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You can’t love your country only when you win.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

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The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

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BREAKING: Congratulations to World Series Champions, Washington Nationals

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  1. 1.

    David ??Booooooo?? Koch

    Their manager is a Puerto Rican.

    Their star player, Anthony Rendon, is Mexican.

    The team president is Jewish and refused to talk to Dump.

    They’re everything Dump hates.

  2. 2.

    ThresherK

    Reposted from downstairs: I had been rooting for Les Expos since 1977 and Nordiques Quebec since 1979.

    I haven’t been this conflicted since the Colorado Avalanche won their first Stanley Cup. But, on the balance, I feel good about this.

  4. 4.

    WereBear

    I once worked with a guy who was not –exactly– a criminal, but exhibited a street attitude about it. His philosophy, even if caught on camera, was to deny, deny, deny. Bosses, girlfriends, banks… just gaslight them unrelentingly and they would abandon the issue because the sight of him had become so obnoxious.

  5. 5.

    prostratedragon

    Base Ball!! Truly a Series for the ages.

    And I did enjoy seeing the Puerto Rican flag on the field.

  7. 7.

    Patricia Kayden

    Woohoo!! I turned off the game around 10 pm when things weren’t looking too good for the Nationals. Nice to wake up to this great news.

  9. 9.

    Mary G

    Twitler is probably furious that the team whose fans heartedly booed him twice won the whole shebang. Great Series.

    Remember when Nancy SMASH did the weird clap during the SOTU? That was the baby shark clap. Nonna is a good troll.

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    low-tech cyclist

    With this team, it just seems that if they can keep it close for long enough, they’ll find a way. And last night, once again, they did exactly that. And now they’re the world champions.

    Half a century ago, I cheered another Nats team, the ones that moved to Texas all too soon afterwards. (I’m not old enough to remember the original Nats team that moved to Minnesota.) Most years, they weren’t very good, and then they were gone. So this has been a long time coming.

  13. 13.

    PPCLI

    @ThresherK: I rooted for the Expos from their first season, when I was a little boy. My folks took me to see them at Jarry Park, when Rusty Staub was still on the team. And I’ve never forgiven them for leaving.

    Until the fans booed Trump so enthusiastically, and they owner told the Trumpites not to come to his luxury box.

    And here we are: HOORAY NATIONALS!!!!

  17. 17.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Apparently they showed Trump in a commercial at a game in Houston and the crowed boo’d him. If true, just wow. I know Trump is disliked in football for some of the crap he’s tried so that might bleed over into other sports, but bood in Texas?

  19. 19.

    low-tech cyclist

    @–bd:

    @low-tech cyclist: You misspelled “Senators”.

    Not at all! Their official name may have been the Senators, but they were the Nats, both colloquially and in newsprint.

    The box in the WaPo sports page showing the team members’ batting and pitching stats had the heading “Nats’ Averages.” Shirley Povich, who was Thomas Boswell’s longtime predecessor as the Washington Post sportswriter, routinely referred to the Senators as “our wondrous Nats.”

    So they’ve always been the Nats, whether they’ve officially been the Senators or the Nationals.

  22. 22.

    low-tech cyclist

    @Aziz, light!:

    So when does the team get its invitation for cold hamberders at the White House?

    Bet they’re already looking forward to being able to tell him to fuck off.

  23. 23.

    Redshift

    @low-tech cyclist: Yeah, i remember that from when I was a kid. Until the new Nationals arrived, I never knew it was because the team had been the Nationals, I just thought it was an odd middle-syllable shortening of Senators.

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