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Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Bark louder, little dog.

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

We still have time to mess this up!

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

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  2. 2.

    Poopyman

    I’ll just point out that no one (that I saw) has mentioned it on this blog, so apparently we don’t care. Why do you?

  3. 3.

    Anya

    I was trying to figure out the same thing when I saw the headline at TPM. Seriously, why does anyone, other than her husband, parents and friends, should give a damn about this chick’s pregnancy.

  4. 4.

    jl

    Excellent idea for a post. I’ll look for the post on the annoying ad for junk Cole don’t want to buy later tonight.

    But, pet pix would fix all these annoyance problems…. just sayin’.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Dread

    “Who Fucking Cares?”

    The courtiers and court gossip mongers who secretly wish we could get rid of that no aristocracy part of the constitution so they can fulfill their deepest fantasies of being sycophantic fluffers of kings and dukes.

    Which, if that is your fantasy, more power to you, I just hope you haven’t chosen political journalism as your career.

  7. 7.

    Hill Dweller

    The Village will do anything to avoid discussing policy, because doing so would expose their ignorance.

  8. 8.

    Jay C

    Well, John: given the coverage Mrs. Mezvinsky’s upcoming Blessed Event has engendered in the national media, I guess the answer to your question would have to be: “Everyone But You!“

  11. 11.

    ? Martin

    How long before Newsmax accuses Bill of being the father? You know that right now they’re having a staff meeting discussing whether that would be too far over the line.

  12. 12.

    jl

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    ” Obviously, you do. You posted about it. ”

    I think Cole sometimes finds himself aimlessly annoyed. Calls for a pet pix post fix, IMHO. (edit: with an audio of Cole saying that five times real fast)

    Martiin: ” Bill of being the father” And what is Bill running for. I think that I’d go for its the love child of HRC. But I’ll have to work on a theory a bit. Stumps me right now.

  14. 14.

    scav

    I care about as much as I care for football scores and 98.767865564564% of all shows on da teeevee. So, where does that leave us?

  15. 15.

    Kris Collins

    She’s the daughter of a former President and a former Secretary of State who is the potential next POTUS, as such, she’s a minor public figure and this obviously then is mildly newsworthy. The real question is why does it piss you off that anybody else might be interested in this?

  17. 17.

    Suffern ACE

    Well since her poll numbers are the worst since 2008 and the Republican brand is surging, obviously this pregnancy was just arranged as a distraction.

  22. 22.

    semperfi123

    Once again wr0ng way Cole, glorified reddit poster muckymux, and the rest of the Snowden groupies around here come out on the wrong side of history.

    http://gawker.com/watch-edward-snowden-ask-vladimir-putin-a-question-on-l-1564178479

    Why no wet kisses for KhrisKristie lately Cole? How’s that “single payer or nothing at all” thing working for ya DougJ?

    People here should never forget what the ball juicers around here have stood for in the past and how often then have been dead wrong and just moved on to the next shiny object.

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @semperfi123: Look, darling, I know you are a low-rent troll, but could you at least peruse the blog before commenting? I am sure you aren’t paid much, damn it, couldn’t you at least try to be professional?

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    OT: Just saw a Swiffer ad on TV with an interracial couple and child (white guy and AA woman – if it matters).

  27. 27.

    scav

    @jl: I’m just in cosmological awe considering the length of the birth certificate any such child would have to produce . . .

  30. 30.

    Jay C

    @? Martin:

    How long before Newsmax accuses Bill of being the father? You know that right now they’re having a staff meeting discussing whether that would be too far over the line.

    Naah, the only “line” I’m sure they’re thinking of is which clickbait-worthy figures in the news they can float as the “real father” of Chelsea’s baby. Or how many of them they can get into one article. For some reason I think they’ll start with Vladimir Putin…. or Elvis

  31. 31.

    Poopyman

    OT, because why the fuck not, Newsmax’s top headline:

    Issa: IRS Probe Will Not Be Deterred

    I’ll just note they misspelled “turd”.

  32. 32.

    scav

    @Cervantes: And forego the chance to get all those welfare bennies and an anchor baby of his very own? Is possible though, he might feel in need of amusement, recreation and a little me me me time one day, that is how it always works, no?

