♪ It took a short walk and a talk To change the rules of engagement While you searched frantically for reverse And them claiming That virtue never tested is no virtue at all And so I lost my ignorance ♪ … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Tells Its Better Angels to Go to Hell

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Considering how much dirt we as citizens already have on Trump, can you imagine how much Mueller has. I’m starting to think that investigating Trump is easier than winning a game of Clue. “It … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Gets Its Upvotes From Russia

Morning Politocadoes! Well! It certainly has been a wild ride for one Michael ‘Says Who?’ Cohen, longtime lawyer to the President. Details have emerged about Cohen’s ‘consulting’ work with companies eager to learn how to deal with a Dragon Energy … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is Crushing It

Republican voters rallied behind candidates aligned with President Trump and party leaders in a trio of pivotal Senate primaries Tuesday, reinvigorating the GOP’s bid to hold and possibly expand on its majority in midterm elections. This is the news I … Continue reading In This Wednesday Political Post, Election News is Still Hot Takes

I really just wanted to say that I woke up the other day and saw a lot of things about John McCain’s funeral and how he didn’t want Trump to attend, and just assumed he had died and wondered why … Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread Disinvites You to Its Funeral

I know you all heard some nasty things over the weekend, but I want to be clear that what I said was the opposite of what I meant. Not only is it infrastructure week yet again, but it’s also opposite … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Walks Back Some Statements

Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace, Wednesday’s child is full of woe, Thursday’s child has far to go. Friday’s child is loving and giving, Saturday’s child works hard for a living, But the child … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Carries a Parental Advisory

Good morning everyone, and happy Friday! What the hell is Trump thinking? What the hell is Rudy Giuliani thinking?! Another day in the life of the most incompetent, ridiculous, offensive clown car sideshow presidency that this nation has ever witnessed. … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Has The Worst @%$#ing Attorneys

Morning Politocadoes! We say goodbye to Ty Cobb, no not the AL home run leader and base stealer, but his distant relative,  the  leader of the President’s legal defense in the Russia affair and victor in the White House Mustache … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Strikes Out

There wasn’t a politics thread for today and I’m stranded so let’s do this. Trump is still President despite being America’s answer to Trujillo, Kanye is still saying dumb shit about slavery, the Middle East continues to fester and 2018 … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Flies Us In!

I’ve been thinking a lot about the White House issuing a statement saying that because John Kelly won’t let staffers swear in front of a lady, he is actually, I don’t know, a feminist ally or something. This would likely … Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread Will Not Swear In Front of a Lady

It’s come up several times lately so I think it’s time we had a moment to talk about fat-shaming and why it’s not okay here. It’s easy and sometimes satisfying to talk about Trump in terms of his physical inadequacies, … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Gets Serious For Once

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! What insanity awaits us today? A firing, maybe? Is there even anyone left for Trump to fire? By the way, if you haven’t listened to Trump’s call in to Fox & Friends, it’s a … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Calls In To Fox & Friends

Morning politocadoes! As we well know by now, Michael Cohen is pleading the fifth in the Stormy Daniels lawsuit. .This is not uncommon in civil or criminal litigation. I mean, what sort of stable genius could possibly have an issue … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Pleads the Fifth

Positive DACA ruling U.S. Must Keep DACA and Accept New Applications, Federal Judge Rules https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/daca-dreamers-trump.html 🙂 Welcome to Wednesday! Continue reading In This Wednesday Political Post, A Huge DACA victory!

I’ve been spoiled, the last few Mondays have had huge bombshells break and they’ve made my Tuesday threads easy. Yesterday brought several big items. They caught the guy who murdered people in a Waffle House, but police tackled and arrested … Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread Will Be Confirmed by the Senate

Not music, mind you, just musicians. They can be insightful and interesting, but they’re not exactly the political masterminds that we expect them to be. If you want to know more, see the recent musings of Shania Twain, Morrissey and … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Stops Listening to Musicians

♫ What’s so great about the Barrier Reef? What’s so fine about art? What’s so good ‘bout a good time spent When you’re workin’ on a broken, workin’ on a broken man? ♫ — “Barrier Reef,” Old 97’s Earth Day, … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Grows World-Weary

Good morning everyone, and happy Friday! The. Best. People. I think the outflow of Trump news has finally broken the sound barrier. There are probably two new scandals that happened while typing this post, and now I’m behind the curve. … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Hires Deflated Lawyers

Hey folks, Quick thread. Busy at work. NY AG Schneiderman is pushing to change NY state laws so that Trump aides can still be prosecuted in the event of a Presidential pardon. Normally, this would fall under Double Jeopardy since … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Seeks to Avoid Double Jeopardy