Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 24, 2020

Dictators get overthrown and end up living in Saudi Arabia. Aspire to be GOD!

A dictator, I see, I’ll add that to my list of things to become in the case of an apocalypse

Rat can be a real dictator.

(Remove two syllables)

All dictators faced a horrible fate.

Being a dictator requires… something to say, and someone to write it down…

Tell it to King Canute.

I can think of a certain narcissist who’s completely out of control…

We all know one.

Looks like Rat aspires to an orange comb over!

Is this cartoon a re-run? It has that feel.

aspire to be the power behind the throne – you’re less obtrusive when the knives come out…

Inspired by Xi, eh, Rat?

In Belarus Lukashenko would agree . And not there only .

There’s a lot of that going around lately.

Rat did you find Bucky Katt’s catnip stash ?… Croc Power !

Become the dictator? My kinda guy! But watch out, Rat. That’s MY job!

Hey Rat, did you learn that nugget of knowledge from Trump University?

Imagine you only hear the first panel.

Great. Just in time for this week’s series of nightmares.

If Rat takes over the world, he will bring doomsday.

no point in being President.

Like yourself, Rat, the reign of a dictator is short but cynically merry.

I suppose you could become the first real “beneficent dictator,” but what fun is that?

Given how they use executive orders, that would be the current and prior presidents.

I knew a guy once who went naked and hung a french fry from his penis. He was a dictater.

Too real

We will be sending trump there.

I’d rather be the power behind the throne. Dictators get deposed and assassinated.

Rat has a good idea, then undermines himself.

We don’t have far to look at the dictator in the making….I want to vomit

Worry NO More! Asteroid 2018VP1 Is coming!

Dictator is great, but I’d settle for megalomaniac if it was already taken… :D

Maybe Lil’ Guard Duck will eat a potato. He will be eating a duck tater.

Seems reasonable…

Isn’t ‘Spoke too soon’ pretty much the story of Goat’s life…at least as far as Rat and Pig are concerned?

This strikes me as an unexpectedly sympathetic portrayal of the insecurities rattling around the hollowness of what passes for our very own would-be dictator’s heart.

Dictator? Who wants all that responsibility?

Rat for Dear Leader.

Like our elected officials?

Is this a subtle reference to a Looking For Group arc? I see echoes of https://www.lfg.co/page/1428/

Anyone having a problem with blank comics?

Everything is there except the comic strip?

This would be funny if we weren’t testing the theory in the United States….