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Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

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

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

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We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

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Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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I’m still mostly on a blog vacay, but I thought I’d give a pic from the BJ Meet-Up. A surprisingly telegenic group of vituperative foul-mouthed hippies!

I had a great time and I’ll try to do one on the left coast sometime soon, I’ll be out there a fair amount this fall and spring.

It occurs to me that we’ve gotten everything right about the election — that demographics would play a key role and work to Democrats’ advantage, that Obama’s first debate didn’t doom civilization as we know it, that Nate Silver and Sam Wang were more likely to be right than Peggy Noonan and Michael Barone.

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  6. 6.

    Chris

    I remember something you once told me
    And I’ll be damned if it did not come true

    20,000 roads, I went down, down down…
    and they all led me straight back home to you

  16. 16.

    bodacious

    Any chance the Portland OR crowd (including those lucky-duck legal tokers from Vancouver WA side) could hold a together? We can mooch just as well as those easties.

  17. 17.

    joeyess

    I’ve been called an elitist bastard but I’ve never been called a redneck. And to think…. right after the re-election of America’s first African American president and the dirty, filthy, foul, racist, fuck-the-dog-whistle-campaign that was run against him, and his winning despite all of that. Just when you think you heard it all…… ya get called a redneck. Well, couple this with the Justin Bieber news and I have to say……. I’m just a little butt-hurt.

  19. 19.

    joeyess

    @Neutron Flux: well, not by anyone around here. I’m a liberal atheist/ex rock and roller with a “I’m not a Republican” magnet on the back of my car. So, yeah. First time. As far as I know. No worries. I’ll just go out to mah porch and start a-whittlin’.

  20. 20.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @joeyess: Not enough decadent enclaves in fly-over country?

    Either fix that or send the Coastal Elites a travel guide.

    /snark I’ve been to the decadent enclaves in Madison, Ann Arbor, Boulder, Santa Fe and Lawrence

  22. 22.

    lamh35

    Hey, what a out the South?? Not all BJ live in the East or West coast. Jeez, the South gets no respect.

  26. 26.

    Jewish Steel

    It would be just like us middle America bumpkins to wait for a coastal elite to organize a Baloon Juice meet-up for us.

  27. 27.

    blingee

    “Nate Silver and Sam Wang were more likely to be right than Peggy Noonan and Michael Barone.”

    Jesus titty fucking christ I hope you are being sarcastic by that “more likely” understatement. I would also hope you could just as easily have made that understated comment in Oct.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    We’re just going to have to do our own. You, Raven, SIA, and I know there are a bunch more around these parts. We don’ need no steenkin’ Metrosexual Manichean Monsters to have a BJ meetup Southern Style.

  35. 35.

    wrb

    It’s a three hour drive to the nearest town with a Best Buy or a shopping mall so I’m thinking there will be no meet-up.

  39. 39.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    How about Cleveland, we poor, miserable, sports-cursed, LeBron-less buggers who ACTUALLY PUT THE PREZ OVER THE TOP, eh?? What about us?

  44. 44.

    Another Halocene Human

    @lamh35: Hey, what a out the South?? Not all BJ live in the East or West coast. Jeez, the South gets no respect.

    Don’t worry, we earned it.

    I am so fucking butthurt about this election it’s not funny. At least Obama took Florida. Thank you Jesus.

  45. 45.

    Splitting Image

    Also, I call shenanigans on the photo. Everyone knows there are no women on the internets.

  49. 49.

    SectarianSofa

    Dallas, anyone? Yeah, nevermind — I wouldn’t want to come here either. I’d drive to Austin. There would have to be a lot of people, though, so I could slink into the background.

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