Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Cancel the cowardly WaPo and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

When we show up, we win.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

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

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Motown is Joe-Town!

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Everybody saw this coming.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

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Just a Quick Housekeeping Note: My Balloon Juice Contact List Email is Fixed!

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Several folks have told me they’ve emailed me at, or asked how and been directed to, the email on the contact dropdown on the right side of the page. I haven’t received any of them. I had Alain check it for me today and he found a typo in the logic string for my name (whatever that means) and has fixed it. So if you’ve tried to email me, using the contact dropdown, please resend it and I’ll get back to you. Have a nice night.

If you feel like it you can use this as an open thread.

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  2. 2.

    Trentrunner

    The Trump foreign policy interview in tomorrow’s NYT is a fucking train wreck.

    Trump says he wouldn’t automatically defend a Baltic state if Russia invaded, that our defense would depend on how that Baltic state had treated us. Fucking NATO, how does it work?

    Hillary should hold an unprecedented press conference tomorrow morning to spotlight this.

    Talk about making the world more dangerous…Christ almighty.

  4. 4.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: I have a Balloon Juice specific email set up for the drop down list. One of the people that asked, doesn’t have a proper email for posting here so I have no way of getting ahold of her without an announcement like this.

  5. 5.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Trentrunner: As I put in a comment in the previous post:

    I’ve just seen the full quote from the NY Times coverage of his rally earlier today. He made it clear he’d consider requests for aid after checking to see if the NATO member or members requesting American assistance had lived up to their obligations to the US. It is unclear whether he simply means the budgetary and manpower thresholds established by and for NATO members or if he means something else. And we’re back to Trump’s grand strategic vision is “Trump will be treated well, America will be treated well, you will all be Treated well, and only Trump can ensure that America and you will be treated well. Or else…”

  6. 6.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I was wondering about that, as I sent an email some time back (like late Aprilish) and got no response at all.

    I’ll try again.

  7. 7.

    Trentrunner

    Josh Marshall: In all seriousness, only a relative confidence that Trump will be defeated prevents NYT article from triggering a genuine int’l crisis.

  9. 9.

    ruemara

    Just a reminder, San Diego Juicer meet up is Karl Strauss in Costa Mesa on Friday at 7p.m. so far we have RonnieRoo, Grumpy Code Monkey, Glaupkis(?), the clan Glidwith (?) & myself. Directions will be forthcoming on the morrow because I am sleepy now. If thou art interested in juician shenanigans, please let me know via nym @ gmail.com.

  12. 12.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Trentrunner:

    Talk about making the world more dangerous…Christ almighty.

    I was assured by several of the speakers tonight Obama and Hillary are making the world more dangerous.

  14. 14.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mike J: I’ve mentioned it and will remind him again tomorrow. Or, you know, you could email him and ask directly.

  15. 15.

    David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch

    David Corn ‏@DavidCornDC

    With this NYT interview, Trump again steps on his you-know-what.

    59 retweets 70 likes

    David Corn ‏@DavidCornDC

    Leading from behind? Trump threatens to abandon allies & tear up US agreements with “our friends.”

    96 retweets 86 likes

    Josh Rogin @joshrogin

    Trump says U.S. is not a credible messenger for liberty and human rights. Funny, that’s exactly what Putin says.

    8:36 PM – 20 Jul 2016

    72 retweets 68 likes

    Imagine the firestorm if a Democrat did this – denounce the country on the eve of his acceptance speech.

  16. 16.

    BR

    I don’t get it still — was the Cruz thing intentional on the Trump campaign’s part? I get the sense that yes, they knew Cruz was going to be a problem and were ready for him to stir things up, but they didn’t know quite how it was going to go. I feel like Trump is fine with it, in the sense that Cruz has clarified loyalties even more — even within the party you’re with Trump or you’re with the betrayer Cruz, etc.

    While that might strengthen Trump’s hand with his base, I don’t see how it helps him expand it.

  24. 24.

    BR

    @Calouste:

    Maybe — only if we tell them about it. Most folks don’t pay attention to foreign policy interviews in the NYT. So it’s up to us as volunteers to reach out and make sure people know.

  25. 25.

    jacy

    @BR:

    The way I understand it, mostly via TPM, is that, yes, they saw the speech and knew what he was going to say. They let him do it, with the idea he was going to be booed by the crowd, and, in fact, they were whipping up the crowd to boo him. WHY this was a strategy is beyond me.

    I mean, I can see it as a pissing contest — Cruz is going to dis Lil’ Donnie publicly and then Lil’ Donnie is going to feel all superior when the crowd boos him. But what would be normal for two drunken rednecks a beer before last call is not what you expect as a freaking PLAN. At this point, it’s just like Trump is chaotic evil. (Yes, I played D&D in my formative years.)

    Trump and his people just seem to have no ability to game out consequences. They do whatever the fuck pops into their heads at the moment. They’re venal and stupid and so used to just having things eventually turn out their way via manipulation or subterfuge or out-and-out bullying, that they never make any real-world, workable decisions.

