Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

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

The US Supreme Court is on the ballot in november.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

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

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

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And I understand a lot of Milwaukee Bucks fans will be happy today, even if they didn’t get much sleep last night. Giannis Antetokounmpo seems like a genuinely nice guy!

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  3. 3.

    Jeffery

    The majority of voter do approve of what you are doing. That’s why they voted for you. Ram the  legislation  through however it has to be done. The GQP never hesitated to do so.

  6. 6.

    rikyrah

    Congratulations Milwaukee ????

    That young man strapped that team on his back and carried them over the threshold last night.

    Absolutely stunning performance.????

  7. 7.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @Jeffery: I think that all the “t”-s need to be crossed and the the “i”-s dotted, but yes, I agree that there should be no waiting at all for the Republicans. I don’t understand Schumer’s schedule because I am not privy to any of the considerations, but I don’t think one of those considerations should be “spend time trying to cajole assholes into morphing into not-assholes.”

  9. 9.

    Cervantes

    When you focus on the past, that’s your ego.

    When you focus on the future, that’s your pride.

     

    — Giannis Antetokounmpo

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    Ram it through, Chuck. You let those muthaphuckas ? stall as much as they can..  They are not sincere. No need to pretend that they are.

  15. 15.

    Baud

    @Jeffery:

    The GQP never hesitated to do so.

    I don’t understand how the GOP got this reputation among ourselves that they have had great legislative successes.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    Now there’s something you don’t read about every day.

    After responding to a medical call early Saturday morning, firefighters made a shocking discovery — their fire truck had been stolen. Source

  22. 22.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Baud: It’s the Reagan devolution, and the post-9/11 war and counterterrorism bills. Which at this point were all a long time ago.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    According to the news this morning, the GOP is asking Chuck to wait until Monday.  Lots of posturing going on, but either way, the end game is near.

  28. 28.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Chief Oshkosh:

    Rex ChapmanHorse racing@RexChapman
    I’ve watched this over and over and over again and I still can’t figure out how he doesn’t get his ass whipped immediately.
    Quote Tweet
    Fifty Shades of Whey
    @davenewworld_2
    · 8h
    GOP city council member in Alabama says “do we have a house n****r in here?” to a Black woman on the council. This racist scum Tommy Bryant needs to resign and Veronica Freeman deserves an apology.

     

    @debbie: Here you go.

  30. 30.

    Geminid

    Biden’s remarks to the Cabinet were simple and spot on. Good communication: to the Cabinet, to Democrats, and to the public.

  34. 34.

    Cameron

    And how about that Ted Cruz? Single-handedly strangling the State Department. What a guy!

  35. 35.

    OzarkHillbilly

    A moment that changed me: meeting the rescue dog who comforted me through unfathomable loss

    “You can lift them up if you want,” I was told. I eagerly complied but despite enjoying the heat of their tiny wee bodies and admiring their adorable faces, I didn’t experience any real connection. One by one, I put each puppy back in the pen. My husband looked crestfallen. “Not feeling it?” he asked, with obvious disappointment.

    The lady in charge of adoption quickly asked if we might be interested in an “older” dog as the mother of the pups was also up for adoption. She brought over a scrawny, ginger little thing and dropped her in my arms. I turned to my husband, grinning. “This is my dog,” I said.

    We had exchanged something deeply profound in that moment, me and this dog. A vow had been made. For life, we agreed. To the exclusion of all others, we said.
    …………………………
    Shortly after we officially adopted her, my parents came over from Scotland. It was a fraught visit as my mum’s illness was progressing fast and she appeared extremely diminished and vulnerable.

    Veela sensed this. She kept close to my mother, squeezing up next to her on the couch, in the car, in the garden.
    ……………………………….
    Losing a mother, losing a great mother, is to experience unfathomable loss. I doubt I would have survived without the profound teachings of my little red dog: live your life, humans. Live curiously. Eat well. Exercise. Take a nap. Stay enthusiastic. Don’t be afraid to express your love. Be silly. Have fun. And go, go, go.

  36. 36.

    germy

    The third defendant in the Barrack case, according to DOJ, fled the country three days after being interviewed by law enforcement in LA in **April 2018** and hasn't been back. pic.twitter.com/PllZiUumMe

    — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 20, 2021

    They’re all flight risks, with their money.

  39. 39.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @hueyplong: As a rich white guy with powerful friends, I doubt he’ll spend much time in jail, but pretrial release should be quite restrictive.

  42. 42.

    hueyplong

    @Geminid: And we’re talking incarceration in LA followed by the MDC in Brooklyn.  Ouch.

    He’ll be crooning tunes about Ivanka’s whatever-he-is.

