Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

We still have time to mess this up!

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Let me file that under fuck it.

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

Republicans in disarray!

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

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

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

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  4. 4.

    Edmund dantes

    Well done. It’s a shame reporters aren’t doing a better job.

    Let’s hope Obama does well enough tonight to keep people away from high bridges and sharp objects.

  5. 5.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    A friend just forwarded it to me. Hysterical.

    The key now is to make it go viral. We can probably guess that no Villager will ever comment or remark on this.

  6. 6.

    General Stuck

    LOL. Not to worry, we have that paragon of equivalence on the beat for tonight’s debate. Candy will make sure everyone gets an equal slice of bullshit to take home. She don’t need no stinkin’ rules.

  8. 8.

    schrodinger's cat

    Didn’t you get the memo, we are all supposed to panic and hide under our beds because the polls, Romney is ahead and is closing the gender gap + UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH, we cannot deny reality because we has a serious and hear NPR.

    {This is my attempt at Grand Unified Comment of Trolling, FireBagging + Teabagging +
    Totebagging in one comment}

  10. 10.

    J. Michael Neal

    Jesus. I’m wasting time trying to see if I can figure out how to push that thing into one of the corners of the screen.

  11. 11.

    Schlemizel

    @Surreal American: Sadly true!

    Yes, we need to work hard to get this up on FB and sent to the thousands of dipstick friends and relatives that forward BS to us. The best abuse of the Rmoney is to subject it to ridicule.

  12. 12.

    AkaDad

    As a Conservative, I didn’t find this amusing at all. I wasted a half hour before I figured it out.

  14. 14.

    Scuffletuffle

    Totally OT, but what happened to the Navy Gangnam style video thread. I saw it at work and couldn’t watch. Now I’m home and no thread.

    I haz a sad.

  18. 18.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Maybe. They coulda done a little better with the wording:

    For a detailed explanation of how the Romney-Ryan tax plan is able to cut taxes by $5 trillion without raising taxes on the middle class or exploding the deficit, simply click the button below.

    Well, a lot better.

  21. 21.

    Platonicspoof

    Could have been inspired by the fur balls that can’t stop chasing flashlight spots on the ground.

    If only MSM reporters had such irresistable instincts.

  22. 22.

    Jeff Spender

    100% likelihood that Wolf Blitzer is in his office, cursing like a sailor, screaming, “TELL ME YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!” as he continually hits the button.

  26. 26.

    PreservedKillick

    @Jeff Spender:

    Not just Wolf. It’ll be a miracle if we get any debate coverage. Most of the MSM will still be trying to catch that button, well after the debate ends.

  30. 30.

    jeffreyw

    new samsung tv has a browser built in but nav is funky even with bluetooth keyboard and mouse

  31. 31.

    dr. bloor

    Fucking genius. The first time Rmoney tells some hapless dumbass undecided to “go to his website” for the details that are never, ever there, I hope Obama chimes in by giving them the address.

  34. 34.

    arguingwithsignposts

    In one simple page of html

    Okay, that’s not a “simple” page of HTML, and it requires some javascript and css to work.

    Sparse, maybe, but not simple.

  37. 37.

    Ash Can

    @Howard Beale IV:
    @dr. bloor:

    It’s great that the fiancee is a sanctity-of-marriage scold on top of it, but my favorite part has to be the fact that they shared a hotel room and D’Souza insists that “nothing happened.”

  39. 39.

    PreservedKillick

    Oho. That’s already the first non-news google hit for “Romney Tax Plan”.

    The other ones are bad for Romney too.

  40. 40.

    Brachiator

    Sometimes campaigns do generally amusing and humorous things. This is one of those times. In one simple page of html, the DNC has done what the entire press has failed to do this entire election

    it’s OK. But it is too cute, too snarky, and too wonky.

    It overdoses on big numbers, which pushes people away instead of drawing them in. And people don’t care that much about the deficit. They DO care about their own lives, their jobs, their own taxes.

    And it’s a legitimate deduction if it helps me; it’s a tax loophole if it only helps you. So, people don’t necessarily want to close loopholes.

    The gap between Romney’s projections and reality leaves room for the Trickle Down and Supply Side Fairies, for the true believers.

    And they conclude the thing with “Here’s the denominator…” WTF does that mean? Voters want answers, not math lessons.

    Clinton’s speech at the DNC remains the model for this. You have to make people see and feel how the GOP’s plans will hurt them, and you have to do it in simple, concrete and personal terms.

    Also, too, the way the initial page is set up, someone might think that they have wandered onto a GOP page. They may just shut it down instead of clicking on the link to get details. And then it is too much shit to read.

