Political Theatre category archive
The Candidates Debate 0
Jim Wright is having trouble absorbing what he heard. A snippet:
Carpet bombing? Waterboarding? And the crowd cheered.
The crowd cheered.
What in the holy hell is it with these goddamned people?
When did the unabashed willingness to engage in the indiscriminate obliteration of entire populations, when did the enthusiastic willingness to torture our enemies, when did those things become traits anybody liberal or conservative would want in an American president?
Follow the link. Read the rest.
The Racing Form 0
Above the Law’s Joe Patrick touts the odds on potential nominees to the Supreme Court.
In related news, Yastreblyansky catches a Republican in yet another lie, this one more blatant than most.
Aside:
Have I mentioned in these electrons the utter loathing I have for the disprespectful cutesy-poo pseudo-insider-esque expressions “SCOTUS” and “POTUS,” those vile affectations of lazy minds?
Anatomy of an Election 0
BadTux has a theory.
They Do Id with Mirrors* 0
In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland ponders the appeal of Donald Trump and concludes that Trump is not so much a leader as he is a mirror.
Trump has been the dirty mirror of the American mind for decades; his whole enterprise on NBC built up to the act of telling people more famous, wealthy and attractive than the viewer that they’re fired, and if he looked like a goblin while doing it, so much the better.
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*With apologies to Agatha Christie.
The Virus Is Spreading 2
This can’t be good.
Announcing his decision to stand, the 83-year-old construction entrepreneur said he plans to put his name forward as Austrian president, and that he thinks his former Playboy bunny wife would be a perfect First Lady.
He said he was inspired by the fact that fellow building magnate and outsider Donald Trump had managed to notch a big victory in the US. “I am going to make sure we copy the same voting strategy as Trump,” Lugner said.
‘No Place To Hide 0
Just lie back on the couch. Let your thoughts roam free. Let your digital Candy Crusher tell the good doctor all about yourself . . . .
That information and more is then fed into a vast database containing details about nearly every adult in the United States to build psychological profiles that target individual voters with uncanny accuracy.
Cruz’s sophisticated analytics operation was heralded as key to his victory in Iowa earlier this month — the first proof, his campaign said, that the system has the potential to power him to the nomination.
You have been assimilated.
Afterthought:
Your smartphone is not your friend. It is your enemy, a tool of its corporate masters. Use it with caution.
Before you install an app, look at the permissions it requests. If they appear hinky in any way, don’t install that app.
And what the hell is the deal with Candy Crush anyway? Chess Checkers it’s not.
No Place To Hide 0
Can you really trust your thermostat?
“The Art of the Deal: The Movie” 0
Warning: Long (You can bookmark the source); also, language.
Chris-Crossed 0
It is certainly not true that bullies never prosper–they prosper every day in many ways–but it is true that occasionally a bully gets his comeuppance.
Chris Christie is going home to further mismanage New Jersey. And he did do the country a favor along the way.
And, in other news of Munchkins, Fiorina is finished. She almost ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground, but fortunately she won’t get a chance to do the same to the country. (Never mind what I wrote originally. She deserved it, but it, like she, was beneath the mediocre tone I attempt to set in these electrons.)
Plus Ca Change 2
Shorter Dick Polman: It’s deja vu all over again.