Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

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

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

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

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

The lights are all blinking red.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, it’s door #2)

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

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

Oppose, oppose, oppose. Do not congratulate. This is not business as usual.

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

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  3. 3.

    emma

    Mrs. Clinton has got to be a candidate for sainthood. How the heck she has kept her sense of humor after decades of persecution by rabid weasels I will never know.

  13. 13.

    geg6

    I ♥️♥️♥️♥️ her. I couldn’t love her more than I love her right now.

  22. 22.

    zhena gogolia

    Still with her. Still have her bumper stickers on my car. Get tailgated all the time.

  24. 24.

    dmsilev

    See, you don’t even need 140 characters, let alone 280, to win the Internet.

    What could have been. What _should_ have been.

  26. 26.

    Faithful Lurker

    I haven’t been paying much attention today. What has the fnyft done now?

  32. 32.

    Schlemazel

    The FBI managed to do some major league ass covering by including some text messages between FBI agents that do not like Dump. I am sure Fox will cover that extensively.

  33. 33.

    Jeffro

    @lamh36:

    My god…Over 11,000 migrant children are in US Custody!!

    Up from 9000 since a little less than 1 month!!!

    Hmm…what’s the definition of terrorism, again?

    the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes

    Thanks Dictionary dot com! I thought that was the word I was looking for…

  35. 35.

    zhena gogolia

    @Faithful Lurker:

    I believe it’s what they did during the campaign that’s being referenced.

    But today they have Frank Bruni concern-trolling De Niro.

  37. 37.

    chopper

    @Schlemazel:

    I am sure Fox will cover that extensively.

    from what i can tell that’s all they’re covering. they’re so deep in the bunker they’re eating canned ham and shitting in a bucket.

  38. 38.

    Jeffro

    @Schlemazel: And you would be correct…in fact, it is ALL they are talking about (with the occasional mention of Comey being ‘insubordinate’, never mind that it is Loretta. Lynch. that he was being insubordinate to, NOT Trumpov)

  39. 39.

    Thoughtful David

    @lamh36:
    This is a story that isn’t going to go away, and it’s going to be horrific for the Trumpanzees. This the kind of story that will finally catch the interest of reporters, and of the public.

  40. 40.

    hellslittlestangel

    I love President Hillary Clinton and whoever works her Twitter account (if a different person).

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    G literally just texted that to me.

    I can’t tell you how desperately I needed that bitter laugh right now.

  43. 43.

    lamh36

    @Thoughtful David: then KKK Sessions and SHS gonna quote the bible to justify the policy…

    Uh…huh…ya know what ELSE racist white folks used Bible quotes to justify…the list goes on, but I’m sure you know my first thought as an African American…

  46. 46.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @zhena gogolia: But today they have Frank Bruni concern-trolling De Niro.

    Panchito. Worse than useless. Worse than Kristof? that’s like counting the proverbial dancing angels. Worse than Dowd….? Nobody’s worse. If he keeps it up he might get to “as bad”.

  48. 48.

    Marcopolo

    Good for Hills. My friends & I used the ironic form of “but her emails” repeatedly & with gusto with the two Trump voters we know—but they don’t show up at our gatherings anymore. Hmm, wonder why?

  52. 52.

    lamh36

    Jesus…so they’ve deported some parents, and they still haven’t returned some of the children!!!!

    OMG…how many parents still haven’t gotten their chidlren back?

    @chrislhayes
    .@RAICESTEXAS SAYS THERE ARE PARENTS WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING ***FOUR MONTHS*** POST-DEPORTATION FOR THE US TO RETURN THEIR BABY!!!

    THEY SKYPE ONCE A WEEK WITH THEIR ****EIGHT MONTH OLD**** WHO HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY KIDNAPPED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

    2:43 PM – Jun 14, 2018

  54. 54.

    Betty Cracker

    Had to explain the significance of “but her emails” to the mister, who only uses the internet for weather, gardening and motorcycle maintenance information. And while an explained joke is a failed joke, he appreciated the epic torching once clued in.

  58. 58.

    SFAW

    @efgoldman:

    Good to see you back, youngster.

    While you were gone, this place lacked a certain … gravitas, I guess.

    Fuckem!

    Ah, gravitas restored! The universe is once again in balance.

    Or some bullshit like that.

  59. 59.

    Ohio Mom

    @lamh36: Every time I read about the incarcerated children, I am deeply ashamed and also nauseated.

