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Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

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

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

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

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

This fight is for everything.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

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

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  3. 3.

    cmorenc

    I had problems with completing a donation to ActBlue today as an attempt to do my little part. I don’t know what the problem was, but I’ll try again.

    PART of the problem could be that I absolutely REFUSE to include my phone number along with my donation, since past experience with making political donations where I have answered the phone number part of the donation form has been that the result is an intolerably ANNOYING deluge of political solicitation calls – eight or ten a day. At best, that’s unwanted litter on my answering machine, and at worst, when I want to answer the phone because I’m expecting a personal or bona fide business call, I too often get some cheery flack mispronouncing my name.

  6. 6.

    Delia

    So tell me who will be the next to carry the torch
    To ride in on a pure white horse

    torch and horse rhyme? Gah!!!!

  12. 12.

    Earl Butz

    As horrible as I’d expect from someone who was a shitty, temporary replacement for Steve Perry after he left Journey.

  14. 14.

    El Cid

    Obama at a CNBC TownHall, responding to a poor, bedraggled Wall Street hedge fund investor who feels like he’s been whacked, they’ve been treated like a piñata.

    During today’s discussion, Anthony Scaramucci, a CNBC contributor who is also a hedge fund manager, stood up to represent the aggrieved “Wall Street community.”
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    Scaramucci told Obama, “We have felt like a piñata,” complaining that “we certainly feel like we’ve been whacked with a stick.”
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    Obama responded that Scaramucci needs to put things into perspective:

    Now, you know, I have been amused over the last couple years, this sense of somehow me beating up on Wall Street.
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    I think most folks on Main Street feel like they got beat up on. … There’s — there’s a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street. That’s probably the majority, not the minority.

    Obama went on to note that the top 25 hedge fund managers took home $1 billion in profits last year…
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    “If you’re making $1 billion a year after a very bad financial crisis where 8 million people lost their jobs and small businesses can’t get loans,” Obama said, “then I think that you shouldn’t be feeling put upon…”

    Obama then was asked about being compared to a Kenyan anti-colonialist and like Hitler invading Poland when he suggested hedge fund managers no longer be allowed to treat those gains at a mere 15% tax rate.

    Like Warren Buffett, he pointed out that hedge fund managers earning millions upon millions (while complimenting the valuable work they do, etc.) shouldn’t be extremely upset at the notion that they might have to pay the sorts of taxation levels that their secretaries have to pay.

  15. 15.

    Gravenstone

    In response to APs post title, I’m hearing Charles Barkely’s voice saying, “turrible, just turrible.”

  16. 16.

    David Brooks (not that one)

    “All for one and one for all” is primarily associated with a group of French men. Who supported a monarch against the church.

    Where was the obituary of irony written up?

  18. 18.

    Gravenstone

    @El Cid: Ooh, I do hope that Obama rejoinder left a mark. Sadly, for folks with that ingrained a sense of self entitlement, being run through the stun line at a slaughter house likely wouldn’t register either.

  19. 19.

    Comrade Mary

    Sadly, for folks with that ingrained a sense of self entitlement, being run through the stun line at a slaughter house likely wouldn’t register either.

    Paging Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

  22. 22.

    gene108

    I give up. I surrender.

    If the Republicans regain control of Congress, it’s pretty much proof that the rich have won and there’s nothing we can do about it.

    There’s been class warfare waged by the rich for decades, to undo whatever gains were had by the working stiff during the Progressive movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the New Deal and Great Society.

    I can’t wait for the minimum wage to abolished, so we can have wages competitive with other third world nations, environmental laws rolled back and a host of other anti-business laws abolished, which were put into place over the past 100+ years.

    The sad part is there are some folks, like my brother, who works for a bank in NYC and is upset with Fin Reg, because it’s big and no one knows how the new law will be interpreted. That’s a fair criticism of the state of things, because implementing 2,000 pages of new rules – some little more than pet projects / peeves of Congressman, who got an amendment added – would effect business and has caused uncertainty for banks and other financial firms.

    What my brother, who has some support for social safety nets and environmental laws, doesn’t realize is the people who may be pro-Wall Street today are just as likely to make sure we gut all the social safety nets that were put in place and wipe out all the environmental laws, because some segment of business’ profits is hurt by those laws; we can’t have anything interfering with a businesses ability to make a profit after all.

