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In the (now) 39 years I’ve been alive, I’ve actually lived through some crazy shit. The Challenger explosion when I was four. The fall of the Berlin Wall when I was ten. Parachute pants. 9/11, a major event I was … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is a Year Older, and Not Much Wiser
I will never be over the Calamari, nor should you! Imagine if you will that each Avocado member is a delegate for whatever the hell sort of elections we would have (dickbutt would win). Imagine the ridiculous representations, the zoom … Continue reading The Weekend PT Introduces Itself
♪ When I work, baby, you flirt around acting all so badYou think I’m dumb enough to buy that lineYou think you got me hadWell, I ain’t that dumb and, baby, you ain’t that bad— “I’m Mad,” Reverend Horton Heat … Continue reading The Friday Politics Threads Proclaims ‘That Profanes!’
Morning Politocadoes! As we all know by now, the President of the United States is actively attempting to dismantle the Postal Service. He is doing so in a bid to prevent voters from using mail-in ballots during a pandemic that … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is Still Messing With The Mail
I like to stay away from what most people might be talking about currently. At least as it pertains to this thread. In this moment, it’s the Democratic National Convention: Online Edition! I feel confident in saying it is being … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Learns A Lesson On Liberals And Leftists
Hello, and welcome to Tuesday Politicados! I hope you all are doing well, under the circumstances. Remember to take time for yourself, and your family, and call your folks (as long as they’re not emotionally toxic wastelands, in which case … Continue reading The Tuesday PT Thread Remembers The 19th Amendment
Trump Held A Training Session For Pennsylvania Campaign Volunteers And Nobody Showed Up In a blue room in the back, beneath an American flag with the words MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN printed in block letters inside the white stripes, a … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Not Ready for the DNC
I really wanted to open this with a link to the “We Just Got a Letter” Song from Blues Clues but it’s all memes. I mean, some of them were pretty good memes, but this is a Serious Issue. While … Continue reading The Weekend PT Tributes the Mail
Good Morning, Politicadoes. You might be saying to yourself “How can the Friday Politics Thread be on time, if it’s in the mail. Well, you see, this is last Friday’s Politics thread, and it’s just getting to you now. Who … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is in the Mail
Morning Politocadoes! So Joe Biden finally has a Vice Presidential pick in Senator Kamala Harris. I’m not surprised, certainly, speculation over her being his running mate has been there since well before he became the nominee. I have my misgivings … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Sounds Like Marge Simpson
I had a number of ideas kicking around in my head to bring up with today’s thread. Then the politics world was shooketh by the Kamala Harris for Vice President selection. Between yesterday and the run up to November 3rd, … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Is Avoiding The Obvious
There’s little I can add to this without sounding trite. So I’m going to let this person speak. Koko Kondo was 8 months old and with her mother when the first atomic bomb hit her home city of Hiroshima on … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Knows It Will Overcome…Someday
Puerto Rico halts primary voting in centers lacking ballots Puerto Rico on Sunday was forced to partially suspend voting for primaries marred by a lack of ballots as officials called on the president of the U.S. territory’s elections commission to … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Throwing its Hat into the VP Ring
Sam: Hey, all. I know the international tide of late has been pretty disappointing (except for Thighland). But good news, something fascinating is going on in what has been called “Europe’s last dictatorship.” Anna: About 8 different world leaders just … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Claps Its Hands, Potentially Says Yeah
Yes, Politicadoes, who among us hasn’t wanted to knock over that walking power droid from Star Wars? Joe Biden certainly does! Trump even said he wants to hurt energy. Also guns. All the hurting. As I was typing this, apparently … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread just wants to hurt Gonk
Morning Politocadoes! Been a hot minute since we’ve heard from Sally Yates. Sally Yates? The former Assistant Attorney General was fired early in the before time, in the long, long ago, at the beginning of The Dark Times for looking … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Had A Legitimate Basis
I awoke at 3:30am (AZ time) and arrived at the polling station at 4:15. I was thirty minutes earlier than the Poll Inspector (the show-runner, if you will). It was my first time working an election site. I had made … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Worked The Polls
Hey everyone! Shockingly the Commentariat has not angrily demanded my resignation as Majordomo of the Art Cop themed Avocado Banana Republic. So here’s Art Cop Vandelay in your eye! I’m continuing my quest to bring you only the freshest happy … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Will Overcome…Someday
I literally remembered I had to do the thread at… Ten minutes to my bedtime. And since my mom also literally just came in and told me about some weird “Trumpy Bear” commercial, I decided to assure everyone that the … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Not Sponsored by Trumpy Bear
Monty: So this week I was listening to the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast before work. They were talking about the Trump campaign’s ad strategy and it suddenly occurred to me that I haven’t seen any US political ads for this cycle, not … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Reacts
Hi Politicadoes! Today’s title is a playful jab at what was actually a very moving part of President Obama’s eulogy for Congressman John Lewis yesterday: “Bull Connor may be gone, but today, we witness with our own eyes, police officers … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is doing its darndest
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