Political Theatre category archive
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Trumplers like violence because they smell so nice:
This phenomena is unique to Trump rallies. “Things got vicious, no matter how much Mr Trump liked to claim his events were ‘love fests,’” one observer noted in The Independent.
Follow the link for the rest.
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen offers a timeline.
Twits on Twitter, Facebook Frolics Dept. 0
I am certain I am not the only person who finds that #deletefacebook is trending on Twitter to be somewhat ironic.
In related news, John Aravosis retrieves his data from Facebook and finds that the Zuckerborg has slurped up far more information about him than he imagined.
“Genius at Work” 0
Steven M. explains.
Facebook Frolics 0
Josh Marshall suggests that the Zuckerborg thinks it is a law unto itself.
Follow the link to read why he said that.
Invalid Syllogism 0
In spite of Jonathan Zimmerman’s vacuous argument, “freedom of speech” does not mean “freedom from consequences.”
Twits on Twitter 0
Shorter Elie Mystal: “You think that’s a tweetstorm? This is a tweetstorm.”
Delving into the Data Delvers 0
Thom and Greg Palast discuss how your online data is stolen and abused.
The Party of Personal Reprehensibility 0
Lance Dutson takes a scathing look at what has happened to the Maine Republican Party. A snippet:
It’s one ridiculous story after another. The party of Margaret Chase Smith, Bill Cohen, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins has become the punchline of a very dark joke, one layered with incompetence, anger, and bigotry. The Maine GOP was once a national example of effective and reasonable leadership. Now it’s been invaded and infected by an outspoken legion of LePage cultists who won’t stop till they’ve bled every bit of credibility from the party’s nobler past.
And it’s not just in Maine, folks.
Mangled in the Equifax Machine 0
This is an unbelievable cavalcade of stupid.
The Unraveling 0
I fear that Dick Polman is correct.
Dismayed and Disheartened 0
Above the Law’s Elie Mystal is dismayed and disheartened. Here’s a snippet from his post.
Follow the link to learn why he said that.
Dealing from the Top of the Deck 0
The Des Moines Register’s Kathie Obradovich discusses a new twist in the Republican gut-out-the-vote playbook. A snippet:
This may not seem like a huge deal to people who take time to learn who’s running for office before they show up to vote. But the fact is, numerous studies have shown that the party whose candidates come first on the ballot have an advantage.
Senate File 2346 would require county auditors to put partisan candidates on the election ballot according to the results of the last governor’s election. So if Republicans won the governor’s race in that county, as they did in all but Johnson County in 2014, their candidates would top the ballot.