Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 23, 2016

Remember to leave an opening to provide him with food.

Be sure to put a cask of amontillado in there, in case he gets thirsty.

Dang. Just when we were allowed to go get Romeo y Julieta cigars.

And now The Donald is saying that the U.S. will pay for his wall, but he’s sure Mexico will reimburse us after it’s built.

Donny’s stock in CEMEX will soar !

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/cx

A good thing that the “wall” will not be built. The “wall” idea was the dumbest idea that ever was. Does anyone remember how well the “Maginot Line” worked?

Better yet, build a 4×4 room of bricks, drop both Hillary and Trump in, then seal it up.

Rat is such a caricature!

Wall construction, kiddo! That’s where it’s at!

This has got to be most pathetic and juvenile election campaign I’ve ever seen.

Vote Trump!

Stephan looking at the Hil-Da-Beast’s history how about a strip targeting her ………..that way things will be kept even…..you can start out by having her married to Bill Croc…

Meh, Donald Dump is basically a rat

May have to build a wall around this strip, enough idiots already.

China built a wall, Turkey is now building a wall, Hadrian built a wall, Israel built a wall, those worked. The Magenot line didn’t wasn’t built to stop the current level of technology. Different reason for failure.

“They built a wall in China, a thousand miles long, to keep out the foreigners, they made it strong…”

Static Defense [i.e. walls] is such a discredited option that it is hard to believe that any rational being would consider building one. It didn’t work for Jericho, China, France, or East Germany. On the economic side, one 3.5 mile stretch of wall built by Customs and Border Control cost $58 million dollars. The US-Mexico border is just under 2000 miles. You do the math.

@Sandfan is correct. The whole ‘build a wall’ idiocy is bait for the mob.

“You want me on that wall! You need me on that wall!”

OK, now lampoon Clinton, too. Plenty of material to work with.

Why build walls for the airplanes when anti-air missiles would work better?

“Stephan looking at the Hil-Da-Beast’s history how about a strip targeting her ………..that way things will be kept even”

Only one candidate is crazy.

The ugliness of this election season is ENTIRELY caused by only ONE of the candidates.

And most of them get here by coming legally, and just staying when their visa expires. With good reason: they have a job, they’re supporting a family, and it’s fine with their employer.

Garbage.

This reminds of something that someone (I can’t remember who) said near the beginning of the Trump campaign: “Before I support Trump on building a wall, I need to know which side of it he’ll be on.”

Good fences make good neighbors, which is why there’s a bigger fence around the White House.

Seems like an appropriate response to Trumpology. Why don’t we just do this? Bonus: Requires fewer bricks!

Oh. how I hate it when comic strip writers try to be political!

One truism is that if you can’t control your borders, you can’t have an immigration policy at all. The other is that the inevitable result of uncontrolled immigration is that the average economic wealth inside the country will eventually be the same as the average economic wealth outside the country, at which point the flow of immigrants will stop on it’s own. These two economic truths are backdrops for the rest of the discussion, so keep them in mind as you hate on each other.

Most actually come through Canada these days..easy peezy

It’s like this idea that you have to stop migrants coming in because there will be a few Islamist terrorists hidden amongst them. Sure there will be, but Islamists have access to oil money so if you stop them coming in the cheap way they’ll just buy a plane ticket. Only the innocent migrants (the great majority) will suffer and now you don’t know where the terrorists are any more. Better to let them hide among the migrants so you know where they are, and then hide plenty of your own spies there to watch them.

rat is going to make some mason very happy.

More Mexican immigrants are leaving right now than entering.

Trump’s wall will trap them inside America.

So, according to you, Trump’s candidacy was a masonic plot all along. Aha, I knew it!!!

How about we just shoot the illegals trying to get in, and then there won’t be anymore to worry about! Problem solved!

LOVE this! (and Taco Bell!)

As someone who lives along the border, I can tell you many citizens have no problems with Mexicans entering and/or leaving. They are an asset to the communities. Bisbee, AZ, wouldn’t have a fire department if not for illegals coming over to help when needed. The wall concept is about unfounded fear, that’s all.

I love Pearls before Swine, but the last few months Stephan has really been struggling. I think it would be a good idea for him to take a 6 month break and let his creative spark reignite itself.

Is Rat planning on building a wall?

I wasn’t paying attention…

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Stephen is not paying attention. It is illegal immigrants and jihadist we want to keep out, not legal immigrants.

Mexico want to build a wall on their southern border; http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/hypocrisy-mexico-announces-plans-great-wall-southern-border-central-america/

Rat — you’re a racist!

Stephan Pastis, I like your humour. I like your strips. Such a pity they are so one-sided. When does the “H” girl get her comeuppance from the Rat?Don’t tell me: NEVERYou love Hillary and everybody who reads your strips should love Hillary!UNSUBSCRIBED.

oh paaastisss is this your berkeley education showing LOL

Too politically correct. It is not funny anymore. I never saw anything about the nasty woman.

Don’t need a wall.. just put above-ground solar-powered sensors every 660 ft. apart, and tunneling sensors at all likely locations.

Last warning, Pastis: “general” political humor is always OK. Blatant editorializing like in today’s strip belongs on the editorial page. Do this again and this “customer” stops “buying” your product….and may just suggest to the 11+ million visitors who frequent his websites that they do the same. I never threaten….I just promise.

I remember when comic strips were funny

Bet you a dime to a dollar as soon as the election is over, somebody (if not more than one) will announce their intention to run in 2020. Can’t wait :(

Well, see, there you have it. If something doesn’t work 100% of the time then you shouldn’t bother. Which is why vaccines are a waste of money. And people shouldn’t lock their doors at night, ‘cause it’s racist.

Taco Bell, we attack your toilet (bad experiences)