Political Theatre category archive
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
What do you have when you lose the rule of law, due process, and justice, and almost half the population thinks that’s okay? They also think having an oligarchic authoritarian in charge is a good thing). You have USA – 2025
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Emily Wax-Thibodeaux tells of several persons who fled to the United States to escape tyranny and oppression. Unfortunatel, they are now hearing in the U. S. rhymes of the lands they left behind. Here’s a tiny bit:
“Khomeini felt that Iranian universities had turned into a breeding ground for Western and communist influences,” he said. The higher education ministry was told to end suspect activity on college campuses, which soon after were shut down. Textbooks were rewritten “to remove all mentions of what was considered un-Islamic.”
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*Mark Twain.
The Choice 0
PoliticalProf lays it out.
A Notion of Immigrants, Reprise 0
Mary Trump lists the lies told by the lying liars in the Trump maladministration to justify his persecution of immigrants.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, John Hill writes that he is somewhat less than enamored by efforts in the Florida legislature to gut restrictions on the use of child labor.
A Tune for the Times 0
Stephen offers a paean to billionaires.
DOGE Bull 0
As one who has lived through hurricanes (after Donna, we were without power for eight days and my father had to sink a well so that we had water), I do not think that gutting the NOAA is a good idea.
Afterthought:
I do not think it is beyond the realm of plausibility to suggest that one of our major political parties no longer believes in promoting the general welfare.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
The Golden Trumpled Door, Reprise
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At The Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinsky calls out Donald Trump and the Republican thought police. Here’s how his article starts (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
In fact, Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted on social media that its goal was to stop illegal ideas from coming into the country (this post was later taken down). But under the First Amendment, there is no such thing as an illegal idea.
All the News that Fits 0
Dan Perry argues that confusion is the game plan. A snippet; follow the link for his reasoning.
This is why Trump won’t shut up about “the fake news” and declares the media the “enemy of the people,” a phrase borrowed from Stalinist Russia. That’s why his stooges actually speak of “alternative facts.” That’s why characters like Elon Musk will try to present the news media as “elites” pursuing some dark agenda to silence the valiant voices of the ordinary citizen (on social media, of course).
The Golden Trumpled Door
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Via Job’s Anger.
Afterthought:
The American dream, however imperfect it may have been in its reality, is being throttled before our eyes.
The Enemy Within 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier note that
Follow the link to see why he wrote that.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Short promo at about the one minute mark.