Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

This fight is for everything.

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

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

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

The willow is too close to the house.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

People are complicated. Love is not.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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Some more from Detroit

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Here’s some pretty pictures:

bell isle bridgescott fountain

And this is Wally Lynn, who is attending NN:

our walmart

Wally is from Pittsburgh and has a great Pittsburgh accent. He is part of Our Walmart:

We envision a future in which our company treats us, the Associates of Walmart, with respect and dignity. We envision a world where we succeed in our careers, our company succeeds in business, our customers receive great service and value, and Walmart and Associates share all of these goals.

Wally started his own organization for veterans within Our Walmart and that organization is called Our Vets.

I’m just back from Reverend Barber’s speech.

Briefly, he said we have to create a “fusion politics” that is grounded in our values and that we are in the middle of the third progressive uprising of the last 146 years. Obviously, this will have to be fleshed out a bit (he said much more than that) but that’s the general idea.

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  2. 2.

    The Dangerman

    What are you doing outside? Shouldn’t you be in jail? There are Balloon Juice reputations to uphold.

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    The Dangerman

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    What are you doing with pants on? Shouldn’t you be mopping naked?

    Longtime reader of Balloon-Juice; if it’s one thing I do fully clothed, it’s mopping (or, for that matter, cat ass shaving).

  9. 9.

    muddy

    @Baud: Be easier to grab a blogger and shave his/her ass *signifying * a cat. Moar meta. More likely to find a subjectvictim, as well as to be able to complete the task.

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    Helen

    Where are your pants? Where are your cats? and dogs? And where is Shawn? And that gorgeous student (Christion?) that Lily is so in love with?

    Oh, wait this is Kay – not John.

    Where is John? – Yeah I know – but I miss him more than I thought I would. I considered him the gatekeeper/traffic cop. But he’s kinda the boss. Go figure.

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    Violet

    Kay, did you leave your Subaru in a field like a good Balloon-Juice representative? I hope so!

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    gbear

    Did Reverend Barber hold back on the religious fervor when talking to the Netroots group? I loved that speech that was posted last weekend because he was using his religious stance to whack & whack & whack conservative christians on the noggin. Does he change his approach much when he’s preaching to the choir?

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    TooManyJens

    @gbear: No, he hit the religious themes pretty good, despite the fact that there were probably more of us godless heathens in the audience than in his usual crowd. Got a great response, too. The refreshing thing was that even though he was a) calling for more moral politics; and b) coming from an explicitly Christian perspective, I never felt like he was saying that morality has to be tied to Christianity. Like, Christianity is the way that he comes to it, and that’s cool, but these are moral values we all share. Things like justice, and caring about the poor.

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    gbear

    @TooManyJens:

    I never felt like he was saying that morality has to be tied to Christianity.

    That’s the impression that I got when listening to him last week.Morality doesn’t have to be religion based, although he knows how to use religion to motoivate.

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    Old Dan and Little Ann

    There’s no such thing as a great Pittsburgh accent. I love Pittsburgh and spent four years of college there but the accent is horrible. Yinz guys goin’ do da Sahth Side for an Iron ‘nthat? Go Stillers! Maaaarrrrioooo! : ) Hmmmmmm…..Primantis….

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    Helen

    O/T Colbert talking to Steven Wise an animal rights lawyer “If Tommy” – the chimp – “wants human rights he should form his own corporation.”

    Ha ah . No. I’m done.

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    LT

    That fountain is the James Scott Memorial:

    Scott was left a sizable fortune by his father who invested in Detroit real estate. According to contemporaries, Scott gambled and told off-color stories. He was described by twentieth-century author W. Hawkins Ferry as vindictive and a misanthrope who attempted to intimidate his business competitors and when this was unsuccessful, he filed suit. Perhaps for these reasons, Scott died in 1910 with no heirs or colleagues and he bequeathed his estate to the City of Detroit with the condition that the fountain include a life-sized statue of him. Some accounts state that the will required that the statue be at the fountain’s pinnacle.[1]

    Several community and religious leaders spoke against accepting the bequest saying that a person with Scott’s reputation should not be immortalized in the city. Mayor Philip Breitmeyer and City Council President David Heineman urged accepting the gift saying that the city shouldn’t insult any of its citizens by refusing such a generous offer.[2]

    While the debate raged, Scott’s fortune continued to grow and by the time construction commenced it topped $1 million.[2] The final design placed Scott’s statue in an inconspicuous spot behind the fountain.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scott_Memorial_Fountain

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    WaterGirl

    @muddy: Mommy, tell us the story again about the time you met the vice president and he took you for a ride in his fancy car. We love that story!

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    raven

    @LT:

    A famous scene from the 1973 drama Scarecrow, starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino was filmed here. In the scene shortly after learning of the death of his estranged son (though falsified by the mother) Pacino’s character Francis Lionel ‘Lion’ Delbuchi, happily plays with a group of children before, upon uncovering a deep emotional truth, he snatches one of them up and begins to ascend the fountain. He is left catatonic in a hospital following the incident.

    It was a chilling finish to hell of a film.

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