Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 05, 2025

Rotisserie rat. Yum.

Stating the obvious again

It looks like they found a rent controlled apartment which is nice.

The Rent on the cave paid to those billionaires must be eye-watering

MAGA in one sentence.

Saw an interview in which a conservative news anchor asked “has a country at any point in history benefitted from taxing the most wealthy?”

Said the guest: Yes. The US from post world war 2 to the 80s, England around the same time period, taxes on the richest were much higher and the average worker could afford a house on a single salary while raising kids. You can’t do that now.

Another cartoon magats will never understand.

Fortunately, those guys are no longer in power since the last election.

Trickle-down economics: The rich get the gold, and everyone else gets the sh…

For a similar scenario, see the Nonsequitur for March 2 (last Sunday)

We are heading for 1930 part 2 in the express lane.

Yes, that is not going to end well, well maybe for them.

Trump took to social media over the weekend and promised that a “Crypto Strategic Reserve” would soon be on the way, and that the government would be filling it with not only bitcoin and ether (the two biggest crypto assets) but also more speculative assets such as ripple, solana, and cardano.

What could go wrong???

Your Daddy’s an idiot, in a big pool of idiots.

Long story short, kids, your daddy showed more love and concern for his pocketbook and his bigotries than he did for you and your futures. Remember that when Father’s Day rolls around.

Now you idiots have a king in the bargain and you don’t have y work anymore, well you could start from the bottom again!! Ha ha ha! Just think, you will have the three Stooges to guide you!

“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

Tonight’s dessert: Crispy Cricket!

Wasn’t that Reagan’s idea? That tax cuts for the people at the top would result in a bonanza of new jobs?

MAGAts mantra: “Please, sir, may we have another”

Well, the politicians put us trillions in the hole, so maybe people who actually know how to deal with money might do a better job.

looks like folks after the left got done taxing them. . . this could be anywhere in MA

They found a cave without a (Wiley) bear and enough fuel to cook their critter. What do THEY have to complain about?

There aren’t going to be enough of either to go around, unless the anti-vaxxed start making a more serious effort to reduce the population.

Just wait until the Trump tariffs kick in. Ultimately, it is the consumer who ends up paying for the tariffs. If you think inflation was bad before, it will become much, much worse.

I understand the sentiment, but no matter which party, we ALWAYS elect billionaires to solve our problems. Nothing new here, just a bigger spectacle.

HA. The billionaires have been running the show for decades with dems and Rino’s. George and Now Alex Soros electing D.A’s accross the nation. Ukranian oligarchs and CCP shunt tens of millions to Biden Crime Family. Nancy Pelosi and many other dems ending up with net wokths in the tens and hundreds of Millions on Congressional Salaries. USAID funded by the US taxpayer and printed money used to launder money for dems all over the world, including $2 Billion to Stacy Abrams.

You guys have GOT to get a new play book and make this harder.

Maybe having dems sit on their hands while a little boy and cancer survivor brings America to tears of Joy as he is given a “Agent” status at the President’s address to Congress (3/4/25) is the ticket.

But I doubt it.

The left is just TOO EASY to expose!

Yikes…hope that isn’t Pizza Rat! (from Clay Jones’ editorial comics)

Hey! We’re in a new golden age, aren’t we!? /s

Vulcan philosophy – “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”

Repuglican philosophy- “The needs of a few billionaires outweigh the needs of the many”

Elon Musk recently said on Joe Rogan: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”

It’s better to continue handing power to politicians, Republican and Democrat, who become multi-millionaires on a government salary?

Somebody built a time machine … it’s 1920 all over again.

And then Daddy was sent to the tariff crypto mines

I’m old enough to remember when billionaires paid their fair share of taxes.

We had the GI bill that took a whole generation of soldiers into the middle class; we built the highway system across the county; we rebuilt the world to secure American dominance and leadership; we built schools and hospitals; we led the world in technology; we sent people to the moon.

Oh no, here come the trolls.

Yeah, cause on the other side it made billionaires of all the politicians.

Yeas, because waste and fraud are great! it’s the America (dimocrat) way!

Could there be a bigger scam?

