Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

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

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

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

No one could have predicted…

Come on, man.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

The willow is too close to the house.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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Very Far (From) Right-winger Open Thread: Losing Their Meagre Moiety of Marbles*

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*Pogo reference. The ever-scheming, ever-failing Mole passes through the first panel, chuckling with glee over his latest cunning plan. Deacon Muskrat tells Porkypine that Mole has ‘lost his meagre moiety of marbles’, to which Porky replies ‘Yeeeears ago.’

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  2. 2.

    Starfish

    I got caught up in an @armandoNDK megablock on Twitter, and I am not sure who I am following that annoyed Armando.

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    Baud

    I recently went to the original Stonehenge.  It was much more interesting than I expected.

  4. 4.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Baud: you know that the NSA can track your cell phone and confirm whether you were in Elberton, so don’t lie to us!

  5. 5.

    bbleh

    Now by damn that is a REPRESENTATIVE Congress if I ever saw one!

    Tell me there is not a SUBSTANTIAL number of Americans who are that dumb. And thank our Founding Fathers, THEY have representation TOO!

    Gods of all faiths, living and dead, bless America!

  7. 7.

    Alison Rose

    Lesko on some Jonestown shit there. GOP family values = LEMME MURDER MY FAMILY IF I DAMN WELL WANT TO.

    Yes, I’m sure she didn’t mean that. Or…I’m like mostly sure. Maybe half-sure. Maybe.

  8. 8.

    Suzanne

    Every time you wonder why Arizona voted for Sinema, please remember that 4 of their 9 Congresscritters are Debbie Lesko, Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, and David Schweikert.

  13. 13.

    different-church-lady

    Y’know, the really sad thing is that if Lesko keeps a lot of guns around the house there’s half a chance she will shoot one of her grandkids by accident…

  14. 14.

    different-church-lady

    FYI, I’m now 29 hours past booster #2 and still feel like I want to die.

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    CarolPW

    Aside from the shooting-the-grandkids part she also said that when the Republicans were in the majority they passed legislation that was signed into law that would have prevented mass shootings. So what legislation was that and why are we still having mass shootings?

  32. 32.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Baud:

    I conducted medical experiments on them. 

    Pulled the old switcheroo on the alien bastards, eh?

  33. 33.

    raven

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: This is way more important.

     

    Shortly after Merrick B. Garland became attorney general last year in the early months of the Biden administration, Justice Department lawyers began negotiations with Mr. McCabe’s lawyers to resolve a lawsuit he had brought against the department, claiming that his firing was retaliatory and politically motivated.
    In October 2021, the department settled, reinstating Mr. McCabe’s pension and cleansing his personnel record of his firing. Around that time he received the letter from the I.R.S. beginning the audit. Last month, Mr. McCabe was told it had been completed.

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    Soprano2

    @Baud: True, but it is now. It was January 1980 when I went there. You couldn’t walk among the stones because people wrote on them! Geez….

  35. 35.

    different-church-lady

    I don’t understand why she’d go through the trouble of shooting her own grandchildren when she could just send them to a public school instead.

  39. 39.

    The Moar You Know

    The guidestones are reasonable ideas; therefore the American Taliban had to destroy them.

    There’s nothing these people won’t do.  I hope America figures this out before it’s too late.

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    mrmoshpotato

    @Soprano2:

    That place is weird – big stones in the middle of nowhere. 

    I’m sure they were too big to put anywhere else!

    “How about…?”

    “Nope!  Won’t fit!”

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    Suzanne

    That shit is almost as weird as Touchdown Jesus. Met a similar end as Touchdown Jesus, too.

    I don’t believe in signs, but I think it’s a sign.

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    pat

    There was a lengthy report on those Georgia guidestones and it was very interesting and for the life of me I don’t remember where I saw it.  Must have been MSNBC, but whose program?  Must have been yesterday because I can still remember it.

    Inscribed in four languages, 10 “commandments” and designed by some right-wing crank.

    Probably googleable.

  51. 51.

    Poe Larity

    @Baud: The Holy Subaru is still out in the field. Have you not done the pilgrimage and made mustard offerings?

  53. 53.

    billcinsd

    Scott Adams, the Dilbert idiot recently said that you have two options if you have teenage boys, 1. accept deaths or 2. kill them. His teenage step-son died of a fentanyl overdose.

    @Baud: I recently went to Carhenge, it was about what I expected. Not quite up to the biggest ball of twine, but it definitely was cars in the shape of Stonehenge

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    planetjanet

    @pat: The scary thing about the guidestones is that a Republican candidate, Kandiss Taylor, running for governor has been campaigning on demolishing them claiming they are satanic.  Sounds like stochastic terrorism to me.

