Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

Republicans don’t trust women.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Let’s finish the job.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

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

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

He really is that stupid.

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This is not a democracy – Cole will decide which of the nominated rotating  tags make the cut.  But I thought you guys might like to see what has been nominated and share your thoughts.

In no particular order:

This is the way.

McConnell is a turtle-faced, fascist sack of shit who doesn’t believe in the United States Constitution.

Balloon Juice is such a weird place.

We ended up with transgender bathrooms instead of flying cars.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

When your President is a carnival barker, you’re going to have a circus.

The taproot of bigotry is the seeking of unfair advantage. So their arguments are never sincere or in good faith, and libs are suckers for thinking otherwise.

The GOP is FUBAR.

Cole is an eldest child, so he has no idea how a little love can avert pooping in the hallway to the bathroom.

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

Trump is going to draw a dick on that dog with a Sharpie before this is all over, isn’t he?

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

Think of it like Cole’s new house – you walk in and find Walter, but then you fall through a hole in the front porch.

Meth, This Site Is On IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nevertheless, she persisted.

Fortunately nobody else was home, and we have no rabbit.

… and don’t forget to hydrate.

These assholes make me want to scoop out my eyes with a melon baller and jam chopsticks through my eardrums right now.

“Fear is never a word used with me. You should know right away,” Pelosi added. “I’m never afraid and I’m rarely surprised.”

All I wanted from the trip was a t-shirt, and I got this shitty president, instead…..

Yeah, two fucking people in their 70s on the ticket. That is brilliant.

He’s the index to the cookbook, except no one has written any of the recipes.

edit: and for no reason other than that I mostly missed Christmas because I was sick – and because it will be a good example for my post this weekend on what images show up where – here is my tree.

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  1. 1.

    sphouch

    With the acknowledgment that it’s not “audience submission,”  I would have loved to have seen “Casting aspersions on Gohmert’s asparagus,” just because, screw him.

    But, I am a fan of, “Balloon Juice, which has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.”

  3. 3.

    Van Buren

    Damn. First I missed out on sending in pet pics and now I miss out on nominations. I have to stop being so busy IRL.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    @Van Buren: It’s not too late – the submission form is still there in the sidebar, under Calling All Jackals!  I just figured we were close to 25 so it was a good time to share.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    @Yarrow: I think the super long ones are probably a no go because they would distort the Balloon Juice banner.

    This is everything that was submitted.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    @sphouch: I might have to submit “Good luck with your asparagus, but maybe it’s already there.  I will go look.

    It’s already in there.

  17. 17.

    WaterGirl

    @Amir Khalid: I didn’t include who said what because I didn’t want that to influence anyone.  But feel free to claim, in the comments, any that are yours.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    My top 7, I think:

    A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

    Trump is going to draw a dick on that dog with a Sharpie before this is all over, isn’t he?

    Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

    He’s the index to the cookbook, except no one has written the recipes for any of the foods.

    Think of it like Cole’s new house – you walk in and find Walter, but then you fall through a hole in the front porch.

    When your President is a carnival barker, you’re going to have a circus.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    Warning.  I”m about to try a thing that sometimes produces the 502 error.

    edit: it obviously didn’t cause the problem this time.

  22. 22.

    JaySinWA

    Are we going to retire some old tags like sportsball jersey numbers? It does seem that a few of these would get long in the tooth rather than ageing gracefully. OTOH I almost never see or notice them so don’t listen to me.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @JaySinWA: We went through all the old ones during the site rebuild, and John retired quite a few.  Then we retired one after testing because a couple of people found it disturbing.

    Something like the dingo ate my baby.  I was not sorry to see that one go.

  39. 39.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Watergirl:

    That’s a great tree.  Where digya get that at?  My local Home Depot would sell really tall, well groomed Noble Fir trees, but they were pricey and eventually they stopped selling.

  42. 42.

    cain

    There must be some good Cole quotes .. moar quotes.

    It’s hard to believe that I have been commenting on this site since 2002 with you jackals. Here is to another decade! I’m sure it is a record ..

  43. 43.

    Anne Laurie

    Not proposing deletions, but a few suggested edits:

    A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised , apparently.

