Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 15, 2024

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    sirbadger  about 2 months ago

    That’s one way to solve the housing crisis. With fewer people, homes with land should be cheaper.

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    Hello Everyone  about 2 months ago

    Social Media would be sooooo much nicer if those folks were gone or at least quiet.

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    BasilBruce  about 2 months ago

    I can just imagine all those people taking turns yelling, “No, you’re Hitler!”

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    GreasyOldTam  about 2 months ago

    Better yet, add a door across the alley. Put the people in, close the door and walk away. Far away. Far enough so you can’t hear the cries for food, or what happens when they realize where their next meal is coming from.

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    Bilan  about 2 months ago

    Don’t forget to include the people that follow the extreme right and left nuts.

    Come to think of it, does the Pied Piper handle that kind of rat also?

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Didn’t trump say something like?

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    ivanprime93  about 2 months ago

    Sound reasoning.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member about 2 months ago

    The central myth of US politics is “the vital centre”!

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    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member about 2 months ago

    As a non American I’m a little curious about where the line for “far left” is drawn. Mostly it seems to be what we could call “centrist.”

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    Uncle Kenny  about 2 months ago

    This is such a great idea!

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    smartty cat  about 2 months ago

    Education level determines your political affiliation hence the look of sheer ignorance and ignominy by Trump supporters.

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    iggyman  about 2 months ago

    Normaltopia sounds great!

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    SNVBD  about 2 months ago

    That would be an uneven fight since there are a LOT of far right wingers….

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    Purple People Eater  about 2 months ago

    But, if you throw all the people from the far right and far left into the alley, who will be president?

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    blunebottle  about 2 months ago

    We can dream, can’t we?

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    Kurtass  about 2 months ago

    Don’t make this political, or the GoComics nanny will chastise you.

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    bignatefantic2.0  about 2 months ago

    For once I agree with Rat

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    Lenavid  about 2 months ago

    Actually, it’s the Far Right and all the rest of Normaltopia versus the LeftoMarxoGlobalists that want to complete the “fundamental change” of America into part of some tyrannical planetwide collectivism, with unchecked centralized power squashing individual liberty and self determination.

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    jel354  about 2 months ago

    At least Rat included Goat in this vision.

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    akachman Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Pay-per-view for the extremists cage matches?

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    Croc Holliday  about 2 months ago

    Love the Jaws reference!

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    ruif.info.excluido  about 2 months ago

    I’m sorry, I didn’t get it… who in the US far left is as toxic as the regular facers of the mainstream right? Including those on the presidential ticket?

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    rossevrymn  about 2 months ago

    WEAK-A$$ FALSE EQUIVALENCY ALERT!!!!!!

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 2 months ago

    Extremism may be wrecking our sensibilities. It is on both ends of the political spectrum. Compromise seems harder to come by. The media sucks it up and spits it all out at us. Things are not likely to settle down any time soon. So, what to do? Each of us can settle down as best we can, vote, and get on with our lives… as best we can.

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    tbarry718  about 2 months ago

    This is a pretty bad take. What is considered “far left” in this country is pretty mainstream in most of the world.

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    Gameguy49 Premium Member about 2 months ago

    According to the media, anyone who is not on board as a leftist is “FAR” right.

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    cracker65  about 2 months ago

    How about we just build a huge mental institution in every state and put them in it.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Take out all of the people on The Right and it would be a Peaceful Protest with arson, assaults, looting, shootings and all the other fun stuff blaming it on The Right. God Bless America!

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    Count Olaf Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Rat and The Count and other Right Wing American Patriots would be in Normaltopia. No Commies allowed. God Bless America!

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    Ellis97  about 2 months ago

    That’s not a bad idea.

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    Slowly, he turned...  about 2 months ago

    this is sounding better and better…

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    melston Premium Member about 2 months ago

    The strip brought out some potential alley dwellers, I see.

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    MacII  about 2 months ago

    In the same way that one definition of an alcoholic is ‘someone who drinks more than you do’ … the loony left would be all those with more liberal opinions and the wacko rightwing nutjobs would be those with more conservative views. So ‘outside the alley’ is going to be an awfully lonely place.

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    Kveldulf  about 2 months ago

    Anybody remember Al Capp? Li’l Abner?

    In one weekend strip General Bullmoose had the more obstreperous world leaders brought together on a desert island to work out their differences. The general, of course, insisted these fine world statesmen be unarmed.

