Political Theatre category archive
Trumpled Olympians 0
Mary Trump discusses how American Olympic athletes have pushed back against Donald Trump’s attach on one of their own for having the unmitigated gall to exercise his freedom of speech and express an unfavorable opinion of the Trumpling.
The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0
. . . and the Trump maladministration is all for the day when Richmond, Virginia, will once more be a beachfront.
I fear for my grandchildren.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Bloomberg’s Max Hasting hears a rhyme:
I cheated by putting my first sentence above in the present tense. These words were, in fact, written in July 1914 by Germany’s Albert Hopman, about Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Follow the link for the rhyme.
(Broken link unbroken.)
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*Mark Twain.
This New Gilded Age . . . 0
. . . and Michael in Norfolk thinks he knows who the robber barons are.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Minute and a half long promo at about the one minute mark. Mild language.)
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Trump maladministration’s attempt to indict Congresspersons for reminding military personnel that their oaths of allegiance do not require them to break the law didn’t go over well with the grand jury.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Mild language.)
A Movie Experience 0
Stephen looks at the Melania movie (figuratively, not methinks literally).
Both Sides Don’t 0
Steven M. detects a disconnect in dis coarse discourse. A snippet (emphasis added):
And yet it remains an article of faith in the media that heartland white Republicans are the “real” Americans, and Trump critics really aren’t Americans at all.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Bob Marshall argues that the Trump maladministration’s EPA is putting profits over people. A snippet:
(snip)
That sentence was handed down when the agency quietly decided this: It will no longer include the number of lives lost or damaged when determining the required cost-benefit analysis of pollution regulations.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Noam Shpancer cautions us that (slightly reformatted from the original)
Follow the link for his descriptions of just what they “tend to do.”
Be forewarned, it ain’t pretty.