Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

Come on, man.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

This really is a full service blog.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

This blog will pay for itself.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

How stupid are these people?

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

When I was faster i was always behind.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

No one could have predicted…

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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Later Night Open Thread: Learning By Doing

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  4. 4.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Hillary learns. That is absolutely clear to me. She has general liberal principles, but she does not stand still. That is a rare and wonderful trait in a politician. She learned a lot from her time in the Obama administration, and both her political strategy and her policies reflect it.

  9. 9.

    opiejeanne

    @NotMax: Saw that, thought it was pretty low. Then today he offers the threat of a riot at the convention if he isn’t the nominee, even if he’s 100 delegates short. What’s he going to offer if he loses the general election?

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax:
    Fortunately, some of the contract’s more burdensome provisions don’t seem enforceable.

    @opiejeanne:
    I hope there aren’t enough Americans who want a President Trump so badly that they’d riot in the streets if nominee Trump lost. I would be very disappointed in America if there were.

  11. 11.

    Jewish Steel

    Gitane cigarette smoke. Goatees. *bongos*

    All those screeching facebook posts
    All of those hectoring electrons spilled
    All for me to blithely tick a box
    In a stuffy church basement
    And cancel out your Bernie vote

    *snaps*

  19. 19.

    Splitting Image

    @Amir Khalid:

    I hope there aren’t enough Americans who want a President Trump so badly that they’d riot in the streets if nominee Trump lost. I would be very disappointed in America if there were.

    To me, the $64 question is whether Trump voters will have the patience to wait until November before they start rioting. If they start the fireworks at the convention, they’ll pretty much guarantee that he’ll lose in the general. And I think that even if he cruises to the nomination at this point, his fanatics will complain that the haters actually made delegates cast their votes before acclaiming King Donald as rightful Emperor of the World.

  25. 25.

    satby

    Good morning all. First day in a month I actually feel like I’m finally getting over that nasty cold/pneumonia I had. Breathing is nice.

  26. 26.

    Germy

    @Amir Khalid:

    I hope there aren’t enough Americans who want a President Trump so badly that they’d riot in the streets if nominee Trump lost.

    But hasn’t Trump promised this?

  29. 29.

    satby

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! If it’s not a total zoo, I’m taking the girls to an Irish pub for dinner tonight, where I will order corned beef, but they will probably get shepherds pie, because I’ve made that before. They missed the parades in Chicago (I’m a SouthSider, so two for us) and the green river. They were away at a Key club convention last weekend, so this is my only chance to give them a glimpse of the US version of St. Patrick’s.

  31. 31.

    satby

    @BillinGlendaleCA: You did! I’ve had it before (asthmatic) so I don’t try to soldier through if I feel it coming on, I get right to the doctor and catch it early. But it still felt like crud.

  33. 33.

    Elizabelle

    @satby: Those girls have got be having such a good stay. Did they enjoy hanging out with your son?

    Sounds like you have exposed them to a lot more than a lot of homestay homes. And in a good sense!

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    @Amir Khalid

    Enforceability is a side issue. That the campaign would draft, present as valid and demand signature to such a thing which is the odious tell.

  36. 36.

    Mike R

    @Mary: Well from The Donald’s point of view being allowed to represent his wonderful self is more compensation and consideration than mere mortals deserve. Hence an iron clad contract of eternal servitude. Seriously though, it is just an indicator of how low the republic has sunk and a real world example of the nastiness of the electorate.

  37. 37.

    Barbara O'Brien

    @Frankensteinbeck: Hillary doesn’t learn. She’s still the same triangulating,neoliberal hawk she always was. I absolutely cannot understand what anyone to the left of her buddy Henry Kissiner sees in her. But now that Balloon Juice has become an official Hillarybot Rah Rah site, I’ll be staying away.

  40. 40.

    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: Thanks. This time I really do.

    @Elizabelle: I hope they are. I would like to be able to do more with them, but they are getting a sense of how non-middle class people here live, for sure. And yes, they had a great time with the son and daughter-in-law. They hit the Art Institute, did a little shopping, and went to a Middle Eastern place for lunch one day, vegged out and did a film fest the other. They love the city.

  42. 42.

    Chyron HR

    @Barbara O’Brien:

    Waaaah, people on this site I’ve never been to before have different opinions from mine! I’m never coming back!

    If only the UN would step in and stop this Stalinist purge.

  44. 44.

    Chris

    @NotMax:

    You know what this reminds me of? That creepy pledge that the Kansas Republican Party demanded its members sign saying “I will at no point in the future find cause to transfer my party loyalties.”

    As with everything else with Trump, there’s ample precedent for it in the Republican Party’s recent history, even though the official line remains that the Trump phenomenon just inexplicably appeared out of thin air less than a year ago.

  45. 45.

    Jeffro

    @Chris:

    “I will at no point in the future find cause to transfer my party loyalties.”

    Creepy is right!

    Sorta on-topic: isn’t there some state legislature considering a bill where if a member of the leg even introduces a bill to confiscate firearms, that’s an automatic felony (the act of introducing the bill)?

    Ah yes, I thought so nydailynews.com/news/politics/lawmaker-criminialize-proposing-anti-gun-laws-article-1.1268069

    As Der Trumpenfuhrer would say, “Sad!”

  46. 46.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @Barbara O’Brien:

    Who are you, and why on earth would anyone care? We’ve never even seen you here before, so why don’t you go back to GOS and lament the failure of the progressive all white children’s crusade, with the other phoney baloney revolutionaries.

  47. 47.

    msb

    @Barbara O’Brien: well, that might be better than hanging around here with your fingers in your ears and your eyes shut.

  48. 48.

    Ohio Mom

    @Barbara O’Brien: One big difference between your blog (where I sometimes lurk) and this one is that there are tons of sports fans here. They get into things to win, and Bernie does not look like that good a bet in the general. I think that’s most of what you’really seeing right now, up to and including the heckling (think ball fans booing the ump).

    Personally, I’m skeptical about Hillary for some of the reasons you list but don’t see an alternative. So I’ll be canvassing, donating and the rest, all while hoping I’m going to proven wrong about the stuff I doubted.

  49. 49.

    PJ

    @the Conster, la Citoyenne: This website is not your little club. Every day you post invective insinuating that Sanders and anyone who supports him (or who might like a more, rather than less, liberal country than the one we have now) is a racist. I am not a fan of Clinton for foreign and economic policy reasons (and also because she genuinely seems to like sucking up to Republicans and war criminals), but people like you make me think her presidency would be a terrible mistake.

  50. 50.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    The bigger lesson of 2008 was that you won’t win the Democratic nomination without the votes of Black people. This has been stated clearly by countless bloggers and pundits with supporting electoral data. Bernie knew (or should have known) this from very early on. Convincing Black voters to ditch HRC and vote for him should have been his primary goal and the focus of his campaign.

  51. 51.

    Chyron HR

    @PJ:

    It’s so terrible how Sanders’ supporters come here to complain about, and I quote, “tap dancing house negroes voting for Clinton” and get called racist for NO GOOD REASON. How can anybody deny the Stalinist purge taking place before our very eyes?

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