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Rotating Tags That Have Been Nominated

by WaterGirl|  December 27, 20198:37 pm| 251 Comments

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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

    December 27, 2019 at 8:41 pm

    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.”

  2. 2.

    Yarrow

    December 27, 2019 at 8:44 pm

    Wow, some of those are long. Will they fit?

  3. 3.

    Van Buren

    December 27, 2019 at 8:44 pm

    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.

  4. 4.

    Lymie

    December 27, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    Wish I could remember the ones I nominated on the test site. I am sure they were brilliant.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    @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.

  6. 6.

    Baud

    December 27, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    This is not a democracy

    I nominate this.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 8:48 pm

    @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

    December 27, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    @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.

  9. 9.

    lollipopguild

    December 27, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    How about “Jackals Assemble”.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 8:50 pm

    I’m also hoping to drum up traffic to see how the site behaves.  :-)

  11. 11.

    Mr. Kite

    December 27, 2019 at 8:50 pm

    I would love to see one of efgoldman’s fuckems there.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    @Baud: Are we talking about Balloon Juice, or America in 2020?

  13. 13.

    Lapassionara

    December 27, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    @Baud: I second this nomination.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    @Baud: Maybe we need a rotating tag to help promote your candidacy?

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    December 27, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    @sphouch:

    Thank you.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 8:53 pm

    A BJ a day keeps the doldrums away.

    ;)

  17. 17.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 8:54 pm

    @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.

  18. 18.

    realbtl

    December 27, 2019 at 8:57 pm

    Maybe a nod to the past with whatever the “faxing my credenzas” line was.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 8:58 pm

    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.

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:02 pm

    @realbtl: That would be a classic. I’m sure someone has a link to that thread – we should make sure to get the wording right.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    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

    December 27, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    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

    December 27, 2019 at 9:05 pm

    @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.

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:07 pm

    A last minute submission that just arrived:

    Cheap but expensive-looking

  25. 25.

    Baud

    December 27, 2019 at 9:11 pm

    @WaterGirl:

     

    I’m too tired to think of anything good enough for the tag.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:13 pm

    @Baud: Baud 2020!  He’ll be too tired to go on if he doesn’t win?

  27. 27.

    Baud

    December 27, 2019 at 9:14 pm

    @WaterGirl: People will think I’m Biden.

  28. 28.

    Lapassionara

    December 27, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    @WaterGirl: I like these. Do we have any that reference the site’s deity, the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:16 pm

    @Baud: I laughed out loud!

  30. 30.

    sdhays

    December 27, 2019 at 9:16 pm

    @Baud: Wait, you’re not Biden?

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:16 pm

    @Lapassionara: I will check. Nope, not yet!

  32. 32.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    December 27, 2019 at 9:16 pm

    Tag:  “I was told there would be no math on this blog.”

  33. 33.

    Baud

    December 27, 2019 at 9:17 pm

    How about, “You must be this old to comment here.”

  34. 34.

    JaySinWA

    December 27, 2019 at 9:17 pm

    @Baud:

    People will think I’m Biden.

    Baud, just Biden his time.

  35. 35.

    Baud

    December 27, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    @sdhays:

    No, I am pro-malarkey.

  36. 36.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 27, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    Inquilab Zindabad

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I added that to the list I will send to Cole, even though you were too lazy to use the form didn’t use the form.

    just teasing, of course.

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    @Baud: Added!

  39. 39.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    December 27, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    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.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:21 pm

    @JaySinWA:

    Baud, just Biden his time.

    That’s funny.  Are you nominating that, or just making a funny for the thread?

  41. 41.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:22 pm

    @Baud:

    Baud 2020!  He’s a real Pro!  Pro-choice, pro-woman, pro-malarky, profane!

    Too long for a bumper sticker?

  42. 42.

    cain

    December 27, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    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

    December 27, 2019 at 9:24 pm

    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.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:24 pm

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:  It’s a 7.5 foot tree.  It’s fake, but it’s the only artificial tree I have ever found that looks real enough for me.

  45. 45.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 27, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    @Baud: is that a rule, or just the Self-Selection of The Olds?

  46. 46.

