Saturday, February 24, 2024

anti-theatricality in politics (more dribbles)

 Laurence O'Donnell, MSNBC, paraphrased by someone on Twitter:

• The job of the presidency is to make decisions—decisions that no reporter sees. 

• Everything you see is just theatre.


New York Times, author unknown 

“They are all trapped in a performative loop that has nothing to do with acting on our real interests. It’s only about performing for Trump and for his base to get more clicks, to get more donations, and then perform again for more clicks. Rinse and repeat — the actual world be damned. It is all fake. Only our enemies are not fake.” 

Acting, not acting in our interests.


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