Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 08, 2022

yup! because once the bottom falls off – there is no rock bottom.

They keep it up until one of them wins by a landslide (or loses)

Most people don’t vote for a candidate. They vote for the one that’s left after eliminating the rest.

When election day comes around I need to get stoned too (inhale…..hold, hold…).

i wish i understood this

We can’t just beat our political opponents, we have to crush them!

Rock the vote!

But both sides are doing it!

I hope this current story arc, just like our current political story arc has reached its peak and will start to swing back toward a more productive and reasonable position. This feeling of being played is getting rather tiresome.

Mesolithic.

Today’s version: handguns instead of AR-15s at the polling places. Political power comes from the barrel of a gun. If you can’t get what you want, use violence and intimidation – that’s what Makes America Great Again. /s

Should say Early Democrats.

alot of buzz going around this year

Well, humans do enjoy killing each other, so this seems reasonable.

So, as I understand it, some people want no one to win and others want only the survivors to win. I get it now. Darwin was spot on.

Oh look Arizona.

Who’s “Us” and who’s “Them”?

Go vote for the corrupt politicians of your choice.

It looks like “Us” and “Them” are both dead, so neither win.

Looks like present day – we haven’t advanced at all. But now it’s all in video ads we can’t get away from.

They kept throwing stones at me. I kept Jagger and threw back Richards.

I really do wish that our election cycles would sound less like a season of Survivor (American game show) or a football game (American). It is depressing to realize that a majority of those voting probably can’t even name the candidates on their ballots without reading the ballot, let alone know anything about their actual qualifications. I would say I am relieved that it will all be over ‘tomorrow’ but I know that it won’t — we will have two weeks or two months of analysis, griping and panic and then we will start getting political solicitations for the 2024 election. I am trying to figure out how to change my email address but notifying all the legitimate business and social connections will probably take until the next election.

Us and them

And after all, we’re only ordinary men

Me and you

God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do

Down and out

It can’t be helped, but there’s a lot of it about

With, without

And who’ll deny it’s what the fighting’s all about

Out of the way it’s a busy day, I’ve got things on my mind

For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died

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Pink Floyd, Us and Them

It’s exactly the same now.

Once there were limits on political contributions. Then there are none that can’t be gotten around. Elective office became a marketable item the same as goods in a market, and getting elected, so as to enjoy hogging it up at the public trough, is apparently the goal for most modern candidates. We have progressed from a country to envy for our freedoms and institutions, to a country to be pitied for what might have been.

And little has changed.

And the guys with the rocks are the official poll watchers.

I roll my rock on the lesser of two evils

I think that’s supposed to mean that they won’t hurt as much when you get hit by one … ?

This is a funny and lethal view of democracy, and it is fine to see it once again.

You most certainly aren’t on Social Security.

I was born in the early 1960’s — depending on who you talk to, I’m either a Boomer (but I didn’t get any of the benefits of being a Boomer) or a Gen-X (but I didn’t get many of the Gen-X benefits either). I “came of age” during the 1970’s, and lived in fear of a nuclear holocaust. Now, because of all the bullsh!t that is going on in this country for the last 6 years, I’m starting to welcome the idea. Let’s just start hurling nukes at each other end put an end to this f@cking madness. In a couple million years, hopefully the dolphins can take over.

This polarization is like flipping a coin, and it lands on its edge.

Hey! That’s an idea, we can use.