    And again, as I have long noted, these people use too much fucking text instead of simple charts and graphics.

    Better than nothing, I guess.

  45. 45.

    catclub

    @dr. bloor: Will be interesting to compare to the “Norquist is married to a Muslim Al Qaeda member,” foofaraw. My guess is that the whiteness of Norquist will soften his treatment at the hands of the RW.

    So, good luck Dinesh!

  48. 48.

    PreservedKillick

    @catclub:

    I wonder what Brachiator is talking about. Does not sound like what everyone else here is talking about.

    Maybe he managed to click the button?

  49. 49.

    schrodinger's cat

    @catclub: Not snark, I think he is serious, he is Balloon Juice’s resident contrarian. A one person Slate, if you will.

  50. 50.

    Alison

    @Ash Can: To be fair, it’s certainly possible. I know if *I* were in a hotel room with D’Souza, my vag would dry up like the Sahara and seal itself up like it was the entrance to Fort Knox. The female body has ways of shutting that down, after all…

  55. 55.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Jeff Spender:

    Leslie is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, you know. This is the guy who argued with his on the air experts about the plausibility that the “balloon boy” might actually be floating around. The experts said “no”, but Leslie kept insisting that it was still possible.

  56. 56.

    kooks

    @catclub: There is a link at the bottom of the page to go to barackobama.com to get the details (not the elusive button). Most people probably miss it because it doesn’t show up right away, the page footer pops up a few seconds after you try to click the button.

  58. 58.

    catclub

    Well, now I understand. If you stop chasing the big red button, you can click on a ‘get the facts’ link at the bottom, which is the barackobama.facts… website, with all kinds of numbers.

    Why anyone would do that, rather than chase the button, I do not know. Aren’t we supposed to imitate bored cats here?

    ETA: I was posting when kook’s posted @56

  62. 62.

    SFAW

    @Alison:

    I thought a woman had to be raped for her female parts to shut down. At least, that’s what Todd is God Clod told me.

  63. 63.

    JasonF

    There is a link at the bottom that shows up after you chase the button around a time or two, and that link takes you to President Obama’s page where he does walk through the math — how he gets $5 billion in cuts from Romney’s plan, how eliminating all deductions for the wealthy and corporations would only add up to $4 billion, and what that means (hint: $5 billion minus $4 billion still leaves $1 billion unaccounted for).

    But yeah — the point isn’t to drive people to that page (though it’s fine if they go there); the point is to remind people that Romney is being evasive on the details of his plan.

  66. 66.

    SFAW

    @dmsilev:

    Yeah, good idea. “I was just sneaking up on my iPad, when …”

    That’ll go over well with the guys in white jackets.

  67. 67.

    Alison

    @SFAW: Oh, that was only the beginning of the magic we can work, uterustically. JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE. One day we’ll have a woman President and then all shall be revealed…

  69. 69.

    Another Halocene Human

    @Ash Can: It’s great that the fiancee is a sanctity-of-marriage scold on top of it, but my favorite part has to be the fact that they shared a hotel room and D’Souza insists that “nothing happened.”

    The only reason that dumbass stays in the US is wingnut welfare. In India Xtians are a minority and looked at askance thanks to the real pleasant taste the British left in everyone’s mouths.

    Like so many things Dinesh doesn’t “get” about US culture, he’s apparently unaware that only in the really, REALLY freaky cults do highly religious American women ever deign to share their prey mates.

    In India, powerful men are accustomed to fucking whoever they please, and letting the fuckees deal with the consequences. A friend of mine had a well-off cousin who was screwing this girl he had no intention of marrying and was bragging about it… unlike in the US that’s still a big deal over there. Of course the double standard is strong there and he knew he, as a rich male, would face no consequences.

  75. 75.

    Hob

    @JasonF: And Brachiator’s complaint that when you go to the detail page, there are too many details there, misses the point spectacularly. Erring on the side of giving too many numbers is kind of necessary, when 1. you just made fun of the other guy for being short on detail, and 2. Paul Ryan has an undeserved reputation for having “crunched the numbers.”

    Anyone who bothers to find and click that link is looking for detail. Everyone else will just chase the button around and get the joke.

  79. 79.

    SFAW

    @Alison:

    One day we’ll have a woman President and then all shall be revealed…

    Sounds good to me, depending on who it is. Yvonne Strahovski would be A-OK by me. Pauline Potter, not so much.

    Oh, that WASN’T what you meant by “revealed”?

  82. 82.

