Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Bark louder, little dog.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

We still have time to mess this up!

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

Let there be snark.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

In my day, never was longer.

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

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  3. 3.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    Why’s she screaming? She should be glad it’s not a damn palmetto bug, throw a shoe at one of those and they fly AT you, good times. I don’t miss Florida at all. The ones in Guam though are HUUUGGGGGEEE!

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    efgoldman

    Move-in day (and move-out day) in Boston are total horror shows, Inevitably a rental truck will go where it’s not supposed to, and get stuck under an overpass blocking traffic for hours. Parents are double and triple parked in front of the dorms. And it seems the date always coincides with a Red Sox game at Fenway right around the corner.
    I used to have to fight my way thru to get to my 600-midnight radio shift. Glad that’s over.

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    Gvg

    You’re only supposed to scream if they move and touch you in the dark. It doesn’t make you popular if you yell at other people. We don’t like them either.
    Term is about to start at UF and I have been so busy at work I didn’t even know till tonight they were removing the confederate statue downtown today. Coincidence as the descission was made a month ago. It went off without a hitch. They got the daughters of the confederacy to take it back. The original donors over a century ago. Supposedly going into a small cemetery but they are being quiet about where. Nice news.

  8. 8.

    TenguPhule

    My daughter has a temporary job at an apartment complex, cleaning shit up for incoming university students.

    It could be worse, she could have a temporary job cleaning up after they leave.

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    raven

    Hey Betty, this dude was a ringleader in C-Ville, he’s from Gainesville.

    Meet Michael Tubbs. The former Green Beret demolitions expert, his hair grown long now, is vice chairman of the league’s Northeast Florida chapter, and he’s been photographed alongside league president Michael Hill. Tubbs is chaplain to the Florida SCV chapter and heads the SCV’s “Flags Across Florida” campaign, which seeks to line the state’s roadways with Confederate battle flags.

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    Gravenstone

    Had a college summer job cleaning up campus after the school year, and then between summer camps. Talk about fucking slobs… I will never look down on janitorial crews after that experience.

  11. 11.

    cope

    As my dear, departed mother would say to the mother yelling about the cockroach, “Not so loud, now everybody is going to want one.”

  12. 12.

    A Ghost to Most

    Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site

    thehill

    Anyone heard of this?

    Eta: no roaches, but a cricket started chirping in my workshop, so must listen to Little Feat.

  14. 14.

    TenguPhule

    @Gvg:

    You’re only supposed to scream if they move and touch you in the dark.

    You’ve never been dive-bombed by a giant American or German roach in the kitchen when the lights came on, have you?

  16. 16.

    Catherine D.

    Freshmen move in here on Friday. Not looking forward to it – the most dangerous time to cross a street! U-turns in bizarre places.

  18. 18.

    Mike J

    @A Ghost to Most: It’s a good reason to establish your log retention policy early. How long do you need log info? It’s useful to have it for at least a day so you can check into problems, and individual days can be kept if you need them for a good reason. Otherwise, just automatically nuke them after 24 hours. Don’t wait until you get a subpoena, that’s too late. They can’t make you turn over what you don’t have. Don’t keep logs you don’t need, establish a track record of deleting them.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    Jeez, when I was a USF student, they hardly even had such a thing as student housing.

    And sorry, lady, but roaches and palmetto bugs are part of the deal. Be glad it’s dead. It’s Florida, FFS.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    And sorry, lady, but roaches and palmetto bugs are part of the deal. Be glad it’s dead. It’s Florida, FFS.

    That doesn’t make it right.

  23. 23.

    A Ghost to Most

    @Mike J: Let’s hope they did.

    I will be damned glad when I never have to hear’retention policy’ ever again.

  24. 24.

    PaulWartenberg

    Must have been an out-of-stater. Anyone who’s lived in Florida longer than six months knows a dead cockroach is more common than lizards around here. In fact, let the lizards eat the body, no more worries alright?

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    Felonius Monk

    @efgoldman:

    Glad that’s over.

    No, you’re not. You’d love to be back there doing that again. :)

    Hey, how you feeling? Is the dialysis thing going okay?