    On the island, one leader pulled out a knife to ensure his “perfectly reasonable propositions” were accepted by all. Another leader drew his pistol. A third carried a rifle. Then a bazooka ………………

    The strip ended with a nuclear explosion erasing the island from existence.

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    jmmiller236  about 2 months ago

    Sorry- but the ‘extreme left’ wants food, housing, medical care, and shelter for everyone. The ‘extreme right’ wants an ethnically pure white Christo-fascist state. They are not equivalent.

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    tpcox928  about 2 months ago

    This actually sounds like a good idea, although a third part up-the-middle would be just as good.

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    Cozmik Cowboy  about 2 months ago

    Except there hasn’t been a functional left, let alone a “far” left, in US politics since the 1930s.

    We’d be much better off if there were.

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    Cozmik Cowboy  about 2 months ago

    Don’t downplay allies. As Kurt Vonnegut said, Chicago is a better city than New York, because it has allies – and thus the sidewalks aren’t constantly blocked by delivery trucks and piles of garbage.

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    aerotica69  about 2 months ago

    I immediately flashed on the marching band in Animal House.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 2 months ago

    The far right has completely taken over a party. The far left is a fringe that hates both candidates.

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    kdandre63  about 2 months ago

    Another BM from the king of false equivalency.

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    Snoopy Copter  about 2 months ago

    I would support that!!! VOTE RAT FOR FOREVER!!!

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    wolfgang73  about 2 months ago

    You could blame 90% of the worlds’ problems on one thing, Too. Many. People.

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    mindjob  about 2 months ago

    It wouldn’t be a fair fight, one side wouldn’t know how to use sticks

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    karenjean123 Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Amen!

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    ladykat  about 2 months ago

    Sounds like a good plan, Rat.

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    MichaelD Premium Member about 2 months ago

    “We’re gonna need a bigger alley” … The Marianas trench should suffice.

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    Frankfreak  about 2 months ago

    There are so few far left people they would be murdered in the first few minutes by the right and we would still have to deal with the far right.

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    brucereck33  about 2 months ago

    I miss the humorous comics he used to do.

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    minty_Joe  about 2 months ago

    Given another month and all this tension will die down. People will go about their business and all will be normal…

    …Then again, we could be facing civil war if one side politically doesn’t win. Which side that is, don’t ask me. People out there will be full of sour grapes and have had enough with the way things are. They’ll want to just nuke and repave the country to start over.

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    DaBump Premium Member about 2 months ago

    It’s a nice thought, but “the far right” seems to include anybody who doesn’t want to go along with no limits on or regulation of abortion, teachers teaching all kinds of things to kids without their parents’ consent or knowledge and even likewise “helping” kids make drastic life-changing decisions (with medical treatments), letting people who came from foreign countries without going through proper channels have driver’s licenses, vote and have all the other benefits of citizens, forcing auto companies to make a drastic switch to EVs, shooting Trump and a few members of the Supreme Court… okay, those last two might not be on the list.

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    MatthewJB  about 2 months ago

    The political thinking of this strip is getting dully repetitive and juvenile—the latter term may be a compliment.

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    lanainutahdesert  about 2 months ago

    What “far left?”

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    Ichner  about 2 months ago

    If you can’t find a big enough alley, put them all on a huge cruise ship, and name it the Bipartisan Ship.

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    zeexenon  about 2 months ago

    As for me, I choose Ally Sheedy.

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    Silence Dogood Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Sure, that’s what we need-More Violence-Civil War!Not funny, Pastis.

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    mfrasca  about 2 months ago

    The far left is the Communist Party USA.

    The far right is MAGA.

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    curtlyon19  about 2 months ago

    if only

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    old_geek  about 2 months ago

    Strong evidence here that politics turns brains into goo….

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    krisjackson01  about 2 months ago

    Trump says he’s going to send the National Guard and maybe the Army after the “far-left lunatics” he doesn’t like. He also wants the police to be exempt from prosecution for attacking people and wants them to have “one violent hour” in which they could get rid of the people they don’t like.

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    eladee AKA Wally  about 2 months ago

    Take that, all those who assume Rat is far right in any way. He just wants “Normal” like the rest of us. And I think he has a great idea. Both of these fringe groups get waaay too much airtime. We need to get back to the center and stop fighting amongst ourselves as a nation.

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    martens  about 2 months ago

    FWIW the Left lost the electoral college accounting while winning the popular vote in two recent elections but did not try to overturn those elections. But it was the Right who acted in a violent manner to overturn the election of 2020, having lost both the popular vote and the electoral college vote.