    Inventor

    December 27, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    I would like an edited version of the Pelosi quote: “Never afraid, rarely surprised.”

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    @cain: We should mine Cole’s greatest rants – there must be a bunch of good ones in there.

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:26 pm

    @Inventor: Added to the list for Cole!

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 27, 2019 at 9:26 pm

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

  50. 50.

    raven

    December 27, 2019 at 9:27 pm

    FIDO

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Those are some great edits.

    Is there a reason for bolding the “Balloon Juice, never…” one?

  52. 52.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 27, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    Tunch/Steve is not fat he is floofy

  53. 53.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 27, 2019 at 9:30 pm

    @Anne Laurie: I understand the new concern about fucking, but I will not have my quotes bowlderized.

  54. 54.

    Baud

    December 27, 2019 at 9:30 pm

    @WaterGirl: You left out profane.

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 27, 2019 at 9:31 pm

    @Baud: Are there amateur fanes?

  56. 56.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:31 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Added to the list for Cole.

  57. 57.

    Baud

    December 27, 2019 at 9:32 pm

    @cain:

    Wow. I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in Morse Code.

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:33 pm

    @Baud: Added to #41.  But maybe I should take out the dash on that one?

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:33 pm

    @Baud: It’s been a shitty week.  Thanks for making me laugh. Again.

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Funny you should say that!

    I confess that I nominated all three of yours.  Hey, you can’t win if you don’t play…

  61. 61.

    Baud

    December 27, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Nah. It’s all commercial now.

  62. 62.

    geg6

    December 27, 2019 at 9:35 pm

    @Mr. Kite:

    Seconded.

  63. 63.

    randy khan

    December 27, 2019 at 9:35 pm

    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.)

  64. 64.

    mvr

    December 27, 2019 at 9:36 pm

    @Yarrow: Shorter seems better for reasons besides space as well.

  65. 65.

    JaySinWA

    December 27, 2019 at 9:36 pm

    @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.

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:36 pm

    @Mr. Kite: What is the proper spelling of Fuckem?

    Fuckem.

  67. 67.

    Ken

    December 27, 2019 at 9:37 pm

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

  68. 68.

    Inventor

    December 27, 2019 at 9:37 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Of course not. There are, obviously, antifanes.

  69. 69.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:38 pm

    @geg6: Glad you seconded because I hadn’t remembered to add Fuckem to the list after Mr. Kite suggested it.

  70. 70.

    mvr

    December 27, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Perfect! I was thinking someone should edit these in this basic way.

  71. 71.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 27, 2019 at 9:41 pm

    @Ken: Nothing should ever be replaced by clowns.

  72. 72.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 27, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    @WaterGirl: You are clearly a person of taste.

  73. 73.

    JaySinWA

    December 27, 2019 at 9:43 pm

    @WaterGirl: So we ain’t no democracy, but we’re following Robert’s Rules? Are we a Parliament or something?

  74. 74.

    ThresherK

    December 27, 2019 at 9:43 pm

    @WaterGirl: If Baud2020! continues with the Gershwin jokes, he may capture the vote of all us theater geeks.

  75. 75.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:44 pm

    @JaySinWA: Since when have we had any order here, Robert’s or otherwise?

  76. 76.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 27, 2019 at 9:45 pm

    @JaySinWA: You didn’t say Point of Order.

  77. 77.

    JaySinWA

    December 27, 2019 at 9:46 pm

    @WaterGirl: I understood that John had one rule to rule them all.

  78. 78.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:47 pm

    @raven: Are you nominating the acronym or Fuck It, Drive on?

    Maybe we should add “Fuck it, we’ll do it Live!

  79. 79.

    JaySinWA

    December 27, 2019 at 9:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Will the gentleman yield?

  80. 80.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    @JaySinWA: Ah.  Well, there is that. Excellent point.

  81. 81.

    raven

    December 27, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    @WaterGirl: Fuck it and drive on.

  82. 82.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 27, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    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)

  83. 83.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    @raven: Fixed and added!

  84. 84.

    JaySinWA

    December 27, 2019 at 9:50 pm

    @WaterGirl: I though he was yelling about a dog.

  85. 85.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 27, 2019 at 9:50 pm

    Rotating tag nominee:
    What does the Orange Concealer, conceal?