    The taproot of bigotry is the seeking of unfair advantage. So their arguments are never sincere or in good faith, and [L]ibs are suckers for thinking otherwise.

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

    Meth — This Site Is On IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ON It!

    “Fear is never a word used with me. You should know right away,” Pelosi added, “I’m never afraid and I’m rarely surprised.”

    All I wanted from the trip was a t-shirt, and I got this shitty president, instead…..

    Yeah, two fucking people in their 70s on the ticket. That is brilliant.

    He’s the index to the cookbook, except no one has written any of the recipes for any of the foods.

  63. 63.

    randy khan

    My faves:

    When your President is a carnival barker, you’re going to have a circus.

    Fuck these fucking interesting times.

    Nevertheless, she persisted.

    Fortunately nobody else was home, and we have no rabbit.

    “I’m never afraid and I’m rarely surprised.”  (Edited version of the Pelosi line, because the original is too long.)

  65. 65.

    JaySinWA

    @WaterGirl: Just a toss off for this thread. Baud is free to pick it or riff off of it.

    It probably works better as Baud, not Biden his time. ETA But it doesn’t have quite the musical overtones.

  67. 67.

    Ken

    The carnival barker one, definitely.  If it’s too long, “carnival barker” can be replaced with “clown”.

  82. 82.

    schrodingers_cat

    If I do a post of all the thought provoking protest signs that have been used in protests all over India in the last two weeks would that be of interest to the good folks of Balloon Juice.

    One of my favorites was a line from a poem

    All our blood is in this soil

    This country is not someone father’s (property)

    (Its not quite as searing in English)

  91. 91.

    Dan B

    OT but we put down our young kitty Oscar.  His lungs were in bad shape in the X-rays.  He purred all the way till the end and it was an hour wait while they stabilized an emergency.  He was shaking with fear for a few minutes but then we got a long bout of loud purring and then peed on me because it had been four hours.

     

    Now it’s too quiet.  There’s no kitten to show me where the foodish is located because.. there could be famine!  And no fur rocket coming through the Kat door.  Mikey and I are nowhere near as beautiful.

  100. 100.

    WaterGirl

    Warning.  I”m about to try the thing that sometimes produces the 502 error.

    edit: didn’t do it this time, either.

  101. 101.

    smike

    Trump is going to draw a dick on that dog with a Sharpie before this is all over, isn’t he?

    That one still make me laugh.

  103. 103.

    Dan B

    @schrodingers_cat:  Thanks.  The third one this year.  A tough one because he just purred while I held him alternating between burying his head in the crook of my arm and looking at me.  He was just 2 1/2 years old.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    When I worked at the University, there was a dean who would bring stuff before the faculty and if they voted down an idea he liked, he would bring it up again at another meeting, and again, and again.  We found that really annoying.

    Given that, if John strikes down some of the ones I really like, would it be wrong to include them again in a future list of nominees?  Asking for a friend.

  109. 109.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @WaterGirl: the artificial trees at my local department store are very impressive.  They’ve really come a long way since I was a kid.  And I would buy one, but I don’t have any available storage space.

  121. 121.

    WaterGirl

    Since it’s super quiet on Bj at the moment, I am going to try one more thing that sometimes produces the 502 error.  If we get the error, you can check back in 15 minutes.  But I’m not at all sure that it will. We’ll know in one minute.

    Nope, that didn’t do it.

  123. 123.

    Ruckus

    I made this comment on a thread downstairs about BS.

    He’s the index to the cookbook, except no one has written the recipes for any of the foods in said index, let alone had anyone cook anything, and of course no one has tasted any of it to see if any of it even eatable or in fact, kills the testers. And he has no knowledge of how to go about that, even though he’s been working at it for decades.

    I come to this rotating tag thread and find this.

    He’s the index to the cookbook, except no one has written the recipes for any of the foods.

    I’d never seen this before this evening.

    Great minds think alike?

  125. 125.

    WaterGirl

    @Ruckus: I loved your comment on the other thread, so I nominated it as a rotating tag.  Then Anne Laurie (upthread at #43) suggested edits to a few of them, and yours was one of them.

