Political Theatre category archive
Numbers Gaming, Reprise 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Matthew Edlund untangles the numbers about COVID-19 testing and fatalities and what they say about the Trump administration’s failure to deal with the pandemic. A nugget (emphasis added):
Lots of people died.
Now when people around the world call the CDC no one calls back.
An Unthinkable Thought 0
I fear that El Jefe may be onto something.
From Sizzle to Fizzle 0
David discusses the how the air came out of Donald Trump’s trumped-up (you will pardon the expression) Obamagate balloon.
American Exceptionalism: Everybody Except America 2
Afterthought:
This is what can happen in a two-party “system” when one of the two major political parties decides that there is no such thing as the common good.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The San Franscisco Chronicle’s John Diaz points out that the bad guys are already inside the building.
“What They Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Us” 0
In line with Sam Seder’s comment that I cited earlier this week,
That’s the Trump strategy in a nutshell: If we don’t have evidence, there’s no way for people to know about it . . . .
now comes Florida Man (much, much more at the link):
Rebekah Jones, whose work to build the user-friendly COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard drew praise and publicity, said her commitment to maximum transparency resulted in her removal from the dashboard project.
Trade-off 0
Susan Estrich is less than optimistic about the effects of Donald Trump’s push to “reopen” the country. Here’s a bit from her article (emphasis added):
International Laughingstock Object of Pity
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The Trumpling of “American exceptionalism.”
We are a society of stupid.