  86. 86.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:51 pm

    @cain: You were here from the beginning?

  87. 87.

    JaySinWA

    December 27, 2019 at 9:54 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: What does the Orange Concealer, conceal?

    Answer: Everything and nothing.

  88. 88.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:54 pm

    @Baud: Do we want:

    This is not a democracy.

    or

    Balloon Juice is not a democracy.

  89. 89.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:55 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Added!

  90. 90.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:56 pm

    @JaySinWA: I just watched the fuck it, we’ll do it live!  video again this weekend.  It never gets old.

  91. 91.

    Dan B

    December 27, 2019 at 9:57 pm

    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.

  92. 92.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 9:58 pm

    “Let there be snark.”

  93. 93.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 27, 2019 at 9:58 pm

    @Dan B: That’s sad. I am so sorry {{}}. Your kitten sounds precious.

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    @Dan B: I’m sorry. It’s so shocking to lose the young ones.

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    @NotMax: Added!

  96. 96.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    @WaterGirl

    A blogocracy, not a democracy.

  97. 97.

    Eunicecycle

    December 27, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    @Dan B: So sorry about Oscar. It is so hard to say goodbye, even when it is the most loving thing to do.

  98. 98.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 27, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    @WaterGirl: Thanks.

  99. 99.

    danielx

    December 27, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    I kind of like:

    The president is a whiny little bitch.

  100. 100.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    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

    December 27, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    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.

  102. 102.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:02 pm

    @smike: That was Betty Cracker, and it always make me laugh, too.

  103. 103.

    Dan B

    December 27, 2019 at 10:03 pm

    @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.

  104. 104.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:04 pm

    @danielx: Added to the list for Cole.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:07 pm

    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.

  106. 106.

    oatler.

    December 27, 2019 at 10:07 pm

    “I heartily endorse this thread or product.”

  107. 107.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:08 pm

    @oatler.: Added!

  108. 108.

    Amir Khalid

    December 27, 2019 at 10:12 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    And who does this Robert person think he is anyway, calling us to order?

  109. 109.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    December 27, 2019 at 10:12 pm

    @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.

  110. 110.

    suezboo

    December 27, 2019 at 10:13 pm

    @WaterGirl:  That’s a paraphrase of a famous Dolly Parton original : It costs a lot to look this cheap.

    Citation needed, in my opinion.

  111. 111.

    debbie

    December 27, 2019 at 10:13 pm

    Nothing but Malarkey served here.

  112. 112.

    SeaShells

    December 27, 2019 at 10:14 pm

    Test with a new nym.

  113. 113.

    Scrooge

    December 27, 2019 at 10:15 pm

    Test 2, new nym

  114. 114.

    Dasher

    December 27, 2019 at 10:15 pm

    Test 3 for moderation.

  115. 115.

    Dancer

    December 27, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    Test 4 for moderation.

  116. 116.

    Vixen

    December 27, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    Test 5 for moderation.

  117. 117.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:18 pm

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I got a big deck box to put my tree in.

    I would love to have a real tree again, but then the dogs or the cats try to drink the tree water, and that worries me, so it’s not worth it.

  118. 118.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:18 pm

    @debbie: Added!

  119. 119.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:19 pm

    @suezboo: Okay, thanks!

    Hope that doesn’t get me in trouble with Aleta.

  120. 120.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    @Amir Khalid: No kidding!  Personally, I find meetings that use Roberts Rules of Order to be very tedious.

  121. 121.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:23 pm

    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.

  122. 122.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 27, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    @WaterGirl: Feel free to edit mine down to “McConnell is fascist sack of shit.”

    That’s really the meat of it after all. ?

  123. 123.

    Ruckus

    December 27, 2019 at 10:26 pm

    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?

  124. 124.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:27 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Check up top.  I took out the introductory phrase.  I think that’s short enough, while retaining the meat of what you were saying.

  125. 125.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:28 pm

    @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.

  126. 126.

    Ruckus

    December 27, 2019 at 10:31 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Better, considering the occupants of the WH currently.

    Expensive, but cheap-looking.

  127. 127.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 10:32 pm

    @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.

