Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 15, 2020

There’s always gossip about the Royal Family.

G0SSIP IS ETERNAL

Hope you are right, Rat.

Build the bonfire and toss the culprit in it — book burning re-purposed.

Go into politics friend. Digging up dirt, even years old dirt, is really helpful in derailing candidates.;-D

Hopefully the day will come soon, so we can end clown world for good…

¡Wolf! (a long time ago under entirely different circumstances)

Ah the day the outright outrageous ones are ousted!

Let’s all give him the bird.

Once again, I find myself agreeing with Rat.

Rat rules.

Too many twitter tw*ts.

So.

Finally.

Twitter jumped the shark.

(sigh)

Twitter: Modern self-deification

What will I do with my life ? Get a job and go to work … stop playing with your Belly – Button ;-) … Croc Power !

Stephan! What vile thing did you say nine years ago??

I have been tired of the biggest twitter twit for at least three years.

Nothing lower than a ”Twitter Twit“, unless it’s comic strip artist. ;o)

If an idiot twits and no one reads it is he still an idiot?

Do Twitter Twits get all their news from Facebook?

Wishful thinking? I hope not

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Right on the nose, Stephen!!!!!!! All this PC krapola is really getting irritating……..

Key to what was said is “can be construed”. No matter what context or what was actually said someone decides that it offends them and we are off to the races with an eleven year old comment. That is regardless of what has happened in the eleven years since.

Unfortunately, certain demographics are just getting warmed up on twitter.

Nice to see Pastis jumping on the bandwagon of all of the wealthy and popular comedians whining about how “PC culture” doesn’t allow them to tell the jokes that they’re actually telling. Poor oppressed snowflakes.

I guess it will end when people say enough is enough….how much longer, must we endure this circus? HOW MUCH?

“Twitter twits” are merely people who disagree with Patsis who today endorses intolerance – and is not funny

Wow, the trifecta…racist, sexist and homophobic. They must have really had it in for those lesbians of color.

I can’t “like” this one enough!

Okay, Stephan, spill: what did you say nine years ago?

Unfortunately, today is not that day.

The Church of Outrage: How insignificant people find relevance.

YouTwitFace.

Oh my God, what will the Conservatives do NOW, since they don’t have any way to spread their nonsense any longer???

Any president can lie about anything he wants on Twitter, this is America and they won’t drop him for bullying.

I don’t know who merits the most anger and disappointment, the insecure, megalomaniac writing and posting those screeds on Twitter or the delusional ignoramus who reads and believes them!

While I do, in fact, have a Twitter account; I almost NEVER check it, and create twitters even less frequently. Fat Orange Elvis ruined Twitter for me. Also, my interest in celebrities is small, VERY close to zero. I check out “Pearls Before Swine” daily!

If only… but Twitter is just the latest medium for the mob. And Trump only the most recent demagogue.

Go stand in the corner with the other birdbrains.

Go AWAY. Do NOT leave your new address. And, as a guy, your shouldn’t add a dress to your wardrobe.

Blues are just as bad and have been for years!

AMEN!!!

Should become a national holiday

That day can’t come soon enough!

I don’t know many, maybe any people who could stand up to that kind of scrutiny.

Although the power of nuisance of twitter twits is real, it is disproportionate. They still are a minority, but they are more vocal and agressively active. Just like their predecessors in Germany in 1933, or in China in 1966, with the same tendency to tell everyone what is right and what is wrong for their own good, force them to be criticized and grovel and apologize in public and ban or rewrite ancient works of art because they are offensive to their thinking or deemed inappropriate… They are sincere, they believe they are doing it to improve society and just like others behind them, they forget due process because they think they have the moral ground. They function as mob justice. We also know, from the two examples I gave how it’s going to turn out if we let them take over. The chinese cultural revolution did want to make people equal and replace offensive art with something consensual and positive. And soon it just needed a few hysterics to point the finger at you for some fault they perceived or behavior they deemed offensive and you’d be sent to a camp without a true judgement and a chance to defend yourself. So it’s time for the majority to step up and stop this.

The Bible calls that straining gnats and swallowing camels

Amen to this one Stephan…so tired of the whiners and complainers!

The PC world is such a burden.

This is what is happening with the Romance Writers of America right now. Years ago, someone wrote a historical romance where historically accurate things happened. Someone just noticed this with horror and said the writer is a racist, the Board reacted and threw the writer out, and the organization has imploded over the stupidity and arrogance.

Again, guaranteed Pastis regularly uses the N word.

Some of “we” never bothered to begin with.

nice to know that you get more annoyed by people calling out other peoples’ racism and sexism than people being racist and sexist.

This is very upsetting.

Long overdue!

So kewl. Anyone know when that will be?

Yep – I know everything there is to know about computers – all the twitters – (Logan Lucky – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS-cdGjIVaI)

Some people outgrow their ignorance and bigotry, some don’t.

Hey, Rat – Just to let you know, whenever that day was, you missed one.

Oh, can this be today? Please?

Too sci-fi at the present, sadly. I like the idea, but in the present atmosphere it will take dozens of years to happen. Perhaps three or four dozen minimum.

The ones who are offensive are not the ones who said something offensive 9 years ago, but the ones who are outraged because the rest of us are not offended.

It must be hard to be some sort of offspring of Wisconsin’s crazy son Joe McCarthy.

I don’t give a twit for twitter.

Please, now!

Somebody—anybody—, make Twitter go away!

A-freaking-men!

Best toon today.

I’m very fortunate, most of my life, at least the exciting part, happened before Social Media.