Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 23, 2024

Make America Flat Again

We now have a new expression: “Dumb as a rat.”

Earth travels in a spiral pattern through the galaxy, because the sun is travelling through the galaxy.

Goat, it seems that way at election time !

Rat must have a tinfoil hat!

14 days to flatten the curve! The Hunter laptop is a Russian hoax! The Steele dossier is real! The border is secure, and the people are prospering!

If the government ever claimed that the sun circles the earth, that might be the least of its lies.

Somewhere around supply-side tax cuts, would be my guess.

I still can’t believe ‘Flat-Earthers’ actually believe the Earth is flat. It HAS to be a hoax. It’s like Cartman trying to make Kyle believe that he is being sincere; you just KNOW it ends with ‘Ha ha! Made you believe me!’

This comic is just begging to be trolled!

If Goat is a Liberal he did. Or would/will when the Masters in the Ministry of Truth tell him. God Bless America! (The Court doesn’t think Goat is a Liberal, btw)

My favourite such theory is the one arguing that either Finland or Australia (or possibly both) don’t exist.

Sherlock Holmes, no dummy, claimed to be unaware that the Earth travels around the sun. When he was upbraided by Watson for his ignorance, Holmes said that the fact was of no use to him, and that he would immediately try to forget it.

Of all the things I’ve lost, I think I miss my mind the most. Then, I believe I agree with Pig, that I may have never had one.

That fallacy is as good as Socialism will make us all happier.

Around?? AROUND!?!?!

Spin, Spin, Spin

Rat is such an idiot.

There are probably people out there who believe that and who will mock you if you disagree

I’m with Pig.

That insight makes you very smart, pig.

A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

The world is as it is, no matter what we may think of it. I’m just skeptical of any gov’t agency that takes $24 billion of our taxes to tell us stuff that barely affects any of us.

The government is having none of it. Locking up Galileo should have been a clue

To answer the question… It doesn’t take any time. Becuase it doesn’t.

The earth travels around the sun, but how many people know what the actual evidence is for it, and could successfully argue against a geocentrist?

Just remember the earth’s surface is mostly water, and that water is non-fizzy, so the earth is actually flat.Also there’s no such thing as gravity, the earth just sucks

I think we know the answer to that question. It started with a fat orange man descending down an escalator

My daughter has been in conversations with some flat earthers lately. Those people are nuts.

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving, And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power……….and so on.

There is a large world of facts of no use to me. I shall have to recategorize my life. Starting with the size of the sun, who cares? How far is the moon from earth, doesn’t matter.

This is interesting, because I just recently watched a science video showing how, because of the gravitational influence of the planets, the center of Earth’s orbit is sometimes actually outside the sun itself. Although the sun is huge, it’s still affected by the planets around it.

Does this mean Rat is catholic?

Interesting little fact for the day. The Flat Earth Society was initially created to challenge the ‘facts’ of scientists, and the name likened back to the days when scientists insisted the Earth was flat. The organization attracted a lot of nutjobs and is now far different than it was intended.

they are both wrong, obviously pastis has never heard of the term barycenter

Bold of them to believe the sun exists. #SunIsntReal

I blame the fake doctor who sells butt deodorant. For everything.

We’re supposed to be the smartest dudes around, but deep down it looks like something went terribly wrong along the way that took us from there to here.

45 surfers lost, over the edge, during the Flat Earth Surfing Competition.

I heard from a super secret government source that the reason the earth wobbles is because the core of the earth is full of water! Shhhh, mums the word.

of all the dumb conspiracy hoaxes out there, flat earth is the dumbest.

Everyone did indeed swear on a stack of bibles that it did, until that spoil-sport Nicolaus Copernicus messed things up.

We know, Pig,…we know.

Actually the Sun and the Earth both rotate around Kanye West (source: Kanye West).

what makes this even funnier (or, scarier) is there are people that probably believe Rat…

I don’t agree with Kings and Queens as rulers or with dictators, but with all the idiots in the world you can sure see why it might seem necessary to dispense with so much nonsense.

The Earth is flat because Dick Tracy’s arch-enemy wants it that way

In the real world pigs are smarter than goats. Rats are probably somewhere in between. Just saying.

I guess that people who complain about the horrible public school system are onto something, given the shockingly large percentage of the population of the USA who think that the sun orbits the earth. After all, you can see it doing just that. Every day.

LOLOL

November 1994

Join the “Back To The Trees Society” today. Before it’s too late.

The world revolves around Rat. That’s what he really think.

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV

The only things I can say I actually “know” are things I can see or actually feel myself.. (and nowadays, just being able to “see” something doesn’t mean it is real!… but anyway, we go to school and are taught so many things, that I take someone else’s word that it is as they say it is…and maybe they themselves are wrong, but don’t know it! I have been told so many things that I accept as “fact” and it can all be just propaganda!