Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 29, 2024

When the Government trusts the pharmaceuticals to test their own drugs, what do you expect?

It’s like an argument about whether choice A or choice A is better.

You’re better off just doing your Michigan J. Frog routine on someone else, Rat.

Rat is being very sensible, huh?

As I will always say to RAT all the time, stop trying to mess stuff up, dude!!!! Dan aka…F***ing rabble rouser!!!!

The song of Ice see you and Fire the lobbyists.

I have begun to notice the Peanuts style brick wall for conversations between adult human characters. Maybe if they leaned on it correctly Rat would let them talk.

I agree with rat, no major contributors that demand favors

If you think politicians are corrupt now, wait ‘till they get to spend taxpayer’s money on their own campaigns.

Give the power to the people: Problems solved!

-Public election fund-Strict campaign seasons only a few months before the election-Instant runoff voting-Ban politicians from being able to buy stocks-Actually have inspections instead of letting the company do it themselves

Not “no one”, Rat, but the Supremes don’t want to hear it.

so, publicly financed usually means government controlled. I can’t see how that could POSSIBLY go wrong.

It would be really hard to regulate elections given the corrupt SCOTUS, but I think the best thing about other countries may well be the short elections. Not just the money, but how long can be regulated.

But a funny joke about regulated elections. One clever scammer got a bunch of patsies to run in the governor’s election. He thus had about 25 candidates, and each candidate got a square on the public advertising boards for the election. His idea was to sell the advertising space from all of his patsy candidates. The numbers actually made sense and he could have made a pretty good profit, but he didn’t have enough salespeople and failed to sell enough ads and wound up losing money on the scam. (During the election I was wondering what all the blank space was about and why other boards had lots of repeated ads that didn’t seem to be related to the election. I found out about the scam a couple of weeks later.)

With publicly financed elections those bribes would stay 100% with the politicians, no ad cost involved.

If Dems win the Senate, time to eliminate the filibuster at least where it concerns political contributions, and pass a law that reverses Citizens United.

Set to the tune OF…..

Side effects may include Death….O well….

If you want to get illegal campaign contributions just start selling $100,000 watches.

Wow did all you people miss the point !

The government is the problem. It takes from the taxpayers and gives to “preferred” companies. Abolish non-military spending and the problem will vanish.

It’s a shame, because Rat’s song sounds like it would rocket up the charts.

Let the politicians politic……..Something needs to be done about how the news is warped as presented by the media. A media that sits comfortably behind our right to freedom of speech, yet harms our integrity as a nation.

Agree with Rat. These solutions aren’t perfect – Britain’s elections are short, publicly funded things, and, well, Brexit – but it’s a start.