Morning Politocadoes! I hope everyone is doing well. The world is scarier and even more uncertain than it was a month ago. Be sure to check in with friends and family when you can. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis finally, finally, issued … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Remains Indoors

Morning Politocadoes! The Coronavirus Stimulus package has passed the Senate 96-0. The four nays were Republicans, of course, and of course, they objected because they felt it would encourage workers to stay on unemployment. So fuck those particular jerks. The … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Gets Stimulated

Morning Politocadoes! The Coronavirus continues its disruptions to the daily lives of people around the world. After a considerable amount of dawdling, the US has passed it’s first significant legislation to provide some relief to scared US citizens and residents. … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Gets Some Relief

Morning Politocadoes!   It has been an eventful Infrastructure Week. With a surging Joe Biden likely on the path to the nomination, voters around the country have swallowed their pride and mouthed words they remember from that one superhero movie … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Suspends Its Season

Morning Politocadoes! The Crime President continues to not take the threat of the Coronavirus seriously. Fearful that it makes him look bad. The Vice President may or may not have been infected. California had it’s first reported death. The first … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Always Wanted To Be A Lumberjack

Morning Politocadoes! The President* attempted to assuage fears on Wednesday about a potential outbreak of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. Did he do so with a thoughtful, measured speech that stayed on topic that he then let more knowledgeable officials speak … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Puts Pence In Charge

Morning Politocadoes! Our world is fire. The President is busily doing as much criming as he can because that now he has been acquitted, he believes he is untouchable. Apart from pardoning and commuting the sentences other fellow mobster politicians … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread: Fury Road

Morning Politocadoes! The results of the NH primary have put the progressive side of the party squarely in the front of the race. With Sanders in the lead, he stands to shape the race going forward. Nipping at his heels … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Still Has Too Many Candidates

Morning Politocadoes! The Senate did what we thought it would do. Trump has been acquitted. The lack of moral rectitude on display is frankly staggering. What’s scary is what will be coming down the pipe now. Trump now knows that … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is Too Legit To Acquit

Morning Politocadoes!   So, John Bolton should testify. Hot Take, I know. He should testify in the Impeachment Trial. He should have testified before the House during the impeachment hearings. At every possible point, he should have testified. So we … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Should Testify

Good Morning Politocadoes! The Impeached President on Trial  for Crimes seems to think that Thomas Edison invented the wheel. "You have to give [@ElonMusk] credit," President Trump tells @JoeSquawk. "He's one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Invents The Wheel

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