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Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

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Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

Cole, when it comes to calico cats, restraint is overrated.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

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  2. 2.

    fuddmain

    Can you imagine Rmoney trying this (not that anything this cool would have occurred to him)? His head would have fallen off.

  4. 4.

    Marcelo

    I think it’s an awesome photo, but more than that I’m amazed at what a good sport McKayla Maroney is. It wasn’t her most graceful moment, and she’s now probably going to be remembered more for that face than her perfect vault which is probably the greatest single vault of all time no matter what the judges said. And yet she still keeps the meme going in fun ways.

    I just hope that 10 years from now when she’s recognized on the street or endorsing a charity that people don’t keep asking her to make the face. Her vault really was a work of art.

  5. 5.

    BH in MA

    How unpresidential! Mitt Romney would never make funny faces or allow children to touch his presidential hair.

  8. 8.

    General Stuck

    Obviously, Obama and his demon team are up to no good. With a knowing smirk to giving granny the high hard one in a second term.

  9. 9.

    Howard Beale IV channeling Yoda

    Reason won Obama again and dark fumbling GOP is-social media get they do not.

  14. 14.

    fuddmain

    @Marcelo: I’m not a huge fan of gymnastics, but I needed help lifting my jaw up off the floor after that vault. What was really impressive was the comparison of that vault with one by the male Japanese badass gymnast. She flew an order of magnitude higher.

  18. 18.

    Schlemizel

    she made that face cuz she was upset at finishing 2nd. But Obama? He finished FIRST! why is he grimacing?

  19. 19.

    SuperHrefna

    @cathyx: But I think they are laughing because it is so cool that the President is goofing around with McKayla – if she was just pulling her face in the Oval Office on her own I don’t think I’d like the picture *nearly* as much. I love it when Obama lets himself have fun! He has so much to worry him.

  22. 22.

    1badbaba3

    Give it up for Metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln, y’all! ! !

    And I can’t see Jill Stein pulling this off either, so nener to both fringes.

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Schlemizel: He is practicing his skeptical face for upcoming meetings with GOP Congresspeople. The man is willing to learn from experts.

    ETA: Damn you, Hawes!

  28. 28.

    RedKitten

    Between this and his Reddit “NOT BAD!” moment, the man really IS aware of all internet traditions, isn’t he? It delights the hell out of me that he’s tapped into these things in a genuinely interested fashion. Romney either would have stood there like a dummy, or would have tried WAY too hard about the whole thing.

  29. 29.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @dmsilev:

    He probably should just send an entire team of teenaged girls to do his negotiating with Boehner and McConnell.

    I think that would violate the Eighth Amendment.

  30. 30.

    Violet

    That’s hilarious. He knows that face. He’s got two girls, one already a teenager and one almost a teenager.

  34. 34.

    Amir Khalid

    There is probably no better example of seriousness without pomposity than President Barack Hussein Obama. And no better example of pomposity without seriousness than not-President-Elect Willard Mitt Romney.

  35. 35.

    Davis X. Machina

    My mom, who remembers every president since Hoover, whom she sort-of-remembers (she was 4 when he lost re-election) says ‘never trust a man who doesn’t look like he’s having fun doing the job.’

  37. 37.

    different-church-lady

    @RedKitten:

    Romney either would have stood there like a dummy, or would have tried WAY too hard about the whole thing.

    Well, to be fair he’d probably be brought up short by the fact that McKayla would be making the face at him.

  39. 39.

    RedKitten

    @different-church-lady: Fair enough. Mind you, this is assuming that he would actually notice and not be completely oblivious. Willard strikes me as the type who is only observant of what people are saying or doing when they are people who can directly benefit him.

  43. 43.

    nancydarling

    What Amir said @33.

    And now that I am up to speed on the McKayla moue, was there a big brouhaha when she made the face originally?

  45. 45.

    dmsilev

    @Omnes Omnibus: Oh, I know that’s what you meant…

    I’m sure we could get John Yoo to pen a memo giving the President the authority to utilize such …alternative negotiating strategies.

  46. 46.

    kay

    I still sort of love what a dud the Olympics were for Romney. I didn’t think people would care about it, and they didn’t. The whole thing was such a lie, the huge subsidies and lobbying involved in that, the cronies, while he’s yelling about Big Government, I was just glad that the whole marketing push was irrelevant to most people.

