Morning Politocades! The House voted to send the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate yesterday. While I think we can certainly say that they could’ve added some more. War crimes among the most recent, I would imagine. Ah well, Abuse … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Knew Exactly What Was Going On
Morning Politocadoes! On Wednesday morning, the Stable Genius President walked back his aggressive stance toward Iran. Following the assassination of Suleimani and Iran’s counterattack and we all appeared to be on the precipice of war, Trump appeared to have taken … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Will Not Be Tolerited Any Longer
Morning Politocadoes! The Holidays are dead! Let us return to our regularly scheduled drudgery. Indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested immunity from charges of corruption on Wednesday. The move, if successful, will likely delay his trial for months until after … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Requests Immunity
Morning Politocadoes! Forgive the lateness in posting! Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread After Christmas
Morning Politocadoes! The Crime President What Does Crimes has been impeached in the House of Representatives on two article of impeachment: Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress. He is the third President of the United States to be formally … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Votes ‘Present’
Yeah, there’s no debate. Just a bunch of people who are in this moment doing the right thing. Except wait, are there some who aren’t? Those aren’t clowns, Grum! Those are the Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee and … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Debates Impeachment
Morning Politocadoes! Yes, it’s the House Judiciary Impeachment Hearing, alright.And as they did for Bill Clinton’s Impeachment and Richard Nixon’s, the House once again consulted the Constitution, as if we hadn’t been doing that since Day 1 of Hellworld. Did … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Consults The Constitution
Morning Politocadoes! Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day today with a spasm of gluttony so profound it brings a tear to our country’s collective eye. Unless something really stupid happens, I suspect that activity on the thread will be relatively low. Since … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Wishes You A Happy Turkey Day
Morning Politocadoes! The Impeachment Trial continued yesterday with the public hearings of Amb Gordson Sondland, Defense Dept. Official Laura Cooper, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale. Cooper’s testimony was damning, through e-mails from her staff it … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread WANTS NOTHING
It was actually the other way around in the hearing about how the Politics Thread Morning Politocadoes! Testimonies in the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump (take it in folks, isn’t it lovely to say?) began on Wednesday, with US Diplomat … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Cares More About Ukraine Than Biden
Morning Politocadoes! Roger Stone went to court on Wednesday. The world’s biggest Richard Nixon Stan is defendant in the last indictment to come from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office. The prosecution laid out a concise summary and opening narrative of … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Goes To Court
Happy Halloween Poliocadoes!! OOooooo it’s the spooookiest time of the year. Time for the little ones to dress up as mummies and ghost and abscond with candy from friends and neighbors. Time for teens to TP houses and local statues, … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread of Terror! An Avocado Halloween Special
Morning Politocadoes! Multiple Republican Congressman should be in jail right now. Alright, well, that’s probably true on any given day but it’s absolutely true today. Led by Noted Multiple DUI-haver and Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, 48 House Republicans stormed the … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Launches A Really Futile and Stupid Gesture
Morning Politocadoes, It is with a heavy heart that I report on the overnight passing of Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings, Chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee. A long time legislator, having previously served with the Maryland House of Delegates, as … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Can’t Stop The News
Morning Politocadoes! The President doubled down on his betrayal of our allies in the fight against Isis, th Kurdish people, writing them off as not ‘helping us at Normandy’ or in our fight for independence. This line of reasoning is … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Didn’t Help At Normandy
Very well, where do we even begin? So, the President, in his attempts to defend himself from his own imminent impeachment, tweeted a picture of Joe Biden to show that he was justified in extorting a foreign country. The thing … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Looks At This Photograph
Morning Politocadoes! Boy, what a year its the been these past few days. The Whistleblower scandal has been with us in some form for less than two weeks and it somehow keeps getting worse for the Crime President and coterie … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Releases *A* Transcript
Morning Politocadoes! Congress is currently in a tense battle with the acting Director of National Intelligence whom has refused to share certain details of a whistleblower’s account of Trump’s discussion with a foreign leader. Why? Well, let’s set the mood … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Makes A Promise
Morning Politocadoes! With the ouster of John Bolton, the United States is once again without an NSA Director. The third in as many years, John “Mustache Rides For Dayz” Bolton, was a warmonger of the highest degree and its good … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Has Got The Moves Like Kissinger
Morning Politocadoes! President Crime President did a dumb, dangerous, and also illegal thing in response to Hurricane Dorian. For some reason, Trump came to believe that Alabama would be impacted by the storm, despite no evidence and promptly tweeted it. … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is Brought To You By Sharpie
Morning Politocadoes, So I woke up on Wednesday hearing that Boris Johnson, former Boy-Mayor of Londontown, and current Prime Minister (?) of the United Kingdom was asking the Queen to suspend Parliament in order to, essentially, force a hard Brexit. … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is At It Again
