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?

Look, after yesterday, there’s only one thing this thread can be about, right? US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has not spent any of the money that Congress allocated to him in order to fight Russian interference in our elections. … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Will Not Spend 80 Hours Going Through E-mails

It’s Monday, and like a shark in the water Mueller is out there smelling blood. Let’s hope he’s dropping another big one on us soon, we could use an injection of good news.   Remember to be kind to your … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Waits for More

♫ It’s your life And you can do what you want Do what you like But please don’t keep a-me waiting Please don’t keep a-me waiting ♫ Passion meets aggression in this wheedling warble of teen lust. Just as Ray … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Could Use a Weekend

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday!   Once again, our Bozo-In-Chief manages to make a terrible decision against all common sense.  How does this guy manage to be so consistently terrible?  I don’t really expect anything less, of course, but … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Imposes A Tariff On Comments

Lordy! Yesterday was utterly bananas for Trumpworld, and there’s really no sign of that stopping. In addition to learning that Jared’s security clearance has been busted down to lower than the White House Calligrapher, we’ve had Hope Hicks depart, renewed … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Has A Higher Security Clearance Than Jared

There are several big stories so let’s get started: 1. Kushner loses a security clearance he never should have had in the first place. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/donald-trump-jared-kushner-investigations/index.html 2. Several foreign governments were planning to use Kushner’s weaknesses as leverage for blackmail and … Continue reading This Wednesday Political Post The Sh*t Hits The Fan

I’m still not over ol’ Ruggy Trump’s Internet Tough Guy proclamation that HE ALONE would have stopped the Parkland shooting. I, like pretty much everybody, immediately thought about that gif of Trump freaking out over a bird. I guess there … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Would Have Run In There

Like Trump at CPAC, this thread has the approval of 93% of the people who were already pre-dispositioned to like the politics thread. You can’t make this stuff up, folks. It’s definitely a reflection of this thread’s likeability and in … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Gets a 93% Approval Rating

♪ Am I just a hypocrite, Or am I really a whore? But to coin a phrase is always much more fun To coin a phrase is always much more “now” ♪ — Drivin’ N’ Cryin’, “Watch the Fire/to Coin … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Coins a Phrase

Good morning everyone, and Happy Friday! I guess, in a strange way, we’re sort of hosting a town hall meeting here every day. Except with our town halls, we occasionally have a racist robot wander in that has to be … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Hosts A Town Hall Meeting