Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

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

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Not all heroes wear capes.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

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  4. 4.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Is that a stuffed piggy in the first photo?  Even pets need their emotional support animals on occasion.

  6. 6.

    J R in WV

    Dogs… I just spent 6 hours in the car, outside the Vet ER in town, after my young hound dog barfed in it, waiting for “curb side service” to get a hole in his underparts stapled shut. Probably injured yesterday.

    He is not particularly leash trained, and is wearing a bozo collar to keep him from licking his male dog parts, very near which there is a puncture wound. Plus pills, steroids and antibiotics. Then he barfed again on the way home, dunno where he got anything to barf that second time. Dogs are scavengers, and that his favorite hobby, finding vile crap to eat.

    But I do love the dogs. I had a drink of bourbon as soon as I assembled the crate and got him into it. He is not a happy camper, I hope I can get him out of the crate tomorrow to start learning how to walk on a leash.

    Plus heavy thunderstorms, they washed logs out onto the county road, small mostly rotten ones. I got to watch huge strato-cumulus clouds (or whatever the really tall clouds that make up big series of thunderstorms) lit up from inside from giant lightning bolts on the way home.

    There were probably 18 or 20 cars in the Vet ER parking lot, spaces were nicely numbered and their phone number was prominently displayed. They are very professional, and compassionate, I’ve been there several times when dogs (mostly the emergencies are for dogs) need care during off hours. Coo-Coo ate some DF kibble which was good, he’s supposed to have the meds with food. I wrapped the pills in sandwich ham, which he scarfed right up.

    He’s a sweet dog, lounge hound kind of dog. Wants to either be chasing down tasty carrion in the woods or sleeping it off near by me. Fumes are something to experience!

    Take care, John Cole. At least you can pick Charlie up easily — Coo-Coo is hard for me to handle at my age and state of decrepitude. 50 squirmy pounds! In the dark and stormy might!

  12. 12.

    CaseyL

    I can’t decide if you’re the Best or the Worst Babysitter ever.

    You let the kids get into everything, and eat so many snacks they get tummyaches.

    But when they finally go home, they pass right out, allowing Mom and Dad to sleep through the night.

  13. 13.

    Peale

    While it’s great that you find the time to wok the dog yourself when most would rely on take out, I’m wondering if you shouldn’t be cutting down on excess fat by using an airendale fryer instead?

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    @J R in WV:

    lit up from inside from giant lightning bolts on the way home. 

    Those are the best!  Massive light shows and sometimes no thunder.

  16. 16.

    AJ

    I don’t comment much but just want to thank everyone for this blog and community.

    I read every post every day and it’s essential my sanity and feeling less alone.

  17. 17.

    Benw

    @Omnes Omnibus: yep! My pup has two cheap ass Petco bargain bin toys, Piggy and Froggy, that have survived the destruction of all other toys. If anyone in the family is home sick, he will find Piggy and Froggy, no matter how dirty and disgusting, and gently set them in the bed with the sick person. Good dog

  18. 18.

    J R in WV

    @AJ:

    Yes me too! I was pretty shy in school, Jr high and High school. Few friends, fewer close. Then I started to open up in college, where no one knew me, had no preconceptions.

    Then years later,12-14 years actually, I went back to college, and would up with several close friends, and training in a trade which, done well, would involve working closely with other professionals, to develop software for their work. I spent 20+ years working for several months closely with people to implement software tools for engineers, biologists, legal beagles (the hardest) regulators, etc.

    It was complex, hard to do right. But I got to know all kinds of people, mostly smart folks with lots of education and experience in a wide variety of fields. Helping trouble shoot new issues, explaining how complex rule sets worked to force adherence to rules, regs, laws,  why the rules in the software were what they were. Close interaction with software staff in other states and the EPA.

    Then I retired. Wife was already retired, wanted company, I had the time in, a good pension from years of work and steady promotions…

    Suddenly I was dealing with two neighbors east of our land, and two west, wife and the dogs. Down from who know how many in a week’s time.

    So B J helps me deal with that… I get to interact with dozens of people, some i respect, some are funny, many are smart and share their knowledge. Even the annoying ones are good to interact with. Until the pandemic hit, I visited with people at a wine shop, at a fish shop, friendly banter about unimportant stuff. That went away when the Covid-19 virus came.

