Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 12, 2015

At least this lot seems to realize there’s a difference between “President” and “Emperor”. I’m not sure that the same is true of the gaggle of talkers running for President in the Real World…

Hmmmmmm, sorry but, Donald Caligula?

Back in the clown car, guys……Should have known they’d get some Flo back…..

I may be slow catching the joke, or the names could just be coincidence, but Flo & Eddie? Is Wiley a fan of the Turtles &/or Mothers of Invention?

@dtroutma

Tell that to Obama, his phone and his pen. He is supposed to enforce all laws not just those he agrees with and he cannot change laws unilaterally. Obama is the clown who thinks he is emporor.

Can they still have the Greek Columns and the reverb when they give electioneering speeches?

Hillary Napoleon for President and Jail.

ghenley:

No, I don’t think that President Pajama thinks he is Emperor.

I think he sees himself as Lincoln, when he functioned as the Tyrant.

Somebody should have told Barack that. Then he might not have (I emphasize “might”) seen fit to alter or negate laws without Congressional action.

Nah, he would still have done it.

And… as of 6:32am CDT, the number of commenters who don’t understand the Constitutional definition of presidential power (he’s not a king, but he also doesn’t need congress’s permission to use the bathroom) stands at three. Check in throughout the day to see how it rises!

Exactly, you will not be able to get with all the things Obama has

Flo does a good job of confronting the ‘gimme crowd’, but too bad that guy was interrupted. ’I’m gonna make. . ." It would have been interesting what he was saying; or rather demanding.

I do believe I’m done with Non Sequitur until after the election. See you all again in December 2016. You’ll still probably be arguing the same idiotic points.

What? Wait… the president isn’t an emperor??? Well, then, might as well suspend my campaign.

the presidency is really more of a figurehead these days than any real power. dose’nt matter which one is in office,

The one thing presidential candidates have in common with emperors is that they are frequently revealed to have no clothes.

you’ve got the wrong party

Obviously you don’t live in Illinois, where the new governor has accomplished absolutely nothing & is at war with the legislature.

He thinks he IS one already……but where are his new clothes?!?!

They’re only following the example of the current president/emperor.

Why is it the people that always fain objections so grievous that they will never return to a forum/thread, always return? Wouldn’t it be more truthful to say, “I don’t agree with this.” and leave it at that? Could make a drinking game of it. Drink a shot for every post made after the declaration a member makes about not returning until after the election or ever. However, it is likely the bottle will empty quickly, so please drink responsibly.

KveldulfSimplistic, but a lot closer to reality than most of the posts from south of the line are.

If you are referring to Walker, I am happy to see he is WAY down in the polls now.

Not quite the same thing, aside from letters to a company will not likely change the product or the way the company does business, no more then ‘I won’t read your comic strip anymore’ posts will influence how Mr Wiley continues with his stories. In business it would not be a stretch to guess most letters like that get passed around, laughed at, and they laugh as they send you some coupons and if you are lucky, perhaps a freebie or two. With which you start buying products that you said you were never going to buy again.

As for me, the only thing I really notice from people that post I’m leaving, blah, blah, blah, is those are people that tend to not only have no problem lying, but don’t even recognize when they are lying.

The president’s main power is appointing SC justices; that can have reverberations for decades.

I’m evidently quite a bit to the right of Wiley, politically, but the basic point here is something we can agree on. I’d love to hear a candidate, regardless of his “program” and basic political orientation, say “of course I understand the constitutional limits on the power of the executive branch, and will scrupulously respect those limits.” It wouldn’t hurt the legislative and judicial branches to take note either, particularly the latter.Of course, once a candidate knows what a large number of voters want to hear, he’ll say it. A candidate who said this and meant it would be really special.

Let’s face it. Obama NEVER wanted to be president. He ALWAYS wanted to be Emperor!

Quiet Dragon: The interesting part of “signing statements” is that “W” was the first to use them constantly not to clarify the Exectutive review of the laws, but rather to nullify large sections, or the entirety of those laws’ intent and purpose. I’ve read said statements over the years, and the Cheney/Bush documents DO secure the intent of the “unitary Executive” with no intent to either implement or follow the laws passed by Congress.

Well, if you get a rabble like Reid’s and Pelosi’s crowd behind you in office, you can act like an emperor for 4-8 years.

“Congress is where the laws go to live or die, pres. signs them into that law.”Interesting, so the president serves the same purpose as the Queen of England. Does he open shopping malls too?

So that’s what Danae looks like all grown up.

Rump is running for Emporer-I wish Adolf Schlump was running for his life.

AMEN!

Flo for National Debate Moderator!

This is how fusion seems to work. Each molecule has its own circle of sacred cows, and those interact and oppose the sacred cows of other molecules. Under great pressure, the actions of the sacred cows is converted to heat and radiated away. Once the pressure becomes undeniable, the sacred cows are lost, suppressed to silence by their obvious frivolity, and the core issues become a common issue. New sacred cows are corralled and a new equilibrium established, based on a heavier, (some say denser), molecular core with more sacred cows than either alone. The waste from the original two issues is wholly rejected and discarded as radiant energies, along with any responsibility that may attend it.What an elegant and robust system. It will continue on as long as their are little people to be crushed by the burden of the collective, and collectives to crush them.

One of the things I find most interesting is that the only thing the “Conservatives” ever seem to want to “Conserve” is the Corporations’ ability to poison our Drinking Water, Pollute our Air, dump Toxic Waste in our backyards, steal our National Parks and sell us poisonous Food. .And, when anyone complains that this might be a bunch of Really Bad Ideas, they accuse that person of “Hating America & American Freedom”..When did wanting to Conserve the Good & Beautiful things in the world become BAD to “Conservatives”?.