Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The revolution will be supervised.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

This fight is for everything.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Trump should be leading, not lying.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Republicans do not trust women.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

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Planning for Tomorrow’s Clusterfuck and Inevitable Server Meltdown

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We have actually worked on a plan for tomorrow (GASP- PLANNING AHEAD?). What we are going to do is basically shut down every single post except for the Coveritlive livestreaming at 7pm EST. That way, there will be no need for refreshing the website and leading towards the inevitable crash.

What we need, though, is some user support. First, don’t visit old posts- there will be only one post on the front page, and that will be the coveritlive. Second, we need trusted users to help approve comments. Please, if you are a longtime commenters, email Mistermix with your username in the comments and let him know you would like to help out. Mistermix will have instructions above the coveritlive for the volunteers. Once the election is over and I think the server will be stable, I will open comments and old and new posts back up.

Thanks in advance for working with us.

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  2. 2.

    Svensker

    You’re good people, Mr. Cole. Knowing that all plans are made and tomorrow’s outcome will be revealed in the fullness of time, I’m heading to bed.

    Say your prayers tonight, everybody, and do your duty tomorrow.

    Salud!

  6. 6.

    geg6

    I understand what you’re doing with the Coveritlive thing, but I just have to say how much I hate it. I know my laptop is ancient and all, but it freezes up a lot and when it’s not frozen, it scrolls by so fast I can’t keep up and I cannot seem to be able to comment no matter what I do.

    But I’ll sit back and do my best to follow along. Okay, done bitching now.

  7. 7.

    ? Martin

    Bah, I’d love to help approve comments, but I have family in town and will be pretty busy. I’d be happy to help with this sort of thing in the future, though.

    But tomorrow is my birthday, and it will be a quite good day indeed.

  8. 8.

    lamh35

    ya’ll should really watch the final rally in Iowa tonight.

    This is bittersweet. It’s the last time he will be rallying for his own election in his political career ever.

    He’s ending where it all started, in Iowa.

    Without Iowa in 2008, there’d be no President Barack Hussein Obama!

    FLOTUS and POTUS up now.

  11. 11.

    Punchy

    What the fuck is coveritlive and why are you fucking up yo blog to use it? Is this Sully’s idea?

  16. 16.

    Comrade Mary

    One thing, John: won’t we be advised to go to the external CoverItLive site, or are you setting up the plug-in here?

  17. 17.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    @lamh35: Crap. All kidding aside, that is depressing. Maybe, like Clinton, he’ll prove helpful post-presidency (or, like Carter, go on to other humanitarian endeavors).

  21. 21.

    pseudonymous in nc

    I’m going to be with people and booze, and IRCing with sarcastic friends.

    If you want to do a quick whipround on getting MOAR DATABASE SERVER to deal with FYWP, I’d chip in, because the problem with coveritlive (as good as it is at handling crazy load) is that the archives are elsewhere, and I suspect there’ll be a fair bit that we’ll want preserved for the record.

  23. 23.

    MikeJ

    I will gladly approve comments, but I will not be sober, and I’ll be in a bar with a hojillion people using the iffy wifi (iffy wifi rhymes, doesn’t it?). So no.

    Anybody who on here instead of in streets celebrating deserves bad blog service.

  24. 24.

    PeakVT

    Is the CIL client that was posted before the best thing they’ve got? The whole system seems like a step backwards from what IRC offered in the 1990s.

  25. 25.

    AA+ Bonds

    I’ll mod BJers for three, but I’ll catch them, and kill them for ten. But you’ve gotta make up your minds

  27. 27.

    Donut

    @lamh35:

    He is a lucky man, this President, to have Michelle in his life. I freakin LOVE her for reasons I can’t even put into words. I wouldn’t have liked to miss these two speeches for anything.

    Well, I’ll take that back – if someone can guarantee me that Ann Romney will melt away like the Wicked Witch of the West when the race is called, then I’ll turn off the TeeVee now.

  29. 29.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I’ll be sober, but I think I might crack under the pressure or just do something accidentally that crashes the site. I’m not exactly a computer wizard. Also, I’ll be trying to do classwork in between frantically refreshing the various polls.

  30. 30.

    AA+ Bonds

    My entire election night will consist of projecting a CIL feed from a blog on my ceiling overtop of Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome looped in reverse, I am your target audience

  36. 36.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    I would offer to approve posts but I’m evil. :)

    Keep that shiny red button away from me!

  40. 40.

    dww44

    @? Martin: No better person to have an election day birthday than one of the good BJ commenters. I take this as a propitiously good omen for tomorrow evening.

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack

    @geg6:

    On the bottom right of the CoverItLive gizmo there is a button you can mash to turn off auto-scroll. Then you can go through the comments at your own pace.

  47. 47.

    trollhattan

    I generally find “planning ahead” beats planning behind. Unless Scarlett Johansson is involved.

  48. 48.

    YoohooCthulhu

    @West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.):

    that is depressing. Maybe, like Clinton, he’ll prove helpful post-presidency

    It’s really not. I’m as glad to have Obama as president as anyone, but I DO have some sympathy for the man. After being termed out of what’s basically a hellish job and being ruthlessly villified in the public sphere for years, I think ex-presidents are entitled to take it easy, or at the very least be involved in politics exclusively on their own terms.

  56. 56.

    NotMax

    Well, afterwards for moi then.

    Whatever this Coverit thingie is supposed to be, it sucks raw eggs on this end.

    So later, gators.

  57. 57.

    Mystical Chick

    YEY! I got chosen as a comment approver all because I adopted Tommy’s cat! Don’t tell me the Universe isn’t benevolent! hahahahha

    I’m a wee bit of a grammar Nazi so I’ll be vetting your comments for correct apostrophe use. Someone else can take the spelling portion. I’ll have my *hand’s* full with apostrophes! heheh

    See you all tonight!

  58. 58.

    Brian

    You are taking all my sweet sweet old posts away?

    I guess I will just have to do the election day drinking game instead.

  59. 59.

    Bixby

    Can I just say that I’m near-permanent lurker who checks in every day, and I don’t know a one of you, but I appreciate the way you’ve all kept me sane lo these many years.

  60. 60.

    Patricia Kayden

    @lamh35: I was too tired to watch it last night, but will hunt it down today. Such a historic moment. Feels like yesterday when he won the primary in Iowa in ’08.

  61. 61.

    General Stuck

    @Mystical Chick:

    I’m a wee bit of a grammar Nazi so I’ll be vetting your comments for correct apostrophe use

    I’m the Dillinger of incorrect apostrophe use. Catch me if you can, frau Mchick.

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