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

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! No matter how bad my life gets, I just remind myself that I could be Julian Assange. There might be some universe with an inverted version of this guy, existing in a solitary cave … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Lives In Its Own Filth

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! How are we all doing in this, the twilight of American Democracy? As the oceans boil, the legislature is compromised by special interests, and our presidential figurehead is a complete embarrassment? Fun! Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is [REDACTED]

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! And by “Happy Friday” I mean this is a sad Friday. On one hand, it sounds like the Special Olympics might have been given their budget back. But on the other hand, someone tries … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Has Its Funding Cut

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! I’m both tired this morning, and tired in general. Low energy. Sad! Here’s to hoping that nothing terrible happens today, and Trump just shuts up and golfs or something. Always remember: Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is Very Tired

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! I really don’t have much to say. Reality speaks for itself. I have nothing left to complain about or rail against. It’s all just so…so dumb. One of these days I’ll actually put some … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Celebrates the End of a Very Dumb Week

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! I have been super busy at work the last couple of days, and have mostly exchanged listening to NPR and their quiet, reflective both siderism with WFMU on my commutes, so I’m sort of … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Never Remembers

Good morning everyone, and happy Friday! As we wait for the Mueller report, which is due out between 1 and 562 weeks from now, we might as well wonder why our Avocado Report report hasn’t already lead to Trump’s impeachment. … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Releases Its Report