Ted Rall for March 10, 2021

It’s politics. Which is, at root, compromise (if it’s not a dictatorship in one way or another).

We can actually take better care of our people. We just don’t.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Meghan said something about the British Monarchy and the crowd went ballistic!!

/SNARK/

I really like how how Ted “my cartoons are basically indistinguishable from a right winger’s” Rall has expanded his art style to “Sharpie taped to a ferret’s tail that I kicked.” Good job! Maybe you can draw like a third grader in another 25 years! You just need practice.

Teddy, have you ever been in FAVOR of ANYTHING anyone else but YOU has ever done? Not counting the 4 years you ignored Trump. How much does the Last Koch Brother pay you to do this crap?

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”

I dont get the criticism of limiting it to less wealthy. . .Sanders was critical of this too. . . we also have to worry about the debt ..

and they shoudl’ve had less pork

Progressives don’t understand the concept. They want what they want . . . yesterday.

It was too much to expect the U.S. to emulate European nations and actually pass legislation helping people during this fiscal emergency.

Wanna bet that a lot of republicans will take advantage of this handout? Given their elected representatives took it on themselves to decide they didn’t want… or need it. Just more hypocrisy…

Biden’s cabinet, Theodore? Where? You mention the predecessor and a right leaning dem senator. You should see a medical professional for a regimen of cognition enhancement.

He, Dr. Manchin is King (please hand me the bucket) …

What most people seem to miss is this stimulus package is really a backhand way to fund the Govt. via taxes. Yes, people and businesses will spend more, prices will go up, and all of the churn will generates more taxes — which fund Govt. programs. As Mr. Schumer has stated, if they need more, they will just give out more money. Quite an ingenious money pump, paid for by our grandchildren.

Rall is against free money in a time of need?

Sorry that Biden doesn’t have a magic wand to wave and make it all better instantaneously, but this commentary by Paul Waldman points out some important aspects in the $1.9 trillion covid bill that y’all may have missed:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/09/hidden-provisions-bidens-rescue-bill-make-this-bigger-deal-than-you-thought/

None of this would have been necessary to consider if the Senate had passed the relief bill passed by the House last May. Of course, this is not the only chance we had to right the ship before the deck chairs started sliding into the ocean.

2000 units a month? Republicans don’t even want him to get one unit of 1400.

This is why medical care is not a democracy. There is a head doctor who makes the decisions about what to do to save the patient’s life, and all of their subordinates follow those decisions.

Politics is at least SUPPOSED to be a democracy, meaning that we can’t make rapid decisions about things. That is what the executive branch is for, but it doesn’t have enough power in this case to act on its own, and if it did, it might end democracy as we know it.

I very seldom comment to Rall’s cartoons, because they seem to me oblique, and itchy like wearing a hair shirt while reading them. Is the phrase “the cabinet of Dr. Biden” a reference to the German silent movie, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”? From Wikipedia:

“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari … is a 1920 German silent horror film … Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders. The film features a dark and twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms, oblique and curving lines, structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles, and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets.”

That seems to fit the style of Ted Rall in his cartoons. It’s not intended as an insult, just a personal observation. They are also edgy as in cabaret songs of that Weimar period (for modern versions, see the “Cabaret Songs” of William Bolcom/ Arnold Weinstein).

In trying sometimes to figure his viewpoint, I am reminded of the effort I have in reading stories by Franz Kafka. There is not necessarily a fantasy code to those stories, a point by point reference from a conventional storyline. They must have some kind of parallels to logic within Kafka’s mind related to his view of reality, but I often can’t discern them.

It takes all kinds of artists and writers to make literature. I generally prefer clarity and straightforward feeling and logic in what I read, not puzzles as to what an artist intends. But that’s my opinion, and I can appreciate that others have different inclinations. Otherwise, we’d still be drawing on walls in caves, I guess.

Republiqanons say he’s not rich enough to get any assistance — only wealthy political donors deserve to survive.

Does this guy remind anybody else of Ed Crankshaft?

So how much would be enough, Ted? I expect I’m going to get the full payment, which I don’t need (far from a unique situation). As much as I’ll be happy to get the loot, I would much rather they’d pushed the thresholds down quite a bit and bumped the benefit up for those below the threshold. Feed the poor.

I’m guessing Dr. Sanders is dead to Rall now. Purity uber alles. https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1369380468542468096

When our two main parties are center-right and a death cult.