Political Theatre category archive
The Process of Elimination (Updated) 0
Sherlock Holmes once said, “When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Via The Kansas City Star, Elizabeth Shackelford attempts to use that statement to make sense of Donald Trump’s foreign you-can-hardly-call-them-without-laughing policies.
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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At AL.com, Mo Brooks argues that, as discordant as it sounds, “Trump” rhymes with “Nixon” in many ways.
Follow the link for his parsing of the poesy.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Thought Police 0
If the truth hurts, well, just tell truth to take a hike.
Trumponomics 0
Farron looks at how Donald Trump’s economic “policies” are destroying American jobs.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but If Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Ralph Fernandez writes of hearing a rhyme from not so long ago and not so far away.
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*Mark Twain.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Capable of scuttling a legitimate research project because, though the intelligence may be artificial, the stupid is real?
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino notes that Donald Trump has now set his sights on British lawyer and International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan for (gasp!) prosecuting. She goes on to note that
Trump’s bold sanction play for lawyers doing their jobs is yet another attack on the rule of law.
The distressing details are at the link.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Scott McIntosh looks at Donald Trump’s suit against CBS News and hears a rhyme from three centuries ago, when a wannabe despot sought to punish a news outlet for printing news he didn’t like.
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*Mark Twain.
The Middle-East Misdirection Play 0
Kenneth Obel and Jennifer Obel are Jewish parents raising two daughters. From that perspective, they write at the Philadelphia Inquirer about the Trump maladministration’s efforts to dictate to universities what they can and cannot teach.
In particular, they submit that right-wing operatives are disguising efforts to restrict freedom of speech and learning under a cloak of fighting antisemitism. Here’s a tiny bit from their article:
This includes rounding up and incarcerating foreign students and misusing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to make drastic cuts in federal funding to universities. These actions do not protect Jews — they endanger the very freedoms and institutions that have made Jewish life in America possible.
Their piece is worth the few minutes it takes to read.
The Rule of Flaw 0
These folks truly don’t know what they are doing.
Honest to Betsy, if it weren’t so vile, disgusting, and dangerous, it might even be funny, sort of like a Three Stooges short is funny.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini comments on Kari Lake’s fawning unwavering support of Donald Trump. A snippet:
Follow the link for the evidence.
Inquiring Minds Want To Know 0
Is it at all possible that, after a career of both-sidesing the heck out of every issue under the sun, David Brooks has come to his senses?