Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Alexa, change the president.”

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

The revolution will be supervised.

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

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

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

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

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

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

T R E 4 5 O N

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

This really is a full service blog.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

In my day, never was longer.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

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Four directions Native Vote – Angel Match #7 – Let’s Do This!

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Balloon Juice Angel #7 has just offered a $1,000 match!  Just $3,000 more and we will hit our $25,000 goal!

Big thanks to Sancerre66 for doing this!

Well On Our Way: 6 - 8 - 1 - 18 - 36 - 54 - 7 - 75 - ♾️

You know the drill.  She will match up to $50 for each person who donates and tells us the amount in the comments.

With each angel donor match, the clock starts at zero, so even if you were matched by another angel, you can still get matched here.

For as long as the $1,000 match lasts, just multiply your donation *amount by 6 to know what it turns into after all the matching.

*up to $50 per person

I really liked hearing from everybody yesterday; it was inspirational, so I’ll ask again.  Even if you don’t have a penny to donate, please share why this particular effort – to organize, to register and turn out the Native vote, to help give a voice and a vote to indigenous people in Wisconsin – is important to you.

FOUR DIRECTIONS – WI
Double-Match Fundraising

Goal Thermometer

Click the thermometer to donate!

Once we have $1,000 of donations in the comments, Sancerre66 will add her $1,000 through the thermometer.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    In case it wasn’t clear above, it will take $3,000 to get to the $25k goal.  With angel #7 (Sancerre66) offering the $1,000 match, that means we need just $2,000 besides her $1,000 to reach the goal.

  2. 2.

    Gravenstone

    I offer another $1k as match once Sancerre66 has had her offer exhausted. That should get us over the hump.

  6. 6.

    Josie

    I’m in for $10.00. I wish it could be more. It’s a great investment in bringing more people on board for voting.

  8. 8.

    Gravenstone

    @WaterGirl: Got a dog in this fight, insofar as I’ve lived in this benighted state for 30 years and want Johnson gone, among other things. Although some of the rumblings around here are that he isn’t going to run. Even if true, we can still make the effort to deny the Republicans his seat regardless of what ambulatory corpse staggers forth to grasp it.

  9. 9.

    frosty

    So did my $25 from last night get a B-J angel match? What the heck, I’ll toss in another $25 now. My former co-workers just gave retired me a bunch of part-time work, so there’s a little income coming in that’s not budgeted for anything else right now.

  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    @frosty: Nope, we were out of angel matches last night.  Sorry.

    So last night your $25 got multiplied by 3 = $75.

    Tonight your $25 gets multiplied by 6 = $150.

    Gotta love the angel matches!

    edit:  forgot to say thank you!

  15. 15.

    H.E.Wolf

    This fundraiser matters because if/when we’re exhausted and angry and despairing (and we have every reason to be, on this sad Friday), one thing we can do is lift up someone else.

    Thank you so much, most recent angels and donors… I think you’re going to carry us over the $25 ––> $75 mark by the end of this weekend.

  18. 18.

    Dan B

    $50 from me.  Go 4D!

    In other good news my box of X-mas present soaps arrived from Satby / Skinluvvers.  Nicest smelling box to open!

  19. 19.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Y’know, somebody should suggest to LGM that they do these types of fundraisers (if they don’t already, that is).

  22. 22.

    Dan B

    @WaterGirl: Well packaged soap is the bomb!  Also the extra large Tropical Teak lotion is amazing.  I smell like an uppercrust Parisian with the taste of an outdoorsman – or something…

  32. 32.

    PAM Dirac

    @frosty:

     

    oops those were all wines weren’t they?

    I never liked spirits much until we did a Finger Lakes trip and stopped into Finger Lakes Distilling because it was right there in the middle of all the great wineries. Found out I really like rye. There are some really good ryes made not too far from me; Copper Fox and Catoctin Creek in Va. ,but my favorite at the moment is a Stouted Rye from 10th Ward in Frederick. A rye aged in barrels that had previously aged a Flying Dog stout. Dangerously good.

  34. 34.

    Dan B

    @PAM Dirac: Having had Guiness in Dublin I can imagine the Stout Rye.  Rose is nice.  It’s not to Tarr and has nice delicate fruit.  I’m not sure about fragrance because I just put Tropical Teak lotion on my hands and it smells amazing but I pick the wine glass up with my hands.

  38. 38.

    frosty

    @PAM Dirac: We did a caves tour in Kentucky (Mammoth etc) and since we were there we toured five distilleries, from very small (Limestone) up to very big (Wild Turkey). Fun times but we didn’t escape any of the gift shops for less than $100.
    I’ll check out the Frederick rye. We’re close(ish) to there too.​
     We just got back from a visit to Pittsburgh where we spent too much $$ on Wigle. And Maggie’s Farm.

  43. 43.

    stinger

    Chipped in another $10. Thank you, Sancerre66 and all the Angels!

    The people who were here first really should have more say in governance.

  47. 47.

    Another Scott

    The U.S. and Iran are set to resume nuclear talks on November 29 after five months of delay. They may succeed. They may fail. In any case, let’s remember what put us in this delicate situation: a maximum pressure strategy that failed in more ways than one. https://t.co/Ge8yZ1QRqA

    — Daniel DePetris (@DanDePetris) November 19, 2021

    The work goes on. We can’t get discouraged – too much work needs to get done, and good things will only happen if we do the work.

    (via LOLGOP)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    @Another Scott: The Rs would hate Biden anyway, in spite of years in the Senate.  So much for the respect senators use to give other senators, even from the other party.

    But they must really hate him because he’s effective and he’s getting things done.

  53. 53.

    frosty

    @WaterGirl: You have to read the punctuation: He slash him.

    Now I have to go back and make sure I used the right pronouns LOL.