  50. 50.

    JPL

    Mock me if you must but when I heard that mckayla was not impressed with the White House, I thought she meant it.
    The picture is great and how fun for McKayla and the Pres.

  51. 51.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Obummer is clearly upset that he had to let a white person in the White House.

    /wingnut

    Obama is so cool that it heats wingers up.

  52. 52.

    Baud

    @JPL:

    Mock me if you must but when I heard that mckayla was not impressed with the White House, I thought she meant it.

    Exactly how Fox will spin it. McKayla not impressed with Obama’s “gifts.”

  54. 54.

    robertdsc-iPhone 4

    Haha! Kickass Mac!

    I’m in the foothills of LA watching the rain fall. We’re supposed to play paintball in a little bit. Glad I brought extra clothes.

  56. 56.

    gogol's wife

    I never heard of McKayla (what a name!) and I still don’t understand this meme even after reading all the links, but that is a really cute picture.

  57. 57.

    Ben Franklin

    Excerpt fro the new movie….

    Jackie Robinson; “Ypu chose me because I would fight back?”

    “I chose you because you wouldn’t fight back”

  62. 62.

    nancydarling

    @gogol’s wife: I was clueless as well. This is the face that McKayla made when she took the silver last summer—losing by one-tenth of a point, I read somewhere. I think a lesser teenager would have cried.

    There are videos on youtube.

  63. 63.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @gogol’s wife: She fell during the Olympics, won a silver medal instead of gold, and on the podium was making that face as if to say “meh” despite having just won a silver medal at the Olympics, and people found it cute. I think it was more “Okay fine but rats I could have done better” but it turned into “Not impressed”, and then you saw the rest.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Okay, you’re right.

  66. 66.

    TaMara (BHF)

    That made my morning. And before coffee even. Thanks.

    Has anyone heard from the big Cole? Have we heard how his dad is doing? I’ve been out of touch for a bit. Last I heard he was in the hospital with heart issues again.

  73. 73.

    JPL

    @Kane: If I didn’t donate so much to the reelection campaign, I’d be tempted to buy one for my son. Instead he has a new pres, same as the old one.

  76. 76.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @JPL: I remember when the campaign sent me an email telling me my total donations so far in campaign and it arrived just after that first debate. All I thought was, I spent this much and all I got was that?

    I didn’t mean it, but it cheered me up a bit.

  77. 77.

    trollhattan

    Our president is aware of all internet traditions. This dovetails with his letting on he knows about the “Chill the #$ck out, I got this” poster.

    Bullet dodged, sir, carry on.

    And yeah, good on Mcayla(sp?) for finding the humor in becoming the meme of 2012.

  79. 79.

    jenn

    @dmsilev: That was a thing of beauty. A few grammatical errors, but I have been so pissed about Issa’s leaking sensitive info and the press acting like that was a-ok – having that item in Reid’s litany made me happy!

  80. 80.

    Zapruder F. Mashtots, D.D.S. (Mumphrey, et al.)

    I read the Jonathan Chait piece somebody linked to in an earlier thread, the piece about President Obama’s dealings with the House about taxes. And, as you’d think, a bunch of wingnuts showed up to tell us all how eeeeevil it is to raise taxes on rich people, since they’re the Job Creators© and 47% of us are lazy, worthless, mooching, thieving commies (yes, one clown really said that people who want rich people to pay a little more are “commies”).

    Anyway, this one post leapt put at me:

    as the anarchist pierre-joseph proudhon so insightfully and incitefully put it, and half our people led by our president now believe, “property is theft.”

    let’s just take this to the logical conclusion and take away 100% of the property and tax 100% of in the income of the top 50% and give it to the bottom 50%.

    there is zero empirical evidence that any “lack of regulation” caused our current economic straits or that “the bush tax cuts” have harmed the economy in any way or their repeal will hurt it.

    but we do know this. if the $250,000 or so person is now rich and lives in say, new york, and you take away $98,750 (39.5%) in federal taxes, $16,625 (6.65%) in state taxes, maybe $3,500 in sales taxes, say $20,000 in real estate taxes (really super-rich people like that, besides eating bon bons all day and sleeping until noon, also often have big houses), and $9,560 in social security and medicare taxes, there goes $148,425 out the window (something less for the graduated part getting to the $250,000–but there are plenty of hidden taxes, as well) before breakfast.

