Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Consistently wrong since 2002

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

This blog will pay for itself.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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I wanna screen the Squatter-in-Chief entering his next rally for these cats:

Also, cats don’t change much, and neither do the people who love them…

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  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    Someone was asking the other day about the distribution of COVID cases on a county rather than state level. The Post today revisited that analysis. Bottom line, since early September, there have been more new cases of the disease per week in Trump-voting counties than in Clinton counties. Since late September, more deaths per week. So, at this point, Trump’s dereliction of duty literally is killing his supporters.

  5. 5.

    Ian

    I was reading the celebrity assessments that HHS compiled for their 300 million dollar feel good publicly funded PR campaign/slush fund for Trump’s re-election. Some of the great tags “Not a trump supporter” “advocate for voting” “expressed disinterest in Trump”
    Rob Gronkowski (who has been vocally pro-trump and attended televised trump events)- No specific criminal or political notes
    Samuel L. Jackson- Has criticized Clarence Thomas
    Billie Eilish- stated Trump “is destroying our country and everything we care about.

    The real kicker on this great celebrity political assessment paid for by our own government?

    Kim and Khloe Kardashian- Christians, to appeal to other Christians.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    Refuse to entertain the thought I’m alone in having initially read that as

    Late Night Open Thread: Castration!

  8. 8.

    gene108

    @Ian: 

    Billie Eilish recently turned 18. I did not realize she’s just a kid. That’s a lot of success at a young age. Good for her.

  11. 11.

    eddie blake

    hi catie!

    (as both of my cats curl up besides me.)

    eta-once upon a time, i was SO not a cat-person.

    that ship has SAILED.

    (also, tang the conqueror’s enemy list is HILARIOUS.)

  12. 12.

    RandomMonster

    @HumboldtBlue: Holy s*** that video is good. I wish I could find a non-Twitter link to it. (When I try to share to Facebook for instance, it seems to break.)

  14. 14.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: Democrats Poised to Make State Legislative Gains

    KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
    — Democrats have gained massive ground in their battle for state legislatures since an overview in early May.

    — There will likely be a Democratic net gain in state legislative chambers, breaking a few Republican trifectas and creating a new Democratic trifecta.

    — The continuing electoral realignment between rural and suburban areas is present in state legislative races, as most Democratic flips are in the suburbs and most Republican flips are in rural areas.

  15. 15.

    Danielx

    Catsashion? Well, of course.

    He says, reclining with the senior and boss cat’s furry ass shoved up against hip.

  21. 21.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @NotMax:

    Imagine actually being an Hispanic supporter of Trump and the levels of self-loathing and cognitive dissonance that would require

    “Mexican rapists!”

    You gotta separate the families

    Babies in cages

  27. 27.

    KithKanan

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): For better or worse, that’s like accusing an English Brexiteer of “self-loathing and cognitive dissonance” for the bad things they say about Polish immigrants because they’re both Europeans.

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Something from within the article which stuck out (emphasis mine).

    In late August, a 16-minute clip of a paid program aired on Radio Caracol, of a man who was unidentified on the air and spewed hateful messages on Black immigrants, women and Jewish people.

    The station’s executives apologized, and admitted it failed to listen to the full program before it aired and returned the money to the agency that booked the air time.

    Jorge Gonzalez, the Miami businessman who read the script on air, told a Miami Herald reporter a few days later that the program was a pilot show, and due to the negative feedback, it would not be returning on air. When asked, he did not say if it was sponsored by any political group or candidate.

    What was his expectation, plaudits and a shower of rose petals? Idiotus supermaximus.

  33. 33.

    Emma from FL

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): You really are amazingly ignorant, aren’t you?  There is no such thing as Hispanic, much as there isn’t such a thing as an European. Germans aren’t Irish aren’t Swedes. Much the same Mexicans aren’t Cubans aren’t Argentinians. Different histories, different points of view, different beliefs. You expect to be recognized as separate people when you come from different cultures but to you everyone is a Hispanic. Christ. We got idiots and bigots just as you Europeans do. Surprise.

  34. 34.

    Winston

    @Emma from FL: I guess if you don’t live here you don’t get that Florida is a mass of diversity. Much like California. And will just get moreso. Well said.

  35. 35.

    OGLiberal

    This is completely anecdotal.  Had to go to our PA house today.  (From very Biden NJ-land). Very Trumpy land.  Lots of Trump signs but many of those houses had them  up two years ago.  The big interstate billboards were mostly Biden…a couple were “I’m a Republican and I’m voting for Biden”.  The sparser the population, the more Trump signs.  In our town the local diner had Trump signs but the pizza place next door – and they have the best pizza, better than what we get in NJ – had a Biden/Harris sign.  In front of the strip mall nearby was a sign that said, “Help Save America-Vote for Joe Biden”.  So I have hope even though lawn signs mean shit.

  37. 37.

