Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 12, 2025

Big Pharma, Big Three Auto – all the same

That was how scripts for Star Trek TNG used to be written. “Captain, sensors detect dangerous (insert technospeak here) activity inside the anomaly”.

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Of course, Gutting any Watchdogs and Ethics make it the new norm.

The technique is well known.

Leak whatever information to someone who will publish it as ‘sources say’…

If you have Fox ties, they will saturate several news cycles with the provided information and magats will inundate all social media with the same parroted information. Trump will claim ‘people have told me’ and repeat the ‘information’ at rallies and on TV.

The technique was perfected for the invasion of Iraq and has been practiced by the right wing ever since.

Cruelty is the point was recently added.

Wiley Miller must be reading the book, “Trust us, We’re Experts!”

Jen Sorensen’s Political Comic had an excellent description of this today. She’s always great!

King Musk and Queen Trump best remember that two dirty hands can’t wash even one…..

Is it just me or is the silly ridiculous planet Earth far more Wiley bears and Cap’n Eddies than it ever was before?

New taste sensation, the Gullible Chip cookie!

“This is scientifically impossible.”

“Okay, I’ll give you two weeks to get it done.”

I had a career as one of the grunts in a big corporation. Sadly, sometimes that’s WAY too close to the truth.

Look at all the hoops one must jump though to retrieve a coupon at the grocery store, get a few cents off on a gallon of fuel for your vehicle, or get discounts on just about anything the consumer needs or wants. Big data allows marketing to dictate what any company is trying to sell you. Amazon has done this so well with it the company gets us to watch their programming on TV, buy oodles of stuff, and now the company peddles its’ “Web Services” to other companies. Don’t get me started on Walmart. And, yet, both are among the many companies I patronize.

Marketing wince list: New Coke, Cheetos Lip Balm, Windows Vista, Harley Davidson Perfume, Google Glass, 47 Ronin, Life Savers Soda ….

He is obviously in Administration. And right after saying that went out for an hour and a half lunch.

Primary Care Physician: here are the 20 quality measures you must meet at each visit. You get 15 minutes. LOL! Not really. It will come out to about 8 minutes. Then you can do all your charting later so the patients don’t have to wait. Hang on, we, the executives and insurance companies will still tell you it’s not good enough. Now make that look good!

“Think of it this way: We provide the Finger-lickin’-Good Chicken. Now you design the egg that makes it all possible.”

Reminds me of Snackwells.

Do you know what MAGAts use for contraception? Their personalities.

They came up with the box that says, in big bold letters, “Nutrition Facts”. The rest is obfuscation most of us don’t read, or believe. We’re satisfied with the big lie: “Serving size 4 donuts”.

When all else fails, massage the data.

This is why we have a replication crisis.

He’s pushing the old advertising mantra -

Sell the sizzle. Not the steak.

Why do you need data? Just lie. Truth-in-Advertising laws seem to no longer exist.

“Lose 40 pounds in 30 days without diet of exercise! Just by eating this candy!”

Unlike the Nazi loving billionaire who called MAGAts " f ing ret%$ded", I would like to apologize for calling MAGAts “dumber than a box of ret%$ed rocks”. I used an outdated term, considered offensive. I should have just said MAGAts are “dumber than a box of rocks” and left it there.

I hope the rocks will forgive my unfair comparison.

One of the big lies, but that’s what marketing does.

I worked at a company where the marketing department decided we needed a new company name after we were acquired by a conglomerate, which was fair enough, I suppose. So they picked one the new owners approved of, purchased a bunch of marketing materials to advertise it, and sent out emails directing all employees to not use the old name any more. Only problem was, the company had not – and did not, for several years – go through the process to legally rename itself. So the legal department immediately sent their own emails telling everyone to ignore marketing. Hilarity ensued as what amounted to a polite interdepartmental war errupted.

Just do TV commercials with pretty girls and you can sell anything

My, there are a lot of bots here today.

It could be worse – imagine trying to make Trump’s “Gaza Plan” work.