Political Theatre category archive
Trumpling the Elites 0
Via Juanita Jean.
Foiled! Curses Again! 2
Garrison Keillor wonders why the Trump supporters are still cursing him.
What the letter-writers don’t grasp is that cursing is highly effective in person – someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he’s wearing flip-flops, and flames pour from his mouth, it’s impressive. But you see it in print and it’s just ugly. It makes you pity the writer’s wife.
Do please read the rest. As he did in his monologues on his radio show, he eventually wanders to a damned good point.
The Great Disillusionment 0
Some Trump voters seem surprised to find out that he is exactly who he has been for his whole public life.
Who woulda thunk?
Via Raw Story.
As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap 0
The Great Disillusionment begins (follow the link for more).
When Donald Trump named his Treasury secretary, Teena Colebrook felt her heart sink.
She had voted for the president-elect on the belief that he would knock the moneyed elites from their perch in Washington, D.C. And she knew Trump’s pick for Treasury_Steven Mnuchin_all too well.
OneWest, a bank formerly owned by a group of investors headed by Mnuchin, had foreclosed on her Los Angeles-area home in the aftermath of the Great Recession, stripping her of the two units she rented as a primary source of income.
“I just wish that I had not voted,” said Colebrook, 59. “I have no faith in our government anymore at all. They all promise you the world at the end of a stick and take it away once they get in.”
As Steven M. (q. v.), from whom I got the above link, posits, there will be many more sharing her disappointment as the Trump fairy dust clears and the Trump reality comes into view.
The Return of Mitt the Flip, the Flippiest Flip of All 0
Frankly, nothing illustrates the hollowness at the heart of Republicanism, nor the dominance politics of Donald Trump, more than this.
Warning: Language
Awakening 0
Swamp Things 0
Kevin Drum has been keeping track of the Trump’s swamp draining. It ain’t pretty.
Click to see the original image.
Changing the Subject 0
Thom discusses how our compliant corporate media run after shiny things and miss the stories that matter.
Dominance and Submission 0
Josh Marshall continues to explore Donald Trump’s desire for total victory, seeing hints of it in the current kerfuffle over Mitt the Flip as a possibility for Secretary of State (emphasis in the original). A nugget:
Twits on Twitter, Sore Winners Dept. 0
Dick Polman remarks on our thin-skinned Petulant-elect:
(snip)
But alas, we’re talking here about Trump. Which is why, at 3:30 yesterday, he typed this:
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
Wow. Trump has inspired me to rethink my life. I now believe I would’ve won the Kentucky Derby if I deduct all the horses that ran ahead of me.
More at the link.
“A Calvacade of Kleptocracy” 0
In related news, Nick Mills is also concerned about the integrity of the press.
(snip)
A free press is the target of dictators, despots and demagogues all over the world. It is possible to be a journalist in a country without a free press, but it’s a dangerous profession. It is not possible for a country without a free press to be a democracy.