Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 14, 2014
Transcript:
Rat's Presidential Platform If elected President of the United Sates, I, Rat, will buy 7,000,000,000 drones. That is the number of people an eye on one person. Monitoring everything that person does. And listening in on every phone call. And if that person does something displeasing, the drone will address the situation. Rat: P.S. I will control all the drones. Goat: I don't think I'll vote for you. Rat: Your drone will be very aggressive. Pig: I'm eating breakfast, drone!
Ida No over 9 years ago
If I spend all my time watching your drone, and my drone gets irritated at your drone, they can fight it out and I’ll go drink beer.
Sherlock Watson over 9 years ago
Rat is a typical politician — droning on and on.
Cameron1988 Premium Member over 9 years ago
I’m definitely NOT voting for Rat, either
Alexander the Good Enough over 9 years ago
I’m not worried! I never do anything wrong! Really, Big Brother, never!
Bilan over 9 years ago
A Drone for a Drone will leave the whole world Kaboom’ed.
blunebottle over 9 years ago
Someone already voted for that kind of president…..
Sisyphos over 9 years ago
See? Now Pig is into the proper subservient spirit for Rat’s New Style Drone-ocracy! Vote for Rat, all ye who want to grovel!
Wasbluskies over 9 years ago
Most politicos buy as many of the drones as they can BEFORE the election. That’s usually how they get to BE politicos.
Varnes over 9 years ago
Drone on, drone on, Harvest Moon, up in the sky…
juicebruce over 9 years ago
Will Crocs get drones could use on zeb-ra !
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 9 years ago
It is the responsibility of every citizen in our Utopian Society to be the police informant for every other. But we do not arm our drones. Only the trusted police will be armed, and are to be called in for a tactical strike when somebody speaks ill of the Glorious Leadership or does something that would displease them.What could possibly go wrong?
JusSayin over 9 years ago
Gun control means being able to hit your own drone.
Chk-Chk Pull!
doublepaw over 9 years ago
Nabuquduriuzhur: Actually this is not life, just a comic strip.
RACerri32 over 9 years ago
A drone for each person means one for Rat!Hack it & boom -ratatouille
puddlesplatt over 9 years ago
I have a feeling this may come true, or something very close.
loveabulldesign over 9 years ago
Shouldn’t there be three drones in that dinner scene?
blanche64 over 9 years ago
oh man handsomebob beat me by a minute
zenguyuno over 9 years ago
We are actually heading, slowly, in that direction.
Soroxas over 9 years ago
Rat 2016, I like the sound of that.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 9 years ago
How about a write-in campaign for Steph?!?
pdeason2 over 9 years ago
Don’t we have a Rat in the White House all ready plus the congress and the senate and every other branch of the government.
A_NY_Outlaw over 9 years ago
that sounds like it could be one very large remote controller.
TheSpanishInquisition over 9 years ago
Pretty solid encapsulation of a couple recent Presidents, actually…
InuYugiHakusho over 9 years ago
Being spied on 24/7? That’s already happening.
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member over 9 years ago
Pig will be the only being left alive!
susan.e.a.c over 9 years ago
CCTV, drones, NSA spying, then we see who the Government wants to eliminate; not bombs, but illegal lawsuits on specific groups, IRS targeting certain groups, EPA denying access to funds/research to certain groups, DoJ only prosecuting certain groups, taking money from one good and putting it into a social engineering plan and lying to taxpayers about it…..
Fido (aka Felix Rex) Premium Member over 9 years ago
Obviously, this is fiction. Rat won’t be 35 years old in 2016, which is Constitutionally the minimum age for the President.
dzw3030 over 9 years ago
BTW, don’t forget that data center in Utah. They ain’t storing cookie recipes.
Number Three over 9 years ago
Well Rat would definitely NOT get my vote!
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neverenoughgold over 9 years ago
Did George Orwell help with today’s strip?
Alexander the Good Enough over 9 years ago
There are, by maybe 0.1% to 1% more or so. But that’s the 0.1% that controls these things for the rest of us, is it not?
claire de la lune. over 9 years ago
What if this is already happening, just not with drones?
HeckleMeElmo over 9 years ago
Ah, finally, there’s the earth-shattering kaboom.
HarunAm over 9 years ago
Hey! You pinched my plan without crediting me! Actually your version is somewhat different so OK. I have determined that the earth can only handle 1 billion humans so 6 billion must go. Terrorists, rapists and such are easy but I’m afraid that 6th billion might mean “deleting” people with noisy vehicles and people who annoy me in traffic. Of course I’d control who goes and who stays.
Malcolm Hall over 9 years ago
Rat controls the drones.
Corey Cohen over 9 years ago
Vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmm
comicsnerd74 about 9 years ago
I would vote for him. The US is pretty much already like this anyway.
comicsnerd74 about 9 years ago
Libertarians like me take HUGE offense! I vote against Rat!
comicsnerd74 about 9 years ago
Also, isn’t that an inexact number, and if it was exact, how would he keep an eye on the people who work in the white house? And he would have to do 6,999,999,999 drones, because of himself.
PBS1! over 4 years ago
Dare I ask how Rat plans to afford that many drones?