Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 04, 2024

The current method is running for Congress with several flagrant lies.

One of the sad things about the wealthy 1% is that there’s not enough of them to be born into. The corollary of that is that poor people have more kids.

The opening words to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, “The Rich Boy.”

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.”

Danae surely is different. Not coming from wealth is a slight handicap right now. But she’ll leapfrog over that eventually via Internet Notoriety.

Of course if she wants to release a movie of her screwing like Kim, that might help too.

Maybe the Underpants Gnomes have a plan she can crib off of.

The Kardashian sisters thought they were born on third base and got there by hitting a triple, but Trump was already standing on third so the sisters had to go back to second base.

bill mahr had a great summary about this “money madness” and how we have gotten to this point. see if you can find it on you tube or whatever you use. it was the friday night airing.

If your dad had led a different life you’d likely never have been born, and everyone would have been better off.

Fame today is no longer based on any of those things Danae. My Dad used the expression that ‘’The Cream will rise to the Top". I think most of us understand that although it is no longer that way. In the music industry you don’t even have to be able to sing because they use technology to change your vocal sound and range. As the Wise Arrse on the Hill now knows, it all boils down to marketing.

Check out Brad Paisley’s song “Celebrity”

What happened to the “ing” in Lucy’s dialogue balloon in the 4th panel?

I once told my mom that she had done me a great disservice. I was supposed to be born with a silver spoon! She just told me, “sorry bout that kid!” HmmphT!!!

You need to do a better job of picking your parents…

But kim k IS “famous” for something. I can say much about it in a family comix page though. It did involve a video, and her mother helped.

Danae could be a you-tube star…just be a total jerk, it’s easy.

and now you know why Hoover took up painting…

Poor Danae! She’s going to be a bitter bitter woman when she grows up!!!

Remember when rich parents got busted for paying bribes to get their (rich but stupid and lazy) kids into good universities? One of the kids turned on their mother and hit her with the very words, “You ruined my life.” The girl was outraged – she saw mommy as having ruined her career plans of becoming rich as an influencer.

In my research into an unrelated topic involving other Armenians in California Iearned that the Kardashian family was involved in promoting tours of faith healers in the middle of the last century. Scamming runs in families.

She could be famous for being almost famous like Keeley Jones

I never have figured out what the Kardashians accomplished for them to become so famous.

If you want to be rich – get your name changed to Richard

Choosing the right parents is still the key to slacker success.

Trying to be as clueless as the underpants gnomes?

Daddy No-Bucks is an obvious play on Little Orphan Annie’s benefactor, Daddy Warbucks (who got his wealth by being a arms dealer during World War One & once wished World War Two would last twenty years).

Like a certain candidate, I would also appreciate hearing less about the K family, And while we are at it, add TS to that list. She is just another human whose life is inflated by the spotlight. It will go dark soon enough.

All I know were born poor!

I guess that is horse sense for you…

Anybody know the reason for the patch over the word(s?) in Panel 4?

When the entitled realize their title is not as grandiose as they were led to believe.

At least Daddy No-Bucks kids aren’t overdosing on fentanyl

“I wanna be rich. Well, what are you just sitting there for? Get ON it.”

All she really needs is a Youtube channel and her ego.

This reminds me of this Calvin and Hobbes strip. I couldn’t paste the link but it’s the go comics Calvin and Hobbes November 29th 1991 .

Is that the story with the Kardashians? Where did their “starter” scratch come from?

Is there no escaping the no-talent, no-morals, no-ethics Kartrashians?

You’ve got to have a daddy who amassed a fortune, so daughter can become an heiress (or son become an heir). Eventually. It all depends on how you made the bucks in the first place .. Better to be a “Daddy No-Bucks” than a “Daddy War-Bucks”.

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” —John Steinbeck, American novelist

This strip shows how Trump got his “credentials”, before he faced every business he ran went bankrupt…

They used to teach kids things like “Sic transit gloria mundi.”

Someone once said that nothing ensures success like the judicious choice of one’s parents. Danae chose…poorly.

What happened to the lettering of be„ing“ on the 4th panel?

Kim Kardashian is famous for being scandalously naughty. At the time, she was working as a stylist on the fringes of Hollywood (the culture, not the city) when the sex tape of her with the brother of a famous singer was sold to Vivid Entertainment (supposedly by her mother). That is not particularly ‘privileged’.