Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

Motown is Joe-Town!

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

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

T R E 4 5 O N

Please don’t feed the bears.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

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

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

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

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

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  4. 4.

    Served

    This was at the Michael’s a block from my apartment! It’s in Boystown/Lakeview in Chicago, which makes it even more insane. Everyone there is actually super nice and accommodating and they have a nice selection of frames.

    Also why do pundits never talk about the politics of white grievance/spite?

  7. 7.

    Schlemazel

    @schrodinger’s cat:
    It will serve as a reminder that there are consequences to this sort of behavior. It will encourage others to speak and behave more respectfully in the future. It will let more people know that the majority of Americans do not support racism and will not allow it to go unnoticed. If these people are proud of their words they can enjoy the video themselves.

  9. 9.

    Bobby D

    I’m seeing a LOT of this. They are so stuck and mired in their grievances and hate, they don’t even seem to realize that now they have to actually govern. “But Hillary…” is no longer a retort, yet that’s still their reflexive reply. All over twitter, armies of trumptrolls gloating “we won, get over it”…yeah, Cletus, we got that part…now how about the actual governing part?

    Flip flops and broken campaign promises? “But Hilla…” What about conflicts of interest with business, tax returns, foundation fraud, and stocking the cabinet with hard core wingnut freaks? “But Hillar…” Just fk these shitstain trailer-trash morons.

  12. 12.

    Schlemazel

    @Poopyman:
    Apparently she was unhappy with the service she received from a POC and decided that the correct response was to proclaim she voted for Trump and people like the employee will pay for 400 years of mistreating people like her.

  14. 14.

    Van Buren

    I believe the word we are looking for is infamous.
    Also, she seems to feel, I don’t know, entitled or something.

  15. 15.

    Pogonip

    I couldn’t make out a lot of what she was saying, but she seems like a Spoiled American Princess to me. SAPs are not confined to the left. I say ban her from the store.

  18. 18.

    Schlemazel

    @Pogonip:
    Now they are saying maybe the only person shot was the alleged perp who may have set off a small explosion & fire then hit people fleeing the building with his car. Gotta love these endless speculation pretending to be news reports.

  19. 19.

    gex

    @Served: Why do pundits not talk about white grievance/spite politics? They are too busy engaging in it in very respectable ways. The entire media consolidation rules, Fairness Doctrine, and cries of a biased liberal media strategy of the right was designed to make the media do the heavy lifting selling this to white America. See also David Brooks and his endless ramblings about how his culture is the very bestest (at least right up until it leads to Trump after which time he *finally* finds a way to show some discomfort with white supremacist politics.)

  20. 20.

    germy

    Wait… she voted for Trump?? But several BJ commenters assured me only old people voted for him, and when they all “die out” we’ll get the progressive utopia we deserve.

    Perhaps she’s a remarkably-preserved boomer? Where’s her hoveround? I’ve seen so many hoveround jokes from commenters about his voters.

  22. 22.

    Adam L Silverman

    @schrodinger’s cat: Well the similar idiot on a Delta flight from Atlanta to PA last week was identified and the reporter who did so notified the guy’s employer. You want this stuff to stop? You want this type of behavior to become unacceptable again? You bring it to light. You hang it around the neck’s of who these folks work for. And you let the public shame and potential loss of profits do the rest.

  25. 25.

    Couldn't Stand the Weather

    I need to be reminded that people like this woman are out there.
    It is a small help to me when they make themselves known.

    John, thank you for this.

  27. 27.

    OGLiberal

    53% of white women voted for Trump and 47% of white voters age 18-29 voted for Trump. Couldn’t find a race-age-gender breakdown but I’m sure there were a lot of young white women in that 47%.

    Have you ever seen a bigger of sore winners. Of course, their leader/daddy is on the twitters whining about how he would have won the popular vote too if all those “illlegal” voters votes weren’t included in the final tallies.

    Not only are they going to gloat for the next 4-years about how they won, they’re going to be insecure to the of lunacy that they didn’t win with 89% of the popular vote.

