Trump keeps declaring one emergency after another. Aside from the fact that the American public is suffering from emergency exhaustion, you have to wonder how other countries, especially adversaries of the U.S., view our current predilection for catastrophizing everything.
We’re the Enigma Now
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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We’ve had a love affair with emergencies since at least back when the Robot on the original “Lost in Space” would wave his orange claws and bellow “Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!” Press conferences interrupt television broadcasts to tell us about weather events that are coming (and which frequently don’t live up to the billing being frantically communicated by the city official reading badly from a script while two dozen high-rank city employees in full uniform stand there like mannequins as an ASL interpreter waves their claws and signs “Warning! Warning!”)
I’m watching “The Price Is Right.” Who thinks I care about the weather enough for the show to be interrupted? Just run a chyron across the bottom of the screen.
“yet US voters are freaked out” seems like a non sequitur to me–or at least the “yet” seems out of place. Please help an old man understand! 🙂 Other than that, yeah….and other countries are responding by getting their money the hell out of the US. I just read that China is no longer buying US soybeans, which is catastrophic for the country’s industrial farmers. Sheesh, they might have to start growing food for people in America to eat!