Barry has a problem. He’s accumulated so much data it’s ruining his country. Can fabulous clutter consultant Edward help him dig out?
Data Hoarders
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Barry is ABOVE all of this. “he’s only the President of the United States” for God’s sake. He’s a reel busy guy, and he can only devote enuf attention to this here stuff to ass-sure us that he feels that what is being dun is necassary to “keep us pertected” and make sure we have enough data to use, if we ever have a need to to look for it.
Step back for a moment, slow down and think about what it might be to be him.
You have tons of crazy people entrentched in power and years of experience telling him what should be done and why. I can’t believe that he didn’t know he would be faced by this, but I didn’t believe he would cave in.
He caved in. For Obama, it is more important for him to have shown that a black president can act calmly and speak well, than to do anything that would be seen as powerful and effective against a sick, infighting, and ineffectual government. A government that is no longer BY the people, but instead, by the MONEY.
Just like Bush Dubya, he will have to assuage his conscience about the things he did right, while he ignores the deaths and misery he continued as he acted as a coward to what he promised.
They see me Dronin’, and they be hatin’
Ted –
“Edward” as in “Snowden”? Hinting that Obama will have him “taken out”? (It wouldn’t surprise me.)
Yup
Genius analogy. Perfect execution. I don’t know how you keep topping yourself lately. Might be my favorite cartoon of all time. I never thought of it this way, but Obama and company’s excuses sound just like a typical hoarder absolutely.
If Snowden’s still alive in a year to attempt to renew that asylum certification, I will be astonished. I doubt Snowden will die in anything as crude as an explosion. Look more for a James Bondish method of murder.
And, because Snowden humiliated not just the gummint but a large corporation, I suspect his death will be humiliating as well. Possibly he will be found in women’s clothing, or naked in a kennel. Something like that. A warning to all the others out there who would follow him.
The Russians, of course, will have had ample time to copy the hard drives on all those laptops. This will allow the various government agencies over here to ask (and get) more budget for spying in Russia. Heck, the Middle East won’t last forever.
@ alex_the_tired –
I’m not looking for anything so dramatic as the murder of Georgi Markov; it will be disguised as a suicide.
Loved that last frame, Ted – but it did seem a bit hard on the clutter consultant. Wouldn’t a single car accident in which the lone driver hits a tree and the car bursts into flames, as recently occurred in Los Angeles, suffice ? Drones are so over-the-top….
Henri