• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

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

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

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

“But what about the lurkers?”

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Mobile Menu

  • Seattle Meet-up Post
  • 2025 Activism
  • Targeted Political Fundraising
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Because Fuck It Why Not?

Because Fuck It Why Not?

by John Cole|  April 19, 20188:47 pm| 164 Comments

This post is in: Clown Shoes

FacebookTweetEmail

Solid:

Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a combative former prosecutor and longtime ally of President Trump, told The Washington Post on Thursday that he has joined the president’s legal team dealing with the ongoing special counsel probe.

“I’m doing it because I hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country and because I have high regard for the president and for Bob Mueller,” Giuliani said in an interview.

Trump counsel Jay Sekulow said Thursday in a statement that Giuliani is joining the team along with two former federal prosecutors, Jane Serene Raskin and Marty Raskin, a couple who jointly run a Florida-based law firm.

What’s the opposite of the dream team? At least this will be entertaining.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « We Need an Open Thread Before This Shitty Blog Turns into a Depressing God Damned Wake
Next Post: It’s Good to Have Friends »

Reader Interactions

164Comments

  1. 1.

    MomSense

    April 19, 2018 at 8:50 pm

    The scream team.

  2. 2.

    Thoughtful David

    April 19, 2018 at 8:51 pm

    Trump couldn’t get a real lawyer who’s not compromised, Giuliani couldn’t get a job because he is. They’re a perfect match.

  3. 3.

    lollipopguild

    April 19, 2018 at 8:52 pm

    I wonder what Mueller might have on Rudy911?

  4. 4.

    Ruckus

    April 19, 2018 at 8:52 pm

    Entertaining?
    OK watching them fall all over themselves and step on their own genitalia 4 times a minute will be fun. At least no one has to worry about being over matched on this legal team. Wonder who will be the boss? drumpf? Ok now that would be fucking hilarious.

    What is this legal eagle team called, The Mess of Stooges?

  5. 5.

    RedDirtGirl

    April 19, 2018 at 8:52 pm

    He has a terrifying visage!

  6. 6.

    EL

    April 19, 2018 at 8:54 pm

    I (non lawyer here) was wondering if Trump and Giuliani have to ensure some conversations are “privileged.” I wouldn’t be surprised if Giuliani could be at risk.

  7. 7.

    germy

    April 19, 2018 at 8:54 pm

    Former Trump lawyer and surrogate says Cohen will flip because prison has “racial overtones” and Cohen doesn’t want to be a mans wife. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/MywFNwCkXV
    — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 20, 2018

    The video has to be seen to be believed. It’s strange, and the interviewer pretends it’s just another normal talking head.

  8. 8.

    different-church-lady

    April 19, 2018 at 8:55 pm

    “I’m doing it because I hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country and because I have high regard for the president and for Bob Mueller I’m pretty sure I can trick him into signing an executive order that makes me president,” Giuliani said in an interview.

  9. 9.

    germy

    April 19, 2018 at 8:56 pm

    LG&M comment:

    JMP • 2 hours ago
    What would Trump have in common with a corrupt former Mayor who abused his position for personal gain after taking office by raiding on a wave of racist white resentment at New York’s first black mayor?

  10. 10.

    Ohio Mom

    April 19, 2018 at 8:56 pm

    Who said there are no second acts in America? We seem to be stuck in an endless loop. The same useless, miserable characters keep popping up, they never go away.

  11. 11.

    JPL

    April 19, 2018 at 8:56 pm

    So AP already has the Comey memos, and everyone is surprised that it took so long. Today sucks.

  12. 12.

    different-church-lady

    April 19, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    @JPL: They’re going to impeach Hillary for sure now.

  13. 13.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    because I have high regard for the president and for Bob Mueller,” Giuliani said in an interview.

    WRT Mueller: cannot imagine that feeling is mutual.

    I’d like to know what Team Mueller is calling Trump’s brain trust? Vulture Culture?

  14. 14.

    tobie

    April 19, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    @JPL: How long was that. Like one hour?

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    @germy:

    Former Trump lawyer and surrogate says Cohen will flip because prison has “racial overtones” and Cohen doesn’t want to be a mans wife. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/MywFNwCkXV

    — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 20, 2018

  16. 16.

    Just One More Canuck

    April 19, 2018 at 9:00 pm

    “negotiate”? WTF?

  17. 17.

    JMG

    April 19, 2018 at 9:00 pm

    @JPL: I wouldn’t be surprised if the Comey memo leak came from the DOJ. Better to put them out there in toto before they are subjected to creative editing by House Judiciary and Intelligence. It’s been reported Mueller had no objection to the memos release. He’s always been a step ahead of the game so far.

  18. 18.

    Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)

    April 19, 2018 at 9:00 pm

    I don’t like Giuliani but is he a bad lawyer? I have no idea.

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    @germy: This is the answer you’re looking for:
    http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wayne-barrett-donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-peas-pod-article-1.2776357

    Rudy and Donald first got together in the late 1980s shortly before Donald became a co-chair of Giuliani’s first fundraiser for his 1989 mayoral campaign, sitting on the Waldorf dais and steering $41,000 to the campaign. A year earlier, Tony Lombardi, the federal agent closest to then-U.S. Attorney Giuliani, opened a probe of Trump’s role in the suspect sale of two Trump Tower apartments to Robert Hopkins, the mob-connected head of the city’s largest gambling ring.

