And, yes, it is a total and complete non sequitur.
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Rather, Fox News has often used Clinton as a non sequitur.
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With this collection of players, every play is a non-sequitur.
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The herm has always struck me as a provocative non sequitur.
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KEENE, N.H. — Beto O'Rourke began his rally with a non sequitur.
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Back in the real world, however, this is a total non sequitur.
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The gratuitous shot at Paul's looks was an entirely Trumpian non sequitur. 2.
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It is a collage of non sequitur, disinterested in any kind of logic.
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Parenthetically, the idea that "Social Security is bankrupt" is a complete non-sequitur.
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This president has trouble stringing together two coherent sentences without committing a non sequitur.
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Move directly to another topic; a total non sequitur is fine, and perhaps preferable.
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"No collusion," Jackson said in court, was "a non-sequitur" used by the defense.
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It was nearly impossible because the art is frequently a horrifying or confusing non-sequitur.
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"Two weeks ago I went to Athens," Lazari told us in one such non sequitur.
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People will get that ISIS was a non sequitur, but at least he wasn't snarling.
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This isn't a non sequitur, I promise: you can now buy an entire house from Amazon.
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Instead, we witnessed a steady barrage of non sequitur defenses from the extremely online Sanders camp.
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Also, if you look up "non sequitur" in the dictionary, you get these two sentences. 20.
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He started with what at first seemed like a non sequitur about the filmmaker Milos Forman.
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" Non sequitur: "A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.
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" Amodei repeated his non sequitur: "That's not a question," adding, "If you want to interview yourself, go ahead.
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Produced amid a haze of drugs, the rambling non sequitur storyline alienated their teenybopper fanbase and infuriated critics.
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Twitter is a great place to fight with strangers you don't know and generate non-sequitur comedy gold.
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"Tax incentives for start-ups is a non sequitur because they don't have any profits," Mr. Murphy said.
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He simply dished out his specialty: a mix of Trump jokes, less political humor and non sequitur skits.
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There never was any such thing as unbiased journalism and — note the non sequitur — there's even less now.
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In that movement, the melody of the folk hymn "The Shining Shore" appears as a musical non sequitur.
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She has about a dozen lizards that people had abandoned—and she's divorced, she added as a non-sequitur.
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In this letter, he begins, as is often the case, with a seeming non-sequitur, this time about golf.
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In philosophical terms, the logic that lower-casualty attacks signify a greater threat is recognized as a non-sequitur.
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Another non sequitur is his professed interest in Ukraine due to the fact that his family emigrated from Ukraine.
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Throughout the Town Hall event, Johnston tries and fails to defuse mounting tensions with jokes and non sequitur comments.
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His people, as he said in a North Dakota non sequitur, have the best apartments and the nicest boats.
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Lizzie: It's not even that much of a non-sequitur to talk about my phone and then about haunted things.
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" Non sequitur, she writes, "is lively, volatile, skirmishing, suggesting (at its best) simultaneity or multiplicity, loosing a flurry of questions.
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It's fun to see familiar faces pop up during the game, but it helps enormously if they're not a non-sequitur.
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I was therefore pretty unfazed by the non sequitur at the end, which had the intended effect of making me giggle.
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Previously, fake reviews have had a hint of the uncanny valley bot speak, sometime slipping non-sequitur or nonsense phrases into reviews.
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The closed captioning, fully sic'd, really does a good job of capturing the non sequitur: Bill: I'm with you, I like him.
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As bizarre and non sequitur as the comedy in "Lady Dynamite" is, the show has an earnest core about breakdown and recovery.
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Nothing about this event will stay a secret," he said, adding a non sequitur: "Saudi Arabia is a brother country to us.
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One of my major concerns in life — this is a bad non sequitur, but not really — is the survival of the orchestras.
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It's totally pointless and saying "if we minus ourselves from rules like that, that's somehow going to destroy jobs" is a non-sequitur.
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As a non-sequitur, as soon as she walked in, she intimated a threat of violence if The Sound happened one more time.
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Neither does Trump seem bothered by the fact that his use of it is a non sequitur and, perhaps, a little bit complimentary.
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Sporting goggles and a gravity-defying curled bouffant, McKinnon stole every scene she was in with a non sequitur and good-natured smirk.
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" He believes in restricting illegal immigration and thinks that giving driver's licenses to people in the country illegally is just "a non sequitur.
