Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 13, 2019

Or, Madison Ave.

Government is Theater of the Macabre.

Or both.

Verisimilitude’s Bar & Cafe!

Does the DMV count as both?

1500 Pennsylvania Avenue.

We’re going to need more rope.

You’re in The Twilight Zone.

Neither…it’s another Trump rally.

Why is everything political? Maybe… Maybe it’s a church , temple or a mosque?

The end result of truth decay

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There’s a difference nowadays?? Just ask Mike Pounce…

I thought the government center WAS the theater district.

Movie theater ahead? Comic strip?

Suspend disbelief…NOT!

That fold-up thing he has in hand?

Wiley, I’m suing your ass over you using my likeness without permission. On second thought, I’m honored.

It was where they held the Democratic debate last night.

It’s actually the entrance to Trump U.

Or the entrance to the Apple store.

Seen on the beltway.

“This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you’re on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable…Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of greed and power itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you’re entering the wondrous dimension of deceit, corruption and immorality. There’s a signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Twilight Zone!”

Pennsylvania Avenue.

Wait… if you suspend disbelief, then all you have left is belief!

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here…

In the theatre, the audience willingly suspends their disbelief…

Red Light District.

To paraphrase Bill S.;

“All government’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts.”

One is about faking events in a realistic manner. The other is about making real events appear fake. They seem at odds with each other and yet they are so complimentary. I mean think of the movies and books just waiting to come out of these last few year.

The government center. The theater is grounded in reality.. somewhat broken, occasionally, but real.

Judging from the attire and map, they must be visiting Washington DC from Nebraska, and the establishment is the “Old Ebbitt Grill.”

Theater district. Government Center, we all Know it’s a Big Lie.

It’s not Cynicism when it’s TRUE.

Trump has made the government The Theater of the Absurd.

Hide! Friday the 13th comes on a Friday this month!