You get 10-15 words for each message.
You get to send a message to three people: one politician you respect, one politician you loathe, and one member of the news media.
Who are your three people and what are your three messages?
Totally open thread.
WaterGirl
This is Balloon Juice, after all, so I expect that at least two rules will be broken by the time we get to comment #5.
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: does that include the rules of physics and the rules of polite society? ?
Jane2
1. You saved people from ruin when it counted. You have my vote. —to Justin Trudeau.
2. You couldn’t bring yourself to vote against conversion therapy. Pander to the wingnuts and lose. —to Erin OToole.
3. Stop booking grifters. —to every cable news network host everywhere.
grumbles
You fought the good fight. -> Barbara Lee
I will piss on your grave and post it to Twitter. -> Don (T)rump
You are not professional wrestling script writers. Report the damn news. -> Every talking head
John Cole
I have a different game. I have three words for everyone.
“Leave Me Alone.”
zhena gogolia
Catherine D.
dexwood
Uncle Joe – keep it up, fuck your ignorant critics. Lindsey Graham – when did your Trump crush kick in and how much did you get for your soul? News media – damn, where to begin… Dear Tuckkker…
Shalimar
Can I somehow get Jonathan Allen permanently assigned to the Kabul bureau with my message?
Damien
Please teach me and all Democrats your ways – Nancy Pelosi
Coal isn’t coming back, quit trying to make it happen – Joe Manchin
Social media isn’t real life – Literally All of Them
Richard
Governor Abbot- why you do this? What are you thinking?
President Biden- you were not my first choice but i voted you . Thank you.
That Doucey guy- thanks for the laughs. You be you.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: Why not?
Felanius Kootea
1. Nancy Pelosi – You are one of the greatest and most underestimated politicians I have known.
2. Ron DeSantis – Are you fully vaccinated, but putting your citizens’ lives in danger for your presidential ambitions?
3. Reporters – If you had evidence that a powerful politician was a sociopath, would you report that?
WaterGirl
@John Cole: Your image looks lovely against the blue background.
Thanks for dressing up the thread!
Bluegirlfromwyo
Joe Biden: Don’t let the bastards get you down. You’re doing great.
Ted Cruz: Next time you go to Cancun, just stay there.
Chuck Todd: Shut your piehole. Permanently.
WaterGirl
I would like to hear answers to some of these questions.
WaterGirl
@Felanius Kootea: Sad to say, but I think we already know the answer to your #3.
Dagaetch
Joe Biden – Thank you for having the courage of your convictions and sticking to them.
Mitch McConnell – I wish I believed in Hell, because I am certain it is your destination.
Maggie Haberman – Haven’t read any articles by you in a while, did Ivanka stop calling?
PsiFighter37
@Catherine D.: I concur with the last two. Maybe add another epithet, like fuckface or asshole, for good measure.
Slightly OT, but DougJ’s Twitter posts are getting better and better. Practice makes perfect.
PsiFighter37
@Dagaetch: Poor MagHabs. I have also noticed that she has been getting less bylines, even on the stories where Trump is the topic. Sad!
debbie
Who’s sorry now? — Governor Cuomo
Miss Amy yet? — Governor DeWine
Sucker punched again? — Peter Doocy
CaseyL
To Jay Inslee (Governor of Washington): Thank you for your leadership during the pandemic. Please be our Governor forever.
To Mitch McConnell: My wish for you: An extended old age, powerless, decrepit and incontinent, with just enough wits left to feel misery, surrounded by people who despise you.
To all the pundits: Throw away your Rolodexes, start over, and never have another Republican on your shows ever.
NOTE: Governor Inslee isn’t the only politician I respect, but he’s certainly the closest, and doesn’t get nearly the acclaim he deserves.
WaterGirl
@PsiFighter37: It’s an Open Thread – it’s hard to go off topic. :-)
This one is maybe the best ever:
Benw
I was told there would be no math.
Jackie
No one will ever be your equal – Nancy Pelosi
You’re trying to kill my grandchildren! – DeathSantis
May you all die long, slow agonizing deaths – Fox News
brendancalling
To TFG: i hope you spend the rest of your life in jail, you piece of shit.
To Joe Biden: thank you for being the President America needs. We don’t deserve you.
To Tucker Carlson: I hope the Louvin Brothers are right about Satan and Hell, because you’re gonna BURN.
Ruckus
Nancy Pelosi – Keep on Keeping on – forever please.
