Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Everybody saw this coming.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

The revolution will be supervised.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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Night Owl Open Thread: Pet Calendars + Zoom + Anything Else

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Hey night owls!  And people who can’t sleep.  This post is for you.

The 2021 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendars are ready to order!

Half of the  calendar orders have already shipped.

Calendar A

2021 Balloon Juice Pet Calendar: Calendar A

Calendar B

2021 Pets of Balloon Juice: Calendar B

You can click this link to order and you can order by clicking the special blue box up top.

If you have pets in the calendars and have not yet reviewed the calendars, please do so before placing your order.  You will find the pages of each calendar in the links in the sidebar.

If you find a problem, corrections can still be made.  But the calendar has to be changed BEFORE you place your order with Cafe Press.  The calendars are printed on demand by Cafe Press, and there’s no way to stop an order once you place it.

If you find an issue:

  1. Notify us in this post
  2. Wait for us to let you know that it has been fixed and the page has been updated
  3. Review the calendar again to verify all is good
  4. Then place your order.

Calendars are $25 each.  We planned to offer $5 off if you ordered both Calendar A and Calendar B, but Cafe Press doesn’t offer a way to do that.  So all calendars are $25 each.

The calendars cost $15 to print at Cafe Press, so we make $10 on each calendar, which goes directly to the pet rescue.

Open thread.

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48Comments

  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    In case anyone missed it, we are having a Balloon Juice zoom on Monday night at 8 pm BLOG TIME. (aka Eastern)

    Zoom opens at 7:30 for 30 minutes of visiting for anyone who wants to do that.  Then at 8, Tom will say a few words.  At 8:10, BG will have a Q&A with Tom, author-to-author.  At 8:30 Tom will answer audience questions, and then a discussion follows.

    Send me an email if you want to attend.  After the racist zoom bomber at the 10 pm Thanksgiving zoom, we are being a bit more circumspect with the zoom link & password.

    Also, two more audio copies of the book to be handed out.

    Hope you can join us

    Update: I haven’t read the book at all yet.  Tom is an interesting guy, and I’m looking forward to hearing more from him.  I think we are quite lucky to have Tom at Balloon Juice.

  4. 4.

    sfinny

    Thank you for this reminder.  I thought I was not able to do the zoom because of Zumba, but I am quarantined for the next 10 days.  Will download zoom tomorrow and email you for sign-in info.

  6. 6.

    Comrade Colette

    @tybee:  Not quite yet, where I am.

    ETA: and not quite yet in Pearl Harbor, either. ?

    @WaterGirl:
    A gentle reminder to put time zones in these notices. I am guessing you mean 7:30 EST and not PST (which is the time zone in which I currently attempt to hide [not that anyone could] from the Hogfather)?

  7. 7.

    Comrade Colette

    @sfinny: Quarantined? Eeek! Hope all is well, and that it’s for the most innocuous of reasons, although I can’t imagine what that would be.  Good luck and good health!

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    @tybee:

    It’s also the anniversary of the Japanese invasion of Malaya — which was pretty much simultaneous with the attack on Pearl Harbor. (History records that Pearl Harbor was bombed on the 7th and Malaya invaded on the 8th, but one must allow for the International Date Line.)

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    Rudy Giuliani is draining precious hospital resources and endangering healthcare workers because he couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask or shelter in place. And now he’s getting care that’s unavailable and unaffordable for others. https://t.co/aPstSGbYzl— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 7, 2020

    GHOULIANI IS BITING HOSPITAL STAFF AND SUCKING THEIR BLOOD!

  22. 22.

    patrick II

    I have been wondering if they give i.d. cards or something when you become vaccinated.  Bars and restaurants or stadium events only let in those with vaccination i.d.   Otherwise, what would stop unvaccinated people from continuing to spread the disease until herd immunity?

  27. 27.

    mrmoshpotato

    Alright late night Twitter, let's get weird.What's one uncomfortable fact that you know?— Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom (@NunesAlt) December 6, 2020

    Let’s see what madness lies within!

  28. 28.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    Regarding Giuliani and COVID, I’m not going to laugh or gloat about him catching the bug, but I’m not wishing him well either, and I haven’t got any sympathy to spare for the rat fucking son of a bitch.

