Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 17, 2024

James nodded along in fake sympathy as he nursed his first beer since breaking out of the clink.

‘Sounds like there’s plenty of job opportunities for con artists’

Yup. The thing about over drinking is that the hangover only lasts a short time compared to the results of an election.

End of democracy is Nigh!Gonna take a lot of people to vote rationally!, to stop it this time round!

I miss going to a bar, IF I were still young!

Oh, mate, you’re d@mned if you do, and you’re d@mned if you don’t …

But if you drink to forget then surely you’ll f…oh, darn. I forgot what I was gonna say.

Too much drinking and not enough thinking is what got us into this predicament. The question of “if the evidence proves him innocent, and he has the evidence, why does he keep putting off his court cases” would be a good place to start, IMO.

We need a moderate third party with the ability to win. At least close the border until the immigrants already here have found jobs and are supporting themselves.

Let democracy end, it means nothing because we are not a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic!

Mr. Binary.

At least we get to VOTE on the end of Democracy…

The libs are so hilarious with this doom stuff, they thrive on it.Totally oblivious to what their side is doing (or worse, feel that it’s ok).Look! A squirrel!

If you stop worrying enough about democracy, and you see the results, you’ll be drinking . . . a lot.

Our real problem isn’t that the Reality Show Con Artist is an easy to spot liar, grifter, coward, fraud and corrupt unfit incompetent Russian dupe. It is that the majority of Americans are either too stupid, too lazy and/or too biased they are okay with it.

He couldn’t be an authoritarian because he is much too inept and lazy for that. He can’t even run a casino where the house always wins. He is not a real person with “beliefs”, “policies” and an “agenda” other than to enrich himself with money and attention. His world view doesn’t extend past his mirror.

That we are actually considered returning to his charade presidency is so absurd, it actually absolves him of the sin of his own election.

He is just the pus that denotes the infection and the cause is white resentment of people of color. Amplifying that has been the Repuglicans playbook for over 40 years and it is their cover for driving the tax rate down on the wealthy and onto the middle class. They have been playing whites for chumps and suckers and making them believe the apocryphal story of the WIC recipient buying lobster with their $162 a month benefit instead of the real story of how Peter Thiel gamed the retirement system to shield Five billion dollars from taxes. Repuglicans are playing whites as chumps and suckers.

White resentment- now you know why we can’t have nice things in this country.

We should put obstacles in trump’s way… Ramps! We need more ramps!

Democracy is doomed when people decide to believe what their politicians say over what is obviously true. Just remember, a man’s enemies may say a lot about the character of the man, but their words are not to be trusted.

Democracy is for people who can’t handle the government thinking for you.

I have long admired Wiley’s use of color.

it’s funny how many comments there when politics is mentioned. everybody wants to state their beliefs or say something about someone elses. what’s the point. individual decisions. neither wrong or right

“A republic if you can keep it.” “Democracy is two wolves and lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote” Benjamin Franklin….We are a representative REPUBLIC with a constitution that restricts the government AND where the individual rights are protected against tyrannical majority rules…Drain.The.Swamp…

No, I think the only way is to do both.

Stop voting for republicans, easy peasy.

" . . . a lot of people to vote rationally!" You’re joking, right? Right?

It should be “end of our constitutional republic” and not “end of democracy.” Though it’s less compact, it’s more exact: Republicans want to let Trump make himself king and ignore big parts of the Constitution.

Here we are, 8 decades removed from the end of WW2 (which, according to my recollection, we won), and yet somehow we’ve inherited all these “good Germans”.

One of the best unsung lines from the movies: So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause. (Star Wars III)

You said it.

I don’t recall seeing a cash register like that in the entire 21st Century. (Of course, I don’t hang out in many museums.)

Most comics today are reflecting the same results from Iowa. Funny how it was predicted. The creators must be psychic!

Democracy will only end if people stay home and do not vote against someone who denies the electoral process while hoping to benefit from it.

Only the Democrats worry about the end of Democracy. Because they don’t like it.

I am willing to give Dean Phillips a chance. If he is not on the Dem primary ballot I will leave the presidential slot blank when doing the actual ballot.

How did we get here?

We often hear the phrase “Drain the Swamp!” meaning D.C.

I rise in defense of mucky smelly swamps, little ponds and brooks, and damp places where it’s hard for humans to walk.

You will find more diversity of life in these places, than anywhere else. When I was a small panda, many a summer day was spent in such places, idling away the time, watching Nature’s wonders as they went about their daily tasks.

I will admit to little affection for ticks, mosquitos and gnats. Still, it’s their world, as much as it’s mine.

Rather than "Drain the Swamp’’, let’s use “kick bums out”.

Pax vobiscum. (That’s Latin for “keep your stick on the ice”)

Democracy in the United States has actually been in trouble for some time now. The current situation is only the summation of many electoral irregularities that have for a long time been fostered and/or ignored by both major parties.

Hopefully it will be harder for the election to be stolen, or to look like it was stolen in this next election. There will be audits that do more than prove that the machines could accurately recount a stuffed ballot box as a stuffed ballot box.

I keep flashing back to a British Newspaper, The Daily Mirror headline from Dubya Bush’s second (2004) election:

“How could 50,054,087 people be So Dumb?”

US politics: $#%^^$&@

Rest of the world: This would be funny if their politics didn’t $#@#% us over too.

Love the old-time cash register.

Political sign in Jerry Lewis movie THE FAMILY JEWELS—1965

“He’s never stolen anything. All he asks is a chance”