Political Theatre category archive
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Using the shooting at Donald Trump as a starting point, the Seattle Times’s Melissa Davis looks at the speed with which dis- and misinformation spreads over “social” media. A snippet:
And the rumors don’t slow down.
I commend the entire article to your attention. And, remember, “social” media isn’t.
Craven Images 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini wonders just what kind of God these Republicans worship anyway?
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments on the Youtube page:
Mangy Fetlocks is a proud Wisconsinite, and although he wasn’t REALLY asked to write the official Republican National Convention Song, he learned from Trump that it’s not what you do, but what you SAY you do that matters in our post-truth MAGA America, and Mangy SAYS he wrote the National Convention Song and Mangy has been an official in a children’s soccer game once, so his claim is just as honest as Trump’s pussy-grabbing statements or his “I never took any documents” claims.
Stray Thought 0
“Yes, but will it hold up in court?” is no longer a valid rhetorical question.
We have seen that, with the application of enough juice for a long enough time to the correct vulnerable points, anything, regardless of legality or morality, will hold up in court.
The Party’s Over . . . 0
Thom argues that the Republican Party of Eisenhower, Dirksen, and, yes, even Reagan, is no more. It’s been replaced by a xenophobic racist establishmentarian personality cult.
News You Can Lose 0
There’s an old saying that “no news is good news.”
At Psychology Today Blogs, Arthur Dobrin argues that too much news is bad news. A snippit:
Follow the link for his suggestions as to how to keep up to date without being driven up a wall.
The Privatization Scam 0
Arizona’s state budget is in big trouble because of the privatization scam. That’s something you can voucher on.
Here’s a bit of the report from ProPublica:
But as it turns out, the parents most likely to apply for these vouchers are the ones who were already sending their kids to private school or homeschooling. They use the dollars to subsidize what they were already paying for.
Much more at the link.
“There Is No Auto-Pilot Setting for Democracy” 0
Seth points out that previous generations have had to fight to protect democracy and that, now, it’s our turn. He notes that what we don’t need are the “opportunistic purveyors of paranois, suspicion, and fear, who have already rushed to fill the void with incendiary conspiracy theories and lies.”
Aside:
I got three texts purporting to be from J. D. Vance yestoday. (Why he would text me, I have no idea, but, each time, I blocked the number.)
Each one addressed me as “Patriot.”
Coming from the likes of him, that word becomes an insult.
Myth Buster 0
In the course of a longer article how, in evaluating candidates for office, we need to look at the big picture when evaluating candidates for office, the Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal makes a trenchant observation (emphasis added):
Follow the link for context.
