Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

The lights are all blinking red.

Everybody saw this coming.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Fight them, without becoming them!

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

How stupid are these people?

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

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Books are my comfort food!

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

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

So many bastards, so little time.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

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

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  1. 1.

    James E Powell

    Look, let’s get ’em all — let’s get ’em all now, while we got the muscle.

    ―Frank Pentangeli t

  8. 8.

    Baud

    Seriously, who bothers to attack the 10,000th most popular political site on the Internet?

  9. 9.

    greennotGreen

    Reposted from an older thread:
    With all this talk about death and with the site being down, I have a question: who “owns” Balloon Juice? I’m assuming JGC owns the domain name and pays the bills. So, John, this is actually a serious question. Have you put the site in your will? If, FSM forbid, you decide to mop naked again or slip on the ice again or any of the other nearly lethal activities you undertake, what would we do if something happened to you? I would much rather have a cartoon of you above Tunch’s asking us to donate to Act Blue or animal rescue or whatever cause is closest to your heart than for this band of brothers and sisters to dissipate like so much…hot air.

  10. 10.

    Carolina Dave

    NC Rethuglicans? They were so efficient in their special session debating and passing the bathroom bill they must have had some extra time today.

  14. 14.

    PaulW

    @Baud:

    someone who wants to stop you from running for President.

    and really, BJ is ranked higher than that. I’M running the 10,000th least-popular blog on the net.

  26. 26.

    MomSense

    I’m guessing it was the one smart cousin of the ranching/sovereign/militia/wahoos we’ve been mocking.

  28. 28.

    Patricia Kayden

    “Alain investigated and found out it was a good old fashioned HTML blitz attack.”

    Sure. Thanks Obama.

  33. 33.

    RSA

    HTML blitz attack

    I’m not a security person, but does this mean a Denial of Service attack?

  45. 45.

    Chris

    Treat this as an open thread and feel free to speculate on the likely suspects in the comments.

    BALLOON JUICE REFUSES TO SAY RADICAL ISLAM!

    HOW CAN WE DEFEAT THE ENEMY WHEN WE WON’T EVEN NAME IT?

    and other inanities.

  50. 50.

    NotMax

    feel free to speculate on the likely suspects

    If Mr. Cole hears barely suppressed giggling coming from the frat house….

  51. 51.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Oligarchy is fighting back.

    Baud! is a threat to the rigged establishment and plutocracy.

  54. 54.

    NCSteve

    I blame Obama. He was tangoing with Che Guevara rather than flying back to the U.S. state of Belgium to show his resolve and concern in the face of cyberterrorism. Thanks, Obama!

  69. 69.

    Mike J

    @greennotGreen: He really should file in DE as a corp and name a few of the cobloggers as officers. Better for him if the site got sued for some reason too.

  72. 72.

    Mike J

    @greennotGreen:

    Does it come as a cassette tape?

    The basic source code for the program is available in the back pages of Compute magazine for you to type in at home.

  76. 76.

    sinnedbackwards

    Okay, so I’m waiting for the #10 bus to go to the North Park Farmers’ Market. Open the i-phone to News. Flashing Breaking News “Trump reveals Heidi was a (anti-euphemism for paid lady)”; “Cruz calls Trump Sniveling Coward, Stay Away from my Family”; and so on.

    Wow, I message Ms. Sinned that all hell had broken loose. She says “wah?” and I go back AND IT WAS GONE. (found it later debunked on Snopes)

    Just about the same time BJ crashed!

    Coincidence? I think not ratcopulating much.

  80. 80.

    jl

    I don’t understand why an influential almost top ten thousand blog doesn’t have protection against internet attacks. The fate of the Republick is in its hands.

    Were will people be able to whine complain about the virtually invisible Baud! 2016! campaign?

  81. 81.

    lamh36

    Superman III with Richard Pryor on SyFy….guilty pleasure.

    Chris Reeves was awesome as Kent/Superman. Def proving to pull off the whole Clark Kent/Superman thing took a bit more than just a pretty face and buff body…

  88. 88.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Clearly it was a Bundy, or perhaps Shawna Cox on behalf of a Bundy. Or Ritzheimer – we were pretty hard on him (appropriately so). But look West people.

  89. 89.

    schrodinger's cat

    Tere vaaste mera ishq sufiana

    For you (Tunch blog) my love is like that of a Sufi.

    I didn’t even know that these beautiful ruins existed, now I have to go visit on my next trip. Gorgeous video that I discovered today. It features Vidya Balan and Emran Hashmi from the critically acclaimed movie The Dirty Picture. It is loosely based on the life of a femme fatale of the Tamil film industry, Silk Smitha, played here by Vidya Balan.

  91. 91.

    Ruckus

    Look what happens when I go to work.
    Going to have to stop doing that, I miss having something totally unimportant to bitch about.

  92. 92.

    Matt McIrvin

    @lamh36: Christopher Reeve is still the definitive Superman. As cheesy as those movies got, everyone who’s played the role since is in his shadow, and nobody else has really been able to make it work, at least in live action.

  95. 95.

    Felonius Monk

    CyberTerrorists attacking Balloon Juice, OMG, OMG. Let’s go hide under the bed while Obama does the tango.

  96. 96.

    redshirt

    @Matt McIrvin: Jolly Chris Reeves Superman killed his fellow Kryptonians in Superman 2. No one cared much.

    Superman in “Man of Steel” kills one Kryptonian with his hands in an obviously difficult situation: Monster.

  101. 101.

    PhoenixRising

    You people. Went to work today, missed the whole shebang and by the time I log in, all the good accusations have been made.

    Unlimited corporate cash/RighttoRise
    BiP’s Ukranian paymasters
    Sandernistas trying to end the Baud!2016 momentum

    were all things I thought of too. That is freaky.

  105. 105.

    Matt McIrvin

    @redshirt: Oh, the scripts never made any sense even by comic-book standards, and Superman was often completely off model ethically. But he sold the character.

  106. 106.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    Anyone who thinks ALL Canadians are polite and mild mannered has never tried to sleep through a Saturday night in a Toronto hotel.
    Drink makes some of them forget their upbringing.

  111. 111.

    PhoenixRising

    @Ultraviolet Thunder: My sister went to undergrad, or ‘yoonee’ as they pronounce it, in Canada. They are polite, well-behaved individuals…when sober. If you have or can obtain enough alcohol to get a Canuck drunk…bar the door.

  112. 112.

    Disgruntled former Baud supporter

    Congratulations, Scotland! Last coal plant in Scotland is shuttered…

    Article also mentions new developments in China’s coal phase-out:

    Indeed, China’s National Energy Administration ordered 13 provincial governments to stop approving new coal-fired power plants until the end of 2017, according to published reports. Yet even approved coal-fired power plants aren’t safe there, as 15 provinces were told to stop building new plants. A Greenpeace analysis says this could affect up to 250 Chinese coal plants.

    Better late than never…

  113. 113.

    raptusregaliter

    Wake up people! This is obviously a false flag operation orchestrated by Cole and the usual suspects: Erick Erickson, Bill Kristol, George Will, and Al Roker.

    Trust no one!

  114. 114.

    Mike J

    @Steve in the ATL:

    Delaware? Fuck that shit–Isle of Man!

    Other options are available, but I’ve done the paperwork and gone from zero to corp in 15 minutes in Delaware. They made it easier than the state I was living in did, and it was dirt cheap.

  117. 117.

    Bill Arnold

    Insufficient information. Is there something to work with, e.g. a collection of source ips?
    (Add Zandar’s stalker to the amusing-possibilities list.)

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