    now, at lunch time, throw in two kids in college at $30,000 each (a middling amount–state schools–no fancy stuff) because this worthless sot of a rich person doesn’t want to burden the rest of us with her or his responsibility to pay for her or his own kids, and $208,425 is used up before our to be taunted and hated rich person is finally thrown where s/he belongs–a “re-education” camp to teach her or him the evils of money.

    remember, friends, property is theft–unless the government owns it.

    keevan d. morgan, esq., chicago

    And I though, “If this guy is really one of our vaunted Job Creators©, then we’re in worse shape than I thought. This genius, who may or may not be a lawyer–but woe betide us all if he is–and he doesn’t understand how marginal tax rates work. This guy thinks that if the top rate went 39.5%, he’d pay $98,000 in federal income tax on an income of $250,000. Beyond that, he doesn’t understand that you can deduct your state taxes ($16-odd thousand in his fantasy) and payroll taxes (in the neighborhood of $10,000 in his setup).

    Now, I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t even play one on T.V., but I worked in the law library in college, and it sure seemed like every law student took a class about tax law at some point. How can a lawyer get through law school and pass a bar test without understanding how marginal tax rates work? I wonder how many other genius Job Creators© don’t understand how they work. Hell, I’m a mooching, thieving commie freeloader, and I understand how they work. If this guy really is a lawyer, this country is fucked.

  88. 88.

    jl

    They]re watching Biden’s newest ‘feat of strength’?

    Or what?

    BTW, as I semi loyal disrespected commenter in low standing here at BJ, I demand context.

    Edit: doh! maybe I should read the thread… maybe some commenter gave it.

  89. 89.

    jl

    Thanks for context, commenters above. I though she looked familiar but could no quite place her. And I am not aware of all internet traditions inspired by Olympic gymnastics.

  90. 90.

    jshooper

    Just more Leni Riefenstahl style Nazi propaganda for the Obama lovers to digest !…You know Hitler loved the Olympics too.

    /douchewald

  92. 92.

    Paul

    @Lojasmo:

    It is just sad how bitter McCain has become. I doubt he will get over that Obama trounced him in 2008. There are poor losers and then there is John Mccain who takes poor loser to a whole different level.

    It literally didn’t matter who Obama appointed to the Sec of State post. Poor loser McCain would invent reasons to oppose the nominee.

    It is just sad that he is taking up space in the senate that could instead be occupied by somebody who care more about moving our country forward instead of backwards.

  97. 97.

    burnspbesq

    @Zapruder F. Mashtots, D.D.S. (Mumphrey, et al.):

    How can a lawyer get through law school and pass a bar test without understanding how marginal tax rates work?

    Tax isn’t a required course, and it’s not on the bar exam anywhere except New York (IIRC). If I had to guess, I’d guess that barely more than half of my law school class took tax, and we had a truly great teacher teaching it at that time (Mike Graetz).

  98. 98.

    cosima

    Okay, BJers — Firefly, good or not?

    I’m looking for a new series to get into that will kill me when I reach the end because it should not have ended (see Deadwood, Rome).

  99. 99.

    Rafer Janders

    Ah, the women’s Olympics gymnastics team — it stirs fond memories of absolutely one of the dumbest Balloon Juice threads ever.

  101. 101.

    brandon

    @cosima: If you get into Firefly you will definitely feel that way about it. It’s only one season as opposed to Deadwood’s and Rome’s… three seasons each, right?

  105. 105.

    cosima

    Thanks for the info about Firefly. I’ll get it and try to think of it as a mini-series rather than a series that ends before its time… (curse you HBO!).

    Speaking of awesome series, when does Justified begin again? I’m jonesing. Anyone know?

  108. 108.

    CW in LA

    I love the pic. But it looks like it falls to me to post the obligatory:

    But… but… Drones! Drrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnezzzzzz!

  109. 109.

    Jasmine Bleach

    @cosima:

    Well, if you do watch Firefly, at the end, be sure to watch the follow-up movie Serenity, as it kind of wraps a lot of things up from the TV series. (Gives more closure . . .)

  110. 110.

    cosima

    @Older —

    I am sorry to say that I have every set of The Wire on DVD and have not watched a single one…

    I’ve been buried in research and homework and life for so long now that I watch very little of anything on TV/DVD.

