Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

“Alexa, change the president.”

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

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

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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  1. 1.

    PsiFighter37

    Isn’t Chris Hayes solely responsible for the decline in MSNBC’s ratings?

    (I don’t have an opinion on the matter, just a little tipsy and trying to incite some conversation)

    ETA: Nice form stepping on AL again, Cole.

  7. 7.

    John Cole

    She wasn’t even writing when I started this post 7 minutes ago. You have no idea how frustrating it is trying to post around her. She has 75 drafts on the wp admin board. I started writing, and she should have seen a “draft” next to my post. But because she has nine hundred drafts, she just runs in and hits publish, and doesn’t pay any attention to people who have NO drafts (and it is not out of malice, it is just how she writes). Do you want to see what a screenshot of the admin page looks like?

    When she steps on me it is because she just goes in and blasts out a draft as a post. When I step on her, it’s because I have been writing a post for five mins, and she goes in and doesn’t see that I have a draft and just blasts out another post. I honestly think she writes in word and just cuts and pastes.

    This shit is not on me. And it has nothing to do with being the boss. If you ask her, she will cop to just blasting shit out after tinkering with drafts for days/weeks/months.

  8. 8.

    Comrade Jake

    Perhaps next time you’ll accidentally type in Michael Hedges and land on some pretty decent music.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    @John Cole:

    Do you want to see what a screenshot of the admin page looks like?

    Yes! It would be neat to peek behind the curtain and see show the magic is made.

  16. 16.

    Anne Laurie

    @John Cole: Dude. I have “75 fucking drafts on the wp admin board” because this is where I compose posts. I was working on that OT for maybe fifteen minutes, you dropped in with this after I hit send. If you’re gonna lie reinterpret, at least try for consistency.

  18. 18.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Don’t get the post, don’t care who posts when.

    I do care about Rachel Maddow campaigning for her old college pal Corey Booker without mentioning their friendship, but I guess that’s trivial

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    @raven: Nah, the boss needs someone to bitch at when the clients are all cranky and the delivery guy still hasn’t shown up with those napkins.

  24. 24.

    Suffern ACE

    @John Cole: too late. I’ve written a great deal of sexual tension into my Game of Posts series treatment that I’m pitching to hbo next week and its staying in. As well as the blue bat mitzvah scene when you die trying to save AL from marauding redstate trolls. It’s going to be quite touching.

  27. 27.

    rikyrah

    and MSNBC wonders why it’s losing viewers

    ……………………….

    Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka

    Oy. Derp will be strong RT @ZandarVTS: Chris Hayes having Amy Goodman on? That will be some quality Obama hate with some 4-5 syllable words.
    5:49 PM – 10 Jun 2013

  31. 31.

    JC

    This is the one book you really need to read. It connects The Bush Family to more treason and evil than a mafia family

    Family Of Secrets

    Seriously will put Iraq in a whole new perspective if you combine this one with “The Shock Doctrine”

    You will not be disappointed if you read this book. You will be fucking outraged.

  32. 32.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @John Cole: Perhaps you can suggest she should do in a hot bath (complete with directional instructions) if she were to bitch about post timing. Yes, I’m still pissed about that; why do you ask?

    @raven: Thanks for that!

  33. 33.

    joes527

    BTW. What is all the shit about stepping on each other anyway? Other than the fact that the latest post is the de facto open thread, aren’t folks capable of just choosing between garden talk and pet talk?

  34. 34.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @rikyrah: actually, she tried to open with a joke. I already forgot what it was, though.

    Is this an open thread? Your Sunday Shows:

    Senators often make the rounds of the Sunday news shows, and Republicans are the most frequent guests. Of 641 total appearances by senators since 2010, 369 were by Republicans, 247 were by Democrats and 25 were by independents (22 of those by Joseph I. Lieberman.) The programs included are “Face the Nation,” “Meet the Press,” “This Week,” “State of the Union,” “Fox News Sunday” and “Al Punto.” Data is through June 3.

    And I bet if you broke this down into length and one-on-one vs “bipartisan” exchanges, the Repbulican advantage would be even bigger.

  35. 35.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    So I asked my dad about the NSA leak and he goes “What is that? Is it something new?”

    He’s slightly more in tune than the average American. His response after I described it was:
    1. They’ve been doing this for a long while.
    2. If you keep your nose clean, you have nothing to worry about.
    (There was a third, but I forgot).

    I give you the slightly above average voter. Imagine what the average voter is thinking.

  36. 36.

    Citizen_X

    @John Cole:

    But because she has nine hundred drafts, she just runs in and hits publish, and doesn’t pay any attention to people who have NO drafts

    This is great. “Blah blah blah, doesn’t she know I’m liable to be drunk-posting at any random second? Have some consideration for those of us who don’t plan ahead!”

  39. 39.

    Anne Laurie

    @Comrade Jake:

    Especially when you consider the fact that nobody actually reads this blog.

    Yeah, I can’t figure out Sitemeter, so I assume it’s the two hundred or so commentors whose names I recognize, maybe twice to ten times as many people who read but don’t comment, and all the rest of the hits are the NSA, right?

  41. 41.

    Suffern ACE

    Hmmm. The google is coming up empty on Hedged and degreaser, although Chris and degreaser brings up a discussion on degreasing a bear on taxidermy discussion board.

