Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 05, 2024

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    BasilBruce  about 2 months ago

    Think about the other guy; his vote is no better than a rat’s.

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    Tachyon the Samurai  about 2 months ago

    If that is the best you can come up with we are all in trouble.

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    Joseph comicinthestrip  about 2 months ago

    As far as voting values go, I’m not sure of where to place Rat’s in respect to the Pig’s. However, if a grain of sand sealed in multiple layers of nacre should vote, it, in respect to Pig’s value, would go before him. If you understand the joke, please let me know.

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    salakfarm Premium Member about 2 months ago

    A drawback of democracy; all those dipsh*ts.

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    DanielRyanMulligan1  about 2 months ago

    If RAT, only now, just figured out the real deal (with Bill McNeal) is with our democracy, then it’s too late for us all….Dan aka…ps Really, it just boils down to: RAT is a day late and a dollar short, and that leaves us all with no hope….According to RAT, that is….

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    Baarorso  about 2 months ago

    To me the purpose of an election is to not necessarily elect the best candidates into office but to choose from the lesser of 2 or more evils presented. ;/

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    hariseldon59  about 2 months ago

    I sometimes think that Rat overrates his own intelligence.

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    orinoco womble  about 2 months ago

    The rest of the world except the UK uses one person, one vote. No taxation without real representation!

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    smartty cat  about 2 months ago

    Churchill"“The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

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    jeff_e  about 2 months ago

    Is Rat proposing a system by which we get one voting point per recorded IQ point?

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    Zykoic  about 2 months ago

    Voting is tiring. I had to visit every county in the state to vote today!

    Luckily I could mail in grandparents, great grandparents and great-great grandparents ballots.

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    shanen0  about 2 months ago

    When we fight we win?

    But when the cornered rat fights it lies and kicks and bites and cheats and scratches and farts and climbs into the wrong end of the garbage truck and lies some more and…

    Dear Gawd, please make the orange albatross go away. But You will have to drag the ugly bird. It would take a miracle to fly with three right wings and no left.

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    iggyman  about 2 months ago

    My ballot had 4 choices for president, but most folks would ignore the 2 (Besides the D and R) as they have no chance of winning.

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    MayCauseBurns  about 2 months ago

    Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. — Menken

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    SheMc  about 2 months ago

    oh yes, even idiots should vote!!!

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    Indiana Guy Premium Member about 2 months ago

    I hope today’s election doesn’t end up like the election of 2000, where the Supreme Court had to decide who got Florida’s electoral votes, which were enough to seal the election. We know all about the bias of that Court.

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    JackReecher  about 2 months ago

    The US is not a democracy but rather a Democratic Republic.

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    Lenavid  about 2 months ago

    Constitutional Republic, not democracy.

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    Procat Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Question for Rat. What if that guy voted for the same person as you did?

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 2 months ago

    Orange idiot or light brown idiot. Take your pick. That’s it. The white idiots all chickened out.

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    Ellis97  about 2 months ago

    Office is the perfect place for someone like Rat.

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    TrulyTexan  about 2 months ago

    Actually, thanks to the electoral college, his vote counts a lot more than yours.

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    Kaputnik  about 2 months ago

    Well, Rat, maybe he’s dumb enough to vote the same way as you.

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    saltylife16  about 2 months ago

    Rat’s a Liberal?

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    Croc Holliday  about 2 months ago

    Yes, sadly MAGA votes count the same as normal people’s votes.

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    kaffekup   about 2 months ago

    The problem is, depending on what state they’re in, it may count more.

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    Goat from PBS  about 2 months ago

    Sorry, Rat, everyone’s vote gets the same amount of weight. Unless you live in certain states that are dominated by one city.

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    zwilnik64  about 2 months ago

    No, Rat. That’s the good news.

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    HOTLOTUS1  about 2 months ago

    I said that all along. No more political parties just candidates.

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    DenO Premium Member about 2 months ago

    So sad and true.

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    eolan59  about 2 months ago

    Just figuring that out Rat?

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    David_the_CAD  about 2 months ago

    Just remember that you are the idiot in the booth next to idiot that you are next to.

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    ladykat  about 2 months ago

    sSo

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    Diane Lee Premium Member about 2 months ago

    The party doesn’t get to choose its members, they choose the party, and there is no mechanism for throwing anyone out short of ticking them off enough that they leave willingly.

