Ted Rall for September 21, 2022

Ted’s a perfectionist. Therefore doomed to disappointment. I wonder if he lives up to his own expectations.

The same Ukraine where VP Biden withheld $1B in aid as a bribe to oust a corrupt prosecutor. Ukraine had already accepted billions of U.S. military aid to help them join NATO which was ineffective.

We’re at war? Nobody told me.

Rootin’ for Putin??

Pretty much a throw-away strip, no substance to it.

I don’t think I follow that reasoning, Ted.

Do you really believe that there’s any causal connection between the no-show job for Bidenkid and the current provision of weapons to Ukraina? Or are you just being sarcastic toward those who’d claim there is? I hope it’s the latter but US politics are so disordered that I can’t tell.

How are WE at war? We have no troops on the ground, we provide no air cover, no naval support. Yeah we send weapons and intel to Ukraine but we do the same to dozens of other countries too. If the tangerine toad were in office and had sent in the Marines or an armored division or two folks on the Reich (ted?) would be CHEERING him as a hero of freedom and democracy.

Only in America…what would happen to Teddy if he published a strip like this against Putin in Russia?

So, correlation = causation now?

Can we trade Ted back to Russia for Brittney Griner?

I thought that Ted was talking about his favorite nepotists: Kushner, Trump Jr, I wanna, et Al…

fjb

Does that mean we should side with Russia, Ted? What are you trying to say?

So is Biden’s son a reason to not help the Ukraine? After studying the situation as best I can, I fully agree with supporting the Ukraine. And even if it were conclusively proven that Biden supporting the Ukraine was some kind of quid pro quo for his son getting a job, I wouldn’t change that position. The consequences of that deal (if proven) should be upon the Bidens, not the people of the Ukraine. In fact, if the Ukraine was actually offered a deal whereby military support was contingent on a job for Hunter. I wouldn’t blame them for taking it to try and survive.

President Biden’s son was cured of crack when he landed the cushy job in Ukraine. And not coming to Ukraine’s aid when attacked by Putin would be the real crime.

Ted, did you know there are right-wing populists in Ukraine, and everywhere else?

Just when you thought there’s no hope for Ted Rall, he hits it out of the park again!

TFG openly admired and envied Putin! Even after Russia invaded Ukraine.

And so Ted continues his inexplicable campaign to defend/minimize/distract from Putin’s campaign of murder, rape, kidnapping and massive destruction against Ukraine. Poor Ted; how can he be taken seriously after this?

Post hoc ergo meh…

We haven’t gone to war, you idiot. What the hell is WRONG with you?

This seems straight out of Putin’s Russian propaganda. Shame on you, Mr. Rall. Even if this were true, what is your point? You mean the very same Ukraine that Trump tried to bribe? Double shame on you, Mr. Rall. Oh, and if we were to go to war, what has Biden’s son to do with it? Nothing. Triple shame on you, Mr. Rall.

Only in America. Cartoonist returns from a trip to Russia and then publishes cartoons against the war in Ukraine. Whatever…

Wow Mr. Rall all you had to do was mention the crackhead son and the left lost their minds. Great strip.

House Democrats have passed a bill to cap insulin prices at $35 a month.

This year alone, repairs have started on over 65,000 miles of roads and 1,500 bridges.

President Biden just ended the civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims.

In 2021, the U.S. economy added over 6.5 million jobs, the greatest year of job growth in history.

Democrats fought the NRA by passing the first gun violence prevention bill in decades.

While Republicans want to restrict a woman’s right to choose, Democrats are fighting to protect reproductive freedoms.

And the accomplishments of President Biden doing the job of President just keeps growing and growing and growing while Mr. Rall and friends wax pathetic, concerted empty declarations in panicked desperation.

When did Congress declare war? I cant find it anywhere except in this cartoon.

No excuses are needed for US client states, particularly when they’re being used in a proxy war.

Hey, Ted, with all the things you think the US should be doing differently, have you ever run for public office? And if not, why not?

I don’t know if this is the point the cartoonist is trying to make, but the guy sitting at the laptop is behaving exactly like a Russian did before Putin’s mobilization decree. Back in the 18th century Goethe had already criticized these couch potatoes (“nothing better than reading about the nations clashing way down there in Turkey”). If Putin really is desperate or stupid (or both) enough to use nukes, there is a possibility that Americans will be called to the draft again.