    So… Balloon Juice is my answer. Thanks everyone for helping me deal with the pandemic, with the fascists, with the know-nothings. Ihope I help you all at least a little bit, to cope with today’s confounding problems.

    A source of good advice from neutral observers when needed! Art and literature, discussion of complex issues, etc.

    Thanks again!

  20. 20.

    J R in WV

    @mrmoshpotato:

    June 7, 2020 at 1:28 am

    @J R in WV:

    lit up from inside from giant lightning bolts on the way home.

    Those are the best!  Massive light shows and sometimes no thunder.

    Out west, we have watched storms probably 50 miles across and 6 or 8 miles high idle across the landscape 40 or 50 miles away or more, lit up inside with electric fire, with rain pouring out of the clouds, yet evaporating in the hot dry air before it reaches the ground. Many times, in Wyoming and Northern Colorado and Utah.

    I love lightning in the night. It’s surprisingly hard to photograph well. Takes many shots to get a good one. Really hard to do in WV, where we don’t have the really long views more common out west in Basin and Range country, with mountain ranges spaced 40 or so miles apart, flat basins between them, with plenty of room to see a whole front of storms for hours.

  21. 21.

    Sebastian

    Ok folks, talk me off this ledge please:

    Why did the Minnesota cop vote in Florida? Do other rightwingers, perhaps cops do that? Organized?

     

    GOP ALWAYS projects. Have they been engaged in organized voter fraud all along?

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    @Sebastian

    Ever been in Minnesota in November? Brr.

    :)

    More seriously, highly doubtful it is any kind of organized campaign; Florida has an overflowing complement of yahoos as it is. Stamp it broad stupidity over attributing it to focused villainy.

  23. 23.

    opiejeanne

    @J R in WV: There was one summer in Southern California, sometime in the late 80s, when we had sheet lightning every night for a week. There was a new In’n’Out near the girls’ dance studio and we’d go there after class and sit outside and watch. There was almost no sound from it, just faint rumblings, and broad flashes in the cloud cover.

    We had a rip-snorter last Saturday in the Seattle area that rolled us and the cats out of bed at 6am and continued for three hours. Wasn’t predicted. The one that was predicted for today never arrived, but it has started raining in earnest now. I may be able to sleep soon, for a change.

    You are part of the jackelatariat that keeps me sane and I thank you, and hope I don’t drive you too nuts.

  24. 24.

    opiejeanne

    @Sebastian: I agree with NotMax, but it’s a wonder that when we catch voting fraud it’s almost always Republicans, whether intentional or not. Maybe their insistence that we cheat is because they know that they cheat, so everybody must do it.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    @opiejeanne

    Summer camp season = eight weeks. One year we had thunderstorms and/or plain ol’ rain all or most of 48 of the 56 days.

    Those of us on staff grew so desperate to come up with things to keep the campers occupied that we eventually commandeered a stack of trays from the dining hall (to be sat upon) and began a new regular outdoor activity for the odd hours when it diminished to a drizzle – mudsliding down a big hill.

    Two-fer as it filled one activity period, showering afterwards the following period.

  30. 30.

    Tokyokie

    @NotMax:

     

    Late to the thread, but I’m guessing that Chauvin is former military. A lot of them will adopt Florida as their state of residency because it has no state income tax, and they can do so if they’re assigned to a base in Florida at some point during their service careers.

  31. 31.

    opiejeanne

    @NotMax: When we lived in the SF Bay Area my youngest went to Science Camp for a week. I don’t remember where it was held but it rained every day. My kid was the only one with a poncho and rain boots*, so she wasn’t totally miserable all the time, but when she got home everything in her suitcase was wet and covered with mud. Mud Camp would have been a better name.

    *They gave us a list of stuff the kids would need, and those items were on that list. I guess no one else paid attention.

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    @J R in WV:  First, what is your pup’s name?  I’m sorry about the rough couple of days for both of you.  Glad he was fixable, though.

    So B J helps me deal with that… I get to interact with dozens of people, some i respect, some are funny, many are smart and share their knowledge.

    Next, I have to say that it’s probably for the best if none of us every find out our category assignments in your commenter database!  :-)

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @Sebastian:

    Ok folks, talk me off this ledge please:

    Why did the Minnesota cop vote in Florida? Do other rightwingers, perhaps cops do that? Organized?

    Sorry, can not talk you off the ledge.  I wondered the same thing myself, yesterday, when I first read about that.

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