    Emma from FL

    @Winston: It’s getting very interesting. I work with a fairly conservative not-Trumper descended from Scotsmen who swears up a storm in colloquial Cuban Spanish without a trace of an accent. My younger sisters speaks Spanish, English, and Korean. One of my co-workers is a Lebanese refugee fluent in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish. The cultural blender is turned up to 11.  And yet, we all carry our cultural prejudices with us.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    @Winston

    Moreso among Cuban-Americans one needs to look at additional breakdowns. First generation, second generation, third generation.

  41. 41.

    Emma from FL

    @NotMax: Plus those of us who were not Miami settlers. Cubans are fairly clannish but those of us that were not raised in Near-Cuba (aka Hialeah) are considerably different both politically and culturally.

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    @OGLiberal

    the local diner had Trump signs

    Territorial marker so the MSM knows where to go to interview the true salt of the earth ‘Murkins.

    //

  43. 43.

    Winston

    @mrmoshpotato: The lesson is copy the URL code, not the Embed code. I posted this on FB with the embed code; it worked. I copied that with the URL code to here. Should Balloon Juice tech be updated? I don’t know. Why can’t jackals just post the videos like every blog in the top 10,000?

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    @Winston

    It slightly slows up the loading time enough when a front pager inserts a video into comments. Multiply that by 10, 20, 30 commenters doing the same.

  47. 47.

    Winston

    @Emma from FL: I lived in California for 15 years from 1980 to the mid 90s in the Bay Area. Every year I was able to hire a more diverse staff and every year it paid off. I was very proud of that. Our division was called the “little united nations”.

  49. 49.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax: w4

    Americans need a song about Cletus safaris, I think, perhaps to the tune of The Beach Boys’ Surfing Safari. And I do believe that you’re just the person to write the lyrics.

  50. 50.

    Ascap_scab

    I figured out why Tucker Carlson suddenly dropped the Tony Bobulinski attack on Hunter Biden. I think Tony B is a Borat plant!! You heard it here first.

  52. 52.

    jl

    @NotMax:

    ” Refuse to entertain the thought I’m alone in having initially read that as

    Late Night Open Thread: Castration! ”

    You were correct to refuse. I proceeded with caution. But, it’s a cute post.

    Edit: I’ll probably get banned for breaking BJ rules, but even though this is not an official respite post, thanks for the respite.

  57. 57.

    germy

    @Ascap_scab:  I figured out why Tucker Carlson suddenly dropped the Tony Bobulinski attack on Hunter Biden. I think Tony B is a Borat plant!! You heard it here first.

    A reporter named Roger from Salon texted Tucker.  Tucker said something like “I think they’re tapping our phones!” and the reporter realized Tucker thought he was communicating with Roger Stone.

    Especially after Tucker said “Wait, which Roger is this?”

    I don’t have a link to the Salon story, but it appeared yesterday I think.

  58. 58.

    Aleta

    (Sac Bee)  A high school student who tested positive for COVID-19 likely spread it to 116 others at a Wisconsin summer camp, health officials said Thursday.  All campers at the overnight summer school retreat scheduled for July 2 to Aug. 11 were tested for the coronavirus before their arrival, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But a ninth-grade boy began experiencing COVID-19 symptoms July 3 and tested positive two days later.

    The faith-based camp, which was not identified but reportedly took place in the southeastern part of the state, was attended by 152 high school-aged boys, counselors and staff members from 21 states and territories, as well as two foreign countries, according to the CDC report.

    Campers were not required to social distance or wear masks upon arrival and classes were held outside with tables less than 6 feet apart, according to the report, which noted teachers did wear masks during instruction. Beds were tightly spaced at the site’s dorms and yurts, CDC officials said.

    The infected boy learned after his arrival that one of his family members tested positive for the coronavirus, the CDC said.

  59. 59.

    Geminid

    @Emma from FL: The cultural blender is turned up high, and marriage across ethnic lines will only increase. I can imagine a gathering of the Koch chemical industry clan in forty years. The remainder of pure Western European descendants will be a minority, and as such will be the butt of good natured humor.

  61. 61.

    J R in WV

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

     

    There are a great many Hispanic folks living in the Southwest whos families were living there centuries before there was a United States.

    They are not Mexicans, their families have not been Mexicans for many generations, they never moved from Mexico to the US, and evidently in many cases agree with Trump about illegals and Mexicans.

  63. 63.

    Goku (Amerikan Baka)

    @satby:

    What the hell is that supposed to mean? Sorry, I don’t know everything I guess?

    @Emma from FL:

    I know full well “Hispanics” aren’t a homogeneous group. I know they have different histories. I’m not that fucking stupid.

    I would just think that Cuban-American Trump supporters, etc would be smart enough and have empathy enough to understand Trump doesn’t have their best interests at heart

    I just love how everybody jumped on my one throwaway comment and didn’t even bother with my positive one further up

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