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.

Right. And the vast majority of people are better than average drivers.

Whoever said, “Alls fair in love and war" was an idiot.

Liberals write similar requests only they use crayons and omit every thing after the word “But” and pick up again after “As such,”. They even have copies in Spanish, Chinese, Haitians, Jamaicans, Somali/Ghanan/ et al, for Illegal Immigrants. Oops… The Count means Migrant Workers… so hard to keep up. God Bless America.

Rat should move to Chicago! … Where as the saying goes … Vote Early! – And Vote Often !! … :)

If you live in on of those states where the mail ballots to everyone and than allow them to be deposited in Unattended ballot boxes, you only need to go to neighbors who don’t intend to vote and ask for their ballots. Vote as many times as you want.

If I had multiple votes and there were more than two viable candidates, I would identify the least attractive candidate and divide my votes among the others.

I remember some years ago watching a silly talent show on YouTube. The judges spent the season narrowing the field down to three contestants, then the audience had a week to vote for a winner. I don’t think there was a way to limit an account to one vote at the time so they just made it a free for all and encouraged the audience to vote as many times as they wished. I saw a comment from someone who proudly declared “I’m voting for all three of them because they’re all great!” I tried in vain to explain that piling all your votes on your first choice was a valid strategy, and so was identifying your last choice and putting votes on both of the others, but that voting for all three would cancel out and was just a pointless waste of time. Turns out that trying to explain this was also a pointless waste of time, so I guess I was no better than the other commenter.

Come to think of it, the whole show was a pointless waste of time. But I had nothing better to do.

Yeah, no.

Reading other comments, I have what I think is a unique opinion. I believe we should maintain the current electoral college system which gives every eligible voter an equal vote within his state. Then, regardless of the percentage of votes for any one candidate, each state’s block of electoral votes (which is based on the state’s population) goes to the candidate preferred by the people of that state. This way both the people and the states have a say in the outcome.

Ha on you … we have a great filter called the “Electoral College.” Psst … you don’t vote for President, they do. But we’re expected to believe that every vote counts … thing is, not as a whole vote.

no dumber than the Electoral College

Most idiots think they are smart so most of us won’t take Rat’s word for it.

This strip must come from the David Letterman joke: Vote, because your vote counts as much as somebody who knows what they’re voting about.

Everybody thinks they’re 100 times smarter, so it works out to even.

Just got paper ballot in mail. Has long list of who can’t vote. One line item says “Idiots andinsane people”. I guess there will be a test at the polling place? It really says this!

Registrar of Voters to Rat: PROVE IT.

Magats don’t believe voting is necessary any longer.

Instead, they want to ‘install’ Their Messiah.

If any elections are held, they must be Putin style. Including the jailing and/or execution of opponents.

It only needs to count for ten votes, Rat. Most average idiots don’t vote. Which is probably a blessing in disguise.

Cat ladies should get 10,000 votes per cat. And by “per cat,” I mean every cat she has plus every cat she ever had, including fosters and any ferals she’s fed. Take that, JD.

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” —Bertrand Russell

You should only have as many extra votes as you have children. Ask JDV.

I already voted two Saturdays ago, so I’m done voting for the rest of the year

Besides Rat , who says he is 100x smarter than everyone else.

unrelated note: Trump said that he might bring the purge for a day to get rid of criminals

If he does that, he better hope none of his “allies” are willing to off him

The best you can do is move to Wyoming and vote Republican, in which case your vote counts a tiny bit more than the vote of a Democrat from California. However, if you are a California Republican, your vote counts for nothing. Walz and Democrats hate the Electoral College where people vote by state. He thinks it’s unDemocratic. But the edge gained by a small state like Wyoming getting 3 votes instead of one isn’t anywhere near us unDemocratic as the Senate where all the voters of Wyoming have the same representation as all the voters of California. That’s a feature, not a bug. Without it the voters of California could legally plunder Wyoming.

What also sucks is the push to register voters knowing that the real voters will be the caretakers of those for whom they registered.