Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

You cannot shame the shameless.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

T R E 4 5 O N

In my day, never was longer.

This blog will pay for itself.

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

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

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

No one could have predicted…

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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  3. 3.

    Citizen Alan

    As much as anything else, environmental concerns are probably why I’ve spent most of the time since the election gripped by severe depression. Because for me, the worst case scenario is shitgibbon replacing RBG, Breyer, and Kennedy with right-wing hacks who share Clarence Thomas’s views on the Commerce Clause, under which it is likely that the Environmental Protection Act could be struck down in its entirety.

  4. 4.

    Ken

    You should be ashamed of yourselves, poisoning young minds against the Republican party. That’s the Republicans’ job.

  5. 5.

    waspuppet

    Years ago, I saw something related about how if you think the Iraq surge worked you must think Thelma and Louise had a flying car. I cant figure out how to translate that principle to a meme though.

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    J R in WV

    Saddened by the LSU loss in the Citrus bowl. Not a huge LSU fan, just not wanting to see Notre Dame ever win a game. Sad. A lot of luck in the game on ND’s part, better play by LSU for the most part. Sad.

    Did I mention sad?

    But then I went home to B J and saw this picture, and laughed out loud!!

    Wonderful commentary on the Modern Republican party of thieves, scoundrels, grifters, and theocratic hypocrites. And the two or three actual conservatives, who are lost in a wilderness with no one who wants to conserve what good and right anywhere around them.

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    Roger Moore

    @Citizen Alan:

    Because for me, the worst case scenario is shitgibbon replacing RBG, Breyer, and Kennedy with right-wing hacks who share Clarence Thomas’s views on the Commerce Clause,

    One thing I’ve started to worry about is that there are Republicans talking about how Thomas needs to retire because of the Anita Hill business and that’s the thing people are doing these days. I’m cynical enough to see it’s an excuse to get him to step down now while Trump would replace him with somebody even worse rather than waiting for him to retire or die when the Democrats can either appoint his replacement or at least block anyone completely crazy from replacing him.

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    @Roger Moore:
    I would have once though it impossible for a justice to be worse than Thomas but have discarded that naivete entirely.

    Who’s the Federalist Society flogging lately?

  11. 11.

    HeleninEire

    Wow. On ep3 of “The Good Place” and I hate it. I mean I hate her. I know many people here like it and rave about the “twist” But I am not waiting around. This show sucks.

  13. 13.

    Steve in the ATL

    @J R in WV:

    Not a huge LSU fan, just not wanting to see Notre Dame ever win a game.

    I couldn’t agree more! And it was bittersweet seeing UCF beat Auburn. I love seeing Auburn lose because it is such a dirty program, but I don’t like seeing a mid-major who played a weak schedule think they are in the big leagues now. Great season for them, but no way they are better than ten or fifteen other teams.

    At any rate, I expect Nebraska to get back to fork right quick with their new coach.

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    germy

    @HeleninEire:

    This show sucks

    We liked the first season and the surprise at the end, but I couldn’t get into the second season and stopped watching. Superstore is a surprisingly funny sitcom we enjoy.

  20. 20.

    HeleninEire

    @germy: The only way I will like the surprise at the end is if she is really in hell and dies in a fire. Really. I hate her.

  24. 24.

    efgoldman

    @eclare:

    Let’s go Dawgs/SEC!

    They fire Kirby Smart yet?
    Way to go SEC. Beat by a school nobody goes to that has no football tradition.

  27. 27.

    Gin & Tonic

    @efgoldman: Our sensitive, caring, always-positive, never-cynical (even when she was 17) daughter seems to have made a 180-degree turn right around November 9, 2016. Now she follows John Schindler on Twitter.

  29. 29.

    germy

    I really don’t like Seth MacFarlane much, but I like The Orville and his performance in it. Just the right mix of humor and drama.

  30. 30.

