Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Iā€™d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

T R E 4 5 O N

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

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

You cannot shame the shameless.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Wow, I canā€™t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

The GOP couldnā€™t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

I was promised a recession.

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I have no idea who Tom Bonier is, but I stumbled on his twitter feed and I found these three tweets encouraging.

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  3. 3.

    Suzanne

    I wish that people realized that bad stuff can happen before it happens. I donā€™t know why people are so blasĆ© about things. Makes me nutty.

  5. 5.

    p.a.

    When the numbers look bad for them into the fall, they won’t rely on gerrymanders andĀ de jureĀ vote suppression. Ā They will use violence and armed intimidation. Ā It’s who they are, it’s all they’ve got. Ā What will the local constabularies do? Ā IDK.

    Waiting on Scamm Scalito & Seditious Thomas to try throwing shade on the 19th Amendment.

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    Dark Brandon!

    ā€œBIDEN has delivered the largest economic recovery plan since ROOSEVELT, the largest infrastructure plan since EISENHOWER, the most judges confirmed since KENNEDY, the second largest health care bill since JOHNSON, and the largest climate change bill in history.ā€ ā€” @WHCOS Klain

    — Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 19, 2022

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    ALurkSupreme

    Vaginas brought you into this world.Ā  Ā Vaginas will vote you out.

    Rotating Permanent tag nominee.

  12. 12.

    FelonyGovt

    Iā€™m always interested in the scripts the campaigns give my postcarding group. Just got the second batch in a row going to all women (this time in Pennsylvania), with the same abortion rights- birth control message.

  17. 17.

    bbleh

    Who’d’a thunk that treating women like second-class citizens would have some political cost? I mean, doesn’t everyone understand that the 19th century was the Natural Order Of Things?

    This is what happens when ya let ’em own property, and then … vote. Ā They get ideas …

  20. 20.

    H.E.Wolf

    From “I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman”, a poem by Susan Griffin, published in 1970.

    “…I want them
    to take women seriously.
    I want them to think about Harriet Tubman,
    and remember,
    remember she was beat by a white man
    and she lived
    and she lived to redress her grievances,
    and she lived in swamps
    and wore the clothes of a man
    bringing hundreds of fugitives from
    slavery, and was never caught,
    and led an army,
    and won a battle,
    and defied the laws
    because the laws were wrong, I want men
    to take us seriously.
    I am tired wanting them to think
    about right and wrong.
    I want them to fear.
    I want them to feel fear now
    as I have felt suffering in the womb, and
    I want them
    to know
    that there is always a time
    there is always a time to make right
    what is wrong,
    there is always a time
    for retribution
    and that time

    is beginning.”

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#/media/File:Harriet_Tubman_late_in_life3.jpg

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    I forget who said it in an earlier thread, but you know what they call mammals that can’t control their own fertility?

    Livestock.

    They are relegating women to exactly that. Ā Breeders to be controlled by other people. Ā Disgusting.

    On the positive side, even though I have never been fond of women being reduced to their private parts, I do LOVE the “Vaginas brought you into this world. Ā Vaginas will vote you out.”

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @H.E.Wolf:

    That was splendid. Thank you.

    I was early to climb aboard the ā€œWomen On 20sā€ train, and for years one of my favourite T-shirts has featured an image of Harriet Tubman on the front of a $20 bill. (Itā€™s made of very good quality heavy cotton and tends to be a little too warm for an Atlanta summer ā€” but the shirt and I are ready for cooler fall temps.)

    Iā€™m not going to shut up about this. Not that anyone even uses cash any more. But the symbolism is still important.

  30. 30.

    Ken

    @p.a.: Waiting on Scamm Scalito & Seditious Thomas to try throwing shade on the 19th Amendment.

    “The concept of women as property has deep roots in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence, as shown by the writings of the 8th century jurist Aelfric the Bloody…”

    But don’t worry, Roberts will engineer a compromise where women get 3/5 of a vote.

  31. 31.

    Edmund Dantes

    Tom Bonier is a really good guy for the most part. A good pollster and consultant that understands the stuff and doesnā€™t try to oversell it. Gets a lot into pre election data and post election data analysis.

    I have interacted a bunch with him on a Red Sox message board and slack as heā€™s a big New England sports Ā guy.

    Heā€™s worth a Twitter follow.

  35. 35.

    H.E.Wolf

    @stinger: Now is, perhaps, not the best time to make snarky, disparaging comments about the lack of commas ā€“ or any other punctuation, for that matter ā€“ in women’s online activism.

    As they say in the UK: full stop.

  37. 37.

    Emmyelle

    @Suzanne: yep.

    Iā€™m all for this and what it might mean in November, but where tf were these people for the last, I swear to god, forty years, while to GOP has beenĀ promising to do exactly what they did? OK, bunches of them were not born, and others were not voting age for much of that time. But JFC, where tf were they in 2016, when Hilary and the rest of the country lost by 80k voted of people who just wanted lower taxes and to not want black peoples to have health insurance.

    I mean, OK, fine thanks for registering but seriously why does it not matter until it is about you?

  38. 38.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @H.E.Wolf:

    Had not seen that! No, I donā€™t think Iā€™d use it on actual $20s ā€” defacing currency* is still considered a Bad Thing, yes? ā€” but itā€™s a cool idea. Iā€™d certainly use it on correspondence, fabric, crafts, if I were inclined that way.

    *I remember as a kid gathering up the elusive little balls of mercury from a broken thermometer and rubbing it on dimes, making them impossibly shiny. But I was sternly informed by some officious grown-up that it was a Crime to Deface Currency like that, and I could Go to Jail! So I live with dull dimes and Andrew Jackson $20s ā€” for the moment.

  39. 39.

    HumboldtBlue

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I remember as a kid gathering up the elusive little balls of mercury from a broken thermometer and rubbing it on dimes, making them impossibly shiny. But I was sternly informed by some officious grown-up that it was a Crime to Deface Currency like that, and I could Go to Jail!

    This… that could be, fuck, that could be a book.

    The Girl Who Spun Mercury.

    Tom Levenson is spinning in his sleep as we type.

  40. 40.

    grammypat

    Saw this (Text: Roe Roe Roe your Vote) in the replies to @MtnGrl4 tweet (next to last in OP), and thought it worthy of a bumper sticker.

    Or a front-page mention.

  41. 41.

    J R in WV

    RoeĀ  Roe, Roe your Vote seems like a classic slogan for bumper stickers to me! I wish I had thought it up myself,Ā  but I’m happy to use it anyway

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: My sister had me TERRIFIED because I had removed that annoying tag on the pillow ā€“ the one that said “Do not remove under penalty of law.”

    File under the joys of having two older sisters!

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