    Trump attended the closing himself and Hopkins arrived with a briefcase loaded with up to $200,000 in cash, a deposit the soon-to-felon counted at the table. Despite Hopkins’ wholesale lack of verifiable income or assets, he got a loan from a Jersey bank that did business with Trump’s casino. A Trump limo delivered the cash to the bank.

    The government subsequently nailed Hopkins’ mortgage broker, Frank LaMagra, on an unrelated charge and he offered to give up Donald, claiming Trump “participated” in the money-laundering — and volunteering to wear a wire on him.

    Instead, Lombardi, who discussed the case with Giuliani personally (and with me for a 1993 Village Voice piece called “The Case of the Missing Case”), went straight to Donald for two hour-long interviews with him. Within weeks of the interviews, Donald announced he’d raise $2 million in a half hour if Rudy ran for mayor. Lamagra got no deal and was convicted, as was his mob associate, Louis (Louie HaHa) Attanasio, who was later also nailed for seven underworld murders. Hopkins was convicted of running his gambling operation partly out of the Trump Tower apartment, where he was arrested.

    Lombardi — who expected a top appointment in a Giuliani mayoralty, conducted several other probes directly tied to Giuliani political opponents, and testified later that “every day I came to work I went to Mr. Giuliani to seek out what duties I needed to perform” — closed the Trump investigation without even giving it a case number. That meant that New Jersey gaming authorities would never know it existed.

    It’s hard to watch Giuliani invoke his 14-year history as a federal prosecutor when he calls for Clinton’s prosecution and square it with the seedy launch of his own relationship with Trump.

    Much more at the link.

  20. 20.

    Baud

    April 19, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    @Just One More Canuck:

    “negotiate”? WTF?

    I don’t like it either, but Trump agreeing to a plea bargain might be the best thing for the country.

  21. 21.

    Sister Golden Bear

    April 19, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    I’m assuming it’ll be a surprise for Lord Tinyfingers that he won’t be able negotiate a settlement like the ones he did with the contactors he strong-armed into taking 5 percent of what they were owed….

    OTOH, maybe they’re hoping Mueller will accept a plea bargain to “a little light treason.”

  22. 22.

    unpopularopinion

    April 19, 2018 at 9:04 pm

    People. We are so f’d. He’s not there to do any legal work. He is there because he has vast amounts of experience lying on tv. He is the PR front to the firing of Meuller that is coming sooner, not later.

  23. 23.

    germy

    April 19, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    he offered to give up Donald, claiming Trump “participated” in the money-laundering — and volunteering to wear a wire on him.

    Ladies and Gentlemen, please rise for the president of the United States.

  24. 24.

    lollipopguild

    April 19, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    @Baud: Wishful thinking-exactly what our next President needs.

  25. 25.

    Baud

    April 19, 2018 at 9:06 pm

    Some good news.

    A federal judge has blocked the U.S. government from transferring to another country an American citizen who has been held without charge by the U.S. military in Iraq for more than seven months.

    U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan issued the preliminary injunction Thursday evening, minutes before an 8 p.m. deadline to stop the transfer. The government had provided 72-hour notice, as required by the court, earlier this week that it planned to send the man, whose name has not been made public, to a third country.

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 9:07 pm

    @ 499 on the Lily thread.

    I keep hoping Dance Around in your Bones will show up. Miss her.

  27. 27.

    sukabi

    April 19, 2018 at 9:09 pm

    @lollipopguild: I don’t know, but like I mentioned down stairs, I hope Mueller greets him with a 2 am no knock warrant for his home and offices.

  28. 28.

    rikyrah

    April 19, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    @germy:
    This shyt is crazy!

  29. 29.

    Joyce H

    April 19, 2018 at 9:11 pm

    @Just One More Canuck:

    “negotiate”? WTF?

    Wouldn’t it be awesome if he showed up at Mueller’s office to negotiate, and Mueller says “but before we get started – ” and then reads him his rights?

  30. 30.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    @sukabi:

    for his home and offices orifices.

    I am in an evil mood.

    SO: was Rudy lying low because of the scandal page third divorce? And I kinda think he’s on this team to protect his own interests. He may have been involved in the underlying crimes.

  31. 31.

    TenguPhule

    April 19, 2018 at 9:13 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    We seem to be stuck in an endless loop.

    First Tunch, Now Lily.

    Is this hell?

  32. 32.

    lollipopguild

    April 19, 2018 at 9:14 pm

    @Elizabelle: Rudy is probably dating his 4th wife as we speak, which would put him one up on Gingrich.

  33. 33.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    April 19, 2018 at 9:14 pm

    What’s the opposite of a dream team?

    I don’t know. A nightmare team? A clown team? A shit show fail parade team? There are so many choices.

  34. 34.

    TenguPhule

    April 19, 2018 at 9:14 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I thought there was general consensus that Prison Rape Jokes are considered uncool here?

  35. 35.

    TenguPhule

    April 19, 2018 at 9:15 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: How the fuck did that story not be the top story of 2015 or 2016?

  36. 36.

    JPL

    April 19, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    Here’s the memos ..
    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4442900-Ex-FBI-Director-James-Comey-s-memos.html

  37. 37.

    Baud

    April 19, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    President Donald Trump will not attend Saturday’s funeral service for former first lady Barbara Bush, the White House said in a statement Thursday, citing the desire to “avoid disruptions” and out of respect for her family and friends.