  33. 33.

    hilts

    @Hill Dweller: Chris Cillizza is paralyzed from the neck up.

    @Tommy: This was a good commentary, but Olbermann’s trashing of Al Gore after his firing from Current TV was deranged and delusional. His show on ESPN is unbearable, insufferable, and nauseating.

  34. 34.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    I eagerly await the explosion of utterly vile right-wing hatred coming Chelsea’s way tomorrow. Hope everyone involved can handle it.

    How long before Newsmax accuses Bill of being the father? You know that right now they’re having a staff meeting discussing whether that would be too far over the line.

    @? Martin: Shit, great minds think alike. You KNOW that’s coming. I bet they can’t hold off until tomorrow morning with that particular accusation, and what will come after will make it look downright polite and respectful by comparison.

  35. 35.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    OT: Just saw a Swiffer ad on TV with an interracial couple and child (white guy and AA woman – if it matters).

    @Omnes Omnibus: It does. That’s a combo that whites are generally okay with.

    The other way around – black man, white woman – is where you run into serious trouble. And not just with white folks, either.

  38. 38.

    nancydarling

    Since I don’t have tv, I read about the happy news. Are the village idiots all over this to the exclusion of everything else?

    I, for one, care. Chelsea, in spite of being kept pretty much out of the lime-light, had a pound of flesh taken during her father’s White House years. I’m glad her life is going well.

    I wish them all the best and a healthy pregnancy and baby.

  40. 40.

    xenos

    Does not bother me this is in the news, and hope they are all healthy and happy..

    Since someone brought up the IRS, is there any sane reporting on the shocking news that Lerner emailed the Justice department when worried that some groups were breaking the law? I am curious as to whether this was proper procedure or not, in short, is there even a homeopathic dose of wrongdoing here. Per Memeorandum this is only being reported on by wingnuts, and they yell scandal without doing the most basic level of research, of course.

  43. 43.

    hilts

    OT Another day another Republican being a douchebag:

    “Republican Congressman Blake Farenthold wants Congress to halt Attorney General Eric Holder‘s paycheck as long as he remains in contempt of Congress. He told Greta Van Susteren Thursday night that it could help hold people like Holder to account, explaining, “If you’re in contempt of Congress, we don’t pay you.”

    h/t http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-rep-wants-to-halt-holders-pay-if-youre-in-contempt-of-congress-we-dont-pay-you

  44. 44.

    some guy

    Sheikh Azzam Tamimi, head of the Waqf, the Islamic authority that manages the site, said worshippers had barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque “to defend” the site from Jewish groups. Israeli TV stations showed footage of police running across the compound in riot gear with piles of stones strewn on the ground. The entrance to a mosque was barricaded with furniture, as protesters inside threw objects toward police. Tamimi said 30 people suffered from tear gas inhalation or had been struck by rubber-coated bullets. None of the injuries appeared to be serious.

    in other news not covered by the Times or by the Post

    On 9 March 2012, al-Qaisi was killed in a missile strike by IDF aircraft, while driving his Opel car in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood west of Gaza. His son-in-law, Mohammed Ahmed al-Hanani, a resident of Beit Furik near Nablus,[7] was also killed in the attack, and a third man was seriously injured. The killing of Hanini was, according to the Egyptian ambassador to Ramallah Yasser Osman[8] and a Hamas spokesman, in violation of the terms of agreement in the Shalit prisoner swap.[9] The government and the Israeli security establishment justified the targeted assassination by claiming at the time that al-Qaisi had been planning a terrorist attack against Israel that was in the final stages of preparation. Sources among the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza say that they had been tipped off a month earlier that Israel was planning to kill him.[10]

  46. 46.

    kwawk

    @Suffern ACE:

    Well since her poll numbers are the worst since 2008 and the Republican brand is surging, obviously this pregnancy was just arranged as a distraction.

    So yer saying that we should expect to see a movie called ‘Wag the Sperm’ sometime in the near future?

