Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

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

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

An almost top 10,000 blog!

75% of people clapping liked the show!

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

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  1. 1.

    hovercraft

    A welcome reprieve from @Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class’s thought experiment about Trumps America.

  2. 2.

    kindness

    Looks like it’s from Dave Grisman’s daughters film. Nice.

    I can’t believe it’s been 21 years since Jerry left his mortal coil.

  3. 3.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    It’s a Tuesday and I miss City of Heroes because tonight I’d be Tanking.

    Tanker Tuesday Rules:
    1) Always follow the Tanker
    2) Witty Dies (No Exceptions)
    3) If Something Bad Happens, Blame Rangle.

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    raven

    Some kind of edit problem. I had Caddy hubcaps on my truck until I found a sweet set of bowtie baby moons.

  18. 18.

    Mnemosyne

    @T S:

    Here? Probably not many, but I also don’t think there are many Deadheads here.

    Mustang Bobby might, but he’s a classic car aficionado, so he would do it ironically.

  19. 19.

    geg6

    So the goal was to ruin my day completely then?

    Mission accomplished!

    (Any time I am forced to deal with anything Jerry Garcia or Grateful Dead related is, ipso facto, a very, very bad day.)

  22. 22.

    p.a.

    @raven: saw Jorma live, solo winter 2015/16. I was 56 and brought the mean age of the crowd down, (considerably), yet there were several near-fights. Continual shouts of “Play it Jorma show ’em how it’s done!” followed by retorts of “Will you shut the fuck up so I can hear the music.” Rowdy hippies are cool!

  25. 25.

    Kilgore Trout

    @Mnemosyne:

    Here? Probably not many, but I also don’t think there are many Deadheads here.

    Some of us try to fly below the radar. But no Cadillac here (Prius).

  30. 30.

    kindness

    The Caddy reference….That was Cassidy. No one else in the family prized Cadillacs. Jerry drove a Beamer (or at least that was what he was arrested in at Golden Gate Park in that 80’s drug possession bust.

    There are many Deadheads here but it comes and goes. The Dead isn’t something one brags about as so many don’t know.

    I drive a Toyota Solara. I do have a Ford F-150 as my mountain car though.

  31. 31.

    Turgidson

    I’m seeing on the NYT homepage that Maureen “Pot Brownies Almost Killed Me” Dowd has declared herself a Cubs fan because she went to Chicago over the weekend.

    This lifelong, non-bandwagon Cubs fan says “Fuck off, MoDo. This is the ‘No MoDo’s Club.'”

  32. 32.

    amk

    David Atkins ‏@DavidOAtkins Oct 31

    A man fleeing rape accusations is helping a Russian homophobe dictator to help a serial sexual predator stop a woman from being President.

    0 replies 1,009 retweets 1,108 likes

  33. 33.

    amk

    At this rate, lil nate silver will give the presidency to the carnival barker on nov 9th and will still insist he is right.

  38. 38.

    corry342

    I almost never Comment, but I am on the farther end of the spectrum with respect to being a total Deadhead, and I read Balloon Juice every day.

  43. 43.

    Zinsky

    The Grateful Dead are/were the most overrated band in the history of rock music. I have heard bands composed of junior high school kids with more talent than those flea-bitten losers. They sucked bad! Good riddance Jerry…

  44. 44.

    A

    Longtime head here. Suspect Cole and I were at quite a few of the same shows in the 80s. Oh and fuck off Zinsky.

  45. 45.

    laura

    @T S: my friend Evan Edgar! One can see it parked on 21st st. Between Q and S. Gold, black roof, a great ship of the highway, dead head sticker squarely centered in the back window.
    He’s a character, runs the Edgar Institute which advocates closed-loop recycling. He peddles it to an increasing number of farmers of many diverse crops or industry. 100% bio-dynamic, waste reducing, alternative energy/revenue generating, deep-red California Valley Ranchers-converting.
    He lobbies at the Capital on same and has an incredible collection of political memorabilia and ephemera.
    Serious Deadhead since the Band began.

  46. 46.

    Bishop Bag

    @T S: 84 Cadillac El Dorado that I inherited when my mother-in-law passed away in 2008. Thing is a tank but it was the perfect High School cruising car for my kids…

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