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The Unwelcome Mat 0

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August 7, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

The Bully’s Pulpit 0

Frame One: Image of LeBron James captioned,

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August 7, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Title: Life in the Stupidverse: An Ongoing Series with No End in Sight. Frame One, captioned

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August 7, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

“Peak Narcissist” 0

The Rude One lets fly at Donald Trump’s Nuremberg rallies:

Trump is peak narcissist, a man so self-involved and insecure that he must constantly be told how wonderful and beneficent he is and how blessed is a nation that has him as a leader.

Follow the link for the totality of the tirade (warning: language):

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August 7, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Russian Impulses 0

Jay Bookman.

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August 6, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Just Funnin’ 0

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August 6, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Small Hands, Big Feet 0

Dana Milbank reflects on Virgina Republican Denver Riggleman’s–er–obsession? dalliance? preoccupation?–with Bigfoot and offers a modest proposal. A snippet:

So it is my informed opinion that Republicans should take a page from Teddy Roosevelt, who in 1912 bolted the Republican Party to create the Bull Moose Party. Now that Trump has led his partisans to abandon most of what the Republican Party stood for two years ago, and has led them into a mythical land of alternative facts, they ought to rename the entity they’ve created: the Bigfoot Party.

For a party slogan, I suggest a twist on Robert F. Kennedy’s famous paraphrasing of George Bernard Shaw: There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that are not, and say, yes they are!

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August 5, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Endless Loopy 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Edward A. Wasserman considers how positive and negative reinforcement affect Donald Trump’s tweeting behavior. In the course of the article, he muses why negative reactions to Trump’s more outlandish tweets has not resulted in their having been moderated. Then he posits an answer:

Wait, you exclaim! Shouldn’t all that negative coverage punish Trump’s making such flagrantly false statements? Yes, it should—if Trump found those negative appraisals to be aversive. However, to someone who finds the limelight intoxicating, any coverage—positive or negative—can be positively reinforcing. That means that assiduously checking every one of his claims and excoriating Trump for these falsehoods—both large and small—are actually counterproductive! If that’s so, then we’re stuck in a feedback loop that’s only making the matter worse, not better.

I commend the complete article to your attention.

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August 5, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

A Picture Is Worth 0

Blue baseball cap bearing the motto,

Via PoliticalProf.

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August 5, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

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August 4, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Making a List and Checking It Twice 0

Donald Trump compiling his

Via Job’s Anger.

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August 4, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

This Week in the Trumpling 0

Shorter Shaun Mullen: The truth hurts.

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August 4, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Facebook Frolics 0

Proud Boys.

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August 3, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

The Mouthpiece 0

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Via Juanita Jean.

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August 3, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

The Unreality Show, Have Cake, Eat It Too Dept. 0

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August 3, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

An Infinite Capacity for Rationalization 0

Title: Collusion Confusion. Frame One, titled

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August 2, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Effervescence 0

Leonard Pitts, Jr., marvels at the incredible lightness of bleating. A nugget:

Once upon a time, a president’s words carried weight. But Trump is a president whose words are weightless, who can say something in May, blithely undercut it in July and nobody, not his adorers and not thinking people either, even gives it a second thought — the former because he is the Dear Leader whose wisdom is not to be questioned, the latter because, well, what’s the use? This is just The Way Things Are now.

Words from the leader of the mightiest nation on Earth no longer anchor ideals, promises and righteous causes — much less, truth. No, they float off like helium-filled balloons. Up, up and away.

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August 2, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Putting the “Con” in “Constitutional” 0

Image: Six frames of Donald Trump speaking. Frame One:

Via Job’s Anger.

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August 2, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Two Different Worlds 0

Goofball and Galahad: Frame One: Goofball wants to aboolish ICE (Goofball says,

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August 1, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Economy, Political Theatre |

A. Because That Species Is Extinct 0

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