  44. 44.

    Soprano2

    @germy: Hell yes, Tom Barrack is a huge flight risk. Wealthy people live in a world we can’t even dream of, where everyone flies on private planes and don’t have to go through security or check bags or show passports.

  45. 45.

    hueyplong

    @OzarkHillbilly: At least his powerful friends aren’t running the DOJ and the White House anymore.

    If the fix were in for him, seems like he’d have been charged and pardoned before Jan 20.

    Now those powerful friends are not only not in power anymore, they’re not really his friends.  They’re more like Remo in Casino.

  46. 46.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Baud: Aside from one tax-cut bill, the Republicans’ great legislative successes in recent years have mostly been in making things NOT happen. So I don’t think it’s all us. But they don’t really have a positive legislative agenda any more.

  47. 47.

    Jeffro

    DO IT, Chuck!  DO IT, Joe!  Just pass the dang thing and let’s get going on other vital things like oh voting rights, prosecuting the insurrectionists (including the ones in Congress), and getting the world vaccinated.

  48. 48.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Soprano2:

    Super easy for him and his resources to cut off ankle monitor, drive to Florida in a cash-purchased reliable beater, buy a reliable used boat with hired captain and make his way to Montevideo with a fresh passport as nice Canadian Guy Beaulieu of Ottawa.

  49. 49.

    Brachiator

    @Baud:

    I don’t understand how the GOP got this reputation among ourselves that they have had great legislative successes.

    They haven’t had great success, especially during the Trump administration. But they whine about the need for bipartisanship and demand compromise even though they never offer this to Democrats when the GOP is in power. The 2017 tax bill was written solely by Republicans. The Democrats never even got a chance to look at the bill. And polls indicated that the majority of the public opposed it. It was rammed through by the GOP anyway. From Wikipedia.

    The legislation was passed by Congress with little debate regarding the comprehensive reforming nature of the Act. The 400-page House bill was passed two weeks after the legislation was first released, “without a single hearing” held. In the Senate, the final version of the bill did not receive a public hearing, “was largely crafted behind closed doors, and was released just ahead of the final vote.” Republicans rewrote major portions of tax bill just hours before the floor vote, making major changes in order to win the votes of several Republican holdouts. Many last-minute changes were handwritten on earlier drafts of the bill.

    The GOP is shameless and brutal whenever they can get what they want.

  50. 50.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @hueyplong: If the fix were in for him,

    I’m not talking about him “getting off”, I’m talking about him getting pretrial release. In a country where a person is presumed innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, pretrial release should be the norm. As is it is reserved for rich people who can afford the bail and the lawyers to argue for it. If he is given pretrial release I would expect him to be confined to home with an ankle bracelet and monitored, on high bail.

  52. 52.

    SFAW

    @Brachiator:

    I had forgotten about the no-hearings-held part.

    In a rational country, their partei would never break 50 percent in any election, and would struggle to break 40 percent, unless and until they started acting like people who care about the country and its people.

    I’ve long been a proponent of deporting them all to Dumbfuckistan, but maybe the name should be changed to Cleekitania? [ETA: Since hatred of all things Demon-crap seems to be what drives them.]

  54. 54.

    germy

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I watched the entire clip and it seems the guy who used the slur was claiming he was quoting the Black mayor.  He claimed the mayor called the woman that slur.

    I don’t know if that’s true.  The council member is an obvious racist, either way.  What triggered him was the Black man reading his wife’s social media comments into the record.  His wife is a Fragile Southern White Woman (trademark) whose honor must be protected at all costs.

    I hope his cost is the loss of his seat.

  56. 56.

    sdhays

    @Baud: Congressional Republicans don’t have a long list of recent legislative successes because they no longer really have a legislative agenda, not because they hesitate to make it happen. When there’s consensus in their caucus, like with the 2017 tax bill, they don’t have any trouble making it happen. And they don’t bother trying to get Joe Manchin to go along with them, other than basically saying he should vote with them because West Virginia is so Republican.

    And “GQP” can refer to Republicans across the country, not just the worms taking up space in the US Congress. Republicans in state and local governments across the country haven’t hesitated to pass a shit-ton horrible bills, even in the face of popular referenda.

  59. 59.

    rikyrah

    1. I believe lawsuits are on Fox’s horizon. The right wing has killled en masse.
    2. The science has become overwhelming. 99.2% of COVID Deaths right now are from the UNVACCINATED. 99 out of 100 deaths – COMPLETELY UNNECCESSARY
    3. The division between Blue States and Red States is massive
    4. Wall Street sees Ms. Delta Rona as possible messing with their money.

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