  128. 128.

    Ruckus

    December 27, 2019 at 10:32 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Approve?

    I’m honored!

    BTW that’s a YES

  129. 129.

    Ken

    December 27, 2019 at 10:32 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    So slightly edited but still totally retaining your original meaning, I think.

    Another candidate?

  130. 130.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:32 pm

    @Ruckus: No kidding!  Is that a nomination, or just commentary?

  131. 131.

    JaySinWA

    December 27, 2019 at 10:33 pm

    @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.

  132. 132.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    @Ruckus: Yay!  Now we just have to run them all by Cole.  W thought he was the decider, but nope.  It’s Cole.

  133. 133.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 27, 2019 at 10:34 pm

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

    Three quotes are Omnes’s apparently.

  134. 134.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:35 pm

    @JaySinWA: You are confused, sir.  It’s Biden who gets the plagiarism charges. :-)

  135. 135.

    Ruckus

    December 27, 2019 at 10:35 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I’d say nomination…..

  136. 136.

    Dave

    December 27, 2019 at 10:37 pm

    Gotta have “I have spoken.”

  137. 137.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 27, 2019 at 10:40 pm

    @WaterGirl: LOL Do we know the context of BillO being so pissed?

  138. 138.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:40 pm

    @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”?

  139. 139.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 10:40 pm

    @Dave

    Paging Pansy Yokum.

    :)

  140. 140.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:42 pm

    @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.

  141. 141.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:42 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: That would be correct!

  142. 142.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 27, 2019 at 10:43 pm

    @Dan B: Sorry to hear that.  Random zoomies (are there different kinds?) from our furry friends are the best.

  143. 143.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    @Ruckus: What do you think of this, or something like it, for context?

    Everything Trump: expensive, but cheap-looking.

  144. 144.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 10:45 pm

    @Dave: Added. Does that make John the Wizard of Oz?

  145. 145.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 27, 2019 at 10:45 pm

    @smike: It’s a good one.  Completely expected after the hurricane dick.

  146. 146.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 27, 2019 at 10:48 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: +a

  147. 147.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 10:48 pm

    @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.

  148. 148.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 27, 2019 at 10:50 pm

    @WaterGirl: Works for me! :)

  149. 149.

    Redshift

    December 27, 2019 at 10:50 pm

    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.

  150. 150.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 27, 2019 at 10:52 pm

    @JaySinWA: LOL

  151. 151.

    Ruckus

    December 27, 2019 at 10:56 pm

    @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

  152. 152.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 27, 2019 at 10:58 pm

    @WaterGirl: Ah yes.  Just watched it now to refresh my memory.

    Here is a version where someone playing the producer is insulting BillO.

  153. 153.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:00 pm

    @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.

  154. 154.

    Ilieitz

    December 27, 2019 at 11:01 pm

    @lollipopguild: how  about ” the day of the jackel?”

  155. 155.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 11:02 pm

    “In a more just world, the clouds would listen.”

    ;)

  156. 156.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:02 pm

    @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

    December 27, 2019 at 11:04 pm

    @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

    December 27, 2019 at 11:05 pm

    @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.

  159. 159.

    HRA

    December 27, 2019 at 11:06 pm

    The Willow is too close to the house.

  160. 160.

    Martin

    December 27, 2019 at 11:06 pm

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

  161. 161.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 11:07 pm

    “It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.”

    ;)

  162. 162.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:07 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: I snorted!  The ultimate compliment?

  163. 163.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 27, 2019 at 11:07 pm

    @HRA: yes

    I’m mad I didn’t think of it

  164. 164.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:09 pm

    @Ilieitz: Added to the list for Cole.

  165. 165.

    LivinginExile

    December 27, 2019 at 11:10 pm

    @Dan B: So sorry.

  166. 166.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 11:10 pm

    @NotMax

    Amended for clarity.

    I get the error message on Blech at that time as soon as Blech is refreshed.

  167. 167.

    Redshift

    December 27, 2019 at 11:12 pm

    @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.

  168. 168.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:12 pm

    @NotMax: I updated again.  questions in BOLD.

  169. 169.

    Ruckus

    December 27, 2019 at 11:13 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    all things trump… expensive, but cheap looking

    By George I think you’ve got it!