    So slightly edited but still totally retaining your original meaning, I think.  Do you approve?  If not, we can figure something out.

  127. 127.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    Regarding the 502 error, noticed something which I can only describe as expired caching. To wit, the following experienced AFTER the error notification has gone away:

    1) Refreshing a page which was opened before the error evidenced but not actually refreshed while the error condition was in effect still yields an error message.
    2) Opening a new tab of that same page from the front page brings up a version of the page which thenceforth refreshes normally.

  131. 131.

    JaySinWA

    @JaySinWA: Now I remember that I saw the “Just Biden my time” riff in Twitter some time ago, from some political horse race journalist. If Baud were to use it he might just get a Streisand effect poll boom from the plagiarism charge.

  133. 133.

    mrmoshpotato

    Three of those quotes are absolutely brilliant.  Brilliant, I say.

    Three quotes are Omnes’s apparently.

  138. 138.

    WaterGirl

    @NotMax:

    Regarding the 502 error, noticed something which I can only describe as expired caching. To wit, the following experienced AFTER the error notification has gone away:

    1) Refreshing a page which was opened before the error evidenced but not actually refreshed while the error condition was in effect still yields an error message.
    2) Opening a new tab of that same page from the front page brings up a version of the page which thenceforth refreshes normally.

    Let’s see if I get what you are saying. x

    You are in a thread called “Sunshine”.

    You also have “Blech” open in another tab.

    But you are in “Sunshine” when the 502 error occurs.

    You close “Sunshine”.

    You close “Jackal”.

    You immediately reopen “Sunshine” from the front page.

    You see the 502 error page instead of the “Sunshine” post.

    Do you close Sunshine again?

    The site issue resolves. (how do you know it resolves if the tabs are closed?

    You refresh “Sunshine”.  what do you see?

    You open “Sunshine” from the front page and it’s normal again.

    What happens when you reopen “Blech”?

  140. 140.

    WaterGirl

    @mrmoshpotato: Have you seen the video?  He seems to be waiting for information or the teleprompter or something that is normally in place before they appear on camera on the show.  That’s all I recall, someone else may remember more.

  147. 147.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    Not quite. More like the following:

    Suppose I have a tab open to a page named Sunshine and another tab open to a page named Blech.

    Refreshing Sunshine brings up the error. At which point I close only that tab and wait to open it anew from the front page in hopes the error has gone away. I do nothing with the already open Blech and leave it be.

    Once the error has gone away on Sunshine (meaning that it behaves as it should when refreshed), if I then go to refresh Blech I get the error message there.

  149. 149.

    Redshift

    I’ll submit this as well, but my phrase that describes nearly every action by modern Republicans is “shocking but not surprising.”

    Just because we can’t say we didn’t expect it doesn’t mean it can’t still be shocking.

  151. 151.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    Doesn’t really roll off the tongue……

    trump presidency – expensive but cheap looking

    or maybe even better…

    trump presidency – cheap looking but expensive to all

     

    Notice that trump is not capitalized. He doesn’t deserve a capital, letter or location

  153. 153.

    WaterGirl

    @NotMax: I edited #138 – can you see if I have it right now?  I was still editing the first time when the edit window closed, so I tried to reproduce it.

    You can see that I still have some questions.

  156. 156.

    WaterGirl

    @Redshift:

    We use periods at the end if a complete sentence, but not for phrases, so it won’t end in a period.

    Is there a comma in there, or not?

  157. 157.

    WaterGirl

    @Ruckus: all things trump… expensive, but cheap looking

    trump’s taste… expensive, but cheap looking

    or we can stick with your original

  158. 158.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    Got it right except that I don’t keep a tab open which is showing the error message. I close that tab, as it is usually stuck in a loop.

    You open “Sunshine” from the front page and it’s normal again.

    What happens when you click on “Blech”?

    I get the error message on Blech at that time.

  160. 160.

    Martin

    Honestly, “Nevertheless, she persisted” needs to be in rotation for WaterGirls heroic efforts to roll out this site version.

  167. 167.

