Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 01, 2024

The same mindset that preaches nuclear superiority in the name of peace.

If he gets solutions to problems Rat won’t have anything to complain about.

The kind of thought that destroys a bipartisan bill to fix the border problems!

Fixing the country is different from fixing the world. It is nice to do both, but sometimes you have to pick one.

Goat does not have a beard. I just now looked it up on Google and not all goats have beards, so that’s OK.

We want victories, not solutions!

And that’s whats wrong with this country.

People don’t want victories, they want others to suffer losses.

You hit the nail on the head, Rat!

YES! Time to nail the candidates to their platforms on hard oakwood!

Funny, not funny.

Another reminder of the bad meme problem Jeff Hawkins wrote about. He used flat earthers because he wanted to avoid religion and politics: (1) Focus on the part of the meme you can see for yourself. (The earth looks flat.) (2) Gather with people who believe the same thing. (The Internet has made that much more possible.) (3) Avoid contact with nonbelievers. (As applied to religion, consider the Ten Commandments. Almighty Gawd stared with (3), apparently because He’s afraid of the competition.)

Whaaaat? Rat no want solution? This unbeliefable. Rat forget alcohol is solution eh.

So Rat is a democrat. I knew it.

Somebody please list the problems that you personally really have in your day to day life that some politician can fix.

Freedom works. The decline of the culture arose with the creation of economic regulators, and the erosion of individual freedom is perfectly corelated. Only the totalitarians among us wish to impose the bureaucrat’s predilections over those of millions of people voting with their dollars.

Scary isn’t it? I really miss the comments section in the political cartoons.

Politicians are the worst.

NO NEGOTIATION!! NO COMPROMISE!!

Exactly what’s wrong in America in a simple comic strip.

FALSE EQUIVALENCY ALERT!!!!!

This would be realllyy funny if it wasn’t so reallly true.

Kind of like being upset that Trump, Musk and Desantis are already running the clean-up after Helene without waiting for the feds to sign off and get FEMA involved.

Once again Pastis accurately sums up the mindset of a large portion of our population in 4 panels. Unfortunately.

Bravo!

I know a ‘Benyamin’ that is also seeking for victories instead of solutions… what a waste!

“Why Not BOTH!” ~ The Obnoxious Little Twit in the Twix Commercial.

And both side think this way

If we focused HALF as much on solving problems as your party “winning” we would be a much better society.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

—Harry S Truman

Vote for Kamala and end the dramala! ;-)

In the current situation, a Victory would be the Solution… ☺

Typical Republican response.

I guess I should have realized that Rat would side with GOP/MAGA.

So half the country (according to the polls) are sanctimonious, misanthropic, racist, nihilists that want to “Make Amerika White Again” while the other half are atheistic, woke, communists indoctrinating tolerance and acceptance in the public school system

Spoken like a true……..

Hi. My name is Kamala Harris and I’m perfectly normal.

Why do so many people think t hat’s unusual?

It looks to me like the nuclear option is very much front and center on the table. The other side must be destroyed to save ourselves.

Top 10 Countries with the Highest Gross National Product (United Nations 2020 GNI, current US$): United States$25.59 TnChina$18.15 TnJapan$5.31 TnGermany$4.53 TnIndia$3.39 TnUnited Kingdom$3.30 TnFrance$3.08 TnItaly$2.25 TnCanada$2.06 TnRussia$1.87 Tn

Come on Rat, that’s a lot of trillion$

Not quite. When both sides are diametrically opposed on what they believe the problems are (and what their solutions would therefore be), winning becomes the imperative before the real work can start. Without naming names, one side is comprised of wackos, half-wits, and conspira-twits but the other isn’t.

Sounds downright like someone who is running for president on the platform of “I will make up stories to get your attention.”

“vote blue no matter who!”

Dictatorships occur INCREMENTALLY – Germany, even with social/economic problems, was a thriving Democracy with rights/freedoms, etc. Enter Hitler, who FALSELY CLAIMED (like Trump) he could solve ALL people’s problems: So Hitler and Nazis WERE ELECTED BY CITIZENS, and once in power they installed loyalists to the Dictator, terrorized citizens, businesses, threats, violence, murders, social/economics worsened, abolished democracy, took away citizens rights, rampant bigotry (racism, etc.), LIES, undermine institutions, rewrite history, deny free speech and press, ban books, voter suppression, control your body, media, Religious tyranny put into law, etc.

2. Americans, PAY ATTENTION AND YOU WILL SEE that the above IS happening in America under Republican leadership, WITH HELP FROM CORRUPT GOP SC majority (Supreme Court Under MAGA – or SCUM), GOP Congress, and Republicans, taking rights/freedoms incrementally, one by one, from Americans (i.e. women, different races, minorities, LGBTQ+, “religions”, voting rights, etc.), LYING that they know nothing about Project 2025 (Hitler’s playbook), but SECRETLY planning to implement it if they are elected, and then Americans will wakeup one day and say to themselves:

“How did we lose our rights/freedoms, and how did U.S. become a Dictatorship?” The answer will be American voters did not come out in DROVES and vote downballot for Democrats, and NEVER vote for Republicans, who turned America into a Theocratic Nazi Dictatorship.

if you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem

Pos-si-ble.

It’s not everything. It’s the only thing.

No matter who wins, the public loses.

The problem today, it’s not about what’s best for the country and the world, but which side wins. And we all lose.

“Feelings” and emotions have always steered peoples’ votes. Maybe now more than ever. Trump is very good at stirring up that monster under the bed. I just hope that there are enough who see through the flim-flam and remember what a disaster his first term was.

I’m with Goat on this.

I’ll support the most God-awful buffoons that ever crapped on American politics if I means I’m a winner!

how does every pearls character always have a baseball bat in thair pocket?