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The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

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

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

“But what about the lurkers?”

In my day, never was longer.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

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

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

In after Baud. Damn.

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  1. 1.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Momma always said, if yer gonna do a love child make it with the daughter of a Greek shipping tycoon.

  2. 2.

    D-Chance.

    I love their statement:

    “We were in a committed relationship until the spring of 2009. In November, Claire gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Although we are no longer together…

    Yes, truly a committed relationship…

  3. 3.

    Nick

    You gotta watch out for those Math nerds, they can really surprise you.

    I know some of the greatest sex I’ve ever had was with math nerds. Once those glasses come off…

  4. 4.

    ellaesther

    A) John Cole, you clearly have not been listening to all the geeky women like myself who have a huge crush on Peter Orszag.

    B) How does this: we were in a committed relationship until the spring of 2009. In November, Claire gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Although we are no longer together, we are both thrilled she is happy and healthy, and we would hope that everyone will respect her privacy
    translate to “player”? I will not have you sullying my Peter’s good name!

    C) Seriously, Huffpo: “love child“? Seriously?REALLY?! I believe the term you’re looking for here is: “baby.” Fucking hell. They’re probably clutching their pearls, too.

  5. 5.

    Bobby Thomson

    I believe the word you’re looking for is “cad” or “bounder.”

    Not quite at the McCain level, but the guy’s kind of a douche.

  6. 6.

    goblue72

    Why is it that all Greek tycoons are shipping tycoons, and not some other kind of tycoon?

    And why are all shipping tycoons Greek? Why don’t we ever hear about Italian shipping tycoons or Japanese shipping tycoons?

  8. 8.

    D-Chance.

    Sully misses the important point in this posting.

    The reason for the silence can be found in the photo at the top of his article. A picture of a young Arab, armed only with stones, facing an armored and overpowering crowd of police/army thugs.

    Why the silence? This photo may be from Iran, but for how many years or decades have we seen hundreds of similar photos and videos coming out of Israel? Of Palestinian youth fighting the Israeli police and army thugs? Of rocks against machine guns and tanks?

    The right doesn’t want that comparison. They don’t want anyone to see the likenesses.

  10. 10.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Yes, truly a committed relationship…

    For sure.

    Seriously, Huffpo: “love child“? Seriously?

    Maybe she will grow up to be a co-ed.

  12. 12.

    Existenz

    Yeah, 3 months pregnant is out on the outer edge of when getting an abortion starts to become much more complicated. Plus, at 39, I’m sure the heiress figured the biological clock is ticking and she might as well go with it. So no surprise that she would keep it despite the breakup. Good for her.

  13. 13.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Nerd chique is finally mainstream.

    Yeah. Right. When chicks go for me, then what you say will be true.

  17. 17.

    MikeJ

    So no surprise that she would keep it despite the breakup.

    No matter which way she decided and for whatever reason the most important thing is it was her choice. Hurray for Roe v. Wade!

  19. 19.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Nick:

    I know some of the greatest sex I’ve ever had was with math nerds. Once those glasses come off…

    Math geek sex:

    1) be fruitful
    2) multiply

    I think the multiplying takes the place of the cigarette, for them.

  20. 20.

    Cain

    Man, huffingtonpost sucks. I’m pissed that I ended up back there. Can’t wait for that asshat, Grover Norquist showing up as a guest columnist.

    cain

  22. 22.

    MikeJ

    Nerd chique is finally mainstream.

    Dear Balloon Juice letters,
    I work for a large ISP, and I always thought your letters were fake, until one night in the NOC something made me change my mind…

  23. 23.

    maya

    The “love child” should have no problem breezing through Harvard or Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

  24. 24.

    Rey

    Damn- the mother is not very attractive. Luckily the kid will be smart like dad and rich with mom’s money.

  32. 32.

    JGabriel

    D-Chance.:

    The reason for the silence can be found in the photo at the top of his article. A picture of a young Arab …

    Dude, Iranian = Persian = Indo-European. Not Arab.

    Which, by the way, is the major reason Iranians dislike hearing The 1001 Nights referred to as The Arabian Nights — it’s actually a Persian text.

    .

  33. 33.

    Dreggas

    @Genine:

    you know what sucks? I am a nerd and a geek, readily admit it, but just never could do the “look” so i guess I don’t fall into “teh haut” category in the nerd/geek realm.

  34. 34.

    MattR

    @goblue72: I used to work for an Icelandic shipping tycoon. Or at least I guess that would be how you would describe the CEO of my company before it went down the drain with the rest of the country’s economy leading to our (profitable) division being sold off.

  37. 37.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @freelancer: Okay I read that post, some of the responses, and even a link someone posted and I still have no idea what it was about.

    It was like words, but you know, also not.

  39. 39.

    JGabriel

    goblue72:

    Why is it that all Greek tycoons are shipping tycoons, and not some other kind of tycoon?

    Uh, have you ever looked at a map of Greece? It’s all islands, and the parts that aren’t islanded are still full of ports and bays.

    .

  40. 40.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @arguingwithsignposts: Actually, I think she looks kind of stoned. I hope you don’t mind my saying so (as you know, I am utterly in love with Smuuuuuuuuuuudge! and would never malign her). It’s probably just the way her eyes were at the 1/60th of a second the shutter snapped, or whatever we call it these days, not unlike the recent photo of Obama conversing with Biden that had everyone on the wingnut side of the aisle screaming for him to resign because he was asleep or bored or arrogant or something. I think that’s what happened here with Smudge.

    Jeez, I just re-read this and I sound exactly like BoB. That’s kind of scary.

  41. 41.

    goblue72

    well, wikipedia answers all. apparently greece has the world’s large merchant marine navy – which pretty crazy when you consider how small a country it is. which basically means they’ve been the world’s home to shipping tycoons since like, Plato was running around buggering 12 year olds.

  46. 46.

    AhabTRuler

    @freelancer: If you go to any individual huffpo story, there is a yellow banner at the top that says:

    Happening Now: Vote For ‘The Cleveland Show’ Featuring Arianna For A People’s Choice Award

  50. 50.

    valdivia

    probably a dead thread but this sort of blew me away. Down south of the border where I am from suspicious minds would speculate that the woman simply got herself the very top of the line genetic contribution she wanted once she saw the relationship was not going anyway.

  53. 53.

    Corner Stone

    @Bobby Thomson:

    I believe the word you’re looking for is “cad” or “bounder.”
    …
    Not quite at the McCain level, but the guy’s kind of a douche.

    Bullshit. He’s the nerd zone equiv of a Tom Brady. Clearly.

  54. 54.

    slag

    That’s a drag. One of Orszag’s more appealing qualities was that he seemed like a substantive, down-to-earth kind of guy. Now, he’s got some of that traditional ivy league ooze on him, which makes him just a bit too typical to be interesting. Oh well. As long as he fixes the economy…

  55. 55.

    Elie

    @slag:

    Well, what the hey, he is just a human with one of the most human of all faults…its his personal thing and I don’t think the worse of him for it…

    Apparently he has a couple of kids from his first marriage, this new baby and Lord knows what else he may have in the future…Well, he is certainly not just another dull numbers cruncher!

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