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    Ken

    @billcinsd: Scott Adams, the Dilbert idiot recently said that you have two options if you have teenage boys, 1. accept deaths or 2. kill them. His teenage step-son died of a fentanyl overdose.

    Scream of anguish from a father who will spend the rest of his life thinking he failed his son? Or ravings of a sociopath who lacks normal human emotions? You be the judge.

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    Rocks

    Rather than sand blasting Stone Mountain, several years ago somebody had the brilliant suggestion to add a carving of 2 Live Crew in a low riding Cadillac follow right behind Lee, Jackson and what’s his face the president of the Confederacy.  Wish I could find the picture – it was inspiring.

  62. 62.

    persistentillusion

    @Gin & Tonic: As a youth, I watched the Watergate hearings from his summer home, which my family had rented.  That’s my only fond memory of that crusty old bastard.

  63. 63.

    Ohio Mom

    @Suzanne: Sorry to tell you this but Touchdown Jesus was replaced soon after he burned down. He’s just north of Cincinnati, we drove by him just last week.

    The replacement is just as big as the old one, pretty much the same but his arms are now stretched out in front of him, rather than straight up. The church isn’t so stupid that they didn’t know the sculpture in its old form was the butt of many jokes.

    Another change is that he now has a lightening rod sticking out of the top of his head. Makes him look a little like My Favorite Martian.

  64. 64.

    Brent

    I mean,  the thing is that the explanation that she garbled what she was saying doesn’t really make any sense.  The entire thrust of her statement is that shooting would be an undesirable last resort in the circumstance she imagines.  Why, in her mind, would shooting someone who threatened the lives of her children be such a dire and unthinkable result?  I am quite certain she doesn’t mean to represent herself as some sort of pacifist.

  65. 65.

    Steeplejack

    @Soprano2:

    With my family I visited Stonehenge in the late 1950s. Somewhere there is a photo of my RWNJ brother as a toddler sitting on one of the horizontal stones.

  66. 66.

    Another Scott

    @Rocks: Looks like it (or a version of the idea) was Outkast.

    Hehe.

    A recent story I heard on the radio about the sculptor pointed out that it was a huge grift and the first organizers blew up the first carving of Lee because they didn’t want to pay the sculptor any more. (He wanted something like 500 figures on the relief, because he got paid a percentage of the total cost…)
    Blowing up the rest of it again seems like a decent solution…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  69. 69.

    debbie

    Name one goddamn bill that the GOP passed that has saved (born) childrens’ lives. Just one.

  71. 71.

    Ken

    @Suzanne: I assume it was replaced with the insurance money, but I do wonder if there were any congregants who said “Wait a minute, we got this free lump of money and we’re putting up a statue instead of, oh, feeding the hungry and clothing the naked?”

  73. 73.

    Suzanne

    @Ken: More like, “We got this pile of money and we’re not giving it to the pastor for another boat?!”.

    Am I cynical?

  74. 74.

    Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)

    Last time I saw the Guidestones was at the end of May. It was a weird roadside attraction with just enough of that special WTF factor that I enjoy so much, and the trip there and back makes for a nice afternoon on the motorcycle.

    Oh well. Crackpots giveth, and crackpots taketh away.

  77. 77.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Accidental truth telling with Lesko, all this culture war nonsense is they want to control their grand kids lives.

  78. 78.

    Ohio Mom

    @Ken: Touchdown Jesus faces an interstate. They think they are spreading their faith, that’s all they care about.

  79. 79.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @Alison Rose : I have driven around Lesko’s Metro Phx area. Quite a few TFG/blue lives/let’s go Brandon bumper stickers/flags etc. And I am not even talking about the white wingnut retirement areas where she probably gets 70 percent of the voters.

  80. 80.

    Kent

    @Ohio Mom: There is a touchdown Jesus in Ohio?  I thought you guys were talking about the one behind Notre Dame Stadium.  It is like a 10 story Jesus mosaic on the Notre Dame Library building.  I used to study there sometimes long ago

    That would be something else to see the Notre Dame library get blown up.

  81. 81.

    Urban Suburbanite

    In the Qanon world, the Georgia Guidestones are part of some complex, ginormous conspiracy they’ve been building up for years. Or it’s a Satanic thing. (The Satanic Panic wasn’t all that long ago) One of the lunatics who washed out in the primaries (she was the one with the guns and babies bus, I believe) made a lot of noise about that sculpture.

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