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

Morning Politocadoes! Mueller speaks! Yes, in a rare appearance from the Special Prosecutor on Wednesday, Robert Swan Mueller III delivered a statement regarding his investigation and subsequently tendered his resignation from the Department of Justice.Mueller told us exactly what we … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Doesn’t Not Call For Impeachment

I don’t have any but if you do, post some… Welcome to Wednesday!!!! Continue reading This Wednesday Political Thread Could Stand Some Good News

Look man, it’s the day after a holiday weekend here in the US, and I’ll be honest, I’m not even close to up to speed. I didn’t follow a lick of politics for the last 3 days so I have … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Is Recovering

It’s Memorial Day in the US, which is basically our Remembrance Day, except with more shopping. So. Much. Shopping. In other news, as we all know, Theresa May finally gave up, gave everyone in the UK the metaphorical finger, dropped … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Has Off for Memorial Day

Good news, everyone! Theresa May has resigned! Theresa May Meets Her Lonely End Mrs. May’s battle is over, her exultant rivals unleashed. Unlike [censored by WPT host for GoT spoilers and yes everyone on the planet is still talking about … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Has Resigned In Disgrace

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

Morning Politocadoes, Following a devastating milkshake attack in Newcastle, Nigel Farage sheltered in his Brexit Bus on Wednesday when several milkshake-wielding assailants were spotted by supporters. Nevertheless, he remained ‘cautiously close’ to the bus while greeting supporters. When asked by … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Won’t Leave The Bus

Democrats Closer to Seeing Trump Finance Records With Ruling https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-20/democrats-closer-to-seeing-trump-tax-records-after-court-ruling I will be shocked if this happens before the election AG Barr: ‘I felt the rules were being changed to hurt Trump’ https://www.foxnews.com/politics/william-barr-rules-change-hurt-trump Sounds really professional Welcome to Wednesday!!!! Continue reading This Wednesday Political Thread Needs To See The $$$$$$$

Really the title of this thread could have been about anything today, like yet another Trump flunky not appearing before Congress and Congress probably doing nothing about it, or how yet another migrant child has died while in US custody, but I just … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Gets A Pardon

NARAL: Pro-Choice America Center for Reproductive Rights Guttmacher Institute       Continue reading The Monday Politics Post is Pro-Choice

Let’s check in with the United States of America, shall we? Missouri is the latest state to criminalize abortion, or rather to make a show of doing so in order to challenge Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Is Back, Alright!

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

Morning Politocadoes, Dark days. Alabama’s governor signed into law one of the most restrictive bans on abortion in the country. It is a felony to give one and it is a felony to get one, and if you live in … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Grants A Pardon

‘He’s white, male and gay’: Buttigieg hits obstacles with black voters https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/15/pete-buttigieg-black-voters-1322396 “He’s white, male and gay, all three of those things are going to create obstacles for various communities — specifically, I think, the white and the gay, for … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Thread is Wiped Out

Trade war ramping up with China, John Bolton is just itchin’ for a real war with Iran, I don’t know what else to say. I can’t come up with any jokes about it. None of it is good. Maybe I’ll … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Is Fun And Easy To Win

The only sad thing about this story is that Buttgieg didn’t know who Alfred E. Neuman is, though he did kind of manage to make it snarky in return by calling it a “generational thing.” (Although honestly, how the shit … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Votes for Alfred E. Neuman

It’s been a hard week. Harder weeks are ahead. Let’s find some positivity this weekend? Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Doesn’t Want To Get Out Of Bed

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

Morning Politocadoes! con·tempt·i·ble /kənˈtem(p)təb(ə)l/ adjective deserving contempt; despicable. Such a cromulent word. Not only does it describe the whole of the Administration but it can also describe individual members of the Administration. Like, say Attorney General William Barr. Yes! The … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is Contemptible

So I was looking through the news to try to find a feel-good story for you guys. As opposed to all the “feel bad” stories that are everywhere and all I came up with was spicy chicken nuggets are coming … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Thread is sick of hot takes