Political Theatre category archive
Stupid Headline of the Day 0
In hindsight, Democrats probably should have seen Trump’s 360 on gun control coming
I doubt any Democrat, or anyone else for that matter, was surprised that Donald Trump’s words mean nothing.
More to the point, “360,” really?
Someone needs to spend some quality time with a protractor.
Voiceless of the People 0
Scott Walker moves from gutting out the vote to gutting the vote itself.
Aside:
I do not wholly endorse Pap’s gratuitous remarks about Eric Holder, but I do submit that he has a point about the reluctance to prosecute Wall Street fraudsters.
Responsible Fiscals 0
The Trump administration is indeed draining the swamp, but not of swamp creatures–they are thriving and, indeed, proliferating–but of our money.
Fruit Sordid 0
At The Sacramento Bee, Sasha Abramsky discusses how Donald Trump is putting the banana in the republic.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
She’s standing strong on her right to proliferate poop.
More Trumpling at the link.
Russian Impulses 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, stands aghast at what his headline describes as the Trump you-can-laughingly-call-it administration’s “impotence” against Russian interference in U. S. politics (not that the U. S. has ever interfered in someone else’s politics, but that’s another story). I think “complicity” is a better word than “impotence,” but that’s just em.
A snippet:
Mr. Khrushchev, stand down your missiles.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
Mr. Putin, tear down our democracy and we will stand down while you do it.
Which of these statements by the president of the United States is not like the others?
Which of these statements is unlike any sentiment ever expressed by any president of the United States?
The answer is obvious, just as is the fact that the statement I have attributed to President Donald Trump is obviously false. The reality, however, is disturbingly true.
Stray Thought, Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Dept. 0
I once had a history professor (U. S. Early Federal Period) who was fond of noting what he called “the ironies of history.”
Today we are living one such irony.
The U. S. right wing, which has for over 40 years trumpeted the creed that “the federal government can’t be trusted” has succeeded in creating a federal government, one in their own image, mind you, that can’t be trusted.
Land of Plenty 0
Warning: Mild language.