Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 28, 2023

Sometimes, the only way to win is to not play the game.

Phil is insisting that he can’t lose while he was in office and he’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court. Or is that somebody else I’m thinking of?

Phil plays like my dad did.

This is why, in tournament competition, they use timers.

Checkmate indeed.

You lost the match. Think you need to accept it.

At his age, a potty call will end the stalemate in a few minutes.

First, the board is the wrong way round – the rule is “white on the right”. Second, if “any move” puts (whoever) in checkmate, it’s an illegal move, so (whoever) is actually in stalemate, which is a draw.

Just knock the board over and walk away in a huff.

AAAB

This is why chess clocks were invented.

That’s why chess clocks were introduced.

Is Phil a defense attorney for Trump?

Um, you can’t move into check. Therefore the game is over. Period. He is already in check (king being under attack) and mate (there is no possible move that can remove the check). While check and mate are usually abbreviated to checkmate they aren’t the same.

No point waiting for a guy to make a move when there is no move to make. Lamer than a defense attorney whose client has murdered both parents to ask for mercy for his client – because he’s now an orphan.

It wasn’t my strategy, but I guess the big chess game of life. I’ve outlived the few close friends I’d played chess with. I don’t feel like the winner though, because I still miss them.

This portrays a certain individual with 91 indictments and his lawyers. Touche’

Like watching paint dry, only with today’s formulation paint dries much quicker.

Guess who he represents.

Stall, Stall, Stall. I wonder if any politicians have ever tried that ……………..

That’s impossible.

“I have a secret move guaranteed to win-I knock over the table” -The Doctor

“I have the high ground.”

A perfect hire for Donald Trump’s legal team.

So? Just file a writ to Habeas his Corpus.

It is in a defense attorney’s best interest to keep a client who is most likely guilty out for jail for as long as possible so that the attorney can continue to get paid as long as possible.

he wins

doesn’t matter if he does nothing, checkmate is checkmate and even if he doesn’t acknowlege it, it’s still checkmate. game over.

And a not so oblique reference to defense attorneys’ delaying tactics.

This is why professional-level chess games have a move timer.

I thought a Czech mate was a Bohemian girlfriend.

My problem is that he seems to have a problem with defense attorneys. The current mindset is that they always get the guilty off. Our current prison population would reject that. We need more public defense attorneys for regular people.

Stalemate, it’s over.

OK, then I will hold you in contempt of court…

And we all know who he worked for.

Senator Phil®, lol

Pretty sure that’s the same strategy the non-Trump GOP primary candidates have in mind. I sincerely hope it works.

Earl makes a summary judgement and goes home.

Play speed chess.

It seems a bit like filibustering without the text ..

Never play chess with a Trump voter.

Assuming a Trump voter is intelligent enough to play chess

Play book of the 9th Circus and appeals that may end up at SCOTUS.