    This is what happens when the guy you supported and voted for has the mind and attitude of a petulant 10-year old.

  30. 30.

    Adam L Silverman

    @schrodinger’s cat: Doing one does not preclude the other. Additionally, the actual pushback on proposed appointments and proposed legislation and regulation will need to come from members of Congress. So bring them to light and then leverage the publicity to leverage your US Representatives and Senators.

  32. 32.

    AliceBlue

    I work at a higher-end women’s clothing store in an affluent suburb of Atlanta, and since the election we’ve had two incidents. Nothing like this, just people making ugly personal remarks. I’ve worked at this store for 11 years and this is the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this.

  34. 34.

    SatanicPanic

    @OGLiberal: What is their plan? Do they really think Trump is going to suddenly change everyone’s mind about racism? He’ll have a culture and a majority of voters who don’t like the way he talks. They’ll show up at Thanksgiving next year and realize that everyone still thinks they’re assholes. Which may push them over the edge, who knows.

  38. 38.

    hovercraft

    Sore winners each and every one of them. It’s not enough that they won, they want us to acknowledge that they are somehow better than us, they are the ‘real America’, who have risen up to take the country back. Democratic rule with all it’s multiculturalism is what has destroyed the country, and they have pulled us back from the brink. Now that their Shitgibbon has won, we should now agree that this is a great victory by a “great man”, anyone failing to do so is a sore loser. We must all become supportive of their champion, just as they were of Obama by constantly criticizing him to make him better. It’s reverse “thanks Obama”, blaming him for every failing was justified, criticizing the Shitgibbon for real failings and shortcomings is treasonous. These people are just as cracked and whinny as their champion.
    If you don’t like the service you are getting walk away, why do these dumbasses insist on patronizing places they insist hate them, I would not give them my money. Forcing people to “hate” you to take your money is stupid.

  42. 42.

    pamelabrown53

    @mai naem mobile: #37
    I thought it was Holly Hobby that was owned by wingnuts. Hope it’s not Michaels too: crafters and mutimedia artists have to buy their necessities.

  43. 43.

    hitchhiker

    She seems to have gotten triggered hard when a black woman dared to remind her that we’re all human. That’s a “liberal lecture” and a bridge way too far.

  44. 44.

    hovercraft

    @AliceBlue:

    I’ve worked at this store for 11 years and this is the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this.

    Remember before the election when everyone assumed that Hilary would win, and they kept telling us not spike the football because 47% would have voted the other way, and we should be sensitive to their disappointment. Funny how these people are coming out of the woodwork to rub our faces in it, the ‘winner’ is calling our votes illegal, and the media seems to have no problem telling us to shut up and deal with it we lost. The poor WWC has been so ground down for so long that we should cut them some slack and understand their feelings.

  46. 46.

    Jeffro

    @OGLiberal:

    Have you ever seen a bigger [group] of sore winners.

    Since they can’t be placated, even by winning, best to not even try going forward. Right, “we can work with Trump on infrastructure” Dems?

  47. 47.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @DCF:

    Oh fer fuck sake another white guy lament that poor whites’ ignorance and racism needs to be stroked until we can have nice progressive things again. Haven’t heard that before.

  48. 48.

    Jeffro

    @hovercraft:

    The poor WWC has been so ground down for so long that we should cut them some slack and understand their feelings.

    “Economic anxiety” will do that to ya, I hear…

  49. 49.

    Larkspur

    Oh dear dog, I can only assume that she wasn’t armed, because if she had been, she’d have been brandishing, if not shooting, before long.

  50. 50.

    Betty Cracker

    The shit-gibbon’s name seems to have become a stand-in for a certain racial slur. This nut in the art supply store. A guy at Starbucks in Miami losing his shit. Tons of hate crimes reported by SPLC in which the perpetrators invoked the name.

  51. 51.

    opiejeanne

    I can’t understand her, only a random word here and there.
    I’m curious about the cause of her rant; was this another incident of not knowing to take a number?

