Political Theatre category archive
“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.
All the News that Fits 0
SFgate’s Drew Magary argues that much of the coverage of the current redistricting efforts designed to gut out the vote of the midterm elections is missing the point. Methinks he makes a valid point.
Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
(snip)
So not only are you and I being subjected to a coordinated plan by the GOP to nullify this fall’s election results before Americans have even gotten a chance to vote, but also to an accompanying disinformation campaign from the establishment media to posit this as just another political tussle. It is not. It is villainy, villainy of the crassest sort.
The entire article is well-worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.
Suffer the Children, Reprise 0
Sam and the crew talk with Nicholas Enrich, former civil servant who worked at USAID under four administrations, about the damage done to USAID by the Trump maladministration.
The Man without a Plan 0
Stephen R. Nagy looks at Donald Trump’s (mis)conduct of foreign policy and concludes that it tends to be–er–rather impulsive. A snippet:
But the evidence increasingly cuts the other way.
Follow the link for his analysis of said evidence.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Robert Elliott offers a bill of particulars.
“Fog of Lies” 0
Thom discusses how billionaires are spending to skew dis coarse discourse.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
David talks about how the algorithm squelched one of his videos and the implications thereof for dis coarse discourse.
Aside:
If you click to “watch on Youtube,” you will find a link the video that David argues was squelched.
Vaccine Nation 0
The Republican thought police are now coming for scientific research about vaccines.
We are a society of stupid.