Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, man.

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

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

šŸŽ¶ Those boots were made for mockinā€™ šŸŽµ

I was promised a recession.

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

After roe, women are no longer free.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Itā€™s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

You canā€™t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Itā€™s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

“Squeaker” McCarthy

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

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

Iā€™ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesnā€™t seem to do any good.

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  1. 1.

    Origuy

    I think Bella is the same dog that was on the American Rescue Dog Show that Rob Riggle and Joe Tessitore hosted. They had categories like Best Snore and Best Couch Potato. It was adorable. You can still watch it on Hulu, I think.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    It’s like when you leave a big box out on the savanna, and some cheetah crawls into it.

  3. 3.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Just from reading the last few threads here on BJ, I’m discovering some disturbing things. How can it be that races for the NY governor, Oregon governor, WA Senate Seat, etc are apparently so damn close according to the polling? What has gone so catastrophically wrong? This feels like fucking 2016 all over again, except even worse. Republicans are making inroads where they absolutely should not be. And what about the effect of Dobbs?

    What am I missing here?

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    1. Calm down. Take a deep breath. Focus on what you can do: encouraging everyone you know to vote, and casting your own vote.

    2. Calm down. Take another deep breath, and remember this is a respite thread.

    ;

  6. 6.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Anne Laurie:

    @Amir Khalid:

    Thanks for your kind words of encouragement. I do try to keep all of this in mind, but what commenter Eolirin from that thread, a normally optimistic commenter, said really stuck with me. I can’t really come up with any counterarguments

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    RaflW

    Good (late) morning from Athens (GR)! Heading home, though I wondered why on a ferry boat yesterday when it was 72Ā°, sunny and we’d been swimming in the Aegean earlier in the day. It’s been a lovely break from American ‘reality.’

    Back to it. Soon. Ah, well.

  14. 14.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    @RaflW:

    The Athens lounge for AA is pretty decent. And if youā€™re routing back via Madrid, that oneā€™s freakin beautiful.

  17. 17.

    J R in WV

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):Ā ā€‹
     

    How can it be that races for the NY governor, Oregon governor, WA Senate Seat, etc are apparently so damn close according to the polling? What has gone so catastrophically wrong? This feels like fucking 2016 all over again, except even worse. Republicans are making inroads where they absolutely should not be. And what about the effect of Dobbs?

    What am I missing here?

    We’ve been here so many times already. The polling is p=bought and paid for by fascist republican owners, and so gives those people the answers they have paid for: “You Masters of the Universe are beloved and will win everything!!”

    You need to quit looking at spurious results and chill out, both at home and on the web. I am so tired of your panic attack posting. Please give it a rest.

    When it is safe again for you to come out and play with the grownups I’ll take you back out of my pie safe.

    Now go lie down and take a nap, you will feel better with a rest.

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    craigie

    That’s quite a backyard to leave your squeaky toy in. Should check to make sure there are no lost tiaras out there.

  20. 20.

    StringOnAStick

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The Oregon governor race issue is because the very blue dog dem who lost the primary is running as an independent, and Mr. Nike, the richest guy in the state, gave her a bunch of money to do so.Ā  After that happened, he started dumping money into the coffers of the R candidate.Ā  The purpose of the blue dog is to split the ticket so the R wins; she knows it and so does Mr. Nike.Ā  Hopefully the voters figure it out.Ā  The state legislature will remain blue.

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