Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 05, 2011

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    doc white  about 13 years ago

    Don’t count on it.

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    pouncingtiger  about 13 years ago

    The illustration of the U.S. gov’t and Wall Street versus the American populace over the last 30 years.

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    comicgos  about 13 years ago

    Time to rethink the strategy!

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    Bill Thompson  about 13 years ago

    Run the numbers through William Lanchester’s equations and the tactical situation doesn’t look so good for the 1.

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    Yochanan204  about 13 years ago

    Not if the 99% are piranhas.

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    cdward  about 13 years ago

    Natural selection is BALANCE. Natural selection does not deal in winning and losing. It’s only when there is imbalance that we all lose in the end (even those who short term think they’re winning).

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    bagbalm  about 13 years ago

    The 99 little guys need some of those teeth too. They sell them downtown in various calibers.

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    Brockie  about 13 years ago

    The CEO of Wal Mart and the valued staff.

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    Nebulous Premium Member about 13 years ago

    Cats don’t understand democracy.Cats are in charge. Period.

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    Defective Premium Member about 13 years ago

    If the 99% use the system, they’ve already lost. It was created by the 1% to serve themselves. And they continue to pay to keep it that way. So the only way for the 99% to win is to work outside the system, but the system won’t allow that.

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    Superfrog  about 13 years ago

    Looks like survival of the fattest.

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    tripwire45  about 13 years ago

    If today’s strip actually reflected the reality of the OWS protests against capitalism, OWS wouldn’t be around right now.

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    Luciamari333391  about 13 years ago

    The crazy right believe in natural selection, economically, but they deny it scientifically. With schizos like that given a voice, like, eg, FOX news, how can a nation succeed? Only by banding together and defying the liars and faux science and faux populists, like Beck and Rush.

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    tigre1  about 13 years ago

    Great illustration…again! and if the 99 aren’t piranhas yet…evolution happens pretty fast, among humans under social pressure.

    I liked the ‘teeth in different calibers’ comment. Me, I’m betting that at least ONE Wall Street firm will have its building surrounded, opened like a can of sardines, and the guillotine trundled up. Probably a high-tech, solar-powered, electronically-controlled one. Maybe next year’s model.Coming soon…

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    dabugger  about 13 years ago

    something is fishey…..an someone is too big to fail…….

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    elbeck  about 13 years ago

    The 99 could simply swim away and form their own ecosystem, leaving the big fish to starve. That’s the difference between fish and humans: Fish understand they have the free will to choose their future, and do not believe in a determinism that prevents action.Many humans, apparently, do not.http://www.scribd.com/doc/22328155/The-Dignity-of-Humanity

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    TxSon  about 13 years ago

    if natural selection were left to function naturally the crazy left would die out of its own inability to care for itself. Unfortunately we allow the generationally incompetent to breed unchecked at the expense of those who actually work.

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    route66paul  about 13 years ago

    The police might not come to the aid of a truck driver who is getting racially assaulted on live tv, but you can bet your last nickle(if you still have it), that everyone outside the building would be cannon fodder.

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    Darsan54 Premium Member about 13 years ago

    Natural selection is all about a SPECIES reproducing (read-f**king) successfully within your niche where you find food, shelter and safety.

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    LingeeWhiz  about 13 years ago

    A government grown too big!

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    Redhead55  about 13 years ago

    Ha ha ha! Sorry to break it to you . . . cats don’t care about democracy . . . cats lean more towards monarchy, with them as the royalty and us as the serfs! We have 4 and that’s how they all act! ha ha ha Dogs have owners. Cats have staff!

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    padagge  about 13 years ago

    Socialism vs. Capitalism

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    Dtroutma  about 13 years ago

    The school is threatened by the rudderless fish (the government conservatives want) and it’s about to be eaten by the bigger “Wall – Street Pike” just off screen to the right. The apex predator in the U.S. is NOT “government”.

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    joegeethree  about 13 years ago

    Yep, you all are winners, no doubt!

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    hkyjckfjt  about 13 years ago

    You win with intelligent, strategic planning and execution.

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    BobertoDonQuixote  about 13 years ago

    A very accurate portrayal- so long as the fish on the right controls 95% of the ocean’s wealth and resources.

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    gremlint  about 13 years ago

    The OWS argument about inequitable DISTRIBUTION of the goodies is all fine and dandy, but Mother Nature bats last, and the bigger problem is the unsustainable SCALE of our society.  Unfortunately, far too many people are dancing the Denial Tango: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrURLJ6Vlsg

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    EDinWAState  about 13 years ago

    Thus saith the Mughal Pub : “The changes and social upheavals predicted by the 2012 prognosticators are coming to pass… better have that island off the coast of Nicaragua paid for in full… if, that is, if you’re part of the one percent.”

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    Rymlianin  about 13 years ago

    Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.

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    lewisbower  about 13 years ago

    The moral of the story——Stick around, do what you’re supposed to, and work hard. Then you too can be a big fish in a small pond.Ever notice 80% of American millionaires are first generation?

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    tnazar  about 13 years ago

    @James – The 1% are laughing at the ants below their glass and steel high rises. As defunctdoormat said, if the 99% play by the rules, nothing will come of this. It will take more of what happened in Oakland to see change.

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    Kathleen Cunningham  about 13 years ago

    Brilliant,Wiley!

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    725383  about 13 years ago

    arm them with teeth and they might stand a chance!

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    Varnes  about 13 years ago

    In a true democracy, the 99% would be able to beat up the 1%………But money wins against all logic….

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    EscapeGoatDonker  about 13 years ago

    At least I don’t have a fat butt

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    lastangelman  about 13 years ago

    my friend annie benjamin suggested this animation as an answer to this strip http://youtu.be/09FoPGMYseg

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    JP Steve Premium Member about 13 years ago

    “The term republic does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, but does appear in Article IV of the Constitution which “guarantee[s] to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government.” What exactly the writers of the constitution felt this should mean is uncertain. "

    “Republic” Wikipedia

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    lindz.coop Premium Member about 13 years ago

    Survival of the meanest.

    Middle Class — the suckers who are working and footing the bill for everyone at the top and everyone at the bottom.

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    TxSon  about 13 years ago

    That 80% are obviously NOT he generationally incompitent and should be helped to regain self sufficiency. The other 20% should be put on the B arc.

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    proudgenxr  about 13 years ago

    So apropos. Life isn’t fair; it’s a competition. Like every other species on this planet, we are in a competition for resources with each other. People that believe differently are deluding themselves.

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