Political Theatre category archive
Chris-Crossed 0
Shaun Mullen celebrates meditates on the sinking of a Titanic. A nugget:
Trickle-On Trickery 0
Eugene Robinson considers cycles. A snippet (emphasis added).
It ended up being a shot of poison. Growth rates lagged behind those in neighboring states and the nation as a whole. Deficits mounted to unsustainable levels. Services withered. Brownback had set in motion a vicious cycle, not a virtuous one.
The assumption that underlies Republican fondness for the laughable curve is both simple and malign. It is the belief that there is no such thing as the common good.
The Comeyuppance, Reprise 0
(Warning: Language.)
You Can’t Tell the Players without a Program . . . 0
. . . so The Guardian kindly supplies one.
All the News that Fits 0
El Reg discusses a report from Trend Micro, a reputable anti-virus and security firm, about the “Fake News” industry. Here’s a bit (emphasis added because even the fake may be faked):
A year-long campaign to influence election outcomes is available for just $400,000, the study says. Whether such listings are in themselves an attempt at disinformation is certainly debatable. US intel agencies, Western politicians and security firms are nigh-on unanimous that attempts to influence the US presidential election last year were the work of the Kremlin. For example, UK defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon recently said the Kremlin is “weaponising misinformation” as part of a sustained campaign that goes beyond alleged meddling in the presidential election.
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Also, if you saw a news item on Facebook etc. and nowhere else, be very very skeptical.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Dick Polman reflects on Attorney-General Sessions’s “testimony” before Congress yesterday. A nugget:
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Under Cover of Darkness 0
Josh Marshall points out that
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