Happy Friday! Go for it. Do not threaten Mayor McSquirrel, please flag any harassment or spam you witness! Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Probes Sex Clams

Shulkin is out! In the latest game of Trump Administration Apprentice, the beleaguered, corrupt VA secretary was tossed out by President Stable Genius using his preferred method, Twitter. His replacement is everyone’s favorite “doctor” (well no, not the one that … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Chooses Personal Chemistry Over Traditional Qualifications

It’s no secret, I am not a Trump fan or even a GOP fan for that matter. However after two women that had consensual sexual relations with Trump have come forward, I find myself asking what is the point? Now … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post Files A Motion

My favorite — and by that I mean the thing that has left me shaking my head the hardest — thing from this past weekend was Rick Santorum’s assertion that marching to demand stricter gun control is not “doing something”, … Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread Takes a CPR Class

I considered making this about Stormy Daniels, and the truly depressing story of her relationship with the Spineless One running America right now, but as I sat there last night, wishing for death, I realized that this prurient examination of … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Is Ready For Its Close Up With President Mojo

♫ Building up to the larger point With an arrogance not rare or pretty We don’t declare the war on idleness When outside it’s cold and shitty ♫ — “Titanic Terrarium,” The Tragically Hip Your humble WPT host will do … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Takes ‘March’ Literally

  Keep in mind the Mayor McSquirrel rule and enjoy. Continue reading The Friday Political Thread Promises Not to Start a War

Morning Politocadoes! Here’s to Mark Zuckerberg, Silicon Valley wunderkind, noted grey t-shirt haver, Michael Cera impersonator, and  the man who thought he would be President. Remember that, folks? When he was just wandering around the Midwest just because he really … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Will Be Happy To Testify

Fox News (entertainment news according to Shepard Smith) has not been referred to a propaganda machine by Ralph Peters, a Fox News strategic analyst. Whatever you phrase you think accurately describes it, let’s be clear Fox is not real news. … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Thread is Just Entertainment News

I, for one, am shocked — SHOCKED — to hear that Facebook has known about the data breach for two years and basically said “oh yeah, we were totally gonna delete that, you guys, weird that it never happened”. I am … Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread Wants Your Sweet, Sweet Data

Full pension, time to spend on my boat, the whole thing. Pretty sweet. It sure would be awful to be fired right now… If I die, remember to be kind to your fellow Avocados, flag for rule breaking and don’t … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Was Just 2 Days From Retirement

♪ A curse upon you Oliver Cromwell You who raped our Motherland I hope you’re rotting down in hell For the horrors that you sent To our misfortunate forefathers Whom you robbed of their birthright “To hell or Connaught” may … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gets Its Irish Up

Good morning everyone, and happy Friday! There’s not much more to say about Trump’s administration at this point, except that it’s probably going to destroy us all through sheer incompetence. We’re losing one “level headed” General away from Trump pushing … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Has No Staff Turnovers

Sorry for the late post, busy at work. The US Senate has rolled back banking rules set in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Why anyone, particularly a certain subset of Democratic senators voted for this, is beyond me. I … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Makes It 2008 All Over Again

In a typical day for the Trump administration, key players were fired via tweets while the media and country tried to make sense of Trump’s irrational decisions. All the while, the Pennsylvania special election was looming in a district about … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post The Working Class Realizes Trump Isn’t Working

Sorry folks, the normal glut of crazy political news combined with an early morning meeting for me means a barebones Politics Thread. You know what to do, talk about news and politics and such here. As always, be excellent to … Continue reading Tuesday Politics Thread

Clearly both sides are the same. One side wants women to be free to have all of the abortions they want, to welcome immigrants from all over and provide them all with free healthcare while the other side wants the … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Plays Both Sides

♪ My head can’t tolerate this bobbing and pretending Listening to some bullethead and the madness that he’s saying ♪ — “Your Racist Friend,” They Might Be Giants Accept, without excusing, the incendiary title of this WPT installment as Uvular … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Crosses the Color Line

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! Who else thinks that Trump is totally being played by Kim Jong Un?    And what does it say about our country that our top envoys to North Korea are Donald Trump and Dennis Rodman?  Is this real … Continue reading The Friday Political Thread Accepts A Meeting With North Kinja

Morning politocadoes! “Infrastructure Week” continues unabated. In fact, I expect “Infrastructure Week” to continue into next week and the week after, as more scandals, firings, and indictments drop. As we all know, it’s completely normal to set up secret back-channels … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Has A Beer In The Seychelles

Let’s do this…it’s okay if you need anti-depressants. 1. Nunberg gets subpoenaed, loses it on multiple networks, agrees to comply. This should tell you state of conservatism in this country is that people are trying to spin this utter meltdown … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post Is Just Anti-Depressants, Okay?