Bloom County 2019 by Berkeley Breathed for March 13, 2017

I do believe the sign says: Collect Flowers: Bullet (Least that is what Google translate made of my chicken scratch since it could not detect it by camera)

“collect flowers: bullet?” i must have gotten the translation wrong. dRUMPf needs to improve his russian if his handlers are to rely on him.

Google Translate wouldn’t take ‘bullet,; but I tried ’Collect flowers. Shoot.’

Соберите цветы. Стрелять

Maybe, Pick the flowers and be shot?

Don’t even LOOK at the flowers or get shot! The typical Trump meme: Nothing to see here!

Dandelions are considered weeds, aren’t they?

It’s nice seeing all the racist, bigoted posts from the left on here.

Having seen where this story is going on Facebook, I can tell you it’ll be heartwarming in the end. Engaging in reductio ad absurdum has long been Breathed’s way.

“bullet” is пуля; in accusitive case this means “collect flowers and bullet”?

Ha! That Russian word (where the first three letters are “pyr” as in “pyro-”) is pronounced, roughly, poo-ryoo ( “poor you” :-) ).

My own personal pronunciation of “poor”, I admit, often sounds a bit more like “pore” than it should (poo r). (I’m 3rd gen. American, not in any way Russian.)

It’s Russian slang. Google translate is crap. The last word is pronounced “pool-you” which is a slang word for to steal or rob. It’s a verb, the first person singular, it comes out to mean “I am stealing the flowers”. No idea why it has the colon in it. I’ve never seen it used like that in Russian before, not even in a sign. Unless Breathed was trying to make it say “Do not steal the flowers”. If that’s the case he should have consulted a Russian speaker.

The sign may be Russian, but Opus seems to be Stalin.

Do I get any Marx for this pun?

I blame it all on Comrade Opus’s poor spelling. —With crayon….

Isn’t it more likely that the Cyrillic is simply an awkward translation of the “Dandelion Patch / No Pickin’” on the other side?

And soon we’ll have bread lines when the FDA is totaled and people can’t buy quality bread except from Trump Bakery, LLC!

A Russian coworker translated this as “gather flowers bullet.” A Google search found the Henry David Thoreau quote, “Gather flowers not bullets.”

“Pick the flowers, take a bullet!” The kind, softhearted Russian way of letting you know what not to do. In Russia, flowers pick you!

Russian idea of freedom: “In Russia, everything not prohibited is mandatory!”