  47. 47.

    mclaren

    As Chelsea is a member of one of the ruling dynasties in oligarchy America, it matters a lot. Chelsea is one of our next presidents, and so is her unborn foetus.

    America in the 21st century had rigidified social mobility to the point where political power, like wealth, is now primarily inherited. This makes it a matter of great concern to know whether Chelsea’s wee little bairn turns out to be another Caligula, or not.

    In oligarchy America, our rulers comes from a very small gene pool. We’d like to know what’s going on in that gene pool so that we can prepare ourselves, for example, to deal with a president who may appoint a horse a senator.

  49. 49.

    some guy

    I think it’s fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you’re the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago. I’ve had wonderful discussions with a lot of my predecessors. I kid my good friend, Henry Kissinger. Can you imagine, in a world of Twitter, being able to sneak out of Pakistan and fly to China and do secret negotiations? It’s just an entirely different 24/7 public environment that you are living in. And even if you’re of a lower profile than I am, everyone around you has the technology now to report a sighting, to overhear a conversation, to snap a photo. It is an incredibly complex set of conditions that you now have to operate in at the highest levels of diplomacy anywhere.

    Hillary Clinton, 3/22/2012 (http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2012/03/foreign-policy)

  50. 50.

    some guy

    MRS CLINTON: Well, it’s a new world, and we all have to figure out how best to adjust to it. But take the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement. I’ve had intense conversations with Egyptian leaders and Israeli leaders. They are both committed to maintaining it because it happens to be in both of their interests. It’s clearly in the interest of regional stability.

    Part of our challenge now is to get to know the new Egyptian civilian leadership. There’s no substitute for good old-fashioned shoe leather. It’s ironic, in a way, that we live in this cyber virtual reality. It’s almost as though people demand to see more of you than they did before because they want to make sure you’re not taking them for granted, that you really will listen to them, that you’ll see things from their perspective. So we’ve invested a lot in beginning to build relationships.

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @mclaren: Yeah, Obama and Bill Clinton were both from stunningly well-off and prominent families. As were Ronnie Reagan, Dick Nixon, Jimmie Carter, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, and Harry Truman.

  52. 52.

    some guy

    We’re not going to agree on everything; there’s no doubt about that. But we think it is important to have the opportunity to make the case about why this peace agreement is as much in Egypt’s interests as it is in Israel’s or the United States’s. If you look at what’s happening in so much of the Middle East and North Africa, there are different assessments that can be made. Egypt had free, fair elections. A year ago, nobody would have thought that was possible. They’re actually starting to do politics, which is messy, like sausage being made, and is never going to be a totally satisfactory experience for the people in it or out of it.

  56. 56.

    some guy

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    don’t worry, OO, I am sure the Times and the Post will both get around to reporting on the riotous shooting opf the rubber bullets and the hospitalizations currently occuring on the Dome of the Rock/Temple Mount as soon as the South African Free and Fair Police Forces get the situation under control.

    any day now

  58. 58.

    some guy

    what part of “direct Hillary Clinton quotes” are you unclear on, barrister? is Google still inoperative on your computer?

    hey everybody, let us pitch in and all buy Omnes Omnibus a chromebook, so he can actually use the Gazoogle.

  60. 60.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @some guy: You are a PhD candidate, right? Don’t sources matter? Shouldn’t a reader be able to follow your sources and look at your data? If you make a claim, shouldn’t you be able to support it?

  62. 62.

    Mike in NC

    No doubt the bloated drug addict and pedophile Rush Limbaugh would want to comment about this, since he hated the teen Chelsea so much. Fucking goddamn pervert.

  63. 63.

    some guy

    every time I see Omnes Omnibus, Esquire, post, I think the stock retort should be

    Hill/Kissinger 2016: Free and Fair

    being as pathetically clueless and ignorant as Burnsie, proud Duke Lacrosse Defender, and yet still commanding billable hours… how I pity your clients

  65. 65.

    some guy

    like sausage being made

    Clinton/Kiss: al-Sisi is our kind of guy. his upcoming election will be nothing if not free and fair, like Morsi’s before him, and Murabak’s before him. those Egyptians, they sure know how to conduct Free and Fair elections.