    As for the Hillary tweet, I’m printing it out and giving it a place on honor on the refrigerator.

  61. 61.

    debbie

    “But her emails!” Screw that. What about his tearing up every piece of paper that lands on his desk?

  65. 65.

    Scamp Dog

    Cain, if you’re still reading posts now:

    What would be a good day for a Balloon Juice meetup? We want to make sure you can come this time. I know TaMara can get busy at times, so I’d be happy to put this together. The last one was great, and it’s time for another metro Denver meetup.

    Norm

  66. 66.

    SFAW

    Of course, reading some of the responses from the RWA morons, I find myself starting to feel/think like certain esteemed (or is that “steamed”?) commenters here. That is, I think of what a wonderful world it would be if all those RWA motherfuckers experienced an extinction event, affecting only them.

    Probably not a healthy way to be.

  68. 68.

    MattF

    @debbie: I haven’t gotten over that little habit Trump’s acquired in a lifetime of criminality. It’s not just a tell– it’s showing all your cards.

  69. 69.

    lamh36

    @Ohio Mom: It’s just sad…I am not even a parent…and yet I still have more empathy than some of these anti-immigration folks who do have kids…smh…says alot more about them that they don’t even realize or they just don’t care…smh

  71. 71.

    WereBear

    @SFAW: That is, I think of what a wonderful world it would be if all those RWA motherfuckers experienced an extinction event, affecting only them.

    Probably not a healthy way to be.

    But completely understandable.

  72. 72.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    Cheryl had a tweet in the thread below where a rabbi fucking pwned the Christianists. Turns out that their favorite book of clobber texts, Leviticus, is very specific about how you’re supposed to treat orphans and refugees. Turns out that putting them into camps is not one of the options.

  73. 73.

    debbie

    @Mnemosyne:

    Couple that with Hillel the Elder’s injunction, “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbors.” Then excommunicate the lot of them.

  74. 74.

    lamh36

    @4everNeverTrump
    Follow Follow @4everNeverTrump
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    Jeff Sessions’s worldview:
    —Romans 13, used to justify slavery in the 19th century, is why it is okay to separate migrant children from parents
    —the Immigration Act of 1924, which contributed to the Holocaust by preventing Jews to escape from Europe to America, is a great law

    5:35 PM – 14 Jun 2018
    https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/1007391084211724289

  75. 75.

    Amir Khalid

    @Mary G:
    Bravissima. Although I would go one more and say to the lady, Bravississima!

    @debbie:
    A systematic and ongoing violation of your country’s law on preserving public records, by itself an offence that justifies removal from office. One of too many such offences that have come to light, about which Congressional Republicans, whether cowed by Trump or complicit with him, don’t intend to do a damn thing.

  76. 76.

    Jeffro

    Now that I am back from Singapore, where we had a great result with respect to North Korea, the thought process must sadly go back to the Witch Hunt, always remembering that there was No Collusion and No Obstruction of the fabricated No Crime.

    “Why can’t it be as easy as Kim makes it look? I have to keep remembering to Capitalize the Important Words for my Brain Dead Cult Followers, plus add “No” to things that are Most Certainly True”

  77. 77.

    Jeffro

    @SFAW: @WereBear:

    what a wonderful world it would be if all those RWA motherfuckers experienced an extinction event, affecting only them.

    completely understandable

    Left Left Behind?

    Left Behind…and thank the FSM for that!

    The Leftovers Left?

  78. 78.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    I’m still with her.

    BTW this is her second three word tweet to break Twitter. The first was “delete you account”.

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Only person in the world who could post that.

    Only person who did.

    I ❤️????????❤️ HRC.

  85. 85.

    Darkrose

    @lamh36: That specific quote, too. Romans 13 was thrown at abolitionists to justify the Fugitive Slave Act. Hearing that from the KKKeebler Elf is chilling.

  91. 91.

    TenguPhule

    Back and forth it went. One reporter noted, “There is no law that requires that families be separated at the border. … Why did the administration find that this was necessary?”

    At this point, Sanders took another lap through her talking points, prompting Karem to bust in. “You’re a parent. Don’t you have any empathy? Come on, Sarah, you’re a parent! Don’t you have any empathy for what these people are going through?” said Karem, who memorably ripped into Sanders a year ago over the administration’s media attacks. “They have less than you do. Sarah, come on, seriously. Seriously.”

