Political Theatre category archive
“There Are Lies, Damned Lies, and Then There’s the Trump Administration” 0
Warning: Language, and lots of it.
Democracy Inaction 0
TPM reports that, in a new twist on their gut-out-the-vote efforts, Republican governors have decided that no elections are better than some elections.
Decoding de Code 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Clifford Lazarus offers a primer on understanding what narcissists are really thinking when the mouth bland niceties.
Not that that could be at all helpful in understanding certain politicians or anything like that there good heavens gosh golly gee no.
Hey! Rubio! 0
Marco Rubio’s in a snit–
Of that there is not doubt–
For someone chose to call him out,
So he decided to be a twit–
On Twitter.
Delta of Venal 0
Jay Bookman considers the Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor’s (and gubernatorial candidate) threat to deny Delta Airlines an (unneeded) tax break in retribution for Delta’s decision to stop giving NRA members discounts. An excerpt:
For Georgia Republicans, that creates a dilemma. In the hierarchy of lobbying groups at the state capitol, Delta ranks near the top. But at the very top, at the summit, sits the National Rifle Association. Delta is powerful; the NRA is sacrosanct.
Duck and Quiver 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Eric Dietrich muses on America’s love affair with guns. A snippet (emphasis in the original):
What do we fear? We fear abortion (as an essential component to women’s rights), animal rights, any religion besides conservative Christianity, bans on hunting, birth control, carbon footprints, the politics of caring, controlling energy use, controlling mining, discussions of sexism, diversity, economic crashes, education, euthanasia, evolution, flying planes into buildings, gay marriage, gender (and the word “gender”), getting mugged, gun control, home invasions, homosexuality, immigration, not logging, statistically not common sexual behavior, population control (and discussing same), protecting the environment, races other than the white one, restrictions on parenting, running out of gas and oil, science, sex, taking global warming seriously, talk of climate change, talk of social class, talk about the Second Amendment, terrorism, transgendered humans, types of governments besides ours, vaccinations . . . .In fact, we fear discussing gun control so much that Congress has prevented our Centers for Disease Control from conducting any research on gun control. Such willful blindness is not only immoral, it is illegal (trying getting away with willful blindness in a criminal case).
“President Rambo” 0
Dick Polman reacts to Donald Trump’s claim that, had he been present, he would have stormed Parkland High School to be less than credible. A shppet.
Now suddenly he thinks he’s Rambo. No, wait, he fancies himself more macho than Rambo, because even Rambo deemed it prudent to tote a weapon.