Political Theatre category archive

As my old professor of the early federal period, Professor Shade, was fond of saying, “History is irony.”

Robert Reich offers a theory as to what would disqualify someone from being a member of Donald Trump’s cabinet. A snippet; follow the link for his reasoning.

You can be Secretary of Defense (War) and cause the mightiest military in the world to be brought to its knees, and still keep your job in the Trump regime.

You can be in charge of public health and cause measles to reemerge as a major hazard to Americans, and still keep your job.

You can be illegally enriching yourself and your family as Commerce Secretary, and still keep your job.

But you’ll be fired for actively and unnecessarily getting bad press.

David points out that isolation is not the same as independence.

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*That is, of course, a concept foreign to Donald Trump as, throughout his life, his actions have never had consequences that he was unable to wiggle out of.

From the Youtube page:

You know I’ve been around a long time, but I have never lived through what we are living through now. The great Woody Guthrie wrote this song many years ago. I changed some of the words to fit our times, and I hope you’ll sing it when you are marching. Because sometimes people, sometimes you just gotta SING OUT!

Writing at The Japan Times, Sonia Dunlop and Takeaki Masukawa argue that, if there’s one thing Donald Trump’s war of choice with Iran and the resulting disruption to the international oil trade should teach us, it’s this:

The only short- and long-term answer is to rapidly deploy renewable energy like solar and battery storage, at scale and at speed — building reliable energy systems rooted in domestic generation instead of rollercoaster commodity markets.

Go read their article.

Aside:

I find this somewhat ironic, given Donald Trump’s well-documwented hatred of windmills and solar panels.