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That it's a complete non sequitur doesn't change the fact that it is obviously wordplay (a kind of intentional mondegreen; look it up).
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In June, President Donald Trump, not six months into his term, electrified Twitter with a bizarre non-sequitur tweet: It's officially been an hour.
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"I did it partially just as a fun project and partially to promote my modest non-sequitur gag webcomic, Feldman the Cat," Pegg said.
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The decision to turn their cameras to Aoki isn't a complete non sequitur: he is the famous son of an equally famous restaurant entrepreneur.
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While that may seem like a total non sequitur, the model and the musician actually have more in common than first meets the eye.
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It's impossible to take your eyes off the performance artist Erin Markey, who matches sirenlike self-possession with off-the-wall non-sequitur humor.
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Meditations is best experienced when you remember it's there, serving as a short distraction or non sequitur from whatever you were doing or thinking about.
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Where John Oliver's humor is a non-sequitur punctuation to the meaty topics that he covers on Last Week Tonight, ContraPoints' form is the content.
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I can't think of a single presidential activity that would be enhanced if the president interrupted every two minutes to offer a witty non sequitur.
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It's by no means perfect: The prose is pretty rough, there's the occasional non-sequitur, and the articles get less coherent the longer they get.
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If the non sequitur addled collisions actually create something that's charming, which occasionally they do, then that's out of lost matter, then it's lost immediately again.
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Arizona has nothing to say about how the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine should apply to California and the Trump administration's reliance on it is a non sequitur.
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Turns out their suggestion was sort of a non sequitur, because they sent us to a bro bar that I do not have words to describe.
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The funeral for Chuckles the Clown at the top of this post might seem a bit of a non sequitur, but I'm really just following directions!
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It offers non-sequitur humor — like a third-floor office building of bears, just bears — and meaningful dives into perception, entropy, creation, and this American life.
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The nation's erratic, septuagenarian president, who is known for non-sequitur outbursts on his Twitter account, has recently threatened to revoke the licenses of critical media outlets.
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The Butler Eagle's publisher and general manager, Ron Vodenichar, said that the paper was alerted by a reader to the hidden message in the "Non Sequitur" cartoon.
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" But the statement ended with this intriguing non sequitur: "He also strongly believes that the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller must be allowed to be completed.
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In one particular scene, they share dinner together and walk along the sidewalk until, in a complete non sequitur, Seo threatens to make Lee's life a living hell.
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There are vast differences between the random non sequitur arrangements of Kjellberg's Nazi imagery and anti-Semitic jokes and the layered, sophisticated humor of a Mel Brooks parody.
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The music video, filmed over the course of two days in the Holloway Sanatorium outside London, is also a cult classic for its otherworldly themes and non-sequitur scenes.
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Though that's actually a non sequitur; by not applying any ethical standards around political campaigns Facebook is providing succour to those with the least ethics and the basest standards.
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" One panel of Sunday's "Non Sequitur" cartoon, which encouraged readers to color it in themselves, appears to include the hidden message: "We fondly say go f--- yourself to Trump.
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Years before they became trademarks of shows like Lost, Fringe, and Breaking Bad, most episodes of Now and Again began with what felt like a non-sequitur cold open.
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The Lobster, Lanthimos's much discussed new film — and his first in English, with Hollywood actors — is also concerned with power in isolation, and it begins with another seeming non sequitur.
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The social humor is curdled and mean, and the non sequitur jokes — like a visit to "Goofy's rape room" at a knockoff version of Disneyland — play like "Family Guy" outtakes.
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As for their argument that the creation of pass codes would endanger us by allowing our enemies a back door into people's phones, it's a bit of a non sequitur.
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And then, apparently when he put the BlackBerry back in his pocket, that message went out to the world, a two-word non sequitur and Twitter fail for the ages.
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The Adagio's beginning seems to have all the hallmarks of classical form, until the restatement of the theme is interrupted by a non sequitur of violent staccatos and fortissimo outbursts.
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"When it comes to role models, as a person of faith, I think we all have one perfect role model," she answered, characteristically using a non sequitur as an evasion.
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The most cohesive section is the middle, between "Preschooled," which focuses on the very young, and "Preposterous," a non sequitur of a finale that deals, partly, with speed-dating seniors.
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When he was asked where he would most like to go in the US, he admitted, as a non sequitur, that he never scattered his mom's ashes according to her wishes.
