antitheatricality and politics (the Truth about Cats and Dogs and Geese)

 Cats! Dogs! Geese! Laura Loomer! Look, now he’s attacking Taylor!

 Like the last season before a show gets canceled for getting over-the-top and, at the same time, boring.

 This election is about jobs, wages, climate, health care, abortion. Not his show. Your life.

- Pete Buttegieg 

Mike Johnson will not shut down the government.

This is just the humiliating failure theater that Trump drags his most loyal supporters into before they have to surrender.

And surrender he will.

- Ron Filipkowski

"Failure theater" - love it. 

This is a trope-meme they used against AOC, that she was just an actress, mouthing lines written for her by shadowy behind-the-stage-curtain figures.