Political Theatre category archive
Gutting Out the Vote 0
The Trump maladministration contines to try to make something out of nothing–or, at least, little more than nothing.
Emoluments 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Lynn Schmidt follows the money from the U. S. Treasury into the Trump family’s pockets.
Fight Night, Emoluments Dept. 0
Mary Trump follows the money.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
“Yankee Doodle” was a traditional song (Roud 4501) that predated the American Revolution and was adapted by both British and Americans to mock one another in the eighteenth century. So we felt it was a fitting tune to repurpose on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States, and the No Kings musical protests occurring this weekend which happens to be the 80th birthday of Donald Trump.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Nell Auc0in Naquin hears a rhyme goosestepping through the decades from Germany to here.
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*Mark Twain.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Short commercial at about the One-minute mark.
“He Can’t Handle the Truth” 0
Farron comments on Trump’s freakout when a woman had the unmitigated insufferable gall to call out his lies. (Warning: Mild language.)
Afterthought:
Frankly (I do everything Frankly), I don’t think Trump would know a truth if it bit him on the–er–armpit.
American Stasi . . . 0
. . . Meet your newest propagandist.
Were he still with us, Walter Cronkite would hang his head in shame to see his former employer turn into Fox News Lite.
The Belles of the Ballroom 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay follows the money.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
“Lyin’ Eyes” was written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, released by California’s rock legends The Eagles in 1975. It was apparently inspired by their visions of many beautiful younger women with older husbands in Los Angeles, who they imagined leading double lives and lying and cheating. So it’s a story about moral reprobates, hypocrisy, double standards, and virtual self-prostitution, which made it perfect to adapt to address J.D. Vance’s latest foray into European politics.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom argues that the New Secesh are coming out in the open. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle.
Richard Nixon welcomed segregationists into the Republican Party.
Now they have taken it over.