Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

I was promised a recession.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

I really should read my own blog.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

The willow is too close to the house.

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

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

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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

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Sacramento Meet-Up: Proof of Life

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From expert photographer and beloved commentor BillinGlendale:

As you know we had a Balloon Juice meetup during my recent visit to Sacramento, here are the pics.

I’d like the thank the SacTown jackals for their warm welcome, even with the cooling Delta Breeze. I don’t remember(and too lazy to check the comments) who suggested Urban Roots but the food was fantastic as was the company. I will not ID the folk since I will certainly screw it up, but leave it up to y’all.

The first pic [at top] is a group photo excluding your humble photographer.

The second pic is from the other direction and includes your humble photographer in the back and to the left.

Finally, a pic of my meal(they really wasted money on knives).

Fine looking bunch, our Balloon Juice jackals!

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62Comments

  1. 1.

    Fair Economist

    I always love seeing meetup pics. It’s great seeing that all these commenters are real. I’m sure it was fun, the meetups I’ve been to have been.

  2. 2.

    Yarrow

    Very nice! Fine looking pack of jackals.

    That restaurant/bar looks so industrial. They even serve you on metal trays.

  4. 4.

    Miss Bianca

    Is it a brewery you’re in? I see barrels along the wall…yeah, very instiutional-ly feel. Like y’all are gonna burst into “Jailhouse Rock” at any moment. ; )

  6. 6.

    Doug R

    I see a certain amount of orange clothing, too… Curious.

    Maybe it’s in honor of Manafort/Butina?

  7. 7.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Fair Economist: You don’t need a pic to have seen me, we’ve met.

    @Yarrow:

    Fine looking pack of jackals.

    Sure, except for the dude in the rear left of the 2nd picture. The tables are concrete slabs, maybe they were going for a prison look, metal trays and all, The food was really good.

    @jharp: Announce that you’re having one and see who shows up.

  8. 8.

    Steeplejack

    So you guys are all in gen pop? I would have thought at least a couple would be in lockdown.

  13. 13.

    petorado

    Great to make everyone’s acquaintance and hope you all had fun!

    Nice choice of venue as well … looks like the type of place Johnny Cash would have played a gig, were he still around today (rest his soul.)

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    Am I detecting Darkrose in that photo? It’s hard to tell on my phone.

    I’m still in Denver. I should probably be mixing n mingling at a party downstairs, but I’m too fuqing tired and tomorrow is going to be another long day, so I’m back in my room with some leftover wine.

  26. 26.

    ruemara

    *pout* Can’t believe there was finally a local meet-up & I missed it. Look at all those handsome jackals! Next time.

  27. 27.

    petorado

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, but it’s the conversation and community that really matter. Great to see everyone taking the time to come together, break bread, and be with other good souls!

  30. 30.

    jl

    Thanks for great pics. Glad a certain persoin the spy from Los Angeles, gave Sacto brewpubs a chance.

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    Major⁴, could you take a peek at my message to J R in WV at #155 in the thread immediately below and see if there’s anything vital which should be added, expanded or amended?

  37. 37.

    Mary G

    Great looking bunch of jackals and the capitol is smaller than I remember, but looking good. Thanks, Billin.

  40. 40.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Yarrow: I’m wearing pajamas that have drawings of otters and say I OTTER BE IN BED.

    @NotMax: Did he ask about WoW again?
    *checks thread*
    We should start a guild. But no, can’t think of much to add, not that I’m super in the know.

    And as I told him in the first thread, I don’t know any good free-to-play games other than EVE, which I dunno man that game is intense.

  42. 42.

    jacy

    All y’all ever come to Baton Rouge, I know all the best places. I’ll probably never get to travel till the last kid is in college.

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne

    Speaking of my conference, I’ll have to see if Suzanne Brockmann’s Lifetime Achievement Award speech gets posted on YouTube, because it was a frickin’ barn-burner in support of diversity and inclusion in romance, and specifically called out the 53 percent of white women who voted for Trump. She got, like, three standing ovations.

  45. 45.

    MisterForkbeard

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m just kidding. Place looks nice – there’s a burger place sort of near my work that just opened, and looks very similar.

    It’s LOUD, though. No sound dampening at all.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    @Major Major Major Major

    Heh. Am guildmaster (by default) of an alliance guild which still lists around 100 members. However I’m the only active player left. Have a much, much smaller horde guild I started from scratch, still one other active player in it, someone with whom I became chummy in game (fun person to chat with)

    Never liked the name of the alliance guild (I joined well after it was created, all my IRL friends who played were there) and am too cheap to pay the outrageous fee to change it.

  47. 47.

    jl

    Interesting fact for next time you play trivial pursuit.

    ” In June 2017, Montenegro formally became a member of NATO, ”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro

    I wonder if Trump remembers he was president when the country was admitted? Someone needs to ask this miserable crook if he had a problem with it then.

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    @Major Major Major Major:

    My pajama pants have Stitch (from “Lilo and Stitch”) saying, “Hi!” “Aloha,” and “Ohana.”

    I also have pajamas with cats playing with skeins of yarn, but I didn’t bring them.

  50. 50.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Yarrow: Of course?.

    @jl: In the shade it wasn’t too bad, it was just when I walked from Old Sacramento back to the Capitol that it was a problem and I didn’t follow Adam’s advice and stay frosty and hydrated.

    @MisterForkbeard: I’m not sure how it would be if it was really crowded, but it was fine for out meetup and we could actually talk and hear each other.

  53. 53.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    This a restaurant or a California State Department of Corrections Facility? lol

  54. 54.

    Mike in NC

    @jl: But he did enjoy shoving aside their Prime Minister to hog the cameras while in Europe.

  57. 57.

    jl

    @Mike in NC: Wonder if someone ever mentioned to the Trumptor he should aside the ‘new NATO guy’.
    At least Dub would have shook his hand, slapped him on the back, and said ‘heh heh, my diplomacy man tells me your the Montenegro man.”
    God knows what the next GOP president will do. Push the guy over and start eating his shoe, I guess, if he’s hungry.

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