Political Theatre category archive
Scapegoating Goes Viral 0
“It’s those people you-know-who-we-mean.”
I’m a Southern boy.
I know racism when I see it.
Indulgences for Sale 0
Donald Trump, seeking to appease the evangelical “Christians” in his base, has declared that churches are essential services.
E. J. Montini disagrees, because the Bible tells him so. A nugget (emphasis in the original):
The priest made a joke with the congregation, saying something along the lines of, “While I’m glad you’re all here, and I really do need this job, it doesn’t even take two or three of us to have the Lord with us. We’re able to have that on our own, any time we want.”
“Macho Macho Men” 0
At the Inky, Anna Orso explores why gyms are among the foremost challengers of stay-at-home orders in these viral times; the article suggests that there may be elements in addition to the loss of revenue and customers. A snippet:
“This idea that ‘I’m indestructible,’ it certainly is something that we see in masculinity more broadly,” Metzl said. “The problem during the pandemic is, people aren’t just putting themselves at risk. They are putting others at risk.”
Aside:
Gyms don’t make no never mind to me. I’ve always preferred working out at home.
Numbers Gaming, Reprise 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Matthew Edlund untangles the numbers about COVID-19 testing and fatalities and what they say about the Trump administration’s failure to deal with the pandemic. A nugget (emphasis added):
Lots of people died.
Now when people around the world call the CDC no one calls back.
An Unthinkable Thought 0
I fear that El Jefe may be onto something.
From Sizzle to Fizzle 0
David discusses the how the air came out of Donald Trump’s trumped-up (you will pardon the expression) Obamagate balloon.
American Exceptionalism: Everybody Except America 2
Afterthought:
This is what can happen in a two-party “system” when one of the two major political parties decides that there is no such thing as the common good.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The San Franscisco Chronicle’s John Diaz points out that the bad guys are already inside the building.