    Redshift

    @WaterGirl: Yeah, there’s only a period there because it’s in a sentence, and I had it drilled into me that the period goes inside the quotes. ?

    As a standalone phrase, it probably reads better with a comma, but I’m not particular about it either way.

  173. 173.

    Anne Laurie

    @WaterGirl: I like ‘… never  a haven… ‘ best (it’s practically a motto for this joint).  But I decided it would be vulgar to seem to be using my vast influence to weigh the final choices {insert wink emoji here}.

  175. 175.

    NotMax

    Do you close Sunshine again?

    Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If no, I stop the page loading as it is usually caught in a loop, then try refreshing again to see if error has cleared up. If it hasn’t, stop page loading again and repeat.

    (how do you know it resolves if the tabs are closed?

    Either as described just above or by way of opening page afresh after waiting what seems an ample amount of time and trying refresh.

    what do you see?

    If the error condition is still occurring, see the error message. If the error has cleared up, see Sunshine.

    What happens when you reopen “Blech”?

    If I open up a fresh tab to Blech, I see Blech. If I switch to the the pre-existing tab showing Blech and refresh that, I see the error message.

  178. 178.

    WaterGirl

    @Martin: With intermittent problems, you have to be patient and methodical as you work through it. I am nothing if not persistent, so we will get this figured out.

    I’m sure it’s making some people crazy, though. I don’t like it either!  We built this beautiful site (I think) and then we have this crashing.

    I welcome thoughts and suggestions from anyone, but I don’t love being told that I’m doing it wrong by people who have far less experience and only have part of the information.

    edit:  Sorry if I’m whining.  I came down with strep throat while I was away at Christmas, and it’s always harder to let stuff roll off when you don’t feel well.

  179. 179.

    Anne Laurie

    @schrodingers_cat: If I do a post of all the thought provoking protest signs that have been used in protests all over India in the last two weeks would that be of interest to the good folks of Balloon Juice.

    *I’d* be interested — send me a link & I’ll cross-post!

  186. 186.

    WaterGirl

    @Anne Laurie: Added!

    Might you have a post up your sleeve?  I’m beginning to wonder if there are no posts up in protest for being asked not to be logged in.

  188. 188.

    WaterGirl

    @Anne Laurie: You are the Cole whisperer.  I think “Keep Anne Laurie happy” might not work as a rotating tag but I’m pretty sure it’s up there on Cole’s top 10 double-secret rules list. :-)

  190. 190.

    WaterGirl

    Just found some new submissions through the actual form!

    I’m only here for the duck photos.  (love that!)

    Not even wrong.

    Both added to the list for Cole.

  191. 191.

    WaterGirl

    @Anne Laurie:

    I vote yes on this one, if only to drive the Blogmaster mad(der).

    I say we try to sneak that one in even if he says no. :-)

    edit: and no, i wouldn’t actually do that, but we could probably talk him into it. it’s perfect.

  192. 192.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Is it too late to suggest rotating tag lines?

    Edit: nevermind. Saw WG’s comment at 5.

  193. 193.

    WaterGirl

    I think I got everything added that was suggested, but just in case I missed something:

    I have spoken.
    Jackals Assemble.
    Shocking, but not surprising
    The Day of The Jackal
    In a more just world, the clouds would listen.
    The Willow is too close to the house.
    It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
    … never a haven…
    It’s getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous”
    I’m only here for the duck photos.
    Not even wrong.

  194. 194.

    WaterGirl

    More:

    Fuckem.
    Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in Morse Code.
    Fuck it and drive on.
    What does the Orange Concealer, conceal?
    Let there be snark.
    The president is a whiny little bitch.
    A blogocracy, not a democracy.
    I heartily endorse this thread or product.
    Nothing but Malarkey served here.
    all things trump… expensive, but cheap looking

  197. 197.

    WaterGirl

    Still more:

    These assholes make me want to scoop out my eyes with a melon baller and jam chopsticks through my eardrums right now.
    Fuck it, we’ll do it live!
    All I wanted from the trip was a t-shirt, and I got this shitty president, instead…..
    Yeah, two fucking people in their 70s on the ticket. That is brilliant. (Omnes)
    He’s the index to the cookbook, except no one has written any of the recipes.
    It costs a lot to look this cheap. – Dolly Parton
    I was told there would be no math on this blog.
    You must be this old to comment here.
    Im never afraid, and I’m rarely surprised.
    Tunch is not fat; he is floofy. (Alternate: Steve is not fat; he is floofy.