    Both political parties are private organizations. They have no responsibility to represent the voters. They sponsor the candidate they prefer, which is always going to be the one that they think will win, even if they might prefer another. To be upset about that fact is to misunderstand that the parties exist to push their agenda, and to support the candidates that they believe will further that agenda. If you agree with their agenda, then support them. If you don’t support their agenda, then that would be a dumb thing to do, because they don’t represent you, they never promised to do so, and they have no responsibility to you. And, it doesn’t make any more sense to allow them to determine your opinion of any candidate than it would if it were your local YMCA. However, a third party candidate in our current system has pretty much no chance of winning, so it comes down to choosing the candidate whose party annoys you less than the other one.

    For that, you need to actually do a little research. Read the party and candidate information available on line—what they say, not what is said about them, by either side. Then try Open Secrets and find out who does best represent your opinions. Then decide if you think they have any chance, or if voting for them would just elect someone you really hate. The result of that decision making is where you should send your money, volunteer and vote.

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member about 2 months ago

    And that’s why at the beginning of the Republic, only land owners could vote.

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    Indiana Guy Premium Member about 2 months ago

    I live in NW Indiana, which has always been blue in a generally red state. A few minutes ago, I drove passed the polling place in beautiful downtown Beverly Shores, and I haven’t seen a crowd that big since the 2008 election. In 2008, Indiana went blue, giving its electoral votes to Obama. I hope that’s a good sign.

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    ncorgbl  about 2 months ago

    Equality gets in the way.

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    MyFathersSon  about 2 months ago

    So much propaganda. A Constitutional Republic isn’t mob rule.

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    j12181951  about 2 months ago

    Congrats on publically admitting to a felony. DOJ at your door in 5…4…3…2..

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    dpatrickryan Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Good news, Rat! If one party wins, you might get your wish and have some votes worth more than others. Unfortunately, the group whose votes will count the most are middle-aged (or older) wealthy white males. But I’m sure everybody else is fine with disenfranchisement, right?

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    zeexenon  about 2 months ago

    Vote and vote—vote again.

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    Radish...   about 2 months ago

    Liar Trump loves the uneducated, they are the only ones who will vote for his thieving racist fascism.

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    Miss Buttinsky Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Amazing! No one here has mentioned the obscene cost of these elections. We probably could have cured -x-x-x( name your favorite disease) with the billions that were spent to get winners and losers on those stages. Let’s go British.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 2 months ago

    What democracy?

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    kendavis09  about 2 months ago

    D.T.’s tax return said he had six wives, all blind and over 65.

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    Scot M.  about 2 months ago

    It’s not the vote that counts, it’s who counts the votes! (Look up the actual quote- Stalin 1923)

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    NolaMan  about 2 months ago

    It never ceases to amaze me how many people have to stop and look at the posted sample ballot before they go in to actually vote. My ballot had a state constitutional amendment and a parish (county) charter amendment. Talk about an (un)informed electorate!

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    Bilan  about 2 months ago

    Funny, the guy in the next booth made the same complaint.

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    sincavage05  about 2 months ago

    The fact that Trump is allowed to even run is a testament to the equality of the U.S. In most of the world he would already be dead.

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    serial232  about 2 months ago

    Yeah, the stupid people are voting for Harris. Communism is on its way.

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    eddi-TBH  about 2 months ago

    The standard distribution means that for every idiot voting, there is a genius voting. ideally they cancel each other out and middle wins by the most average vote. That’s why elections are always so close.

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    bunrabbit99  about 2 months ago

    not even funny, steph.

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    Cathy P.  about 2 months ago

    My T-shirt says: When I die, please don’t let me vote Democrat!

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    gaerfield  about 2 months ago

    I’m a little sad about the election, but it’s your choice about who you want to be president. I just hope he’s not as bad as 2017.

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    gaerfield  about 2 months ago

    And if you really think about it, if Trump’s court cases come back up (which they might), it’s gonna take them another 2 years just to convict him in one state. His “friends” aren’t helping him. They’re making the process longer and more difficult. If it takes this long again, he’ll probably die in his 80’s, and only have a few states decided on the cases.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  about 2 months ago

    The whole country just got some bad news about democracy

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    Nick Danger  about 1 month ago

    Heinlein put forth requiring a basic test of arithmetic (as language can sometimes be fuzzy).

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