• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Republicans do not pay their debts.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

T R E 4 5 O N

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Second rate reporter says what?

I really should read my own blog.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

This fight is for everything.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Mobile Menu

  • Winnable House Races
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • Balloon Juice 2023 Pet Calendar (coming soon)
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • War in Ukraine
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • 2021-22 Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Bush- The Modern Robespierre?

Bush- The Modern Robespierre?

by John Cole|  January 14, 20039:01 am| Leave a Comment

This post is in: General Stupidity

FacebookTweetEmail

This idiot thinks so:

By the time the Reign of Terror ended, France had grown so used to an iron hand and a secretive, militaristic government that Napolean could easily pick up the pieces and impose another dictatorship. People had forgotten what freedom was. Patriotism had become a tool for social control, rather than social justice, and civil liberties were a thing of the past.

So how different are we today? The issue isn’t Iraq, the Patriot Act, or Bush. The issue is freedom: if we want it, we’d better let go of fear, the ultimate Weapon of Mass Distraction. We’d better confront the hysteria-inducing tactics asking us to equate freedom with corporate pork for defense contractors. We’d better think twice about tossing aside fundamental constitutional rights in the so-called pursuit of liberty. Because if we don’t, what’s coming next could be even worse.

This is so stupid that my circuits overloaded when I went to comment. Fill in your own.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « New Perma-Links
Next Post: Tell Us What You Think, Sheryl »

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8

Recent Comments

  • Omnes Omnibus on B-J After Dark Open Thread: FaFo in Utah (Mar 24, 2023 @ 1:32am)
  • Alison Rose on B-J After Dark Open Thread: FaFo in Utah (Mar 24, 2023 @ 1:30am)
  • West of the Rockies on B-J After Dark Open Thread: FaFo in Utah (Mar 24, 2023 @ 1:24am)
  • a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio) on B-J After Dark Open Thread: FaFo in Utah (Mar 24, 2023 @ 1:23am)
  • oatler on B-J After Dark Open Thread: FaFo in Utah (Mar 24, 2023 @ 1:16am)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
We All Need A Little Kindness
Classified Documents: A Primer
State & Local Elections Discussion

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
TaMara
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Join the Fight!

Join the Fight Signup Form
All Join the Fight Posts

Balloon Juice Events

5/14  The Apocalypse
5/20  Home Away from Home
5/29  We’re Back, Baby
7/21  Merging!

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2023 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!