    Supernumerary Charioteer

    @Howard Beale IV:

    [Joseph II] even goes on to say that America’s children “are going the way of black ghetto society” thanks to feminists and Ke$ha.

    Jesus, those two racist-ass pieces of shit deserve each other.

  86. 86.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Brachiator: I agree with you in principle, but the simple charts and graphs are all out their, the ‘bikini’ job graph, the deficit/debt graph breaking down Stimulus spending, the Bush wars and teh Bush tax cuts, I assume it wouldn’t be hard to find graphs that show how Romney’s deliberately simplistic plan for military spending sends the deficit off the charts– it’s been on TRMS every night for a week or more. There’s a video showing angry Mitt dismissing half the country as lazy slobs; one Ohio “Wal Mart mom” (single mother, full time job, part time student) told CNN she was offended at first, but Romney apologized, so now she’s back to undecided. To paraphrase Mo Udall, the people are gonna speak, the ignorant bastards.

  88. 88.

    Elisabeth

    I am apparently easily amused ’cause I can’t stop chasing that “button” around the screen.

  89. 89.

    Another Halocene Human

    @Supernumerary Charioteer: Jesus, those two racist-ass pieces of shit deserve each other.

    Great, now I’m picturing them turning each other on by talking about how much they hate ni*CLANGS. BRAIN BLEACH, STAT!

  91. 91.

    schrodinger's cat

    I need some brain bleach, stat. I made the mistake of reading the linked article about Dinesh Crazy Dsouza. Who the hell is Kesha? What is a granola feminist? I have met many African Americans who are several shades lighter than Dinesh Dsouza? so why all the hating on black people.

  93. 93.

    SFAW

    @Violet:

    her name is Denise Odie Joseph II. How many women have a II after their names?

    Well, considering “her” name was originally Dennis Odell Joseph II, before the operation, not that unusual.

    NTTAWWT

  102. 102.

    SFAW

    @Xantar:

    Yeah, I know, but I’ll be glad to help make her a citizen (in the time-honored way) so she can run.

    Naturally, I’ll “forget” to tell her about Article II, Section 1, until later on.

    Besides, I don’t think the Rethugs would be as diligent regarding her birth certificate, for the obvious reason(s).

  104. 104.

    SFAW

    @Tone In DC:

    Well, sorry, but it’s not as if I can issue a warning before I write something which has that effect.

    I mean, if I were as funny as TBogg, I might consider it, but I don’t think I’m there yet.

  106. 106.

    Michael Bersin

    @AkaDad:

    As a Conservative, I didn’t find this amusing at all. I wasted a half hour before I figured it out.

    A true conservative would never figure it out, they’d just ignore objective reality and recycle the same policies and people into the next administration.

  109. 109.

    Adam

    I’m just gonna sit here and wait for the fact checkers to give the DNC ‘Four Pinnochios’ because the Get the Details button can’t be clicked and the programming shows that no matter how fast the user moves the mouse they would be unable to physically click the button.

  110. 110.

    Donut

    TLDR above comments, so apologies if someone already said this, but holy shit, it will be political malpractice if President Obama doesn’t give this site a shout out tonight.

  111. 111.

    Donut

    @Brachiator:

    Yeah, dude…9 out of 10 of people will not click all the way through. The landing page that loads once the button stops moving is the important bit, IMO.

  112. 112.

    Original Lee

    @Schlemizel: The wingnuts on FB are unamused and are using it as example of voter fraud. Um, I don’t think it means what you think it means, folks.

  113. 113.

    Brachiator

    @FlipYrWhig:

    Um, you’re not supposed to click on a link to get details, you’re supposed to notice that the button keeps running away.

    Yeah, that’s cute. And it gives people who already support Obama a little chuckle.

    I also imagine the marketing people who put this together got a nice piece of change for their work. Will probably even win some awards for how smart it is. They undoubtedly strut around their offices patting each other on the back over shit that would be rejected by the Onion.

    So, we have a web site that preaches to the converted. With a few weeks to go before the election.

    Ooh.

    Also, if I am not supposed to click on a link to get details, then why the fuck is that page even there?

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I assume it wouldn’t be hard to find graphs that show how Romney’s deliberately simplistic plan for military spending sends the deficit off the charts—it’s been on TRMS every night for a week or more

    Yes, by all means, the Democrats should make potential voters hunt around to find information that might lead them to vote for them.

    Good thing the election is not close.

    And I regularly give TRMS kudos for bringing people on who can do economic “show and tell” very effectively.

    Shouldn’t the Democrats be as effective in getting their message out?

    Instead, I’m supposed to applaud some weak, obvious political comedy and dreary, unfocused numerical diarrhea.

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