Gee, is this a anti Musk political toon today? Just a question.

This cartoon scenario is closer to becoming a reality than you think. Especially after King Donald the Demented’s Rant to Congress last night! Very scary!!

The United States has, in a couple of short months, gone back 100 years in time.

I read the comics for a nice laugh in the morning, and this one is less and less funny, just divisive. I’m done with this strip.

Let’s give total power to people who care about nothing but getting themselves more money. What could go wrong?

This strip is getting too depressing. I come here to escape. it keeps going and I’m dropping it

Every person’s story is different, but I made the most money in the 80s during the Reagan years.

Actually, that is a not a rat. It is a possum which taste like… uh… a big rat, actually.

Yeup, that money is gonna trickle down to us any day now.Any day now

Today’s comments have worn me out. One fact remains clear, Buttercup and Fluffy are very rapidly stirring the US into the cauldron of Chaos. Ethnic and gender hatreds are rising to the surface. Oligarchs sit at the point of control of the lives of millions and enrich themselves at every opportunity. After all, they did buy a president. Why shouldn’t they reap the spillover?

I think I’ll do what I do when I get a bad spell. To use the old phrase, ‘just hunker down and [hopefully} ride it out’

Meg: Do we have enough wood for the night?

Ben: Ah, it’ll last through the night. At least, there’s one thing still free in this country.

Meg: [checking the food the children are cooking over the fire]

Mary, Peter they’re cooked.

Peter (their son): They’re too hot.

Meg: They’ll be cold soon enough.

Mary (their daughter): Where did you get these, Father?

Ben: I didn’t steal them, if that’s what you say.

Meg: She didn’t say you stole them.

Ben: She should have some respect.

Meg: Don’t berate the girl.

[speaking to Mary]Meg: They fell from a cart into the road.

Ben: You’re father’s not a thief, girl. Not yet.

*Ebenezer Scrooge: Why are these people out here? Men and women in rags. Children eating scraps! There are institutions.

Ghost of Christmas Present: Have you visited any of them? These institutions you speak of?

Ebenezer Scrooge: No! I am taxed for them. Isn’t that enough?

Ghost of Christmas Present: Is it?*

Meg: Ben, come back to the fire.

Ben: Look at these hands, Meg. They’re hard hands; they’ve done hard work. I want to work. I want to have bread for my children. It’s not right that there’s no work.

Meg: We’re together, Ben. That’s the important thing.

Ben: I love you, Meg. I love the children. Tomorrow, take the children and go to the parish poorhouse.

Meg: No! No. I’d rather we all drown in the river than go to one of those places and be separated forever.

Ben: Until I get work?

Meg: No! Ben, we’re a family. We stay together. Come. Come back to the fire. Come.

Yeah, that’s about right.

Very, very near future. Imminent, even. At least for the US.

I have a wait and see attitude about all the changes coming. The past can’t be used to speculate about what will happen now. You can try, but you will be wrong. It’s unchartered territory

Sorry no! The Billionaires have all they need. Why do you think they need yours.

not funny………………

Ratburgers! Tuck the tails, please…

Jefferson and others stated words to the effect that people get the government they deserve. So be it.

Mystery billionaires. You will find Russian connections in the starting stages of all of these “billionaires”. Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Theil. You will also find grotesque blackmail.

We have been had.

I feel sorry for people who live in the world of their own nightmares.

And still somehow, it is the woman doing the cooking while the man sits around. Plus ca change …

This comic is a prediction. Medicaid, Social Security, Medicare, tariffs, firing federal workers, all affect tRump’s MAGA voters the most and first. Like all tRump showed us his first 4 years, sooner or later everyone goes under the bus.

Did Traitor Trump ever mention housing, medical, food or jobs for Americans?

According to the dwarves on the Discworld, rat’s quite a delicacy if you put enough ketchup on it.

Wiley thinks he’s being clever while insulting billionaires. It wasn’t only Republicans that voted for a billionaire. All it took was: “Am I better off with unlimited illegal aliens flooding the country? Do I want to have a choice of a gas powered car, gas fired water heater, gas stove, gas heated house?” If the answer on illegal aliens was NO! If the answer on gas powered anything was YES! Trump was the only candidate who promised to END illegal immigration, and END mandates for battery cars, and electric heating!

