Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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Late Night Open Thread: Burn Bridges As Necessary

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Yes, this actually happened — four years ago.

Don’t know where young Mr. Bowling might be today, but my first thought on seeing this image was: Here is a kid who intends to burn rubber out of Pinesville and never come back… and he’s deliberately made it impossible for himself to back down on that promise, now…

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  1. 1.

    Alison Rose

    Yeah, they should’ve known it wasn’t him. Trump wouldn’t fight for a seat at the head of the table, he’d just plop his fat ass in it and say he earned it.

  2. 2.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    That must have been one awkward silence immediately afterwards. Hope he left and never looked back

    @Alison Rose :

    Also far too intelligently worded for the Short-Fingered Vulgarian

  4. 4.

    Poe Larity

    linkedin says

    I am a Senior Biology major at the University of Kentucky and will be attending University of Louisville School of Medicine starting in Fall 2022. I have three years of research experience under a mentor within my major, and I have spent three years as a Resident Advisor at the University of Kentucky. This year, I am serving as a Senior Resident Advisor on my staff, leading other RAs as well as serving my normal RA role in my hall. I have also served other roles such as a part-time merchandiser for Coca-Cola, COVID Safety and Support at UK, and a Night Desk Clerk in the residence halls at UK.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    Approaching sunset here and looks like dark gray clouds moving in from the south. Digits crossed they unload their saturation and put a damper on the boomies tonight.

  8. 8.

    grammypat

    The good, young Ben is probably a distant cousin of mine.  I have “Bowlings” on both sides of my (twisted) family tree and both are from “that” part of KY.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Alison Rose : The Kremlin’s orange fascist manbaby would then start telling everyone how he’s tremendous bigly at tables, and big, burly tables have come up to him with tears in their eyes.

  11. 11.

    sab

    @NotMax: Good to know that 1:46 am in Ohio is sundown in Hawaii.

    Balloon Juice is weird that way.

    I have a sister very into Chinese culture. When I call her on the phone I never know if she will answer in Ohio, California or Shanghai. And sometimes she goes to Europe.

    Very difficult to maintain the usual courtesies of not calling before 9 am or after 9 pm.

  12. 12.

    prostratedragon

    @mrmoshpotato:  Nature has really shown those fireworks players what for. The neighborhood shows suddenly stopped like, “Quick, Mom’s home!” around an hour ago.

  15. 15.

    opiejeanne

    @NotMax: It’s been pretty quiet here all weekend, unusual for this neighborhood. Tonight there was a stretch of about 20 minutes with popping and banging, and a few booms, but really not much and we didn’t hear the guy with the cannon.

  16. 16.

    opiejeanne

    @sab: In the Seattle area we were told, and later observed, that summer really didn’t start until July 5th, and it rained almost every 4th. This year it rained on the 3rd but the rain held off today. Tomorrow it’s supposed to be a nice spring-like temperature, 77. and partly cloudy.

  19. 19.

    mrmoshpotato

    On topic, the thought of the words “inspirational quote” coming out of Dump’s resting butthole mouth is hilarious.  How were these idiots fooled?

  21. 21.

    Ruckus

    No storm out here in SoCal but we did have about 5-6 hrs of fireworks. People setting of some pretty big ones in their yards and streets. City I live in does not allow sales or supposedly setting them off. But the police department would have to be 5 or more times it’s size to be able to do any thing at all about it.

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    Pyrotechnics relatively low key this year as of 10:15 p.m. but there’s still a pall of smoky burned sulfur odor in the neighborhood nonetheless.

  29. 29.

    SFAW

    @NotMax: ​
     
    I’m kinda perturbed that you couldn’t find some way to turn that tweet into some wordplay on “Bowling’s green massacree” or something like that. I can’t come up with one, but I thought YOU wouldn’t fail me/us.

  30. 30.

    Jake Gibson

    Pineville is Southeastern Kentucky on the border with East Tennessee.

    That kid is getting the hell put of there.

  31. 31.

    Kristine

    Supposed to be a rainy week here in far NE Illinois. It’s been dry—we need it. As for fireworks, they only bothered me because they upset Gaby, but she’s so deaf now that she sleeps right through them. She even slept through lat night’s storm. I hate watching her age, but I also didn’t like her panting and pacing and needing trazodone.

    Oh, and yesterday was my birthday. One more year until Medicare.

  33. 33.

    stinger

    @Alison Rose : Or he’d plop his fat ass down wherever it happened to land, and call that spot the head of the table.

    @Poe Larity: Looks like the kid is sticking with Kentucky, for now. Good — his home state needs more people like him.

    @Amir Khalid: Fingers crossed for ya!

    @SFAW: Ditto!

    @Kristine: Happy Birthday! Medicare isn’t all that the M4A-ers crack it up to be. Be sure to sign up for everything!

  34. 34.

    Miss Bianca

    That sounds like the mic drop I heard about from way back in the 60s, during the height of the Vietnam War protests, when a class valedictorian picked a quote that talked about disrespectful young people and the need for discipline etc etc, and then when the audience broke into a storm of applause he went on: “Those words were spoken by Adolf Hitler.”

  35. 35.

    VOR

    There was a story late in the 2016 campaign when a reporter started checking into TFG and his claimed charity contributions. There was an event for a children’s charity, cancer or something, I don’t recall the specifics. One of the members of the board was unable to attend so there was an empty chair. TFG showed up and just sat in the empty chair with the actual board. He wasn’t a board member and the reporter couldn’t find any record of a contribution to the charity. But he was there for the pictures, which made it look like he was an important contributor.

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