    “First Lady Melania Trump will attend the memorial service for Barbara Bush this Saturday on behalf of the First Family. To avoid disruptions due to added security, and out of respect for the Bush Family and friends attending the service, President Trump will not attend,” the White House said in a statement.

  38. 38.

    Tim Illingworth

    April 19, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    What’s the opposite of the dream team?

    The taint team?

  39. 39.

    Sergio Lopez

    April 19, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    Opening statement: noun-verb-911
    Closing statement: noun-verb-911

  40. 40.

    Emma

    April 19, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    So my WTF???!!! streak remains unbroken. Giuliani. Jesus, son of Mary, stepson of Joseph.

  41. 41.

    CarolDuhart2

    April 19, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): My guess is that he’s a rusty lawyer and hasn’t really practiced law in over 20 years. Not in the lot of research and hardworking part of law, which is what he would need to be even equal to Mueller. Since he’s been mayor, he may have been a name on the letterhead, hired to give prestige and his rolodex to the firm, not actually do any real work.

    Also, negotiate with Mueller? What could he offer that would be enough for him to consider, let alone actually close up his investigations? And I think it’s too late-even if Mueller let Trump off the hook, he already has several prosecutions and a couple of trials scheduled. A deal does not unindict those people or reverse the sentences already granted.

  42. 42.

    PVDMichael

    April 19, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    Oh.. I wish I had the power to control a Russian bot farm to get that creepy Rudy Giuliani-in-drag/Trump video trending.

  43. 43.

    Baud

    April 19, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    @TenguPhule: Not as sexy as emails.

  44. 44.

    lamh36

    April 19, 2018 at 9:19 pm

    @JPL: someone on twitter joked…they sent them damn memos to EV’RYBODY!

  45. 45.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 9:19 pm

    @Baud: I’d never expected Trump to attend, and thank dog for that.

    Airwaves gonna be full of praise for the “good type” of Republicans, though.

  46. 46.

    JPL

    April 19, 2018 at 9:19 pm

    @Baud: He has a golf date which takes precedent.

  47. 47.

    Baud

    April 19, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @Elizabelle: Sadly, George and Barbara are probably a couple of their best.

  48. 48.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @Tim Illingworth: The taint team. Has possibilities. On several levels. Well done.

  49. 49.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @TenguPhule: I was just posting the tweet. Moreover, I don’t think this guy was joking. I get the impression he’s an 80 some odd year old bigoted NY attorney.

  50. 50.

    germy

    April 19, 2018 at 9:21 pm

    @Elizabelle: Roger Stone just made some comments about Barbara Bush.

  51. 51.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:22 pm

    @TenguPhule: Wayne Barrett did try to push it during the election. But he was also dying. And the news media decided the President’s and his campaign were good for business.

  52. 52.

    germy

    April 19, 2018 at 9:22 pm

    Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, responded to the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush by calling her a “nasty drunk” in an Instagram post.

    “Barbara Bush was a nasty drunk. When it came to drinking she made Betty Ford look like Carrie Nation #blottoBabs,” Stone wrote, hours after the former first lady’s death. “Barbara Bush drank so much booze, if they cremated her … her body would burn for three days.”

    When asked about his divisive statements by TheWrap, Stone doubled down.

    http://www.newsweek.com/trump-adviser-roger-stone-barbara-bush-drunk-893012

  53. 53.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 19, 2018 at 9:22 pm

    @Baud: Nothing, Nothing is as sexy as emails.

  54. 54.

    Feebog

    April 19, 2018 at 9:22 pm

    Ghouliani adds nothing to Trumpov’s legal team. Anybody know anything about the lawyers from Florida added to the team?

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 9:22 pm

    @Baud: At this point, you know they are. They predate Newt Gingrich and the overt nastiness he ushered in.

    I guess that funeral will be a reunion of the old, old guard. Maybe Brent Scowcroft, Bob and Elizabeth Dole — who else is still around? The Quayles, and he is no longer the most odious VP choice to hale from Indiana…

  56. 56.

    Shell

    April 19, 2018 at 9:22 pm

    The same useless, miserable characters keep popping up, they never go away.

    Add John Bolton to that category.

  57. 57.

    germy

    April 19, 2018 at 9:24 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I don’t think this guy was joking.

    He was serious. And his “racial” comment meant basically “Michael doesn’t want to be around a bunch of Blacks.”

  58. 58.

    Mnemosyne

    April 19, 2018 at 9:24 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    There is. Apparently we have higher standards than fucking CNN now. ?

  59. 59.

    Captain C

    April 19, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    Interesting that Trump added a man with experience in high-profile organized crime cases to his team. Also, could Giuliani be a stool pigeon? Would that even be remotely legal?

  60. 60.

    TenguPhule

    April 19, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    @Baud:

    Trump will not attend,

    He was not invited.

  61. 61.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): @CarolDuhart2: The last one of these he put himself in the middle of, last year, didn’t end very well for his client.
    https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-mysterious-case-involving-turkey-iran-and-rudy-giuliani

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/nyregion/rudolph-giuliani-reza-zarrab-iran-sanctions-case.html

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/turkish-gold-trader-reza-zarrab-accused-raping-nyc-cellmate-n827466

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/turkey-puts-squeeze-u-s-witness-who-implicated-erdogan-n826586

  62. 62.

    TenguPhule

    April 19, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Low bar of ethical standards is low.

  63. 63.

    chopper

    April 19, 2018 at 9:26 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    it’s been a while. I miss her too.

