Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People are complicated. Love is not.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Republicans in disarray!

We still have time to mess this up!

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

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Does anyone have any idea what this idiot is talking about?

I’m completely lost.

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  5. 5.

    RosiesDad

    @MikeJ:

    Blunt force head trauma? The name seems to imply it.

    The guy’s Twitter home page says that he roots for concussions. And appears to hate the Stillers. So I think you are being stalked, Cole. Sick bastard.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    This is very strange. Is there another blogging John Cole out there, or is this someone who’s off his meds?

  11. 11.

    WereBear

    @gussie: Yes, what on earth does cONcUSSIONfaN really mean?

    I would guess he longs for a world where repeated brain damage would leave him a Nobel Prize winner of some sort.

  13. 13.

    Shinobi

    Maybe he thinks he can just accuse people of harassment? Even when they aren’t harassing him? Maybe he thinks all the people actually being harassed on the internet are making it up? It’s like one of those right wing exposes?

    Or Acid… which is probably more likely.

  16. 16.

    Cassidy

    I think the code is: ON USSION N

    Is he on some sort of ship? A boat? A deserted island?

  19. 19.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Internet’s full of weirdos, John. Especially weirdos who think everyone’s out to get them. I recommend ignoring the guy.

  22. 22.

    ericblair

    Any chance he’s got some bee in his rather empty bonnet about Juan Cole, and kinda got mixed up due to the cranial trauma he seems to be in favor of? Usually it works the other way I think, and poor Prof Juan gets dragged into the drama from this here watering hole.

  25. 25.

    NobodySpecial

    I’m thinking Concussion man took one too many hits to the head with the snake.

  28. 28.

    BGinCHI

    No way Burns would use caps in a Twitter handle, even if it was fake.

    So, no, I don’t know who it might be.

    Also, too subtle for Just Some Fuckhead.

    I’m stumped.

  31. 31.

    ch2

    He’s a time traveler. He knows he is going to get shit from your readers for what he twittered.

  32. 32.

    Central Planning

    Time to consult the internet anagram server to figure out who this really is:

    Con Icon Ass Fun
    Cocains Fun Son
    Ficus No Canons

  33. 33.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    Kali Joy’s last front-page post was on the uselessness of “abstinence-only” programs. I’m not sure how that connects up with concussions, though.

  35. 35.

    Face

    Thats ignoring the bigger question….whats a “hatecunt”? Is it a noun or adjective?

  37. 37.

    Sly

    @The Sheriff’s A Ni-:
    I actually find the whole “women should be armed to prevent the awful crime of rape, and if you disagree you should be raped” argument to be oddly comic but, admittedly, would probably find it less so if it were directed at me as part of a 24/hr a day hate-a-thon from perfect strangers.

  38. 38.

    Donut

    Does anyone have any idea what this idiot is talking about?

    He just called you a “Breitbortion.”

    I think it’s Ted & Hellen.

    Or, maybe Omnes is still pissed about the meetup in Austin thing…

  39. 39.

    Steeplejack

    @Cole:

    I am not on Twitter and this is a total shot in the dark, but could this be related somehow to that dust-up a few months ago between Imani and her friend (on one side) and that weird guy on the other side, who was also slinging tweets at you?

  42. 42.

    Calming Influence

    John: Occam’s Butter Knife demands that “concussion” be part of the answer to your question.

  43. 43.

    James E. Powell

    @TooManyJens:

    Okay, so I hit the link and regretted it after reading two or three tweets. I’m back, but feeling unclean for having gone there.

    Seems like a crazy person. Isn’t there a lot of this kind of thing on twitter?

  44. 44.

    1badbaba3

    @TooManyJens: What in the the running frak is that all about? Fallout from the Zerlina Maxwell freak-out? I hate that they are tossing threats so boldly and casually. What a giant load.

  46. 46.

    BGinCHI

    Also, does the guy mean virtual catfishing like Mantei Teo or the kind where you use an actual rod?

    I do think if Cole went fishing in a crowded area a lot of people could get hooked.

  51. 51.

    TooManyJens

    @1badbaba3: I don’t think it’s about Zerlina. @PostModMaturity has been at it for months. They also used the same “Breitbortion” term as John’s new concussion friend, and went after @kailijoy, which leads me to suspect the two are related or sockpuppets or something.

    “Breitbortion” doesn’t even have any results on Google, for Pete’s sake. That’s some niche jargon.

  53. 53.

    scav

    twitter-based tuft-hunter with delusions that swapping outrageous random bytes constitutes a BFF hit of great value that he’ll hug to himself for days. Nah, JADIL (just another desperate/drunken interweb loon)

  56. 56.

    gogol's wife

    @BGinCHI:

    You are on fire. But doesn’t Ficus No Canons have something to do with getting the dead white males off the syllabus?

  57. 57.

    SatanicPanic

    @BGinCHI: I read comment recently by someone complaining the various liberals blogs. Commenter went down the list of usual suspects- GOS, Digby, etc.- got to this blog. I swear it said, “Balloon Juice is just naval gazing all the time.”

