Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 21, 2019

Sidewalk banking.

Wells Fargo, just to name one.

“Too big to not get what I want.”

Trump Disciples will not understand this cartoon.

Any time problems concerning banks that are Too Big To Fail are mentioned, they will start chanting “Pocahontas”, over and over until there’s a new topic.

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Trump Disciple analysis skills.

If a business is too big to be allowed to fail, it is too big to be allowed to exist.

No middle ground , eh?

Isn’t that what they said about the last recession … ?

Wingtip shoes making a come back?

And we have a Government that believes the solution to this problem is to allow them to get BIGGER.

I immediately thought of the Obama Presidency, but I"m sure someone will come along to “correct” me.

Teamsters used to be a safe way to invest your life, but in 2025, when I’m 80, my pension fund from Central States (A division of the union that covers about 20 states) is going bankrupt. At that point, I’ll probably lose my home, since we probably won’t get bailed out.

The country needs Teddy Roosevelt—or, perhaps, a teddy bear!

Someone that tall with feet barely protruding is going to have a real balance problem.Can’t say they’re too big to FALL.

the blame all goes. to Congress whiich eliminated FHA requirements, never had subprime mortgage b/4

That giant up there ain’t too big to hit, that giant’s too big to miss . . . so whenever a giant gets in your way you just remember this: The God who invented giants is big enough to whup ’em all! The stone hurled from the hand of the Lord will make any giant fall!

A metaphor for our times

I should mention … or, perhaps maybe not…

No one gets squashed until the ink has dried on the new agreement.

That’s funny, I thought the cartoon is about US foreign policy.

David meet Goliath!

Nowadays banks rob customers, not like when robbers rob banks like they used to.

“Compromise” is a verb that means “to cause the impairment of” (Miriam Webster, transitive verb meaning 1-a).

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Thanks to our national short attention span on what republicans do whenever they get control of the government, we are condemned.

Once upon a time, it was called “Extortion”.

These days we call it “Banking”.

The environment is too big to fail!