Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

White supremacy is terrorism.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

This really is a full service blog.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

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

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

The willow is too close to the house.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

I was promised a recession.

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

Republicans don’t trust women.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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  1. 1.

    Jon Karak

    Just saw The Great Debaters. It was OK–a little melodramatic at times, but still had some memorable parts. OK for history buffs and egg-heads. I’d recommend waiting for video release.

  3. 3.

    Krista

    Do the right thing.

    Always do.

    Question: do any of you live in cities with a chapter of the Guardian Angels? They’re coming to Halifax, as the crime rate has increased (partially due to the mayor and the police refusing to accept the fact that despite the small-town feel, they’re not actually IN a small town.) Some people are for it, some are vehemently opposed (mostly the aforementioned mayor and police.) For any of you who have had them established in your city: notice any difference?

  4. 4.

    Some guy named Matt

    if you insist… Let me quote my brother Radio Raheem:
    “Let me tell you the story of “Right Hand, Left Hand.” It’s a tale of good and evil. Hate: It was with this hand that Cane iced his brother. Love: These five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: Static. One hand is always fighting the other hand; and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand, Love, is finished. But, hold on, stop the presses, the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes, now, that’s right. Ooh, it’s the devastating right and Hate is hurt, he’s down. Left-Hand Hate K.O.ed by Love. “

  6. 6.

    Caidence (fmr. Chris)

    Hai guyz, stickin mi hed in heer…

    A Kos guy (also an Obama supporter) is reporting a laundry list that apparently says Clinton’s folks don’t know how to read a rule book.

    I think this is Clinton’s new campaign that even she can Transcend. In this case, she’s transcending rules.

    I’m absolutely certain that by Monday Hillary will take complete charge of this and show us that fucking around with elections is wrong.

  8. 8.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Sounds like Clinton won the popular vote in Nevada, but Obama won more rural votes and more districts, so he ends up with one more delegate than Clinton (13/12).

    So Obama wins the delegate count and Hillary wins the popularity contest. Demographics don’t look good for Obama though, whites and latinos voted against him. The black vote looks bad for Clinton, with almost 4 out of 5 blacks voting for Obama. Edwards performance was absolutely dismal, less than 5% of the total vote. Ouch.

    More neck and neck for the foreseeable future. Fresh ten pound sacks of crap for everyone to fling at each other.

    How come elections resemble monkeys fighting in a cage?

  9. 9.

    Krista

    myiq2xu Says:

    Always do

    Hey little girl, wanna be bad?

    Please tell me you were waggling your eyebrows lasciviously while typing that — it would amuse me.

  10. 10.

    Bob In Pacifica

    Up the road at the San Francisco Zoo the monkeys fling their poo at the humans. And the tigers eat the humans. You wonder how they stay in business.

    Guardian angels in this neck of the woods are assigned individually.

  11. 11.

    The Other Steve

    Looks like Crazy Old McCain won in South Carolina. Although it was close.

    The following candidates should just save us the pain and drop out:

    Edwards
    Kucinich

    Thompson
    Giuliani
    Hunter

    Opps, just verified and it looks like Hunter listened to me like an hour ago.

  12. 12.

    Caidence (fmr. Chris)

    Demographics don’t look good for Obama though, whites and latinos voted against him.

    I feel a self-fulfilling prophecy here, assuming Obama in the winrar.

    5% (which is equal to dead-zero in poli-math) vote for Obama because “he don’t care ’bout our issues. Black peoples dunnit *know* what it like to be poor” Obama has no incentive to keep their vote, earns brownie points with the center by avoiding amnesty for illegals.

    Oh well. Race in, race out. Not like Hillary is going to give two shits about them after the 1st year.

  14. 14.

    myiq2xu

    More neck and neck for the foreseeable future. Fresh ten pound sacks of crap for everyone to fling at each other.

    The press thanks you, their children thank you, their advertisers thank you.

  15. 15.

    myiq2xu

    Please tell me you were waggling your eyebrows lasciviously while typing that—it would amuse me.

    And leering. Don’t forget leering.

  18. 18.

    Dennis - SGMM

    I know that Edwards has consistently made a poor showing and I’m not an Edwards supporter. I wonder though if part of his problem is that he could come with the cure for cancer and that would be given one line in a two page story. The rest of the copy would be devoted to the back-and-forth between the Hillary and Obama campaigns. I’m guessing that the narrative of the first black man vs the first woman for President is just a lot more attractive to the press.

