Political Theatre category archive
Stray Question 0
What’s worse, a stupid joke or a stupid joker?
Vaccine Nation 0
Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s decision to cancel research into a vaccine against bird flu.
Today’s Republican Party does not care about–in fact, disdains–the concept of the general welfare.
Sabotaging the Common Good 0
One of the (many) things that the Trump maladministration and its dupes, symps, and fellow travelers do not seem to understand–or care about–is that mindlessly slashing federal programs so as to fund tax cuts for fat cats who already have more money than they know what to do with harms real people.
The Man Who Would Be King 0
Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz is onto something. He notes that
I think he pretty much nails it. I commend his entire post to your attention.
Aside:
And this is what happens when you run the government like a business.
The Next Step 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Stephanie Hayes envisions the next logical career step for Florida governor Ron DeSantis.
Methinks he’s certainly qualified.
Republican Family Values 0
Joni Ernst drops the pretense.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
The editorial board of the Bangor Daily News hears a rhyme. Here’s the rhyme; follow the link for context.
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*Mark Twain.
Bonana Fanna Fo Fonald 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini plays the Donald Trump name game.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Thom parses a number of rhymes.
A quote:
It’s not just that dictators become corrupt. It’s that corrupt people, when they have positions of power, inevitably will or will try to become dictators because that’s how they protect themselves and their corruption.
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*Mark Twain.
Tickled Memory 0
For some fool reason, this article reminds me of someone in the news.
Establishmentarians 0
Sitting in for David Pakman, Brittany Page focuses on a discussion from the Texas legislature to highlight the hypocrisy of today’s establishmentarians.
Afterthought:
The dirty little truth that establishmentarians don’t want anyone to know is that establishmentarianism is not about piety.
It’s about power.
Republican Thought Police 0
Our wannabe dictator has sicced the Republican thought police on NPR and PBS. At Above the Law, Liz Dye points out that
Follw the link for the other stuff she points out.
Student Visa Tours 0
Daniel Ruth, writing at the Tampa Bay Times, takes issue with Donald Trump’s characterization of foreign students at American universities. He tell of his own experiences with foreign students at the University of South Florida. Here are a couple of excerpts from his article:
The contributions of these international students are profound.
Almost all of are engaged in STEM majors — bio med, engineering, physics, chemistry, math, biology. A few are business majors. All of them are a joy to be around. They are intellectually curious. They are very serious people, and they can be funny, too.
(snip)
. . . so many of them want to use their American education to return to their homelands to make things better — the medical students, the engineering students, the computer science students, the nursing students. They want to make their countries better. And Donald Trump wants to throw them out.