Conventional economic wisdom harbors a great fear of inflation. But deflation is even worse. It is entirely possible that the economy will seize up again as people decide to stay home and away from stores during the rise of the omicron variant.
DMZ America Podcast #24: Another School Shooting (in Michigan), Roe v. Wade on the Ropes, What’s Wrong with the Left, Time for Joe to Admit the Truth?
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Best friends and political cartoonist Ted Rall and Scott Stantis dissect a busy news week. Yet another school shooting, this one north of Detroit, prompts the question: can we do anything to control guns? Abortion rates are before the US Supreme Court and this time it’s really serious. This segues into an unscheduled digression about what the hell is wrong with the American left or even if one exists. And finally: should Democrats admit the truth — Joe Biden isn’t really running for reelection?
Dumocrats
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President Joe Biden is almost certainly too old and mentally infirm to run for reelection in 2024. Besides that, his approval rating is low. Vice President Kamala Harris is the obvious alternative except for the fact that her approval rating is even worse. Corporate Democrats keep flailing, trying to find one of their own who is acceptable. Meanwhile, they repeatedly blocked the most popular politician in America.
The Right Job for Kamala
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According to White House sources, Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff feel sidelined by the president, and annoyed that he is giving her tasks that aren’t suitable to her skill set, whatever that is. Sending innocent men to death row? Being annoying?
Fascism? You’re Soaking In It.
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Americans say the country is exceptional. Democrats make excuses for Joe Biden acting just like Donald Trump when it comes to human rights and common decency. There is no “besides that.”
DMZ America Podcast Episode #22: Kyle Rittenhouse, anti-SLAPP Saves Trump Again, Russiagate Becomes Hillarygate, and It’s the Leadership, Stupid
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Another busy news week and America’s cartooning sweethearts are here to break it down for you. Conservative cartoonist Scott Stantis and progressive cartoonist Ted Rall are best friends who agree to disagree. Kyle Rittenhouse looks like he’s about to walk on charges of shooting three people at a Black Lives Matter protest in Wisconsin last year. The Steele Dossier has completely collapsed but media organizations won’t admit they published garbage. Donald Trump shakes off yet another of his alleged sexual assault victims using America’s corporate-backed anti-SLAPP statute. Biden passed infrastructure but his numbers are still tanking and we know why.
We Will Keep Fighting for Your Right to Vote for Us
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Democrats oppose Republican schemes to make it harder to vote. No one can argue with that. But what’s the point of voting if it doesn’t lead to meaningful change?
Stop Obstructing, You Know, the Thing
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Politics is all about framing. Part of why the the ambitious Democratic $3.5 trillion spending bill is down to $1.9 trillion and might go even smaller is because nobody, even in the media, knows what’s in it. How can you ask the public to support something nebulous?
Make American Voters Bigger Again
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A disproportionately high percentage of the 700,000 Americans who have succumbed to COVID-19 died because, as Republicans, they refused to get vaccinated or to wear masks. Now Donald Trump is gearing up for a possible reelection campaign. He might really miss those lost voters.
Episode 11 | September 15, 2021: How to Convince the Unvaxxed, AOC and About Cussing
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Cartoonists and best friends Ted Rall and Scott Stantis react to Biden’s vaccine mandate and suggest ways to talk to the resistant. AOC’s controversial dress at the Met Gala prompts the question: is it possible to affect change from within the system? And there might be some cursing.
