I’ve had some issues with Tapper in the past, but he is clearly fucking OVER Jason Miller and similar right wing hacks:
That’s a thing of beauty.
by John Cole| 85 Comments
This post is in: Trump Crime Cartel
I’ve had some issues with Tapper in the past, but he is clearly fucking OVER Jason Miller and similar right wing hacks:
That’s a thing of beauty.
This post is in: Trump Crime Cartel
I know Tamara has already covered this briefly, but this really is THE most astonishing thing I have ever heard short of the Nixon tapes.
You owe it to yourself to listen to this entire hour long piece of lunacy. And remember, anyone in the House and the Senate who tried to prevent the 6 January proceedings is complicit with this nutjob.
by WaterGirl| 67 Comments
This post is in: 2020 Elections, Georgia Runoff Races, Political Action, This Fight Is For Everything
Several people have asked something like this: “They have already raised an obscene amount of money for the Georgia runoffs, why do they need more money? At some point, more money can’t make a difference.”
Stacey Abrams answers that question:
Mitch McConnell and his friends are pouring millions of dollars into Georgia and flooding our airwaves with ads.
We can’t stop his special interest money from pouring in during these last days, but you, right now, can help us reach more voters and turn them out on Tuesday. We saw the power grassroots donors had in Georgia when we voted for Joe Biden not too long ago. Now, Jon and Raphael are running strong campaigns but they need your grassroots support to cross the finish line.
You may ask yourself: What can my contribution do so close to Election Day?
Well, I can tell you that whether you give or not today will have a huge impact on these races. Turnout is the deciding factor in runoff elections, and Jon and Raphael are running huge get out the vote programs that need all the funding you can provide.
Stacey Abrams specifically asks for an equal split of donations to Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, but I am including all the thermometers so you can decide for yourselves.
Let’s do this. Let’s get two great senators and make Mitch McConnell Irrelevant!
Balloon Juice for Fair Fight
Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate Runoff! YES, this includes the 2018 race.
Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate Runoff!
If you donate to America Votes – Georgia, they are making sure they get distributed directly as needed to groups that are having the biggest impact on the ground.
Stacey Abrams & Georgia: What Can My Contribution Do So Close to Election Day?Post + Comments (67)
by TaMara| 347 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Trump Crime Cartel
FOLKS: Full audio published here. Please retweet far and wide. https://t.co/QqIsaNw5pA
— Amy Gardner (@AmyEGardner) January 3, 2021
I think this deserves its own post. h/t Jim, Foolish Literalist
ETA: Here’s the audio if you can’t access WaPo
Wow. WaPo just released a recording showing President Trump attempting to blackmail Georgia's Secretary of State to overturn the election.
Listen: pic.twitter.com/33SO6Tyx8u
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) January 3, 2021
Audio: Trump berates Ga. secretary of state, urges him to ‘find’ votes – The Washington Post https://t.co/2y9OmBJsjK
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 3, 2021
It is a WaPo link, but I’m assuming it will be available elsewhere soon.
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"Trump did most of the talking… calling Raffensperger a “child” and “either dishonest or incompetent”— and twice calling himself a “schmuck” for endorsing Kemp""He was already tripping the emergency meter…so we were at 12 on a scale of 1 to 10, and now we're at 15."? pic.twitter.com/I8DzG4CLSv
— Peabody's not sleeping well (@PeabodyA) January 3, 2021
It’s going to be a long, looong two weeks. Buckle up!
ETA: It took me a while to access the story (for some reason my subscription wasn’t working)
President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions.
The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.”
Throughout the call, Raffensperger and his office’s general counsel rejected Trump’s assertions, explaining that the president is relying on debunked conspiracy theories and that President-elect Joe Biden’s 11,779-vote victory in Georgia was fair and accurate.