  60. 60.

    maya

    “Antifeminist hatecunt”. Isn’t that on Ann Coulter’s business card?

    Try anagraming her name sometime.

  63. 63.

    Kirk

    Let’s see. The guy hasn’t written since october 29. Then he blasts three people in the space of an hour – you, Kos, and Kaili Joy at Kos – with random hate-spew.

    Looks to me like he’s crying for attention. Unfortunately he got a bit. Just block and ignore him and he’ll quit being a bother.

  64. 64.

    TR

    @Sly:

    Just jaw-droppingly vile.

    Let’s file that one away for the next time the right starts wondering why it has trouble winning over women and/or minorities.

  65. 65.

    1badbaba3

    @TooManyJens: Great, just another garden variety rape fetishist then? I have come to fear their numbers are far greater than we know. And they seem to be quite agitated of late.

  67. 67.

    Unsympathetic

    Even if you could read his mind, you’d have no idea what he was attempting to communicate. I wouldn’t have a second thought about ignoring the twit.

    This exchange does, however, make for great internets.

  68. 68.

    Robert

    @James E. Powell: Crazy people on Twitter? You betcha. Tons and tons of loons. That’s why it’s great to screen who you follow and who follows you. Block the nutjobs and turn on e-mail notifications for when anyone contacts you.

    Then you can screen the account before you even see it on Twitter. If they’re nuts, you copy their username, go straight to their page, and report them for harassment. It automatically blocks them from your feed and contacting you.

  69. 69.

    slag

    MC Loko? Or maybe Spatula? Derf? Heck, I wouldn’t even cross Cornerstone off the list though the sentence structure isn’t necessarily his bag.

    Teh Interwebs can be a scary place.

  72. 72.

    Keith G

    We Buckeyes understand what it is like to try to make sense of the sputterings emitting from all too many of the supporters of the maize and gold.

  76. 76.

    Arm The Homeless

    The tweets from the Apocalypse are going to be epic. I imagine the hyper-intellihent squid are going to have a Hell of a laugh at our expense.

  84. 84.

    Shortstop

    This thread is beyond hilarious. I couldn’t even narrow it down to my 25 favorite comments.

  86. 86.

    Suzanne

    Maybe it’s Tunch, fucking with you?

    Other than that, I’m totally lost. None of the recent regular trolls have been THIS douchey.

  87. 87.

    Jay in Oregon

    @TR:
    I don’t think they give a fuck about winning over women and/or minorities any more.

    In their perfect world, women would either not vote or vote as their husbands direct, and minorities would be too busy working in the fields for $0.74 an hour to vote (assuming they didn’t get shot on their way to the ballot box).

    And that’s what all of the voter disenfranchisement laws being passed are about—returning us to the glory days of White Men making decisions for the rest of the rabble.

  90. 90.

    Jay in Oregon

    @amk:
    Actually, you can’t. “Blocking” on Twitter itself (or their first-party clients) means that they can’t see your updates; it doesn’t stop you from seeing theirs. It’s totally fucking-ass backwards.

    Many third-party Twitter apps have their own filtering built in, however.

  94. 94.

    Morzer

    This would never have happened if Obama hadn’t… well, somethinged or othered.

    Or maybe the internet is full of sociopaths without a cause or a functional spell-checker?

    Anyway, chalk up another angry, not very bright man ranting away in cyberspace and then go and enjoy your life.

  97. 97.

    Suzanne

    The use of “hatecunt” (as opposed to “lovecunt”?) makes me think of maclaren.

    Damnit. Now my iPad thinks “hatecunt” is a word.

  98. 98.

    different-church-lady

    @Suzanne:

    Damnit. Now my iPad thinks “hatecunt” is a word.

    You kiddin’? The iPad is the least of your worries — now Google thinks “hatecunt” is a word.

  99. 99.

    Calming Influence

    With some minor formatting this comment thread is the script for the pilot of CSI:BJ.

  100. 100.

    Winston Smith

    This person has paranoid delusions. Not “ha ha, they’re a wingnut with paranoid delusions,” but “Oh dear, this person really needs professional help for their paranoid delusions.”

  110. 110.

    MathInPA

    Holy cow, I should not have searched out @PostModMaturity. That… wow. No one who talks about buying rapists beers and tweets or twitters or whatever repeated sexual demands can talk about anyone else’s feminist credentials, ever. Holy cow that’s utterly and completely insane. I am scarred. @_@

    And then they go on with the violent, sexualized, blatant anti-woman insults, I just… who the hell thinks this is progressive? At all?

  111. 111.

    MazeDancer

    In the “Don’t Feed the Trolls” guide, pretty sure there is a page or two on “Never reply to any Tweet or post that uses the c-word in any form.” With the corollary rule of “do not give their c-word usage blog space kind of attention, you’ll only make them happy”.

    Blocking them on Twitter, though, is good. Also reporting them for spam.

  112. 112.

    mclaren

    Same comment as for the panorama of all of American public life in 2013:

    “Meth is a hell of a drug.”

  113. 113.

    fuckwit

    I got nothing.

    But I’m counting down the minutes until some FP’er ironically changes their name to some variation of “hatecunt”.

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