  52. 52.

    Snarki, child of Loki

    @kindness:

    Conservatives love seeing themselves as the victim

    Oh hai Ms. Conservative, we’re all about helping you achieve your dreams. Now hold still while we get you attached to this cross.

    The craft store was out of ‘big nails’, so we’re using a screw-gun. Pretty soon you’ll be even more screwed-up than you started, amirite?

  53. 53.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Betty Cracker: I can’t imagine the Trump’s being happy to have their name become a racial slur of choice for the low end post truther crowd.

  55. 55.

    goblue72

    Interesting article in Vox today about the politics of white resentment and a historical corollary to the post-Reconstruction “Redeemers” movement in the late 19th century. As with all things in the U.S., it comes down to the states which still retain tremendous influence and power in your federalist system (part of which is why comparisons to European politics are incomplete).

    Second American Redemption Movement.

  56. 56.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    How can you discriminate against someone at a checkout counter of a chain store? It isn’t like the woman was refused service for being a white Trump voter. She wasn’t charged a different amount for her items. She wasn’t forced to use a segregated washroom or drinking fountain. She wasn’t forced to shop at a separate, but equal crafts store.

    Wtf am I missing from this woman’s rant other than a POC didn’t drop to their knees and kiss their ass?

  57. 57.

    Betty

    Jung talked about collective mental illness many years ago – in reference to Germany between WWI and WWII. Seems like we are there now.

  58. 58.

    Hoodie

    @Betty Cracker: His name is a safe word. This kind of behavior is consistent with authoritarianism, i.e., these folks typically don’t rebel, they wait until they feel sanctioned by an authority figure before acting out. Now they think it’s safe to do this.

  60. 60.

    germy

    @Woodrowfan:

    the black clerk told her she had to pay a dollar for one of those reusable bags.

    And she would have been happy to if not for her economic anxiety.
    Respect her economic anxiety, libtards!

  61. 61.

    Brachiator

    @Schlemazel:

    It will serve as a reminder that there are consequences to this sort of behavior. It will encourage others to speak and behave more respectfully in the future. It will let more people know that the majority of Americans do not support racism and will not allow it to go unnoticed.

    Horsepuckey. There are 204,000 views of this video in YouTube, in a thread with many others. And from the comments, you can find any number of defenders of Trump and this woman. This is just another day in America.

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I can’t imagine the Trump’s being happy to have their name become a racial slur of choice for the low end post truther crowd.

    Kind of inevitable, once Trump happily signed on for the birther bullshit.

  62. 62.

    J R in WV

    I’m missing something here, please explain like I’m 7, how do you use Trump as a racial slur, unless maybe you’re a Democrat speaking down to a Republican… comfuzed totes I am !

  63. 63.

    Ridnik Chrome

    @Served @maurinsky: : Not only is that my hometown, that’s more or less the neighborhood where I grew up. We lived there in the 70s-80s, before it was gentrified. I’m not going to pretend it was more enlightened about race back then (it was Chicago, after all), but at least entitled idiots like this woman stayed in the suburbs where they belonged.

  64. 64.

    Soprano2

    That’s a certain type of entitled customer – the kind who believes it’s your job to sit there and take it as they rain down invective on you because they had a bad day, or for no reason at all. I found myself wondering if they had store security and why, if they did, hadn’t they already removed her. Most stores tell the help that they don’t have to put up with abusive behavior from the customers. She kept saying the clerk was screaming at her from across the store, but the only person I heard screaming at anyone was her.

  65. 65.

    low-tech cyclist

    This woman was being an asshole, and being a Trump supporter seems to be just one way of showing off her asshole in public. (I’m sure economic anxiety wasn’t something she was feeling.)

    1) You can’t cure assholism. The asshole has to decide to change.

    2) There are too many assholes out there to waste my time trying to deter them one at a time, unless they’re actually in my space.

