Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 11, 2024

Many of our loved ones are alive because of Big Pharma.

Rat really knows how to bowl over the Little People®.

Many of you are wondering why I made our currency magnetic. You are also wondering what I am planning to do with this giant magnet.

King of the Lego people.

You’ve nailed it, Rat!

I like how all the little people turned to look at his distraction.

The last panel says it all, distract attention from what you are doing by playing up other less important things!

Deflection and delay.

Is Stephan waking up?

Let the comments begin!!

The double standard seems to be closing but in the wrong way, judging by recent utterly bogus cases against pharmaceutical companies.

Pay no attention to the ones pulling the strings behind your president.

Bread and circus

It’s not working anymore. Proof? Trump wants to stop it, so the distractions are ramped up to include him, and the people aren’t buying it. They support him even more, in SPITE of his abrasive personality. Well, all the people with common sense, anyway.

Sad, but too true.

I’m concerned. That 6th panel, all the subjects are facing the other direction, which makes me think that they are alive.

I wouldn’t expect Rat, as a king, to even speak on these matters to his public.

I know it’s petty, but the hyphen for ‘regarding’ in the first panel is incorrect. It should be between either e-g or d-i. Just saying…

Rat is not a king, he’s an evil dictator.

OH NO, GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, ORANGE MAN IS RUSSIAN MOLE! LOOK OUT, IT’S AN INSURRECTION! MAGA IS GOING TO MAKE THE HANDMAID’S TALE COME TRUE! Vote for us, we’ll protect you from all of that.

And many loved ones are dead because of Big Pharma.

SQUIRREL!

And so it goes…..

so is inaction. pols love to have hearings & meetins & form committees…but actually do nothing.

The problem with being a king is that you can’t just blame all of that stuff on the other party.

Its dictator Trump, the Maga king!

If you have a scandal, distract, distract, distract!

You hit the nail on the head!!!

Comic strips have always been topical. But they shouldn’t become the editorial section. Comic strips help us take a break from all of that – not to ignore it, just take a break for a bit.

And MANY are dead because Big Phama KNOWINGLY created a product as bad or worse as cocaine and THEN fueled the epidemic by filling fake subscriptions.

I don’t care which party anyone prefers, there is a lot of truth to this.

Have you noticed that they have treatments for everything…..but no cures? No money in cures.

It’s why we have wars……

“Now we see the violence inherent in the system!”

Add some screeching fat lady and this is the great U.S.A. opera.

“Bread and Circuses”

I have been wondering what is going on that the Israeli war is the distraction for.

That’s certainly the Democrat strategy for governance!

It’s good to be King!

Wag the dog!

Be advised, this is not a political piece. If you have read this as a political piece, you need to read it again and again and again until you decide it is not a political piece.

This may be last “P.B.S.” cartoon! A little too truthful!Watch to see if any “world events” occur during this evenings “Swifty Bowl”

Speaking of drugs, you could have also mentioned the different standards you have for domestic and for foreign – chiefly Latin American – heads of drug cartels.

Rat has shown us the modus operandi of the Biden Administration.

And even more so to getting away with Bad or No governance.

And many of our loved ones are hooked on “legal” narcotics because of Big pharma.

Ahh, memories. I loved those Fisher-Price little people!

Climate change!

In a previous administration, Rat would be pointing at himself.