Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 05, 2023

We’ll meet again

Don’t know where

Don’t know when

But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day

No one wants to be part of Rat’s nuclear family!

I can see an elderly person like Putin saying this.

No friends, just followers.

We can only hope for the Great Formatter.

I thought plants were photosynthetic, not nuclear.

We can’t destroy Earth. This is where I keep my stuff.

How much fissionable material do wind turbines need?

This, and perhaps the smell.

More nuclear power plants actually is the answer. With the exception of hydro, it’s the cleanest from of reliable energy.With the rising reliance on electricity, we really need more nuclear plants.

Yellowstone will kill off the planet just as easily.

Don’t say Bomb !

Well between that madman in Russia and the senile old fart in Washington DC we just might be able to pull it off.

Rat is just too mean and hateful to have friends.

Rat should be emperor. He would straighten the world out!!! Maybe not legally but it will fix a lot of things…

Putin has offered to help.

We pretend that we have any control over any of this, we don’t. The world population today is 7+ times greater than when the industrial revolution started and the beginning/triggering of the purported climate changes. Even then, most of the 1 Billion people were not industrialized. We are now at 7.8 Billion and climbing fast. Even if you reduce carbon emissions to a small percentage of what they are today per person, it won’t matter.

When I first read what Goat said, I thought, “What? Plants are nuclear?” I needed another cup of coffee. :-P

“YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT ALL UP! ( rest of the quote redacted to avoid getting hit by censors.)”

Climate change will eventually kill us all

So I have these word(s) that Gocomics tells me that I am banned from typing. Nice to know we have our priorities straight. Funny….

RAT seems to have taken on Pootys persona….

This orb which we inhabit will be just fine; it is literally older than dirt and has emerged the Victor throughout all sorts of calamitous events. People will have a rough go of it but throughout the ages, we too have proved amazingly resilient. We always find a way to achieve.

When did Rat get elected to Congress?

I didn’t think Rat wanted friends. What’s his complaint?

Rat = Putin

I think the answer is fewer people

I’m afraid the only solution, morally fraught though it is, is to reverse population growth. It’s physically impossible to wring more resources out of the planet, and it’s socially and politically impossible to convince people who are used to a certain standard of living that they should accept being pushed into poverty. The pie can’t get bigger and no one’s willing to take a narrower slice, so we need to cut it into fewer slices.

That’s only one reason Rat has few friends. And despite that, he always has Pig! And goat keeps coming back.

Nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke Putin. Nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke Putin. Nuke Putin. Yes, that’s my plan. You got me rocking and a rolling. Keep those bombs a going. Nuke Putin. Nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke Putin. Apologies to The Beach Boys and Barbara Ann.

Russia has moved nuclear weapons into Crimea and Belarus.

Well, fewer people on Earth would mean less people to exhale CO2 into the atmosphere.

and 99 red balloons go by…

“Let’s drop the big one and see what happens” — Randy Newman, “Political Science”

https://youtu.be/4QbUSjnhv6M

The evil Putin makes an appearance…

I remember when this strip was funny with crocs, penguins and lions. Now just another lib bs forum.

Don’t worry Rat, you still have me.

This joke really bombed…

From what I’ve seen of humanity, I’m starting to think Rat has the right idea.

Good old Dr. Strangelove!

I recently watched On The Beach, movie from 1959 depicting the world after 1964 nuclear war. The northern hemisphere had been destroyed by bombs and radiation fallout. People in the southern hemisphere are lining up for suicide pills as the fallout is quickly drifting south. The consensus was that the war was accidental – one country panicked and pushed the button, leading the other countries to push their buttons. With North Korea playing with missiles, will that be our future?

As someone who worked 44 years in agriculture entomologist, consultant, and am told by those civilians who sit and stare at their phones and drink coffee all day that we were destroying the planet, yet never saw or knew one thing about actual food production, pesticide development, genetics, or farming. And it applies to all sectors. And its our world of experts today.

Wallow in Self pity Rat, who cares if you have no friends…

What if most of the world’s people become refugees?

This the only bombing I’m in favor of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44

Rat is such a dour Fatalist.

We could take him out with a single Hellfire….

I favor the all of the above approach myself.

Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.

I would have favored Rat’s solution if it didn’t mean also destroying the wildlife on this planet.