  170. 170.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:13 pm

    @HRA: How did we not come up with that before?  Added!

  171. 171.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 27, 2019 at 11:15 pm

    @WaterGirl: I didn’t make it.  But I’m glad I came across it, and glad to share. :)

  172. 172.

    Anne Laurie

    December 27, 2019 at 11:15 pm

    That’s my personal favorite, but I decided not to try influencing the final choices!

  173. 173.

    Anne Laurie

    December 27, 2019 at 11:18 pm

    @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}.

  174. 174.

    Ilieitz

    December 27, 2019 at 11:19 pm

    @WaterGirl: thank you

  175. 175.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 11:20 pm

    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.

  176. 176.

    Anne Laurie

    December 27, 2019 at 11:21 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I understand the new concern about fucking, but I will not have my quotes bowlderized. bowdlerized.

    How do you feel about copy-editing?

  177. 177.

    debbie

    December 27, 2019 at 11:21 pm

    @WaterGirl:
    Thanks! How about the only good thing John Wayne ever said: “It’s getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous”?

  178. 178.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:25 pm

    @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

    December 27, 2019 at 11:25 pm

    @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!

  180. 180.

    Anne Laurie

    December 27, 2019 at 11:27 pm

    @Dan B: My condolences.  They’re never with us long enough, no matter how long they live…

  181. 181.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 27, 2019 at 11:27 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Knock yourself out.

  182. 182.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:28 pm

    @NotMax: Added to the list for Cole.

  183. 183.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:28 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: We’re all mad because we didn’t think of it!

  184. 184.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:29 pm

    @Redshift: That was my sense, too, so I’ll leave the comma.  thanks!

  185. 185.

    HRA

    December 27, 2019 at 11:29 pm

    I tried to send a reply to WaterGirl and Jim. I failed.

    I am glad you liked it.

  186. 186.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:32 pm

    @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.

  187. 187.

    Anne Laurie

    December 27, 2019 at 11:33 pm

    @HRA: The Willow is too close to the house.

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

  188. 188.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:34 pm

    @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. :-)

  189. 189.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:36 pm

    @debbie: Added to the list for Cole.

  190. 190.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:38 pm

    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

    December 27, 2019 at 11:39 pm

    @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)

    December 27, 2019 at 11:43 pm

    Is it too late to suggest rotating tag lines?

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

  193. 193.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:44 pm

    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

    December 27, 2019 at 11:45 pm

    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

  195. 195.

    Ruckus

    December 27, 2019 at 11:55 pm

    @WaterGirl:

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

    Didn’t make it?

  196. 196.

    Anne Laurie

    December 27, 2019 at 11:55 pm

    @WaterGirl: Might you have a post up your sleeve?

    Done, even before you asked!

    (Believe me, I am nothing but grateful for your efforts.)

  197. 197.

    WaterGirl

    December 27, 2019 at 11:59 pm

    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

    December 28, 2019 at 12:04 am

    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!

  199. 199.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:06 am

    @Ruckus: Sorry, the site crapped out while I was adding the final set of 10.  It’s there now.  see comment #195.

  200. 200.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 28, 2019 at 12:06 am

    @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.

  201. 201.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:06 am

    Did anyone else have an issue around 11:45?  Or was it just me?

  202. 202.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 28, 2019 at 12:08 am

    @WaterGirl:

    It wasn’t just you. I got an error message saying a database connection couldn’t be established with BJ

  203. 203.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:09 am

    @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

  204. 204.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:10 am

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): thank you.

  205. 205.

    BethanyAnne

    December 28, 2019 at 12:10 am

    It’s the corruption, stupid.

  206. 206.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:10 am

    @Anne Laurie: Most excellent!

  207. 207.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 28, 2019 at 12:12 am

    @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.”

  208. 208.

    Ruckus

    December 28, 2019 at 12:14 am

    @WaterGirl:

    Great!

    I worked today so I’ve been off most of the day but so far, which of course I’m jinxing now, has been error code free for me.

  209. 209.

    NotMax

    December 28, 2019 at 12:16 am

    @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

    December 28, 2019 at 12:19 am

    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)

    December 28, 2019 at 12:19 am

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

    Edit: Never mind.

