Ted Rall for June 26, 2020

I wish Orwell had won.

I wish I lived in a country where the elected leaders gave a crap about us, instead of billionaires.

179,000 dead by Oct is the latest projection. But Ted doesn’t seem to think that is enough. But the dead are free, I must admit.

I give up. Last comment: For a while now, the “answer page” to these cartoons has been missing. Obtuse is different than abstruse.

Good grief, Orwell.

Listen, Orwell was describing society as it was THEN. He wasn’t making predictions. The world sucked then, it sucks now.

It’s pretty easy to be right if you predict that generally society is going to do mean, hateful, stupid things.

Orwell was describing a society that already existed. It was called Stalin’s Soviet Union.

Poor Ted, it is a just another sad part about growing up when you learn that unicorns aren’t real and the Easter Bunny doesn’t exist. and of course, just like how Ted can’t tell the difference between Biden and Trump because Biden is so far from perfect, none of our efforts during this crisis have any value because they didn’t fix everything immediately.

Read the book, Rall. Big Brother won, not Orwell.

I recommend Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel, “Player Piano”, which is (a) a better book than 1984 all around, and (b) a better prediction of modern automated society. (I also recommend Zamyatin’s novel, “We”, from which Orwell borrowed liberally.) In any case, I’m not sure just what Rall is trying to say. I guess his reference to Orwell is about Doublespeak, in which words mean their opposites. (Thucydides did that idea better in his history of the Peloponnesian War). But that doesn’t work here. The way to be socially conscious now is to keep social distance. That’s odd, but it’s not a contradiction. Working at home is not faking it. Yes, I too like eating in a restaurant, but I can defer that gratification for a while in order to keep myself and others safe. Rall sometimes gets so wrapped up in his purity that he doesn’t think things through.

More like ‘Animal Farm’!

THE MOLDY ORANGE FRUITCAKE and Mitch McMafia have assured themselves and their Repulsican Crime Cult members that it is only Democrats who are dying.

https://youtu.be/d-diB65scQU

learn how to cook

Just watched a completely useless coronavirus briefing from the trump administration.

yes he has won. the prophets were right

George Orwell, author of 1984: Did I call it or did I call it?!

Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale: Hold my beer!

Stephen King, author of The Stand: Aw, aren’t you two cute? ;-)