  64. 64.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:26 pm

    @Feebog: White collar specialists. Misspelled their name on their own website.

  65. 65.

    TenguPhule

    April 19, 2018 at 9:27 pm

    @germy: Fuck Stone for forcing me to side with a Bush.

  66. 66.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 9:27 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Well that’s promising.

    Maybe Dick Wolf can do a new series, with more Rudy Giuiliani cameos. Law & Order: High Treason

  67. 67.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:28 pm

    @germy: I’m aware.

  68. 68.

    Downpuppy

    April 19, 2018 at 9:28 pm

    Given the attempt to use the Bulger saga to smear Mueller with having been in the Justice Department in Boston from 1983-1986, the choice of Trump’s new lawyer is interesting, Her firm bio mentions:

    Ms. Raskin began her legal career with the Boston law firm Bingham, Dana & Gould (the former Bingham McCutcheon). In 1983, she joined the Department of Justice as a trial attorney with the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section’s Boston Strike Force. After three years of investigating and prosecuting major organized crime cases, including the nine-month trial and conviction of the underboss of the New England mafia, Ms. Raskin was appointed Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division in Washington, D.C., where she advised on sensitive cases, policy, and assisted in the supervision of criminal investigations and prosecutions nationwide. She later served as First Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.

  69. 69.

    lamh36

    April 19, 2018 at 9:28 pm

    @AP
    3m3 minutes ago
    More
    BREAKING: Comey memo: Trump said Vladimir Putin told him, ‘We have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world’

  70. 70.

    germy

    April 19, 2018 at 9:28 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: What’s the deal with Republicans and typos? Everyone from the local idiots who comment on my newspaper websites to the White House and its lawyers… they can’t put four words together without screwing up two of them.

  71. 71.

    Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)

    April 19, 2018 at 9:29 pm

    @CarolDuhart2: @Adam L Silverman: That’s useful. Thanks.

  72. 72.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 9:30 pm

    @lamh36: Hey. That sounds like actual truth-telling, by both Trump and Putin. Nice introduction to the memos.

  73. 73.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:30 pm

    @germy: Eye dew not no.

  74. 74.

    TenguPhule

    April 19, 2018 at 9:31 pm

    @lamh36:

    Trump said Vladimir Putin told him, ‘We have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world’

    SMH.

    Once again, this script would be rejected by Hollywood for being too unbelievable.

  75. 75.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 19, 2018 at 9:33 pm

    @Thoughtful David:

    Trump couldn’t get a real lawyer who’s not compromised, Giuliani couldn’t get a job because he is. They’re a perfect match.

    Fucking poetry, that is.

  76. 76.

    raven

    April 19, 2018 at 9:33 pm

    Rachel is doing a great interview with Comey.

  77. 77.

    TenguPhule

    April 19, 2018 at 9:34 pm

    Donald Trump told former FBI Director James Comey that he had serious concerns about the judgment of his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, according to memos maintained by Comey and obtained by The Associated Press.

    The 15 pages of documents contain new details about a series of interactions that Comey had with Trump in the weeks before his May 2017 firing. Those encounters include a White House dinner at which Comey says Trump asked him for his loyalty, and a meeting the following month in which he says the president asked him to end an investigation into Flynn.

    According to one memo, Trump complained about Flynn at a private January 2017 dinner with Comey, saying “the guy has serious judgment issues.” He then blamed Flynn for a delay in returning the congratulatory call of an international leader.

    Fiction: “I give up, Reality. Ewe win.”

  78. 78.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 9:34 pm

    ” At least this will be entertaining. ”
    I for one, am tired of being entertained.

    RG had some inside pipeline to FBI leaks and outside (and very partisan) influence on SDNY FBI office, and hacked emails, during the election. So, is Rudi doing this to help Trump, or get next to Mueller to put in a good word and see whether he needs get working quick on a deal, but for himself? I think that is a fair and interesting question.

    Edit: could be planning on being a clever spy into Mueller and other probes too.

  79. 79.

    germy

    April 19, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    The courts.

    "Judge James Ho has been a federal judge for only a few months. Until Wednesday, he had never handed down a judicial opinion in his life. But the Trump appointee’s first opinion, calling for a sweeping assault on campaign contribution limits, is a doozy" https://t.co/DN9ybMBjsX— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 19, 2018

  80. 80.

    Mnemosyne

    April 19, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    @germy:

    It’s one of the ways they show their contempt for us plebes, who have to worry about stupid shit like typos in order to be heard.

  81. 81.

    Ruckus

    April 19, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    @germy:
    Nothing but the best and the brightest!

  82. 82.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:37 pm

    @raven: Was it prefaced by a 40 minute deep dive into the origin of the name James and how it can be shortened to Jim?

  83. 83.

    JPL

    April 19, 2018 at 9:37 pm

    @raven: Yes she is.

  84. 84.

    TenguPhule

    April 19, 2018 at 9:37 pm

    @germy: I can see he’s going to fit in fine with the New World Disorder.

  85. 85.

    Mnemosyne

    April 19, 2018 at 9:37 pm

    @jl:

    Obligatory.

  86. 86.

    JPL

    April 19, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    Comey just threw a lifeline to McCabe.. He didn’t have to talk to him, but would have expected him to.

  87. 87.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    April 19, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    @TenguPhule: Except that was on national TV and apparently that idiot wasn’t joking,… god gawd.

  88. 88.

    Just One More Canuck

    April 19, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    @lollipopguild: a visionary for these troubled times

  89. 89.