  212. 212.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 28, 2019 at 12:20 am

    @WaterGirl:

    Thank you!

  213. 213.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 28, 2019 at 12:21 am

    @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.

  214. 214.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:21 am

    @NotMax: thanks. that’s what i needed to know.

  215. 215.

    NotMax

    December 28, 2019 at 12:21 am

    One more: “Orange is the new blech.”

  216. 216.

    NotoriousJRT

    December 28, 2019 at 12:23 am

    @Dan B:

    So very sorry for the loss of your dear kitty.

  217. 217.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:27 am

    @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.

  218. 218.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:28 am

    @NotMax: That one made me laugh.  On the list.

  219. 219.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:31 am

    @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.

  220. 220.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:32 am

    @BethanyAnne: Excellent.  Added!

  221. 221.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 12:34 am

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

    Sleep tight, everyone.

  222. 222.

    Jay

    December 28, 2019 at 12:43 am

    @Dan B:

    I am so sorry Dan, we fall in love so fast, and it’s never long enough, short or long.

  223. 223.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    December 28, 2019 at 12:51 am

    @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

    December 28, 2019 at 2:00 am

    @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.

  225. 225.

    Aleta

    December 28, 2019 at 2:14 am

    @Dan B: That’s so rough.  Deep sympathy to you.

  226. 226.

    Dan B

    December 28, 2019 at 2:23 am

    @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

    December 28, 2019 at 2:33 am

    @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)

    December 28, 2019 at 2:39 am

    @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

    December 28, 2019 at 2:54 am

    @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)

    December 28, 2019 at 3:07 am

    @Jay:

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

  231. 231.

    Jay

    December 28, 2019 at 3:23 am

    @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.

  232. 232.

    Sasha

    December 28, 2019 at 3:48 am

    It should really be:

    When your President is a carnival barker, you’re going to have a bunch of rubes.

  233. 233.

    OzarkHillbilly

    December 28, 2019 at 7:27 am

    “Brevity is the soul of wit.” Cut the longer ones.

  234. 234.

    MattF

    December 28, 2019 at 8:16 am

    If you’re going to have ‘This is the way’, you also need ‘I have spoken’.

  235. 235.

    MattF

    December 28, 2019 at 8:21 am

    @MattF: Already nominated, I see.

  236. 236.

    PaulWartenberg

    December 28, 2019 at 9:40 am

    I vote YES on all of them.

  237. 237.

    PaulWartenberg

    December 28, 2019 at 9:43 am

    @Dan B:

    My kittehs will get super hugs today in honor of Oscar the fur rocket. :(

  238. 238.

    Richard Guhl

    December 28, 2019 at 9:55 am

    Move to strike the last comment.

  239. 239.

    kindness

    December 28, 2019 at 10:20 am

    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

    December 28, 2019 at 10:21 am

    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

  241. 241.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 10:34 am

    @Richard Guhl: I’m not sure what this means.  Which last comment?

  242. 242.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 10:47 am

    Everything above has been added to the list for Cole as of this posting.

  243. 243.

    Richard Guhl

    December 28, 2019 at 10:47 am

    @WaterGirl: 
    I’m just paraphrasing the parliamentary procedure from the impeachment hearings.

  244. 244.

    Richard Guhl

    December 28, 2019 at 10:49 am

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

  245. 245.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 11:09 am

    @Richard Guhl: Yeah, I recognized the reference, just didn’t know if you were using it in reference to an actual comment.

  246. 246.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 11:09 am

    @Richard Guhl: Added to the list for Cole.

  247. 247.

    Tdjr

    December 28, 2019 at 11:24 am

    @WaterGirl: Is that the Dread Pirate Roberts?

  248. 248.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 11:28 am

    @Tdjr: That might make meetings more interesting than they are with the other Robert.

  249. 249.

    lee

    December 28, 2019 at 11:38 am

    I like these two:

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

    Nevertheless, she persisted.

  250. 250.

    WaterGirl

    December 28, 2019 at 7:13 pm

    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.

  251. 251.

    brantl

    December 29, 2019 at 1:32 pm

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

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