Political Theatre category archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
This time it is Kim Brening Solomon, an American expat living in Vienna, Austria, who hears a rhyme. A snippet:
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*Mark Twain.
Taken Aback 0
Sam and the crew suggest that right-wing media is short-circuiting at the prospect of Kamala Harris’s being the Democratic nominee for president.
She’s got my vote, but, as someone said at Juanita Jean’s, I’d vote for a refrigerator before I’d vote for Trump.
This New Gilded Age 0
David remarks on Kamala Harris’s attack on the “Heritage” Foundation’s Project 2025. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Laugh Fest 0
David looks at right-wingers’ reaction to the possibility that Kamala Harris might be the Democratic nominee for president and finds them laughable.
Me, I echo Half Empty. I’d vote for a refrigerator before I’d vote for Trump.
Coup de Nah 0
A Harvard professor points out that one thing is not like the other thing.
The Lake Effect 0
David decodes de code.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Using the shooting at Donald Trump as a starting point, the Seattle Times’s Melissa Davis looks at the speed with which dis- and misinformation spreads over “social” media. A snippet:
And the rumors don’t slow down.
I commend the entire article to your attention. And, remember, “social” media isn’t.
Craven Images 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini wonders just what kind of God these Republicans worship anyway?
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments on the Youtube page:
Mangy Fetlocks is a proud Wisconsinite, and although he wasn’t REALLY asked to write the official Republican National Convention Song, he learned from Trump that it’s not what you do, but what you SAY you do that matters in our post-truth MAGA America, and Mangy SAYS he wrote the National Convention Song and Mangy has been an official in a children’s soccer game once, so his claim is just as honest as Trump’s pussy-grabbing statements or his “I never took any documents” claims.