Ted Rall by Ted Rall

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  1. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    this is about drones I guess. Just go get al qaeda

  2. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Well, every time Osama is hooked up to a TelePrompTer, he DOES tend to “drone” on…

    …and on…

    …and on…

    I think Ted’s real beef is the Nobel “Peace” Prize going to a guy who is sending more troops into war.

    Shallow thinking, Ted. Sometimes war IS necessary. Because the only other alternative is to roll over, expose your throat, and wait for your enemies to rip open your jugular…

  3. rikoshayrabbit

    rikoshayrabbit said, about 1 month ago

    War is necessary only to keep arms dealers and war industries in profit. The fate of Afghanistan, or Iraq, or even America is irrelevant. This is a fascist corporate world we live in. The corporations own this world, and wherever or whatever is happening in the news is of no importance at all. Obama, the last guy Bush, and the next president… will all do as they are told. I am forever bewildered, reading the posts here from so many seemingly rational people… who continue to choose Democrat or Republican sides and berating the opposite group for their choice. ALL of these politicians continue to deliver America to the corporations. There’s never a skip to the beat.

  4. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, about 1 month ago

    Slim Pickens, “Dr. Strangelove”, and just visualize Cheney in the black gloves.

  5. edmondd

    edmondd said, about 1 month ago

    I agree this nation’s interventionist foreign policy has brought about many evils, even upon its own self-interest as the “long term view” is now evermore clear.

    The overreach has been so absurd indeed, the grotesque disregard for long term consequences tragic.

    But can we really make a single man responsible for the encroachment of a military-industrial complex in the design of an interventionist and adventurist foreign policy?

    Obama would even be impeached–I have no doubt of this as conservatives are a persistent, vocal, and
    effective minority–if another attack were to occur in the USA. (Heck, I could even fathom a few ideologues concocting it for self-serving, atavistic, and myopic reasons). And Afghanistan and Iraq, unfortunately, have become the very “cauldron of evil”, as it were, that the former administration was so pre-emptively trying to prevent from becoming–at least that was the fairy-tale,simplistic and disingenuous pretext for the intervention. A tragic, sad irony indeed.

    But I think the way out is the strategy being sought after right now. Making the protection of the citizenry a priority. I hope this is truly occurring of course.

    The only way for this to happen is to have an obliterating force whose sheer presence foils the organization and communication of the combatants. Also, the rest of the nations must understand that the USA screwed up big time, well they know this, but that it is for the best interest of all in the long term, to have stability in those regions without being interventionists in the invaded countries’ cultural, religious, and economic policies—thus we need an obliterating military presence composed of many world armies that resembles more a police force than a warring body, without forgetting about co-opting with worthwhile rewards those who are interested in prolonging the conflict, for whether this be so because of true ideals or the pursuance of self-interests, most people will budge when their price is met. And if a few still hold on to their ideals, as heroic as they might be, they would be probably be much less effective and ultimately rendered irrelevant.

  6. toasteroven

    toasteroven said, about 1 month ago

    Ah, phallic imagery.

  7. wmbrainiac

    wmbrainiac said, about 1 month ago

    tr: been readin for years.
    jus now signed up.
    gotta tell ya.
    you the best.
    guess i’d call myself a democratic socialist and one who finds political compromises puke-inducing.
    and there is something off about sending drones after the stone age creeps whose hate we’ve inspired. and presidents wield far too much power and far to many compromises to earn anything called a peace prize.
    yer work is painful for its accuracy.

  8. Ronshua

    RonshuaGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Genuine Decorated and licensed Phallic pilot .

  9. YouWereWarned

    YouWereWarned said, about 1 month ago

    Tally-ho!

    edmondd said “… if another attack were to occur in the USA. (Heck, I could even fathom a few ideologues concocting it for self-serving, atavistic, and myopic reasons)…”

    You mean, like the 1st time?

  10. wolfhoundblues1

    wolfhoundblues1 said, about 1 month ago

    New boss just like the old boss.

  11. Ted Rall

    Ted RallGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    I’m not a pacifist. If another nation invaded the United States, I would join the military and/or resistance. But giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a warmonger like Obama–remember, he ran for president last year on the line that Afghanistan was the “good war” that Bush “took his eye off the ball of” when he invaded Iraq–is vomit-inducing.

