Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

A consequence of cucumbers

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

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

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

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

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

If you’re looking for someone who’s young and athletic, go watch a fucking movie.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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

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Fuck Scott Walker again

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Apparently the Koch brothers network unleashed a massive denial of service attack on the blog right after I posted this yesterday, which is why the blog was down most of yesterday. They can’t stop us, though — I’m posting it again.

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Tony Evers is running against Scott Walker. Fuck Scott Walker. What more can I say?

Top billing. I can run this one as long as you want with whatever goal you want, because giving here might feel a lot like retail therapy. And this one’s super important, since the governor has a say over the new Congressional and state legislature districts.

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  6. 6.

    Anonymous At Work

    @DougJ,

    the Koch brothers network

    :
    Since we are liberals, we can both understand the possibility but will demand a white paper with proof, footnotes and analytical models to be debated.

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    I’m finally back on Balloon Juice after 24 hours of rejection! I learned some bad things about myself and apologize to Betty and Cheryl for whining to them on Twitter. Donated to make amends.

  9. 9.

    SFAW

    @Adam L Silverman:

    No. No, they did not.

    Prove it.

    And don’t try to pull that “You can’t prove a negative” BS. Trey Gowdy and Darrell Issa weren’t not able to prove that Hitlary didn’t not coordinate the Moooslim attacks on Benghaziiii!!!!!, which she used to silence Chris Stevens, the only remaining witness of her murder of Vince Foster. Or not. I think.

  10. 10.

    ByRookorbyCrook

    @Adam L Silverman:

    No. No, they did not.

    This is just what the Deep Balloon Juice wants you to think. Q-Alain has a video about the CDN debacle that when you play it backwards says “Koch be playin'” in Esperanto. Embrace the truthiness.

    Conspiracy theories aside, Walker needs to join Ryan on the Conservative Dole in January. Give!

  17. 17.

    dexwood

    Hello, my name is dexwood and I am a Balloon juice junkie… ah, it’s back. Never mind, gimmee another hit.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    Yesterday without Balloon Juice was hard for me too. Luckily, I have three electric guitars and a cat.

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: My understanding, and please remember I’m not a techie, is that this was a problem in the way the site was set up that is on Alain’s list of things to fix going forward. Apparently it went from something that needed to be proactively fixed to prevent a problem to actually being a problem much faster than expected. It was not a denial of service attack on the blog.

    As for election day Russian cyberwarfare concerns. I think we’ll see what we’ve been seeing since 2014 – continued spread of misinformation and disinformation, trolling, attempts to present as on both sides of divisive issues to enflame them further, attempts to use sockpuppets to try to discourage voting, things like that.

  22. 22.

    Zinsky

    If you can trace the IP address of the corksuckers that launched this DDOS attack, why can’t you file a criminal complaint against them? Sorry that I am so ignorant about this…

  28. 28.

    Bruce K

    @SFAW: Odd; when I did my analysis, what came out was either “Go to church, say your prayers” or “No matter how thin you slice it, it’s still bologna”, depending on what filter I was using.

  31. 31.

    kindness

    Yea I wondered where the DOS attack came from. Couldn’t log in most yesterday afternoon & evening.

    Karma needs to be swift with these assholes.

  32. 32.

    delk

    Fuck Dick and Liz Uihlein and their 26 million dollar donations to Walker, Roy Moore, and bigoted anti-trans Jeanne Ives.

  41. 41.

    Bill Arnold

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Misconfigured certificate.

    That is what is called a “fat finger attack”.
    Do we have edit back yet? I’m really missing it; the number of links (spider food!) has gone way down as a consequence.

  42. 42.

    JWL

    Wiki: “a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled”.

    Never heard of such a thing until this morning. That definiteion also serves as a perfectly apt description of the modus operandi of the republican party when in political control of government. And any government agency, too, state or federal. Republicans twist the John Lennon lyric inside out, and sing it backwards: “I tell them there’s no solutions, only problems”.

  46. 46.

    Haroldo

    @Haroldo:

    Errr, ‘now’ not ‘know’

    P.S. Fuck Scott Walker, indeed. Motherfucker and his paymasters and his minions have done a very good job of wrecking the state of my wonder years (and my family’s current environs).

  48. 48.

    Yutsano

    @Amir Khalid: Way OT: I got to see a Malaysia visa today at work. All the pretty colours! And a cool black light design. Thought of you as I was working with it.

  54. 54.

    Jude

    On a more serious note, Dems need to push absentee voting like rabid dogs. Russian can and will do something bad to us. Paper ballots made before the day they target us can only be a good thing. And if I’m being paranoid and everything is fine? (Narrator: Everything is not fine), then it frees people us to drive excuse-mongers to the polls.

  57. 57.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Adam L Silverman:

    As for election day Russian cyberwarfare concerns. I think we’ll see what we’ve been seeing since 2014 – continued spread of misinformation and disinformation, trolling, attempts to present as on both sides of divisive issues to enflame them further, attempts to use sockpuppets to try to discourage voting, things like that.

    Are we doing anything in kind?

  62. 62.

    J R in WV

    @Goku(aka Amerikan Baka):

    @Steeplejack:
    I was being serious. I think we should absolutely fuck with them like they’ve been fucking with us.

    They don’t have real election, Goku, so how exactly could we fuck with them like they’ve been fucking with us? Really?!?!

    And if we shut down their power grid, well, that’s pretty much obvious compared to the Twitter/Faceblock shit they’ve been doing. Warlike, obvious. Now, I think they (Russo-Republicans) declared war (on the USA to be specific) last November General Election period, but most people don’t.

  64. 64.

    The Other Chuck

    @Zinsky: DDOS stands for “Distributed Denial Of Service”. It comes from tens of thousands of IP addresses. You already have the IPs of the attackers, but not the command and control nodes. Even then there’s no knowing who owns those without extensive analysis of the malware that created the attacking network. And it’s not like you can send a couple cop cars to pick them up.

  66. 66.

    Captain C

    @J R in WV:

    And if we shut down their power grid they might not even notice outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg.

    FTFY

    (And it’s only a slight exaggeration)

  67. 67.

    Jane Austin

    Fuck Dick and Liz Uihlein and their 26 million dollar donations to Walker, Moore, and bigoted anti-trans Jeanne Ives.
    And beware if your business gets it’s supplies and shipping materials from ULINE. That’s who owns it. They got a lot of my money before I realized that.

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