Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 16, 2021

That would be common ground. The regatta didn’t specify what the common ground should be.

If they’re looking for “common ground”, it’s probably underwater.

Well, at least they are lined up in a row! What was that about ‘sitting ducks’…. just can’t recall!

Ahhh, our congress in action.

Next they’ll start stroking themselves.

It’s gonna split in two.

The boat is named Solomon’s Choice…a bit more subtle than Down The Middle.

It’s hard to see but they have a coxswain at each end and four oarsmen face one way and the other four the other way. And to top it off they should have ONE oar per oarsman.

I’m surprised they haven’t managed to perform an Ever Green

And to the winner goes the Mitch McConnell Cup.

If they row really hard they can get nowhere fast

… and make it look like they’re putting a lot of work and effort into it.

A perpetual motionless machine.

Both sides don’t.

Common ground, like common sense, has gone the wayside. Both are uncommon now days.

Over at the Common Good Regatta even all the onlookers win.

Understandable with so many choices

Should it be this way

oar should we get a motor

oar do we need a bigger boat?

I know the oars on the left are intended to look as if they are connected to the oarlocks, but they appear to be just floating alongside, which further emphasizes the idea of zero outcome.

Sounds too familiar…

Maybe if we stop feeding them they will go away. Like bears in Yellowstone.

These days, getting politicians to agree on anything is reason to celebrate.

The middle 4 are going to have the most ‘fun’!

"Con"gress really IS the total opposite of "Pro"gress.

But the hole is in your end of the boat, so I’m not going to help bail and you deserve to sink.

Someone needs to lease a billboard in DC where our Congressional members can see it and and post this…maybe a few of them will have enough shame to realize they are supposed to be working for us.

The Great American Divide: Critical Thinkers and Cultist Conspiracists.

Declare yourselves winners! Participation trophy for all!

There are 10 of them. Must be the group that came up with the infrastructure plan.

Looks like the beginning of another circular argument!

Rowing in the media river

“Stroke” “Row” “Swing” “Pull”…

Typical bureaucratic stagnation. Groups working at cross purposes and nobody even trying to steer.

So all they have to do is figure out how to make the boat move forward, (or backward)

Please do not reply directly to Littlejohn or comments to which he has linked himself as it appears he is a points whore troll. He’s certainly not concernednone iota about people dying so maybe some fake internet points bring more meaning than that to his world. That is a sad and disgusting thing to see. Human lives mean nothing but spouting shiznit to get more comments does. What kind of a vile being does that?

Nice. Now row to Kabul.

So, that’s the blue boat…I’m guessing the red boat sank…?

HUKI wa`a!

The next challenge is for them to stay in the boat together without throwing each other out.

About half the problem is that we have partisan primary elections, which favor the more leftish Democrats and the more rightish Republicans, because those are the only ones who vote in primaries. The vast majority of reasonable people in the middle, who just want common sense in the first place and are willing to compromise, never stand a chance, because they’re not “pure” enuf for each party’s activist, loyalist, ideological base.

There are solutions. Instant-runoff voting and final-five voting both fefature ballots open for anyone with sufficient signatures to get on them (same as it is now for the partisan primaries, except everyone can play), and this gives the moderates and 3rd-party candidates a reasonable chance to make their voices heard — and even win surprisingly more often than the extremists on either side would have you believe.

All right, then – well done!

now, I believe the satire could be ever so slightly improved by including another sign that face away from the first sign. Lacking which makes it appear that backwards facing group are a bunch of lunatics. But they obviously have their own set of goals. it just wasn’t aligned with the rest.

: / how come there is no place to like the actual comic?