Political Theatre category archive
All the News that Fits 0
SFgate’s Drew Magary argues that much of the coverage of the current redistricting efforts designed to gut out the vote of the midterm elections is missing the point. Methinks he makes a valid point.
Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
(snip)
So not only are you and I being subjected to a coordinated plan by the GOP to nullify this fall’s election results before Americans have even gotten a chance to vote, but also to an accompanying disinformation campaign from the establishment media to posit this as just another political tussle. It is not. It is villainy, villainy of the crassest sort.
The entire article is well-worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.
Suffer the Children, Reprise 0
Sam and the crew talk with Nicholas Enrich, former civil servant who worked at USAID under four administrations, about the damage done to USAID by the Trump maladministration.
The Man without a Plan 0
Stephen R. Nagy looks at Donald Trump’s (mis)conduct of foreign policy and concludes that it tends to be–er–rather impulsive. A snippet:
But the evidence increasingly cuts the other way.
Follow the link for his analysis of said evidence.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Robert Elliott offers a bill of particulars.
“Fog of Lies” 0
Thom discusses how billionaires are spending to skew dis coarse discourse.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
David talks about how the algorithm squelched one of his videos and the implications thereof for dis coarse discourse.
Aside:
If you click to “watch on Youtube,” you will find a link the video that David argues was squelched.
Vaccine Nation 0
The Republican thought police are now coming for scientific research about vaccines.
We are a society of stupid.
A Real Estate Development 0
Farron discusses the Trump maladministration’s farcical legal action against the National Trust for Historic Preservation for having the unmitigated gall to take issue with his wanton destruction of public property, i. e., the East Wing of the White House.
Read the news report that Farron references.
The Crypto Con 0
From the Youtube page:
A story broke this weekend which exposed that the founder and leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, had been gifted £5 million by a Thai cryptocurrency billionaire shortly before announcing his intention to stand for election. It is another example of how while claiming to be a man of the people – Farage is actually raking it in, and beholden to the super-rich and exploiting their resource and control of media to make a bid for power and policies that will benefit them. On Sunday he withdrew from a BBC interview at the last minute, hoping that avoiding questions (before Thursday’s local elections across the UK) will allow him to benefit from voters’ anger at the failings of the main two parties.