The DNC and Democrats who dominate the nation’s op-ed pages and cable news networks argue that Democrats must move right to win, never that Republicans must move left to win. Self-serving?
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Obliteravi, Obliteravi Iterum, Oblitero Continenter
President Trump claims he has already obliterated Iran’s nuclear program and other infrastructure, yet he also claims he must continue bombing Iran in order to destroy those same exact targets. At this rate, when will he overshoot and bomb all the way through the Earth to himself?
Help Me, You Jerks!
President Trump didn’t bother to consult with America’s European allies before attacking Iran. Yet now he wants their help, both to finish off Iran—which is proving to be a formidable adversary—and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has closed to oil and gas tankers. He’s like your drunken friend who picks a fight at the bar and then wants you to help him.
Why Were You Silent?
One common tactic of the Right is to arbitrarily fixate on a story that is or purports to be an outrage and then demand to know why people on the Left—who often never heard about it in the first place, because news is so siloed—didn’t have anything to say about it.
America: Solving Non-Existent Problems, One Ignored Crisis at a Time
Our elected representatives spend little to no time addressing, much less solving, the actual day-to-day problems of the American people. Instead, they address made-up fake problems that don’t exist at all.
Communism Doesn’t Work
It’s a cheap tactic that frequently works for the US: when a nation espouses a rival ideology that capitalists don’t like, they sabotage, isolate, and attack it so it never stands a chance. Then, when it fails, they blame the system rather than what the US did. We’re seeing that playbook at work in Cuba right now.
Now We Really Do Have To Kill Them All
Leave it to the US government to wallow in pretzel logic. Just as the Bush Administration refused to release detainees it knew were innocent because it had abused them so badly in custody that they might now be radicalized against us, the Trump Administration is worried that Iran might have to be finished off entirely because we’ve gone and royally pissed them off beyond repair.
Cheering for Darth Vader
As America continues its unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, American citizens find themselves feeling the uncomfortable emotions of the “Good German.” What do you do when your country is clearly in the wrong and goes to war?
If-Based Foreign Policy
American foreign policy wallows in paranoia. If Saddam lied and kept WMDs, and if he gave them to terrorists, and if those terrorists could somehow bring those WMDs to the US, then Iraq would be a threat. Twenty-three years later, it’s the same bizarre logic when it comes to Iran. Meanwhile, countries that really do hate us and really do have WMDs don’t use them against us.
To the Troops
American troops deployed to places like Iran are frequently said to be defending “our way of life.” But who is this “our,” and whose way of life are they actually protecting?
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Ted Rall vs. Robby West: Is Climate Change Real? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas
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LIVE 12 noon Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss: • In today’s Bonus Show, Ted and producer Robby debate whether climate change is real. MERCH STORE: https://www.deprogram.live https://x.com/tedrall https://x.com/JamarlThomas LIVE ON RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu APPLE MUSIC: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-jamarl-thomas/id1825379504
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LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss: • In an unusually expansive way, Sebastian Gorka, senior counterterrorism director on the National Security Council, is designating leftist groups in Greece, Germany and Italy as terrorist organizations, to pressure foreign allies to investigate them and to search for connections with leftists here so they can surveil, investigate and imprison American opponents of Trump. • Melania Trump denies connections to Jeffrey Epstein and that Epstein introduced her to Donald. Why? • Trump warns Iran ahead of planned negotiations this weekend, to comply abide by terms he says were agreed on for a ceasefire, or he’ll order large-scale attacks on the country. 6 ships—no oil tankers—passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. JD Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will attend peace talks in Islamabad. After a surge of suspicious trading…
Read MoreDire Strait | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas
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LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss: • Iran says Hezbollah and Lebanon were part of the ceasefire deal. Pakistan, the mediator, confirms Iran’s understanding, as do France and the UK. Israel keeps bombing anyway. Now Iran says the Strait of Hormuz, open for ten minutes, is closed indefinitely. Is this a ceasefire, a fragile ceasefire, or all-out war, and will scheduled talks happen in Islamabad on Saturday? • Desperate to end the war he started, Trump drafted an X post in which Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif pretended to ask the US and Iran to negotiate a ceasefire. But Sharif derped—and posted it with “*Draft – Pakistan’s PM Message on X*.” Iran is emboldened and Pakistan’s role as neutral arbiter has been exposed. • Americans oppose the war by a 2-to-1 margin. Trump also suffers from a…
Read MoreQ&A | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas
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LIVE 12:00 noon Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Have a question for Ted and/or new co-host Jamarl Thomas? Join the hosts of “DeProgram” for a full hour of nothing but LIVE Q&A! Any topic, any question, goes—it’s up to you. Q&A extras are every Monday and Wednesday at 12 noon Eastern time. MERCH STORE: https://www.deprogram.live https://x.com/tedrall https://x.com/JamarlThomas LIVE ON RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu APPLE MUSIC: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-jamarl-thomas/id1825379504
Read MoreTwo More Weeks | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas
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LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss: • As we predicted, Trump TACOed again in the final hour, extending last night’s deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and agreeing to a ceasefire for another two weeks to allow the U.S. and Iran to hash out an end to the U.S.-Israeli War Against Iran. Israel, with a history of scuttling ceasefires, says it will continue to invade and bomb Lebanon, and is reported to have attacked an oil refinery on the country’s Lavan Island in the Persian Gulf. • Sticking points include: the US demanding zero uranium enrichment on Iranian soil with full dismantlement of capabilities and stockpiles versus Iran’s insistence on its sovereign right to enrich; Iran seeking immediate full lifting of all US sanctions and asset releases versus the US offering only phased…
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