  29. 29.

    Gelfling 545

    @raven: Grandkid’s move in day is Saturday. I keep getting teary. I have a hard time remembering not to grab her hand when we cross a street!

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    lamh36

    Proof #1.999.999.999 that James Woods is AN IDIOT!
    Mofo tweeted out this, with a picf of…THE IWO JIMA MEMORIAL!!!
    smh…

    @JoyAnnReid
    Joy Reid Retweeted James Woods
    Jesus be a history book. This man can’t tell treasonous confederates from American heroes who fought in world wars.

    @RealJamesWoods
    Before the #liberals find a reason to deface, destroy or degrade this one, I thought some of you might like to see it one more time…

    https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/897274782391177220

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    efgoldman

    @Felonius Monk:

    No, you’re not. You’d love to be back there doing that again.

    Theoretically, sure. For all ~20 years I was on the air I kept saying “some day I have to get a real job.”
    But not at that station, not ever. A horrible place to work. Also I am decades past working evenings or, especially, overnites.
    Dialysis at home is going well. SO much better than going to the center 3x week, regardless of the date or weather. Takes about 45-50 minutes, 4x a day, but rigid schedule isn’t important. Very, very slowly getting better.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Omnes Omnibus: . Be glad it’s dead. It’s Florida, FFS.
    That doesn’t make it right.

    New state ad campaign, or tag line for Carl Hiassen’s next novel: “It ain’t right. It’s Florida”

    @lamh36: Somewhere in a SoCal IHop, Sean Young is checking twitter on her break screaming “I fucking told you he was the crazy one!”

  44. 44.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @lamh36: A monument of US soldiers raising the American flag after victory against the Imperial Japanese vs a shitty statue of a no-name traitor that crumpled when toppled. Totally the same thing, James.

  45. 45.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @A Ghost to Most:
    Why would the DOJ want IP info on largely peaceful protesters organizing against Trump? I thought Rosenstein was at least better than Sessions.

  47. 47.

    Kay

    @NotMax:

    Protesters on 5th Ave outside Trump Tower chanting “He’s orange, he’s gross, he lost the popular vote”

    He hates to be laughed at. He’ll be angrily Tweeting at someone tomorrow! The Under Armour CEO, I bet.

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Kay: Protesters on 5th Ave outside Trump Tower chanting “He’s orange, he’s gross, he lost the popular vote”

    I love that!

    ETA: @Omnes Omnibus: I was curious, so I went to IMDB and Sean Young is pretty busy. The only credit I recognized was an ER guest shot ten years ago, but a lot of titles. I’m such a bleeding heart I’m somehow relieved for her sake.

  51. 51.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    Our local anchor lady from the news is running for mayor. She put up a fb post denouncing drumph and the Nazis. The comments are so fucking depressing. So many assholes. I know, don’t get out of the boat and all that.

  54. 54.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Somewhere in a SoCal IHop, Sean Young is checking twitter on her break screaming “I fucking told you he was the crazy one!”

    I seriously doubt I’ve given Sean Young more than two seconds’ thought any time in the past 30 years.

  55. 55.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Rosenstein at least needs to get out in front of this. Condemn it if he can. This is suppression of the right to assemble and petition the government.

  60. 60.

    lamh36

    Interview: How Corey Long Fought White Supremacy With Fire via @TheRoot

    …Corey Long, a lifelong resident, not only witnessed the town going from peaceful to chaotic, but was captured in one of the most iconic photos taken over the three-day period.

    The 23-year-old elder care worker says he went to the counterprotests to have his voice heard. He didn’t want to see racism win and destroy the city he was raised in.

    “I went out to voice my opinion. To have my freedom of speech. Just like the racist Nazis who took over my town,” Long said in an interview with The Root.

    But what started out as a peaceful protest eventually turned violent. And Long says the cops stood around and did nothing.

    “At first it was peaceful protest,” Long said softly as he spoke. “Until someone pointed a gun at my head. Then the same person pointed it at my foot and shot the ground.”

    Long said the only weapon he had was a can of spray paint that a white supremacist threw at him earlier, so he took a lighter to the spray paint and turned it into a flame thrower. And a photographer snapped the photo…

    Read more about Cory at the link…

  64. 64.

