Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

In my day, never was longer.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

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

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

The revolution will be supervised.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Petty moves from a petty man.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

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

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

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

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Let me file that under fuck it.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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Late Night Open Thread: More Lexiconning

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So, here are the proposed additions to the BJLex I’ve collected since Saturday:

Banana Republican
Brooks Brothers Riot
Calvinball
FTW (add as a synonym to ‘This’)
He-Man Woman-Hater’s Club – Chris Matthews, Beltway Chapter President
Heh, Indeed
Millblogger
Moderate – someone who gets all their news from network television
Movement Conservative (Adult Diaper Division)
Poutrage
Stay Classy, ___ !
TIDOS (Treason in Defense of Slavery) Conservatives
Up or Down (Upperdown) Vote
Warpr0n
Won’t Someone Think of the Children? ! ?
Working the Refs – the process whereby prominent wingers excoriate media institutions for a supposed bias in order to keep said institutions on guard and, hopefully, force them to be more lenient on Republican ideology masquerading as legitimate analysis of daily events.
WTF

And of course the evolving dichotomies…

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Tech-illiterate Bleg

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Since I know there are professional developers out there, a question. Starting Sunday morning, whenever I attempt to Edit the BJ Lexicon, I’ve been getting the same message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/jcole010/domains/golive.balloon-juice.com/public_html/wp-includes/general-template.php on line 1524

I’ve tried it on two separate systems, so I don’t think it’s my PC. Can anyone out there tell me if there’s something I can do from the peon user end to rectify this? Or at least explain why WordPress has banhammered me in terms I can understand?

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Seriously, WTF?

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You know, when I used the phrase Banana Republicans in the past, I didn’t really think it would come to this:

There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic.

America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn’t mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it.

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Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared responsibility?

Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.

I eagerly await the Fonzi of Freedom Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, and the rest of the Reason crew explaining how it is the folks in the middle who are a threat to Democracy and our freedoms.

And seriously, this person was an official in two previous administrations (Johnson and Carter). At what point does this shit become unacceptable in the village?

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The Polanski defense

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Amy Sullivan and a bunch of other theocons write that it’s unfair that some pedophile priests have to go to jail when Roman Polanski doesn’t.

That seems absurd to me:

The new 2,600-page report on physical, emotional, and sexual abuse in Catholic-run Irish schools is “a map of an Irish hell,” said the Irish Times in an editorial. The numbers speak for themselves: 800 abusers, 200 schools, 35 years, many thousands of victims. But it’s worse than that—this was a deliberate system of “torture” and “slavery” at the hands of the powerful church, with the knowledge of the state. This is part of the Irish identity now.

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Unforgivably, the actual priests will neither be named nor shamed for their “torture, rape, and beatings,” said Ruth Gledhill in Ireland’s Evening Herald, due to a 2004 lawsuit won by the main “perpetrators,” the Christian Brothers order. If there’s a “ray of light” in this horrible story, it’s that, at least in North America and Europe, the “abuse has now stopped.” Just not in time to save the victims.

It’s also worth noting that, in the United States:

The John Jay report indicated that some 11,000 allegations had been made against 4,392 priests in the USA. This number constituted approximately 4% of the 110,000 priests who had served during the period covered by the survey (1950-2002).[21] The report found that, over the 52-year period covered by the study, “the problem was indeed widespread and affected more than 95 percent of the dioceses and approximately 60 percent of religious communities.”

There have been only a handful of criminal prosecutions.

The truth is, that If Roman Polanski had been a priest, there is very, very little chance that he ever would have been prosecuted in the first place. And that’s wrong — not for Polanski, who deserved prosecution, but for the thousands of victims of sexually predatory priests who had their complaints ignored for years.

The lack of shame among Amy Sullivan and her ilk never ceases to amaze me.

Update. A bunch of you say that I am misreading Sullivan’s point. Perhaps. But what she and the others I linked to are saying is just plain wrong: it’s just not true that priests are at all likely to be prosecuted for raping children. As I said above, if Polanski were a priest, it is very, very unlikely that he ever would have been prosecuted to begin with. The statistics don’t lie.

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Who Could Have Thunk It?

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I’m sure you are all shocked:

Conservatives were quick to insist that the near-riot — the first of many town-hall mobs that would dominate the headlines in August — was completely spontaneous. The protesters didn’t show up “because of some organized group,” Rick Scott, the head of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, told reporters. “They’re mad about the stimulus bill, the bailout, the economy. Now they see that their health care is about to be taken over by the government.”

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Behind the scenes, top Republicans — including House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Minority Leader John Boehner and the chairman of the GOP’s Senate steering committee, Jim DeMint — worked hand-in-glove with the organizers of the town brawls. Their goal was not only to block health care reform but to bankrupt President Obama’s political capital before he could move on to other key items on his agenda, including curbing climate change and expanding labor rights. As DeMint told an August teleconference of nearly 20,000 town-hall activists, “If we can stop him on this, the administration won’t be able to go on to cap and trade, card check and the other things they want to do.”

I eagerly await the folks at Reason explaining that really, the health care protesters were just advocates of limited government.

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