Political Theatre category archive
The Rule of Lawless 0
My heavens. What is going on here?
Stray Thought 0
For some reason, last night I happened to remember that John F. Kennedy wrote a book entitled Profiles in Courage.
If he were to come back to write a book about today’s Republican Party, I wonder what title he would choose.
A Phishing Expedition 0
Farron discusses a report that members of the Trump maladministration fell for a phishing scam and the implications thereof.
Why do I not find this at all surprising?
We are governed by toddlers.
Republican Thought Police 0
Now they’re coming for media fact-checkers.
Russian Impulses 0
Thom wonders why Trump hung a picture of Putin in the White House.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
There are obviously lots of angles to this story, and it’s dangerous to wade into things without knowing how they will play out. So we waited to see if anything positive might emerge after the initial assassination of the despicable Khamenei (whose name was in an early draft of a chorus), and what the Trump administration/regime’s purported rationale was … and over subsequent days as we watched the grotesque media performances by Hegseth, the missiles killing children not just tyrants, and the escalation of damage and casualties without any sign of a coherent policy or endgame, we made the song about how it’s dangerous to wade into things without knowing how they’re going to play out.
Just Deserts, Reprise 0
Warning: Mild language.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via The Japan Times, Princeton University professor Harold James hears a rhyme with a British accent. Here’s a bit from his article:
Note that he said “potential” future. Methinks his piece offers some hints as to how to make that potential impotent.
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*Mark Twain.
Who Coulda Knowed? 0
Well, for that matter, anyone who was paying attention.
The Lake Effect, the Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye notes that
But we don’t because Arizona’s perennial loser Kari Lake pulled the plug last year on most of Radio Farda, which previously broadcast news in Farsi into Iran, along with much of Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the multiple outlets that fall under the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
She goes on to discuss a federal judge’s ruling that Lake’s doing so was illegal and unconstitutional. Follow the link to find out why.
(Broken link fixed.)
Collateral Damage 0
Farron discusses how the Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” has harmed health care.