Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Everybody saw this coming.

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  3. 3.

    demkat620

    Merry Christmas Everyone! We will get our white christmas tomorrow. And since I don’t have to work Monday or Tuesday, it works for me.

    Did Rosie get coal in her stocking John?
    We gave our Jackal a loofa dog that is bigger than he is. You should see him dragging this thing around. Took it to bed with him last night.

  4. 4.

    mai naem

    No doubt the teabaggers are glad that it’s a white christmas because a non-white christmas would be a good thing for Obama.

  5. 5.

    Mino

    Merry Christmas, everyone.

    We got a cold front but no snow. Much better than our 80 degrees at Thanksgiving.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    It hasn’t started snowing in Atlanta yet, but it seems to be a 100% possibility by late afternoon. First Christmas Day snow here since 1882 (I believe that’s the date they said on the radio, but I don’t feel like looking it up; a good long while ago, anyhow). Hope it’s a wonderful day for every Juicer, no matter your weather, beliefs, traditions, or family.

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    geg6

    Merry Christmas to you, John, and to all BJers who celebrate!

    Got snow here, too. Just a bit but lovely. Snuggling in my new fuzzy jammies with my coffee, the doggies, and a beautiful chocolate pearl bracelet. Family and prime rib later. I may not believe the fairy tale of Christmas but I do love to celebrate it.

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    General Stuck

    I’m jealous of those getting snow, but will muddle through with sunshine here in the desert. And once again Merry Christmas to all, and I am so relieved to read that the House Republicans will be kicking off the new congress with a full reading of the Constitution on the House Floor. Apparently, they really mean it this time. And will demonstrate their loyalty to the founders vision of “we the people” by making it easier to cut social programs, and exempting from Pay Go all tax cuts, especially the Bush one’s for rich people. We are in the hands of true Patriots and should stop worrying and learn to love our new tea party overlords.

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    demkat620

    @geg6: I will be baking a ham and my husband will be making lasagna.

    We have a family tradition, because we are scattered and everybody spends christmas day in different places, we get together after the holiday and do a potluck dinner.

    So Monday will be munchies and wine at my house. But, I can put off some of the prep till tomorrow so today can be veg day with my new kindle. (Yes, I have gone to the darkside)

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    Josie

    It has only snowed twice in my lifetime here in South Texas and I am 60 plus, so I know better than to hope for a white Christmas. We did, however, get a norther in last night and it is quite cool outside. I had planned a Thanksgiving type dinner for my visiting son, but he wants to cook Thai. We aim to please, so the fancy dinner can wait for another day.

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    abo gato

    Merry Christmas y’all! No snow in San Antonio but it is a cold and blustery day. Perfect for staying warm inside with a fire and the pups and hot drinks.

    Got a ham that I am going to smoke some more and will make some truffle mac and cheese to go with it. Oughta be awesome.

    Made some gorgonzola wafers yesterday with just a bit of fig preserves in the middle of the wafer. A wonderful flavor combo and they were great as dessert with one of those H & D pears that are available this time of year.

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    WarMunchkin

    @General Stuck: Are they going to read the “original” document, a la 3/5 compromise? Or are they actually going to read the income tax and the 14th amendment into record?

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    Keith G

    Merry Christmas to the Cole House. I hope Tunch isn’t even harder to live with after his first round TKO victory last night.

    It rained much of last night in Houston, but hey we are in the swamps of SE Texas. Cold front was refreshing. Walking down my street yesterday afternoon reminded me of Oct. in Ohio, The leaves are still on most of the trees and are turning to reds and orange.

    The high temp may make it to 50. Its time to get the smoker ready for an upcoming feast

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    El Tiburon

    That’s racial. No snow here. Does that mean I have a ‘brown’ xmas and it is somehow illegal?

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    Kristine

    Snowed here in northern IL yesterday. More expected today and tomorrow. It looks lovely, but parts of it will need to be shoveled at some point.

    Need to bake an apple pie this morning because I ran out of gas yesterday. Pups are outside. King is standing at the door waiting to be let in, and Gaby is playing tag with herself. Oh, to be a young dog in the snow.

    Merry Christmas, everybody!

  29. 29.

    WyldPirate

    Middle Tennessee has a light skim of snow on the ground. Maybe an 1″ total. None on the roads.

    First white Christmas since ’93.

  31. 31.

    New Yorker

    Nothing on the ground in New York City, but that storm that has snow falling in the south should hit us tomorrow, so we’ll have a white Boxing Day. Whatever, close enough.