    Even Kissinger, that slug, did negotiate the Paris Peace Accords before he won. Obama is ramping up the Afghan war, keeping us in Iraq, reneging on closing the Gitmo concentration camp, and reserves the right to keep on torturing.

    Oh, and can I have my habeas corpus rights back now?

  12. Lavocat

    Lavocat said, about 1 month ago

    Oh, man, Ted, you bleeep nailed this one! THAT was a belly laugh, this time around. Usually you just get a cynical smirk out of me.

    Slim Pickens, updated for the Brave New World of today.

  13. Jim

    Jim said, about 1 month ago

    Mr . Rall’s pimp-hand , got a little strength back today .

  14. YouWereWarned

    YouWereWarned said, about 1 month ago

    Ted Rall (Genius) said “I’m not a pacifist. If another nation invaded the United States, I would join the military and/or resistance”

    Yeah, like all good Germans did…

    I can’t wait for Canada or Mexico to invade your (even more) barbarian country.

  15. audieholland

    audieholland said, about 1 month ago

    Well yeah, Germany was invaded by a Polish force (10 men strong) so that entitled Hitler to strike back against Poland.

    Most historians say this was actually a German “False Flag” black ops but thank God the US would never even think of doing such a thing
    -cough-9/11-cough-

    Anyone ever seen “The Atomic Cafe?” It shows many authentic American Cold War propaganda reels.

    “We are not a militarist nation. But we have the right to defend ourselves.”

    MUWAHAHAHA!!!

  16. audieholland

    audieholland said, about 1 month ago

    ”(…)

    But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.

    Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

    It works the same in any country.”

    Hermann Goering at the Nuremburg Trials.

  17. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Ted, closing GITMO is one of the bigger problems Bush left us with. Because of the actions of the Bush 43 administration, GITMO is a treacherous problem that no one wants to help fix, and that includes our own Congress and other countries. I may fault Obama for some things, but not GITMO. He can’t do it alone.

  18. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Ted, you said IF an enemy invaded the United States…

    Have you forgotten? September 11th, 2001? 3000 Americans turned into air pollution in downtown New York? The Pentagon attacked, etc etc?

    We WERE invaded… :/

  19. michaelwme

    michaelwme said, about 1 month ago

    Ted:

    An executive order, with congressional approval and the full consent of the US Supreme court, has clearly stated that the rack, the bastinado, thumbscrews, the Chinese Water Interrogation, and electrodes to the genitals are NOT torture when used by the US against its suspected enemies (who, I think could easily include both of us). (NB: photographs of such practices are treason, since they give Top Secret US interrogation techniques to our enemies.)

    So how can anyone say that Bush, Jr. tortured prisoners, or that Obama is continuing that torture?

    To say (or even think) such a thing is clearly in violation of US law and executive order.

    Things are much better now.

    Bush: ‘We no torture, we keep Americans safe in legal way.’

    Obama: “We will keep America safe without compromising our ideals.”

    At least Obama sounds much better.

    And Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize just for not being Bush, Jr.

  20. YouWereWarned

    YouWereWarned said, about 1 month ago

    Aaah, another pearl of wisdom from another “genius”.

    Come on, Mr Rall, and you, all patriots, answer this call to arms!

    I don’t think there is a country where people have been more thoroughly brainwashed than the US of A. Granted, lacking any cultural armour, mushy brains don’t resist even the most basic techniques. And it’s a lot easier for imbeciles to believe they are better than the rest of the world.

    Wait a minute, rest of the world? What’s that?

    Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
    – George Bernard Shaw

    And this , oh sooo American, one:

    Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
    – George Jean Nathan

  21. HARVIN GWIN

    HARVIN GWIN said, about 1 month ago

    Let us know when you enlist scottfreitas, we’ll have a party to see you off.Only you can save us Obi-scott.

  22. Jim

    Jim said, about 1 month ago

    USA

  23. Corosive Frog

    Corosive Frog said, about 1 month ago

    toasteroven; LOL!
    Note to Self; don’tmakejokeaboutblackmen’spenises don’tmakejokeaboutblackmen’spenises, don’tmakejokeabout…

  24. rikoshayrabbit

    rikoshayrabbit said, about 1 month ago

    Scott… we were invaded… by 19 Saudi Arabians with boxcutters??? Wow… you swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

  25. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Hey rikoshaycoward: and what the Hell would you have us DO? All you leftist cowards act like we should have done NOTHING.