Mitch McConnell – Lighting hitting you repeatedly for an hour would be a fitting end. Hope it’s soon.
FTFNYT editorial staff – Hope you are hugging Mitch McConnell when the lighting strikes.
WaterGirl
@Benw: Is counting to 10 actually math?
If I had said you get 3 comments and the total number of words for all three can’t be more than 45, now that would be math!
Kristine
Joe Biden: I feel a profound sense of relief knowing you’re our President
Kyrsten Sinema: what are you actually trying to accomplish?
Any political pundit: why don’t you ever ask Republicans about working with Dems?
zhena gogolia
These are very good.
WaterGirl
This is hard. I would choose Joe or Nancy for the first one, but after that… so many choices and so much anger and frustration.
Who came up with this game, anyway?
Dagaetch
@WaterGirl: some crazy woman who spends all her time on an almost top 10,000 blog, probably. I say with love of course :)
PsiFighter37
@WaterGirl: He had one about asking unvaccinated TFG supporters at an Arby’s for their opinion of Afghanistan. Had me cackling like a witch. It’s definitely something NYT would do.
WaterGirl
@Kristine: I think maybe we should have a Balloon Juice zoom where we have a pretend press conference with Joe Biden and Jen Psaki and we all get to ask our questions and let BJ peeps take turns answering them.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
Was that 45 word limit actually aimed at me?
Or Tony Jay?
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: Neither!
I had just said 10-15 for each one, so I multiplied 15 by 3 and got 45. :-) I was just razzing Benw, who appears not to have even stuck around for the razzing!
Sure Lurkalot
Raphael Warnock, keep speaking truth to power with eloquence and grace.
Matt Gaetz, go to jail, go directly to jail.
Media, the altar of both sides should be littered with your awful resumes.
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: Or maybe we should get to pretend we are all the idiots in the press pool and try to out-doocy Doocy?
Benw
@WaterGirl: when I have to count above 6 or so I usually just give up and go with “shitloads”
Jackie
@WaterGirl: Unpossible!
Benw
@WaterGirl: ha! I was just typing slow because my comment had shitloads of words
Suzanne
@John Cole: And here I am, in the Strip District, eating some great pasta, thinking we should have a Balloon Juice Pittsburgh Foodie meetup.
WaterGirl
@Jackie: But it might be fun to try.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: Ask him tomorrow, Cole might be in a different mood by then.
James E Powell
To Gavin Newsom: Look right into the camera and ask people to vote for you.
To Desantis: If you dropped dead from COVID, I would start believing in a just God.
To Soledad O’Brien: You should have a show replacing Chris Cuomo.
dmsilev
To the media: Delete your Twitter accounts. All of them.
To Trump: Twitter deleted your account. Hahahaha
Another Scott
Speaker Pelosi – Thank you for using your power to make the USA better.
Addison Mitchell McConnell III – You failed in your cynical attempt to break the Union.
John Lansing (CEO of NPR) – The USA needs NPR to do better. Tell us the truth.
Yeah, they’re too long. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
James E Powell
I got home from work & grocery shopping, jumped on twitter, saw that the word “asswipe” was trending. I click on it. Top tweet: Governor Abbott has COVID.
Elizabelle
@WaterGirl:
I laughed out loud. Pitchbot perfect.
Alison Rose
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: I said 10-15 in the fine print. Plus it’s Balloon Juice, where rules are just suggestions. :-)
Cameron
I guess Texas didn’t want Florida to have all the fun. Just saw a news item advising that 4 TX school districts are closed due to COVID.
WaterGirl
And we are officially past #50… so talk about whatever you like.
FelonyGovt
To Joe Biden: Thank you for your steadfast, thoughtful, grown-up leadership. We appreciate you.
To Kevin McCarthy: What did California ever do to deserve you, you sniveling moron?
To Gustavo Arellano (a columnist for the LA Times and author of Ask a Mexican, among other books): I like you- but stop inflaming “Latino anger” toward Gavin Newsom and other Democrats.
gwangung
To Stacey Abrams: I want to be you when I grow up.
To Rand Paul: You’re a stupid person’s idea of intelligence.
To national press correspondents: You’re out of touch with Americans and are too arrogant to talk with them.
japa21
@WaterGirl: That’s a rule now? Damn, I never get the updated guidelines.
Sure Lurkalot
@Benw:
Like all great physicists!
WaterGirl
@japa21: That has always been kind of an unwritten rule, even on threads that don’t say open thread.
edit: I was really just trying to get the thread going, so I don’t want folks to feel like the 3 comments game is all they can talk about.
