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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
Here’s your Monday thread. Boris Johnson, the UK’s answer to “what if we created Donald Trump in our image?” is not having a good week, and it only promises to get worse. Which is both funny to watch, but depressing … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Demands Another Referendum Vote
As always, lots of stuff happening in the world – but this weekend, that stuff has musical accompaniment! Let’s start in Britain. Boris Johnson is undergoing his predestined humiliation as PM, but a hard Brexit still looms large over the … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Rocks Out
Trump continues to double and triple down on his claims about hurricane Dorian definitely hitting Alabama despite every piece of evidence in the last week or so saying otherwise. Meanwhile Dorian is actually threatening lives and land in the Carolinas. … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Triples Down
Morning Politocadoes! President Crime President did a dumb, dangerous, and also illegal thing in response to Hurricane Dorian. For some reason, Trump came to believe that Alabama would be impacted by the storm, despite no evidence and promptly tweeted it. … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is Brought To You By Sharpie
Ah yes, fun to see POTUS on one of his golf courses asked if he had anything to say to Poland on the 80th anniversary of their being invaded by Germany to signal the beginning of WWII replying with “I … Continue reading The Tuesday Politics Thread Congratulates Poland
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