  42. 42.

    Sean

    @raven:

    This. A thousand times over, this.

    Why (some of) you people give a shit who posts when is totally fucking beyond me. It’s a blog, not a fucking seminar. I seriously have no idea why anyone could have feelings one way or the other about post timing.

    Hey raven, you posted your comment before mine. You suck, dude.

  44. 44.

    eataTREE

    @Comrade Jake: I saw him live in Oxford, Mississippi, in the mid-90’s. He made the preppy college bar enforce a no-smoking policy for the evening, and wore what appeared to be a colander on his head for the entirety of the show. It, and he, was awesome. I brought my dad, who played guitar a bit, and whose mind was blown.

  45. 45.

    PsiFighter37

    @raven: I don’t actually care. I just like needling Cole for it, mainly because he does it all the fucking time. I think it’s coincidentally hilarious, kind of like how people fart when they take a piss.

  47. 47.

    MomSense

    @Baud:

    It could be that the tape fell off Cole’s camera and he witnessed his interesting vacuuming habits.

  49. 49.

    Anne Laurie

    @PsiFighter37:

    Why the fuck does WordPress keep eating my fucking comments?!

    You know those devices that keep you from starting your car if you flunk the breathalyzer? I think FYWP may be field-testing a new model.

  50. 50.

    The Dangerman

    @MomSense:

    Imagine what those poor NSA suckers are going through.

    Shitloads of porn; perhaps that explains the move to Utah.

  51. 51.

    PsiFighter37

    @Anne Laurie: Not even CLOSE to failing a breathalyzer. Go check my comments from a couple nights ago when I was shouting total fucking nonsense on the blog at 2 in the morning.

    However, this French Vanilla Ice Cream I’m eating right now tastes really good.

    #completely_unrelated_nonsequitor

  53. 53.

    James E. Powell

    @PsiFighter37:

    Isn’t Chris Hayes solely responsible for the decline in MSNBC’s ratings?

    I think Obama’s re-election took the juice out of that balloon. The kind of people to whom Chris Hayes & Rachel Maddow aim their appeal do not watch cable news in the numbers or with the regularity that one sees in the FOX audience. I mean, the right-wingers tune in to get more or less the same show every night. The evening MSNBC audience types need some actual news; they must feel a need to be informed or they don’t watch.

  54. 54.

    MomSense

    O/T The oldest boy has a big audition tomorrow morning for a music school program. His nerves are off the charts right now and I feel for him. Fingers, toes, knees, arms, and eyes are all crossed and we are hoping for the best.

  55. 55.

    Anne Laurie

    @Baud:

    How do you pull up the sitemeter? Or is it not something we mortals can do?

    On my screen, there’s a little box at the bottom of the left-hand column. Here.

  56. 56.

    max

    @PsiFighter37: I just like needling Cole

    You coulda stopped there. It’s the board game everyone wants to play!

    Belafon: 2. If you keep your nose clean, you have nothing to worry about. (There was a third, but I forgot). I give you the slightly above average voter. Imagine what the average voter is thinking.

    And that’s why we have the largest prison state on earth: oblivious voters, conscienceless leaders. Neat, huh? Hey, look! Vladimir Putin is pure evil because he does all the same shit the USG, but not as bad! (And not at the behest of VCs and the Street, like he should be doing.)

    max
    [‘I just assume everything I connect to will be read, so I’ve taken to reading all kinds of weird crap, just to screw them back.’]

  67. 67.

    gnomedad

    @raven:

    Who gives a flyin fuck who posts when? Whiny fucks.

    Yeah, scrolling down to comment on a post that isn’t on top is pure hell.

  70. 70.

    maven

    You are really a disgusting fat ass john cole.

    Bless your dogs. Your don’t deserve them.

  72. 72.

    mclaren

    @Baud:

    Yeah, I betcha the admin page for Balloon-Juice is nothing but buttons labeled:

    CAT PICTURE

    DOG PICTURE

    TROLL THE STUPID COMMENTERS BY PRAISING GREENWALD

    BITCH AT OBAMA

    POST ABOUT HOW DRUNK I AM

    PRAISE OBAMA WHILE RAGGING ON REPUBS

    POST ABOUT DINNER

    Really, that’s about it. There may not even be a John Cole. Just a bot putting up pics of Lily and Tunch and talking about how to cook steak.

  73. 73.

    JR in WV

    @JC:

    The Bush grandfather, Prescott, father of George H W Bush, was a Senator, and an Ambassador. He was also a stone cold Nazi supporter of Adolph Hitler, right through into the war. So guess what kind of raising up G H W Bush got? Sig heil, bitches.

    No wonder W was such a looser with a self-proclaimed Nazi for a Grand-dad. My Grand-dad lost his leg in a farming accident when he was 11, working on the farm to stay alive, and he would read me the funnies and make me giggle.

    W’s Grand-dad probably read him Mein Kampf every morning, probably in the original German. (Really it was in Austrian, people forget Hitler wasn’t a German at all, he was Austrian.)

    So you can’t surprise me about the treason and crime the Bush family is involved in. Once you back Hitler in WW II there’s no worse place to go.

    And I’m not making that up,. I bet it’s in the book!

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