Political Theatre category archive
It’s Catching 0
Trumpling the Discourse 0
Jennifer Lin shares her misty water-colored memories of dealing with the Donald when she was young reporter for the Inky.
Then he called her editor and referred to Lin as “that c-,” Lin said.
Details at the link.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Not bad.
(snip)
The less-volatile four-week average of claims dropped to 256,000, the lowest since April, from 258,250 in the prior week.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits declined by 46,000 to 2.06 million in the week ended Sept. 17, the fewest since July 2000.
If you follow the link, you will see that Bloomberg’s headline falls upon its fainting couch clutching its pearls that Bloomberg’s “experts” were wrong.
Again.
Honestly, I don’t know why they bother.
The American Duterte? 0
Excerpt:
Glorious promises . . . delivered with supreme confidence will always be attractive to huge numbers of people . . . .
Trumpling Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Reg Henry remembers Monday’s debate and reaches a disquieting conclusion. A snippet:
That may seem contrary, but debates occur in the culture of their times. In a sane world, Ms. Clinton would be judged the winner, but that is the very world willfully abandoned by many Americans. They may suppose a debate is just a shouting match; it’s all just words and the important thing is to steamroll your opponent with them. This he did.
He was helped by a culture that has become fact-free and in thrall of the Big Lie as practiced by the Nazis, the idea that if you tell a lie big enough and often enough, people eventually will come to believe it, no matter how absurd.
The Candidates Debate 0
Jack Ohman wonders what would happen were the Kennedy-Nixon debate to take place today. (Hint: It’s not pretty.)
Fantastic Votage 0
In the Raleigh News and Observer, Duke University fellow Geoffrey Harpham offers a novel take on the appeal of Donald Trump–that he offers a vision of privilege with no responsibility and no cost, a candidate, in short, not of freedom, but of feckless self-indulgence. A snippet:
In this sense, Trump is not really a political candidate, but rather an embodiment of a fantasy of infinite power and freedom without costs (“the Mexicans will pay for it”), consequences or conscience.
Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Debate Watch Party Tonight 0
The Debate Watch Party, kindly organized by Patricia, will be at our usual location.
When: 7:30 p. m.
Where:
Croc’s 19th Street Bistro
620 19th Street (intersection of 19th and Cypress)
Virginia Beach, Virginia (map)
I won’t be there. As my two or three regular readers know, I don’t do debates–I read about them the next morning. But lots of nice persons will be there.
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