Political Theatre category archive
The Rule of Flaw 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch minces no works in sharing his theory as to why Donald Trump’s dupes, symps, and fellow travelers are rallying so fiercely to Trump’s defense. A snippet; follow the link for his reasoning.
The indictment of Donald Trump is the most powerful symbol imaginable that for some people — but especially the white conservative dudes who love him the most — their obscene notion of freedom might no longer apply.
The Prophesy 0
Isaac Bailey reminds us that Donald Trump once said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” He parses that statement and concludes that Trump was right. A bit from his article:
It means Trump believes the people who support him are unethical in the extreme.
It means Trump believes most Republicans are immoral or amoral at best, people who only care about the power they can attain or retain. There’s just no getting around that conclusion. Every time he gets indicted, it becomes truer.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Twits Own Twitter . . . 0
. . . but, at the Las Vegas Sun, Gustavo Arellano offers a ray of hope for twits who are still on Twitter. He prescribed a “Twitter fast” for himself:
The break made me realize how inconsequential Twitter ultimately is.
Read his full confessional at the link.
Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke, Reprise 0
Fox News blows smoke about smoke and spreads propaganda for polluters.
Chris Quixote 0
Aside:
It says something about today’s Republican Party that it makes Chris Christie look, as my old doctor would say about test results, “within normal limits.”
The Lake Effect 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts suggests that Kari Lake quite by accident picked the right theme song.
Believe It When They Tell You Who They Are 0
I was stopped at a light yesterday next to car with a bumper sticker that read
DEPLORABLE.
I shall take him at his word.
Sound Familiar? 0
Thom offers a definition of fascism from the U. S. Department of War during World War II. A snippet;
Fascism is government of the few, for the few.
Overloaded 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, the Hospital, Health, and Addiction Workers Group argues that, thanks to cell phones, tablets, 24-hour “news” channels, and the like, we are overloaded with news. Indeed, I would add that much of what passes for broadcast “news” coverage is not information about things that have happened–that’s news–it’s opinion and even mis- and disinformation (think Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems) masquerading as opinion.
They point out that
It’s one thing to be informed, quite another to be constantly alarmed.
Follow the link for some suggestions for reaching a healthy balance between being informed and being panicked.
Aside:
I avoid television news completely (except when there’s a snowstorm).
I read the local rag and visit various news web sites–mostly legitimate newspapers–and don’t subscribe to news alerts on my “devices” (I do subscribe to various RSS feeds, but they lie there quietly until I choose to look at them). I also spend large portions of the day away from news; heck, I don’t even like to listen to the one-minute hourly NPR headline summary on my local classical music station.
Being informed without being overloaded is depressing enough these days, thank you very much.
Fiefdom of Religion, Reprise 0
Sam and his crew talk with Will Sommer, politics reporter for The Daily Beast, about who buys into QAnon and why.
Fiefdom of Religion 0
Michael in Norfolk has an interesting theory as to why Republicans have started to attack public schools and public school teachers.
