Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

People are weird.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

In my day, never was longer.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

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Susan Collins thinks her supporters are suckers.

We don’t.

Let’s make 2020 as unpleasant as possible for her.

CrowdPAC has been fundraising to support a general election challenger with almost $2 million dollars in pledges being held contingent on the Kavanaugh vote. Let’s go.

And also the core organizing principal should be that “these go to 11” in a world where “51 and Fuck you” is the most recent precedent:

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  1. 1.

    Scotius

    I just put in $200. I live in California, but I used to live in Maine. I am seriously considering moving back just so I can vote against her if she has the nerve to run again in 2020.

  3. 3.

    satby

    How long is the residency requirement before you can vote in Maine? Because I can get a rental there for long enough to register and vote against her, and I’m seriously considering it.
    There’s gotta be a place that rents to pet owners.

  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    Let’s make 2020 as unpleasant as possible for her.

    I’m interested in contributing to a fund that makes every day miserable for her between now and 2020. Anything like that started yet?

  8. 8.

    O. Felix Culpa

    Reposting from below: I just donated to Heidi Heitkamp’s campaign, FWIW. Brave behavior in a risky election campaign should be rewarded.

  11. 11.

    Raven Onthill

    Let’s do it for the whole Republican Party. Let’s make it so that everyone in the country has heard they’re the party of rape and treason.

  12. 12.

    Joy in FL

    I just donated $20.20 to Collins’ future opponent. I wish it could be 20 million.

    If it weren’t for Balloon Juice, the knowledge and the snark and the animals, I would have a much harder time wanting to stay in touch with reality.

    I’ve got yard signs for Andrew Gillum and Chris Hunter (candidate for Congress) and am volunteering for Hunter’s campaign. So grateful for the people who are doing way more than that.

  14. 14.

    A Ghost To Most

    Just back from the Pagosa Springs hot springs. Very nice, but it sucked all the anger out of me for now.

    It will be back shortly, no doubt. Fuck the fascists.

  15. 15.

    trollhattan

    My happy place at the moment is Nancy SMASH with gavel–the big one–in hand come January.

  17. 17.

    Aleta

    @satby: How is voting residence determined?

    From UMO info for students about establishing residency in Maine:

    What are the requirements to register to vote in Maine?
    Residence is that place where the person has established a fixed and principal home to which the person, whenever temporarily absent, intends to return. Under this definition, residence is something that a person establishes, not something a person chooses.
    …
    The law does not define “fixed” or “principal” or “home”.

    In most cases, a person has only one place where he or she resides, making residency an easy factor for the registrar to determine. However, determining residency becomes more difficult when a person owns or rents a dwelling in more than one municipality.

    The registrar may consider the following factors (as set forth in section 112) in determining whether a person has established and maintains a voting residence in the municipality:
    A direct statement of intention by the person pursuant to section 121.1 (an “oath”);
    The location of any dwelling currently occupied by the person;
    The place where any motor vehicle owned by the person is registered;
    The residence address, not a post office box, shown on a current income tax return;
    The residence address, not a post office box, where the person receives mail;
    The residence address, not a post office box, shown on any motor vehicle operator’s license the person holds;
    The receipt of any public benefit conditioned upon residency, defined substantially as provided in this subsection; or
    Any other objective facts tending to indicate a person’s place of residence.
    https://umaine.edu/studentlife/uvote/requirements/

  19. 19.

    HinTN

    @eclare: I’m on board with that! Just donated $100 too the unnamed opponent.

    Also too, love the bear in the earlier thread.

  23. 23.

    trollhattan

    @jeert:
    Too perfect. And an opportunity to repeat something I noticed a couple weeks back: video volume controls on the BBC.co.uk website all go to 11. They absolutely are ‘avin’ a laff.

  24. 24.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    OT – I got to meet and talk to Brian Karem today. Super nice guy. Basically, I was doing a divorce mediation on behalf of an elderly man on a second, long term marriage (he had been a widower) – Brian was there to support his mother on the opposite side of the case. We got it settled and I got to meet a journalist who actually confronted Sanders and Trump from the beginning.

    He had some neat stories, and as it turns out, he and I are distantly related (Louisville’s pre-Great War Lebanese all tended to come from a specific set of villages).

  26. 26.

    Aleta

    Made another small donation to the crowd pac; thinking about the effect of publicity of the # of donations that come in on/after October 5.

  29. 29.

    Ian R

    Since her speech started, the CrowdPac has gone up over $300k, and the ActBlue ME-Sen 2020 Democratic Nominee Fund has gone up over $100k. And that’s with CrowdPac being down for over an hour because the demand crashed their site.

    Let’s make sure she can never get an elected position for so much as dog-catcher ever again.

  32. 32.

    FlipYrWhig

    @B.B.A.: I am 46 years old, nearing 47. You know how many Supreme Court justices have been nominated by Democrats in my lifetime? FOUR.

    ETA: Five if you count Garland.

  34. 34.

    trollhattan

    @FlipYrWhig:
    Convinced myself Clarence Thomas would be a “short-timer” on account of being so damaged in the hearings. Yet here he is today, doing his best Thurgood Marshall imitation.

  39. 39.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @FlipYrWhig:
    I think the political climate a little different now compared to now. It seems more people are paying attention now and are fucking pissed about Kavanaugh.

  44. 44.

    J R in WV

    @Raven Onthill:

    Let’s make it so that everyone in the country has heard they’re the party of rape and treason.

    I actually told a bold Trumpist to go ahead and vote Republican, but to remember what they say “Vote D for Democracy or R for Russia!” and then hung up. I think we need to mention Russian influence every day in every way for every Republican treason monkey (not to demean monkeys, who are fine little anthropomorphic gentlemen and ladies compared to Republicans!)…

  46. 46.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @trollhattan: She did a kick ass interview with Larry Wilmore on his podcast. I wish she was in the Senate, she would bobbitize McConnell.

  47. 47.

    Ksmiami

    @eclare: Portland Maine is an awesome town w great restaurants and art so moving there to fuck up collins world isn’t without an upside

  48. 48.

    Chris Johnson

    @J R in WV: That’s pretty much what’s driving all this.

    And boy oh boy, do the trollskis work super hard to make it seem like anything but that.

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