• 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.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

No one could have predicted…

People are complicated. Love is not.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

This blog will pay for itself.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Mobile Menu

  • Four Directions Montana
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2024 Elections
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / When People Who Know Things Speak

When People Who Know Things Speak

by John Cole|  May 13, 200510:41 am| 4 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

FacebookTweetEmail

Poor Jim Lampley. If you have not followed the shenanigans of Lampley at the Huffington Post (my remarks here, here,here, and here), you probably should get up to speed before reading this:

Since the election outcome and the exit poll are two possible views of the

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « BRACC Friday
Next Post: Army of God »

Reader Interactions

4Comments

  1. 1.

    scs

    May 14, 2005 at 4:20 am

    Couldn’t let this blog sit commentless.

    As a general centrist, living amongst avowed leftists, and as one who voted for Bush, I can personally vouch for the alternative non-election-stealing theory.

    I kept my vote for Bush like a state secret. In fact, after I told one friend I was voting for Bush, and she replied, “I am going to throw up”, I pretty much learned to keep it to myself. And I wasn’t the only one. My mother told us not to tell my brother and sister-in-law that she was voting for Bush and made us all promise her that we would tell them she was voting for Kerry.

    Now if you multiply this effect all over the country, its no wonder Bush was trailing in the exit polls. Especially as it seems that many voting places are in the city center, and as pollsters are probably minimum wage political activists (Democrats), they are not the people you want to be telling you voted for Bush. Not if you want to get out of the place in one piece.

  2. 2.

    scs

    May 14, 2005 at 4:40 am

    By the way, John Cole, although I like your quote, you should be careful not to use it too liberally. You shouldn’t use it as a crutch to dismiss others arguements (arguments? God I miss spell check) as well-meaning tripe, because that may be easier for you than actually seeing the point in what others say, but it might end up making you the one with a shielded mind. Just because you think it’s misguided sincerity, doesn’t mean it is.

Comments are closed.

Trackbacks

  1. Balloon Juice says:
    October 20, 2005 at 8:34 am

    […] I will leave it to my more imaginative commenters to explain to me how the duly exlected President of the United States (who was Bush, and not Gore or kerry, despite what Jim Lampley and the majority of the HuffPo writers think) and his chosen running mate and subordinates can ‘hijack’ the policy they were elected to create. It would not be unlike me ‘hijacking’ the podium this morning during the class I have been hired to teach, but I give Wilkerson bonus points for using the word ‘cabal’ without the requisite pejorative ‘neocon.’ […]

  2. Balloon Juice says:
    November 16, 2005 at 6:13 pm

    […] While none of this means that it actually happened, it certainly means vote manipulation with electronic voting machines could happen and could have happened. Again, this is a write-up from sources who tend to believe vote manipulation did happen, so I would recommend reading the GAO report (found here courtesy of BradBlog), and see for yourself if the write-up I have excerpted here accurately portrays the findings in the report. As I side note, if in fac, it does turn out that the vote was stolen in 2004, I better get used to the taste of crow because I am going to have to eat a few heaping servings. […]

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • Nelle on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 4:38pm)
  • Geminid on Take the Fucking Win (Apr 15, 2024 @ 4:37pm)
  • cain on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 4:29pm)
  • WaterGirl on Righteous Rant Open Thread (Apr 15, 2024 @ 4:27pm)
  • Brachiator on Henry Would Like His Lunch Right Now, Please (Open Thread) (Apr 15, 2024 @ 4:27pm)

🎈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

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Talk of Meetups – Meetup Planning
Proposed BJ meetups list from frosty

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8
Virginia House Races
Four Directions – Montana
Worker Power AZ
Four Directions – Arizona
Four Directions – Nevada

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
Positive Climate News
War in Ukraine
Cole’s “Stories from the Road”
Classified Documents Primer

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)

Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Twitter / Spoutible

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

Political Action 2024

Postcard Writing Information

Balloon Juice for Four Directions AZ

Donate

Balloon Juice for Four Directions NV

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 © 2024 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

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

Email sent!