Political Theatre category archive
Wall-Eyed Piker, One More Time 0
Dick Polman is not sanguine. A snippet (emphasis added):
Thank you, Teddy. Because today we have a massive failure, by inefficiency or otherwise. Today we have a perilous government shutdown that crystallizes everything about Donald Trump that everyone with an ounce of cognitive intellect warned about three years ago. I feel compelled, as a patriot, to point out that what we are now witnessing is an unprecedentedly toxic mix of narcissism and ignorance. Goaded by right-wing media cranks to conflate the phony wall issue into a national crisis, he is stripping 800,000 people of their paychecks and threatening much broader economic damage.
Mitt the Flip This Company Speaks Out 0
Ben Boychuk, normally a reliable rationalizer of Republicanism, wonders whether Mitt Romney’s criticism of Donald Trump should put us in mind of a passage from the Gospel of Matthew. An excerpt:
All the News that Fits 0
Using the Wall Street Journal’s recent scathing editorial as a springboard, Will Bunch considers the Donald’s Trumpeting of Russian propaganda regarding Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. After expressing surprise that Donald Trump was paying attention to international relations at the time, Bunch goes on to add context:
That would be Vladimir Putin and his allies in the Russian government.
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More than They Could Chew 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Gordon L. Weil suggests that
He goes on to argue convincingly that both of them are quite wrong. Follow the link to read how he makes his case.
The Lies of the Land 0
Will Bunch wonders why one thing is not like the other thing.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Above the Law reports on taking legal depositions during the Trumpling.
Afterthought:
Perhaps the most poisonous fruit of the Trumpled tree is that Donald Trump through his behavior has given bigots and haters permission to go public.
Plus ca Change 0
Over at Gin and Tacos, Ed is not sanguine. A snippet:
Authoritarians don’t have any strategy for digging themselves out of a hole except to do everything they’re doing, but harder. Changing course is not a thing they’re emotionally capable of doing.
Mitt the Flip Clutches His Pearls 0
PoliticalProf sums it up.
Hope Springs Eternal 0
Shaun Mullen is still an optimist.
The Year in Rebuke, Reprise 0
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