  198. 198.

    WaterGirl

    I’m pretty sure that’s all the new rotating tags nominated tonight, so if you put something in this thread and you don’t see it on that list, it was a total oversight, so please let me know.  thanks!

  200. 200.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @WaterGirl:

    Just submitted one a minute ago. It might be a bit long and it’s a quote, but I attributed it.

    Edit:

    Here it is: “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

    I shortened it up a bit.

  203. 203.

    WaterGirl

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): It’s a great quote.

    Too long for the rotating tag, but I’ll put it here so everyone can see it.

    “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” – George Orwell

  207. 207.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @WaterGirl:

    Thank you.

    I did remove this part: “The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

    Is it still too long?

     

    Here’s another one: “The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.”

  209. 209.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    If we’re doing attributed quotes –

    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
      – Mark Twain

    @WaterGirl

    No associated error number, simply “Unable to establish database connection.”

  210. 210.

    WaterGirl

    One more that just arrived through the form.  Added to the list.

    The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

  211. 211.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Actually, just scratch out the law part. It works better without it

    Edit: Never mind.

  213. 213.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @NotMax:

    “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” -Mark Twain

    He has a lot of good quotes. This one is very relevant for our times.

    This will be the last one I submit through the form.

  217. 217.

    WaterGirl

    @Ruckus:  It happened twice. 2:39 and 11:47.  But it wouldn’t happen today any of the times that I intentionally did things that are on the suspect list.

    Intermittent problems are a bitch, and intermittent problems that are the result of a combination of things that happen at the same time are particularly special.

    Part of the goal is to find something that is reproducible: if we do this + this + maybe this at the same time, that happens.

    All I want for Christmas is to be able to reproduce this on command.  We’ll get there.

  219. 219.

    WaterGirl

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Yep, I’ve got the cruelty one.

    We typically go for quotes that are Balloon Juice-y, if you know what I mean. Fun, clever, witty, insightful things said by BJ folks.

    I put a few of the Twain quotes on the list, but I don’t think we want to take that much further, if that’s okay.

  221. 221.

    WaterGirl

    Heading for bed, I will check for any stray tags in the morning.  Not to be confused with stray cats…

    Sleep tight, everyone.

  223. 223.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @WaterGirl:

    I get it. I was in a hurry because I wanted to submit something before the deadline and it’s late where I’m at so my mind is pretty much mush.

    One more, from me: The DNC server is in West By God Virginia!

  224. 224.

    Dan B

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Oscar was so zoomie just last night and wanted to be held today at the foreign scary place.  He wanted to be home.  It was difficult to hold him for almost an hour knowing we could decide, or not decide, terribly not decide, to spend thousands to try to keep him alive.  I hugged him and petted him for what seemed to go on forever.

  226. 226.

    Dan B

    @Jay:  Thank you so much.  I feel like we’re not far apart physically or philosophically.  As a gay man who felt he could not possibly ever have kids, and did not, my nephew and his Persian (male) lover are the favorite uncles.  When our love for each other, where we would not be accused of being predators.  When the pets we lift out of rough outside lives and into our home would be congratulated but we are still considered horrible perverts.  I’m still crying for a kitten, crazy schmart kitten, that we could not financially save.  Holding him for almost an hour before was to be put down on our orders was indescribable.

  227. 227.

    Dan B

    @Aleta:  Thanks.  Looking into those eyes and snuggling him into my arms forever after we had decided we could only afford his death.

     

    So much of our politics is like this.  Any of the people younger than us (me 70) are slated to die horribly) Oscar felt like this.  Sorry…. sad.

  228. 228.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Dan B:

    I’m so sorry about your kitty. I’ve lost pets (fish) before and it never gets easier. I had a white koi fish for like 15 years and when he died back in 2015 I felt pretty bad about it. He was the last of a batch of fish I had and after he died, the new fish tank my family had just bought went down into the basement.