    Nothing.

    NOTHING AT ALL.

    Just clean up the mess in New York and DC, stick our fingers in our ears and our heads up our asses, and wait for the next BOOM.

    You’re just a bunch of gd whiners. The world is run by adults, and you leftists all have the mentality of bratty ten-year-olds..

  26. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    OOOh , teed it up perfectly scott. Breathe in ,breathe out. Mente vacio. Pass on the insults like salt. Rall, good cartoon.

  27. nomad2112

    nomad2112 said, about 1 month ago

    … anyway, nice ‘toon Ted.

  28. rikoshayrabbit

    rikoshayrabbit said, about 1 month ago

    Yep Scott. NOTHING was done. We were told what happened, the official story from our government, that is, and we were told to go shopping. And submit to taking out shoes off at the airport, and it’s okay now to have our phone lines and computers tapped, and cameras are appearing on every corner in America, and the Patriot Act, 3,000 pages long, simply appeared over night and was voted on without anybody reading it, and habeas corpus is history, and we went in and invaded Iraq. Do you think we should have invaded Saudi Arabia? Remember the guys with the boxcutters? My opinion, we should have allowed an investigation into the smoldering ruins of the WTC, instead of packing off the biggest crime scene in history onto a barge to China. We should have allowed an investigation, which I think would have led right up to the desks of Cheney and Bush. Scott, you really think we were attacked, by foreigners who hate America? You’ve been lied to your whole life. And if you stopped and questioned even one fraction of it at all, you’d probably end up in a straight jacket. There are over a thousand architects that say the WTC was a perfect planned demolition. I will always believe professional experts before I believe the lying scum bags in our government who tell us what to think. Audie Holland quoted Goering a couple of paragraphs above. You should read that one again. And Scott… get some xanax or some kind of anti-depressant. You really need to chill out. Peace, dude.

  29. bikerusl

    bikerusl said, about 1 month ago

    My only hope for Obama has ever been that his lofty rhetoric will inspire people to expect and demand more. That can still happen. He has already inspired many in a racist world just by his skin colour.

    What he does is slightly irrellevant. Those paying attention knew how beholden he was to the very corporate interests that he “promises” to keep in check - from the start. No surprises really.

    The office of the President is far too powerful to ever be healthy - even if someone fundamentally angelic were to occupy it and that will never be the case. (Well, maybe Eugene Debs but anyway)

    The point is we need to stop obeying that power - and I don’t mean anarcho-capitalist government downsizing. We need to organise our own communities - use that rhetoric, use the lies (to galvinise), use the stupid weaknesses - use it all the make things better. Replace the power organically. Reduce the individualism, increase real freedom, protect each other from fear etc.

    We are only ever strong in one another.

  30. meowdam

    meowdam said, about 1 month ago

    Our problems are in Pakistan , the Taliban are a bunch of fast fading religio extremists who are increasingly unpopular within their own population , Technology , the internets are changing everything and people in the remotest regions are becoming aware there are other options.
    We have no hopes of occupying Afghanistan we know this , this mission is about hearts and minds and collateral damage is counterproductive, this is where the drones are most effective ,not perfect but much better than Salvos of cruise missiles or squadrons of bombers. Of course every drone strike the enemy claims killed only women and children , but this is most often just propaganda.
    I believe progress is being made .

  31. Palestino

    Palestino said, about 1 month ago

    Bullseye..Ted !

  32. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 1 month ago

    I agree.

    And I even think we have much more work to do in Afghanistan.

    But Obama ran on the idea that he was willing to expand the war into Pakistan.

    And we wonder why Iran ramped up it’s nuke program?

  33. audieholland

    audieholland said, about 1 month ago

    Hello, Americans.

    Your problems are at home. NOT in any far away country, however much you may bomb, pollute or machinegun it.

    Regarding New York shortly after 911: remember the bit** that reassured you “the air safe to breath, the water safe to drink?” She caused the agonizing deaths of thousands who thought they could trust their officials when they breathed in the poisonous fumes and drank the polluted water.

    I wonder what Scotfreitas thinks of her. He probably would give her a medal.