Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Stay tuned to find out how Dastardly Donald manages to wiggle his way out of spilling national secrets, unsolicited and unprompted, to non-allied foreign powers. He’s like a kid that can’t resist gushing about … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Blows a Whistle

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Full disclosure, I didn’t watch the debates last night. I’m already voting for Warren anyway. Ten people debating is too many still. I am looking forward to one with 3 or 4 people left, … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is One Big Debate

Good morning everyone, and happy Friday! What new horrors await us today?! Please post. Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Argle Bargles

Good morning everyone! It is not a Happy Friday. I can’t get over the Amazon rainforest being on fire. It’s hitting me harder than the usual endless stream of bad news. Anyone who has been around since the Avocado was … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Burns to the Ground

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! In an effort to not scare away people who dislike politics, I’d like to rename this thread “The Friday Thread of Civic Discussion”. Maybe we’ll even get some car enthusiasts to stumble in here … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Rebrands Itself

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! What a week, huh? So much debating! It was like, a mass of people, just debating with each other. You might even call it… A large group of debaters. Debatists. Whatever! Democracy! Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Wins All The Debates

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! I’m feeling pretty worn out. The goings on of our political system have left me at a point where it’s becoming more and more difficult to come up with anything interesting to say in … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Can’t Save The World

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! The truth is important. Facts are important. Without those two things, we cannot function as a society. We cannot function as a country if our governing principles are that nothing matters anymore. The people … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Lies Lies and Lies

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! I haven’t been keeping up with things much this week. Unfortunately, work has been so busy that I don’t actually have any time to politicize myself. I’m going assume that nothing bad happened and … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Braces For Another Day In Trumpville

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Contrary to the header, I’m not really hungover, although I did, uh, have a few drinks yesterday.  I am actually at work, and because of the day off yesterday I completely forgot today was … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Celebrates America By Being Hungover

Good morning, and Happy Friday! On the one hand, it’s Friday.  On the other hand, democracy is dead. Ugh.  America.  What…what happened? Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Gerrymanders The Avocado

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Or possibly Sad Friday, if we end up going to war with Iran.  Sometimes it feels like our government is made up of a bunch of pretend overlords from a Civilization game.  “Who needs … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Drones On

Good morning everyone, and happy Friday! I’m still not resigning my post as Friday PT Overlord, though. You’ll have to deal with the lies and disingenuous assertions for at least a little while longer! Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Attacks An Upvote Tanker

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! There isn’t much to say. Just fire, brimstone, covfefe…whatever. Keep your heads up and continue to fight the good fight! Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is Tired

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! I’m fairly proud of my title here. It works on multiple levels! My plan is to charge a 5% upvote increase on all comments until we stop the influx of Kinja refugees from the … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Raises Tariffs on The Avocado

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! It’s the usual bullcrap in politics today. I know this, even writing it the night before. We know Trump is going to tweet or say something, or multiple things, that are incredibly stupid and … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Gets Impeaches By The Avocongress

Good morning everyone, Normally I say “happy Friday!”, but who am I kidding? Whatever day it is, our government is slowly taking away our rights and becoming fascists right in front of our eyes. The environment is slowly being destroyed. … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Doesn’t Want War

Good morning everyone, and happy Friday! Not much clever to say today (“but how is that different than usual, Chip?”), other than…jeez. If you had asked me in 2015 what I envisioned the last 2-3 years to be like, there … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Fails at Democracy

Good morning everyone, and happy Friday! When politics have becoming bringing a bucket of KFC to a Congressional hearing, you know you’ve hit that sweet spot of the dumbest timeline. Not that the stunt was anything worse, or even anywhere … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Plays Chicken

Good morning everyone and happy Friday! The FPT’s platform is very progressive and also pro-meme. You go vote me! Yes? Give vote now! Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Joins the Democratic Primary

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Our president and goofball kids are either a) in cahoots with a foreign government, or b) too stupid to collude with a foreign government. Both of those things are pretty damning. I haven’t read … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Isn’t a Trick, It’s a Collusion