triggering people?
CleverHans Premium Member 10 days ago
If Rat wants to be in a viral protest video, he should try super-gluing himself to a Lamborghini. Then we could just search for “200 mph screaming Rat”…should be an impressive Doppler shift as he goes by…
El-Kabong 10 days ago
Unfortunately for society’s disrupters those they despise will soon be pushing daisies. They will be the targets of their more radical spawn.
pheets 10 days ago
Goat has a natural talent for understatement.
eddi-TBH 10 days ago
Most people don’t care about causes. they just want to sail along on the smooth course of everyday life. Forcing them to pay attention usually just scares them.
cracker65 10 days ago
Burn down the mission. Elton John.
Arghhgarrr Premium Member 10 days ago
And to think that in the lead up to the American Revolution mobs frequently tore down the houses of Royalist governors by hand, bit by bit, board by board.
cafed00d Premium Member 10 days ago
Looting and pillaging stores is a good way to get business owners on your side.
RyCar66 9 days ago
Pastis talking out of both sides of his mouth again.
einarbt 5 days ago
Anything to get publicity.