Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

No one could have predicted…

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

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

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

I really should read my own blog.

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  1. 1.

    Arclite

    I want more posts! Entertain me!

    Okay, on the uh, new server. Feels like the old server? Maybe b/c it’s Sunday and traffic is low?

    BTW, Cole. What’s the hardware on your new gaming PC?

  6. 6.

    Ahasuerus

    Seems fast enough, but to be honest I’ve never really noticed much lag on the old hardware that couldn’t be attributed to extra-server (i.e. general network) causes. My guess is that the real test will come when we have another presidential debate crunchapalooza.

    And now I’m going to hit “Submit Comment” and see just how long it takes to post this comment…

    5 seconds. Not bad. And the “Click to Edit” delay was only 2 seconds. OK, seems faster than the old hardware.

  7. 7.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @dewzke: At least the complaints will show up faster now.

    ETA: The entire site shows up much faster, thanks a bunch for all the hard work on it.

  8. 8.

    The Dangerman

    Very speedy (imagine it being something like Tunch going to the food bowl now that there’s other feline mouths to feed).

  9. 9.

    Ahasuerus

    Sorry, forgot the obligatories:

    FYWP!!!

    MOAR TUNCH!!!

    I BLAME OBAMA!!!eleventy1!

    Ah, that’s better.

  14. 14.

    Violet

    Haven’t noticed much change, but my browser has a bunch of open tabs and is probably the thing slowing things down. So far no FYWP, but I haven’t posted much.

  15. 15.

    Suffern ACE

    What we need is a real test of server traffic. If we could pay Glenn Greenwald to tweet that Jane Hamshear told him that Obama is going to pardon Jerry Sandusky so that Donald Rumsfeld can award him the world peace prize at a Steelers game this fall, do you think that might get enough activity?

  18. 18.

    YellowJournalism

    Slightly speedier on the mobile site. Can’t wait to see what changes are brought to the mobile during the redesign. Hopefully, the edit function works again.

  20. 20.

    wmd

    It would be nice if FYWP got front page video right – as it is most video embeds are ones that were posted days previously. Oddly if you click on the title/comment the embed works on that page.

    Edit is definitely faster.

  21. 21.

    sharl

    It is much faster. Thanks for taking the trouble to upgrade the server!
    You really do love your readers!*

    *#notintendedtobeafactualstatement

  22. 22.

    Suffern ACE

    @FlipYrWhig: ok. We can replace Jane with Andrew and the peace prize with either ingelhofer mustard or a puppy that needs a forever home.

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    Speed is much better both in loading and commenting.
    I now have a fast connection but even so the speed up is very noticeable. When I was on dsl the site was pretty bad(slow) especially in commenting.
    So first step success.

  25. 25.

    Anoniminous

    Name is being remembered. Which is good.

    Comment speed test.

    Much better.

    Now ETA test.

    Much speedier.

    Thanks for the work put into the upgrade!

  27. 27.

    TaMara (BHF)

    I never noticed a problem with the site loading and comments always took forever. Site seems to load fine, comments still take forever.

    One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three….

    It is what it is and I’ll show up regardless. Can’t wait to see what the redesign brings.

  28. 28.

    dance around in your bones

    @wmd:

    It would be nice if FYWP got front page video right – as it is most video embeds are ones that were posted days previously. Oddly if you click on the title/comment the embed works on that page.

    I had that problem for a while – it seems to have fixed itself (for me) somehow. It never bothered me too much because once I opened the post in a new tab the actual video would show up (and I recognized the old videos as just that. Yes, I am a Balloon Juice addict).

  29. 29.

    Maude

    Had to fasten my seat belt. It’s working wonderfully.
    I remember the days when I couldn’t get on the site.
    Had to wait until it wasn’t busy.
    Tunch is doing a great job of hamster supervision.

  31. 31.

    Rammalamadingdong

    I made the best pot of black eyed peas. Hope there is some left by dinner time

  34. 34.

    max

    So what do we think of the new server? Nice and speedy?