    “Brian, God, settle down. I’m trying to be serious but I’m not going to have you yell out of turn,” said Sanders.

    Karem: “These people have nothing.”

    Sanders: “Hey, Brian, I know you want to get some more TV time, but that’s not what this is about. … Go ahead, Jill.”

    Via Wapo.

    I hope SHS outlives her daughters.

  93. 93.

    JPL

    This is from Haberman

    Person close to Trump, on viewing the IG report, says conclusions give benefit of doubt to the FBI agents on whether they impacted outcomes that Trump hasn’t been given re Mueller probe.

    Trump wants a benefit of doubt, but why he did nothing wrong according to him.

  95. 95.

    lamh36

    @TenguPhule: and pooh on the reporter who didn’t continue on with Brian’s questions…every damn reporter afterwards should have pickd up where Brian left off and kept on asking the same damn question…

    Shut that shit down…

  96. 96.

    Mnemosyne

    @Baud:
    @MomSense:

    There are a few things would will help me be less angry. Perp walks. Trials. Jailhouse interviews.

    But the family members who enabled this bullshit with their votes will never be trusted again. Fortunately, I can count them on one hand.

  97. 97.

    lamh36

    Walmart thought it would just be able to tweet a Bieber pic…but nope:

    Is your company Renting out those abandoned warehouses to store those children Taken from their parents?The pictures are horrifying! Do you need the money that bad that you would do this kind of travesty for all of history to record?

    4:57 PM – 14 Jun 2018
    https://twitter.com/julievzwilson/status/1007381420300353536

    Walmart response:

    @Walmart
    8m8 minutes ago
    More Walmart Retweeted julie wilson
    Hey Julie, here’s a look at our official statement about this to help answer your questions.
    https://twitter.com/Walmart/status/1007406082468261889

  98. 98.

    JPL

    @TenguPhule: Her daughters will only be allowed to read the bible according to Sarah. Unfortunately, unlike Lindbergh’s daughter, who found out in college that her dad was antisemitic Sarah’s children won’t . Liberty won’t be teaching that course.

  99. 99.

    Gemina13

    Damn. I’d like to report a mass murder I witnessed on Twitter . . .

    Still with her. My fondest wish is fourfold: the utter humiliation and ruination of the Trump Administration and everyone involved in it; the overturning of every single act committed during the Trump Administration as illegitimate; the rebuilding of this country, with real attention paid to the effects of institutional racism/white privilege, sexism, and homophobia; and the silencing of the RWNJ Wurlitzer as they realize they were not just chumps, but willing participants in a major act of treason.

  104. 104.

    TenguPhule

    Trump to impose tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese products, broadening the trade war

    Trump on Friday will announce a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of Chinese products, the latest move in his intensifying campaign to rewrite the rules of global trade.

    The action will come one day after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders about the president’s recent meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

    Breaking via Wapo.

    I’m gonna guess that China is going to seriously rethink that $500 million loan guarantee.

    Trump will shit on the hand that feeds him.

  109. 109.

    Faithful Lurker

    @zhena gogolia: You can tell I’m still distracted, Thanks, I thought there was some new outrageous article. Frank Bruni is easily ignored.

  110. 110.

    raven

    I just had to tell our tenant we were raising her rent $50 after 4 years. We’ve actually been losing money for two so it was necessary. She’s my wife’s hairdresser so my bride didn’t want to do it. It went well, the tenant and I cooked up a plot to tell my wife she got really mad and is moving!

  114. 114.

    No One of Consequence

    @lamh36: As a parent my hatred and rage would melt a nation. Jesus tap-dancing Christ! Remarkable not only how far we can fall, but what kind of velocity we can attain if we shape ourselves into a streamlined projectile and try to achieve VMAX.

    Anyone else getting the feeling that President Jefferson was right, and turns out God *IS* Just, and She will not sleep on Us forever, and he was in fact, right to weep.

    Our nation deserves so much better than this, and we need to start demanding so much more from our Citizenry. Civic Education would be a good place to start.

    Vote people. Please. Every mother-fucking (or father-fucking), ((or lustfully abstaining)) last one of you. Pretty please.

    We have a lot of work to do. We are gonna need each others’ help.

    Peace,

    – NOoC

  118. 118.

    ruemara

    @raven: that’s it?! My rent went up $100 last year and this year it will go up $50 more. I’ll be paying $1394 for a 2/1 that’s 800sq ft.

