Political Theatre category archive
Tips on Terrorism 0
Michael Herriot submits The Caucasian’s Guide to Living under a Terrorist Threat. Here’s one of his hints:
The Long and Short of It 0
Jessica Valenti takes the measure of the men and concludes they come up short.
More at the link.
The Galt and the Lamers 0
BadTux discusses the difference between “libertarians” (that is, persons who believe in protecting civil liberties) and “Libertarians” (that is, persons who believe Ayn Rand had a clue, easily spotted by the little copy of the U. S. Constitution which they whip out of their shirt pockets and misinterpret at the slightest pretext).
It’s short, pithy, and on target.
Psyched Out 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Elliot Cohen puts Donald Trump on the metaphorical analyst’s couch. His conclusions are neither pleasant nor surprising.
Flint-Hearted 0
Click to see the original image.
Aside:
What happened in Flint is what happens when you “run the government like a business.”
The business model of choice amongst those who would “run the government like a business” is invariably Enron.
Afterthought:
The cartoonist left out “racism.”
This is America.
Never leave out “racism.”
Levying the Syntax 0
I am no Miss Grundy, but I am a proponent of using acceptable grammar.
Grammar is the rules of the road for communication. It is wise to drive on the correct side of the road; it careen from unwise lane to lane is to.
The Law’s Belay 0
Daniel Ruth talks temper tantrum. A snippet:
Then we become a banana republic of whining crybabies.
The Republican Establishment* 0
Noz suggests that there is no there, there.
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*Whatever that is, outside of the Fox News bubble . . . .
Is It an Implosion or an Explosion? 2
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun and ex-Republican, marvels at the trajectory of the party that he once supported as it comes apart at the seams. Here’s a bit:
In its place appeared a mishmash of disparate groups that came together in such a way as to assure the party of Abraham Lincoln . . . would collapse of its own weight.
(snip)
By that I mean that the politics of 2016 have exposed the fault lines among the evangelicals, libertarians, statists, economic conservatives, xenophobes and all kinds of supremacists. The folks who kept the party of Lincoln burning bright for so many decades have all but disappeared or, at least, been marginalized as “the establishment.”