Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

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

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Let there be snark.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

All your base are belong to Tunch.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

You are here: Home / z-Retired Categories / Site Maintenance / Balloon Juice is LOSING!

Balloon Juice is LOSING!

by | 30 Comments

This post is in: 

We’re losing to crap blogs, people. VOTE! This is a meaningless competition, but c’mon, we need to beat RedState. Do you want them to win. Do ya? DO YA? I know there are enough of you to affect the vote. Unless you’re a bunch of apathetic pussies.

Oh whatever. Maybe RedState deserves it. Their fans are more loyal than Balloon-Juice’s apparently…

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE!

Update: Only FIVE HUNDRED votes left to fix RedState good! Not like you can do that or anything…

Reader Interactions

30Comments

  2. 2.

    MT

    RedState has links from sites like HumanEvents.com – that’s how I found out about this poll. In order to see the results of the poll, I had to vote and RedState was the name I knew (sometimes I click on their links). Maybe you just need to get more hyperlinks from more sites – remember, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

  5. 5.

    Heywood Jablomy

    Oh all right – but really, what hooey. And I didn’t see ONE porn blog or porno site. I mean really. Talk about the elephant in the bedroom.

  6. 6.

    ImJohnGalt

    know there are enough of you to affect the vote. Unless you’re a bunch of apathetic pussies

    Well, maybe you could offer to match every vote we pussies deliver with a $25.00 contribution to Valor-IT.

    That was joke, in case you were wondering.

  7. 7.

    JWW

    Michael,

    I’m not well liked here. I come to this site too read the comments, as the bloggers post’s are poor. You are now begging in a field of beggers for alms. I do hope you have some fat storage on you body, as you will be missing a meal or two. Remember the movie Field of Dreams, “if you build it, they will come”, well you haven’t bought or leased the property yet. Honest and respectful blogging build the base. If it’s common folk, “which the majority of US citizens are” your looking for be honest and respectful. If you print BS, you get BS in return.

  10. 10.

    sujal

    I wonder how thorough they are being about stopping double votes… I’ve figured out how to vote as often as I want. It’s tedious, but doable. I could probably script it if I were bored and had no ethics…

    Hope they’re doing more than trusting the client…

    Sujal

  11. 11.

    Xanthippas

    You know, if someone had listened to me about, oh 4:36 yesterday, and decided to embed a poll on their blog, or put a link to the poll that can easily be found on the blog, you guys might be doing a little better.

    Just sayin’…

  12. 12.

    MNPundit

    We’re losing to crap blogs, people. VOTE!

    It’s because you’re a self-loathing gay.

    I would have voted for Wonkette if anyone on their staff actually had two X chromosomes. If your mascot is a chick and your name invokes chickishness then you need to have a chick on staff not barely employed guys.

    So I voted for Balloon Juice.

  13. 13.

    jcricket

    Unless you’re a bunch of apathetic pussies.

    I’ll have you know my pussy is in no way apathetic. It takes a stand on the important issues of the day.

  15. 15.

    jcricket

    I am afraid if I vote for Balloon Juice I’ll be forced to have a Reagasm. Best term I’ve heard all day.

  16. 16.

    Michael D.

    I would think the 15,000 plus people that visit here on a daily basis could at LEAST spend a minute clicking a frickin link to vote.

    Note to you libs, it DOESNT’ COST YOU ANYTING! LOL!

    J/K

  19. 19.

    Zifnab

    I’ll have you know my pussy is in no way apathetic. It takes a stand on the important issues of the day.

    Would you say its not the type to stay close lipped? Perhaps a bit full of itself? Knows its hot button issues?

    Ok, those were terrible. I’m done.

  21. 21.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    Hey capazela, I saw your post over at the Great Orange Satan regarding the RedState post and all liberals dying making that persons day. They said ‘I look forward to seeing each and every one in Hell.’, so I take it that person is going to hell too?

    ;)

    Maybe they think God set heaven up with HiDef channels that you get to tune to for your personal entertainment.

  22. 22.

    Stephen

    You could always accuse Rusty Shackleford of pulling the plug on cancer patient. It’s worked before.

    And if you do, Sadly No! will have your back.

  24. 24.

    Slide

    had to vote for good ole’ John, now that he’s seen the light, registered as a Democrat, and is deeply afflicted with BDS.

  25. 25.

    heywood jablomy

    Porn. I’m telling you. Porn = hits.

    Just look at jww – just read through his cache and woof … the man has strange tastes in politics AND fornication.

  27. 27.

    Atilla the Hun

    Michael D., I’ve been voting for Balloon-Juice, in SPITE of your addition. You’re not an addition, you’ve really watered down the site, to put it lightly.

    What were you THINKING, John?

  28. 28.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    While I do not agree with either side (independent), this is John’s blog and if he welcomes Michael, I think it is his choice to make. We can disagree with it, but I don’t think it is bad to have differing opinions around. Discussion is great, and diverse points of view are good too, but an echo chamber is not good.

    I like a bit of meat in an argument, not just singing to the choir. If we want to disagree with the other side, it is kind of nice to have a reasonable representative of that side to disagree with.

    BTW, almost 600 votes ahead! Wow! :)

Comments are closed.

Trackbacks

  1. […] As for why exactly we won, I have no more of an idea than anyone else. Maybe more of our our readers like the blog better than the rest of their reading list, or maybe it has to do with the fact that our traffic tends to linger at the site longer than most blogs. Or maybe you’re all dorks with nothing better to do. About the only thing that I can say for certain is that the moment I embedded that poll on our front page our vote count spiked and never slowed down. Even if it’s more proximate cause than ultimate cause, credit for the win mostly goes to Xanthippas for prodding us into doing it. […]