    COVID has now cost me Christmas and New Year’s as well – Greece is probably going to continue its lockdown through the end of the year, so I’m pretty much going to be alone in my apartment through the holidays. Any GOP neofascist coming to me for sympathy can go pound sand.

  29. 29.

    JoyceH

    @patrick II:

    I have been wondering if they give i.d. cards or something when you become vaccinated. Bars and restaurants or stadium events only let in those with vaccination i.d. Otherwise, what would stop unvaccinated people from continuing to spread the disease until herd immunity?

    It would have to be a photo ID with substantial fines for using someone else’s card or letting someone else use your card. Otherwise, in some families and friend groups, there would be the communal vax card. “Can I borrow the card? I want to go to the game.”

  30. 30.

    NotMax

    @JoyceH

    Big nyet to opening the door to federal photo ID. If we absolutely must tread that path, issued by the state wherein vaccination takes place, please.

    Also have to take into account em>which vaccine is being administered (and if it proves efficacious in the long run versus a different one), as well as not shutting out those in the latter tiers of priority.

    In short, whole lot of variables and down the line ramifications to be considered before jumping to any sort of blanket policy.

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    @opiejeanne

    Acceptable, if still kind of oogy, alternative. Emboss them or laminate a new hologram onto them to serve as proof. For those who have neither provide the same state ID as already obtainable AT NO CHARGE.

  34. 34.

    JoyceH

    @NotMax: 

    State or Federal, whatever, I don’t care. In fact, I don’t even have an opinion on whether or not there should be an ID identifying the bearer as vaccinated. All I’m saying is that if we DO decide to go down that path, it needs to be a real ID that really matches to the person presenting it, otherwise it will just give a false sense of security, and no ID at all would probably be better.

    In fact, no ID probably IS better. Remember, this virus is brand new and the vaccines are brand new. What the developers don’t know yet, and won’t know until the vaccine is administered widely and for a significant period of time, is whether or not the vaccine renders the vaccinated person unable to infect others. It might be that the vaccine keeps you from getting sick, but doesn’t keep you from being infectious. So until we do reach herd immunity and cases are increasingly rare, I think even the vaccinated people are going to have to continue to mask up when out in public.

  36. 36.

    JoyceH

    @NotMax: actually, I can see a value in such a card, but for the person’s own use. A little card that documents which vaccine you got and when you got it. Because there will be several types of vaccines, and eight months later if a doctor asks you which one you got and when, would you remember it? Not sure I would.

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    @Comrade Colette: Thanks for the reminder.  I am on central time, but for all things Balloon Juice, I always speak in blog time, aka Eastern time.

    But yeah, it’s better if people don’t have to miss a beat and wonder which time zone.

  41. 41.

    Zelma

    I tried to send an email regarding the Zoom meeting but it wouldn’t send.  I sent it to WaterGirl at balloon.juice.com

    What did I do wrong?  I almost always do something wrong.

  43. 43.

    Miss Bianca

    @WaterGirl: Wish I could be there – alas, I have to cover a Town Council meeting. Which has cancelled the public hearing I was actually most interested in, so pity poor me, missing Tom L on Zoom to try to listen in on the town’s crappy conference call tech to their 2021 budget hearing instead. Ah, well.

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    I have sent email with the zoom details to 20 people.  I’m confident that I got everyone, but still, if you RSVP’d for the zoom and you don’t have an email from me with the zoom details, please send me an email to let me know.

    it’s not to late to attend the zoom, even if you haven’t let me know already.  Last minute peeps are still welcome.  Let me know as soon as you can so I can send you the zoom info.

  46. 46.

    jame

    I can’t view the calendar pages. All that shows up are thumbnails of the cover.
    Please advise.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    @jame:  The previews on Cafe Press are always pretty worthless.

    Are you looking at the calendar posts in the sidebar?  Those are the ones to look at.

    You can find out which calendar your guys are in through the spreadsheet links that are also in the sidebar.

    If you don’t have any pets in the calendar and just want to look at it to decide which to get, then just look at the calendar links that say this:

    Calendar A (check pictures!)
    Calendar B (check pictures!)

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