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1. Yesterday, my assistant told me about Green books which are books that used to let African Americans know which towns they are allowed to to travel to without issue on road trips. It led me to this phenomenal book … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post is full of information
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. Father Coughlin, abandoning most pretenses of progressivism, now branded Roosevelt’s programs the “Jew Deal,” reproduced Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda … 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
Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! What fresh hell awaits us today on this current edition of Firing Friday? Will Barron be removed from his post as CyberMaster General? Is it going to be Jared replaced by an animatronic Andrew … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Isn’t a Trick, It’s a Collusion
Morning Politiocadoes! As the Manafort Trail churns along, President Good Brain seems to be going off the rails. In a series of tweets, the Leader of the Free World intimated that the Mueller investigation was illegal and that Jeff Sessions … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Commits A Smocking Obstruction
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE TWEETS MELANIA TRUMP IS ‘HOEBAG,’ GOP MAJORITY LEADER DEMANDS JACK DORSEY BAN HIM FROM TWITTER https://www.newsweek.com/kevin-mccarthy-twitter-ban-hoebag-mark-roberts-oregon-independent-prostitute-1050177 Before that… A GOP congressman once lamented not being able to call women ‘sluts’ anymore https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/kfile-jason-lewis/index.html Before that… ‘This Girl’: GOP pounces … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post Wonders Why This Is Still Happening
We all know what feminism is, so let’s not bother typing out the base definition. Women are full human beings and deserve full human rights, full stop. I personally hold no truck with people who dissemble and say they are … Continue reading The Leftorium Is What a Feminist Looks Like
You all heard it from Rudy’s mouth-like face maw — so what if Trump illegally worked with a foreign country in an attempt to influence our fair and free elections, it’s not like it’s a CRIME or anything! Right? No … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Didn’t Do It But If It Did What’s The Big Deal?
Part Two in a series; see Part One here. Throughout Herbert Hoover’s reign, corporate America constantly assured the public that economic recovery lay right around the corner. “The fact that we have let nature take its course may augur well … Continue reading How We Got Here: Business Plots
Reality as we know it no longer relies of facts, verification or even information, really. We depend on Trump tweets, and more importantly we depend on the latest Trump tweet, because there’s no consistency day to day on his thoughts, … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Flip Flops on Everything
♪ There’s a bedtime story Lovers, war, and kings They belong to yesterday As if it were a dream …. Don’t know why Don’t do that Dry your eyes Don’t look back ♪ — “Don’t Look Back,” Treat Her Right … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gets Real Upset About Upsetting Reality
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