Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 22, 2024

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    BasilBruce  2 months ago

    Maybe their problem is that they really needed to beat someone up.

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    ChristineFoxdale  2 months ago

    You should’ve stashed the cash before you gave them the answer, Rat.

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    Jesy Bertz Premium Member 2 months ago

    Rat has the talent to benefit from other people’s anxieties. It’s a grift.

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    iggyman  2 months ago

    They found out Lucy Van Pelt only charges 5 cents!

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    Johnny Q Premium Member 2 months ago

    Like the CALVIN & HOBBES episode where Calvin was peddling “Life: 5 cents.” Suzie: “Here’s my nickel. What do I get?” Calvin: “Nothing. I just ripped you off…. That’s life!” (Calvin got bashed too.)

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    blunebottle  2 months ago

    For once, Rat is on the receiving end.

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    epicatt2-  2 months ago

    Always good to see that once in a while rat gets just what he deserves (just like Hyacinth Bucket oughtta).

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 2 months ago

    Rat has discovered that truth hurts!

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    Gent  2 months ago

    Rat shoulda advertised One Weird Trick To Solves All Yours Problems.

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    Bilan  2 months ago

    Another answer: Don’t trust somebody to be President who has bankrupted every company he started. (yes, that had to be said)

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    jonnytest  2 months ago

    Surprising. I never took Rat to be a Democrat before this.

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    Botulism Bob  2 months ago

    In a divided political year, beating up a Rat is something everybody can agree on!

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    markkahler52  2 months ago

    Shortly after Election Day… maybe….

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    Kurtass Premium Member 2 months ago

    Giving your money to rat, would be as ignorant as giving your money to a “billionaire”.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  2 months ago

    You seem to have been persuaded to provide full and complete refunds to them all, Rat.

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    steveh64  2 months ago

    Rat, the dictum is “take the money and run”, not “take the money and tell people they’ve been taken.”

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    mrwiskers  2 months ago

    Rat needs to polish his grifting skills. He first must convince folks he’s one of them by making speeches that play upon their emotions and victimhood. Next, he’s then convinces them, through nefarious means, that if they give Rat money, he can make things better for them, because nobody understands these folks like Rat and nobody can fix things except Rat. By then the hard core believers will excuse anything Rat does because they’re convinced Rat is fighting for them.

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    SquidGamerGal  2 months ago

    Time to kick a rip-off artist in the shin!

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    CaveCat87  2 months ago

    That’s what you get for being so brutally honest, Rat.

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    notmoving Premium Member 2 months ago

    If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

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    Ellis97  2 months ago

    That’s what Rat gets for trying to fleece the public again.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 2 months ago

    Particularly with no real support or ideas for doing so except to blame Climate Change and Donald Trump and then cackle. God Bless America!

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    Goat from PBS  2 months ago

    What about the answer to your math problems?

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    tom.amitai  2 months ago

    This reminds me of the old gag/scam that some people allegedly pulled in the classified ads they used to put in the back of some pulp magazines. The ad would say “Make big money from classified ads! Send $1 to this address to find out how!”. If you sent the dollar to the address, they’d send a note telling you to take out an identical ad, but with your address instead of theirs.

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    timinwsac Premium Member 2 months ago

    Just when campaign season is heating up. It’s going to be a tight race so, if you can afford it, five dollars would be a big help.

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    TampaFanatic1  2 months ago

    That kind of happened to Don Lapre though he chose the easy way out when the Feds finally locked him up on numerous felonies……

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    SheMc  2 months ago

    Poor rat, why didn’t you take the money & run!

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    ajr58(1)  2 months ago

    But, only I can fix it.

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    ladykat  2 months ago

    I wonder if he got to keep themoney.

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    mindjob  2 months ago

    Never trust people to solve the problems they created in the first place

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    innertuber  2 months ago

    Sounds like Religion.

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    Joe Cur  2 months ago

    Rat should have learned from the Wizard of OZ, “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

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    Doctor Go  2 months ago

    Well, that’s the perfect advice for this years election.

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    pheets  2 months ago

    Be thoughtful in whom you trust: salt and sugar look a like.

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    KEA  2 months ago

    I doubt that people who would fall for that would turn on Rat like that.

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    PoodleGroomer  2 months ago

    Never leave tip money visible in the jar.

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    DanielRyanMulligan1  2 months ago

    As Adrian Monk always says, “you’ll thank me later!!!!” Dan aka the MOST ANNOYING hemophiliac of his generation currently still alive!!!!

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    ncorgbl  2 months ago

    Didn’t tRump say that?

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    zeexenon  2 months ago

    Trust, but verify. Each of us carry a powerful filter, called the cortex frontal lobe.

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    brick10  2 months ago

    I trust they all got refunds.

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    Buoy  2 months ago

    Rat got a lot of bang for his buck.

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    Aladar30 Premium Member 2 months ago

    People should reach like this more often.

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    willie_mctell  2 months ago

    Software company reps often make this claim.

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    wildlandwaters  2 months ago

    um… no… they won’t…

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    SNVBD  2 months ago

    Populism 101

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    Scott S  2 months ago

    Never give a sucker an even break!

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    Ceeg22 Premium Member 8 days ago

    These people deserved to be ripped off

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