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?

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

♫ 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

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

♪ Am I just a hypocrite, Or am I really a whore? But to coin a phrase is always much more fun To coin a phrase is always much more “now” ♪ — Drivin’ N’ Cryin’, “Watch the Fire/to Coin … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Coins a Phrase

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! I guess, in a strange way, we’re sort of hosting a town hall meeting here every day. Except with our town halls, we occasionally have a racist robot wander in that has to be … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Hosts A Town Hall Meeting

And the children shall lead us. A little over a week since the Parkland Shooting and the outrage has not died down. Survivors of the tragedy and protesters blocked the steps of the capitol building in Tallahassee,  eloquently brought their … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Needs Empathy Note Cards

I used to believe regardless of political ideology, most people have this country’s best interest at heart. Well that belief is officially dead. It died somewhere between “many sides” and harassing high school students who had to hide in closets … Continue reading In this Wednesday Political Post, There is Only One Side

I’d like to extend special birthday wishes to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. On this day 3000 years ago he poked his little beak through his shell, devoured the rest of his clutchmates, and took his first dollar from Washington … Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread

This Monday is President’s Day here in the US. We rolled all of our presidential birthday threads into one day. Frankly I’d rather use the time to think on better presidents, like every one before this one. Which isn’t to … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Thinks of Better Presidents

Uvular can’t come to the WPT header this weekend because paid work leaves him too busy to devote 300-plus words to explaining why Special Counsel Robert Mueller handing down an eight-count indictment against Russian election hackers has firmly implanted Starbuck’s … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Takes What It Can Get