Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

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

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

People are weird.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

You cannot love your country only when you win.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

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  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    how does anyone do Gilligan’s Island as trump world and not cast Jared as Gilligan?

  4. 4.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    They’re going to play Giuliani’s doctored audio tapes during the convention and scream about Hunter Biden for 4 days, aren’t they?

  5. 5.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    Copied from downstairs…

    There’s the real RNC list of speakers:

    • Abby Johnson
    • Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa)
    • Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley
    • House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.)
    • Patricia and Mark McCloskey
    • South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem
    • Vice President Mike Pence
    • Andrew Pollack
    • Nick Sandmann
    • Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.)
    • President Donald Trump
    • First Lady Melania Trum

    I should note, these speakers are for Tuesday through Thursday.  Monday will be the Roll Call of the States.

  6. 6.

    opiejeanne

    OT, Anne Laurie, I tried to send you some photos for the Sunday Garden Chat, but I am afraid all three emails bounced. (There are three emails from me because I tried to only send a few in each email)

    I sent them all to your gmail account, but maybe you’ve got a new address?

  9. 9.

    RaflW

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    That is an incredibly thin list. We’ve heard from three former US presidents.

    As I said a little differently in the earlier thread, as much as the Trumpified GOP resents GWB, it also likely burns them up that he avoided 2016 and is in total hiding now.

  10. 10.

    Anne Laurie

    @opiejeanne: Dang!  Both annelaurie.bj[at]gmail.com and anne-laurie[at]balloon-juice.com were working this morning…

    ETA:  I send you a message, at the email attached to your comment.  With luck, you can use the ‘reply’ to send your pics!

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    Every four years, the Democratic convention has musicians I don’t really know because I’m too old and the Republican convention has musicians I’m surprised to learn are still alive.— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) August 20, 2020

  13. 13.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @opiejeanne: The other day the wife just blurted out, “everyone around Trump is a white guy”.  I was like “yup”.  But that list does have some diversity, Haley’s Indian and Tim Scott is Black, but other than that, it’s pretty white bread.

  15. 15.

    JaySinWA

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Whoa, I missed Nikki Haley from the list. I would have bet she would stay miles away from this. I wonder if they just put up a wish list and not confirmed speakers.
    ETA Cotton and Ernst I can see, they are pretty tightly hitched to the wagon so they might has well go for the ride, but Haley’s been keeping a pretty low profile.

  22. 22.

    Ruckus

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    It’s the whitest of white bread. The most tasteless, the least nutrition  and it falls apart when you pick up the sandwich, which is 2 slices, one piece of tasteless American cheese, a dab of imitation mayo. IOW a navy midrat sandwich. The midrat which comes with a deviled egg and a Twinkie and the Twinkie is the best part.

  23. 23.

    joel hanes

    Open thread?

    The mountains on both sides of Silicon Valley are afire, lit in literally hundreds of places by lightning a few nights ago, and now growing and joining.   The governments have nothing like the resources required to fight fire on this scale.

    Big Basin Park has burned.  The mountain communities of Bonny Doon and Felton have fire on their outskirts, and are losing houses.  Felton and Boulder Creek and La Honda have evacuated.   The Santa Cruz mountain fire is only a mile from the campus of the University of Santa Cruz.

    On the other side, part of the front side and the entire back side of Mount Hamilton are burning, and I fear for the observatory.  Del Valle regional park is burning.

    North of the Bay, an enormous fire is building strength in the hills above the wine country.

    These are huge fires, and are pretty much 0% controlled.

    The state government has advised everyone in the entire state to make preparations to evacuate if so ordered.  We’re filling the gas tanks on the cars, parking nose-out, buying bottled water, and thinking through what belongs in the go bag.

    No rain in the forecast — only continued high temperatures.

    Trump does not want to send emergency aid to California, because most of us won’t vote for him.

    I’ll be glad when 2020 is over.

  30. 30.

    opiejeanne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I expected him to have a couple of tokens that his handlers insisted on, but it’s a really dull group of speakers and I think I’ll be busy washing my hair every night, so darn.

  32. 32.

    opiejeanne

    @joel hanes: Where in California are you?

    I’m having waking nightmares now, remembering the firestorm in Paradise (Camp Fire), the firestorm in Oakland in 1991, the one Julian ,San Diego County 2003, the Old Fire in 2003 (San Bernardino Mountains, Lake Arrowhead, Crestline, et).

    We sold the cabin in Blue Jay a year ago because I decided I was too old to sift through the ashes of a place I love, because I know that the next time that mountain catches fire, they won’t be able to save the town, let alone a cabin 800 feet from town.

  33. 33.

    opiejeanne

    @MisterForkbeard: Even though I don’t live there any more, I feel like crying. It will always be home to me. I lived there for 60 years, 51 of them in SoCal, and I still love California.

  35. 35.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:

    That has not occurred to me, but the odds a doctored video tape is played at the RNC are pretty high, aren’t they?  Trump loves them, which means he believes them, and why wouldn’t they?  There’s nothing to stop them.

