Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 29, 2024

Is he Jewish? He must have one of those forest fire lasers.

We can’t blame them. We’re the victims of our own success. When you don’t need to rise anymore, you start to vegetate.

Last USA election proved a lot of that!

Among other things, I blame unabated advertising. It’s been electrified for a century now. But when we all got smart phones, illiteracy seemed to disappear without any obvious increase in intelligence.

That explains the drones, but why New Jersey?

Let’s be honest – We don’t need aliens to make up stupid, on average we have always been pretty stupid, it just took the internet to spread it around a lot more.

Lunatics can connect with their fellow lunatics far easier, far more often, and with fewer timeouts in Arkham Asylum than ever before in human history. Other than that, I got nothing…..

Another one magats will never recognize.

In truth the aliens didn’t have to do anything. The population already has a monopoly on mass stupidity.

I mean, we have haters here who don’t want Latino aliens coming here from nations south of the USA. The visitors probably assume what chance would aliens from the south of Alpha Centari have?

Perhaps the U.A.P. are being deployed to spy on those of us who refuse to post every detail of our lives on social media.

See also: “The Silly Season” – C.M. Kornbluth. 1950

No, the mass stupidity was not engineered by Aliens.It was engineered by the government run schools.

Deafening silence Danae.

Is that a “Darn, You caught us,” silence?

Or a “You can’t really be stupid enough to believe THAT,” silence?

Or maybe a “We didn’t plan it, but we’re sure going to take advantage of it,” silence?

If Danae’s charge is correct, Lars’ smile means it didn’t take all that much work to reach the result she described.

The mindless obedient slaves are rejecting their masters all over the world now

This explains a lot

It’s easy to blame stupid. The truth behind the rise of trump?

Greed, Jealousy and Hatred.

Three great motivators of human behaviour.

I used to have a hypothesis that 80% of people are sheep. They would rather be told what to do than to think for themselves. Now that I have proof, it has moved from a hypothesis to a theory. Give it another 4 years, it will become a law.

Stupidity is not confined to the electorate. The internecine warfare has already begun in Trump World. Its like watching an episode of the Highlander, “There can be only one.” Maybe they’ll take Trump with them when they self destruct.

Politicians depend on stupid.

We have a dearth of intellect, a pandemic of ignorance, in our country.

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” P.T. Barnum

EXCEPT, the majority of voters chose a RETURN to the rule of law! Thus, the STUPID people that believed it was a GOOD idea to ignore immigration law by voting in dementia Joe and his idiot leftist staff, LOST! Enforcing laws, such as not allowing BLM and Antifa to burn buildings down, is NOT AUTHORITARIANISM! It’s common sense!

IQ median means half of us are smarter and half aren’t and those guys have all the guns

“The Day the Earth Stood Stupid.” Now playing in a country near you,

Lars is running for DNC Chair.

Hey now! I may be mindless but I am NOT obedient!

Trudeau (comix not Canada) and Wiley are really on a tear: KEEP IT UP, GUYS! We really need you right now!

Why is it that most UFO sightings occur within the first hour after the bars close?

Humans are the dumbest people on Earth.

Honestly it would be an improvement if aliens did show up.

This explains a lot. Looks like all those Republicans in legislatures across the country and in Washington, DC are really shape-shifting Martians.

Sure. Like people haven’t always been stupid.

That’s partly why the Founding Fathers only let wealthy male landowners vote; and current billionaires’ efforts to return to that principle.

Trump got re-elected…I think we’re ready.

The thing is: once we live in a post-truth society then people will believe anything you put in front of them, no matter how stupid or outrageous. This is why authoritarian regimes have a LOT of occult beliefs mixed in with their policies.

His name is actually Elon.

Remember when the US led the world. We put a man on the moon in 1969 and developed the artificial heart a little later. BUT in the early eighties the government commissioned a study entitled “a Nation at Risk” which was pre-determined to show that our education system was sub-par and needed the politicians to repair it. Thus came the influx of government curriculum requirements, teacher licensing changes, Charter Schools, government support of religious schools and finally home schooling. Since then we have developed two or three generations of persons striving for mediocrity and who celebrate their own ignorance. The politicians, some with good intent, believed they knew more about educating our nation’s children than did the professional educators and demanded changes that continually reduced students’ level of competence and ability to think critically. Then, when the students failed to measure up to standardized examinations, the politicians demanded that the tests be altered and “passing” criteria be reduced. Think Middle School where every student receives an award even though the students realize that such is meaningless. As private corporations and individuals entered into the charter school business, mediocrity and artificial “student success” abounded. For every charter school whose actual success is celebrated on CNN, magazine stories or newspaper articles, there are hundreds which fail all the while subverting scant resources from regular public schools. Since charter schools are supported by tax dollars most charter school laws are really a license to steal. Public education is the largest industry in this Country. Everyone gets rich from public education except public educators.

Whatever UAP’s are, the governments response seems puzzling and concerning at best.

Hahahahaha

“Dead” silence .. oh, dear!

The real influence of aliens on human history. I also like the explanation Kurt Vonnegut offered in The Sirens of Titan.

What amazes me is how much the 1% of people who have ever lived have managed to do so much with the rest of us holding us back. We are all interchangeable and don’t really matter . None of us are going to invent anything, cure anything or do anything that is going to affect the rest of the world. We’re just here to fill up the space and provide labor.

“Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” —Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988), American science-fiction writer, “Logic of Empire”, 1941

“Think about how stupid the average person is, then reflect on the fact that half the population is dumber than that.” —George Carlin

LOVE the expression in the 4th panel!

Not a good place to bury this, but one of the few places on GC I can post this. Will likely bear repeating tomorrow.

With the political side taken away from us, couldn’t wait to say,

“The USA lost a great American today.”

RIP Jimmy Carter. Wish America could have gotten it together to give you your dying wish of a Harris/Walz presidency, but those that believe in freedom for all will do our best to hold the USA together and protect the less fortunate.

Busted. They’re working with the tech bros to bring universal peace. On their terms. Technological solutions to basic human nature. It’s really very simple, replace the brain with a CPU and a Bluetooth modem. Except for theirs, of course.

“We have met the enemy and he is us.” —Pogo, 1970