WaterGirl
@gwangung: Speaking of Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight put out an urgent request for calls to U.S. Representatives – the link is under the Alert button (top right on computers and tablets, below the comments on mobile).
WaterGirl
If you had to choose between getting to meet Nancy Pelosi and Stacey Abrams, who would you pick?
I love and respect Nancy SMASH but I think I would have to choose Stacey.
dmsilev
Phrasing!
Another Scott
@John Cole: “Remember – Science Works!”
Cheers,
Scott.
Gin & Tonic
@dmsilev: Now there’s a policy I can get behind.
Benw
@Sure Lurkalot: LOL
WaterGirl
I heard a great song while I was out today, no idea who it was or what the name of the song is. ?♀️
What are you guys listening to?
Dan B
@dmsilev: Wow!
Note to Raiders’ front office: Zero need for any corrections. Thank you very much; Dan
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: I don’t know what Cole’s picture was. Is it from a game? Or some show I never watched?
Chetan Murthy
@WaterGirl: He-Man, IIRC
WaterGirl
@Chetan Murthy: Is He-Man a game, a movie, or a character?
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
He-Man is the star of the cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Someone took a still image and put the text on it.
Stacib
What happened to the three things game??? That’s the most fun I’ve had on here in weeks.?
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Thanks. The whole thing went right over my head.
Barbara
@dmsilev:
Well that caught my attention.
WaterGirl
@Stacib: Where’s your entry? :-)
Another Scott
In other news, ScienceMag:
If it holds up, this could be really important!
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: I’m pretty sure that was an intentional play on words. I think it’s clever, not an oversight.
Steeplejack
@Stacib:
You can keep doing it.
Benw
@WaterGirl: Did the song have vocals? You probably know this, but a lot of time just putting some lyrics you can remember into Google gets you the song.
Anyways: The Glorious Sons, Run the Jewels, Royal Tusk, BRKN LOVE, The Pretty Reckless, Kendrick, Tom Morello, SMKC and Bruce are the tip of the iceberg
topclimber
Dwight Eisenhower: Man were you right about the Military Complex. (No rule against dead politicians, right?)
Mike Pompeo: Ike would laugh his ass off at the #1 in your West Point class.
Media Pundit Puppeteers: Put more local Press on your Beltway orthodoxy reruns, and folks who have been right.
Ida Slapter
Nancy Pelosi: Thanks for the leadership example you have set every damn day for decades. You are relentless!
Ted Cruz (and a host of others): Coward. Traitor. You make my skin crawl. FOAD.
Jen Psaki: You are the best WH Press Secretary EVAH! Watching you bat Peter Doocy around is a delightful amuse-bouche to the day’s briefing. Keep up the great work!
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: If this is the first 15 minutes of the movie, I would expect all the scientists to disappear, along with their work, and the villains are the oil and natural gas people who don’t want this to make it to market.
dmsilev
@Barbara: Hard times call for hard measures….
WaterGirl
@Benw: Excellent thought, but no vocals. Is Shazam still a thing? Not that I could have used it where I was.
HinTN
@WaterGirl: Oh.My.Fucking.Gawd – Yesssss
WaterGirl
@topclimber: Dead people are welcome.
WaterGirl
@Ida Slapter: I would like to be at a party with Jen Psaki. A party where adult beverages are served. I bet she is a hoot.
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: Same.
dmsilev
@WaterGirl: Nah, this is already a Giant Government Project, just like ITER, another fusion testbed that is a Giant Multi-Government Project. The scrappy rebel scientists suppressed by the evil oil companies would be the folks who still believe in cold fusion and are trying to get that to work in their garage workshops,
WaterGirl
@HinTN: Okay, that’s two of us who think that’s a good idea. :-) I think it could be really fun.
Of course, there might be fighting over who gets to be Jen Psaki smacking down Doocy. Or maybe everyone gets a turn being Jen.
Kristine Pennington
Barack Obama – thank you for Obamacare
Mitch McConnell – I hope you die really quick like right now
Faux News – here’s hoping your studio goes down in flames with all of you in it
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: That could work, too.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
Gotcha!
WaterGirl
@Kristine Pennington: Your three taken together have a certain rhythm to them.
Thank you, fuck you, go DIAF.
