Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

This blog will pay for itself.

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

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Republicans in disarray!

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

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Early Morning “Random Trump Dings” Open Thread

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And here I didn’t know sarcasm was even permitted to Mormons. This time tomorrow, Trickster God willing, we’ll be sharing the high of an HRC win and the lows of Trumpdolyte twitter-rants…


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  1. 1.

    jl

    After the election is over, people can collect the rare pepes from the twitter and win a prize!
    See, GOTV can be fun, kids.

  2. 2.

    Splitting Image

    One small regret I will have for this election campaign is that I really think Alf Landon deserves better than to be remembered as the loser who got the fewest electoral votes in a modern election. I think that Donald Trump is far more deserving of the honour and it is going to be very unfortunate that he will not achieve it.

    Perhaps the GOP will have another go in 2020.

  3. 3.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    Got my sample ballot filled out, Fired Up and Ready to Go. One suggestion: maybe next time we could have a proposition on the ballot to set up some sort of group that we could elect to handle some of the matters that they litter our ballot with every time we go to the polls here in CA. Maybe call it a legislature or something like that.

  5. 5.

    Arclite

    But it was rigged!

    And so they’ll start their “revolution” using the triple thrust of racial, misogynistic, and anti-handicap attacks to try and undermine the crushing results.

    Fck you Trump, you a-hole. You’ve debased this process enough, and dragged millions down with you. May you have a heart attack when you find out you lost.

  8. 8.

    opiejeanne

    @Arclite: What they’re already saying is that any other Republican candidate would have beaten Hillary* and therefore has no mandate no matter how big the margin of victory.

    *Which isn’t true.

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    I don’t seem to be able to sleep tonight. Very unusual for me. I wonder what could be keeping me awake?

    Just had trouble loading BJ – maybe the website is practicing getting bogged down in preparation for tonight.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    @opiejeanne: So I guess they are saying that the Republicans really do a shitty job of choosing their candidate in the primaries?

    I would have to call that one a true statement.

  11. 11.

    EBT

    My roommate got scammed while I was telling her it was a scam. Now I can’t sleep because I am terrified that my roommate invited a scammer in to our home. Hope everyone else has a better open thread.

  13. 13.

    Arclite

    @WaterGirl: What a freakin’ rogues gallery of assholes that Republican field was. Not a single intelligent, upstanding, moral, honest one among the 17 of them.

    Seriously, conservatives, get your fukking act together.

  15. 15.

    GxB

    @jl: It’s all fun and games until, 5 years down the road, you’re forced to split your rare Pepe’s in front of the judge in divorce court with that bitch of an ex.

  16. 16.

    Kathleen

    I’m a sucker for a good rom com and cheesy 80’s pop music. Last night I stepped outside to a beautiful evening in Cincinnati. The speakers from restaurant next door were blaring Don’t Stop Believing by Journey. Looking at the stretch of lights from downtown, I said to myself, “This is a sign” (straight out of Sleepless in Seattle).

    Also, too, parked in front of the little park next to my building was a huge CBC satellite truck from Toronto. They are here to cover the election.

  17. 17.

    Central Planning

    Anyone else notice the 2 votes for Trump in Dixville Notch is 25% of the vote, or as close as you can get to the crazification factor with just 8 votes.

  18. 18.

    Betty Cracker

    The only fact I know about Trump that is remotely humanizing is that he is a fellow insomniac.

  19. 19.

    Central Planning

    Now on MSNBC: Tell us what the election smells like. I only know this because I’m awake in a hotel room. Oh to be sleeping peacefully in my own bed.

  23. 23.

    raven

    @Betty Cracker: I woke up, went to the couch but there is at least one big rate under the house so I got some of my rat bait bars and took them down there. Now I’m u.

  26. 26.

    Gator90

    @Betty Cracker: As much as I despise the jerk, his profound insecurities humanize him somewhat for me. I wouldn’t say they are endearing exactly, but they strike me as recognizably human.

  27. 27.

    Hal

    I can’t fall back asleep and my polling place opens in an hour. I might just get up, get dressed and walk over there in case there is a line.

  30. 30.

    TriassicSands

    @opiejeanne:

    It doesn’t matter if it is true or not (and I agree I don’t think all of the clowns who ran for the GOP nomination would have beaten HRC). But we’ll never know, because the GOP chose to nominate Trump — you lose with the candidate you nominated; you don’t win with the candidates you didn’t nominate. That’s a fairly simple rule of politics.

  31. 31.

    hellslittlestangel

    Polls open here in PA in 2 hours. After last night’s rallies, my spirits have begun to lift. Clinton will score a decisive victory, Little Gloves will melt while moaning, “what a world, what a world,” and we can get down to the serious business of discussing who we like in 2024.

  32. 32.

    Redshift

    Good morning, everyone! I’m off to greet the voters in my precinct in the one day of the year I see the sunrise! See you on the other side!

  34. 34.

    Zinsky

    The blond kid looks like Draco Malfoy, the evil spawn of a bad warlock, from the Harry Potter series. I’m sure he has a tiny penis too, just like his hero, Donald the Orange.

