Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 12, 2018

I like that the “FACTS” are the Times & the Post, while if we could see it, the “SHMACTS” would read Fox “News”

SHMACKTS are for schmucks, just like “fake news”

You’ve outdone yourself Mr. Miller. Not a bit of dialogue but it speaks volumes…..Capturing truth in just one panel like that is like catching lightning in a jar…..Good one…Thank you.

Wiley the social analyst hits it again.

That’s why we have a president who is schmart.

Yup, difference between what I want to hear and what I need to know.Hope we make it out of this mess, start by more people turning away from fox news.

when the legend sells more papers you print the legend the heck with the facts sort comes from the movie “the man who shot Liberty Valance”

False news is easy. Make up a statement as fact. Repeat it positively as if it were fact. Ignore contrary opinions. Just keep nailing the one thing over and over. Buttercup does it all the time. The only thing he changes is the target.

Who is the man over there with the outstretched arms? Looks familiar, somehow. Ah, yes! The red hat – now I recognize him!

Please the palate. People want confirmation that they are good and righteous.

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Mr. Shmacks seems to be wearing a MAGA hat.

Wiley did this “Facts/Schmacts” visual in the comic of 3/3/2017. I liked it so much I saved it. In that version, “Facts” and “Schmacts” occupied two different sides of a square kiosk, and the “Schmacts” counter was staffed by an actual clown.

This whole thing is making me paranoiac. How do we know what’s really true? Are we to trust sources just because they tell us to? I don’t really trust anything that depends on its backers and shareholders.

False stories travel faster on Twitter than true ones do, study finds

USA TODAY · 2 days ago

Lies and fake news travel much further and faster than real news, according to study

The Independent · 3 days ago

Alas, too true.

I don’t know when I’ve seen so many comments. This cartoon really resonates with a lot of people!

Is this strip a rerun? It looks familiar.

And since when does either the Times or Post print the facts? They’ve been in the yellow journalism business for decades now.

A lie is a lie.

What i can’t understand the gullibility of those that listen to the Great-Lie-Machine when they told their followers that they didn’t need to fact check any of their stories.

I get the majority of my U.S. print news from on-line subscriptions to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

I also read BBC and Al Jazeera (English), as well as watch them on cable television.

I have two Spanish language newspapers, I read on-line, and watch one local Spanish t.v. channel for their news.

This doesn’t include daily perusals of snippets of items, from the Federalist and The Hill, to the Stratfor Report and Wired.

Since I’m a recovering news junkie, I try to confine myself to just those few outlets.

Occam’s Razor: the explanation that is simplest and adequately describes the event is most likely to be true.

Murphy’s Blunt Instrument: the explanation that is most convoluted and requires the greatest amount of conspiracy is most likely to be believed.

Le Pen,Bannon- 2020 ;~(

My DVR favorite: I still love watching CNN’s election coverage. Reality smacks ’em in the face, and they cry on camera. Precious.

How much ya wanna bet that a good portion of those standing at the Schmact booth are millennials ?

Fact: Korea and US are actually meeting for diplomatic talks, Fact: This is a whole lot better than warfare, My Opinion: Liberals and Trump haters are gnashing and wailing over this.

Many dislike truth, so fantasy is better, more fun and fits their preconceived notions.

http://www.gocomics.com/ziggy?ct=v&cti=1422351

“He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.” – Richard Hooker

It is a demonstrated fact that millions of children of Schmacters don’t get their news either from print or from Fox, and are falling away from the old fears and hatreds every year. The Schmacters are in blind, raging panic about that, which is why they lash out at Facters and at reality itself so much. And why Schmacters have lied, cheated, and stolen so hard from Nixon to Trump, to try to stay in power.

It is a demonstrated fact that millions of children of Schmacters don’t get their news either from print or from Fox, and are falling away from the old fears and hatreds every year. The Schmacters are in blind, raging panic about that, which is why they lash out at Facters and at reality itself so much. And why Schmacters have lied, cheated, and stolen so hard from Nixon to Trump, to try to stay in power.

Ah, yes… the Truth… What IS the Truth?

What is reality?

The latter part of the twentieth century was the information age. We are now officially in the post-information age, or the misinformation age.

Nothing like common sense and basic simplistic, facts, dumbfounding the incompetent, ignorant, cowardice, honorless, furthest thing from a Christian scum.

How terribly uninformed they all are, yet they seriously whole heartedly believe that they are the most informed and that anything else anyone has to say on the matter is automatically lying.

I keep forgetting that there is only one side to every coin…