Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Their shamelessness is their super power.

We still have time to mess this up!

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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

One way or another, he’s a liar.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

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

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Be a wild strawberry.

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

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

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COVID-19 “Corona Flu” Update – Wednesday/Thursday, 3/4-3/5 (Domestic Edition)

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Self-quarantined post, for dangerous levels of narcissistic senility…


Expanded clip of the same ‘conversation’ (monologue):

Out in the real world, there’s a lot of stories like this thread…

From the other side of the country:

What might’ve been…

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Election Year Open Thread: If I Can’t Vote for Warren, Biden’s Looking Better All the Time

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This morning:

This afternoon:

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Still A Little Sad About Warren

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This Jessica Valenti piece is worth reading:

I knew going into Super Tuesday that Elizabeth Warren was unlikely to win big. I had prepared myself for that. What did take me by surprise, though, was just how poorly she fared: Even in her home state of Massachusetts, she finished third.

Warren’s team says the senator is “talking … to assess a path forward,” but it’s hard to imagine a viable presidential campaign after last night.

It’s enough to make me feel, well, despairing: that we had the candidate of a lifetime — someone with the energy, vision, and follow-through to lead the country out of our nightmarish era — and that the media and voters basically outright erased and ignored her.

I honestly do not get it. I really don’t. I’m not the most enlightened or woke man on the planet, but maybe I benefited more from growing up on a college campus surrounded by women who are smarter and work harder than me and it doesn’t intimidate or bother me. For that matter, probably my greatest strength is appreciating how stupid I am and knowing my limitations, and recognizing people who know what they are talking about and getting out of their way when they do things. I’ve digressed.

She really is the best candidate out there. She single-handedly ended two campaigns on the debate stage- first, of course was that Delaney character who, if he is lucky, people in a few years will forget he even ran:

The second one was even more important, because Michael Bloomberg is an autocrat and a fascist, and was a true threat to democracy and the Democratic party. Warren recognized that, and worked behind the scenes to make sure he was on the debate stage. This, of course, was met with the reactions that THE DNC IS BEING BOUGHT OUT BY A BILLIONAIRE and the usual stuff, but, again, Warren had a plan.

She let Bloomberg get up on stage, and then she murdered him in front of the entire nation:

Elizabeth Warren threw herself on this grenade and saved the rest of us, and she paid a price for being the “shrill” and “shouty” woman. Do not be disillusioned about this. Michael Bloomberg is no longer in this race because of Warren. I can only dream what she would do to other billionaires if we made her President.

But that is not to be. We’re down to Biden and Bernie. Such a lost opportunity.

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Election Year Open Thread: Update on Some Local Races

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So it’s back to his original career plan – Rush Limbaugh, but from the ‘Left’...

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Now for Something Completely Different – Pop Quiz Treasure Hunt

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Pop Quiz Treasure Hunt:  How well do you guys know your way around the new site?

Let’s find out!

Where applicable, please show your work.  (i.e. share how / where you find your information or include the link)

First one in with the most correct answers wins, I don’t know, something?

  1. Who / what is in the image for the Music category?
  2. How can you find out the subject of BGinCHI’s next guest post?  (Hint: there’s more than one way.)
  3. What is the tag line for Balloon Juice?
  4. Which images on the Topics page are photos taken by Balloon Juice peeps?
  5. Who took which photos?

 

  1. What is the 30th rotating tag in the nominated rotating tags list?
  2. What is the exact date of Tom Levenson’s first post on Balloon Juice?
  3. Where is the blogroll located?
  4. How many top-level categories are there in the grid?
  5. How many of those were added this week?  Which ones are the new ones?

 

  1. Where can you find out about upcoming guest posts?  (Hint: there’s more than one way.)
  2. Where can you find the Mystery Recommendations 2020 list?
  3. Which front pager has a grumpy bunny as their banner image?
  4. What year did Betty Cracker start writing at Balloon Juice?
  5. Who wrote the first post on Valentine’s Day in 2015?

 

  1. How are the authors ordered in the grid?  Is it random?
  2. How do you nominate a rotating tag?
  3. Where is the Balloon Juice published authors list?
  4. How many different options are there on the Site Feedback form?
  5. Where can you find a picture of Jo Jo?

 

  1. If you don’t know who Jo Jo is, where could you go to find out?
  2. Can you name at least two of the people on the Gun Issues page?
  3. Which Balloon Juice author wrote a victorian political thriller?
  4. What are the 3 ways to get to an individual BJ thread from the front page?
  5. What is the banner image for the coronavirus category?

 

  1. Roughly how many pages of Anne Laurie posts are there?
  2. Which of our playwrights have upcoming productions?   (Hint: there’s more than one way.)
  3. At what establishment was the latest BJ meetup held?
  4. How many proposed meetups are there?  (Warning: trick question)
  5. What are the 3 ways to share a Balloon Juice post?

Bonus question:  Who is Max, where can you find him, and how much do I miss him?  (Another Scott)

Snotty bonus question:  Why don’t we have anyone on the Artists in Our Midst list?

Easy bonus question:  How cool is BG?  (Yutsano)

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Bloomberg Out

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