Political Theatre category archive
A Pillow of the Community 0
Mike Lindell discovers that actions (sometimes) have consequences.
Afterthought:
Methinks F. T. Rea’s musing on “the believers,” though he does not mention Lindell, may cast some light on how Lindell got to this point. A snippet:
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Writing at the Arizona Republic, E. J. Montini takes issue with a fake elector who is trying to claim that he did nothing wrong. A snippet (emphasis added):
Actually, I think the republic was founded on the democratic principle that voters — not fake electors — decided elections
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Follow the link for more of Montini’s musings on the matter.
Dis Coarse Discourse, Both Sides Don’t Dept. 0
In a longer post about NBC’s fatuous decision to hire Trump apparatchik Ronna MacDaniel, Dick Polman points out a major fallacy in how media covers political news (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the full article.
“Who Let the Dogs Out? Who? Who?” 0
When you point a finger at someone else, always remember three fingers are pointing back at you.
Immunity Impunity
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Jimmy Kimmel comments on Donald Trump’s attempt to exempt himself from the rule of law.
Via C&L, which has commentary.
Vaccine Nation 0
Sam talks with Dr. Peter J. Hotez, Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, about his recent book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist’s Warning, and about how being against vaccines became part of right-wing
“Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied” 0
That’s not just a legal maxim.
It’s Donald Trump’s go-to legal strategy.
And, in more legal news of the Trump . . . .
Malice in Blunderland 0
Martin Schramm argues, that, like Alice, we have fallen through a mirror into an alternate universe where everything is upside down and backwards. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
Look at what has gone so wrong and seems so backward in the Republican Party founded by Abe and forged by Ike (who saved Europe from being conquered by Hitler) and Ron (who gloriously praised the Greatest Generation that made the world safe for democracy).
But we’ve just seen and heard the new standard bearer-apparent of the Republican Party – Donald Trump – lavishing praise on Europe’s only democracy-snuffing, free-speech-stifling, dictatorial autocrat: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. And we’ve heard all about his love of all sorts of dictators – and even praise of Adolf Hitler.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Mild language.)
