Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 16, 2025

That’s almost the way I felt wearing a suit when I was working in Silicon Valley.

Don’t worry. The clowns won’t be approved by the Senate.

“New Normal”? Ha, as Canadian folk/pop artist Bruce Cockburn put it: “The Trouble with Normal is it Always Gets Worse!”

I’m confused. Don’t most clowns wear suits nowadays?

apparently someone had never used Tit-kok.

Clowns to the left, clowns to the right. Stuck in the middle with you

This bar is in Washington, DC …

Old Turkish Expression:

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a sultan. The palace becomes a circus.

The Republican Senate bar.

That’s drunkard Hegseth in the blue.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus actually ceased operations in 2017. The circus has since merged with the U.S. Congress and resumed performances, with even scarier animals and clowns, in 2025. /S

Just a touch over dressed, sport?

Is that the clown bar from “Shakes the Clown”?

“Happy Hour Special: Gin n’ Seltzer”

That is the ClownWorld brought to us by the left and the elite puppet masters running the Biden puppet show.

Soon to end.

The new abnormal can go away now, thank you.

“Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right!” Theme song for the Capitol Rotunda.

Sometimes when you look around and you see what “normal” seems to be, it may be best to say, “If this is normal, I choose to be abnormal.”

2 adults walk into a bar for the Biden administration.

Trump’s nominees relaxing after their House interviews? Just missing Bondi.

The door should read White House!

4 days to go.

Sadly, all those people who thought they were fighting for ‘freedom’ will soon realize that they are not people, just consumers. This didn’t start with the SC ruling about corporations being legal persons, but that did give it a jump-start. Focus of discussed policies and programs is not on what is good for the “us”, the people, but what is good for [big] business. The rationale being that what is good for [big] business is good for the country — the old “trickle-down” concept in new clothes.

Why should we, now the biggest oil producers in the world, have to become bigger? Not for “us” but to make corporations wealthier. Why should we impost huge tariffs on foreign goods? Not for “us” because we will either be doing without those goods or we will be paying more for them — and not just for foreign goods, but also for American goods that require foreign parts. [President Biden did start programs to encourage American factories and incentives to buy American products, but those are supposed to go away — after all they were started by a Democratic president. Why roll back regulations that are in place to protect “us” from the dangers of polluted air, polluted water, contaminated soil, contaminated food products? So businesses don’t have to spend money on cleanups.

But, you may argue, we are the “consumers” and therefore have to have jobs to earn money to consume. Sadly, I don’t think that we are the “customers” that they target. They aren’t concerned with low-income housing — the construction industry makes much more money building houses and buildings for the upper echelons. They aren’t concerned with education for everyone — just education for those who can afford to pay. We may be consumers, but I don’t think they are interested in selling us homes or having our kids in their classrooms. Unless you have a million or two to ‘donate’ .

I’ve heard of happy hour but this is ridiculous.

Clowns often scare kids…as they should adults also!

I’m waiting for everyone to conform to my work attire—bathrobe and toothpaste-stained PJs.

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become king. The palace becomes a circus.

See also: January 20th, 2025.

Which one is Hegseth?

That’s hilarious!

Sadly, their makeup isn’t as interesting as some members of the cabinet right now

For conformists? Oh, sure, but I’ve seen the same thing for “rebels” and “nonconformists” — they all rebel and avoid conforming in the same way, and it becomes a new establishment and way to conform.

He’d just had his wrist piercings removed, too. :)

They’re all wearing clown suits.

I think it’s only insecure people who obsess over their own clothes, and how they’ll look to others. Steve Jobs always wore a black mock-turtleneck T-shirt, Levi’s 501 jeans, and a pair of New Balance sneakers. He said he had more important decisions to make every day than what to wear and implied he was saving his time and brain cells for those.

“We Did It Before (And We Can Do It Again)”

So, in 2025, is hanging out at the neighborhood bar still a thing? Maybe just another bicoastal stereotype?

Brought to you by toxic masculinity, failed privatized media, and the disillusion of rugged individualism.

A clown, a sex offender, and a felon walk into the bar to which the barkeeper says, “Hello, Mr. Trump!”

Well, I guess MS72 is promoting another pandemic kill-off of Americans under Trump. He might see it happen if a lethal variant of bird flu starts infecting people and Trump’s choices to run the departments meant to protect the general population act stupid.

Of course, the Trumpies will be cheered that the likely first victims will be immigrants involved in poultry products.

I wonder what Trump’s reaction will be when he can’t get Chicken McNuggets? — Oh right, he’ll blame Mexico or China, or both.

Capitol Hill bar?

Sure feels a lot like this these days.

Fashion changes.

The harder we try to make the world, the universe into something “normal,” the less it reveals itself to be that way.

trying to find a new home…anyone recommend a country?

Myanmar sounds promising.

Laos? I was there 54 years ago. TripAdvisor shows some beautiful hotels too. Vietnam? Great seafood.

For a guy who disdains “shyte-hole” countries, the orange felon sure seems determined to toss the USA on the trash heap.

If you have any $$ in the bank, cash it out, rumors are floating around that trump will freeze all accounts. You’ve been warned.

magats are dumping on Michelle Obama cause she won’t come to trump’s party. Would you leave Hawaii, to attend an a$$-kissing party in Washington DC? Not me, baby.

trump wanted John Wayne to be Sec Defense until someone told trump that John died in 1979. another choice? Chuck Connors (rifleman), sadly, also dead. Why all the good ones?

They’re here!