Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 14, 2025

They’re never that honest.

The government is selling bitcoin that it confiscated from silk road. Some people consider bitcoin to be gambling.

Beer Pong sounds like a better use for the money than many of the other things it is spent on.

Just wait until Trump takes office. There won’t be any of that Beer Pong nonsense. He’ll use McDonald cups instead of Solo cups.

What brand of beer?

Bring on the DOGE!

Last month I was searching for a bottle stopper for my non-alcoholic sparking cider (honest). I had to look through the wine and hard alcohol section, and then for some reason I saw plastic Solo cups and ping pongs stocked there. Why? Oh. But the beer is stocked in the refrigerated section elsewhere in the store.

Starting to.

Funds to swear in a convicted felon as President of the United States. How we shame her, our America.

Can we have some Jaegermeister to go with the beer?!

Pearls pokes the ants nest again :-D

Sounds more like Son Hunter than Uncle Sam, if you will Pardon the comparison.

Told you it was a scam…

Never trust the government.

Not a valid reason to give him money.

Actually, Steve, you could have come up with a hundred things more ridiculous than “gamble on beer pong” and the would be true.

I can wait for Elon…er, I mean Trump…to take office.

now you’re doubting this moocher!? :L

If there’s one thing Uncle Sam can do right… it’s waste our money.

A lot better than the pentagon.Honest and transparent accounting.

Hey, soldiers don’t need to be paid.

Sounds essential to me.

But Pete Hegseth isn’t stumbling around the Pentagon, yet.

Government is always asking for money to do essential things. Every election there seems to be a bond vote to do road repairs and fix potholes or to buy books for schools.

Of course, there’s plenty of money to tear up our downtown intersections to replace them with traffic circles or to create an elaborate facade on city hall.

People will vote to do essentials but not for the whims of the politicians. So the essentials go on the ballot in order to free up money for the “whims”.

Aren’t these a bit premature?

How long can we afford to live through all this mediocrity?

Not Pastis’s best work. Somewhat hackneyed.

Don’t worry Pig. The divinely guided Trump-Musk administration will set Uncle Sam on the righteous path.

He’s lying, he’ll just send the money to Ukraine

“Lavender” is another word for “Sissy”

needed for the NRC

FINALLY! Better odds than other ventures.

Vote libertarian and this comic will only be funny in a historical sense instead of being something we laugh at because it is pathetically accurate.

actually he needs to buy some toilet seats at $500 a pop…

Yep. Then a convict takes over.

Next week it’ll be money for McDonalds.

Hey, Pastis, you’ve got the money to be able to move somewhere without a government; why don’t you?

He should just run for CONgress

Uncle SCAM!

No no, that would be wasteful. He’s using it to STUDY gambling on beer pong.