Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

This fight is for everything.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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

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

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

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Consistently wrong since 2002

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

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    WaterGirl

    Paging Amir.  Some folks were asking after you today, hope you can make this zoom!  We’ve had some international folks at our zooms today.

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    Felanius Kootea

    It was good to see people at the 6 p.m. (3 p.m. for me in LA) meeting, even if briefly.  Just finished eating a slice of dark chocolate bourbon pecan pie from Akasha (a restaurant in Culver City, CA) with ice cream and I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever eaten. Almost makes up for not being able to visit my family in New York.

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone and thanks WaterGirl!

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    Mike in NC

    We’re spending Thanksgiving evening doing what all Real Americans do, binge watch “The Crown” on Netflix.

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    mrmoshpotato

    Watch this!

    via Green_Footballs

    Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. It was a hit, and resulted in this: THE GREATEST VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN. pic.twitter.com/B3mQWmQgXq— Harry (@HarrietMould) November 26, 2020

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    frosty

    Wi-fi is unstable; it doesn’t help that both kids are home and playing something on Younger Son’s new gaming PC. I’m enjoying it when it works though!

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    PsiFighter37

    Completely missed y’all – after kiddo was down, my wife and I watched 3 episodes of “The Morning Show” (really good IMO – much better than most TV shows about a TV show; also helps that the cast is phenomenal), and now it’s time for sleep so I can hit 6AM wake up duty. I will try to make an in-person one whenever circumstances allow for it.

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    Rob

    @mrmoshpotato: I lived in Italy in the early 70s when that song was on the radio and I even bought a single/45 rpm of it. However I didn’t see the performance until some time in the oughts after it was on YouTube. By then I had lost the record in a moved. I still love the song.

    I was on this Zoom briefly, had to leave, didn’t say anything. It was nice to see all you folks.

    Back to lurking.

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    something fabulous

    Wasn’t that nice! Thanks so much– lovely to see so many folks, especially after being so much of a hermit this last long while IRL. Thanks again for putting this together– and so many in one day for all the different zones! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Chris Johnson:

    Maybe next time, I’ll work up the courage to turn on my camera.

    But I got to see your guitars. And it looked like you were at your studio workstation. I couldn’t compete with that.

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    SFBayAreaGal

    I am so happy that I met all that attended the last Zoom meeting. Thank you Watergirl, John and everyone that helped make this go.

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    Nyrobbin

    It was great attaching faces to the names/nyms. I was at the 2pm and 10pm ones. I mostly lurked and enjoyed the conversation. When I unmuted and tried to speak I wasn’t sure if anyone heard me. I didn’t have the camera on, and I noticed my nym on the call was “newbaby” which was my name for my first iPhone.

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    WaterGirl

    @Nyrobbin: I never heard newbaby speak at any of the zooms, and it looked like you were muted all the time.

    It’s easy to change to your nym from within zoom.   Will keep an eye out for you at the next one!

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