  19. 19.

    wasabi gasp

    I’d like to take the crapload of money I lost last week and buy everybody a drink, or a joint, or some crack, or whatever habit-forming shit you down to tolerate this nonsensical ass-backwards nipple-slip of a country we live in, but I can’t since I already imagined I bought a Harley with it and cruised to Mexico on it and rode my ride until a sweet spot in the sand and the sun became my bed where I laid and got drunk and got stoned and watched the day turn to night turn to day again when I got back on my bike and my way.

    I don’t usually spend on myself like that, but I really needed the vacation.

  20. 20.

    Jake

    When you say “do the right thing” do you mean K-Lo or PantLoad or what?

    No matter, it ain’t happening.

  22. 22.

    myiq2xu

    When you say “do the right thing” do you mean K-Lo or PantLoad or what?

    Homey don’t play dat!

  23. 23.

    Dennis - SGMM

    Do the right thing? Looks to me like the people doing the wrong thing are the ones with all of the money and power.

    Sometimes it seems like ‘do the right thing’ is about as productive as ‘turn the other cheek.’

  25. 25.

    incontrolados

    There are two choices as I see it. Either John is throwing back to Spike Lee (OoOOO I got the Spike Lee Joint Collection for Xmas — five movies on three discs, as well as Inside Man!), or has recently become a Dr. Laura fan. (For those who don’t listen to wingnut radio — that’s this woman’s signoff (warning — nekkid pictures).

    Krista, wrt the Guardian Angels — they came into southwest Houston shortly after Katrina. I’ve read nor heard any refernces to them specifically, but crime has gone down in the city as a whole, with the exception of property crime (up just enough for the pant-wetters to hollar). They had been a strong force in my city during the ’80’s and had a good rep. From what I’ve seen, they are more than a little media saavy — they announce they are coming in — then they just do their good work.

  26. 26.

    incontrolados

    Dennis, I am (and have been for some years) an Edwards supporter and you are quite right.

    But even with all of what you pointed out, I had hoped at the beginning of this race that the Dems could just stick with the important issues and not play the game like the republicans do. I hate that the creepy/weird South Carolina stuff on the republicans’ side didn’t get more press.

  27. 27.

    srv

    Do the right thing.

    If there aren’t any moral choices in this election, how can there by right choices?

  29. 29.

    incontrolados

    Moral means different things to different people. If you are talking about a narrow issue like reproductive privacy, well, then you are left with a limited selection. If you are looking for perfection, I doubt you’ll find it.

  31. 31.

    incontrolados

    Crap, srv, that last comment of yours wasn’t there when I put up mine. Sorry — you are quite right.

    I can’t even imagine being in a position to do something like that. People are cashing-in on all aspects of this war of choice. It’s like Jim Rome always says — if you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying.

  32. 32.

    demimondian

    I sit on the board of a small charity, and I can tell you one thing: if a charity has enough money to offer you ANYTHING for helping them, then they’re not honest.

    Hell, our board members pay for our own phone calls to one another.

  34. 34.

    incontrolados

    In my experience, being on a board is a way to pad your resume particularly because you already have money. (I’m not pointing at you demi, just saying.) Having been a volunteer in a charitable organization, with a board full of people related to each other, and with no funny money things going on, it’s still, in my humble experience, only pointed towards those on the board and what it does for them. I know not all charities are like that, but I have, since that experience, always been suspect of mushroom type charities.

  35. 35.

    Quiddity

    I will do the right thing. I will praise Steely McBeam for being an upright fellow, a man of mettle, who has passed through the crucible of life unscathed, is blessed with an iron will, and posesses and integrity that was forged through difficult times.

  36. 36.

    demimondian

    In my experience, being on a board is a way to pad your resume particularly because you already have money. (I’m not pointing at you demi, just saying.)

    Oh, absolutely. I happen to belong to the board of this particular charity because it’s a very personal thing for a close friend of mine, and they needed someone to fill a particular seat.

    I’ll even plead guilty to having put it on my resume, unlike any “real” charitable work I do. It’s not something I do out of what little goodness I have in my heart; I do it as a favor for a friend.

  37. 37.

    incontrolados

    K-Lo’s unabrow is HOT.

    Frida owns that, to eternity.

    K-Lo is just a huge wet mop that wants this guy to be VP. Bennett has changed his website and I can’t find (don’t wanna look for) his full body pics. . .

  38. 38.

    myiq2xu

    I will do the right thing. I will praise Steely McBeam for being an upright fellow, a man of mettle, who has passed through the crucible of life unscathed, is blessed with an iron will, and posesses and integrity that was forged through difficult times.

    You forgot gay.