  119. 119.

    TS (the original)

    @Baud:

    I don’t think I’ll ever not be angry again.

    I never go to the movies and rarely watched TV until the last year. I binge watch UK crime and anyone’s cooking shows now – just to get away from the news – cause my brain is full of hate and it reflects not only in my online persona but also in everyday conversations. Life has become one long hate fest – and I’ll be dead before the planet recovers from the impact of this lot.

  120. 120.

    raven

    @ruemara: Ours is 900sq ft. Athens is “relatively” inexpensive in relation to other markets like the ATL. It’s the house next door and we jumped on in about 15 years ago for $75 and put another $20 in it to bring back the beaded board ceilings, hardwood floors, wiring and HVAC.

  122. 122.

    lamh36

    @krassenstein
    Follow Follow @krassenstein
    More
    BREAKING: Chrystia Freeland, the Canadian Foreign Minister said today that she has not ruled out the possibility of retaliatory tariffs and sanctions, not against the American people, but directly against Trump’s business!!!

    PLEASE do this!

    We love you Canada!

    7:06 PM – 14 Jun 2018

    https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1007413879549386753

    here’s the article:

    Canadian foreign minister won’t rule out sanctions targeting Trump Organization http://thehill.com/policy/international/392281-canadian-foreign-minister-wont-rule-out-sanctions-targeting-trump#.WyMEz5sg1Ck.twitter

  125. 125.

    TenguPhule

    @lamh36: JFC.

    MVM bills itself as having “extensive domain expertise in counter-narcotics, criminal and civil investigations, public safety, and national security.” It’s perhaps better known as a security contractor for U.S. intelligence.

    In 2008, MVM lost a lucrative contract with the Central Intelligence Agency in Iraq for, the Wall Street Journal reported, “failing to provide enough armed guards.” It also faced internal allegations that its guards in Iraq, which worked for both the CIA and the National Security Agency, “were procuring and possessing unauthorized weapons and explosives,” according to a since-dismissed lawsuit from an Army Special Forces veteran employee who unsuccessfully claimed wrongful termination after blowing the whistle.

    The fuckers like those who electrocuted American soldiers taking a shower in Iraq are going to be designing these concentration camps.

  126. 126.

    Gelfling 545

    @SFAW: i keep explaining to people that the Trump regime has had a regrettable effect on my character and disposition. I hope it ends soon before I turn into a bitter old shrew.

  127. 127.

    TenguPhule

    @Immanentize:

    wasn’t Walmart Jade Helm FEMA Camps once a complaint by the RW?

    Every single fucking thing is projection. EVERY SINGLE FUCKING THING.

  128. 128.

    Elizabelle

    I’ve been entertaining myself with the reader comments on James Comey’s sanctimonious op ed. NY Times readers live in the real world, unlike NY Times reporters and editors. Looking at the newest, they are taking Comey to task, hard.

    My favorite first:

    reader blockhead of Madison, WI [that you, Omnes?]
    Enough already, you are in a boat by yourself, and that should tell you something.

    reader susan: Since we’re continuing to rehash all of this the NY Times should reach out to Hillary Clinton and get her response to the results of the IG’s report and to Comey’s editorial.

    reader Victor James of Los Angeles:
    There has never been a better illustration of the old saying, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”.

    reader NYC Independent: Mr. Comey: you are the reason we have Donald Trump in the White House. Take that to your grave.

    reader Jimmy Verner of Dallas: Mr. Comey, you rival President Trump in your hubris.

    They get it.

  129. 129.

    TenguPhule

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Gotta pay for that wall somehow.

    GOP already figured that one out. Hold the kidnapped children hostage and demand the Democrats vote on an immigration bill funding it if they want them back.

  131. 131.

    JPL

    @raven: One of sons rent in Atlanta, and one bedrooms rent for twice that in an okay location. Certainly not upscale, but nice.

  133. 133.

    Elizabelle

    @lamh36: Oh, please. That would be great.

    Because they get that the majority of Americans are NOT behind Trump; rather, are aghast.

  134. 134.

    raven

    debbie JPL

    And we are in an up and coming neighborhood within a couple of blocks of the Medical college. When she goes we’ll go quite a bit higher. Zillow says $1200 but we appreciate the value of someone we know and trust.

  137. 137.

    MisterForkbeard

    @JPL: I don’t even understand what Haberman is trying to say here. That the reports give the FBI the benefit of the doubt when it says they didn’t want to affect the outcome?