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  66. 66.

    mclaren

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    As usual, you excel in ignoring peer-reviewed research.

    See “Harder for AMericans to Rise from Lower Rungs,” The New York TImes, 4 January 2012.

    Benjamin Franklin did it. Henry Ford did it. And American life is built on the faith that others can do it, too: rise from humble origins to economic heights. “Movin’ on up,” George Jefferson-style, is not only a sitcom song but a civil religion.

    But many researchers have reached a conclusion that turns conventional wisdom on its head: Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe. The mobility gap has been widely discussed in academic circles, but a sour season of mass unemployment and street protests has moved the discussion toward center stage.

    Thanks for giving us examples from times 50 and 60 and 80 years past. Pro tip: the distribution of wealth and of political power in American society has changed since then.

  67. 67.

    UofAzgrad

    YOU FOOLS. THIS IS THE STALLION WHO WILL MOUNT THE WORLD. CHELSEA IS THE DAUGHTER AND NOW MOTHER OF DRAGONS.

  68. 68.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @some guy: You can abbreviate the Esquire. It should, however, be set off by commas.

    Really, in this instance, I am not arguing with the substance of your comments. I can’t. You, as a rule, don’t provide any links to your sources. Absent that, It is rather difficult to determine whether you were factually accurate or not – or to determine if your interpretation of the facts is one with which I night agree or disagree.

    @mclaren: How long ago were Obama and Clinton president?

  69. 69.

    AxelFoley

    @semperfi123:

    Once again wr0ng way Cole, glorified reddit poster muckymux, and the rest of the Snowden groupies around here come out on the wrong side of history.

    http://gawker.com/watch-edward…..1564178479

    Why no wet kisses for KhrisKristie lately Cole? How’s that “single payer or nothing at all” thing working for ya DougJ?

    People here should never forget what the ball juicers around here have stood for in the past and how often then have been dead wrong and just moved on to the next shiny object.

    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

  70. 70.

    some guy

    @mclaren:

    Pro Tips for Omes Omnibus? the fucker still does not know how to use Google.

    Pro tip: letting OO’s clients know he is incapable of running a simple search on Google will reduce his “in” with his partners.

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  73. 73.

    some guy

    hee indeedy.

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    edited to spell the barrister’s psuedonym correctly

  76. 76.

    trollhattan

    Ye gawds, everybody on the count of three, take a Prozac and two-and-a-half ounces of French brandy, neat. One, two….

  78. 78.

    some guy

    ( this message brought to you by the Committee to Buy Omnes Omnibus a Chromebook)

    Police closed the Temple Mount to Jewish visitors and tourists on Thursday as a precaution against a repeat of violent clashes at the site the day before.

    On Wednesday, riots broke out on the Temple Mount compound, as Palestinians protested a visit to the holy site by Jewish pilgrims and tourists.

    Dozens of Palestinian protesters and an Israeli policeman were wounded during clashes, the second such incident in a week.

    Police arrested six Palestinians overnight in connection with the riots.

    Police said they responded with stun grenades after Palestinians threw “stones and firecrackers” when the walled compound’s gates were opened. A small number of Jewish visitors had toured the site before the violence began.

    Riots on the Temple Mount are not uncommon, and often accompany political tension or visits by Israeli right-wing activists.

    Israeli security officials told Channel 2 news Wednesday that they would ultimately have to force their way into the al-Aqsa mosque, atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, because hundreds of young Palestinian men are now routinely stockpiling large quantities of rocks and slabs of stone there to attack security forces.

    Sheikh Azzam Tamimi, head of the Waqf, the Muslim trust that administers the site, said worshipers had barricaded themselves inside the al-Aqsa mosque “to defend” the site from Jewish groups. Israeli TV stations showed footage of police running across the compound in riot gear with piles of stones strewn on the ground. The entrance to the mosque was barricaded with furniture, as protesters inside threw objects at police. Tamimi said 30 people suffered from tear-gas inhalation or had been struck by rubber-coated bullets. None of the injuries appeared to be serious.