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He is a dutiful student of Young Thug's non sequitur filigree, which dominates the sound of streaming and has been put to use by everyone from Post Malone to Lil Baby.
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Schitt's Creek may have punchlines aplenty (and O'Hara remains unparalleled when it comes to doling out hilarious non sequitur lines), but it's bingeworthy precisely because it feels like such a calming balm.
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But he's probably best-known these days for logging onto Twitter and saying things like this: This post perfectly encapsulates Chu's online presence: pompous woke posturing mixed with a baffling non-sequitur.
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Eventually the jokes stopped being jokes and started being the word "HARAMBE" thrown out as a non sequitur to elicit a laugh because it's a funny word and teenagers loves discomfort comedy.
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Washingtonn (CNN)After puzzling comments about 19th Century abolitionist Frederick Douglass and marveling that no one knew Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, President Donald Trump has just unloaded another historical non sequitur.
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" Mr. Stanfield was dancing drunkenly at a party when Mr. Glover approached him about the part of Darius, a non sequitur-spouting stoner whose bon mots include "Can I measure your tree?
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Even granting the contention that Mr. Trump could simply terminate the investigation, it is a non sequitur to argue, as the president's lawyers do, that as a consequence he cannot obstruct it.
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There is an obvious link between Cunningham's style and that of Ms. Tanowitz, who deploys similar limpidity, balletic lines, shifts of weight and direction, complex footwork and non sequitur sequences of steps.
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"Just The Tips" starts with a classic Broad City non sequitur, with Abbi and Ilana saving a man's life in Gramercy Park (something I didn't know was a bucket list item until now).
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Maybe I need to hear a Randall non-sequitur that becomes a sweeping monologue, and to then ugly cry alone in the dark as the music "mmMMMmm"s me inevitably to my fate.
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It's typical that Reitz's vlogs, which are technically bong and pipe "reviews," or haul videos, meander into non-sequitur stoner anecdotes, and that's what is fascinating about them—especially if you are also stoned.
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I was present for the conversation, and occasionally participated, but my mind was so far removed that my contributions mostly involved uttering some non sequitur about a topic they already had moved on from.
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Most internet users would prefer to see ads that make sense for them rather than non-sequitur ads selected at random if ads are going to be the price of admission to log on.
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So they rejected rational syntax, breaking the language through tactics like parataxis — essentially a system of non sequitur, where sentences create meaning through juxtaposition, but refuse to accrue into anything resembling a linear argument.
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" While Manafort's legal team -- and people such as President Donald Trump -- say the case proves there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, Berman Jackson says that is "simply a non sequitur.
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"I was standing beside him with a club in my hand, and I was considering my options when I suddenly woke up," he said, in what seemed like a non-sequitur way of defending Griffin.
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Cage's comically non-sequitur quips ("You're a vicious snowflake!" he snarls at one biker), combined with periodic close-ups on his meme-worthy manic grin, contrast strangely — and not always successfully — with Cosmatos' otherworldly aesthetic.
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" You can instantly feel a Swartzweldian joke, they are a seemingly impossible jumble of traditional setup and non sequitur: The infamous example in "Homer at the Bat" was Mr. Burns's confusion over Don Mattingly's "sideburns.
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The problem with Trump's insult is that it is a non-sequitur that recycles a line of attack that didn't work for Scott Brown when Warren defeated him in the Massachusetts Senate race in 2012.
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As much as a relief it is to see the non-sequitur Daenerys-in-Racistan scenes finally integrated into the Westeros plot, the pillars of the show have always been the Lannisters and the Starks.
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But to suggest that Mr. Martin has been influenced by such works is backward because his brand of humor — for 40 years prominently located at the corner of sequitur and non sequitur — has surely influenced them.
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"Advocating for 'mental health reform' in the wake of a mass shooting, without explaining why, is almost as much of a non-sequitur as advocating for the improvement of infrastructure after such an event," Annas said.
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When Wallace asked him why even conservative economists say his economic growth projections are unrealistic, Trump replied that we recently had "a terrible jobs report" — a total non sequitur that also (surprise!) happens to be untrue.
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Noisey: You can listen to In The Garden and not quite expect what you get at a show like the one I went to at Union Pool, with your non sequitur jokes and anecdotes in between songs.
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Right from the start he uses Pinteresque non sequitur as a form of passive-aggression: His first line — "You are absolutely right Mr. President" — is an illogical response to Mr. Trump's congratulations on winning the Ukrainian election.
