Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

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

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

“They all knew.”

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

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

White supremacy is terrorism.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

The words do not have to be perfect.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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I’d like to think this email, sent by me, is why I got that Moore Award earlier today:

From: Douglas Jones <**********@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Subject: Moore Award nominee
To: [email protected]

Dear Andrew and Co.,

Long time reader, first-time writer in. Love your blog, it’s about
the only place a Burkean centrist can get a fair look at things these
days.

I have a possible Moore Award nominee — the vile gang at
Balloon-Juice comparing Romney to Hitler

The Reichstag fire next time

Keep up the good work!

I know, I know, it’s only a nomination.

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  7. 7.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    I’d like to this email, sent by me, is why I got that Moore Award earlier today:

    You’d like to … what?

    Put down that keyboard and go to bed, son. I may drunk-post here from time to time, but I’m not a front-pager. There’s a difference.

  9. 9.

    Donut

    Doug, when you’re good, you’re REALLY good. Well played.

    Did you send the interns a link to this post yet?

  10. 10.

    Violet

    You’ve got all my votes when it’s time to pick the winner. I’m good at poll spamming.

  16. 16.

    Jamie

    This makes me feel better about being unemployed, having my girl have to go back to the other coast, and the world going to hell and all that.

    Doug wins the inter tubes!

  17. 17.

    Bnut

    Meta-trolling taken to a new level. If only you blogged at a right wing site under another fake name, we could get you another nomination.

  21. 21.

    Jay in Oregon

    No, no, no, no.

    I refuse to believe that you got away with sending an email about your own BJ post under the name “Douglas Jones”.

  22. 22.

    jl

    @Bnut:

    ” If only you blogged at a right wing site under another fake name, we could get you another nomination. ”

    That is a great idea, and I am sure MBAJ can pull it off. Then a commneter submits a new troll feat of strength.

    This could be a new feature on this full service blog:

    The Pseudonymous Name of the DayJay spoof troll challenge.

  24. 24.

    Mark S.

    @Jay in Oregon:

    That is hard to believe. Also hard to believe: “it’s about
    the only place a Burkean centrist can get a fair look at things these days.” Come on, who could read that and not have their Burkean bells go off?

  25. 25.

    Upper West

    Let me echo those above, Doug, and add,

    12 dimensional chess

    Supreme Kabuki Ninja maneuvering

    Reverse phylogenetic tactics

    In short, mockery within passion within mockery.

    We are not worthy,

  27. 27.

    Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor

    This post is very uncivil.
    It deserves a Moore Award.

  28. 28.

    slag

    the only place a Burkean centrist can get a fair look at things these
    days.

    Jesus Christ how do these people manage to take themselves seriously? And did you really send this from your own email account?

    I’d love to praise your genius on this, DougJ, but it’s hard to when these people are so incredibly absurd in and of themselves. Kudos to you, though, for putting in the effort to take advantage of their pathetically transparent conceits.

  29. 29.

    taylormattd

    OMG, lol!

    You’ve finally done it. Should this be considered some kind of Grand Unification Theory of trolling?

  30. 30.

    wetcasements

    What are the odds that ol Sully, seeing Mitt surging in the polls, goes 180 and starts writing Oakshottian paens to Mittens? Because it’s all about being on the right side of public opinion for him.

    I’m thinking it’s 50-50 right now.

    Anyways, well played sir. Andrew’s little blog monkeys are dumber than we thought (which isn’t saying much).

  31. 31.

    YellowJournalism

    @Jay in Oregon: “No, no, no, no.

    I refuse to believe that you got away with sending an email about your own BJ post under the name “Douglas Jones”.”

    That’s the best part!

  33. 33.

    asiangrrlMN

    Dude. You so fucking rock and roll. This made me bust out in a hearty gut-laugh. Kudos, Metrosexual Black AbeJ! Fucking brilliant.

  35. 35.

    worn

    Good Lord, Doug, this cracks me up. And to think I wrote you earlier today with “You may already be aware, but if not…”

  36. 36.

    SectarianSofa

    Hmm. My computer and/or wordpress, etc.. are doing weird things with my attempted edit. (Whee — my post briefly appeared as from “undefined”. I apologize in advance for any triple-posted half-chewed-up words.
    Suffice it to say, Alan Sokal, you’re no AbeJ.

  37. 37.

    Rafer Janders

    I think it was the use of the word “vile” that got to Sully. He just can’t resist it, it’s catnip to him..

  40. 40.

    SFAW

    You’ve finally done it. Should this be considered some kind of Grand Unification Theory of trolling?

    More like the Klein Bottle of trolling. Or the Ouroboros. Or something.

  41. 41.

    Epicurus

    Claim your prize now! If it’s good enough for Jonah Effing Goldberg, it’s surely good enough for you.

  43. 43.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    Is it remotely possible that Sully knows DougJ is playing with him, and is playing along just for kicks? Or is he really that blinkered?

    Fun either way, though.

  44. 44.

    SFAW

    Is it remotely possible that Sully knows DougJ is playing with him, and is playing along just for kicks?

    Yes. It’s also remotely possible that the hair which formerly occupied the top of my head will grow back tomorrow. (Just to be clear: it’s disappearance is not due to cutting or shaving.)

    It’s also remotely possible that Mitch McTurtle will make a public pronouncement that, yes indeedy, the Senate Rethugs have been actively trying to destroy the economy, in the hope that it takes down Obama as well, but he now realizes that it’s wrong to do so.

    It’s also remotely possible that Nobel Peace Prize for Hack Writing nominee Jonah Goldberg will write something intelligent. (Nah, never mind, that’s too ridiculous to contemplate.)

    I hope this helps.

  45. 45.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    Did you ever know that you’re my hero? You’re everything a blog troll should be…

  48. 48.

    SectarianSofa

    So, now Balloon-juice is “the Moore award winning Balloon-juice,” featuring J.C. and Metrosexual Black AbeJ.

  50. 50.

    mclaren

    They didn’t nominate me personally? Man, that’s a bummer.

    The guy who made that nomination is definitely the Julius Streicher of the 2010s. But at least he’s offering a Final Solution to the “liberal problem.”

    There. Maybe that’ll do it.

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