Barbara
@WaterGirl: So I gathered, but it’s the kind of thing that makes you stop and read two or three times. Which I guess is the point.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
He-Man is a character in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, a cheesy ’80s cartoon. It was one of those shows that satisfied the educational content requirement by having an unrelated 15 second moral tacked on to the end.
japa21
@WaterGirl: You have lived such a sheltered life.
cope
Respected politician: Stacey Abrams, you are a national treasure. Never give up.
Loathed politician: Mitch McConnell, you are a loathsome, vile, awful human being. If your mother were alive, she’d hate you.
Media person: Stephen Colbert, thanks for keeping me and my wife relatively sane since 2016.
Too many words about McConnell? Colbert not a member of the news media? Forget it Jake, it’s Balloon Juice.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Like: Biden; “Afghanistan isn’t perfect, but that withdraw is one of the things I voted for with you.”
Hate: De Santis “Come on, even Cumo rose to challenge with the pandemic.”
Don’t really have any opinion about the press.
trollhattan
@dmsilev: Have you met Raiders fans?
Ruckus
@Alison Rose:
He’s so stupid he doesn’t understand what that feeling is, so he keeps doing stupid crap hoping that the bell will ring or the light will shine, failing to understand that that darkness all around him is because of where he parks his head, which is in a location that takes effort, years of trying to get it in there and which really, really does not have that lemony fresh smell – or I imagine taste.
geg6
@Suzanne:
I’m in. I need a trip to the Strip. We should buy a bunch of lively food at Wholey’s and Pennsylvania Macaroni and some of the specialty groceries and Gaul to his house and make him cook for us.
Kristine Pennington
@WaterGirl: I am so fucking over the white nationalists posing as ‘news reporters’ on these hate channels
WaterGirl
@cope: This was totally worth breaking the rules for:
WaterGirl
@japa21: Guilty as charged. Video games and grown-up cartoons… definitely not my thing. Give me Rocky & Bullwinkle and a pinball game and I would be happy.
The Dangerman
Is MF one word or two?
trollhattan
@Another Scott:
Very cool. I worked on NIF construction, as my employer had the beampath installation contract. Was on site a couple of times, which was darn impressive.
The lasers were partly based on Soviet technology for growing the crystals so large.
God’s cigar lighter.
WaterGirl
@geg6: I don’t know that Cole would drive even 45 minutes to meet me, but I bet he sure as hell would love to meet with the two of you! Cooking for you would be the icing on the cake.
edit: when he’s in the right mood. :-)
Ruckus
@FelonyGovt:
It takes all kinds to create a humanity.
Kevin is just an example of the lowest form of bipedal life. The fact that he lives at all is a testament to the concept that living takes an extremely small IQ level and that breathing is an autonomic response.
WaterGirl
@Kristine Pennington: Yes! You are not alone.
Ida Slapter
@WaterGirl:
If I were to meet for, say, an interview or at least a serious chat, I would have to go with Nancy SMASH first. I would want to absorb as much of her experience and institutional memory as I could in a finite time. She truly is an American treasure.
If it was just a quick meet, I’d probably pick Stacy Abrams. Her strength, knowledge and determination are an inspiration for moving forward to protect the right to vote.
I actually met Nancy SMASH in the Detroit area years when she was introducing a Congressional incumbent, and had maybe 45 seconds to bask in her glow. It was in a usually old-school R area and I was one of the few real Dems in the crowd.
frosty
@Suzanne: Pittsburgh Foodie Meetup? I’m game.
schrodingers_cat
@Steeplejack: I used to watch the reruns with my brother when I was a teen. It was his favorite show. I loved the battle cat.
Fake Irishman
Mark schauer: Thanks for voting Obamacare when you knew it might cost you your seat.
Dan Crenshaw: please stop mocking Lina Hidalgo when she tries to fight a pandemic.
Sarah Kliff and Brad Plumer: Thanks for technically knowledgeable, relevant and difference-making reporting on a difficult policy area. (Healthcare and climate change respectively)
Incidentally, I was able to tell that to ex Congressman Schauer privately after a panel at the university of Michigan in 2013. I’ll never forget his response, which was
”I sleep soundly at night”
He would have been an excellent governor.
WaterGirl
I’m headed off to watch Bosch. I finished Season 4 over the weekend, and I think it was the best one yet. So good.
Then I started Season 5, episode 1 and I thought “what the hell?” I think I’ve decided to skip episode 1 and try episode 2, and then maybe backtrack when it seems like there’s something I need to know.
Season 4 had me captivated from the first few minutes of episode 1.
I am also enjoying Brokenwood, one episode a week on TV. I really like that the music is prominent enough that I really hear it and listen to it instead of the usual low-volume music that’s in the background of most shows.
