Sending my digits to the two people who responded. This thing is going to be huge, people.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.
The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
And we’re all out of bubblegum.
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.
We still have time to mess this up!
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
Everybody saw this coming.
“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.
Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
Only Democrats have agency, apparently.
It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Max B.
I would’ve come except I’ve got a thing.
No, really.
TooManyJens
Guys always have to tell us about their things…
Jay C
Can we haz pictures?
Faked Photoshopped CGI’dcreatively enhanced, like a Tea Party rally, to boost the attendance?Evelyn
Yeah, I’m sure we could make sure the weather matched too.
Angry Black Lady
When is said meet up? Imma be in DC at the end of the month.
EdTheRed
I’d love to meet up, but I’ve gotta go home and put my 3-year old to bed. No, seriously.
[food douchery] Also, everyone knows Zenebech Injera has the best Ethiopian food in town. If you went there, maybe I could swing it… [/food douchery]
cleek
someone needs to put together one of these things in Raleigh, so i can find a way to miss it. it’s my nature.
West of the Cascades
When the Balloon Juice Roadshow comes to Portland you can probably get a roomful at Queen of Sheba (best Ethiopian in this town).
Redshift
Yeah, wish I could be there and show you a bit of the town, but this week is really bad all over.
stuckinred
I have to go to Boone for graduation in a couple of weeks!
FoxinSocks
I’m very shy…plus, I have to pick up a new foster cat from the shelter. I’s missing it for the kitties!
kdaug
@cleek: Yeah, me too. Next one’s in my living room! Won’t be able to make it, but have fun!
JGabriel
Tim F.:
Barack Obama will be there! *
But, alas, sadly I will not. Because it would take me 4 hours to get there from NY. And another 4 hours back.
*Maybe.
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schrodinger's cat
Tim F @top
We may not be there in person, but we are with you in spirit. Have fun and post pics.
P.S. Tunch should hold a meet-up for all the Balloon Juice kittehs, with nip and tuna, when Cole is out of town.
kdaug
Anyone think that now that Sully’s one of us, he might stop by for a chat on the porch? Maybe an iced tea or a margarita? Just set a spell and engage with us unwashed rabble?
lamh34
man,
if i was in DC, I’d def wanna meet some peeps.
kindness
@Evelyn: Make sure to include palm trees in the ‘photo’.
JPL
Have fun. If you are ever in the Atlanta area, we might be able to match that number.
Stooleo
OT
Hey! To the Swedes, we’re just like Mexico, ‘cept paler.
gogol's wife
Wish I could be there, especially if you bring that dawg.
over_educated
Hey Tim,
Both my wife and I are long time readers who live about 2 miles outside downtown silver spring. Are you guys meeting up at a bar afterwards? I would think balloon juice readers would be Quarry house folk…
Stan of the Sawgrass
I’d be there, but I’m an agoraphobe. I’ll send my avatar.
Seriously, tho– the Juicers are a pretty spread out bunch. Love to be there, but my Advantage Miles are used up, and I haven’t hitchhiked since I was a DFH.
stuckinred
@JPL: Hell yes, since Kool Korners is closed we might do Nuevo Laredo Cantina! Or come to Athens and we’ll do the White Tiger!
13th Generation
Is one of them motoko_chan?
Dee Loralei IPhone
Darn and I’m stuck at a crown plaza in Carrolton, Tx. And I have to work again tomorrow, instead of going home. But I’ve been eating well Japanese steak house last night, blue chicken for texican for lunch and some English pub for dinner. And my boss is driving me batty. I think I shall drink much English beer.
If y’all ever get to Memphis I am so there.
kwAwk
Hmmm… I suppose its wrong that when I hear about Ethiopian food I want to sing ‘We Are the World’….
piratedan
OT (and my apologies for it) but the courts just stuck a finger in the eyes of Arizona’s SB 1070 law. Block sustained and still in place. Rulings find the law unconstitutional.
http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2011/04/highlghts-from-united-states-v-state-of-arizona-sb-1070.html
kdaug
@13th Generation: Oh, man, I would so like to down some shots of whiskey with the m_c. That’s Hunter S. Thomson neighborhood.
Dee Loralei IPhone
@kdaug: She’s Muslim, so only you would be sharing shots.
Y’all have a great dinner and fun time.
John O
I would show up in a heartbeat if I didn’t, you know, have to travel 1000 miles.
Chicago, babe. Center of the Universe.
13th Generation
@Kdaug
even tho she’s a loon, I would like to meet her ( and do shots) just to see if she resembles the image I have in my mind of her…
MP
@stuckinred Make that 3 for Atlanta. How ’bout Manuels, or maybe Vortex?
aimai
I would totally be there, if I were in DC. Why can’t we have a Boston area Balloon Juice meet up? You just know that Joe from Lowell and I would be singing drunken ditties under the table at the end of that one!
aimai
JR
Sorry, Tim, I’d love to but I’ve got rehearsals for a Gilbert & Sullivan show opening this week (“The Sorcerer,” performed by the Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society, playing Wed-Sat at 8 pm. http://www.ggssonline.com for tickets!) and, as if that weren’t enough, I went down a flight of stairs on my back this weekend and I’m hopped up on all manner of pills at the moment. But let us know the next time you’re ITB.
FormerSwingVoter
I’d come, but I have an intense, burning hatred of all living things.
You guys have fun, though.
Just Some Fuckhead
@aimai:
I can’t see Joe taking any time off from warblogging. What if support waned for permawar for a moment? He’d never be able to forgive himself.
stuckinred
@MP: Is the Vortex still in lil 5?
srv
Maybe y’all should crash one of those GOS events, run in and punch a few of them, scream TUNCH FOR THE WIN! and run out.
Flash Mob Hippie Punching.
John O
@srv:
LOL…I’ve been to a couple, and it’s just not something you would do. They are fighting the good fight.
Probably the biggest observation I have of them both was that a heckuva lot of our “leaders” are little guys. I guess cliches become themselves because they’re true.
MP
@stuckinred There are two of them. The one in lil 5 is still there, and one opened in Midtown several years back as well.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Yeah I’ve heard that before.
Please try to leave the city as you found it. Lost items will be posted on Craigslist DC. Lost articles of clothing will be donated to local charities. Lost souls will be promptly snorked up by a passing GOP Congress Critter so I can’t help you there.
Dennis SGMM
Other than the 3000-plus miles separating D.C. from SoCal I am so there. Having used up all of my flying luck in Vietnam I will not in my lifetime board another aircraft. I’ll send good wishes for fellowship and drunken excess from afar.
Poopyman
I’M SORRY. I was a maybe and then you changed the venue and the time and I can’t make it, and I didn’t post like I should have.
So here’s my regrets, ’cause I’d’a liked to have met fellow BJers and been sorely disappointed because things are different in meatspace.
qtip
That’s 3 block from my house…I’d join you if I weren’t out of town.
If you’re near Columbia and 18th, stop by Tryst on 18th street after dinner for a mediocre coffee but good hipster-watching.
KCinDC
Sorry, only just saw this but was busy following the protest anyway. Hoping this is the beginning of new energy toward bringing full democracy to the residents of DC.