    ETA: OMG I buggered up the joke completely!
    How does a non-binary ninja kill someone? They/them

    I am not worthy of repeating a dad joke :-(

  54. 54.

    WaterGirl

    We are past the halfway mark for angel match #7:  $570 of the $1,000 has been matched.

    If we get past the 1,000 mark after I go to bed, we can roll right into angel match #8 up to another $1,000 in the comments.

  63. 63.

    WaterGirl

    Heading for bed.  I’m sure I will check back on this post the minute I get up, and I will report back then. :-)

    Thanks everyone.  BJ peeps for the win.

  65. 65.

    Lyrebird

    It’s not much, but I put in $10 just now using the button.

    In honor of some former students and coworkers of mine from at least 5 Nations.

  72. 72.

    Reverse tool order

    Ok, another $25. Why? The few posts below this one for example. Let’s say I’m annoyed with these motor freighters with their unsecured loads making bloody messes with the party of personal responsibility not being their victimized selves.

    Edit: “load not secured” is how I say damned fool at minimum.

  73. 73.

    dnfree

    Okay, I just did another $50.  I do think (and hope) these contributions have more effect than some of the candidate ones I did last year.

  74. 74.

    Mary G

    I took out a small mortgage on my house to buy a wheelchair van and it’s honestly embarrassing how much the appraisal was. So I donated $250, a new record for me.

    Also, I’m being a bitch to everyone around me for my first world problems. After waiting since September 28 for the city to get around to issuing a permit for my new roof probably this week, my termite guy shows up in a ginormous pickup like JC was dissing earlier (seriously it was bigger than the biggest Hummer I’ve ever seen), did the yearly inspection and gave me good news and bad news. The good news was no termites, bad news that the fascia boards are full of dry rot. This is an ongoing problem and every time someone works on the house, even for something like kitchen cabinets, they say there’s dry rot in a couple of fascia boards, fix it, and swear up and down that their section was done right and will never be a problem again.

    So the termite guy breaks the news that the fascia boards have to be done before the new roof goes on, because repair of fascia boards includes cutting into the roof. I had no idea about this and not one of the eight roofers and 6,285 mansplainers I have discussed it with have told me that. I have a tar and gravel roof now but replacing it with those high tech membranes and I don’t want it cut.

    The termite guy can do the dry rot repair but is booked up until January or February and of course another permit is needed.

    The roofer is threatening to sue, and I told him I read my contracts and bids and there is no time specified, just a provision that if delays raise his costs I have to pay him the extra.

    I got another guy’s name off Angie’s List or yelp. He called me right back and I was snotty and he was pissed off about a broad telling him his job, but we did manage to get back on track and make an appointment for this morning. He stood me up and when the referral service asked how it went, I checked that box.

    So now I feel bad for complaining about those, hope most of you are already in bed. I do have women-owned vendors for the next two projects – the solar panel company Martin used, and a window company owned by a women who makes the windows in her own shop and is a hoot.

  76. 76.

    Woodrow/asim

    @dnfree: These are like contributing to Fair Fight GA; boots-on-the ground organizing that campaigns can use as a built-in framework for getting the vote out. We need these because they tend to know the area, building relationships that most campaigns can’t easily match. Without these groups, we’re forcing a successful campaign on our end to create much of this from whatever the local/state party has available, which has its own issues and constraints.

     

    Indeed, a massive gap is that the GOP-aligned groups have put a lot of time and money into influencing their voters to turn out, time and again. And they do it outside the Party apparatus, for the most part, for reasons. We need to work to match that.

  79. 79.

    Sancerre66

    @Mary G: So sorry for all your troubles. Hope the women-owned contractors come through for you! I have had great experience with companies with women in charge. (I may be biased…but women rule!)

  80. 80.

    eclare

    @Mary G:   Don’t feel bad about complaining, that sounds incredibly frustrating.  I bought a house sixteen years ago after renting for years, and the maintenance, and just finding people to do the maintenance, is enough to tear my hair out.

  82. 82.

    UncleEbeneezer

    The only older/worse American legacy than Slavery/Racism, is our treatment of Native/Indigenous people.  We have denied them political power in shaping our country from the very beginning.  While this isn’t a magic remedy, it is LONG OVERDUE!!  So this sort of organizing is not only good for our electoral prospects, it is very much the right thing to do.

  88. 88.

    sab

    @Mary G: Late to this thread. I feel for you. My husband sold flooring for 25 years so he knows a lot of all sorts of contractors. So we always knew good guys to go to. But as he gets older so do they. So all the good guys we used to go to are now retired.

    Our kids know a couple of good contractors, but they are booked for the forseeable future.

  89. 89.

    Old Newby

    I gave $50, because I grew up in a Wisconsin that was reliably blue. Not just Madison and Milwaukee either, but Northern Wisconsin, where I grew up. It’s a state with a wild political history. It’s given us amazing progressives, like Robert Lafollette and Russ Feingold. And absolute loons, like the Birchers and Joseph McCarthy. (I once had the occasion to visit McCarthy’s grave in Appleton, and spit on it — a very proud moment.)

     

    Go Four Winds, and big cheesy thanks to the Juicers organizing this effort, and to every supporter!

  93. 93.

    Memory Pal

    Hi I am a longtime lurker – since early aughts. Posted occasionally under another nym in early years but not good at this kind of digital back-and-forth. Signing up with this nym so you can track my contributions for matches. Just added $100 for Four Directions – WI.

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    You guys completed angel match #7 in the night!   

    Go Sancerre66, aka angel #7, and a huge thank you to all who donated or talked about why this is important to you.

    We rolled right into Gravenstone’s angel match during the might, and we have about $750 remaining on angel match #8.

    It’s so exciting seeing the BJ train headed straight for our goal!

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