    However, we are planning a huge move in the next couple of months, and I see a bit of slack time in my schedule (who knows when I’ll be able to get back to school, as we’ll be overseas), so am suddenly open to adding new shows to my library… there will be a lot of rainy days in Scotland and cold nights in front of a fire with the TV on.

    So, I’ve added Firefly to my basket and Serenity.

    I’m not sure if American Gothic is my thing, and it sounds like the DVD set is a lot of work with trying to sort out which order the shows should be in. Maybe some day when I’ve caught up on the others I’ll revisit that.

    By the way, lady BJers, I’m reading Caitlin Moran’s book, Being a Woman, it’s pretty hilarious so far. She’s quite frank — that’s putting it mildly.

  111. 111.

    Robert Sneddon

    @cosima: Speaking as someone who actually lives in Scotland, I do hope you realise that your American DVDs won’t work in British DVD players…

    DVD region coding: the US is Region 1, the UK is Region 2 and DVDs made for one specific region won’t play in the other region’s hardware. It’s meant to enforce movie regional licencing and sale of rights to intellectual property such as TV programs in various markets around the world. The same thing applies to Blu-ray although with some variations.

  113. 113.

    cosima

    @Robert —

    Yes, we used to live in Scotland, so I know about that. We have several DVD players and there’s a new something or other that my husband has discovered that will allow us to watch them (properly) somehow. I’m sure that I’m not supposed to say exactly how it is that we can watch both now — we’ll just call it a multi-region DVD player.

    We’ve got an interesting mix of UK & US DVDs around here. And whether you can watch one or the other of them is dependent upon which room you’re in…

    Which part of Scotland are you in? We’ll be outside of Aberdeen.

  116. 116.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @cosima:

    . I’m sure that I’m not supposed to say exactly how it is that we can watch both now—

    Oh my God! PIRATES IN OUR MIDST!!!

  118. 118.

    Patricia Kayden

    @PeakVT: Well, after he picked Palin as VP, he shouldn’t be surprised that no one trusts his judgment. She was the least qualified person he could have picked and showed that he wasn’t to be taken seriously. She is his legacy.

  120. 120.

    Full Metal Wingnut

    People who don’t take tax in law school are missing out. Marty Ginsburg was right when he said basic tax was the funniest course-an ode to greed 3 hours a week. I remember this one case on business deductions, Irwin v Commissioner. Guy was a novelist as a hobby and said “for fiction writing all personal experiences and observation are all business experiences and observations.” He tried to deduct cleanings at the dentist and a washing machine as business expenses. If you don’t think that’s hysterical, then…I dunno.

  122. 122.

    Nutella

    @Robert Sneddon:

    DVD region coding: the US is Region 1, the UK is Region 2 and DVDs made for one specific region won’t play in the other region’s hardware. It’s meant to enforce movie regional licencing and sale of rights to intellectual property such as TV programs in various markets around the world.

    It’s most effective at preventing tourists and travellers from spending money on local movies. Whether killing that line of business makes up for losses from the EEEEVVILLL pirates I don’t know but it annoys the hell out of me.

  123. 123.

    asiangrrlMN

    I love this pic so hard. I also love the fact that the president knows all the internet memes. More seriously, he’s very tech/web-savvy, which gave him an advantage over Romney during the campaign season. And, good on McKayla for being able to have fun with her meme!

  124. 124.

    brashieel

    @NotMax:

    To anyone that cares, the watch is a Jorg Gray chronograph, and is only available to members of the Secret Service. They gave one as a gift to Obama when he was first elected.

    Having seen one up close, it’s a decent mid-range chronograph with a Chinese made movement. About equivalent to a mid-range Seiko.

    http://www.onthedash.com/docs/obama.html -more information than anyone could ever possibly want.

  125. 125.

    SLKRR

    @cosima:
    It’s not really that new of a “something or other.” I bought a region-free DVD player 8 years ago. Also, pretty much every other DVD player can be made region-free without too much trouble (well, a Sony I had was a lot of trouble, but the rest weren’t too bad).

    Region-free is pretty much essential when you have family living on 4 different continents who frequently like to send DVDs as presents.

  126. 126.

    Not Sure

    I move that we retire the tag “black Jimmy Carter” due to the fact that Mitch McConnell has failed to Carterize President Obama.

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