Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 06, 2016

Twitter is for twits

HIs fame is already his payment?

If Eddie wrote it, it would be fake fake news.

Eddie, if you’d put the people you were told to on the Supreme Court, you’d be president right now.

Trump makes a living off of his gullible sycophants.

Eddie’s news is more believable than what comes from Breibart, Hannity and trump.

But the real issue is. What are we going to do about fake comments?

How about the outright lies like “If you like your doctor you can keep him!” Or “Your insurance isn’t going to cost you a dime more!” from the anointed great community organizer!

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.…………….

H.L. Mencken

If you show people “stories” that reinforce their fears and biases, then the people motivated by fear will eat those up and circulate them more widely.

Facts along with common sense are now dead! These are the same folks who pass along every wild email forward they receive from a friend, who by way, was also too lazy to fact check it. I work in media and I can assure you every sensationalized email forward you get is 100% BS. If mainstream media isn’t covering it it is pure crap.

But I HAD to find out what she did next and why it was so jawdropping!!!

I think it happened when you could no longer tell the difference between Onion headlines and “serious” headlines.

Surely, you can’t be serious.

I don’t mess around, to get the real truth, I always and only read the comments on the cartoons. Other than that, I can’t trust news media, since they are biased.

Sadly true. Misinformation lives.

Some dude went into a Pizza Shop in DC to break up Hillary Clinton’s Child Trafficking operation. The one she runs with Podesta. The one the Trump acolytes said was TRUE!! 1984 is here. Had to happen sooner or later. New Speak!

Some dude went into a Pizza Shop in DC to break up Hillary Clinton’s Child Trafficking operation. The one she runs with Podesta. The one the Trump acolytes said was TRUE!! 1984 is here. Had to happen sooner or later. New Speak!

I don’t make a habit of watching the 24-hour news channels. I had CNN on for about 30 minutes yesterday, and I’m convinced a regular diet of that (or ANY of the cable news networks) would lead to a skewed sense of reality. Their business is to construct mountains out of molehills to fill airtime, and social media is just making that easier.

The dumbing down of America is rapidly accelerating

It was helpful before the actual news became incredible. Trump being appointed president by the electoral college ( he was NOT elected) seems like a bad dream, but I’ve been waiting to wake up for a month now. I hope I’m just in an irreversible coma.

That business about the pizza parlor is just sickening. Folks are going out of their way to force it to look sensible.

@Night-Gaunt49

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“…Most people do not like news, it harshes their mellow…”

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Good line ! ( worth stealing…er …using without attribution ).

Roll me another one !

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I have this vision of millions of Americans running around with their hands covering their ears, looking like Edvard Munch’s painting.

Want to avoid fake news? Buy a newspaper (if you can find one).

If you’re going to go to the trouble to put ink on paper, you’re a little more apt to vet your sources and get it right.

Its’ going to be a long four years. I remember a line from a Robert B. Parker book. “She wasn’t always right, but she was always certain.” That is the mind set of conspiracy theorists. “They” are all out to get me!

Does any one here remember the days when news programs reported the news and were not the news?

As to Stipple’s comment about reading instead of TV; if the meaning is reading the newspaper, well that certainly is not much better. <p. It is very sad that for the most part, everything reported by all news sources and “studies” needs to be suspect.

Fake news is nothing but a term put out by liberals to blame the liberal loss in the election. They believe that the masses are so stupid that they need the guidance of liberals to help them discern what is “real news” vs. “fake news”. They also created the term “alt-right” during the election cycle. They “gruber” the masses all of the time. Get over it people. Trump won fair & square with all of the lib firepower doing their best to take him down. You folks lie & cheat to achieve your end goal, but it finally caught up with you. It always will.

Have you considered that fake news has two purposes? First is disinformation, which is what the even drags in the only moderately gullible. The second is more insidious; it’s to cause people to stop looking at all news. Both are exactly what someone, or some group, would do if they want to establish total control over people. Zuckerberg’s public ambivalence about it is a strong tell that he’s directly involved with it. Which means he’s a sociopath that desperately belongs in jail, not running a multi-national information system. But you knew that already, didn’t you?

Just team up w/ Danae!