This Is Madness: Trump On Tape With GA SOS ETA: Full Hour PublishedPost + Comments (347)
by TaMara| 47 Comments
This post is in: Authors In Our Midst
Delighted to have another author to highlight today. From J. (formerly of J-TWO-O), longtime Balloon Juice reader and occasional commenter:
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Thank you, TaMara, for allowing me to flog my books on Balloon Juice. ?
When I first started following this blog, back in 2007, I was a technology/business journalist with a blog called J-TWO-O and dreams of writing a bestselling business book or the great American novel. Ten years later, I had accomplished neither, had stopped blogging, and had been (it turned out temporarily) laid off from my contract gig.
I was having dinner with friends on Sanibel Island, Florida, shortly after, wondering what I should do with my life, when my girlfriend’s husband, who had taken early retirement and decided to become a full-time musician, told me that now was the time to pursue my dream. What was it I really wanted to do?
My husband piped up, “Write a book!” And he and my friends then spent the remainder of the evening telling me I should write a book. I told them I had tried writing a book, multiple times, and failed. It was one thing to write a 1500-word article, or even a 3000-word one, quite another to bang out 80,000 words, the typical length of a novel. And I dismissed the idea.
Two weeks later, back in Connecticut, I woke up having dreamed about a woman who moves from New England to Sanibel after losing her job and her husband (to another woman), gets a job working for the local paper, and stumbles upon a dead body while hunting for seashells. I ran to my computer and began typing. Six months later, A Shell of a Problem, the first book in the Sanibel Island Mystery series, was published.
The book did well, especially on Sanibel, so I decided to write another one. That too did well, so I kept on writing. I am now about to publish the seventh book in my cozy mystery series, A Perilous Proposal. And this year I also wrote a stand-alone novel, Tinder Fella, a rom-com that takes place in pre-Covid NYC.
If you like cozy mysteries—were a fan of Murder, She Wrote or read Nancy Drew as a kid (both of which my books have been compared to)—have vacationed on Sanibel, or are looking for something light and fun to read this winter, check out the Sanibel Island Mystery series. The books can be found on Amazon, Bookshop.org, and Barnes & Noble online, as well as in some bookstores, and are available in paperback and for the Kindle. (A Shell of a Problem is also available as an audiobook.)
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TaMara again. Here is Jennifer’s author’s page on Amazon You can find a link to all her books there. She’ll be stopping by so you can ask her questions, etc.
As always, I’m happy to highlight any of your works, just drop me an email…
I am curious – did you find it easy or difficult to write during this crazy time? It’s been hit or miss for me. Lots of ideas to put to paper, but I find my focus is lacking.
(Also, in case you missed it, there’s a general open thread just before this one)
Authors In Our Midst: Jennifer Schiff, Sanibel Island MysteriesPost + Comments (47)
by TaMara| 65 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads
I’m going to bigfoot myself with an Authors in Our Midst post in a couple of minutes, but I wanted you to have an open thread to discuss other things. But stop by the Authors’ post to check out the latest author highlighted.
Meanwhile, here is Bixby unboxing his gifts.
Bixby LOVES his boxes, so I saved a box and packed some new chew toys into it. He had much more fun opening the box than playing with the toys.
Funny story I may have told you before, but he loved boxes AND our UPS driver when he was still a puppy (100 lb puppy) and one day on a walk, he almost knocked over the UPS driver, trying to get to the boxes the driver was carrying. I was embarrassed, the driver was amused.
Also, I made some hopped up chocolate chip cookies, adding coconut and oatmeal because why not? Recipe here.
Open thread!
Sunday Open Thread: Cookies and a PuppehPost + Comments (65)
This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Republicans in Disarray!
Right now we have well over half of Republicans convinced that Biden did not win the 2020 election legitimately, egged on by GOP elites, so by all means do let me know how to repair democracy with that antecedent condition. https://t.co/IZMyWKYoCy
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 3, 2021
Statler-Waldorf Mood Open Thread: The <del>GOP</del> Sedition PartyPost + Comments (271)