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The most obviously contemporary political elements don't even make much sense — I get why audiences would nod along at the complaint that "nobody's civil anymore," for example, but it seems like a non sequitur alongside Arthur's other complaints.
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But when your main challenges involve men who aren't working, wages that aren't rising, families that aren't forming and communities that are collapsing, constantly overhauling health insurance is at best an indirect response, at worst a non sequitur.
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And they couch any request as an idle observation, such as "I was wondering if you could pass the salt," knowing that the hearer will mentally fill in the premise that turns the non sequitur into a sequitur.
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Hogan Gidley says LSU-Clemson's cheers for Trump were the most incredible cheers he's ever heard, "a unifying moment" ruined by Democrats being madder at Vince Vaughn than Qassem Soleimani, an absolutely ridiculous non sequitur that isn't even true.
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This year, Peter Dreier, chair of the Urban and Environmental Policy department at Occidental College, described how he submitted a proposal full of jargon, misquotation, non sequitur and general academic gobbledygook to an international conference sponsored by the 4S.
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Janice is the sort of villain who will cheerily tell a non sequitur story about some random factoid — in tonight's case, the creation of concrete from limestone struck by lightning — just to show her prisoners how unflappable she is.
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" Translation: "This is, in context, actually a total non-sequitur, but it doesn't matter—I needed to get this transparently pre-written line out there, so it can get replayed a few hundred times in the next 24 hours.
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Against a repeated non sequitur of a refrain—"Back into the sky"—the track becomes gradually more celebratory as time goes on, cresting in a celestial piano improvisation over a subtle break that contains some sort of hand drum.
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The Muro/Saha argument that the net metering system allows the power market to avoid the costs of conventional electricity simply is a non sequitur, in that net metering leads to a substitution of expensive power in place of cheaper power.
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I fully believe that there is nothing as detrimental to the success of voice computing as feeling like an idiot when you ask your personal assistant to do something out loud and it doesn't respond or gives you some non sequitur.
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Speaking to a reporter at a small business forum in Lansing this week, Thanedar offered non-sequitur talking points to repeated questions on the comments, eventually ending the interview and backing away from a reporter after being asked four times his opinion.
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His most recent use of the term was particularly tone deaf: he slid a non sequitur reference to "Pocahontas" in while speaking with Navajo code talkers at the White House on Tuesday — people the president was supposed to be honoring, but ended up deriding.
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In this spirit of many of the best memes, the Simpsons / Limewire combo is not only non-sequitur but oddly specific, focusing on the malware-inflected files that often posed as MP3s on the service, particularly those claiming to be the song "Numb" by Linkin Park.
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By way of example, here is a selection from an article that AI Writer wrote about the diet pill, Phentermine: In the context of the whole article about Phentermine, this paragraph feels like a bit of a non-sequitur, albeit a grammatically and factually correct one.
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Non sequitur arguments in favor of responding to domestic terrorism by waging foreign wars at least serve to illuminate the deep problem of how to predict and prevent so-called lone wolf attacks, in which some random person decides to purchase a legal assault rifle and commit mass murder.
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She said that the "noncollusion mantra was a non sequitur," unrelated to what sentence Manafort should receive, and that his lawyers made the "unsubstantiated" claim that Manafort was only charged with financial crimes predating his campaign work because Mueller's office couldn't charge him with anything to do with Russia.
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Trump did talk about poverty as a non sequitur when an audience member asked a question about the candidates's ability to be "a devoted president to all the people in the United States"—but, unsurprisingly, he really didn't elaborate on how he was going to tackle the issue.
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Aaron will abruptly get upset or start ranting about some non sequitur, and she and Pat will leave early, driving home in silence, each suffering in their own way until one of them asks what's for dinner or what they'll do the next day, because life goes on.
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"Fake news" is an all-purpose non-sequitur at this point, but the term does describe a relatively new phenomena popularized in the 2016 presidential election: deliberately fabricated (as opposed to erroneous or biased) stories from little-known sources, which could spread rapidly through direct sharing on sites like Facebook.
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He concludes the non sequitur by quoting former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich at length, and in doing so once again demonstrates his penchant for referring to himself in the third person: Bernie Sanders says break them up and resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act that once separated investment from commercial banking.
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If I was going to make a new friend, chances are high that I would seek out someone who shares a lot of Lyla's personality traits: friendly, passionate about her interests, open to non sequitur conversations and sometimes discussing strange or serious topics, and generally being kind, honest, and individualistic.
