Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 18, 2015

Trump Construction subsidies.

you work with what you have…and that boat would not float…and for sure….that wall would keep no one out…

A stone block boat! Brilliant!…

That wall is uuuuuuuge….!

Yeah but, who paid for it?

Yeah but then somebody would accuse him of brutal torture when the illegals get seasick on their cruise.

I wonder what is so vitally important to protect on that side of the island. All I see is a lone palm tree.

The idiot knows that the new arrival can just swim over beyond the wall, right?

But, being the wisest and most intelligent and caring person to ever exist, he has already determined that it is best to end the miseries of humanity on this small island rather than waste the time and energy to carry the suffering and injustice beyond it. He is a True Humanitarian!

Someone tries to defy that old saying of ‘No man is an island’….

Wow, 17 comments in and not a single reference to that particular TV show (not Survivor)! I must be old or that show has finally and thankfully faded away from pop culture memory.

out of rocks?

You have to protect the only food source (palm tree).

Rocks don’t float well

Of course, eventually, without a wall, so many people would be on the boat, it would SINK!

Like America is sinking right now…

This is becoming a left-view political cartoon. It belongs on the editorial page/section.

This wall makes about as much sense as the “walls” that Hungary and Serbia just erected to keep refugees fleeing war and oppression from ‘passing through’ their country on the way to a new life.

]Of course we’re not much better. But of course, we built or fences to keep THEM out ! Right, Donald ?

Ultimate in ‘conservative’ paranoia. He should be with his kind pretending to debate candidates for the Koch presidency. He must be bushed by his wife’s remarks.

“….Before I built a wall I’d ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offense.Something is there that doesn’t love a wall…

…..He will not go behind his father’s saying,And he likes having thought of it so wellHe says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ "

Excerpted from the Mending Wall--Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963

There is a huge parallel to Hungary and the US, both thinking walls should even be allowed to keep war or economic refugees out. Total lack of love and compassion. (oops, dropped that match on gasoline, gotta run before it explodes and blows up this highly volatile comment page!)

Sadly paranoia seems to be in our genes…… as it once helped us survive. It seems to have gained another level of traction.

Wouldn’t that be ‘rocking the boat’?

An amazing depiction of humanity at it’s worst…and most predictable…

“I’d like to know where he quarried the stone, and got the barbwire.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ordered them from Amazon.

@Bruno ZeigertsSometimes the definition of “them” changes from one part of a house to another!

where he quarried the stone.The Island used to be a bit Larger..

Once again, fear wins over progress.

Walls built to keep people out can also be used to keep people in.

One of the first things the English speaking arrivals in North America did was build walls to keep the natives out. Look how many towns and cities in the U.S. are named FORT something or other.

Fear builds walls, strength takes them down…

Night-Gaunt49The USA is the big Israel, or much more properly, a branch plant of Likud assisted by their version of fundamentalists..TarredandfeatheredPeople seem amazed at ferrocement ships, but never wonder how steel ones float. The SS Selma, a concrete tanker from WW-I, hit a reef during the war, scuttled in the early 1920s, and just recently sank below the water. The Graf Spee was scuttled in 1939 and recently sank below the bottom – sand in both cases. Pykecrete used refrigeration coils both to keep it frozen and as rebar. By the time the bureaucracy finished stalling, airfields had been captured in France and an unsinkable carrier in the Baltic was no longer needed, so it never got a fair trial.

Oh come on folks — we all know it’s the fault of the Whig party.

Sandals All Inclusive Resort properties, all the same.

I think this is where Poe was going in “The Mask of the Red Death.”

It’s amazing how many people disapprove of protecting oneself from terrorists. Just like the earlier comment criticizing settlers in the U.S. building forts. What a bunch of numbskulls.

C’mon guys it’s a comic.The guy being kept out looks pretty peaceful and appears to pose no threat to the paranoid couple on the other side.It would be a little different if he was armed to the teeth.

Hmmm….a boat made out of stones and barbed wire. Sounds like a plan.

A boat out of rock and barbed wire?

Israel is genuinely under attack by those who want to destroy it. Yet it still lets people in in specified locations.

Genuine protection of a nation from those who want to destroy it is not why Trump wants to build a wall between the US and Mexico.

Rarely528Garbage? Both are paranoid about Arabs. US corporate media rarely mentions that Israel is an unrestrained nuclear power and hardly a democracy. J Street (an American Jewish lobbying organization promoting peace) has more members than AIPAC (unregistered Likud lobby bribing Congress), but is never mentioned in the corporate media, while AIPAC is presented as synonymous with Judaism.

Sure… and we and the rest of the world have the original sin of antagonizing them by not submitting to the will of their god by accepting their absolute rule and the laws they would have supreme over all others.What dastardly fiends!

non sequitur indeed.