It’s Monday again; what horrible horrors will we be subjected to this week?  Maybe Biden will actually confirm he’s running. Or we could be lucky and he’ll realize it’s a really bad idea and actually sit this out. Yeah, we’re … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread isn’t Running

Sometimes I find it enlightening look at current events in parts of the world that I usually don’t hear enough about. With that in mind, here are a few of the many current happenings in South America, home to 12 … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Is Struggling With a Clever Title

So, we all should know what happened this morning: a shooter at a New Zealand mosque killed at least 49 people, and injured many others. The discussion page for it is here. It’s Friday. It already sucks. Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is So Tired of This

Morning Politocadoes! Paul Manafort has had another day in court and is currently looking at 7 years in prison. I say currently because after being sentenced in Virginia, then sentenced in DC, the State of NY announced indictments for Good … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Dances To The Jail House Rock

Cheating scam still unfolding…. https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-scheme-how-it-worked/index.html Manafort second sentencing today https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/facing-47-months-jail-virginia-case-paul-manafort/story?id=61631816 Welcome to Wednesday!!!! Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post Took The Test For You

Next year the Democratic National Convention will descend upon my fair city of Milwaukee, WI. It will likely be an exceptional clusterfuck. I’ll probably go once, it’s historical and all that. It’s gonna get nuts, folks. In the meantime, politics … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Has Decided

It’s a been a busy weekend, so I’ve got nothing fun to write except…. Here we go again. Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Demands 8.6 Billion For the Wall

This week’s header is pretty short, due to author malfeasance. But hey, that means you can get to the comments quicker, right? Let’s see what happening out there: Corruption scandal in Canada Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould intends to prosecute a … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Threads Politics On Weekends

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! I really don’t have much to say. Reality speaks for itself. I have nothing left to complain about or rail against. It’s all just so…so dumb. One of these days I’ll actually put some … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Celebrates the End of a Very Dumb Week

Morning Politicadoes! Among the other impossible things President Lyle Lanley sold to the gullible and racist, was the idea that he could shrink the deficit with tax cuts to the rich and that trade wars are good and easy to … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread’s Debt Explodes

Wall emergency nonsense https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-seeks-gop-support-on-border-wall-as-senators-confront-hard-choices/2019/03/05/2d4e1b4a-3f81-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html Florida Poll nonsense https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/biden-trump-2020-florida-poll-1206260?cid=apn Additional Mueller Report nonsense https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/mueller-report-special-counsel-1206147 So a lot more nonsense all around, Welcome to Wednesday !!!! Continue reading In This Wednesday Post Trump and the Terrible No Good Several Months

♫ I say history never repeats I tell myself before I go to sleep Don’t say the words you might regret I lost before, you know I can’t forget ♫ –“History Never Repeats,” Split Enz Elliott Abrams returned. Silvio Berlusconi … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread of the Living Dead

So, CPAC happened.  Trump went off the rails for two hours of his usual, unhinged schtick: everyone hates us, we’re awesome, why does everyone act so mean to me?  It isn’t even worth pointing out that he’s clearly lost his … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Rambles for Two Hours

This week I’d like to try something a little different for the header. I’ll be focusing on current events in a region of the world that doesn’t often dominate the headlines: Oceania. That’s the Pacific, for those of you in … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Takes to the Sea

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! I have been super busy at work the last couple of days, and have mostly exchanged listening to NPR and their quiet, reflective both siderism with WFMU on my commutes, so I’m sort of … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Never Remembers

Morning Politicadoes! As we all are probably aware, yesterday, the Politics Thread’s attention was diverted to the House Oversight Committee Testimony of Michael Cohen. Cohen, ex-personal lawyer to the President, having previously lied to the House Intelligence committee came forward … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is Literally Grasping At Straws

1. Cohen testifies In short, Cohen calls Trump a “racist,” a “conman” and a “cheat.” I mean yes but you were associated with him. https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/politics/michael-cohen-testimony/index.html 2. Princess Ivanka weighs in on something she doesn’t any experience with… Ivanka “I don’t … Continue reading This Wednesday Political A“post”les

Well folks, tomorrow is Mike Cohen’s public testimony in front of the House and I’m sure some tea will be spilled, as I’m told the youths say. But with that looming, it feels for a moment like the calm before … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Is Very Calm

Venezuela, as we may all know now, is basically tearing itself apart over Maduro’s refusal to accept the reality that he really, truly sucks.  Lil’ Marco Rubio apparently thought tweeting a still from a snuff film was an acceptable response … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Just Going Crazy