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Morning Politicadoes! With Joe Biden and Kamala Harris safely inaugurated as the new President and Vice President the country has gotten a small taste of competency again. Harris was welcomed back to the Senate to preside over the body as … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Returns To Normal
You’re still holding your breath and cannot believe this day has finally come. You’re in a mild panic, slowly building towards hyperventilation, imagining something will certainly ruin it, attempt to prevent it from calmly taking place; maybe another try at … Continue reading PT Thread 2: Hope, that feeling America has forgotten.
You’re still holding your breath and cannot believe this day has finally come. You’re in a mild panic, slowly building towards hyperventilation, imagining something will certainly ruin it, attempt to prevent it from calmly taking place; maybe another try at … Continue reading Hope, that feeling America has forgotten.
Hello everyone! Well, it’s come to say I need to give up the Tuesday PT thread. I’m dealing with a lot of things IRL and I need to focus on that for a while. I didn’t have access to the … Continue reading This Birb’s Gotta Fly (From The Tuesday PT Thread)
Biden indicates plans to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on first day in office, sources confirm U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr. Day Introduces the Monday Politics Thread
I have not made a politics thread in years. So…here your go. Erm…please try to avoid violating the McSquirrel Rule (How do other Disqus communities deal with this? Heck, does this not come up in the Open Thread?) and try … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread for the 16th and 17th of January, 2021
This Friday, I’m going to give you all an open question to discuss. If you could take one “souvenir” from the Trump White House, what would it be? And what would you do with it? Next week, our long national … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Loots the White House
Morning Politocadoes! The President was impeached for the second time in his first (and only) term. Trump often claimed that his administration would win so much that we would be tired from all of the winning. And well, he certainly … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is The Biggest Loser Ever
Sometimes you have to buck the trend — in a good way! Faced with rising cases of COVID, North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County decided to stop waiting for state governor Roy Cooper to issue more stringent warnings and announced their own … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Goes Rogue
Fuck Nazis. Fuck Trump. Hail Satan. Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread
Really good header here:https://the-avocado.org/2021/01/11/how-to-lose-friends-and-piss-off-congress-a-monday-polotics-thread/ But comments messed up so new PT time. Continue reading Politics Thread 2: The Return!
Trump’s demoralized staff count down the final days President Donald Trump has lost the support of many former loyalists in his administration after a riot at the U.S. Capitol that he helped provoke, and his White House is in “meltdown” … Continue reading How to Lose Friends and Piss Off Congress: a Monday Polotics Thread
Welcome to the end of what feels like the end of a year that fit into a week, everyone. Monday was the President of the United States pressuring a state to overturn its election in his favor, Wednesday was the … Continue reading The Replacement Weekend Politics Thread Waits For What’s Next
Well, the first week of 2021 has been a doozy, eh? I would like to congratulate the state of Georgia on voting for 2 fine senate candidates and getting rid of 2 criminal ones. And yay, Biden and Harris are … Continue reading Friday Politics Thread: Insurrection
Morning Politocadoes, In what should have been a pro forma joint session of Congress on Wednesday, the Capitol was overtaken by seditious thugs set loose by the sitting President. Unable and unwilling to concede defeat, he has once again ginned … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread After The Attempted Coup
It’s not a slow news day, and here’s a new PT to prevent Disqus from borking. There’s a bunch of seditious terrorists who’ve been storming the capitol all day and one woman has died. Trump gave a really shitty speech … Continue reading Jan 6, 2021 Overnight Politics Thread: The Coup of the Epiphany
It is a Friday evening and I find myself on an agency assist and in front of a house patrolled by the university police. I responded for a report of shooting at this residence. What I see is several cars … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread: Behold A Pale Idiot…And Stupid Followed With Him
Honestly, I’m sick of thinking of time as a line. I’m more interested in flat circles. Speaking of: Y’all been following what’s been happening in Belarus? I’ll let NPR explain in succinct (if gentle) terms: “Women have been at the … Continue reading The Tuesday PT Says Happy New Year I Guess
Paul Ryan excoriates planned GOP effort to challenge Biden’s Electoral College win as ‘anti-democratic and anti-conservative’ Former House Speaker Paul Ryan excoriated fellow Republicans Sunday in a rare statement that called planned GOP efforts to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s win “anti-democratic … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Wants its 11,780 Votes
Here are some recent political headlines: Ontario’s finance minister resigns after returning from Caribbean vacation Kenney orders MLAs not to leave Canada unless on government business after minister’s vacation Despite premier’s calls for Quebecers to stay home, Liberal MNA Pierre … Continue reading The First Weekend Politics Thread of 2021
Happy New Year Politicadoes! Let’s try to fit all the 2021 political news into this one thread. Think of the time savings. There aren’t even any big elections this year, just VA and NJ gov and NYC Mayor (NY Yangkees!) … Continue reading The 2021 Politics Thread (or just Friday)
