Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 08, 2025

In 1998 there was a two-part “Uncle Sam” comic book mini-series that I highly recommend.

Just 12 days and 10 hours until Crazy Joe is kicked out of the White House

It will surely go sky high, donnie want to do away with the debt ceiling. And we know donnie loves spending other peoples money

Check the sofa cushions.

then onto seizing Greenland and the Panama Canal with crazed Trump.

Sorry… I sent my money to my other uncle, who was stranded in Nigeria with a container full of gold. :D

Uncle’s spending habits are ridiculous for sure!

Just put the tax rates back to President Clinton’s level will be a good start. Unless you want to help the poor defenseless billionaires from paying more.

The national debt is going to skyrocket under the incoming “administration.” As will prices for just about everything for us commoners.

You ain’t seen nothing! Wait till trump gets throw with his 4 years in office!

Abstract IOUs nations have no intention of paying. Conjunction Junction, what’s your function? Abstraction distraction for power satisfaction…

Uncle Sam ain’t dead.

I dread these strips now. I really do.

We are now officially living in The Twi-light Zone.

I mean, who in their right mind holds a child to their face at a podium just days after a failed assassination attempt?

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg…

Wow! Scammers are getting more crafty these days!

25% of that came when the Loudmouthed Jerk was President last time. He think running up debt is “smart.”

“Will you take a cheque?”

I’m Uncle Sam, that’s who I amBeen hiding out in a rock and roll band

It’s closer to 36.5 Trillion and rising fast.

This is America’s biggest problem.

Guess that’s all gonna change now,huh?

We’ve been hearing about a collapse coming for quire some time. Nobody has come collecting for it yet, but it’s a good idea to grow the economy

More than I have in my change jar, too. And if you think Biden is crazy, just wait until Trump unleashes his brand of insanity and stupidity on the world.

The #1 goal for the incoming regime is for multi-billionaires to become trillionaires and with no guardrails, accountability or giving a hoot for how they attain that goal or how many lives they destroy in the process.

Don’t worry, your Uncle will find a way for you to contribute.

it’s a trap. GO TO ANOTHER COMIC

In spite of what you might have been led to believe, the last president to reduce the national debt over the entire course of his administration was Warren G. Harding. Reagan, Bush and Clinton all gave it a good try, but only succeeded temporarily before circumstances caused them to raise the debt.

Good news from the Babylon Bee: “National Debt Paid Off With The Change In Dan Crenshaw’s Swear Jar”.

Just get Elon to pay it off

As Shakespeare said, the fault lies not in the stars, but ours.

Well Steph, you just can’t help yourself.

The United States of America spent more money fighting WW2 than all the other allies and enemies added together. Great Britain and France came out broke. Germany and Japan were broke. The Soviet Union was broke. China was broke. The U.S. came out as the richest nation. How? We didn’t sell anyone anything. We took years to collect those small loans we have out. The colonies we liberated did not become ours, we only built military bases in them. We didn’t pillage, or seize other county’s treasuries. So, how did the U.S. get so wealthy? There was a scene in the movie ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ at the end where the crated Ark was being moved to a huge warehouse housing all sorts of supposed treasures. It was just a movie. Congress acts as though those assets are real.

Just a reminder of what some of that money went for. 211 years ago today (January 7) American troops under General Andrew Jackson routed the British at the Battle of New Orleans, the final encounter of the War of 1812. There has not been a hostile foreign boot on American soil since. How many other countries in the world can say the same?

“Deficits don’t matter”—Dick Cheney (At least his daughter is patriotic!)

I worry this strip validates the thinking that we should apply microeconomic principles in the realm of macroeconomics. The prevalence of that attitude has harmed us mightily.

Since “Our Uncle” is the one that prints and ensures our money is worth anything the balance due is of no materiel interest.

Here’s that number in digits: $34,000,000,000,000.00

Yes, it’s that big.

The thing is: the national deficit is something we could easily just not care about anymore, but that would take away the leverage that Democrats have ceded to republicans over the debt ceiling.

Looks like uncle is drunk again.

Only 12 more days of democracy, sigh. The magats are celebrating that everything is going to cost more, and we’re all going to get less.

Mentally ill lying thief criminal Trump gets another 4 years to double our debt again.

What did Uncle Sam spend that money on ?

uncle trump!

Trump wants to buy Greenland, annex Canada, take the Panama canal away from Panama and change the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and you think Joe is crazy?

Raise taxes on the rich and on corporations, close corporate loopholes, and you can ease a lot of that debt.

Never fear, Uncle Sam: A Republican will be sworn in as President in 12 days, and no one will even mention the debt until at least 2029.

And after that the worst President we ever had takes over to finish his ignorant destruction of our country, and the whole world around us.

It looks like pig is standing on the bush in the last panel.

Remember a time when there was a gold standard and you couldn’t just crank up the printing press?

In April he won’t ask nicely.

“Crazy Joe”? Can 85 Pearls readers really be that stupid ? Astounding!

Uncle Scam.

Just 12 days and 10 hours until government as we know it comes to an end—though the end started on September 18, 1947. I predict there will be no more elections and it will be Rule by Corporation.

And in comes A.H. II