Their country music over there is 10x better than ours over here.
Ruckus
@japa21:
I’ve been here for a very long time and that has always been the unwritten rule, no matter the authors instructions, guidelines, rules, concept of discussion, demands, pleadings, briberies, after 50 comments, you are free to discuss any issue, in any manner that strikes you. I’m sure we voted on this at some point and John lost, him owning the blog be damned.
WaterGirl
@The Dangerman: Whichever way gives you the most leeway. So I would say one. I supposed you could always hyphenate, too. G-D-Mother–Fucker could be viewed as one word. In the right light. :-)
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: No, not a line from a movie or the cartoon. I was trying to answer Cole’s ‘3 words to everyone’ challenge.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ida Slapter
@WaterGirl:
Me too! We would drink numerous saké bombs, and you KNOW Jen knows how to tell a good story!
WaterGirl
@Ida Slapter: I’ll start with Stacey, you can start with Nancy, then we can switch.
Another Scott
OMG.
Youngkin should just stop trying to do politics in Virginia. He’s insanely bad at it.
Cheers,
Scott.
cope
@WaterGirl: A foosball table would be nice too. Oh yeah, and a real bristle board dart game, none of that electronic shit. Ok, a full nine foot tournament pool table while we’re at it.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
1. Thanks, Obama
2. No Mo Cuomo
3. Nicolle Wallace, will you marry me???❤️
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Wow. I followed your link to the tweet, and then I saw this:
Another Scott
@Another Scott: (My kingdom for the ability to view comments as threads!!1)
[ sheepish grin ]
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: Isn’t Andy Kim the elected official who helped clean up the Capitol after the insurrection?
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: Begone, Satan! (not serious, of course)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“eventually”… doesn’t say when
stinger
@WaterGirl: Has Nancy written any romance novels? I think not.
Chetan Murthy
@WaterGirl: Over at LG&M someone pointed out that that pic has very few women, b/c it’s mostly men at the airfield; it’s too already too dangerous for women to travel there from Kabul. I don’t know what the answer there is.
WaterGirl
@cope: We’ll have all of those things at the big Balloon Juice Woodstock party.
Gin & Tonic
@Another Scott: Fusion is the energy source of the future and always will be.
30? 40? years ago I bought some stock in a company that had a sure thing with that fuel encapsulation technology. That went to zero a long time ago.
Mary G
@Bluegirlfromwyo: What she said, my thoughts exactly.
Another Scott
@Gin & Tonic: Indeed. We won’t get useful power from it in decades.
But it shows that they’re getting much closer to understanding the physics and how to control the physics.
ICL people on the NIF team are claiming they achieved ignition.
Interesting times.
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@trollhattan: Neato!
Yet again: Balloon-Juice – Is there anything it can’t do??
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Chetan Murthy: That’s a depressing thought.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
The soundtrack to Wolf Hall.
Now why wasn’t Richard Armitage in Wolf Hall?
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia:
Now why
wasn’tisn’t Richard Armitage inWolf Halleverything?Ruckus
@Chetan Murthy:
Unfortunately for humanity there is no good answer.
A not all that small percentage of people around the world like to believe in fairy tales and hate. Not always separately. If you, or anyone could come up with a way to overcome that human trait to envision a world like they want, there is no prize that would be worthy.
Humans have existed on this planet for a long time, and in so many ways we’ve made the place worse. Few work on making it better but it seems to be somewhat of a losing proposition. It seems that it’s going to take a lot of people working together to fix the centuries of damage. Even finding a way to start would be helpful. At one point in my education I believed that this country was a step in the right direction. It seems I was wrong. Then I got to third grade and confirmed that.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: INORITE????
Jim, Foolish Literalist
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Trump property is a loose term. The vast majority of the buildings with his name are owned and controlled by other people, with Dump merely licensing his albeit toxic name.
Chetan Murthy
@Ruckus: Agree completely with you, which is why I didn’t end with some sort of “the Government needs to be doing X!!!?!?!”
Just …. well, it’s a bad situation, and one can at least note it, and hope that some of these women will get to safety.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: I never heard of a trump hotel in Hawai’i, I’m kind of curious if the Miami hotel is the money-losing Doral. I’m pretty sure he’s up to his neck in the Chicago building, where condos are under-selling the market and he can’t rent the retail properties (in part because they’re badly placed in relation to both the streets and the river front, I have read)
Regine Touchon
@WaterGirl: l’m still commemorating Nanci Griffith’s passing . Got to see her in Atlanta back in the 90’s. I immediately fell in love the first time I heard her voice.
