Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

“Alexa, change the president.”

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I really should read my own blog.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

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

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

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Stop Legislating Her Uterus! A TWiB + ABLC Collaboration

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Today on TWiB Radio we had Balloon Juice regular Imani Gandy (ABL) on to talk with us about the ridiculous attacks on women that are still going down in 2013. After the shellacking in 2012 the GOP received because of their constant attacks on women (plus  a lot of other crap, but that stands out) they still are pushing the absurd and downright dangerous. Imani breaks things down and accidental hilarity ensues. Take a listen.

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And on our morning show we touched on the current immigration, random chemicals in our drinks and more.

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Tomorrow I’ll be posting from our pet project On Blackness where we talk with academics about the idea of race in America. I’ll be all up in the comment section tonight. See ya there!

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55Comments

  1. 1.

    Laertes

    EJW: It’s awesome that you’re here at Balloon Juice. I missed your arrival, so here’s me saying a belated Welcome!

  2. 2.

    General Stuck

    Stop Legislating Her Uterus! A TWiB + ABLC Collaboration

    LOL, this should work out well. You realize it will serve to encourage certain troll species out there to cut themselves. If you can live with that, so can I.

  5. 5.

    karen

    What’s even more galling is that the GOP women are the ones writing some of the more invasive and obscene bills, like the one who makes abortion in the case of rape or incest a crime because of tampering with evidence.

    Why don’t they just outlaw all sex without procreation and brand women with a scarlet A on their vaginas and be done with it. Hell, let’s mandate clitoridectomies while we’re at it.

  6. 6.

    karen

    So I’m in moderation because I used the clinical term for what’s between my legs? Really Balloon Juice?

  8. 8.

    ruemara

    OOOhhh, I finally get to do this! ARGLEBARGLE Grifters! Blogwhoring! Don’t wanna click links! BLARGAHGAALGE! I never get to do that first.

  11. 11.

    Aji

    @Dacia Mitchell: [Snort] I’m not entirely sure that my vagina is dome-shaped. Maybe I should check with the Mr. on that one and see how he’d describe it. He’s pretty good with geometry and stuff.

    Oh, wait: Is this like ThunderDome or something? In that case, count me in.

  16. 16.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    My posts are being eated.

    ETA: Except for this one, finally.

    ETA ETA: Since WP doesn’t like me today, go to DK and read the post about Glenn Greenwald responding to the lies about him. He was ambivalent about uninterested in Iraq. (Better word.)

  18. 18.

    Aji

    @John Cole: If the ad at the top of the site is any indication, your invitation has already been issued. Like, by four different extremely well-endowed and very young women, who for some reason think I’m 1) male, and 2) old.

    Oh, well. They got 2) right, anyway.

  20. 20.

    Corner Stone

    I love the unending curtain of Rainbow Bears ™ around this post.
    Elon’s a big boy. He doesn’t need your Snuggle Soft ™ to smell good in the morning.

  23. 23.

    cathyx

    I don’t know why you guys are getting the ads you’re getting, but I have an H&R Block ad and a mayonnaise ad.

  26. 26.

    ruemara

    I now wish to see an animation of Vagina Dome. Not porn, but just a good old animation of the concept, because I know what’s in my mind is making me laugh a lot. Like Elon on his TWiB show.
    @Roger Moore:

    But, but, I like lattes, Putomayo CDs, and fantasy. You can’t get whiter than that. I adore sushi for cripes sake. I was voted most white in my Hollis Queens classroom. My white spanish teacher shook his head and said I was too white when I told him I really liked Allen Parsons Project.

  31. 31.

    muddy

    I think EJW is absolutely so so right when he says the longer video makes it looks worse. I saw the whole thing, and it was just painful for how long it went on, and you can see him just destroyed. And then they break their shit out.

  33. 33.

    karen

    @Poopyman:

    A Scarlet A for Abortion was what I was thinking but I guess if it’s to punish those who have sex without procreation, it should be a scarlet S for slut.

  41. 41.

    arguingwithsignposts

    So I am to take from this that the trolls are fine with taking on one black woman, but bring a black man and another black woman into the comments, and none of them show up.

    I am disappoint. Not surprised, but we need a better class of troll.

  42. 42.

    Cain

    Man, it’s been a long time since I giggled like a school girl on a BJ thread. (boy, that just makes it sick and twisted doesn’t it?)

    I went to the vagine dome, yo
    to find shapes like a camel’s toe
    I saw two women enter, one man leave
    with a big ol smile pleasure you can’t believe!

  45. 45.

    Ted & Hellen

    This thread is a perfect example of why Cole pays me to comment here: Without sensible push-back from thinking people, you Bots are boring one-notes.

    Plus, thanks to “trolls,” the threads are three times as long.

    Face it: Bots are boring.

  48. 48.

    NotMax

    So that’s gonna be the norm? Just plugs for the programs? No original commentary for our delectation?

    Not trolling; truly curious.

  49. 49.

    Mnemosyne

    @NotMax:

    IIRC (and I guess I should let Elon say it for himself), he’s envisioning that we all listen to the programs and then he’ll discuss them in the comments with us. Sort of like a book club, but with audio.

    I think he has vastly underestimated the laziness of the average Balloon-Juice commenter (or at least the amount of time we have to listen to things since a lot of us comment from work), but it’s an interesting experiment.

    ETA: Maybe we need some starter questions/statements about the program like they put at the back of “book club” books? Just a thought.

  50. 50.

    Violet

    @Mnemosyne: This is a good point. Not everyone can listen to the whole thing or perhaps any of it if they’re at work. Are clips/highlights available? Summaries? Transcripts? Any of those might facilitate discussion.

  53. 53.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    The primary difference is that in the case of the book club, ample notice is given in advance as to when the post will be up, and the homework could be done leisurely as time and inclination permitted beforehand.

    Conversely, by the time the shows are listened to, the post will have moved down (or off) the front page and the thread thence somewhat stale.

  54. 54.

    Applejinx

    Actually, it’s hilarious that the usual complainers are absent, if you’ve got a really dark sense of humor. I guess it stands to reason. Black vaginas must be scolded, but whip out a black PENIS? Whoooaah ;)

    Run away! run awaaaay!

  55. 55.

    Ted & Hellen

    It is amusing how desperate you ABL Bots are for us “trolls” to participate in your rather short and boring thread.

    Your pining is palpable.

    Without us you are nothing.

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