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

If we happen to wander into the White House and advise the president about a crime, it’s important to remember we were acting on our own accord.   TheHill.com Giuliani says State Department asked him to take call from Ukrainian official … Continue reading In this Wednesday Political Thread, Us Avocados Are Private Citizens Acting on our Accord

Boy, how about that Rudy Giuliani, huh? After months of running around soliciting foreign assistance for Trump’s re-election campaign, and then about as long running his mouth about it on TV, and THEN being sold up the river when Trump … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (Incriminating Itself)

I think we all know what’s been happening this weekend. We know it will probably go on for a while until we either actually get the process of impeachment started, or we keep playing “are you fucking serious, you’re still … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Riding the Impeachment Train

Soooooooo, how about those politics lately? (I was also thinking about putting “I Worship Chaos” by Children of Bodom up here, but I suppose death metal with Cookie Monster vocals is more of an acquired taste.) It’s pretty overwhelming – … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Expects The Unexpected

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Excuse the really stupid title, please. It just seemed to work on a bunch of different levels for a fleeting moment. Night thread, etc. Anywho, we have the rusty gears of democracy turning, the … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Gets Removed From Orifice

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

Nancy Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry of Trump MOD UPDATE: Feel free to discuss it here. If the thread gets borky again, we’ll figure out next steps then. Continue reading This Wednesday Political Thread There Are No Villains Just Villainous Humans

Folks, it’s happening. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is reconsidering her stance on impeachment. I don’t know about you but I’m ready for the scathing, strongly worded letter any day now. We all still need good news, so if … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Changes Its Tune

Republican Rep. Paul Mitchell’s surprise retirement began with a President Trump tweet. Moments after Trump’s July 14 missive telling four U.S. congresswomen of color to “go back” to their countries of origin, the congressman from Michigan phoned a fellow House … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Full of Petty, Childish Bull***t

The big story: on Friday, millions of young people held a strike, skipping school and joining protests around the world against climate change. Or more specifically, about the refusal of so many governments and industries to @#$@%^$ DO SOMETHING ABOUT … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Likes a Habitable Earth

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

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

  First poll after third Democratic debate shows Biden leading but Warren rising Continue reading This Wednesday Political Thread Elizabeth Warren Rises

You guys ready to bomb Iran? We’d better wait until our good friends who only have the US’s best interests in mind, the Saudis, to tell us whether we will or not. And this one will totally not be all … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Hires Out Its Military

Constitution Week is a celebration of the constitution of the United States of America, a quaint little document the country bases its laws on.  It’s sort of important, though you wouldn’t know it from the last three years of it … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Celebrates Constitution Week

A Democratic primary debate happened a few days ago, and it’s been good to read the discussion about it here at the ol’ Avocado. Let’s take a few minutes to appreciate what we have here: a debate between (mostly) mature … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Debates Debates

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

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

Why John Bolton had to leave and what to expect next Continue reading This Wednesday Political Thread Magnum P “Why” Got Fired

Look, I had a whole thing planned about this and then the meeting was canceled last night right after I went to bed, and it’s too early for me to think of anything else, and I don’t want to have … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Invites Over the Taliban Until We Don’t