  35. 35.

    craigie

    @Arclite:
    Not to be pedantic (but yes, to be pedantic), special effects are practical effects. The word I believe you are looking for is visual effects – that’s the term that encompasses what is now completely digital work (including, but not limited to, CGI).

  36. 36.

    craigie

    What they’re already saying is that any other Republican candidate would have beaten Hillary

    We would have won the game if we just got more points than the other team. So really, we won.

  38. 38.

    M. Bouffant

    Perhaps if the web is flooded w/ Rare Pepes IN CAMO!!1! things will go Trump’s way.

    Honestly, I think these people don’t even live in their parents’ basements, they must be in the root cellar or the crawl space.

  39. 39.

    PowerMAD

    @Arclite: I’d prefer a stroke myself – there would be something so poetic about him being unable to speak or wave his (tiny) hands and be forced to rely on caregivers for everything.

  40. 40.

    TriassicSands

    @craigie:

    We would have won the game if we just got more points than the other team. And we would have gotten more points if the other team hadn’t shown up or if we’d hired a professional team to play in our stead. So really, we won.

  42. 42.

    TriassicSands

    Trump Touts Support from Tom Brady and Bill Belichick at 11th Hour in NH

    Hey, the cheaters support me!

    And tomorrow, I’m guessing (and hoping) that Trump’s balls will be underinflated.

  44. 44.

    amk

    @PowerMAD: +1.

    As ‘preemptive strike’, fuck you libruls. I am 100% ok with this pos totally suffering and depending on others through rest of his miserable life. Karma.

  45. 45.

    sherparick

    @TriassicSands: First, I don’t think Brady cheated. Second, Brady said in an interview that he had not voted yet. Third, I think Giselle smacked him on the head and told him “Nein” as far as Trump was concern.

    That 55% of the white people want this guy as President is really the most depressing thing about this campaign.

    Some people say it was the racism and the sexism, but economic hard times have always aggravated racial and gender resentments. For instance, Iowa has had a relatively hard time since 2012 as commodity prices have crashed, which is enough to depress the Democratic vote and swing a portion of working class whites into the Republican tribe. Ohio still has a large group who hate NAFTA and trade deals, with which Clinton is identified. I think this explains the 5% swing to Trump from Obama who ran against Romney who made his money closing factories and moving them overseas as Private Equity Vulture. Obama has been a great President with a great record, but where he has failed, starting in 2009 was when listened to and followed the Rubinite agenda of the late 90s on economics and trade (this was the reason for putting political capital and energy in negotiating the TPP, something the Donor Class and Village Loved, but which the country, and blue collar based of the party hated (the Black and Brown working class hate it as much as the White working class, but stick with the Democrats because they may defend their civil rights, while the other party wants to take them away). I found no better story or chart to explain our current politics then this one: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2016/01/22/fewer-manufacturing-jobs-housing-bust-haunt-many-us-counties

  46. 46.

    Vhh

    @PowerMAD: Especially since the those caregivers—who would feed him, diaper him, and bathe him—would include some black and Hispanic and immigrant women.

  48. 48.

    Emily68

    @Splitting Image: Many years ago I read (or maybe heard) an interview with Alf Landon. As to his loosing so badly, he pointed out that FDR was dead and he was still alive at 90-something. Also, he’d been in the NY Times crossword puzzle just a few days before the interview, so he didn’t feel too bad about the whole thing.

  49. 49.

    Ruckus

    @Arclite:

    Seriously, conservatives, get your fukking act together.

    This is as together as they get.
    There act is being terrible.
    They are good at that.
    Give them a break, this is the best they can do.

  50. 50.

    Procopius

    @sherparick: I think the blue collar base started to realize the Democratic Party had abandoned them after the dotcom bust. Maybe it was earlier, after NAFTA. Anyway, they aren’t gonna come back for Hillary. I’m sorry to see how racist they’ve become, although there was always a lot more of that than the MSM ever admitted. I was shocked when a friend in the Air Force invited me to his home for Thanksgiving back in 1955, during a busing controversy. I grew up in segregated areas and had never seen that kind of racism.

  51. 51.

    daves09

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Probably fear of death-the nothingness inside spilling over.
    Trumps been dancing on the edge for a long time, today’s loss will push him over and we will have years and years of listening to him him go insane in public until even the MSM get embarrassed about covering it.

  52. 52.

    daves09

    @amk: CNN’s headline all day yesterday *Trump reflects*-motherf*ckers, Trump has never reflected on anything in his life.
    And how could he reflect yesterday? He was even busier than usual lying about everything. sheesh

  53. 53.

    different-church-lady

    For the 99th time: Trump is not a liar. He’s a bullshitter. Liars have regard for the truth and try to hide it. Bullshitters don’t care about truth even that much, and will say anything at all that they think will get them immediate advantage. That’s why Trump says so many obviously false things — he does not care one bit that they’re false, not even enough to try to hide it.

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