    Really, really gay.

  41. 41.

    incontrolados

    demi, we understand each other (finalmente!)

    I went to a Petsmart to buy food for the magical pups last weekend — hoping that the same entrenched adoption charity wasn’t there and YaY! they were gone. Where before there had been a bunch of old nag scolds, I found people who thought like me — keep the pups for now, but sign up with us, we’ll help you. Quite a change.

  43. 43.

    incontrolados

    Ok, demi, I guess I am inc. That’s ok.

    I looked, but I was going for the Dr. “Do the right thing” Laura posing nude. Your link, at least for me, just has the old woman. Was that your point?

  44. 44.

    Garrigus Carraig

    GC+6.

    I wish I had known that Canada was the answer, like, 15 years ago.

    I (Af.-Am. btw) wonder whether white folks in USA know that MLK Day speaks to them, too, what with civil rights being all plundered & what not.

    I’ve been reading a bit too much about the Crisis of the Third Century. Blrrghm.

  45. 45.

    Garrigus Carraig

    Oh wait. I’ve been meaning to say: Please everyone stop reading Sullivan. Please. GC+7.

  46. 46.

    ninerdave

    So I’m in LA for the NAMM conference. I’m watching news right now, and wow, it’s BAAADD.

    Worst reporter name: Angie Crotch. Yes no lie.

  47. 47.

    Ned R.

    Oh, the best local news doof in LA is (was? maybe they finally dumped his ass) weather drone Dallas Raines. Cause you see the name is WEATHERY! (Like his leathery tan looks.)

  48. 48.

    Caidence (fmr. Chris)

    Oh wait. I’ve been meaning to say: Please everyone stop reading Sullivan.

    ooo kay… Why? How does this benefit the both of us?

    And who do I replace him with, for blog-delivered catty bitch humor? I gotta have my homo-snark. Hetero-snark is just so… plain.

  49. 49.

    myiq2xu

    And who do I replace him with, for blog-delivered catty bitch humor? I gotta have my homo-snark. Hetero-snark is just so… plain.

    Didn’t you get John’s memo? We have all transcended humor now.

    This applies to everyone with a life-time membership at Balloon Juice.

    The memo was in the envelope with your 2008 ID card.

  50. 50.

    HeartlandLiberal

    You know, I am two years out from retirement at 64, and last week, I had a chat with a coworker who is about 25 years younger than me. We were commiserating over the fact her office is located in the director’s suite. As a result, she is constantly exposed to their incredible unethical gaming of every day life in this organization. We both lamented the fact that apparently, doing the right thing just does not even come into play anymore in our society. Two motives rule. 1) Have I got mine? and 2) Show me the money. That’s it. Game over. It is sad really. I just hope to survive my remaining two years so I can cash out with full retirement benefits, all the while hopping there is no last minute effort to screw me out of them. Welcome to the new American century.

  52. 52.

    Mary

    Maybe Halifax does need the Guardian Angels, if this video is at all accurate.

    (I can’t remember: do we warn people about NSFW content here? I don’t think so, but oops, I guess I just did. Mild stuff, really. Just the word “fuck” appears a lot. Like in the previous sentence. This entire post has been NSFW.)

  53. 53.

    Krista

    That video was pretty good. Not in the least bit accurate, but definitely amusing. :) (I liked the bit about the dog…)

  54. 54.

    Eural Joiner

    Alright, John – what’s the bias here? Last night I spent like an hour to add a one sentence comment using my Wii internet channel and I got the message that it was “awaiting moderation” and then today it’s gone!

    Do you know how hard it is to type out each letter using that damned wand thingie while you’re drunk? I would appreciate some respect for my efforts!

  55. 55.

    myiq2xu

    Do you know how hard it is to type out each letter using that damned wand thingie while you’re drunk? I would appreciate some respect for my efforts!

    Try typing while keeping one hand on yer joystick!

    That’s hard. Really hard.

  58. 58.

    myiq2xu

    The wand has a thingie?

    If your wand has a “thingie” go see a doctor and get it taken care of.

  59. 59.

    Conservatively Liberal

    If the wand has a “thingie”, quit playing with it. It will go blind if you don’t. That and the hairy palms stuff.

    You have your own “thingie”, use it.

  60. 60.

    The Other Steve

    Two motives rule. 1) Have I got mine? and 2) Show me the money. That’s it. Game over. It is sad really. I just hope to survive my remaining two years so I can cash out with full retirement benefits, all the while hopping there is no last minute effort to screw me out of them. Welcome to the new American century.

    Welcome to Modern America.

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