Political Theatre category archive
A Coping Mechanism 0
Judith Orloff has some suggestions which methinks might be helpful for dealing with Trump and the Trumpettes.
A Trumpled Nation 0
Carlos Lozada takes a look at the damage the Trump maladministration is doing to America’s global standing and is less than sanguine. A snippet:
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The America Worst Award 0
Seth lampoons Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson for creating a made-up award for being Donald Trump.
Just Desserts, All the News that Fits Dept. 0
David discusses the drastic fall in ratings for CBS News since Bari Weiss turned it into Fox News Lite and finds some cause for optimism a straw at which to grasp.
Afterthought:
Walter Cronkite would be in tears were he here to see this.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that Bill Barr finds that he has to wait in TSA lines just like everyone else. She goes on to say
The Art of the Dealbreak 0
David explains why it’s Trump, not Democrats, who bears the responsibility for TSA’s not being funded because of his inability (refusal? ego-driven hostility? maniacal narcissistic aversion to?) to compromise.
Republican Thought Police 0
Apparently, they want to turn (what’s left of) the Voice of America into the Voice of Trump.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In the Las Vegas Sun, Richard Leman, argues that, despite their sounding so differnt, in many ways, Trump rhymes with Nixon, with one glaring exception.
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*Mark Twain.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy mourns the passing of Robert Mueller.
The Privatization Scam Goes Postal 0
Farron discusses how the Republican Party is working, and has been working for a long time, to destroy the U. S. Postal Service, which was established according to the Constitution of the United States.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing which no longer embraces the concept of the common good.
Stray Question 0
Is it not ironic that the very persons who have long claimed that the federal government can’t be trusted have given us a federal government that can’t be trusted?
But, as Professor Shade was fond of saying, “History is irony.”