    Gelfling 545

    April 19, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    @Baud:”Donald Trump will not attend ”. That should be a comfort to the family.

  90. 90.

    efgoldman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    @Just One More Canuck:

    “negotiate”? WTF?

    I said in an earlier thread: I’m sure NounVerb911 bullshitted Weasel Face that he can fix things with his New York friends.
    He can’t but that’s what he bullshitted.

    I’m thinking Weasel Face (or somebody) must have written a lot of certified checks.

  91. 91.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 19, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    Just had a squint at Facebook, and it seems I have a bunch of relatives who equate FOX News, CNN, and MSNBC.

    I’m trying not to engage, but it’s really, really hard, y’all.

  92. 92.

    Anne Laurie

    April 19, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    BREAKING w/ @jdawsey1: Giuliani tells WashPost that he is joining Trump’s legal team to ‘negotiate an end’ to Mueller probe https://t.co/A7t0dZOdw3

    — Robert Costa (@costareports) April 19, 2018

    'negotiated end' is the new 'it'll all be over by Christmas.' A lawyerly delusion peddled to Trump, anesthetizing him for just $2,000 an hour. https://t.co/ezvinbSFq4

    — Zeddy (@Zeddary) April 19, 2018

    ETA: Rudy needs the money — presumably delivered to an account his about-to-be ex-wife #3 can’t access. Of course Trump won’t pay him, but I’m guessing Rudy figures he’ll bill the RNC ‘Friends of the President’…

  93. 93.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    @TenguPhule: Never forget the ‘nuts’ element in the Trump mess, in addition to corruption, selfishness, ignorance and malevolence. I noticed a sequence of truly insane, incoherent, and out-of-it tweets on his foreign trade policy, and was going to post them here with a comment, but the situation is just too depressing right now. If I remember I’ll do it later.

  94. 94.

    Baud

    April 19, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    @raven: I’ll have to remember to catch it tomorrow.

  95. 95.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 19, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    .

  96. 96.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    ‘We have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world’

    Said V. Putin to B. Obama never.

  97. 97.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 9:43 pm

    @germy:
    ” The video has to be seen to be believed. It’s strange, and the interviewer pretends it’s just another normal talking head. ”

    It is very weird to see Trumpster surrogates talking like they are in scenes from Goodfellas kibbitzing on which of the mobsters are going to rat out, or hold strong, or do hard time. But the corporate news actors sit there and feel they have to pretend nothing unusual is going on.

  98. 98.

    dexwood

    April 19, 2018 at 9:44 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: \
    Couldn’t agree more. What a “thoughtful” summary of the situation and the ghoulish crooks involved.

  99. 99.

    Gravenstone

    April 19, 2018 at 9:44 pm

    @germy: English as second language, comrade.

  100. 100.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 9:45 pm

    @Elizabelle: beat me to it. I should have read all the comments before I chipped in.

  101. 101.

    Gravenstone

    April 19, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: You might want to see someone about that nasty homonym problem you got there…

  102. 102.

    Anotherlurker

    April 19, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    For a good picture of what Rudy G. is, a preening, inflated, Narcissistic Blowhard, please read Wayne Barrette and Dan Collins (Rolling Stone investigatitive journalists) book: “The Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giulianni and 9/11”.
    Very enlightening and infuriating.
    Rudy, the tough Prosecutor, could not even sight an Emergency Response Control Center properly. Instead of the hardened realestate of the Brooklyn Metroplex, he had to locate it on the 7th floor of 7 WTC. Ground Zero. The dust covered mayor should be a symbol of failure, in the service of greed, instead of the “hero” he keeps telling everyone he is.
    Plenty more pictures painted by Barrett and Collins, in the book, show a self promoting asshole who knows who to tongue bathe.
    There is much more. Sadly, old news. But it gives a good picture of the asshole and his motivation

  103. 103.

    JPL

    April 19, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    So Trump never spoke to Putin except for that time Putin bragged about beautiful hookers.

  104. 104.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 19, 2018 at 9:47 pm

    @Elizabelle: I don’t believe trump and Putin ever spoke before the election. I’ve got the Corn/Issikoff audiobook, and I’ve gotten away from it for about a week as I’ve been busy, but I know Putin blew him off during the whole Miss Universe thing

    (Maddow digging in on Rudi. Good)

  105. 105.

    lamh36

    April 19, 2018 at 9:48 pm

    @peltzmadeline
    23h23 hours ago
    More
    Guest Enrique Morones asks Ingraham: “Where’s your sponsors @davidhogg111 got rid of half of them”, then gets kicked off the show
    https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/986795092286541826

  106. 106.

    Quinerly

    April 19, 2018 at 9:48 pm

    @raven: fantastic interview.

  107. 107.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    Interesting. Comey commissioned an investigation into leaks from the FBI to Giuliani — how Rudy got advance word — but doesn’t know the outcome because he was fired before he heard the results.

    Mr. Wray? Is that investigation complete yet?

  108. 108.

    NotMax

    April 19, 2018 at 9:52 pm

    Rudolph the brown-nosed splaindeer.

  109. 109.

    Jay S

    April 19, 2018 at 9:52 pm

    @Baud: Yep if Rudi could negotiate Trumps exit without getting anyone killed, it would probably be for the best.

  110. 110.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 9:53 pm

    @jl: Not hardly. There is no protocol for reading a thread.

  111. 111.

