Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 26, 2020

It wouldn’t work. Jerks don’t believe in science.

Worse, we keep voting for them.

Don’t worry Calvin. One day Moe will wash your car like in that movie whose original English title I can’t remember and which in Italian was “Ritorno al futuro” .

Apparently, they’re not making it against the law, either.

We already live in a Jerkdom, Calvin. I just wish there was equality of jerkness – far too many sissies and too few jerks.

We need a vaccine…

How about a double-barrelled shotgun?

The bad thing is, if Calvin told his teacher about Moe, she’d shrug it off and tell him to “man up”! :/

Last laugh Calvin; those guys usually go to fat.

Ignorance can be treated with information, Calvin, but there is no known cure for stupid. Moe’s case is terminal.

“Bully” is a politically correct term meaning things that would get me banned here.

Also, Moe will be one of the jerks driving enormous trucks with confederate flags. going to Trump rallies and not wearing masks until he dies of COVID.

Sadly there is no cure, Calvin. However, at least it’s not highly contagious.

I don’t miss school at all.

I left Scots College, Warwick, Australia, in December 1988, vowing never to go to a reunion.

5 years of being with thugs and bullies, who if they couldn’t find someone else to bully would start on me (a number left purely because of bullying) so why on earth would I ever want to see them again, other than in a news report about their untimely and hopefully excruciatingly painful demise?

That is the male half anyway.

The female half, some of them I was there with for 5 years, and with some I can recall the precise number of conversations I had, they were so infrequent (and some quite unpleasant), some of which only occurred in chance meetings after I left the school.

So, no great feeling of need to see any of them again either, for all I (pointlessly) liked some of them.

Nope, be true to yourself Calvin, stay away from the Moe’s of the world, they won’t ever make it a better happier place.

That’s Dr. Fauci’s next thing.

There is a simple cure… the downside is that it leaves all of us dead.

Instead, 30% of our population adulate the Jerk of jerks. We’re on the brink of pissing away more than 230 years of democratic evolution in the name of greed, arrogance, venality, mendacity, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, corruption, hypocrisy, malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance, and would-be despotism.

Yep, Calvin. As it’s rightly said: “It isn’t the ups and downs of life that matter – it’s the jerks!” :D

I hear ya, Cal, I hear ya.

My litttle brother took down O’dell Macon, who could strike a match on his beard in the 7th grade, he’d been held back so many times. They let that behemoth play flag football during p.e. Little brother just jumped in O’dell’s legs and tangled him up as he tried to run. Little brother had no fear and little sense.

Maybe Calvin should take karate lessons.

I’m still waiting for Calvin to kick him in the you know what’s or a straight jab to the throat, but then Watterson would have to find a new story line. Anyways Moe will be flipping burgers for Calvin and his kids someday.

Calvin better be careful. He is often a pretty big jerk himself.

Betty Wu could take Mo.

There will always be bullies.

agreed

Don’t make a political comment…don’t make a political comment…don’t make a political comment…

Actually anti-bullying programs in schools is much more of a thing today than it was 30 years ago.

……..with huge fists! ;o[

It’s time to stop the strips with Moe the bully. Yes, I know they’re all repeats.

Unfortunately, Calvin, you are the prime research candidate for jerk curing. Ask any girl.

Just vote them out of office. Starting at the top of the ticket and go all of the way to the bottom.

Moe with (someone else’s) money = trump.

Can’t cure stupid. Short term gain by criminals outweighed by incarceration time. Not really cost effective…..

Very true Calvert.

Nowadays you would do an intervention with Moe.

Electing one didn’t work.

“Everyone is a bully to someone.”- Oprah Winfrey

Calvin’s gotta find a “bigger” dude to make friends with like me ‘n several others did in grade school in the ’50’s so the bullying would stop !

It’s been years since I was that age and yet…bullies still hit me up for my lunch money…

One day Calvin, you will need to learn to stand up for yourself.

Jerks don’t believe in science.

One cure would be to get rid of the Electoral College.

that would suck for jerks and bullys

Truer words were never spoken Calvin.

Moe grows up to become Dr. Fauci.

I just noticed Moe’s balloon dialogue gets different, simpler print than the all-capitals everyone else gets.

DJT – Now I know what the J stands for.

Amen to that Calvin.

We knew it once.The board of education lovingly applied to the seat of learning.

“Back to the Future” You are certainly correct Calvin. Get Hobbes to beat him up!

We apparently elect them President . . . or at least we did in 2016.