    It truly has a nice, dark-colored, mustardy bouquet to it, with just a hint of denim. It brings to mind lovely Dijon in the late spring.

    max
    [‘Thanks guys!’]

  36. 36.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    Y’all some impatient motherfuckers. If it were my blog, I’d stay on the slow server, and all y’all would like it or go the fuck somewhere else.

  38. 38.

    Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal mistermix

    Just a test comment, how fast does it go?

    Edit: I got to the “ppi” in two Mississippi, which is the canonical test for speed. Seems much faster to me. YMMV.

  39. 39.

    Mnemosyne

    In other news, if anyone was wondering which body part I would manage to sunburn while riding 17 miles on the beach yesterday, the correct answer was “back of the knees.” Ouch. The ride was fun, though — Long Beach has a lovely and scenic bike path that’s not as crowded as, say, Venice or Manhattan Beach. Definitely worth the trip.

  41. 41.

    mai naem

    It is faster. I didn’t think I would even notice it but I did.

    Next time can we spend this server upgrading money on getting some male hookers in Juarez to lie about doing some kinky two dildos and a wet suit sexytime with Ted Cruz?

  44. 44.

    RareSanity

    The site is noticeably snappier…

    You can really tell the difference when the pages initially load and when you submit a comment. Especially when loading the marathon 100+ comment posts.

    Also, since I didn’t see anyone complete the post title:

    so what so what so what’s the scenario?

  45. 45.

    dance around in your bones

    @wmd: I’m on Firefox 19.0.2 and having no problems lately.

    I do periodically clear all my cache, cookies and temp files with ATF file cleaner. (NOT a registry cleaner! NEVER use those!)

    The weird thing is that a couple of months ago I lost the whole header on this site (with that stupid candy-striped half-balloon plus the search me box with what I believe is Tunch’s tail) it’s just totally blank up there.

    Which I don’t mind since I know what site I’m on anyway. It may have to do with using NoScript on FF or maybe I’m just lucky ’cause I dislike that candy-striped half-balloon anyway.

    Bring back the little guy with the cane and megaphone and striped pants! We love him, our precious ….. Then maybe I will do some research into why no header.

  46. 46.

    jl

    OK, yes, right now the new serve is allowing the blog to work faster.

    But what about after Tunch finds a way to break in and occupy it?

  47. 47.

    ranchandsyrup

    Much faster. Also, and additionally and as well: I used to have to refresh to get new comments to load. I got used to it but it’s nice not to have to do it any more (knock on wood). Thanks to our Juicy Overlords.

  49. 49.

    RareSanity

    @cleek:

    When I first read your comment, I got single-player instead of single payer…and I wondered how many people would get your awesome reference to the new SimCity game.

  55. 55.

    Poopyman

    Barely noticeably faster until you actually comment and/or edit, and I also too think it’ll be more obvious once we get a hot thread going. I rather think all my neighbors streaming porn are affecting the speed more than anything on the BJ end of the pipe.

  56. 56.

    Poopyman

    Also also too too why do I always manage to post just as a new thread comes up, leaving me holding down an old thread?

  57. 57.

    mellowjohn

    maybe i’ve just been lucky w/ the old one, but i haven’t noticed any great improvement.

  58. 58.

    maya

    After seeing what happened to Mitt Rmoney, I will not make any comments in front of a server I never met before.

  59. 59.

    Ash Can

    Everything seems fine. So far, I’ve accessed the site only on my smart phone. I don’t notice much difference; the phone has always been speedy. There certainly haven’t been any problems, that’s for sure.

    ETA: OK, posted and edited. The posting and editing process is definitely faster. Many thanks for all your work.

  61. 61.

    Barbara

    And here I was thinking my comment went through the tubes faster because I’m in New York this week, and so much closer to Cole, instead of my normal location in CA.

  70. 70.

    fuckwit

    +1 for Pharcyde reference.

    What’s the Scenario? The scenario is that the individual posts load A LOT faster, and I can navigate them with next/previous, but there’s no home page (some CPanel bullshit shows up instead).

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