Political Theatre category archive
It’s Bubblelicious 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., discusses “63red Safe,” sort of a wingnut Yelp, where right-wingers can find restaurants and the like that are safe for Trumpettes.
He notes that it is one in a string of efforts by right-wingers to create “safe spaces” for themselves and their fantasy world on the inner tubes. A snippet:
Then there’s Conservapedia, which counters the left-wing slant of Wikipedia by telling us, for instance, that Barack Obama was “reportedly” born in Hawaii.
Nor can we forget that attempt to translate a conservative Bible so that Christians would no longer have to put up with all that talk of “welcoming the stranger” and “helping the poor” you find in the King James Version.
And some singles now seek soulmates on DonaldDaters.com, apparently having discovered that grabbing prospective partners by the genitals actually doesn’t work as well as you’d think.
“The Elites Are Clueless” 0
Lawrence R. Jacobs, distinguished professor of political science, is not optimistic. No excerpt or summary can do his article justice.
Just read it.
Facebook Frolics 0
Farron discusses the new robber cyber-barons.
Methinks Farron has a point when he says that “they don’t know what the hell they are doing.”
They know the tech, but ethics and integrity are concepts foreign to them.
For them, the guiding moral principle is “because I can.”
The Bully’s Pulpits 0
Laurie Helgoe argues that today’s American cultures seems to encouraging an increasing degree of destructive narcissism in both private and public life. A snippet:
The Art of the Con 0
Thom looks at Donald Trump’s budget in the light of Trump’s trail of broken campaign promises. He points out that the Republican Party is the same now as it was when Harry Truman was running for president.
Budget Bluster 0
Remember, in Republican World, a federal budget deficit is a cause for crocodile fears only when a Democrat is in the White House. Here’s a bit from the AP’s report on the current state of the deficit:
Trump’s 2017 tax cut bears much of the blame, along with sharp increases in spending for both the Pentagon and domestic agencies and the growing federal retirement costs of the baby boom generation. Promises that the tax cut would stir so much economic growth that it would mostly pay for itself have been proved woefully wrong.
Follow the link for the compete article.
“Toxic Nostalgia” 0
Methinks she has a point.
Beta Dog 0
Farron points out the the United States’s international ratings have been thoroughly Trumpled.
All the News that Fits 0
Foxy shady, one more time.
All the News that Fits 0
It’s time to stop worrying about “fake news” and start worrying about fake newspapers.
Snopes reports that wealthy right-wing donors are setting up websites pretending to belong to local newspapers and designed to look like local newspaper websites for newspapers that do not, in fact, exist. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):
Remember, just because you see it on a computer screen, it ain’t necessarily so. Check the bona fides of sources you use for news.
One technique is to check the purported news stories for links to sources; no links indicate dubious or nonexistent sources. Also, links from random Facebook Frolickers and twisty Twitter Trolls are hysterically unreliable.
H/T to The Bob Cesca Show for this news item.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Gina Barreca considers the wasteland of liars in our political discourse-doesn’t-really-seem-like-the-correct-term and remembers some liars she has known personally. An excerpt:
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But when you launder a lie, pass it along as the truth, put it into cultural and social circulation, it’s as if you’re handling dirty money. You hope nobody looks at it too closely or holds it up to the light for examination. It’s Gresham’s law, adapted: The counterfeit currency of lying will inexorably drive out the more valuable currency of truth.
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