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Sorry for the late post, busy at work. The US Senate has rolled back banking rules set in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Why anyone, particularly a certain subset of Democratic senators voted for this, is beyond me. I … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Makes It 2008 All Over Again
In a typical day for the Trump administration, key players were fired via tweets while the media and country tried to make sense of Trump’s irrational decisions. All the while, the Pennsylvania special election was looming in a district about … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post The Working Class Realizes Trump Isn’t Working
This week on the Leftorium, we look at the growing movement within progressive circles to abolish ICE. First up, Sean McElwee outlines in The Nation how the existence of the agency is incompatible with democracy and how the agency came … Continue reading The Leftorium Champions the Good Things ICE is Known For
Sorry folks, the normal glut of crazy political news combined with an early morning meeting for me means a barebones Politics Thread. You know what to do, talk about news and politics and such here. As always, be excellent to … Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread
Clearly both sides are the same. One side wants women to be free to have all of the abortions they want, to welcome immigrants from all over and provide them all with free healthcare while the other side wants the … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Plays Both Sides
♪ My head can’t tolerate this bobbing and pretending Listening to some bullethead and the madness that he’s saying ♪ — “Your Racist Friend,” They Might Be Giants Accept, without excusing, the incendiary title of this WPT installment as Uvular … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Crosses the Color Line
Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Who else thinks that Trump is totally being played by Kim Jong Un? And what does it say about our country that our top envoys to North Korea are Donald Trump and Dennis Rodman? Is this real … Continue reading The Friday Political Thread Accepts A Meeting With North Kinja
Morning politocadoes! “Infrastructure Week” continues unabated. In fact, I expect “Infrastructure Week” to continue into next week and the week after, as more scandals, firings, and indictments drop. As we all know, it’s completely normal to set up secret back-channels … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Has A Beer In The Seychelles
Let’s do this…it’s okay if you need anti-depressants. 1. Nunberg gets subpoenaed, loses it on multiple networks, agrees to comply. This should tell you state of conservatism in this country is that people are trying to spin this utter meltdown … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post Is Just Anti-Depressants, Okay?
In what should arguably be the biggest news story in the US right now, teachers in West Virginia are still on strike after the state legislature failed to meet their demands, which amount to a 5% wage increase and, perhaps … Continue reading The Leftorium Stands With Teachers
Look, after yesterday, there’s only one thing this thread can be about, right? US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has not spent any of the money that Congress allocated to him in order to fight Russian interference in our elections. … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Will Not Spend 80 Hours Going Through E-mails
It’s Monday, and like a shark in the water Mueller is out there smelling blood. Let’s hope he’s dropping another big one on us soon, we could use an injection of good news. Remember to be kind to your … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Waits for More
Part III in a series; see Parts One and Two. On May 7th, 1798, a crowd of roughly 1,200 Philadelphians, mostly young men in their teens and twenties, gathered at Market Street for an impromptu rally. Some carried flags and … Continue reading How We Got Here: Deranged Affairs
♫ It’s your life And you can do what you want Do what you like But please don’t keep a-me waiting Please don’t keep a-me waiting ♫ Passion meets aggression in this wheedling warble of teen lust. Just as Ray … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Could Use a Weekend
Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Once again, our Bozo-In-Chief manages to make a terrible decision against all common sense. How does this guy manage to be so consistently terrible? I don’t really expect anything less, of course, but … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Imposes A Tariff On Comments
Lordy! Yesterday was utterly bananas for Trumpworld, and there’s really no sign of that stopping. In addition to learning that Jared’s security clearance has been busted down to lower than the White House Calligrapher, we’ve had Hope Hicks depart, renewed … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Has A Higher Security Clearance Than Jared
There are several big stories so let’s get started: 1. Kushner loses a security clearance he never should have had in the first place. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/donald-trump-jared-kushner-investigations/index.html 2. Several foreign governments were planning to use Kushner’s weaknesses as leverage for blackmail and … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post The Sh*t Hits The Fan
I’m still not over ol’ Ruggy Trump’s Internet Tough Guy proclamation that HE ALONE would have stopped the Parkland shooting. I, like pretty much everybody, immediately thought about that gif of Trump freaking out over a bird. I guess there … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Would Have Run In There
I don’t think it’s exactly an exaggeration to say in the tragic aftermath of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, the collective American political debate over gun ownership, gun control, and personal and social safety are, if not more extreme and … Continue reading Game Thread: “Help Secure the Children” with Your Favorite Lunatic Heroes
Like Trump at CPAC, this thread has the approval of 93% of the people who were already pre-dispositioned to like the politics thread. You can’t make this stuff up, folks. It’s definitely a reflection of this thread’s likeability and in … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Gets a 93% Approval Rating
Part Two in a series; Part One here. Matthew Lyon, Republican Congressman from Vermont, represented everything Federalists hated. He had been born in Ireland, a sure mark against him at a time when Federalist politicians attacked “hordes of wild Irishmen… … Continue reading How We Got Here: Malignant Passions
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