    Because it seems pretty clear they didn’t affect the outcome except negatively for Hillary, despite what one random text message says about Trump.

  139. 139.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    As described in more detail below, Comey said that by early May 2016, when he wrote the first draft of his public statement, the Midyear team was aware that evidence of intent was lacking. Others on the Midyear team agreed. FBI Attorney 1 stated, “I have cases where there [are] people with thousands of classified documents in their home and we don’t prosecute them…. [T]his is not something we prosecute lightly or we do regularly. There needs to be, usually, some either nefarious intent or some…actual harm that has happened because of it.”
    Agent 2 told the OIG: [F]rom like my level looking at it…you were hard-pressed to find the intent of anyone to put classified information on that server. And again, sloppy security practices, for sure. Right? But, and, and preventable? Yes. But somebody intentionally putting classified on it, we just never found clear-cut evidence of somebody intending to do that. As early as September 2015, FBI and Department officials realized that they were unlikely to find evidence of intent. Prosecutor 2 stated that within a month of first obtaining criminal process, they had seen no evidence of intent. This prosecutor told the OIG that the team realized that the case likely would lead to a declination after they had reviewed the classified information .

  140. 140.

    Aleta

    @raven: In an ideal world you would also receive free haircuts, scalp and foot massages and monthly peach pies.

  141. 141.

    Gelfling 545

    @efgoldman: Lovely to see you back in the pack. I missed your solemn intonation of “Fuckem” to which I repeat the traditional antiphon “with a rusty pitchfork”.

  142. 142.

    TS (the original)

    @raven:

    You watch Bosch?

    No – but I’ve read all the books – another form of escaping from the world. I watch Nexflix, Some of ye old England in Shetlands, Hinterland, Safe, Last Tango in Halifax (more comedy)

  145. 145.

    hitchhiker

    There’s an old bit from a movie where an actor is practicing a line for an audition. The line is:

    I didn’t ask for anal probe.

    The actor keeps repeating it with bewildered emphasis on different words …

    I didn’t ask for the anal probe!
    I didn’t ask for the anal probe!
    I didn’t ask for the anal probe!
    I didn’t ask for the anal probe!

    That’s how HRC’s tweet reads to me.

    But … my emails.
    But … my emails.
    But … my emails.

    This chapter in the history books is going to be so goddam bizarre, and it will not come close to capturing what it feels like to be alive right now.

  148. 148.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Kay: Awesome. “We knew in September 2015 this was entirely a nothingburger but we kept fucking that chicken anyway.” Followed up by Comey breaking process to publicly flagellate Clinton and then to publicly re-open the case a week before the election, knowing it was all bullshit.

  152. 152.

    B.B.A.

    Comey used a private email? Well, that alone is sufficient grounds for firing him. Nothing to see here, shut down the Mueller investigation. /s

    Before the Friday news dump comes people will seriously be arguing this.

  153. 153.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Gelfling 545: You know, the thing with Kay last week caused me to take a self-imposed few days away from this blog. I used the time to think about how I want to interact online. Despite my underlying and persistent anger, I decided that I am going to make a real effort to be as positive and upbeat as I can. How well I hold to it is for time to tell.

  166. 166.

    Aleta

    Spent the whole day angrier than my body has ever felt. Writing, calling. Spent the last hour or two on this fucking Comey. (I read his piece together with rereading the report. This fucking fucking Comey.)

    Eventually came home to dinner and reminded myself that I have dinner and a roof and bed and the dog. Now we’re watching interviews near Kilauea with local people and some of their elected reps.

    They’re talking about losing their community, how to replace it, how to relocate a community. They mention the additional stress and mental health crisis (after losing a home and the investment that was being there) of not knowing how long the volcano will go on.

    The people talking seem impressive to me, clear thinking, emotional, discussing good ideas, choking up. Almost matter of fact about the importance of caring about the health and future of people who’ve lost everything.

  178. 178.

    cain

    @Scamp Dog:

    What would be a good day for a Balloon Juice meetup? We want to make sure you can come this time. I know TaMara can get busy at times, so I’d be happy to put this together. The last one was great, and it’s time for another metro Denver meetup.

    I can make it any time during the week from now till July. I’m off to Spain for a conference on July 4th. But I reckon that a meet up then is not going to happen then. :)

    Making it Metro would be awesome! :)

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