Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 06, 2019

This is politics, not science. With science (at its best), “The Truth” is never just “as I see it”: It’s “the collective best guess at the truth as we see it” (with plenty of room for people who have a different view of the truth to try to convince you that they’ve got part of the truth). And, with science, if you get caught fudging the facts, you lose your membership in the club.

looks like someone is twiting

nothing can withstand the sheer brute force of uninformed certitude…

Obviously they are on a bridge to nowhere!

Facebook and Facebook dueling it out, who will win?

And that is the 2020 election in a nutshell.

The wise know their limits; the ignorant are not so encumbered.

GOP KNOW he’s guilty…..they just want their fair share…bribe money from lobbyists, a continued smeared career, deceiving, lying to constituents that voted them in…..protecting a treasonist pig! They’re so desperate now, it’s too hysterical to watch! They have turned into mad dogs and will say anything to convince the public….LMAO! Actually they’re all so pathetic and an embarrassment to America and the forefathers…..they all need to crawl back under the earth….

And, GUESS WHAT COLOR his hat is…

The scientific method tries to disprove an idea from different ways. If it can’t be disproved and shows a lot of evidence that it is indeed correct it doesn’t even stop there. It’s continually reviewed. That train of thought got derailed when senators learned that the one who shouts loudest and over the voices of the most must be speaking “the truth.” Except jt isn’t truth just be cause someone says so, even in twit tweets or because it’s biggly and the best, always the best from the lips of the chosen one. “And that, boys & girls, is how we let the inmates run the asylum.”

In an era where more data is available than any time in history, facts seem to be the most elusive.

I hope they don’t wrestle on a trestle!

Now I’m going to be hearing Michael McDonald singing “What a Fool Believes” all day in my head.

and the fate of America, and the world as well, dependent upon this conundrum. Tis how we got Trump. The world’s mightiest power brought down by sniveling ignorance.

No matter how much or many, facts as they are can never exceed that bridge’s weight limit. On the other hand …..

I face that problem a lot when I argue with my liberal friends. They just don’t seem to like facts.

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

Bertrand Russell

The Republican senators are like Hitler’s minions in the movie Downfall (Der Untergang), willing to follow President Crazy to the gates of Hell.

FACTS !!! Democrats don’t need no stinking FACTS………..

Remember people, when the facts contradict your theory, call the facts “fake news.”

Welcome to the United States. It’s always been so, it’s just gotten more prevalent over the last few years.

Biden: “We want Truth, not facts!”

Here is some truth, reality doesnt cease to exist merely because you choose to ignore it.

The state of the ‘union’, perfectly pictured. Kudos, Wiley!

BRAVO!

I had dinner with an old friend and, since 2016, Trump voter. He gleefully told me that Trump will be reelected because “we (Trump supporters) know he constantly lies but Trump is good for our interests”. However, my friend’s retirement nest egg is completely invested in bank CDs and Trump has caused my friend’s interest income to fall by 30% in the last year alone. So the evidence is Trump is bad for my friend’s interests – but he refuses to see it.

That one is absolutely perfect.

Stupid people are a roadblock to progress.

Alternate Facts are very real even though almost all of them don’t pass the smell test. They have lead to uncounted Alternate Realities all based on false facts. The result is nobody really knows anything for sure anymore, but everyone is willing to fight to the death to defend their version of Reality.

Wiley, you are so clever.

So, is the guy in the hat a survivor of The Bowling Green Massacre? Or maybe he got out of Alabama before Hurricane Dorian hit it? Or maybe he didn’t have his I.D. so he couldn’t buy a box of cereal? Or is he hiding from the Windmill noise so he doesn’t get cancer??

Magats can’t handle the truth.

There is no such thing as Truth. Or, facts.

Looks like the object wins.

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/pants-fire/

Actually, both guys are pushing blocks titled “The Truth As I See It”.

80% of people believe WHAT THEY WANT TO, the facts be dammed !!! lol

I hope the lesson of 2016 is learned. There is no point in voting for Biden. He is Republican light. Vote for a real progressive. Yes, that means that we have a FAR left wing party and a FAR right wing party. That’s the idea. To put a moderate Democrat up against the Republicans is like agreeing to play the entire game inside the other team’s 50 yard line.

Life with Trump.

Too funny, Wiley………..it kinda speaks of our present government!!

“There is only one truth… and countless interpretations.” — dwagon wisdom

The “irresistible force” always wins eventually. If the “object” refuses to move, it will be destroyed instead.

Unfortunately, considerable collateral damage usually ensues from such intransigence.

The truth is that the truth is NOT irresistible. If it were, Hillary would be President. Hell, Al GORE would have been President !

Let the Brain Trust sum it up for you.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” -Isaac Asimov

The current immovable object is 100% able to resist that “irresistible” force. No sweat.

The truth does not stand a chance against the lies that people want to believe.

So, the guy’s watching Fox News on his phone?

Fascinating. And here I thought those two things couldn’t exist in the same universe.

What would they know? They’re only experts, and anyway all they have are theories.

Anyone else here having a feeling of deja vu lately?

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/1997/05/16/

On the left we have the bookshelf with the facts, and on the right we have “Gee I wish my opinion could be substituted for fact, so I’ll just pretend that it can.”

Not a coincidence that they are positioned thusly.

amen

Let’s face it. If being an Ass was grounds for dismissal D.C. would be a ghost town.

Ha! Ain’t it the truth.

Ignorance got me this job and I am going to keep it!…, no, wait…

Seems worth repeating: Democrats see elitists as wealthy people who use their wealth to have separate laws from the rest of us. Republicans see smart and educated people as elitists. Again, thank you for thinking I"m smart.

I remember when Trump was campaigning and said something to the effect “I like people who aren’t that smart (code for stupid), they’re real.”