    Once again, my condolences

  229. 229.

    Jay

    @Dan B:

    {{{{{{{{ }}}}}}}}

    I’m so sorry. I havn’t had any lines on people since early AIDS. Old Punk. Pets since 6 years old. Cats, dogs, gerbils, all flavours of our “pipple”,…..

    We lost a big activist up North today, murder, others, have had to go to protected social media,

    Fuck that, yunnow.

    I ain’t got any fucks left to give.

    Throat punches for assholes, hugs for real people.

  230. 230.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Jay:

    I’m sorry to hear that about that activist. I hope whoever murdered them is brought to justice

  231. 231.

    Jay

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    it’s known, no secret.

    just “another” transperson murdered by a cis or terf, “for reasons”, not reasons,

    breaks my heart. My fam are fundies, but even when you think of all the “fuckery”, that entails, their kids are their kids. They, ( and we) push back. Tara and Peter, are who they are, even questioning.

    My Bro gave me an “attaboy”, for throat punching a homophobe, in front if his kids.

  239. 239.

    kindness

    Those tags….some of them are cute but none of them are really really funny.  This group is way more talented than that.  I think the site should allow for swapping some in and out as needed or desired.

  240. 240.

    Bobby Thomson

    This is the way.
    Nope. Will be dated soon and its other catch phrase was stolen from a predator cartoonist.

    McConnell is a turtle-faced, fascist sack of shit who doesn’t believe in the United States Constitution. True, but too polemical, not creative, and doesn’t roll off the tongue. {Which itself sounds like a good tag line, TBH}

    Balloon Juice is such a weird place. Not bad.

    We ended up with transgender bathrooms instead of flying cars. Nope, too NRO.

    A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently. Much better.

    When your President is a carnival barker carnie, you’re going to have a circus herpes.

    The taproot of bigotry is the seeking of unfair advantage. So their arguments are never sincere or in good faith, and libs are suckers for thinking otherwise. No, no, no. Not a tag line.

    The GOP is FUBAR. True, but not exactly illuminating. {Which, again, is not a bad tag line}

    Cole is an eldest child, so he has no idea how a little love can avert pooping in the hallway to the bathroom. Shows promise.

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

    Trump is going to draw a dick on that dog with a Sharpie before this is all over, isn’t he? This must be a rotating tag line. I will fight you.

    Fuck these fucking interesting times. Works

    Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. Always solid.

    Think of it like Cole’s new house – you walk in and find Walter, but then you fall through a hole in the front porch. Lengthy, but still charming

    Meth, This Site Is On IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Over It.

    Nevertheless, she persisted. Doesn’t work as well with the primary partisan overtones.

    Fortunately nobody else was home, and we have no rabbit. Good choice.

    … and don’t forget to hydrate. Works

    These assholes make me want to scoop out my eyes with a melon baller and jam chopsticks through my eardrums right now. Lengthy, but worthy

    “Fear is never a word used with me. You should know right away,” Pelosi added. “I’m never afraid and I’m rarely surprised.”

    All I wanted from the trip was a t-shirt, and I got this shitty president, instead….. No.

    Yeah, two fucking people in their 70s on the ticket. That is brilliant. Sentiment is pure, but doesn’t work as a tag line and will be dated.

    He’s the index to the cookbook, except no one has written any of the with no recipes.

    * * * * *

    I humbly suggest:

    STFU, Donnie. You’re out of your element.

    Stable genius just took my bookbag.

    100% fewer Trump cameos than Home Alone 2!

    Not the face!

    RTMFA

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    Richard Guhl

    Might I add, since BJers are jackals that Balloon Juice is the place “Where the deer and the antelope play… warily.”

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    lee

    I like these two:

    When your President is a carnival barker, you’re going to have a circus.

    Nevertheless, she persisted.

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    WaterGirl

    I am no longer checking this post for nominations, so if you would like to nominate a rotating tag, please use the nomination form in the sidebar.

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    brantl

    It’s: “Dumbold Jerk Stump”, they’re always spelling it wrong, it’s truth in advertising.

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