  23. 23.

    El Cid

    @Gravenstone:

    Ooh, I do hope that Obama rejoinder left a mark.

    And if it does, then it allows him to even further press his notion of being a member of the capitalist class being brutally oppressed by the proletarians.

    OMG, did you hear how Obama said to that poor hedge fund manager Golden Goose laying producer that since he made a lot of money the government is going to take away all his money and give it to his secretary? OMG! HITLER! STALIN! POL POT! LEX LUTHOR! DOCTOR DOOM!

    Ooooh — Obama mocked Rick Santelli about his rant which launched the Tea Parties — ON CNBC. Ha.

  26. 26.

    El Cid

    @gene108: We need to stop discouraging the building of favelas on hillsides and slums outside our cities. Living in such environments would teach America how to have better work and savings values and make them inspired to be harder workers.

  28. 28.

    gene108

    @El Cid: Hedge fund managers really do feel Obama hates them and I guess this answer doesn’t do anything to smooth things over.

    The sense of entitlement the rich and powerful have is amazing.

  30. 30.

    Cacti

    Speaking of the Angry Rich…

    Ben Stein is whining about his taxes. It’s a punishment that his 10-year tax holiday on borrowed money is coming to an end.

    And remember, he’s just a regular guy like you and me…

    Who’s Dad was an advisor to two Presidents and sat on the board of the Wall Street Journal.

  32. 32.

    AWJ

    “The song is a tribute to the foundation that our great country was built on and to remind people of the patriotic principles that continue to shape our world,” he explains of the power ballad (which was co-written by Chuck Giacinto) that’s quickly being considered the “God Bless the U.S.A.” for the current generation.”

    With apologies to those who have managed to purge “God Bless the U.S.A.” from their memories, that’s the three-minute offense against the English language that has the refrain “I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free”.

    Someone just shoot me now…

  33. 33.

    Joe Bauers

    That sounds like one of those Real Men of Genius beer commercials.

    “So here’s to you, Mr. Cheesy Jingoistic Song Singer Guy!”

    [echo] “Mr. Cheesy Jingoistic Song Singer Guy!”

  34. 34.

    Triassic Sands

    Look, if nothing else on the world will motivate you to vote for the Democrats, do it so we don’t have to hear this over and over and over again.

    John, just how many people who read BJ do you think are going to “stay home” in November? One? None? How many?

  35. 35.

    Catsy

    To ride in on a pure white horse

    One might almost say, “a great white hope”.

    Semi-OT: tried to make that exact same comment on the Archpundit blog, and kept getting a “your comment seems spammy, try again” message, so decided they could fuck off and came back here.

    When your anti-spam measures are even shittier than the ones here, you’ve got problems.

  36. 36.

    ArchPundit

    Sorry–I’ll work on that. As I said to one commenter though, I wouldn’t try to deconstruct the imagery created by a guy who thinks torch and horse rhyme.

  37. 37.

    rdalin

    Wow, I just took a look at americablog and FDL’s viewer stats compared to balloon-juice. I didn’t realize you guys have so many readers! That gives me a lot of hope.

    It looks like americablog is down about 20% over the year, give or take. You’re not too far off from FDL either, which is holding steady.

    Baring another major national catastrophe, the Dems might actually make it through this election in one piece.

  41. 41.

    Catsy

    @ArchPundit: I don’t know about deconstruction, but I couldn’t pass up a straight line like that.

    And no worries–you should see the venom I direct at the WP editor and anti-spam bullshit around here. Working with software for 20+ years has left me with less than zero patience for software that tries (and fails) to be smarter than its user.

  45. 45.

    j

    FWIW, that Beck-fest @ the Sears Center drew fewer than 5,000 rabid nut jobs to a GOP area of the Chicago suburbs. The Sears Center holds 11,000. Is the bloom off the rose or is Beck overplaying his schtick?

  47. 47.

    Dr. Morpheus

    @Delia:

    torch and horse rhyme? Gah!

    Why do so many people ask that question? Is it not obvious?

    Uh, yes, yes, they do.

    It’s an ugly, doggerel type of rhyming but they do rhyme.

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