    Steve in the ATL

    April 19, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    @germy:

    LG&M comment:

    If that was threaded you better delete it right now!

  112. 112.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    @Gravenstone: Aisle caul sumwon.

  113. 113.

    Steve in the ATL

    April 19, 2018 at 9:55 pm

    @Elizabelle: “The Thread Reading Protocol” was my least favorite Robert Ludlum book

  114. 114.

    Eljai

    April 19, 2018 at 9:55 pm

    @raven: It started out slowly for me because Comey kept responding that he couldn’t answer specific questions. But I could see what she was trying to get at. Now it’s riveting.

  115. 115.

    JPL

    April 19, 2018 at 9:55 pm

    So the Nunes’ group thinks that releasing the memos was a good idea, because Comey hadn’t written scathing memos like this about Obama.
    Well I say DUH wtf

  116. 116.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 9:56 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    DOJ legal filing addressing that is due on 6/14/18 in ongoing FOIA litigation https://t.co/SAm4ZEBlxM

    — Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) April 19, 2018

  117. 117.

    Bupalos

    April 19, 2018 at 9:57 pm

    I haven’t read thrPugh to see if this has been grokked yet, but the obvious play here is that Giuliani is coming in with this “I like both sides , that’s why I must mediate” thing strictly so that 6-12 days from now he can render judgement for trump, as an “impartial party.” That is 105% of the deal here.

  118. 118.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 9:59 pm

    @JPL: I’ve read some of the Comey memos. They are only scathing because of what Trump said. So, did Trump actually say them or not? Did Obama ever say anything like that, or not? Seems pretty simple to me.

    Anyway, the GOP Congressional weasels and malfeasants have to say something. They are steamed that they didn’t get them first and issue dishonest extracts in order to do a smear job.

  119. 119.

    Gelfling 545

    April 19, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    @germy: Stone must think he’ll live forever.

  120. 120.

    khead

    April 19, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    What’s the opposite of the dream team?

    The Washington Generals.

  121. 121.

    BroD

    April 19, 2018 at 10:02 pm

    Rudy’s the designated driver for the get-away car. Plus, he knows a guy who knows a guy if you get my drift.

  122. 122.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 10:02 pm

    Rudy is desperate because the Baud 2020! turned him down for campaign legal work? My new favorite theory.

  123. 123.

    terraformer

    April 19, 2018 at 10:03 pm

    @JPL: God isn’t that the truth. Everyone’s from the same central casting from Ghouls, Inc.

  124. 124.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 19, 2018 at 10:07 pm

    Rachel Maddow says she had one conversation with trump. I wonder when that was? I’m guessing either before or early in his campaign. Sounds like a story worth telling.

  125. 125.

    Gelfling 545

    April 19, 2018 at 10:08 pm

    @jl: And not attempting to deny there is anything to rat about.

  126. 126.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 10:08 pm

    @NotMax:

    Rudolph the brown-nosed splaindeer.

    Love it.

    Guys: can you remember other cases/scandals where the legal help ended up getting indicted too? Watergate and John Dean, but what else ?? Does that happen much in real-life mob and RICO cases?

  127. 127.

    Gravenstone

    April 19, 2018 at 10:10 pm

    @JPL: and a reminder that Comey long ago explained that those contemporaneous memos about Trump were as a result of his talking one on one with Trump. A situation Obama didn’t put him in.

  128. 128.

    Inventor

    April 19, 2018 at 10:10 pm

    @NotMax: That’s fucking awesome.

  129. 129.

    Elizabelle

    April 19, 2018 at 10:12 pm

    Kevin Drum blogpost title:

    Rudy Is Back in the Saddle

    *snort* Thinking Aerosmith here.

  130. 130.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 10:14 pm

    @Gravenstone: Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten that previous presidents didn’t force themselves into inappropriate situations so they could say self-incriminating shit. Even Dub had more sense than that.

    Edit: All the Trumpsters have is ‘Sezhooo?” and “obvious Deep State conspiracy”. Which thankfully is BS now dismissed by at least 2/3 of the country, and signs that it is wearing thin with at least some of the rest.

  131. 131.

    debbie

    April 19, 2018 at 10:14 pm

    Andy Borowitz on FB:

    Trump Hires Only Lawyer in U.S. with Fewer Clients Than Michael Cohen

  132. 132.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 10:15 pm

    Oh. My. God.

    The day after @SallyQYates tells McGahn that Flynn is compromised, Trump tells Comey he’s concerned about Flynn’s judgment.

    He knew. He knew Flynn lied not just to Pence but to the FBI. He knew and he still tried to get Comey to back off. https://t.co/EhPyRZSGkz

    — Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) April 20, 2018

  133. 133.

    Millard Filmore

    April 19, 2018 at 10:17 pm

    @germy:

    But if you don’t like big money in politics, then you should oppose big government in our lives.

    Yeah, that’s the ticket. Government is too big. End the interference in commerce … abolish the corporate veil and other laws that sloppy business owners can hide behind.

  134. 134.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 19, 2018 at 10:20 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Of course he knew. Of course.

  135. 135.

    debbie

    April 19, 2018 at 10:20 pm

    @JPL:

    What is the downside of releasing these memos?

  136. 136.

    J R in WV

    April 19, 2018 at 10:23 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    @Adam L Silverman: I thought there was general consensus that Prison Rape Jokes are considered uncool here?

    That’s not a joke, Tengu… it’s a quote. From a participant.

