Political Theatre category archive
“Lethal Incompetence” 0
Experiments fail, even noble ones.
“Nobody Could Have Predicted . . . .” 0
Yet many persons did.
In my local rag, Steven T. Corneliussen rounds up a list of warnings of the possibility of and need to be prepared for a global pandemic reaching back almost three decades.
Fed Up 0
Long-time Alabama Republican John Meredith (who happens to be not white) has had enough. Here’s a bit from his article at AL.com:
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
Well, this should work out well (about as well as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, that is).
Two Misdirection Plays for the Price of One, Going Viral Dept. 0
Trudy Rubin skewers Donald Trump’s attempt to pass all the bucks to China.
Will Bunch lampoons Trump’s attempt to himself into a reality-TV parody of a “wartime president.”
Read ’em both.
The Fix Isn’t In 0
At the Washington Monthly, David Atkins suggests that one reason Donald Trump has so severely bobbled the COVID-19 pandemic is that the coronavirus does not respond to his usual tools in his toolbox.
A virus, unlike porn stars, creditors, or contractors, can’t be bullied, bought, or BSed into submission.
Inventory 0
Connie Schultz tries to wrap her mind around the damage done to the polity in just three years of Donald Trump.
Flailing the Test 0
PoliticalProf does the math.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice rounds up a flock of flummery about Attorney-General Barr’s decision not to prosecute confessed criminal Michael Flynn.
Playing Grown-Up 0
Afterthought:
Try to imagine Donald Trump voicing the words, “With malice toward none, with charity for all . . . .”
Malice is his default setting.
The Unheeded Wake-Up Call? 0
Thom wonders when (and why) Americans will wake up to the danger posed by COVID-19 and Donald Trump’s mishandling of it.
Fact Checking Is Work 0
David parses the persiflage, after pointing out that it takes longer to disprove the lies than it does to repeat the lies.
Experiments fail, even noble ones.
The Four-Step Plan 0
Mike discusses the dark implications of Donald Trump’s “plan” to “reopen” the economy.
Warning: Language
Chris-Crossed 0
Chris Christie joins the ranks of those willing to sacrifice lives* on the altar of the Dow-Jones Average.
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*Lives of others, it goes without saying.