    [King Playstations minions weigh in] Jordan on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council to end Israeli “escalation” at the compound. “Legal, humanitarian and ethical duties of the UN Security Council and the international community require that they stop Israeli escalation and violations committed by Jewish radicals at al-Aqsa,” Information Minister Mohammad Momani told the state-run Petra news agency. “Such actions as well as Israel’s insistence on supporting radical groups provoke Muslims around the world, create more instability in the region and violate international laws.”

    Read more in NON-US news sources here: Fearing repeat of riots, police bar non-Muslims from Temple Mount | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/fearing-repeat-of-riots-police-bar-non-muslims-from-temple-mount/#ixzz2zDGrKi26

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  80. 80.

    some guy

    can someone remind me again why Hill’s close friend Henry K. can’t travel to Europe?

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  82. 82.

    A Humble Lurker

    @LT: Ooh, ass covering in progress. Take that, Mrs. Cracker!

    If he’d actually taken the opportunity to ask a tough question of Putin when he actually had the opportunity, instead of trying to make it look like that’s what he did after the fact, that would’ve been significantly more impressive.

    God, you want to talk about ass kissing, read those comments. No wonder Ed and Glenn think so highly of themselves. Yeesh.

  83. 83.

    wonder girl

    I don’t really give a crap who is having a Frcking baby. I believe we have more important issues to address. Jeebus I’m first time replying so whatever.

  84. 84.

    eemom

    Nobody. But by all means Cole, don’t keep us waiting a moment longer for the latest late night thousand word stream of consciousness post about the minutest ramblings of your mind. Everybody cares about that.

  85. 85.

    ? Martin

    @A Humble Lurker: Putin is such a confident leader that he instructed his staff to take a question from the guy who will undoubtedly be his harshest critic.

    I’m not sure which hero we should blow first.

  87. 87.

    Mandalay

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    No citations and out of context quotes…

    Thank god for BJ’s 24/7 lonely hall monitor, supervising every thread!

    The link was in post #49 you drunken jackass. Come back when you’re more sober and less aggressive.

  89. 89.

    Mandalay

    @some guy: It’s not just Clinton’s answers that are worthy of note in that interview you linked to. Here are parts of some of the questions thrown at her:

    You’re doing a great job, so why have you decided to stop?

    While you were doing this ambitious job of rebalancing American energies and reconnecting with bits of the world that had been neglected during the trauma after 9/11…

    You’ve spent much of your career promoting the cause of women.

    Everyone dumps on Snowden for his puffball questions to Putin, but nobody says a word when the Economist does far worse with Hilary Clinton.

  93. 93.

    Schlemizel

    BIG NEWS!!

    A new ABC/American Armpit poll show Zygote Clinton with a commanding lead in to 2056 Democratic Presidential race!

    In a related story head of America’s Cross Whores, Karl Rove says his group is readying ads that will expose Zygote to the American voter as a freeloading parasite whose grandfather once had illicit sex while in the Oval Office.

  94. 94.

    Schlemizel

    BIG NEWS!!

    A new ABC/American Armpit poll show Zygote Clinton with a commanding lead in to 2056 Democratic Presidential race!

    In a related story head of America’s Cross Whores, Karl Rove says his group is readying ads that will expose Zygote to the American voter as a freeloading parasite whose grandfather once had illicit sex while in the Oval Office.

  100. 100.

    Epicurus

    To be fair, it’s not just politicians and/or their offspring. How many frigging stories have I seen about the immaculate conception of North West? How many stories are being published today about the occupancy or emptiness of Jennifer Anniston’s womb? Please. Women give birth to babies/get pregnant every frigging day; it’s not really news. I begin to believe that it’s all an elaborate way of distracting the common folk from the real problems facing this country. Panem et circi, anyone? Anyone?? Bueller???

  102. 102.

    LAC

    @TaMara (BHF): that is what I was thinking. A nice bit of news for us Whos down in whoville with our tamjanglers, etc. it’s a sleeping cat or nothing huh?

  103. 103.

    dmhlt

    You can’t even be magnanimous & tell the couple “Mazel Tov”?
    God, you’re as DICKISH as Repubicans!

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