Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 12, 2012

Seriously, all that money…and yes we are talking about real money….Seems like it was spent for nothing. Didn’t see that one coming. They got No Thing….I actually thought you could buy the presidency….God it’s fun to be wrong….

Varnes, you may be missing Wiley’s point here, they did buy the presidency.

Either way, more booze.

This explains a LOT. Andy Rooney said once, “A writer’s job is to tell the truth.” He could have been talking about cartoonists. Truth in jesting, yes?

@Varnes Honestly, I’d thought the same thing… Still in shock myself… :P… I really had my money on the money… LOL… Still in shock… (You mean you can’t overtake by force?… What’s with this country these days?…)… Bwahaha!… It totally repositions my perspective on reality… I’m shifting, I’m shifting, agh!!!!!!!…… (Global meltdown…)… (I know, I know what the comic means, I’m just saying, I never got to get that out of me… Sigh…)… Stuck in there like a stick stuck between a lion’s molar, it was…

the pre-election victory party WAS better… although the pre-convention victory parties were good too…

Hmm… @Wiley I believe their may be an unknown purpose for the money that gets collected (one not just being used to line politician’s pockets…)… That’s just my theory, them doing it doesn’t make it right, either way!… (Oh, great Utopia,… why can’t you exist on this planet?…)… Btw, I love your comics, they just make me happy! :D…

We understand the power of the POTUS and the SCOTUS, but what a privilege to witness the power of the VOTUS!!!

A lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing, however it did pump billions of dollars around the economy, putting food on the tables and paying the rents of thousands of families. So what it was all ultimately meaningless? In 200 years or less, this entire era will be as relevant as a forgotten fart from an insignificant frog on a scummy beach, by a polluted stream.

I think it was Masterskrain.

It’s the Hedge Fund Investors that bet both ways.Investors like Trump are upset because they couldn’t buy the Presidency.

Thees guys know all about hedge funding: No matter who wins or loses, corporations cannot lose at all. There’s a reason why we refer to politicians as Republicrats.

The GREATEST ever!!!!

According to Freakonomics, money spent on elections is wasted as it has little effect on the outcome.

I was once told by an elected official that if I wanted to be heard by a politician, I should contribute at least $5 to each candidate regardless of their politics. It gets you on their donor rolls, the first thing they look at when they get a letter.

Corporations pay to both sides for two reasons: 1. It’s a bribe to keep government from harassing them (see Microsoft). 2. It’s a bribe to let them do as they please regardless of laws (see Goldman-Sachs).

That’s why they called it a “hedge” fund. They’re hedging their bets. Ask any good bookie. You want an equal number of punters on both sides of the bet. The bookie makes his money on the " vigorish" – the charge for making the bet ie. $6 paid for every $5 bet.I will now crack open a bottle of OBAN, single malt scotch, in celebration !

Taliban poppy sale.>>I have often pondered why the coalition forces didn’t just wipe out said fields and bring in seeds for food crops. Their country would be far better off with a good agricultural base. Then I remember the old conspiracy theory about the CIA being responsible for most of the drug trade in the USA. And elsewhere, also. If ther CIA got rid of a prime supplier they couldn’t keep us oppressed nor could they afford to keep many of their black ops going. I don’t know that I fully believe this but it is food for thought.

Local warlords get the money. talk to them about who they fund. And it isn’t both sides.

Whether the money was spent on the winners or the losers, it was still spent.

And the one who funded six Repubs lost every one. America actially wasn’t bought.

’Tis true. If you bet on every horse in the race you are bound to pick a winner. You just bet more on the horses that are more likely to win.

wiley, I am SOOO surprised that we can talk pols here. : ) We know who most of the rich backed and we know why. he would have let them ship every buck overseas and build every item on the shelf in another country with no financial reprisals. The same philosophy that crashed us would have finished us. We dodged that bullet. meanwhile, his supporters act like spoiled children and whine about not getting their way. Then wonder why no one listened during the campaign. They predicted landslides and merely got the staus quo with a President who may get to realign the Court. Keep on doing the dems job for them, kids.

The Corp(se)orations win either way. Plus, they keep the populace evenly divided so there could not be sufficient support for any mass uprising, thus preserving their position of power.

But it’s still a clown show……..

All of you commenters should flood your congressmen and senators with emails and calls. Demand that they begin debating an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the shenanigans allowed in the Citizens United vs. FEC decision. Then pray that Scalia, Alito, and Roberts retire or die off soon ….

The good news is that all that money has gone into circulation here in the US, rather than just sitting in some Swiss or Cayman Island bank.

freeholder, great point about the Supreme Court. I sleep better at night, now. It’s importance can never be over emphasized…..The court is all the marbles. I don’t know why it isn’t talked about more in the campaigns….A lot of people, women, African Americans, immigrants, Gays, really dodged a bullet this time…..

Oh, and good one Arianne..

Funding by paying protection money, that is.

jerry6665 and Varnes – Thanks, but really, Good one VOTUS! (Voters of the United States)

YES, FINALLY SOMEONE WHO SEES IT AS I SEE IT. Thanks Wiley.