Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Celebrate the fucking wins.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

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

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

Fight them, without becoming them!

So many bastards, so little time.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

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  3. 3.

    Xenos

    Nous nous demanegerons a une pays francophone en l’ete prochain.

    Je suis in big trouble… Je besoin d’apprendre la langue entierment nouveau. Comment peut-on faire les beaux accents dans les mots?

  6. 6.

    henqiguai

    Great. Where was all this “noise” when I was actually studying French, back in high school ?

    Oh, yeah. The intratubes, they hadn’t yet been invented. D*mn you Al Gore !!!

  9. 9.

    Morbo

    @Xenos: Regardez ici. Tournez les trois cadrans vers la gauche et tournez le cadran droit à 100 ou 200. Utilisez le bouton “Alt” avec le number pad et les nombres dans la table pour faire les accents.

    Pour “à” j’ai utilisé “Alt+0224”
    Pour “é” j’ai utilisé “Alt+0233”
    Etc.

  10. 10.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    Okay this is extremely weird.

    Usually I log in to Balloon Juice from France, and it’s in English. Now I come back to the States for a week, and Balloon Juice is in French.

    You’re just trying to mess with my head, I know it.

  12. 12.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @burnspbesq: And now, there’s another open thread just opened despite this one having only nine comments and being opened two hours ago.

    It’s all crazy I tells ya, crazy.

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Bill E Pilgrim 8:38 am

    I’m afraid that might be partly my fault. I got in the first comment on that second thread (this one too, but who’s counting?) and sort of hijacked it immediately.

    But sooner or later, all threads become open threads, all conversations go off on tangents, and the “O/T” disclaimer becomes nothing more than a conventional nicety.

    ‘Swhy I keep coming here.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Oh, sorry. Bill E Pilgrim was talking about an actual Open Thread. I hadn’t seen it when I posted and thought he was talking about the France Update thread which so quickly became Open. Apologies for making it All About Me.

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