Political Theatre category archive
The Trump Express 0
Image from Reed, Robert, Train Wrecks: A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line (New York: Bonanza Books, 1958) p. 77.
(When I worked for the railroad, I got a delight in “sharing” this book with new hires, ideally right before their first train trip. I guess that today that would be considered hazing).
A. Trickle-On Econommics 0
Q. What’s the matter with Kansas?
House of Card Sharks (Updated) 0
Josh Marshall thinks that there is no there, there.
Addendum:
Yup. Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Conventional Wisdom 0
What happens when a Party can’t party?
Ryan’s Derp, Trustworthiness Is So Old Hat Dept. 0
Shaun Mullen, in what is almost an aside buried in a longer piece about the current state of the campaigns, reports on the latest conservative con: Republicans want to eliminate the concept of “fiduciary responsibility” (emphasis added):
In Republican World, everyone is on the take; the take is all there is.
A Warren’s Place . . . Is in the Senate 2
As you can tell from my sidebar, although I agree with many of Bernie Sanders’s positions and could easily vote for him were he the nominee, I do not share Farron’s adulation for Bernie “The Second Coming” Sanders nor his disdain for Hillary Clinton. I do wholeheartedly agree with his main point: Elizabeth’s Warren’s place is the the Senate, sowing confusion amongst the Republicans, not in the Vice Presidency, showing sights to foreign dignitaries.
I remind you once again of a fact often overlooked by Bernie Bros: Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat.
He’s the guy who transfers into the school a week before the ball and decides he wants to be Prom King.
If It Walks like a Ducktail . . . 0
Garrison Keillor attempts to understand the appeal of Donald Trump and finds an analogy in the ducktailed teenaged hoodlums of the 1950s. A snippet.
There’s no philosophy here, just an attitude.
He is a little old for a ducktail. By the age of 70, most ducks have moved on, but not Donald Trump. He is apparently still fond of the sidewalls and the greasy sweep in back and he is proud as can be of his great feat, the first punk candidate to get this close to the White House. He says that the country is run by a bunch of clowns and that he is going to make things great again and beat up on the outsiders who are coming into our neighborhood.
His followers don’t necessarily believe that. What they love about him is what kids loved about Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious: that he horrifies the powers that be.
The Ballad of the Yammering Yam 1
Then came the campaign of Orange Julius,
Who said he knew how to rulius.
As the convention came near,
It became quite clear
That all he would do was foolius.
Full of It 0
Van Anderson discusses The Fulminator:
Follow the link to find out The Fulminator’s secret identity (if you can’t guess who it might be).
Stephen Colbert Connects the Dots 0
Warning: Questionable taste.
