Political Theatre category archive
Flagging Interests 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, wonders just what was the NFL thinking?
Confusing: It’s not clear to me why the owners are so united behind a rule that passes the buck to individual teams to decide how or whether to discipline demonstrating players. It’s a recipe for placing owners in the middle of a public conflict between their athletes and fans. That’s no place they should want to be.
Meanwhile, El Jefe highlights the hypocrisy.
We Are Marching to Dystopia, Dystopia, Dystopia,
We Are Marching to Dystopia, Dystopia Today
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Jay Bookman. Just read it.
A Sign of the Times 0
Follow the link for a thoughtful, well reasoned, and sourced article taking down a gun nut apologist, one lie at a time.
“That Toddlin’ Town” 0
Josh Marshall muses on the relationship between Donald Trump’s history in the New York real estate market and his behavior as President. A snippet:
It’s a long, thoughtful piece that is well worth a look.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen takes a look at where we are this week and what might be to come.
Facebook Frolics 0
Firearms frolics. Here’s a sample:
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The fake accounts included the name of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the 17-year-old student and suspect that police say is now in custody, and included a photo taken from his Facebook that had been changed to include a hat from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Soulless bastards.
Apocalypse Now 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Afterthought:
If Donald Trump knows what “2 Corinthians” is or says, I’ll eat my hats. And I have a lot of hats.
When I worked at Amtrak, one of the conductors on my morning commute called me the “hat guy.”
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen does a deep dive into the reeking stew of Donald Trump, Russian agents, and Hillary Clinton’s emails, reverse-engineering the recipe and laying out the list of ingredients.
A snippet (all caps in the original):
The events surrounding the June 6, 2016 meeting — both before and after — suggest that Trump not only encouraged members of his campaign team to assist Russians working for Vladimir Putin to interfere in the forthcoming election, but expected the meeting to pay dividends for his long-shot bid for the presidency because it would provide new ammunition with which to assail the chief target of his incendiary stump speeches — Hillary Clinton.
