Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 04, 2024

He’s not just an average idiot, he’s Super-Idiot!

Elon Musk had a similar idea, only with net worth.

But does he have children?

If Rat doesn’t have children, at least we know he’s not a cat lady.

Rat is wants democrazy eh.

What doesn’t seem fair is that I study the candidates and the issues carefully…and my vote counts no more than the guy who closes his eyes and throws a dart.

He just proved his mental capacity as an idiot.

Rat’s ego strikes again!

The theory of democracy depends on “wisdom of crowds”, where many independent opinions tend to converge on best answers. However modern technology has pretty much destroyed the crucial “independence” and lies are amplified by targeting them at the perfect idiots for each lie.

(There are also problems with production costs. It’s expensive to find the truth but lies are really cheap to produce. Also some lies (from liars more competent than the orange albatross) can only be debunked with expensive research.)

If you want other people’s money because you don’t want to work- vote democratic. If you want other people’s money because you are rich and want more- vote republican. Me; I’m voting Bill and Opus.

Rats can’t vote – thank goodness for that.

In his novel “Double Star” Robert Heinlein came up with a great idea. Instead of voting based on where you live, you get to choose your own constituency. If you want to be a “Farmer,” or a “Gun Owner” or “Mass Transit User” or “Gamer” or whatever, that’s who you are. The book itself is light on details, but I think it’s a good place to start

Stephen missed out on the best laugh. He should have wrote,“Dear registrar of voting. I would like to registrar to vote.”

I like Rat.

Typical progressive elite.

At the rate things are going, I would trust a rat more than any politician.

Rat could always try buying votes. Maybe I could interest him in paying off my mortgage with someone else’s money……I’d vote for the Rat then.

I knew someone who thought voting should be weighted by education, e.g., someone who never graduated high school would get one vote, a high school graduate would get two votes, someone with some college education would get three votes, someone with an associate’s degree four votes, a bachelor’s would be five votes, etc.

I told him he’d have a better chance of convincing people of the scheme if he wasn’t about to get his doctorate, which would have the maximum number of votes.

Meanwhile, Tina Peters got nine years in prison. Sometimes, like now, I am proud of our justice system.

I once met an honest politician, he had his hands in his own pockets!

an’ a 1000 times smarter than right-wing populists………….

I wonder if unwarranted arrogance earns extra votes.

In a democracy, it’s your vote that counts.

In fudalism, it’s your Count that votes.

but your vote doesn’t count less than that other person’s. What you seem to want (if I’m reading you correctly) is a system where the elites do all the choosing and the peons have no say. Wait, don’t we have that now? Maybe, but it sure would be nice if that worked more like “I” think it should, n’est ce-pas?

Nevil Shute proposed an excellent method in the novel In The Wet. You get one vote just for breathing at the time of the election. You got another if you were a professional (doctor, lawyer, teacher, engineer, architect, clergy, etc.). If you were a military veteran, another. (Note 1: you didn’t get the extra until after you left the military. ‘Veteran’ is the key. Note 2: if you were a professional and a veteran, that’s two extra votes. The extra for being a professional does count while you’re in the military.) If you employed 1000 or more, that’s another vote; a veteran who was a professional and employed 1000 would have three extra votes, it’s just that it would be difficult to get that combination. There were a total of six possible extra votes, the last being the Queen’s (Liz sat in Buck House then, it’d be the King’s Vote now that Jughead infests Buck House) Vote, granted by HM the Queen/King for exceptional service to the Empire/Commonwealth. Getting two extra votes would be fairly straightforward; there are a whole lot of veterans who are professionals, for example. Three would be more difficult, four or five nearly impossible; probably no one would score all six extra votes.

That’s not how it works, Rat.