Political Theatre category archive
“The Stew of Aggrievement” 0
Sam and the crew argue that today’s Republican Party is all about the grievances, using a Republican congress person’s obnoxious response to a letter from a fourth grader as a springboard.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
What would you think, for example, when this is the company that they keep?
The Acolytization Process 0
At the Psychology Today website, John Tsilimparis notes that “(a) cult is categorized by a strict, hierarchical system of totalistic authority.” He then goes on to explore how that authority is perpetuated.
Go read his article and consider whether it reminds you in any way of any current political phenomena.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Thom wonders, “What happens when a President stops following the Constitution?”
Case Flaw 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that, in its effort to gut out the vote, the Trump maladministration’s Department of (in)Justice “can’t keep its own cases straight.”
The Job Requirement 0
In a longer article by John Young about the defilement of CBS, this comment particularly caught my eye:
It stands for “finding useful idiots.”
Methinks he has a point. Go read the article and see what you think.
The Comey-uppance, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
David discusses Donald Trump’s vendetta (my word, not his) against James Comey and the implications thereof.
“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.