Those billions aren’t enough, now they are adding a regressive tax (tariffs) to shift even more of the tax burden away from them, and since that isn’t enough for their tax cuts, they want to borrow the rest. I just don’t understand how a party that labels itself as “conservative” continues to go along with this march towards kleptocracy.

Of course, the other options isn’t much better. Give up your rights, and give up your freedoms, to give others more rights so you have fewer rights. Give up your money, and give up your ability to afford a house, so others can have a house too. Give up your motivation so others can get equity, and you can lower yourself to live the same life as them.

Tough choices. As long as we can choose, we are free. When we can no longer, we are no longer free. Our choices are taken far faster by those who are not billionaires these days. Solutions?

Clearly Democrat Billions – gained by stealing Billions of Tax Dollars.

instead of looking at and learning from them, stay down and eat the Deep State Swamp Crap Sandwich…

yeah cause billionaires need your dumb crap (not)

No, long story short: “We’re depending on you two kids’ taxes to pay our old age pensions.”

Most billionaires did not get rich by being dumb. You’ll certainly get richer, faster, betting with them than against them. It’s far more likely to end up in that cave by giving everything to government to solve our problems… history has demonstrated that many times over and yet their are still far too many leftists pushing that garbage.

Wiley must be referring to the unelected, über-wealthy WEF elites with their globalist dystopian agenda to ensure we own nothing and are happy about it.

Are there enough caves for this? We may have to go cavedominium.

Lets give the billionares a chance since we’ve all seen what idiots can do.

Oh boo hoo ! Maybe Mommy should show up to vote next time. :-(

Being super wealthy rich doesn’t make you wise. But it MAY make you fearful, sly and greedy.

Pretty much nailed it with this one.

Hey, everybody! Guess who pays the tariffs. Consumers! And, guess where the money from the tariffs go. To the Treasury! Currently being raided by the fascists. So, it is a huge tax on us citizens (oops, I mean consumers) by those pretending to cut taxes and presenting the tariffs as a way to get companies to come to the US which would take years to implement, even IF companies wanted to invest in a country which is showing it won’t honor its commitments. We are being raped by this administration. In the meantime, we are fighting with each other while those at the top are laughing at their success in dividing us. Just sayin’

I hope it’s a Muskrat!

Kinda like the Regan era

Reagan knew how to laugh at himself and he was a good husband.He’s looking great compared to what we’ve got now.

Can you imagine Trump saying “Honey,I forgot to duck?”

Get out a sheet of graph paper. Plot quality on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal. Enter data points for these: Eisenhower 1&2, Goldwater, Nixon 1&2, Ford, Reagan 1&2, Bush the Adequate, Dole, Bush the Lesser 1&2, McCain, Romney, Trump 1,2&3. Perform a regression analysis. Discuss.

What irritates me is that WE THE PEOPLE could make the 1% behave if we would only realize it. They can do nothing without us, certainly can’t feed themselves. Lets see any of them build a house.

We really need to have a statute that says if you personally get rich from your tenure as a politician, you can never again hold office, and your are permanently stripped of your savings.

You mean it DOESN’T work??

The way things are going at the moment, how much is the rent on the cave?

Wiley kids, yet again – love ’em.

Hamilton thought that wealthy people would make ideal guardians of the commonweal, as they wouldn’t be inspired by greed and selfishness and whatnot. He actually put this theory into practice in setting up the the government of his planned city, Paterson NJ, and the results were far from what was hoped for. Schopenhauer was right: wealth is like seawater, the more you drink, the thirstier you become.

Funny how that’s always worked out.

Unless our Congress gets off their backsides and acts like they have a job, this is not far from wrong.

Which billionaires? The ones who’ve controlled things so well (for themselves) for so long?

BWAHAHAHAHAH, I forgot about biden/kamala/waltz’s billionaires …

At least they have fire, shelter and food. They are thel ucky ones in the Muskpocalypse.

So ask a skid row bum for a job why don’t ya?

You don’t have to hand it over, Dad. They’ll come take it.