Political Theatre category archive
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Peter Gariepy suggests that, instead of going to court to block a KKK member who wants to run for the Republican nomination for governor of Missouri, perhaps, instead, the Republican Party should ask itself why a KKK member feels at home running for the Republican Party’s nomination.
The Rule of Flaw 0
At the Hartford Courant, attorneys Kenneth Laska and Michael Jainchill argue that Donald Trump poses a clear and present danger to the concept of the rule of law. A snippet:
Imagine any other civil or criminal litigant making the slanderous and dangerous public statements that Donald Trump has made about the judges and court personnel involved in the civil and criminal cases brought against him. Anyone else would be reprimanded, chastised or found in contempt of court. Donald Trump’s unwarranted assault on the court system gives others permission to disregard and disrespect the courts in future matters. This cannot be allowed to continue.
“Vote in the Real World” 0
I forget how many years I’ve been saying that over there—————-> on the sidebar, but it’s been a while.
Yesterday, I was gratified to learn that columnist Mona Charen, who almost certainly has never heard of me (and likely never will), agrees with me. She argues as much in her column:
Follow the link for her reasoning, which, I must say, is quite sound, given that she agrees with me.
A Pillow of the Community 0
Mike Lindell discovers that actions (sometimes) have consequences.
Afterthought:
Methinks F. T. Rea’s musing on “the believers,” though he does not mention Lindell, may cast some light on how Lindell got to this point. A snippet:
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Writing at the Arizona Republic, E. J. Montini takes issue with a fake elector who is trying to claim that he did nothing wrong. A snippet (emphasis added):
Actually, I think the republic was founded on the democratic principle that voters — not fake electors — decided elections
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Follow the link for more of Montini’s musings on the matter.
Dis Coarse Discourse, Both Sides Don’t Dept. 0
In a longer post about NBC’s fatuous decision to hire Trump apparatchik Ronna MacDaniel, Dick Polman points out a major fallacy in how media covers political news (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the full article.










