Wall emergency nonsense https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-seeks-gop-support-on-border-wall-as-senators-confront-hard-choices/2019/03/05/2d4e1b4a-3f81-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html Florida Poll nonsense https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/biden-trump-2020-florida-poll-1206260?cid=apn Additional Mueller Report nonsense https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/mueller-report-special-counsel-1206147 So a lot more nonsense all around, Welcome to Wednesday !!!! Continue reading In This Wednesday Post Trump and the Terrible No Good Several Months

♫ I say history never repeats I tell myself before I go to sleep Don’t say the words you might regret I lost before, you know I can’t forget ♫ –“History Never Repeats,” Split Enz Elliott Abrams returned. Silvio Berlusconi … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread of the Living Dead

So, CPAC happened.  Trump went off the rails for two hours of his usual, unhinged schtick: everyone hates us, we’re awesome, why does everyone act so mean to me?  It isn’t even worth pointing out that he’s clearly lost his … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Rambles for Two Hours

This week I’d like to try something a little different for the header. I’ll be focusing on current events in a region of the world that doesn’t often dominate the headlines: Oceania. That’s the Pacific, for those of you in … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Takes to the Sea

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

Morning Politicadoes! As we all are probably aware, yesterday, the Politics Thread’s attention was diverted to the House Oversight Committee Testimony of Michael Cohen. Cohen, ex-personal lawyer to the President, having previously lied to the House Intelligence committee came forward … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is Literally Grasping At Straws

1. Cohen testifies In short, Cohen calls Trump a “racist,” a “conman” and a “cheat.” I mean yes but you were associated with him. https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/politics/michael-cohen-testimony/index.html 2. Princess Ivanka weighs in on something she doesn’t any experience with… Ivanka “I don’t … Continue reading This Wednesday Political A“post”les

Well folks, tomorrow is Mike Cohen’s public testimony in front of the House and I’m sure some tea will be spilled, as I’m told the youths say. But with that looming, it feels for a moment like the calm before … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Is Very Calm

Venezuela, as we may all know now, is basically tearing itself apart over Maduro’s refusal to accept the reality that he really, truly sucks.  Lil’ Marco Rubio apparently thought tweeting a still from a snuff film was an acceptable response … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Just Going Crazy

What a draining week of news it’s been. Let’s stop for a minute and get caught up – how about a recap of all the crimes going on in the Trump administration? Well, some of the crimes, there’s way too … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Keeps On Rocking

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

Morning Politocadoes! Infrastructure Week has been more chaotic than usual. The Mueller Probe may (or may not) drop an interim (or maybe final?) report next week. The news comes from CNN and any other articles appear to be sourcing it. … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Terminates An Executive Order

Sorry guys, the power is out in my section of Virginia due to the weather. I have two minutes of battery left. I hate winter. Discuss the fall of civilization below: Welcome to Wednesday !!!! Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post Is Barely Here

Last I saw, 16 states have sued the current US administration over the emergency-but-first-let-me-go-golfing-the-real-emergency-is-I-don’t-have-an-omelette. Nobody’s ever seen this before, folks, believe me, if they didn’t think I was doing the right thing they wouldn’t be reacting like this. As always, … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Is Very Popular

That’s right, it’s National Drink Wine Day! Time to get out those wine glasses and drink to excess, because we all need it. Nothing else of importance is going on anyw–what’s that? It’s President’s Day? Oh, well then. Uh. This … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Celebrates The Holiday

SCIENCE! It’s all over the news, in one form or another. A number of us right here on the Avocado work in science, and when I’m not ruthlessly suppressing dissent against my dictatorial rule of this thread, I might just … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Goes To Mars

Good morning everyone, and happy Friday! President Baby isn’t getting the money he wants for his wall, so he’s going to make a boom boom in his pants and declare a national emergency about it. An emergency to stop….[checks notes] … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Declares an Emergency

Doin’ the Monster Mash! Good morning on this beautiful Valentine’s Day, politocadoes! Big news that came in last night: the judge in the Manafort case has determined that he lied to investigators on at least three separate occasions while ‘cooperating’ … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Does The Monster Mash

This wall deal is still a thing. GOP know it’s dead in the water. Democrats know it’s dead in the water. No one wants to pay for it. Financial responsibility has shifted from “Mexico” to Congress to National Emergency. The … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Thread Presents Wall of Confusion