Political Theatre category archive
Flagging Interests 0
Aside:
I was having connectivity problems again today. According to my most excellent hosting provider, everything was okay at their end. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
Afterthought:
If you have experienced connectivity issues, particularly timeouts (which is what I was getting), please let me know. There’s an email link over there (—->) on the sidebar. The more information I have, the easier it will be to figure this out.
A Separate Reality (Updated) 0
The Republican Party has decided to tell itself stories about domestic terrorism. Here’s a bit from the report at TPM; follow the link for the complete article.
Without any evidence, members of the far-right media, think tank heads, and Twitter activists shared their conspiratorial theories on social media.
Today’s Republican party is a vile and loathsome (not to mention delusional and dangerous) thing clear and present danger to the polity; it demonstrates the degree to which we have become a society of stupid.
Addendum, Late that Same Evening:
There is no truth to the rumor that I’m trying to start that the Republican Party intends to rename itself the “Pipe Bomb Party.”
A Guide to the Trumplers 0
You can’t tell the players without a program.
Donald Trump’s One Note Samba 0
Will Bunch tells a tale of Trumpian tactics. A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.
War of Words 0
Ravi Chandra explores the similarities between the rhetoric of Donald Trump and Trumpettes to classic authoritarian propaganda. After pointing out that it’s common to try to gin up the base before an election, Chandra notes that
Follow the link for the rest, including specific examples.
The Voter Fraud Fraud, Test Case Dept. 0
Thom looks back at the history of the Republican voter fraud scam.
Mobbed Up 0
Aside:
I think it noteworthy that, when Trump holds public events, those event are almost always only for his supporters.
Image via Job’s Anger.
Election Daze 0
My local rag has a round-up of the candidates for the Virginia Beach School Board.
Read it, then pick your favorite in each race. Election Day is two weeks away.
Facebook Frolics 0
What was I saying earlier about “gullible” and about “if you see it on ‘social’ media, check it out first”?
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen adds another troll to the roll of trolls.
Aside:
The trolling would not have had a significant impact if too many Americans were not so uninformed (or, in the case of Fox News disciples, misinformed) nor so gullible.
I Get Mail 0
I received an email purporting to show the most recent donation to Corey Stewart’s campaign for Virginia’s Senate seat. I pass it on for what it’s worth, but it seems credible to me.
Silence Is Complicity 0
Dan Simpson is not amused with the United States’s passivity regarding the Khashoggi case and the Trump “administration’s” seeming wish that it all would just go away. Here’s a snippet from his column:
It used to be that the reliance of the world, including the United States, on Saudi oil served to give the kingdom a pass on humane behavior. In the case of the United States, there was also heavy U.S. oil company involvement in Saudi oil production. In the case of the United States, there was also heavy U.S. oil company involvement in Saudi oil production. U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia also became increasingly important to America over the years. . . .