Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 26, 2025

Pig’s dialogue in the first panel made me think that slavery would have something to do with today’s strip. I’m glad it didn’t; some things are never funny.

Ratifest Destiny.

Rat is taking Masters courses in Smallpox, Typhus, Scarlet fever, and Cholera

Wonder what Rat’s opinion on Laissez Faire is.

Ask Barney Fife about the Emancipation Proclamation.

maga’s america, they thrive on ignorance.

I like the way this strip often has a tongue in cheek way of pointing out things that should be noted without getting political. Or offensive.

There was a bimbo on TV that said Americans are more concerned about grocery prices than TOP SECRET LEAKS today. That is why we are where we are today!

Goat, some people will remain ignorant no matter how many years of study they accumulate. I have known some very ignorant college professors. Take them out of their area of expertise and they’ve got nothing. For some disciplines, take them out of their chosen narrative and show them sources that contradict it, and they implode.

So much for avoiding politics today. I never l thought l’d crave Stephan’s corny gags!

American History?….The Brits had it down to a science. Little wonder the sun never set on the British Empire.

That’s the way trump wants them, ignorant and stupid, easier to control.

History repeating itself, I see.

It’s ALWAYS about “wanting those donuts” in the history of the world, part 1(one), and, I hear, on streaming, in part 2(two)!!!!! Dan aka…ps huh?!

Uhh… What history is Rat studying?

Manifest Donutry.

Some people are left donutless.

God does not want you to steal Goat’s doughnuts, Rat.

How conveeeenient.

This is pretty accurate, actually.

Rat the Robber Baron.

He would’ve done that anyway for a different reazon.

God doesn’t want Rat to have them. Rat just wants to steal them because he can. I think he may have been encouraged by some chapters in the American history books, if you know what I mean.

it always depends on whose history books you read.

Manifestly creme-filled.

Ah yes, Manifest Destiny. It occurs to me that Spaniards, French, Russians or others would have taken the land if the Americans hadn’t done it. It was the age of conquest. The Indians didn’t have a chance.

More like white man-infest destiny

I give rat an F.

Like vicious and insane Maga wants Greenland and Panama.

21st century: Critical thinking is out. Groupthink and obedience is in.

The Louisiana Purchase was actually made with donuts

And that’s what we get for letting the Puritans settle here!

I wonder where all the people who moved to Canada in 2016 and 2024 will go next.

“god”? riight, yeah-yeah, as if. (spoiler warning: NOT)

Is Pastis TRYING to get canceled?

It is an ironic tragedy that nation that paints itself to be the world’s great beacon of freedom & equality was built by slave labor on land stolen by genocide.

Trump is trying to make Manifest Destiny a 21st Century thing also.

This is a new twist. Those that LEARN from history and WANT to repeat it.

From sea to sea, from pole to pole. Well, they managed todo half of that. Any more and we WOULD be an empire, and modern empires don’t last long.

“God” “Wants” “Us to do it” is just something people say to do something annoying and stupid.

Let us prey.

One of the best books I’ve read is “Lies my Teacher Told Me” by James Loewen. Of course, the MAGAts and the Trump Administration hate it.

Manifest Destiny is a flat-out lie used to control the general populace. Much like American Exceptionalism.

A re-written and whitewashed history course, no doubt. Nuff said.

Oh, so, just the usual US Empire behaviour then. Nothing new, nothing to see here, move along. Hello Canada and hello Greenland.

Ah yes, manifest destiny. What a crock of an evil excuse for genocide and land theft.

Pig’s course has been cancelled and the textbooks are being collected and burned.