Nanci Smash keep on smashing.
Mitch McConnell , you are pure evil and give a bad name to turtles everywhere.
Tuckums go invade Hungary!
topclimber
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Yeah but we don’t have to tell people that.
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’d rather we rip down Dump’s shitstain here in Chicago, and shove all of the steel up his fascist shitstain bastard administration’s ass.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Kristine Pennington: Great line and I’m stealing it.
mrmoshpotato
@Another Scott: LOL! Someone needs to slap the words out of Youngkin’s mouth for his own good. I look forward to his hilariously crushing defeat.
Mary G
@WaterGirl: Sometimes I wonder if you and I are the only people on the blog that never did cartoons. I take that back, I was allowed to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Steve in the ATL
@WaterGirl:
Sort of like grown-up libertarians?
Also, “graphic novels” are comic books.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl:
I already pity the person who asks a Peter Douchecanoey question.
smike
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Wowee! Didn’t see that one coming.
Richard
@Benw:
Haha. Somewhere in the vast universe there was a snort and a laugh.
rmjohnston
Jamie Raskin: Thank you for pushing through great personal tragedy to help lead efforts to save our nation.
Benjamin Netanyahu: You are the world’s worst anti-semite for turning Israel into an apartheid pariah state.
U.S. media, generally: Real interest rates on Treasuries are negative, making debt hysteria fiscally irresponsible. Try reporting accordingly.
Morzer
Joe Biden: Good policy is its own reward. Stay the course.
Ron DeSantis: You’ve killed more Americans than al-Qaida ever dreamed of doing.
Tucker Carlson: You’ve killed more Americans than al-Qaida ever dreamed of doing.
Tony Jay
@Ruckus:
Hey!
Don’t make me throw a lengthy unrelated anecdote based on clearly made-up events at you.
I’ll totally do it too.
206inKY
Beto: Fuck the haters. You and Stacey Abrams are the future of the Democratic party.
Josh Hawley: Watch SNL’s “Iran So Far.” If Mahmoud can find love, so can you.
Andrew Sullivan: Fuck you.
Geminid
To Representative Elaine Luria (VA-2), member of the House Select Commitee on 1/6:
Make your district and the rest of us proud!
Elaine Luria is another member of the talented Democratic House Class of 2018. So is Andy Kim (NJ), mentioned above.
lowtechcyclist
Couldn’t do 15 words; managed to limit myself to 20.
To the news media:
Just report the news. Shaddup about which politicians it helps or hurts. This isn’t a damn game. Stop being sportscasters.
To the GQP/Fox News political/media complex:
You would destroy America in order to stay in power. You are objectively pro-Covid, pro-insurrection, and pro-global warming.
To Joe Biden:
How did the Joe Biden of the Clarence Thomas hearings & 2005 Bankruptcy Deform Act become the Biden of 2021?
Alce_e_ardillo
President Biden: You got this. Don’t let the assholes wear you down.
Ron DeSantis: Karma’s a bitch. The bitchiest bitch who’s ever bitched.
Peter Baker (standing in for all NYT reporters): Weaseling is not being objective, it’s just being a weasel.
KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))
@Chetan Murthy: I keep seeing the comment that there are “very few” women, but when I look at the picture I don’t see that. I see maybe more men than women, but I do see quite a few women, as well as children (a man in the foreground right is feeding a child a bottle). Many of the women in that picture are not wearing head coverings, as you would expect of the women most anxious to escape. I think we see what we expect to see, and, in this case, what we are led to see.
This situation is a tragedy. A human catastrophe. We don’t need to make it more so by exaggerating what’s happening.
UttBugly
President Biden – you are the most pro-life President ever.
U.S. Catholic Bishops – President Biden is the most pro-life President ever.
‘Republicans – eff off.
Mrearl
To American Journalism, a la Charles Pierce: “Why can’t we have the media we deserve?”
Ruckus
@Tony Jay:
As would I.
Aziz, light!
As a young science reporter in the late 1970s, I interviewed a number of physicists who told me that the practical development of fusion energy was about 20 years away.
Fusion energy is always 20 years away.
J R in WV
Andrew Sullivan: Fuck off and die in a Fire!
Glem Grennwalled: Fuck off and die in a fire — TWICE !!
TX GOV, FL GOV, Fuck you, die of COVID a long time after being intubated!