    @Mary G:

    Dang, that also did not occur to me.  I need to listen to some of last night’s singer.  Professionally, I need to know who/what is currently popular.

    @JaySinWA:

    Yay.  I’m sure Rudy will produce another idiotic flop.

    @JaySinWA:

    Listing unconfirmed speakers would be typical.  Trump has done it before.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    To pull in the Hamilton crowd, Melania will perform a rap number, Mega MAGA Man, composed by “Biggie J” Kushner, while she’s dressed as Susan B. Anthony.

    Then in a surprise segment Dolt 45 will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, with Extreme Super Bestest Distinction, to…

     

    …himself.

  40. 40.

    joel hanes

    @opiejeanne:

    Santa Clara, in Silicon Valley, out in the flats west of San Jose and SE of Sunnyvale.

    Been making lists, trying to figure out where to jump to if I have to evacuate my family (three households).

    I’m now thinking Pismo Beach: unlikely to burn, outside the fire areas,  there’s a way to get there that isn’t much threatened by the fires, many motels, reasonable temperatures, a beach where we can get some socially-distanced time together.

    The Sacramento Bee has the best overview (probably paywalled; I’m a subscriber)

  44. 44.

    opiejeanne

    @Joel hanes: Yikes! I know about where you are. I lived for 9 years in Castro Valley and worked a couple of years in Silicon Valley. I hope you can be safe and don’t lose anything or anybody.

    The reply buttons aren’t working for me, but it’s probably a glitch on my end. My Mac has been acting up since this morning when Apple did an upgrade of some sort. This site looks a little off, as do several others.
    And I see that BJ doesn’t remember me, so probably none of my passwords will work on other sites. Drat.

  45. 45.

    Van Buren

    @opiejeanne: In August of 1969, when I was 7, my family spent a week at a campground in Blue Jay, just before my father was scheduled to go Vietnam. As it happened, in September, he needed an appendectomy and didn’t make it overseas until December.

    Had not thought about that vacation in a long time, but the name immediately rung a bell.

  46. 46.

    opiejeanne

    @Van Buren: Was it a place with a lodge and a bunch of little cabins? Because that property was for sale a couple of years ago. The lodge and cabins are long gone, the foundations are still there, but the property was about 40 acres IIRC, and the price was kind of a bargain.

  51. 51.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @joel hanes: can you get a hotel reservation in Pismo Beach now if you give them a deposit? I m just remembering what happens outside the danger zone around here when we have a natural disaster…the hurricane had hotels jacking up prices after the storm passed.

  54. 54.

    Ken

    @JPL: He’s already doing that.  Maybe he’ll start using more exclamation marks – as Terry Pratchett said, a sure sign of a diseased mind.

  55. 55.

    opiejeanne

    @Ken: I dislike Bryan Williams but tonight he expressed extreme disgust that while Obama was speaking, Trump was tweeting in all-caps. He emphasized “while President Obama was speaking tonight“.

    He also expressed annoyance at an article in the FTFNYT by Peter Baker that disingenuously tried to pretend that Obama’s speech was about how much he has at stake, how much Obama’s legacy would be destroyed, as if Obama was that shallow. As if Obama wasn’t raising the alarm for the loss of our country and the end of democracy.

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    @joel hanes: When I read earlier that the entire state ha been told to make preparations to evacuate, I hoped that someone had gotten that wrong.

    That’s mind-boggling and scary as hell.

    With how fast things are moving, is a California check-in thread helpful every day?  Every few days?  Just once was enough?

  60. 60.

    artem1s

    @opiejeanne:

    Peter Baker that disingenuously tried to pretend that Obama’s speech was about how much he has at stake

    wonder if he will say the same about Rudy – a noun, a verb, 9/11

  61. 61.

    artem1s

    @opiejeanne:

    It would be kind of amusing if W endorsed Biden. Can you imagine the orange outrage?

    F W and his scummy SCOTUS appointments. I still can’t believe Lewis’ family let Skippy McDumbass anywhere near the funeral as he is directly responsible for destroying the Voting Rights Act pre-clearance rule and the Bush Crime Family let Karl Rove run amuck with gerrymandering, rigging voting machines, and voter suppression in every state in the union.

  62. 62.

    leeleeFL

    @artem1s: That was a Joe Biden tour de force!  I said at the time…..”Let us Savor!”  Sooooo delicious!

     

    Also, Sen. Warren is a favorite of mine, always, but she won my Grandma heart in that video with her Aunt Bee!  My Mom was my Aunt Bee for a while and it made it possible for me to end a bad marriage and start a different life.

  63. 63.

    leeleeFL

    @artem1s:  There will be a special place in hell for W, Cheney, Rove, Alberto and their band of merry destroyers.   Not sure they could turn anyone around anyway….decent Republicans ( I know, I know ) are already with us and the others are totally in the bag for tRump.

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