    Steve in the ATL

    @japa21:

    The only reason I am sorta rooting for Georgia is for raven’s sake.

    Thanks for letting me know how unimportant and/or disliked I am!

  31. 31.

    patrick II

    @Ruckus:

    Mimes are useless against the juggernaut of stupidity that is the republican party.

    I disagree. Memes are useless, but mimes have a reach chance.

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    JPL

    @HeleninEire: The second season is good. It took be until I was almost finished with the second season, and thought this isn’t bad.
    Yes I’m persistent.

  40. 40.

    satby

    In spite of the bitter cold, each day is gaining one minute more of daylight. Spring will come eventually. Tonight is going to be -13 actual temp, with windchills below -30. So I need to keep reminding myself this weather will end.

  43. 43.

    Sab

    I took a wet can out to the recycling bin and my hand stuck to the cold doorknob on my way back inside. And our neighbors locked their cat out because company.

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    Gelfling 545

    @Ruckus: My BIL was explaining last night that some of the not too bright members of his birth family apparently made their decision to vote fot Trump based entirely on memes seen on FB. Not articles, video reports, anything with actual content or argument. Just memes.

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    Schlemazel

    @germy:
    Not a big fan of McFarlin (though I love A million Ways to Die in the West). But the thing I like about Orville is that the characters are so much more ‘real’. The guy who upon meeting his new captain says “My old Captain allowed us to have sodas while we were on the bridge, is that OK with you?” hit me as pitch perfect for the way people actually behave. It is pretty typical Star Trek stories but with funny lines that strike me as how actual people act.

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    cmorenc

    @trollhattan:

    I would have once though it impossible for a justice to be worse than Thomas but have discarded that naivete entirely.

    Thomas was a disgraceful insult by Bush the elder to the accomplishments of the Justice he replaced, Thurgood Marshall. One of the great tragedies of American history is that Marshall’s health did not hold out another 12-18 months, so Clinton could have named someone worthy of that seat instead of that jackass Thomas.

  54. 54.

    Daddio7

    Everyone on the Titanic bought a ticket. We ALL are resposable for climate change. Our ancestors started it when the first cleared land to farm. Governments give lip service to curtailing fossil fuel usage because they know it is impossible to maintain our economies pr even feed ourselves without them. Even as we Americans cut our usage the developing countries add twice as much.

    Only by improvising every human on the planet can the heating trend be slowed and reversed. You can impoverish yourself and family but unless you forcefully help impoverish everyone else nothing changes.

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    glory b

    @cmorenc: I’ll mention that there were those in the legal community that called on Marshall to retire before the end of Carter’s presidency so he could nominate a replacement. He didn’t, and supposedly wept at having to step down to be replaced by Thomas.

    Some said (including me) that RBG should have taken heed to that example and retired during Obama’s administration.. She has said there is some judge she admires and she wants to stay on the bench longer than him. I don’t see making that milestone only to risk seeing your replacement dismantle your life’s work.

  56. 56.

    Citizen Alan

    @glory b:

    I had just assumed that RGB was completely certain that Hillary would win and she wanted to be replaced by the first female president. She had expressex some misgivings in the fact that the scotus nominees of both Obama and Clinton 1 were to the right of the people they replaced and she made the decision that should rather be replaced by Hillary than by Obama. Now, the question is whether she can make it to 2020 on sheer willpower.

  57. 57.

    Interstadial

    @Citizen Alan: There is no such federal law as the “Environmental Protection Act”. The closest in name is the National Environmental Policy Act, which regulates the federal government and which probably is not in serious danger from court decisions. On the other hand, the constitutional basis for regulating pollution under the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and other laws could be limited or removed by a Supreme Court decision. In that case the EPA could find itself largely out of a job.

  58. 58.

    Gretchen

    @glory b: Now we know that Mitch McConnell would have just held open 2 appointments for Donald Trump to fill. How would we be better off now if that had happened?

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