Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 19, 2024

I’m with the guy here. Though there’s the cool little fillip that AI may be in charge at the corporations. Because no matter how hard you try to train them out of it, mere people WILL show the occasional shred of empathy.

The rules of Monopoly indicate that the game isn’t over until one person owns everything and everyone else has nothing. Shouldn’t take much longer.

Looks like he’s goosestepping here.

Too true to “like”.

I get a chilling feeling looking at the sign. That said, I think that the minor collision that’s about to take place will put him back in his box.

Exactly what magats crave.

They want ‘elections’ and an oligarchy, just like Putin’s Russian.

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They believe that tax cuts for the rich and for patriotic multinational corporations benefit them personally.

Is today’s strip an excellent strip? Yes, it is. Therefore I click the heart.

He’s just boasting.

I think the warning sign or is it a celebration sign is a bit late, that control is already here.

Corporate control, brought to you by the Biden Administration (DEI/ESG) and the Obama Administration (Obamacare/health insurance industry subsidies and govenrment rationing power granted to them) and the Military industrial complex (Nearly every administration since the 1940’s).

Look to the left of the sign, the voice bubble is the significant part of this strip.

The weak minds think government setting prices is the cure. Venezuela model.

Yeah, it’s definitely time to send the zillionaires to Mars.

I think he’s right. The goose-stepping business drone is about to collide with the clueless cell phone drone and the result will be like matter touching anti-matter in an explosion that will end all known things.

And they aren’t even American corporations, they’re multinational, and larger than some countries. But our Supreme Court has ruled that they should be allowed to bribe legislators.

This is old news. What isn’t controlled by the corporation by now?

When your only goal is to cut taxes on the wealthy at the expense of the middle and working classes, you have to invent distractions like “Welfare Queens”, “Willie Horton”, “Thugs”, “Colin Kaepernick”, “Critical Race Theory” and the “border” to keep whites scared and fearful of people of color so they don’t realize the tax rates of the 1950’s, which funded everything that made the middle class (the GI Bill, the highway system, America’s dominance on the world stage) has been shifted downward from the rich to them.

You have to make whites fixated on the apocryphal story of the WIC recipient buying lobster with their $162 a month benefit so they don’t hear about the real story of how Peter Theil gamed the retirement system to shield FIVE BILLION dollars from taxes.

You have to make them think the “small government” scam is a good thing instead of its reality which is to gut the Federal Government as the only effective counterbalance to monied interests. That’s why the biggest expenditures of the Federal Government – Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (which whites love as opposed to “Obamacare” which they hate) – will all be reduced or go away completely if Repuglicans get their way.

Whites have been played for chumps and suckers, distracted with nonsense, while their pockets are being picked by the wealthy and big business. Instead of making common ground with people of color, who have historically been neglected and repressed, whites have been trained to turn their anger on them instead of the people who are shipping their jobs elsewhere, creating the unfair playing field and taking the bigger slice of the pie at their expense.

White resentment of people of color. Now you know why we can’t have nice things in this country.

Corporate profits are through the roof since the pandemic. Now if only someone has a plan to reign them in … hmmm. Just sayin’

Nigh? NIGH!!

I thought AI was about to take over

The rich lose all perspective on what’s valuable and end up living lives with no real meaning.

That’s why I chose to be a simple, lovable, huggable Granpa.

You’ll never see a Brinks truck in a funeral procession.

Harris/Walz 2024 Do it for the kids.

Complete corporate control is closer than merely ‘nigh.’ Look at prices, wages, health insurance, and retirement funds. The first is higher, the others are lower.

Still just as scary as any.

George Carlin once said that politicians should wear shirts with the names of corporations that sponsor them, like Nascar drivers

Sadly complete corporate control paired with the religious right is here—-the Supreme Court just solidified that with the current decisions —presidential immunity, over-turning the exon-valdez ruling which kneecapped "agency rule making. -one company is suing to abolish the NLRB as unconstitutional. I am sure the EPA will be next…and the abortion ruling which was solely decided on the basis of religion!

Don’t think corporations will be the problem. More like the tax victims of Obama, Harris, and hobnobbing with U.N. demands that are pushed on America.

naught

If you think Elon Musk and X were instrumental in stirring up the racist alt-right in Great Britain to riot, just imagine what he’s got in store for the United States!

Hand in hand with government……

I was just going to note that the Gen-X / Millenial kid looking at his phone was about to collide with the businessman.

With the look on his face, this does not appear to be a warning sign, but more of a sign of celebration.

I think it’s already here.

Thanks, Citizens United! /s

I liked watching Continuum. I hope complete corporate control never happens.

Can Monday Night Rollerball be far behind?

I can’t wait for Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in D minor to become the new anthem!

like the good ol’ trickle down economics… drip… drip… drip……

Looks like the guy with the cell phone will soon smack dab into Mr Corp!

Praise be the shareholders.

I like that corporate and the slave are about to collide.

Project 2025…2,3,4…hup!…2…3…4…

What is this 1985??? ;-)

It’s amazing how one, simple comic strip will bring out the political fanatics.Can’t we simply enjoy the humor?

If I could get through a days’ tech news without seeing the words Google, Microsoft or Apple, it would be a sign of a diversified economy.

Rollerball

I only come here to see the rank idiocy conferred by the 2-party system.

What does he mean ‘nigh’? Corporate types don’t care who’s in charge as long as they can make money with minimal effort, not by providing goods and services of better quality and at a decent price because they are truly the best at it.

“All around us” seems more a propos than “nigh.”

I would like to follow the life and death cycle of a cow from birth, through grazing fees and fodder and vet bills to sale at auction to figure out what the farmer’s cut is.

Then I’d like to follow it on the rail line and through the slaughterhouse, onto the truck and to the supermarket.

Then compare the CEO’s cut of the railroads, trucking company and supermarket chain to the farmer, rail worker, meat packer, trucker and grocery clerk to figure out why beef prices are so high.

Royalists and sycophants. They don’t fool me with the tri-corner hats and flag waving. I know what side of the American Revolution they were really on.

Just as long as the corporation votes democrat.