Political Theatre category archive

In my local rag, Phil Terrana marvels at the multitude uses of the “slippery slope” argument to justify inaction and asks,

Is never doing the right thing our only defense against the wrong thing?

Follow the link to see why he asks that question.

Dan Simpson finds eerie similarities between the behavior of Donald Trump and that of Kim Jong Un.

Read it. It’s spooky.

Grumpy Bear reminds the polity that ain’t nobody going to do it for you. A nugget:

He (Trump–ed.) won’t be stopped by John Oliver or Samantha Bee. He won’t be stopped by being caught in a lie, because everything that comes out of his garbage mouth is a lie. And he sure as shit won’t be stopped by fighting with him on Twitter, as much as I enjoy Elizabeth Warren’s sparring with the orange pumpkin of doom. He won’t be stopped by arguing with that dipshit you haven’t talked to since high school on Facebook. Nope, he is going to be beaten when we all go out and organize organize organize until election day, when we and all the people we’ve organized go vote and turn this racist braggart into the thing he claims he’ll never be: a loser. All this other shit just don’t matter.

Read it.

Dick Polman explains Elizabeth Warren’s Twitter feud with Donald Trump. A snippet:

Anyone with a Twitter account can read her missives here (https://twitter.com/elizabethforma). For instance, from yesterday: “Your policies are dangerous. Your words are reckless. Your record is embarrassing. And your free ride is over.” And this, from yesterday, “You feel so much for people with college debt…that you raked in millions scamming students with Trump University?” And this, from yesterday: “Do you think you’re going to shut us up? Think again. It’s time to answer for your dangerous ideas.”

Warren isn’t just doing this for the sheer pleasure of venting. She’s hitting Trump where he lives, on his favorite platform, because it’s smart politics.

Follow the link to find out why Polman considers this “smart politics.”

Original intent.

What Atrios said.

Plus, also.

Via C&L.

Via Job’s Anger.

Words fail me.

Job’s Anger travels the world rounding up editorial cartoons about Donald Trump.

Bad Tux excoriates the “on the one hand on the other hand” punditocracy’s efforts to paint Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as somehow equivalent or, at least, opposite sides of the same coin of disaffection.

So, a centrist blogger tried to say that Donald Trump is pretty much just the Republican version of Bernie Sanders, an outsider who is running on the fact that the game is rigged.

Uhm, no.

Follow the link to see why Bad Tux said that.

Note that not just “centrist bloggers” have been ploughing that furrow.

Whatever the panelists think of Trump and Republicanism in general, they seem to agree that Paul Ryan is in a less than desirable position.

Via C&L.

Rachel Maddow reflects on what’s new about the Trumpling of the Republican Party.

Via Kos.

Leonid Bershidkey argues that Presidential politics has become a night at the improv.

Driftglass:

Trump is God’s way of saying, “Liberals were right all along.”