Political Theatre category archive
Republican Thought Police . . . 0
. . . Meet Facebook Frolics.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy sings of the dynamics of the Trump maladministration.
“The Stew of Aggrievement” 0
Sam and the crew argue that today’s Republican Party is all about the grievances, using a Republican congress person’s obnoxious response to a letter from a fourth grader as a springboard.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
What would you think, for example, when this is the company that they keep?
The Acolytization Process 0
At the Psychology Today website, John Tsilimparis notes that “(a) cult is categorized by a strict, hierarchical system of totalistic authority.” He then goes on to explore how that authority is perpetuated.
Go read his article and consider whether it reminds you in any way of any current political phenomena.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Thom wonders, “What happens when a President stops following the Constitution?”
Case Flaw 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that, in its effort to gut out the vote, the Trump maladministration’s Department of (in)Justice “can’t keep its own cases straight.”
The Job Requirement 0
In a longer article by John Young about the defilement of CBS, this comment particularly caught my eye:
It stands for “finding useful idiots.”
Methinks he has a point. Go read the article and see what you think.
The Comey-uppance, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
David discusses Donald Trump’s vendetta (my word, not his) against James Comey and the implications thereof.
“Because I Wanna” 0
Per Above the Law’s Kathryn Rubino, that’s the crux of the Trump maladministration’s legal justification under the terms of the U. S. Constitution for Donald Trump’s executive orders.
(Broken link fixed.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
CNN’s Jake Tapper argues that Stephen Colbert rhymes with Thomas Beckett.
Read the article. The rhyme is not so farfetched as it sounds.
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*Nark Twain.
In Translation 0
John Amato decodes de code:
Follow the link for context.