    Ohio Mom

    @efgoldman: There is something so nice about being home — I become more of a homebody with every passing year.

    I can imagine that regularly schlepping to a dyalysis clinic would get very old, and the required small talk would get to me.

    But I did not realize what a huge time commitment home dialysis is. It must make travel a challenge.

  65. 65.

    randy khan

    @A Ghost to Most:

    I haven’t heard of this, but I am struck by how unresponsive the Assistant U.S. Attorney was. You’d think there would be at least a little effort to cooperate with the ISP; it’s not like there was any real risk the data would go away.

  67. 67.

    justawriter

    I have to stop arguing with right wing assholes on the internet. I was trying to point out that protecting racist cops encourages racist civilians (using James Byrd dragging murder as an example) and the next thing I know, I get “I heard one of the defendants was railroaded.” Pardon me while I go watch baby kitty videos.

  72. 72.

    efgoldman

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Can you be cranky on Balloon Juice while doing it?

    I can be cranky on Balloon Juice in a boat
    I can be cranky on Balloon Juice wearing a coat
    I can be cranky on Balloon Juice while I eat
    I can be cranky on Balloon Juice with a beat….

  73. 73.

    randy khan

    @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:

    Not in defense of the warrant, but this looks like it’s potentially related to the Black Block protests on Inauguration Day. It doesn’t appear to be related to the Women’s March.

    My working assumption is that they’re trying to prove a conspiracy case, and want to show pre-Inauguration communications between some or all of the participants via this site, but that’s just a guess. Regardless, they’re casting a very wide net. I’m kind of surprised that the warrant wasn’t limited to communications involving the people they arrested.

  74. 74.

    efgoldman

    @Ohio Mom:

    It must make travel a challenge.

    It is by far the least challenging option. Everything I need can fit in the trunk or a large suitcase. Very heavy, though.
    Way better than dying of kidney failure, which is where i was headed.

  75. 75.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: I was asking because if you can, it would give you something to do.

    @lamh36: RIP. And to be really shallow for a second, shaping those berets so they look perfect is a pain in the ass. SGT Brooks did a fantastic job.

  80. 80.

    sukabi

    @lamh36: that’s so messed up. Sounds like the city has a bit of a history…and it puts the lie to their claims that the cops were trying to prevent gun violence.

    It’s a miracle that no one was actually shot.

  84. 84.

    Patricia Kayden

    @lamh36: Souza appears to have really loved President Obama. So looking forward to buys by his photo book on the Obamas.

  89. 89.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    gonna post this down here because Florida

    hil Ammann‏ @ PhilAmmann 51m51 minutes ago
    Add a gator, and I win #Florida bingo … drink!
    Florida man gets 6 years for firing gun while taking selfie in strip club restroom

  90. 90.

    NorthLeft12

    @efgoldman: I recall moving my youngest daughter from Ottawa back home [seven hours drive away] and showing up at the U Haul in Ottawa to pick up my “reserved” trailer. Note the quotes on reserved. Of course it was not there. We pretty much did the entire routine from that Seinfeld episode with me in the starring role. Not getting any satisfaction there, and holding up a line of about fifty other soon to be disappointed customers, I went out in the lot, found a trailer that I could use, asked the kid in the lot if it was good to go, he said yes and got some paperwork, helped me hook it up, and I drove off handing the kid a ten dollar tip for his outstanding service. It was not the trailer I wanted, but it worked out fine.
    My wife and daughter were pretty impressed with me, after they stopped laughing of course.

  91. 91.

    NorthLeft12

    @Kay: I know that Deadbeat Donald is your president, but what could possess these CEOs to debase themselves and provide support for that loser. You would think people at that level would have more self respect than that.
    It must be humiliating to have Trump represent all rich and powerful people the way he does. SAD!

  96. 96.

    Amir Khalid

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    I tried making a similar point about some shameful thing President Trump did in these threads not long ago. The just-about-unanimous response from American Juicers was “No, I don’t feel ashamed. I didn’t vote for him.”

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