Occam’s razor: the simpler an explanation is, the more likely it is to be true.

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Murphy’s blunt instrument: the more convoluted and conspiracy-ridden an explanation is, the more likely it is to be believed.

The schools need to make critical thinking a required part of the curriculum. It won’t happen, though. Too many people have a vested interest in the lack of it.

Just like I read the comics to laugh at self and others with respective versions of the truth.

What’s REALLY a shame is the fake news that spews from the mainstream media…

Rational thinking goes down the toilet when ideologues are in control. Or depending where you live, down the loo.

Pursuit of ignorance.

SIEG HEIL!

Wizard’s First Rule

If the traditional media had done their job and not gone off to promoting their own political agenda, the “fake news” would never have gained the traction it has.

Well your biases and hatreds are on full display from your hatred of STRONG WOMEN and MUSLIMS and you would fit right in to the Reich Wing that has openly invaded our govt. We were TOO SMART to ELECT a NAZI or a SYMPATHIZER of them in the 1930’s, but not today. Very disappointing.

“Where did you read that study?”

“On a Facebook news story….wait a minute.”

I have to admit I don’t get Fox News. They have a massive following of under educated under employed who believe every lie they tell or truth they distort even though Fox gets busted for lying just about every minute of the day. Many of their commentators are on the Koch brothers payroll and even when Charles Koch was asked why he spends so much money buying politicians and judges he said he doesn’t want to pay taxes or have government regulating his industries and “By God I expect to get my moneys worth”. And still their followers stand up and shout “Don’t tax the rich” and are happy to shoulder the burden themselves. Wow. Now that’s leadership.

Include MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NBC…. “Hillary win is a slam dunk!” “Trump is a racist bigot” “everyone who votes for Trump is a racist bigot”

Whatever happened to “The National Enquirer”? Great checkout line reading.

The cat keeps moving on the shoulders.

“A man who reads nothing is better educated than a man who reads nothing but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson-———————————————————————————-

It took Flo this long to realize that? I was in my late teens when I realized people are gullible idiots. That’s why I don’t even watch the news or do social media. I get enough of the imbeciles at work.

That sums up the business plan of The Enquirer.

Like Wiley?

Make a living? I don’t know. The competition’s pretty fierce. Besides, by comparison, your stuff is less believable, because it makes more sense.

For those who are familiar with the novels by Terry Pratchett, THIS strip makes me think of all the times that CMOT Dibbler has stopped and looked up, with the glint of dollar signs in his eyes…

We all hope that Trump will be a good President, just as we all hoped that Obama or Bush would be. As with them, we must allow time to pass and events to unfold before we either turn a blind eye or a critical gaze his way.

His record as a politician is entirely spotless so far, even though he has managed to amass a fairly substantial army of political enemies who mill about in the streets, shouting and occasionally burning or looting.

starcandles

More false news. The term alt-right" was created by white supremacists to euphemise their true nature. At least AP, the style guide for mass media, has restricted it to in-quotes, in-context use and not as a label. Now you can attack the Associated Press as you do most cooperatives.

Please, for the love of natures harmony, don’t give the Captain any idea’s!

I know the Lords and Ladies of our Coastal Elites have trouble with this whole “Republic” thing. But my ancestors fought against a king 3000 miles away. I will not submit to one 500 miles away.

The disdainful, dismissive arrogance displayed here by most of the commenters is the reason Trump won in the first place.

Captain Eddie could have a promising career. For all I know, he already has .

Eddie, you could be president.

Sometimes the truth doesn’t make sense at first glance. Last night I read an article about a fake US embassy in Nigeria. When the writer tried to blame Hilary, I got suspicious and checked it out. Surprise! Several other news outlets had the same story(minus H)

Trump’s Chumps definitely prefer fake news, because it’s more like the movies they watch…. aliens, vampires and zombies oh! my!

I see Wiley hasn’t gotten over the election. Now it’s “fake news” at fault, has he mentioned the Foxnews channel being everywhere yet? Like Obama said the other day? Yeah, that’s the ticket… fake news and Foxnews.

Because we’ve been fed BS by the media for at least a generation and now can’t tell the difference?