    3) I can do one civic deed a day if I’m lucky. That’s gonna involve calling a Congresscritter or two, not doing anything about this alleged human being.

  66. 66.

    Shakti

    @schrodinger’s cat:
    Nothing, probably.

    Racists don’t care about being racists, but they care a lot about the social opprobrium they think they get for being racist.
    Also, on principle, every single used ass-wipe like her makes shopping and customer service terrible for the majority who know how to behave in public, because then “customer service” becomes about placating the idiotic abusive nincompoops and almost nothing else. This is one reason you end up with robots answering your calls & checking out your groceries, because people are expensive and nobody wants to put up with spittle inflected invective. I think of it as standing up for people who have to work these these kinds of jobs.

    For every person who loses their job over such horrible behavior, it sends the message that they will be checked.

  67. 67.

    Yoda Dog

    @germy: Perhaps one fucking person doesn’t really make or break your point one way or the other.

    I agree, its whistling past the graveyard and lacking circumspection to just say, “wait for the olds to die and all will be fine”.. But this video doesnt mean jack or shit as it pertains to which age groups voted for which candidate.

    It was fun though! SHE WAS DISCRIMNATED AGAINST TWICE, YOU GUYS!!! lulz…

  69. 69.

    OGLiberal

    @J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford: She probably saw the clerk give the black woman ahead of her on line the secret black handshake and knew, just knew, that she also got the secret black discount. She may have even gotten one of those bags she was screaming about for free.

    And is it me or does this woman act, sound and look like the stereotype they paint on all young liberals?

    Love that she’s the only one screaming or getting emotional….and she keeps it up for over 10 minutes…and how much longer after the taping ended?

  71. 71.

    DCF

    @the Conster, la Citoyenne:

    I’ve missed your articulate and nuanced perceptions.

    Perhaps you should read the article again…note where he differentiates between the emotional reactivity (based upon fear) of Trump voters while failing to sanction/condone the result(s) of their animus….

    Just sayin’….

  73. 73.

    smintheus

    I can guarantee this woman drives an SUV, swerves around without using turn signals, and runs stops signs while talking on her phone. And watch the heck out for her when she’s entering a highway.

  74. 74.

    karen marie

    @low-tech cyclist: I don’t know, her problem apparently is that she couldn’t afford a dollar for the reusable bag. Sad.

    Given her attacks on the videographer, I also assume she’s bitter because she’s not married and has no child.

    She has a lot to be unhappy about but she should take advantage while Obamacare still exists and see a therapist to work through her issues instead of blaming random people in a store and “libs.”

  75. 75.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @DCF:

    Oh, I read that part, and I’m sick of hearing about them. Frankly, I don’t give a rat’s ass about these fucking morons who vote for the Republicans who immiserate them over and over and over, and I hope they all get it good and hard.

  76. 76.

    bemused

    Another angry white person who walks around all day long chanting “you’re not the boss of me”.

  79. 79.

    goblue72

    @DCF: There’s a large number of folks here who would rather be self-righteous and lose, than swallow their pride and win.

    Kinda exactly like those deplorable they love to complain about.

  81. 81.

    opiejeanne

    @Woodrowfan: Is that it? How on earth is that discrimination? What a horrible little nasty creature she is, yelling at the woman who recorded that rant, accusing her baby of shoplifting and telling her to go home to her husband who is cheating on her.
    I felt so sorry for everyone who witnessed that, but especially for the African American women it was addressed to, as well as POC in the vicinity.

  84. 84.

    Churchlady320

    @schrodinger’s cat: Showing up the way Trump’s racism has empowered hers. Same with the Delta male passenger (now banned by Delta for LIFE). If we don’t call this behavior OUT, it will itself get normalized.

  86. 86.

    JGabriel

    Trump Voter: “I don’t know what you’re videotaping.”

    Videographer: “The banality of evil.”

  88. 88.

    MoxieM

    Holy Cannoli! Now that their guy won, they don’t know who to be grieved at anymore, so it’s all ad hoc, I guess.

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