Some people might still be afraid of sharks because of a certain movie that came out 50 years ago, but these days, the real reason not to go into the water is Donald J. Trump. The president is blowing up random ships and boats—including fishermen—all over the southern Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean for no discernible reason whatsoever other than to possibly put pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go in the Water
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is 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 "2024: Revisited."
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Worrying stuff – I hope my vacation home on the lake is still ok. You know, because it’s all so random and unknowable whether it’s safe
Your current piece did not find its way into Go Comics, bin’ a bit of a thing lately.
In the novel “Jaws,” the shark is seen very clearly (Peter Benchley wasn’t a particularly subtle writer) as a metaphor for criminal corruption infecting the town of Amity.
You’re gonna need a bigger political party.
What’s going on with Trump has been seen it in any number of B films from the 1950s. It’s in “Frankenstein.” It happens in the “Doctor Who” story “Genesis of the Daleks” when the titular monsters turn on their creator. L Ron Hubbard did it with Scientology. A certain paperhanger (and his failed chicken farmer associate) did it about a century ago.
Trump (and if it hadn’t been him, it would have been someone else) took all the simmering rage and resentment — the whole big box of oily rags that is the left-behinds of end-stage capitalism that the democrat leaders (sic) ignored for four decades (at their masters’ command) — and simply moved it into a sunny part of the garage. The democrats, fully aware of this, are doing pretty much the same as before: debating the dream ticket of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris for 2028, pretending that they didn’t know Obamacare rates would soar, ignoring the real economic picture. As long as Pelosi, who totally isn’t an insider trader, can keep stocking her fridge with ice cream, all’s right with the world.