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As per tradition, they came out with a hilarious, if non-sequitur (to us at least), preview of what's to come in Super Bowl LI. These types of animations have been around for a while and we've tried to decode them in the past before, but some things just speak for themselves.
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"The account" seemingly refers to Akers, but since you can't delete other accounts' tweets, "we deleted the tweet" is either a reference to the VA deleting its own retweet of Gorka — which is a bit of a non sequitur — or a confusing way to say it blocked Akers' tweet from appearing in replies.
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I say "shameless" because of the non-sequitur that jihadis employ: Both Ahmad Khan Rahami and Omar Mateen justified the mass targeting of innocents, on the streets of New York and in an LGBT bar, because the United States was bombing ... ISIS, a terrorist group that enslaves its ideological opponents and slaughters women and children.
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The dyspeptic and unambitious Nick (Jake Johnson), the smooth-talking would-be Lothario Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and the walking non-sequitur Winston (Lamorne Morris) formed a great comedy trio, and Deschanel had fun chemistry with all of them — though her romantic chemistry with Johnson became the engine that fueled the show's second (and best) season.
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Before spinning off into its own half-hour slot, the series began life as the best thing about "Animaniacs," an exuberantly unhinged variety cartoon executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and packed with non-sequitur punch lines, meta-level laughs and so many showbiz in-jokes that you could forget this was a show nominally made for kids.
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The worst of the VMAs' comedy offenses was Jimmy Fallon's Ryan Lochte impression, which began with the disgraced swimmer's Dentyne Ice blue hair and ended with Fallon making non sequitur pop culture jokes that were purposely bad — the better to mock Lochte's less-than-stellar speaking skills — but had zero wit to them outside of that premise.
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On the other hand, bot makers have found it easy to pass, not by being the most eloquent or intelligent conversationalist, but by dodging questions with non sequitur jokes, making typos, or in the case of the bot that won a Turing competition in 2014, claiming to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy with a poor grasp of English.
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"Bob and Ray took their naturally sonorous radio voices and bent them into every imaginable shape, creating (what a New Yorker writer called) 'a surrealistic Dickensian repertory company, which chastened the fools of the world with hyperbole, slapstick, parody, verbal nonsense, non sequitur, and sheer wit, all of it clean, subtle, and gentle,' " wrote The New Yorker's Joshua Rothman in 2013.
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The video racked up more than 63,000 shares and 13,000 comments, mostly calling out Nick Nack for not intervening while a woman was being brutally beaten right in front of him, to which he gave the following non-sequitur response: According to local media, the fight started at 4:20 AM on Saturday morning and no arrests have yet been made.
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He does a good job over all, demonstrating the same ability to jump between labored comic business and somber melodrama, often within a scene; the same willingness to make his characters look ridiculous; the same habit of getting out of a bland or nonsensical scene by ending on a non sequitur punch line; the same reliance on snippets of pop music to pump up emotion.
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After firing off a non-sequitur tweet about how well China negotiations are going, Trump went back to Mueller-mania with a tweet claiming that his lawyer Rudy Giuliani had completed 87 pages of an alternative report to Mueller's one: The special counsel is set to present new evidence in probes into both Manafort and Cohen to courts in Washington and New York by 5 p.m. Friday.
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Self-driving cars are one of the biggest AI challenges of our time: not only is the requirement to essentially build from the ground up computer systems that behave as well as (or ideally better) than multitasking humans behind the wheel; but the consequence of doing that wrong is not just a strange string of words, or some other kind of non sequitur, but injury or death.
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Comparing a beauty brand's rabid following to the Beatlemania frenzy might seem like a non-sequitur at first blush, but consider this: 25,000 people put their names on the waitlist to be first in line when then-under-the-radar affordable skin-care purveyor The Ordinary announced that it would be adding foundation to its already robust collection earlier this year, and 25,000 people attended The Beatles' last-ever live performance in San Francisco in 1966.
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From there, the arguments turned to pointing out how all, or most, Palestinians killed had been members of Hamas (not true), before switching to non-sequitur claims about how few protests there'd been in the West Bank (Palestine), and assertions that this putatively muted response was because a significant faction of Palestinians in the West Bank (Palestine), and in Israel, supported the embassy move: Those who had families in the United States now had easier access to applying for a visa (not true).
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