The Haunting of Talk Elections: An Atlas Forum Adventure

[Vice President Scott🦋]

Glad to see this is coming back!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Glad to see this is coming back!

Yes, I thought you'd given up the ghost, even though it's not yet Lent.

[UBI man good]

good start. I hope I make an appearance.

[Representative Joseph Cao]

It's baaaaaack!

[God-Empress Stacey I of House Abrams]

IT'S BACK

[Away, haul away, we'll haul away, Joe!]

5.

The elite team of investigators hastened to the 2024 board, and were promptly redirected to the 2020 board. Ancient, hulking, derelict, the 2020 board was exactly the kind of place where one might have expected supernatural or ghastly or demonic activity, a fact that Battista Minola wasted no time in pointing out.

"The general rule with ghosts is that the older the setting is, the more haunted it's liable to be," he said. "That's why Italy is the most haunted country in the world."

"You say that like it's a good thing," said Ferguson.

"If it weren't a good thing then we wouldn't be in a Shirley Jackson pastiche, now, would we?" KaiserDave pointed out.

"Oh? How much Shirley Jackson have you actually read?" Ferguson.

"Almost as much as Phil Scott has. God bless the Vermont Republic," KaiserDave said.

Just then, it loomed before them.

The ghost. Eerie and immense.

In a thread in the 2020 board was written:

"HELP TENDER BREDESEN COME HOME"

[Hindsight was 2020]

good start. I hope I make an appearance.

[Radically celibate, involuntarily feminist]

"The general rule with ghosts is that the older the setting is, the more haunted it's liable to be," he said. "That's why Italy is the most haunted country in the world."

Haunted by its politicians, you mean? Absolutely true.

[JoeInator still needs to try a burrito!]

good start. I hope I make an appearance.