Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

“Alexa, change the president.”

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

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

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

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

American history and black history cannot be separated.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Petty moves from a petty man.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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He has refused his Assent to Laws,

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the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

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  2. 2.

    The Dangerman

    As if leaving my coastal home in CA to head East tomorrow isn’t enough, I’ll be much closer to the Epicenter of today’s quake. Woohoo! Didn’t feel a thing, which is good given Diablo (nuke plant) is right around the corner.

    Whomever is in charge of the natural disasters on this day, ya missed by a few thousand miles. Try again.

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    JPL

    This cheered me up

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    Short-range model (certainly subject to and likely to change) shows storms approaching DC at 6p. @realDonaldTrump speech at 630p. We’ll see what happens…

  6. 6.

    Brachiator

    @oatler.:

    But George III didn’t go mad until years later…

    I’d love to see someone dressed as Trump sing the George III songs from Hamilton.

    We are certainly oppressed by Trump. The Declaration feels especially real now.

  9. 9.

    JR

    But where says some is the King of America? I’ll tell you Friend, he reigns above,
    and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. Yet that we may not
    appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for
    proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God;
    let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of
    monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING.

    Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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    raven

    This earthquake is going to take the focus off of his bullshit! Not since Reagan’s funeral ruined the dedication of the WW2 Memorial has fate intervened!

  11. 11.

    Baud

    Wait, is Balloon Juice declaring its independence? How subversive!

    @raven:

    Haha. Good point. That’s awesome. (Except for earthquake victims).

  12. 12.

    JR

    Whereas, slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

    John Brown

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    JoeyJoeJoe

    @JPL: I am in DC. I really hope that all of the asshole people I see with their 45 stuff have their event ruined, and there’s a lot of them out on the streets

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    Mai Naem mobile

    @JPL: I directed my God to do that. I set up a GoFund me that will go to my temple in honor of this event.

  15. 15.

    JPL

    @JoeyJoeJoe: He doesn’t leave the White House until 6:15. It’s was drizzling in France when he canceled a trip to the cemetery where American who died in WWI are buried

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    Martin

    @raven: Look. California has been fighting this asshole hard for the last 3 years. If we need to take one for the team, we’re willing to do that.

    And I’d like to point out there are faults closer to DC that would have had a bigger impact. Maybe y’all could get on that shit? I know for a fact there’s a fault running almost right under Trump Tower. That would have been a particularly good one to fire off hard today. Ramapo is capable of 6.x, and isn’t that far from DC. Do we need to do everything out there?

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    Martin

    @JPL: Yeah, probably. But nobody will notice – little 2.x and 3.x quakes. They get those practically daily up in Ridgecrest anyway. But geologists care about exactly which fault those are happening on, but nobody else does. So they see them as part of a pattern of activity, but we’re like oh, another little quake, who cares.

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    opiejeanne

    @raven: LOL! The earthquake was out in the middle of nowhere called Trona, and the worst damage seemed to be at a liquor store.

  22. 22.

    Martin

    @opiejeanne: Just heard from a friend snowboarding at Mammoth – they got knocked around pretty good. His first time feeling a quake on the slopes.

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