Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

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

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

I really should read my own blog.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

“But what about the lurkers?”

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

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

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Biden Takes Adam’s Advice

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President Biden met today with the Prime Ministers of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Today is the anniversary of the beginning, in 1941, of the Soviet Union’s deportation of citizens of those countries to Siberia and Kazakhstan after invading.

Adam suggested a larger group of countries, but these three, on this day, will send a message to Vladimir Putin.

[It should be noted that Estonia’s Prime Minister is female, though.]

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  4. 4.

    Old School

    Will this count as a press conference for Biden? Or will we still be told he never holds them?

    Just kidding – I know it won’t count.

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    Leto

    @laura: Competence through a genuine desire to help your fellow man, combined with practical/relevant experience in your given field.

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    Ken

    It should be noted that Estonia’s Prime Minister is female, though.

    Estonian has no grammatical gender and uses the same pronoun for “he” and “she”, though of course the English translator should have got the gender right.

    I’m reminded of this recent examination of Google’s translation of Hungarian, which also has a single ungendered third-person singular pronoun. The machines have picked up English gender bias – the gender-neutral Hungarian phrases become “he builds, she cleans, he is a politician, she raises children”.

  12. 12.

    Baud

    DATE: June 13, 2021

    FROM: POTUS

    TO: SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS

    RE: PUTIN SUMMIT

    ______________________________

    MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

  16. 16.

    Raoul Paste

    So US intelligence is reading this almost top 10,000 blog?

    And Adam said he wasn’t an insider, that sly dog

  17. 17.

    Ken

    @Baud: I was imagining something more dramatic. The POTUS is in a dimly-lit conference room with the entire Cabinet, the National Security Council, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  There is much agitated whispered conversation and sweaty brows being mopped. Suddenly the doors open and a mysterious figure is silhouetted in the doorway. The POTUS says “Silverman…” in an awestruck tone, and a sense of palpable relief sweeps the room.

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    germy

    BREAKING: An attorney for Reality Winner says the former NSA translator is out of prison for good behavior. She had been serving a sentence of more than five years for passing classified information to a news outlet. pic.twitter.com/lkUaewN2MI
    — Democracy Now! (@democracynow) June 14, 2021

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    Baud

    @germy:

    She had been serving a sentence of more than five years for passing classified information to a news outlet.

    I thought she leaked it to The Intercept.

  23. 23.

    Ken

    Am I the only one who hears “Reality Winner” and thinks for a moment it’s a racehorse, before remembering who she is?

    Er, clarifying; the only one on Balloon Juice. I’m fairly sure 95% or more of the US population never heard of her.

  24. 24.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Old School: The press today,..

    Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs Jun 13
    The 13-member Biden traveling press pool was given no access to   Potus  ’s inspection of the Guard of Honor with the Queen at Windsor Castle.
    It’s a breach of precedent to not have White House reporters there.

  30. 30.

    sab

    @Baud: What happened to her is when some of is realized that the Intercept is not actually a news organization. Before that I was under the mistaken that it was a news organozation that had the bad judgment to associate with GG. Afterwards I realized that the GG association was a feature and the occassional news coming out through them was the bug.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    [It should be noted that Estonia’s Prime Minister is female, though.]

    Yup. “His Excellency Kaja Kallas” is an error I wouldn’t have expected from this White House. NBD, of course. I just hope Fox doesn’t notice — they’ll do a week of outage.

  33. 33.

    Mike in NC

    Email informed me that tickets to Trump’s 2nd Inauguration dated August 15th are selling for $1200. Get them while they’re hot!

  41. 41.

    stinger

    @Ken: one who hears “Reality Winner” and thinks for a moment it’s a racehorse, before remembering who she is some other jackal makes it clear in their own comment.

    Every single time.

  45. 45.

    Ken

    @Betty: Heads must roll!

    Only if the reporters take their complaints to the queen and she pulls out some special reserve power.  It would probably be one that hasn’t been invoked since the twelfth century so Parliament never got around to restricting it, or forgot to cover this particular case — like the (disputed) claim that the Duke of Cornwall can legally set off nuclear bombs.

  46. 46.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Ken: How can there be a Medieval precedent for starting a nuclear war?  Richard the Lionhearted was using The Bomb on the Saracines or something?

  47. 47.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @WaterGirl:shorter: the press is a bunch of entitled self-absorbed whiners.

    It sure fits into the thesis that the White House press poll thinks they are part of the elite because the President talks at them time to time.

  54. 54.

    Geminid

    @CaseyL: Actually, it’s Zephyr Teachout. Teachout ran as the “progressive” candidate in the Democratic primary for N.Y. Attorney General in 2018, and lost to Letitia James.

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