  137. 137.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 19, 2018 at 10:24 pm

    @ brianbeutler 5m5 minutes ago
    It remains … interesting … that Trump lied to Comey as to his whereabouts on the night he allegedly asked the prostitutes to pee on his bed.

    Trump says he didn’t stay overnight in Moscow. He did. (Beutler is a Pee-Liever)

  138. 138.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 19, 2018 at 10:26 pm

    @debbie: Potentially complicates and/or taints a future criminal prosecution arising from the special counsel’s investigation. According to the reporting Mueller was consulted and indicated he had no issues with them being handed over to Congress. This seems to indicate he doesn’t need them to make whatever cases he expects to make.

  139. 139.

    Mike J

    April 19, 2018 at 10:27 pm

    @debbie: I expected them to trickle out stuff out of context. My guess is that somebody hostile to house Republicans leaked the whole thing preëmptively.

  140. 140.

    Timurid

    April 19, 2018 at 10:29 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    Because the MSM was tanking harder than Heinz Guderian.
    The immolation of Trump would have been epic, and the press could have played it as white knight guardians of the Republic or as if-it-bleeds-it-leads ghouls… and made a killing either way. But they decided to leave all that money on the table. Their approach to Trump during the election, transition and his Presidency has not been indignation, alarm or voyeurism. It’s been ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. You don’t sell papers or get clicks with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. But ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it is, at the cost of untold revenue… in an era where competition for media and advertising revenue has never been fiercer. The only thing that explains that is a political agenda. And that agenda is authoritarianism and white supremacy.

  141. 141.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 10:30 pm

    @J R in WV: Truly amazing. That clip is one, just one, of the things on my mind, when I commented above that Trumpsters are talking like mobsters out of Goodfellas on who is loyal, who needs to get whacked to keep things quiet, who will get hard time and is critical.

    If they can talk like that, I don’t know why the news actors on TV can say “WTF? GTFOH! So, Trump is guilty as hell, you saying that or just saying?”

  142. 142.

    Jeffro

    April 19, 2018 at 10:31 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Yates’ and Comey’s firings should be the first and second articles of impeachment drafted.

  143. 143.

    debbie

    April 19, 2018 at 10:31 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    @Mike J:

    All the better then. Hope Nunes is doing his own Trumpraging.

  144. 144.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 10:35 pm

    @Timurid: ¯|_(ツ)_/¯ was better from corporate profit and PR perspective. Cult of balance.

    I’ve wondered a few times whether Trumpsters in particular, and GOP base in general, are particularly prized viewers because those chumps will buy anything. Don’t want to piss them off. More affluent ones buy fancy new cars and RVs and vacays, while those lower down on the food chain good for credit repair, cheap used care loans, adult diapers, and pain meds, etc.

  145. 145.

    Sebastian

    April 19, 2018 at 10:39 pm

    Giuliani is the conduit to rogue FBI elements. They want to torpedo the investigation from inside.

    H/t Sarah Kendzior

  146. 146.

    JPL

    April 19, 2018 at 10:39 pm

    The roll out of the memos didn’t work the way Nunes intended. Sad.

  147. 147.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    @Sebastian:
    ” Giuliani is the conduit to rogue FBI elements. They want to torpedo the investigation from inside. ”

    Also plausible. Wonder why Giuliani is saying goofy shit that puts him in the national spot light and warn off Mueller from doing anything that laying a trap to lure RG into incriminating himself, so he can file some more charges? Shouldn’t he take a lower profile if that is what is up? He should get a secret agent to do it.

    Kind of pointless to try to figure out what crazy people think they are doing, unless you have a reliable and very specific diagnosis.

  148. 148.

    lollipopguild

    April 19, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    @JPL: No. SAD!

  149. 149.

    gwangung

    April 19, 2018 at 10:45 pm

    @Sebastian: That may be the intent, but how likely is that going to be in reality? The NY FBI were rogues with respect to Clinton, but after the way Trump is treating the FBI and CIA, I’m not so certain they’ll give G-boy all that much.

  150. 150.

    Vhh

    April 19, 2018 at 10:49 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Rudy made his bones aggressively prosecuting Wall Street guys for insider trading, fraud, etc. He nailed some really guilty ones (Boesky) and ruined the lives of some widely thought to be innocent. He was hated on the Street.

  151. 151.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 19, 2018 at 10:50 pm

    @gwangung: another possibility:

    Jennifer Rubin @ JRubinBlogger
    This is a fraud. And here Trump is the mark for a change

    watching trump’s other old/new lawyer, this guy @Adam L Silverman: , on the O’Donnell show, and it’s a chestnut from just about every TV show about lawyers I”ve ever seen: The once brilliant lawyer who was mentor to one of the leads comes out of retirement, everyone is prepared to be dazzled by his gray eminence, and it turns out his marbles don’t roll so smooth no more

  152. 152.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    April 19, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    @germy:

    the interviewer pretends it’s just another normal talking head.

    IKR? Goldberg looks like his lower jawbone has been removed and replaced by one that’s two sizes too small.

  153. 153.

    jl

    April 19, 2018 at 10:57 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I can think of many reasonable standards by which Trump, as president, has been defrauded by almost everyone he’s appointed or chosen to work with.

    So, I guess that theory is as good as any of the others.

  154. 154.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 19, 2018 at 11:00 pm

    Donald and Ghouliani need to share a tumbrel ride.

  155. 155.

    jonas

    April 19, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    What happened to that medievalist-lawyer guy from Georgia? Hard to keep track these days…

  156. 156.

