Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Xander77 posted:

Goodbye you lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely year and thread.

Sandpuppy posted:

Happy New Year 2017: Oh, you thought 2016 was bad?
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KEEP TED RALL DRAWING AMERICA'S SMARTEST
(and possibly meanest) POLITICAL CARTOONS!

Tired of boring mainstream political cartoons and commentary? Me too! That's why I began doing this stuff in the first place. Your patronage helps me to keep taking risks: questioning the system, poking fun at Democrats as well as Republicans without worrying about some editor firing me as a favor to his golfing buddy. You probably don't buy a print daily newspaper anymore — so please use the extra money to support the cool work they never had the guts to run!

I'm Ted Rall. I am arguably America's most controversial political cartoonist. I have no interest in offending people – but I'm here to tell the truth and make people think, and sometimes the price you pay for that is making people upset. In addition to the three cartoons I draw every week for syndication, I also draw cartoons on a freelance basis for outlets as diverse as Forbes.com and SputnikNews.com.

JaggerMcDagger posted:

Potato Salad posted:

Teriyaki Koinku posted:

God help us all.

白隠慧鶴 posted:

Oh young folk —
if you fear death,
die now!
Having died once
you won't die again.

Shugojin posted:

Rorus please make sure this is rall's bio in the op

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Why It Matters

If you believe in democracy, and in a better future, as I do, you know it's important to get behind the social and political critics who are helping to pave the way to that future. People like me have trouble gaining access to mainstream media. Don't get me wrong – I've had a lot of luck, appearing in places like the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Village Voice, Rolling Stone magazine, The Nation, Esquire, you name it. 20 or 30 years ago, the kind of career that I've had – the kind of career that I'm having – would have generated an income that would have been very comfortable to live on, even thrive. But outlets have shrunk, especially paid outlets. Pay rates have plummeted. Budget cuts have led to newspapers canceling their syndicated comic strips. Because they're so scared, it's harder to find editors willing to publish anything that questions the basic underpinnings of the American system: the two-party duopoly, free-market capitalism, endless warfare.

Some outlets have even been corrupted. Last summer, for example, the LA Times fired and smeared me as a favor to the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. The reason seems obvious: the LAPD pension fund was the number one shareholder of the parent company of the LA Times. I'm suing them.

JaggerMcDagger posted:

2017: the year of loving dangerously.