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There is the, sadly, usual amount of stupid happening in US politics — the President’s lawyers are hosting de facto state media radio shows, the White House is in a rather petty feud with a former game show person, etc … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Hosts A Radio Show For Some Reason?
Oh boy do I have dirt on the McSquirrel Administration. You won’t believe where he’s thinking of hibernating this winter, one of the trees his own family still owns rights to. And if you think that’s bad just wait until … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Writes a Tell All
Part Four in a series; see Parts One, Two and Three. After Franklin Roosevelt’s reelection, his opponents grew more hysterical and conspiracy-minded in their rhetoric. Father Coughlin, abandoning most pretenses of progressivism, now branded Roosevelt’s programs the “Jew Deal,” reproduced … Continue reading How We Got Here: The Mad Legions of America
♫ Substitute your lies for fact I can see right through your plastic mac I look all white, but my dad was black My fine-looking suit is really made out of sack ♫ — “Substitute,” The Who We got trouble. … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gets Riggy With It
Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Space….the final frontier. Is this serious? How do we stop this? Is there stopping it? Look, if there is going to be a space force (there isn’t), then I’d like to volunteer. Why not? … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Builds A SPACE FORCE
Hey y’all, we’re trying a new experiment this week. If it works, this is intended to be a weekly post for high-quality (or at least, you know, medium-quality) political discussion, emphasizing longer posts with historical context, statistics, and fact-based evidence. … Continue reading Long-Form Political Discussion #1: Labor Pains
Morning Politcadoes, Coming in late last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, it was revealed that they had obtained secret tapes of Devin Nunes speaking at a fundraiser for Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, essentially admitting that the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Says The Quiet Part Loud
Celebrities Are Trying to Get Ivanka Trump’s Attention by Flooding Her Instagram Again http://time.com/5359627/celebrities-ivanka-trump-instagram-feed/ Last night, celebrities flooded Ivanka Trump’s feed with letters about child separation. Let’s get some facts out of the way: The Trump admin has been separating … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Thread Wonders Where Logic Went
It seems there has been a theme developing in the Trump family — that of just Tweeting out all of their crimes. I have a vague memory of a reporter, who was working on getting the Don Jr e-mail chain … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Gives Up The Game
Today on the Politics Thread I’d like to talk about clams. Sex clams. They can be a serious problem if you don’t scroll before you post. You see some months back when Roy Moore was still news a paper misprinted … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Repeats Itself
Part Three in a series; see Parts One and Two. During the 1932 election, Franklin Roosevelt ranked Huey Long as one of the two most dangerous men in America (the other being Douglas MacArthur). As Governor, then Senator from Louisiana, … Continue reading How We Got Here: Little Foxes in Search of a Führer
♭ Sometimes I can’t help the feeling that I’m Living a life of illusion And oh, why can’t we let it be And see through the hole in this wall of confusion I just can’t help the feeling I’m Living … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Clings Desperately to Its Reality