    Regine Touchon

    April 19, 2018 at 11:06 pm

    Rudy is complicit.

  157. 157.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 19, 2018 at 11:10 pm

    @Regine Touchon: I doubt Rudi’s books, personal or professional, could stand up to close scrutiny.

  158. 158.

    jonas

    April 19, 2018 at 11:16 pm

    @Regine Touchon: Rudy’s not there to provide legal expertise. He’s been brought on to provide sound bites on Fox News about how Grand Inquisitor Torquemueller is persecuting the poor, innocent Trump, who wouldn’t fuck, er, harm a fly.

  159. 159.

    Another Scott

    April 19, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    FTFNYT from 2016, on why Rudy wouldn’t be a good pick for Secretary of State(!):

    […]

    Records show Mr. Giuliani has had ties dating to at least 2004 to TriGlobal, a company that has provided image consulting to Russian oligarchs and clients with deep Kremlin ties. They have included Transneft, Russia’s state-owned oil pipeline giant, which is the target of Western sanctions imposed after President Vladimir V. Putin annexed Crimea and began meddling in Ukraine.

    TriGlobal’s advisory board includes Ara Abramyan, listed on the company’s website as a “very close Advisor to the Russian Government’s inner circle including the President and the Prime Minister.” The company’s founding partners are Andrey Drobyshev, who claims to have strong relations with regional and municipal governments in Russia, and Vitaly Pruss, whose website profile says that he has focused on “international image development and PR for Russian & Ukrainian companies” and that from 2008 to 2011, he worked “closely with Giuliani Partners LLC.”

    Jeffrey Berman, one of TriGlobal’s managing partners, is also vice president of Berman Enterprises, a family-run company that worked with Giuliani Partners in 2008 to form a commercial and residential real estate investment vehicle called the Berman Opportunity Fund. Its purpose was to target foreign investors looking to take advantage of the weak dollar through real estate investments in New York and Washington.

    Few public details are available about Mr. Giuliani’s role in the real estate venture, and Mr. Berman did not return a call for comment. But some of Mr. Giuliani’s work for TriGlobal, which has offices in Moscow and Kiev, Ukraine, is featured on the company’s website.

    In 2004, for instance, the company arranged to have Mr. Giuliani come to Moscow to meet with the foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, as well as other prominent Russian politicians and business executives. That year, Mr. Giuliani visited Magnitogorsk, Russia, “for a series of meetings with Viktor Rashnikov,” a Russian billionaire who is the chairman of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.

    […]

    Rudy’s up to his neck in the Russia stuff, and potentially shady [(cough) money laundering (cough)] real estate deals, also too.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  160. 160.

    jonas

    April 19, 2018 at 11:31 pm

    @gwangung: That’s my sense, too. The “rogue” elements in the NY office were more out to get HRC than they were providing cover for Trump at all costs. Like Comey, the vast majority of these guys are right-wing Republicans, but I think once it was clear that Trump was willing to throw the FBI and the entire rest of the IC under the bus to cover his ass in the Russia investigation and whatever other criminal chicanery he’s been up to for decades, I’m sure their enthusiasm for the Anti-Clinton cooled considerably. Giuliani is a self-serving ass who’s only on board so he can go on Hannity and bullshit for Trump (while billing for it), not to provide serious legal counsel.

  161. 161.

    Hugely

    April 19, 2018 at 11:33 pm

    @jl: dont forget gold!, silver! and reverse mortgages

  162. 162.

    mainmata

    April 20, 2018 at 1:28 am

    @lollipopguild: Giuliani’s connection to this imbroglio is his relationship with the NY branch of the FBI and how he got them to force Comey’s hand into re-opening the email investigation by leaking news of Weiner’s cellphone to JasonintheHouse. Typical Giuliani rtfcking.

  163. 163.

    Aleta

    April 20, 2018 at 2:39 am

    “I’m doing it because I hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country and because I have high regard for the president and for Bob Mueller” Donald’s about to tip over the outhouse and the bosses are as nervous as the flies.”

  164. 164.

    Amir Khalid

    April 21, 2018 at 12:59 am

    I missed a whole day of the intertubes bcause of a bad modem. Came back just a few minutes ago to the very sad news about dear Lily, and to this rather less sad item about Giuliani. Needless to say, there is some serious shared delusion/desperation going on in Trumpland if they think Rudy G is going to talk Mueller out of anything.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - BarcaChicago  - Off the Gunflint Trail/Boundary Waters 8
Image by BarcaChicago (7/11/25)

World Central Kitchen

Donate

Recent Comments

  • zhena gogolia on Saturday Morning Klown Show Open Thread: GOP Falling Into the Pit They Have Dug (Jul 12, 2025 @ 8:44am)
  • Scout211 on The Ongoing Texas Tragedies (Jul 12, 2025 @ 8:44am)
  • Betty on The Ongoing Texas Tragedies (Jul 12, 2025 @ 8:43am)
  • Baud on The Ongoing Texas Tragedies (Jul 12, 2025 @ 8:42am)
  • Nukular Biskits on The Ongoing Texas Tragedies (Jul 12, 2025 @ 8:41am)

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
No Kings Protests June 14 2025

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)
Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix

Keeping Track

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)
Republicans Fleeing Town Halls (TPM)
21 Letters (to Borrow or Steal)
Search Donations from a Brand

Feeling Defeated?  If We Give Up, It's Game Over

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!