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    New Yorker

    Also too, it’s nice to have stealth jihadis Muslim dudes running the convenience store next to me, as I can still get a nice cup of coffee on Christmas morning.

    Merry Christmas to everyone from this cynical atheist.

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    Southern Beale

    Merry Christmas everyone!! We got snow too … and even better, the family in Owensboro alleges the Western KY Parkway is too hazardous so the family gathering at the mother in law’s house has been POSTPONED!

    YAY!

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    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    Big cold front came through Houston last night. I think the temp dropped 30 degrees!

    My four cats (yes four!) got a rude awakening whenI chucked them out at 4AM this morning!

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    SiubhanDuinne

    @General Stuck #13: I’m waiting for the heads to asplode when they get to the “promote the general welfare” bit.

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    schrodinger's cat

    @jeffreyw: Them is some pretty kittehs! How is Homer?

    Merry Christmas to all BJers or Happy Festivus if that’s what you celebrate.

  42. 42.

    PanAmerican

    Happy X-Mas…

    Thanks for the Christmas card.

    I don’t wanna hear about your new job now
    I don’t wanna hear about your new boyfriend
    I don’t wanna hear about it all working out for you.
    No, I don’t wanna hear it now.

    I don’t wanna hear about your swingin’ new place
    I don’t wanna hear how everyone thinks it’s great
    I just wanna sit in our apartment and hate you
    Yes, I will be hating you for Christmas.

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    Phyllis

    Home from Savannah. We’ll be having ham and collards later this afternoon. It’s beautifully clear and sunny here now but Kirk’s Alabama snow is headed our way later. There is much wine laid in, as well as the SO’s Johnny Walker Red that he has yet to discover. I think we’ll be in good shape.

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    Dennis SGMM

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I’m waiting for the heads to asplode when they get to the “promote the general welfare” bit.

    That would be General Motors, General Tire, General Electric…

    General Petraeus, General Conway, General Casey…

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    TaMara (BHF)

    Merry Christmas everyone. Mid-50’s here today in the front range of Colorado, 10 feet of powder in the mountains. The skiers are in heaven. Me, I’d rather ride. I hope everyone got great presents and no coal in their stockings (unless it’s Cole and that’s a whole different present).

  46. 46.

    PurpleGirl

    @New Yorker: I’m hoping the Hindu guy across the street will be open when I finally get out there in a bit; There is also an Arab/Muslim guy with a coffee/bagel shop who should be open. Yes, it’s nice to be in a multicultural area. (Let’s not forget to mention that holiday tradition of a movie and Chinese food and all the places that will open for that in various areas of the City.)

  48. 48.

    Montysano

    2 hours later, still snowing heavily in north Bama.

    Coffee and Jameson’s: made for each other.

    Time to make gumbo.

  50. 50.

    Face

    no coal in their stockings (unless it’s Cole and that’s a whole different present).

    This made me laugh. All his formative years, coming down the stairs in big socks, announcing to everyone he’s bringing “Cole in their stockings”, laughing hysterically, but the pun getting progressively less funny every year to everyone except John, because he’s dead-set on using that line until he dies or he trips over his fat cat and breaks his lyrnyx.

    Merry christmas, buddy.

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    Brachiator

    Merry Christmas and the cheer of the season to one and all.

    Having escaped the heavy rains of Southern California, this is one of the few times that I can honestly say that I am glad to be in Texas, where it is merely cold and windy.

  53. 53.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Merry Xmakwanzahanukkafestivus! It’s a wet and windy 55 degree day out today. No snow but lots of mud though too cold for mud wrestling (great for wet t-shirt contests though!).

    OT (somebody’s gotta do it!):

    Seems a good number of the GOS crowd was led down the primrose path by a racist PUMA zombie who rejoined there and posted as a black and poor woman who was angry with Obama. The problem is that she is white, old and a racist PUMA. What’s even funnier is that Meteor Blades recommended her wreck-listed diary then later pulled it, stating:

    For the record, I often recommend…
    …diaries for discussion purposes that I don’t agree and may indeed have issues with. In this case, after doing an additional evaluation and discovering that s/he was a previous banned writer, I not only rebanned “her” but removed my ill-advised recommendation.

    What I like about MB’s statement is the “For the record, I often recommend diaries for discussion purposes that I don’t agree and may indeed have issues with.”  part. Notice that MB was careful to state this without clarifying that this was the case with the diary that they recommended.

