Political Theatre category archive
It’s Always All about Him 0
Warning: Farron gets a little heated in this commentary.
Things Were Dullsa in Tulsa 0
Ed at Gin and Tacos suggests that bizarre, convoluted theories that K-Pop and TikTok fans somehow affected Donald Trump’s Dullsa in Tulsa miss the more pedestrian and more likely explanation. A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.
Testing Flailure 0
Donald Trump’s coronavirus testing strategy leads one to conclude that Trump is certain that the answer to this question is must assuredly in the negative:
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
All the News that Fits 0
Sam and his team discuss Tucker Carlson’s hypocritical fragile white guy pity party.
The Truth Will Out . . . . 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock points out that, from time to time, Donald Trump speaks the truth, to the discomfiture of his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers. A snippet:
So, contrary to the party-line that he supports, which focuses entirely on the “fraud” allegation, Trump admits that mail-in-voting is likely to increase voter participation, and when that happens, Democrats will win. In other words, he has acknowledged that the real reason Republicans have tried, in a variety of ways, to suppress voter participation is that they are afraid of losing elections.
The End of the Common Good 0
Ed at Gin and Tacos is less than sanguine about the ability of Americans to take collective action when collective action is required, say, for example, just to pick one, during a public health emergency. Here’s a bit of his post:
(snip)
And here we are, taking a purely individualistic approach – the do as thou wilt rule – to a basic collective action problem. It is idiotic and nonsensical on the most basic level possible, and here we are. We tried some collective action for a couple weeks, people got bored and business owners got mad because they weren’t able to force their employees back to work and their customers back to shopping, and then we just decided that the collective action problem no longer required collective action. Not that it went away – that it simply wasn’t a thing we needed to plan and execute a collective response to anymore. We didn’t solve the problem so much as we simply decided it is not a problem anymore, or that it is, but we are powerless to stop it, but I guess we aren’t powerless, but ok I guess what we really mean is we just don’t want to.
All the News that Fits 0
Aside:
At the end of the piece, the columnist, Bill Goodykoontz, seems to imply that Fox News is “reputable media outfit.”
It isn’t. It never has been. Indeed, it has never tried to be.
It’s always been nothing more than Roger Ailes’s dream of “Republican TV.”
All Tuckered Out 0
David looks at the exodus of advertisers from Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and explains how, despite the plaints of the Trumpettes, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the First Amendment of the Constitution.
