Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 09, 2018

It’s been replaced by what was under the surface.

I was born in 1992. This IS the country I’ve always known.

I would have thought Rat would’ve said: “If I were President, nothing would be happening.” And I mean nothing!

We’re a victim of our own success.

We have nothing left to fight for, so we have only ourselves left to fight and to zealously protect what we have.

Pig, I’m with you all the way. Wanna hug???

From 15 seconds in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvXMtdmm2S4

From 15 seconds in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvXMtdmm2S4

You would think, by now, that we’d be tired of all this winning!

I suspect I know but I can’t proof it so I’m not saying a thing.

At least not for the record.

MAGA = Making America Gullible Again

Nothing. It’s only your unrealistic expectations.

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Letting the days go by.

Apathy. Not caring enough to actually study the candidates and propositions, just believing what a 60 second ad tells you to believe. Not voting, because neither candidate is all that great.

Also, thinking that the folks in office are the “leaders”— they are actually there to represent US.

It’s being made G-Rated again.

Two words: “Corrupt Media” It really doesn’t matter what political views you affiliate with. The media no longer reports unbiased news. They constantly report the news with their “spin” on it and this effectually is brain washing us. Sorry to have say it, but it makes it almost impossible to really know what’s going on. Bottom line Pig…We’re %&#ed !

It will now be said: “Only Trump can go to N. Korea.”

Easy question to answer. (Hint: It starts with a T.) …Trump

It died 10 years ago

Trump. There, I’ll say it, even if NO ONE else will!

Moral Relativism, the foundational tenet of Progressive Ideology, which has been infecting our society since our astounding successes in the Industrial Age began to make us wealthy and complacent.With no moral anchor, the country has been raising increasingly undisciplined generations that have no respect for others, no self control, and an entitlement mentality that tells them “the ends justify the means”.

That’s what happened.

It’s part of the cycle through which all empires suffer. It’s just America’s turn.

Why Pig, what happened? Did U.S. Acres get rechristened as Orson’s Farm?

Life was never perfect. I grew up with Vietnam, Watergate, the 70s energy crisis, etc, but at least you could send your kids to school without fear of them being shot.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

MAGA

At least Pig’s not charging 5 cents.Now get back on your phones,everyone.

This strip proves my point yet again that the people who now sit on the edge of their seats anxiously awaiting to see what Trump will say next so that they can act appropriately outraged, paid ZERO attention to what was going on the previous eight years. (Or even longer really.)

You never really knew it at all. What you thought was your knowledge of your country wa a combination of outright fantasy, wishful thinking and willful blindness. The upside is, now you can start paying attention.

You never really knew it at all. What you thought was your knowledge of your country wa a combination of outright fantasy, wishful thinking and willful blindness. The upside is, now you can start paying attention.

Well, Pig, maybe it was the comics.

Pig should have asked Guard Duck!

The problem is that Americans are mostly convinced to make decisions with their emotions.

Western Europe and South America are with us on this, and it will probably be the death of Western Civilization.

Trump won by appealing to people’s emotions. Clinton lost by appealing to their intellect. Americans (mostly) no longer use intellect to make important decisions; that is the important battle that was lost.

Trump is a symptom of the problem. While it’s the symptoms that we notice (and eventually kill us), they don’t cause themselves.

The short answer to Pig’s question is “the triumph of Romanticism.”

People debating politics in the comments section of a comic strip webpage.

I was born in 1992 and I felt safer and happier in the 90s than I do now. Mainly because the white guy then wasn’t a compete inbred racist moron.

Lack of a good educatuon, resulting in people not knowing history & not being able to engage in critical thinking. Another problem is most Americans obsession with celebrities and pop culture. It’s a huge reason why tRump got elected.

I don’t know which world you knew, but mine is returning to it’s former/better self daily since the election of our present POTUS!

Republicans are running and ruining everything.

You see what they are up to.

Stop voting for them.

Who’s the President…

What is the Vice-President

I Don’t Know is the Senate Majority Leader

Why is the Speaker of the House

Because is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

I Don’t Care is the President of Russia

Today is the head of Fox News

But Tomorrow is the Director of the FBI…

Right field?

Too many people seem to believe that there are simple answers for complex problems. With information overload, everyone jumps to conclusions withou taking time to think for themselves and not just believing what they are told to believe.

Our society seems to thrive on lynch mob mentality.

Idiocracy. It’s been going on since the 1960’s.

It’s Clinton’s fault. Reagan/Bush didn’t lead to Clinton being elected. But the Clinton Presidency lead to the Bush one and that lead to the Obama one and that lead to Trump’s. So we can blame today on Bill Clinton :) (or maybe Ross Perot)

There is a cute European comic “Scandinavia and the world” here: https://satwcomic.com It shows some interesting points of view on the world – sometimes also on the US – enjoy.

You didn’t know it as well as you thought you did.

People not recognizing the best course of action and believing anything anyone says to them that is against the other party.

People not recognizing the best course of action and believing anything anyone says to them that is against the other party.

Not “is happening”… “Happened.” It’s dead.

I just want to join with everyone else who felt a stab of pain and sorrow upon viewing this strip. This goes to the heart.

Lets see, Schools were just being desegregated when I was a kid (full disclosure I was a service brat so I went to desegregated schools most of my life(fuller disclosure my high school was all white but that was a VERY small rural Midwest town, my JrHg was equal parts white, black and Hispanic.) When I lived in So. Cal you couldn’t see across the valley most days because of the air pollution from the cars. Now it’s only rarely that bad. Cancer was a 100% killer when I was a kid, now survival rates are approaching 50%. Cars are safer, more fuel efficient, and lots more comfortable. And I have this small black box on a corner of my desk that lets access all the knowledge (and occasional the ignorance) of the entire human race. So as I was once told they are the “good old days” because they were long ago, and you have a bad memory."

Lets see, Schools were just being desegregated when I was a kid (full disclosure I was a service brat so I went to desegregated schools most of my life(fuller disclosure my high school was all white but that was a VERY small rural Midwest town, my JrHg was equal parts white, black and Hispanic.) When I lived in So. Cal you couldn’t see across the valley most days because of the air pollution from the cars. Now it’s only rarely that bad. Cancer was a 100% killer when I was a kid, now survival rates are approaching 50%. Cars are safer, more fuel efficient, and lots more comfortable. And I have this small black box on a corner of my desk that lets access all the knowledge (and occasional the ignorance) of the entire human race. So as I was once told they are the “good old days” because they were long ago, and you have a bad memory."

Get over it, Pig. In your comic strip world, anything is possible, good or bad. The responsibility lies with Cartoon-Boy, and he is an inmate of California, where nothing is as it seems and one-party rule disallows dissent, so that only the one true Good is tolerated….

Family used to be the anchor in society. Now careers are more important than family.

Family used to be the anchor in society. Now careers are more important than family.

Family used to be the anchor in society. Now careers are more important than family.

If Pastis had lived in the south, he would have seen this coming for most of the past 40 years, and especially the last 25. The south never stopped fighting the Civil War in their heads, and they never stopped being racist. The rise of Limbaugh and Fox only intensified what was already there.

Liberals voted a conman into office back in 2008. Pretty much destroyed the country. Now they blame everyone else for their mistakes. Thats what happened.