    I am willing to bet that there are more than a few of these racist PUMA and ratfucking fucks pretending to be blacks who are disenchanted with Obama. From the response that this “Rainbow Girl” (aka linfar of No Quarter and Hillaryis44 infamy) got at GOS it’s clear that there are a number of people there who were primed and waiting for someone like ‘her’ to come along and lead them, quite willingly, by the nose.

    I’m sure they are already looking for their next prop to beat the president with now that their zombie had it’s head lopped off.

    Resume the festivities (as if you actually stopped)!

  54. 54.

    henqiguai

    Interestingly, the bulk of the respondents, so far, seem to be from across the more southern states (and CO; but really…). Granted there’s New Yorker; Baltimore – phfff (yeah, native Washingtonian, just don’t live there no more). Is that yet another interesting datum about John Cole’s loyal minions readers ?

    From the FP

    It snowed, so we actually have a white Christmas!

    A sign of both age and bad attitude, every year I see this and am reminded of a Mad Magazine Christmas edition featuring Christmas wish card of various organizations; the one I always remember is their take on the KKK; to whit “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…”

    Yeah, steak & eggs for breakfast with samosas, and the rest of the family “singing” along with some Wii singalong app; I’m mercifully in another part of the house. It really doesn’t get much better. Y’all all have just a rippin’ holiday !

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    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    We’re New Yorkers and Virginians that have transplanted to Houston for the past 10 years…. My kids? They are 100% Texan though. Sort of weird to think about it like that…

  59. 59.

    RedKitten

    Merry Christmas everybody! We’re having a great morning here in the RedKitten household. SamKitten is greatly enjoying his gifts (and Santa didn’t go overboard this year — just a few well-selected things, so our living room doesn’t look too post-cyclonic.)

    I think his fave is his Digger the Dog.

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    what's left

    Merry Christmas to all from decidedly un-white-Christmas Florida! Beautiful sunny day with high approaching 70 (I think). Back French doors open to welcome the breeze.

    Enjoy your day to one and all!

  62. 62.

    burnspbesq

    @Brachiator:

    Was a postcard day yesterday: high temp around 60, mostly sunny, and a clear view of snow-capped mountains from central OC.

    Today, pavement is wet from overnight rain, but sun is trying valiantly to peek through overcast.

  63. 63.

    magisterludi

    Merry Christmas!

    Only flurries in midtown Memphis, but I’m still grateful. Got up and baked sticky buns to go with clementines and coffee. Pecan pie is baking now. Then in go the dauphine potatoes and rib roast. Roasted asparagus with hollandaise, tomatoes parmesan and Yorkshire pudding, too.

    Dinger just went off… gotta go check the pie!

  65. 65.

    Jay C

    @henqiguai:

    Well, chalk up at least one other Gothamite (me): a gray Xmas Day spent cleaning up for the family get-together later today: that annual chance for us all to collectively strike a blow for equality and disprove that old antisemitic canard that “Jews don’t drink”! ;)

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    Yeah, I saw that little contretemps at dKos. I much prefer John’s way of dealing with stuff like that: just putting up a simple post reading:

    Dear XXX:
    Fuck you. You’re banned.

    —
    Merry, merry, y’all……

  68. 68.

    Brachiator

    Was a postcard day yesterday: high temp around 60, mostly sunny, and a clear view of snow-capped mountains from central OC.

    Ah. So good to hear that things are better. Had I stayed home, I would have had to work earlier in the week, and would have been caught in the middle of some of the Metrolink train delays.

    Still, it will be nice to get back home. By state law,Rose Parade day must almost always have acceptably picture postcard weather.

  69. 69.

    Yutsano

    @Brachiator:

    By state law,Rose Parade day must almost always have acceptably picture postcard weather.

    I call bullpuckey. One of the years I did the Rose Parade it poured until right before gametime. 175 people in soaking wet wool uniforms. We was not happy clams.

  70. 70.

    Yukoner

    Merry Christmas everyone!

    I always love to read these accounts of a white Christmas. I mean, what other kind are there?
    We got another big dump of snow yesterday (there are now about 3 feet on the ground) and today was bright and sunny (for the 5 and half hours that the sun was up) and the temperature did not budge from the 30 below zero mark all day. Beautiful winter weather. The kids spent all afternoon outside trying out the new sliding sleds and digging forts and tunnel complexes in the deeper snow piles.

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