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    Mnemosyne

    @jacy:

    The thing that makes me doubt the we knew what Cruz was going to say story is that someone else has photos of the TelePrompTer showing the speech Cruz was *supposed* to make. If those pictures are real, then the we knew what Cruz was going to say claim becomes a Pee Wee Herman-like “I meant to do that!”

  27. 27.

    BR

    @jacy:

    Chaotic evil — nice. I think you need to spread the word — that might be the simplest description (that only a small number of people will get, but still).

    But yeah, that’s what I’m thinking — they both think they got something out of it by pissing on each other, and both are ego-focused so they don’t really care what else comes of it.

  28. 28.

    BR

    @Mnemosyne:

    What do you mean by photos of the teleprompter — as in someone snapped photos showing Cruz stopped reading from the prompter and was going from memory?

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    @BR:

    That’s what someone said in one of the previous threads. I think it was in one of the tweets that lamh36 posted, but I don’t want to have to scroll through 300 comments on my iPad.

  30. 30.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Timurid: Saw that earlier. The victim was actually the care taker. Fortunately there’s video and the chain of command has taken action. And the victim is going to be okay. I am more convinced than ever that we are seeing a combination of command climate, hiring and retention standards, and training problems all combining with actual events to create the conditions for these events.

  31. 31.

    TS

    @Timurid:

    ,,aaaand there’s been another completely ridiculous police shooting after some autistic guy brought a toy truck to a gunfight.
    At least the victim survived this time.

    From the link
    “According to police, officers were dispatched to the scene of the shooting on Monday after getting a 911 call about a man with a gun threatening suicide. ”

    Lot of folks call 911 cause they mistake a toy truck for a gun.

  32. 32.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Adam up top: At some point maybe 2 months ago I know i sent you a mildly frothy email because you were Wrong On The Internet; but since I can’t find that email or remember what specifically you were wrong about, I think i’ll have the bury that particular hatchet. Assume you were thoroughly rebuked about an unspecified thing and have a nice very early morning ;-)

  33. 33.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TheMightyTrowel: Okay. You know you can just put it in the comments. My guess is you got upset because I did the “oh, you’ve got a doctorate from Oxford? How big a check did you write?” in regards to Rachel Maddow’s DPhil. Pseudonymous in NC took me to task.

  34. 34.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Adam L Silverman: wow your memory is better than mine. Incidentally: proof that Oxford doctorates have an impact – mine ate my short term memory and replaced it with a really impressive ability to be a human EndNote library

  35. 35.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    So question: watching the Trump surrogate on Wirh All Due Resprct and noticed he’s wearing that weird triangle pin that Lewandowski and other Trumpettes wear. WTF is that and why won’t the media ask?

  36. 36.

    Davebo

    Alain check it for me today and he found a typo in the logic string for my name

    That’s classic! As a developer for over 20 years I’ve screwed the pooch many times but never thought of using the “logic string” line! Normally I blame it on an ID10T interface issue. But I’ll definitely use that next time.

  39. 39.

    lgerard

    @Trentrunner:

    This means if some petty functionary in Latvia makes a joke about his hair, well too bad for his country.

    The idea of Trump expanding his innumerable and endless petty feuds to a global scale is positively frightening

  41. 41.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Adam L Silverman: And that’s how i can tell you left academia! If you were still an academic you would have published 2 short papers, a long review paper and a guest blog on an academic blogger’s site denouncing all and sundry who dared disagree ;-)

  42. 42.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    @lgerard: ah I see that now. See Ben Carsons aide wearing one a while back. Okay. That makes sense.

    of course the show is being filmed in Cleveland so he came right from his Campaign role.

  43. 43.

    hovercraft

    Pastor Darrell Scott says that the reason for black people being killed is Barack Obama. And it’s his fault because he won’t go out and tell black people to stop killing people ( each other and the police), because he hasn’t done that.He has only reacted to police being killed after the fact, not proactively, he should travel the country telling black people to stop killing people. All he’s done so far is talk about the problem, he hasn’t done anything, asked about the policing task force he asked what it’s accomplished. He doesn’t need to know what Trump’s plan will be because this is about Obama. He doesn’t know what Trump’s plan is, we’ll find out when he becomes president. Scott is concerned about police killings, so he thinks that if the police feel the situation requires lethal force they should aim to wound, when it was pointed out that that doesn’t make sense he accused the questioner of wanting the police kill black people. Then he repeated that when lethal force is deemed necessary they should aim to wound. That ladies and gents is this evenings most prominent black surrogate on national tv making his case for Trump.
    AA outreach at it’s finest.
    Why I’m watching cnn at 3am I have no idea, other than the fact that I can’t sleep.

  45. 45.

    cckids

    Don’t know if anyone’s still up, but Michelle Obama is doing Car Pool Karaoke with James Cordon. She’s so freaking cool.

    Cordon asked her what will be hardest about leaving the White House, and she said leaving all the people working there, that you get to know them & their families & it will just be difficult to walk away. Just an amazing human; our country’s been lucky to have her there.

  47. 47.

    Eljai

    @cckids: Yes! We are lucky. I was so depressed from watching cable news and then I watched Michelle with James Cordon and I was completely uplifted. Just filled with joy.

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