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    GojusJoe  about 2 months ago

    Interesting how most all of the comments here went off about housing prices and availability. As I read this, only 2 people out of dozens have commented on the comic strip theme, a sentiment which I wholeheartedly agree with. I just finished my mail-in ballot. I voted for local offices and issues. For the first time ever, I did not vote for president. If the extremists in this country are going to run their respective parties and decide which idiot will be their choice, I want to be able to say I had nothing to do with it.

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    John Jorgensen  about 2 months ago

    Actually I think both-sides-itis is very close to the heart of our problems. Let’s stop with the false equivalency that normalizes creeping fascism.

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    Bomage  about 2 months ago

    Sure, because it’s really a “both sides” kind of problem. Sure.

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    Old27F20  about 2 months ago

    Hot dog! Rats idea could be a real profit maker! Weapons makers could try out new equipment, health insurers could jack up prices and make a bundle. We could get gang bosses to do commentaries like baseball and football stars….this could be huge!

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    WilliamMedlock  about 2 months ago

    The Democrats aren’t moving to the left, they’re just moving the the right slower than the Republicans.

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    Buoy  about 2 months ago

    Divide and conquer

    reddit.Com/r/goodboomerhumor/comments/1d5zzjb/how_politics_works/

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    Buoy  about 2 months ago

    GoComics would be a great place to start culling. The screechers are pretty easy to identify.

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    ncorgbl  about 2 months ago

    The far right Republican/conservatives have managed so far to align 23 states for a constitutional convention. Constitutional conventions are held to make new constitutions. Until the majority number is reached to have the convention, far right Republican/conservatives attack, restrict, use trickery and take away rights we have now. Project 2025 is the blueprint for conservatives to overthrow the U.S.

    But the idea of sequestering both sides in an alley to fight it out is interesting. Historically, conservatives always get someone else’s kids to fight their battles for them, never having the guts to fight themselves. conservatives opposed our independence in 1774. conservatives quit the U.S. in 1860. conservatives sent those brave boys to invade, make war and kill U.S. soldiers from 1861 to 1865. And those boys died. They manipulated the brave poor Southerners to fight for “their way of life” which was the plantation and the owner’s slave property that those brave boys would never have. Yes, put them in an alley and a fair fight. It wouldn’t take long for conservatives to quit and run again, looking for the cheating, lying, sneaky way to get their own. conservatives are the enemy of the United States of America, and have been since 1774.

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    wildlandwaters  about 2 months ago

    it’s not very often, but every once in awhile Rat comes up with a genius idea…

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    Doctor Go  about 2 months ago

    Here we go with the equivalencies again…

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    cupertino jay  about 2 months ago

    most amusing (not so much) is how pastis didn’t have to draw any alley, aand still drew more than a hundred comments

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    Goat from PBS  about 2 months ago

    His logic is impeccable. Only one shall remain.

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    drtodd12  about 2 months ago

    Please don’t bothsides this. One group wants equality for all, the other wants privilege for a few. There’s no comparison.

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    bilbrlsn  about 2 months ago

    If you remove the 10% farthest left and right you just change the names of the 10% farthest to the left and the right.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Fighting it out is one of the all-time WORST methods of resolving disagreements ever invented! (On 2nd thot, cancel that “one of” bit.)

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    pamela welch Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Stephan, I like the way you think ♥

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    chireef  about 2 months ago

    there is only one person in Normaltopia … me

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    sheashea  about 2 months ago

    I like it!

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    bunrabbit99  about 2 months ago

    can i get directions to that alley, please?

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    Mr.doom  about 2 months ago

    About 50% are either far left or far right, who is left over?

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    sincavage05  about 2 months ago

    Wasn’t this part of trumps secret project/doctrine? And I think his normaltopia is larger than it really is.

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    del_grande Premium Member about 2 months ago

    But everybody knows that the far ________ are the ones trying to save the country, and it’s other side that’s the problem

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    markkahler52  about 2 months ago

    That boat has already sailed…

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  about 2 months ago

    Wouldn’t Rat belong in the alley?

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    Walter Kocker  about 2 months ago

    Our ballots are arriving today – for the office of president we have 10 candidates – 8 of them we’ve either never heard of, or would never consider. Two of them are really in contention (for some unfathomable reason):

    D – for the Democratic Party, and the smiling lady who wants to bring joy, equality, and pride back into the United States of America.

    R – for the Raving Looney Party, and the scowling, noisy, authoritarian, felonious, arrogant old fool who’s trying to stay out of prison.

    OK, I know I borrowed one of those party names from the British, but it’s clearly apropos.

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