Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Let me file that under fuck it.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

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

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Everybody saw this coming.

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

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

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

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

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  1. 1.

    RepubAnon

    I always wanted to start an Irish band named “ Free Guinness”. I’ll bet the bar would be packed.

  3. 3.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Unexpected windfall today. Apparently there’s a provision of the ACA that if an insurance company spends over 20% of its premiums on administrative costs, it owes the insured a rebate. So I just got $400 back on my 2022 premiums. Thanks Obama!

    In other news, I’m shaking off Covid. Tuesday was the positive test and the first time symptoms really got me down. I think that’s supposed to count as day 0, so this is only day 3 and quarantine goes till day 5 (Sunday). I feel fully human again today, so that really wasn’t so bad.

  7. 7.

    Steeplejack

    Put something in the hopper for tonight. Last night we didn’t have a non-Ukraine thread from 6:30 p.m. to 2:13 a.m. blog time. Tough on the night owls and West Coasters.

  9. 9.

    Lapassionara

    @WaterGirl: I loved this. Usually, staid white guys look really cringe trying to sing like this, but these guys were fun to watch.

     

    ETA, thank you, WaterGirl

  14. 14.

    Yarrow

    Sorry about all that rain and flooding, NYC….

    NEW: FEMA has paused $2.8 billion in disaster recovery spending as the agency runs out of money. This funding freeze has left communities across the country in limbo as they wait on federal help to rebuild after floods and fires. https://t.co/NLjdtJ20ZS— Jake Bittle (@jake_bittle) September 29, 2023

  15. 15.

    RandomMonster

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: In other news, I’m shaking off Covid.

    May I ask what your first symptom was? RandomMrs has come down with something that could be…a cold…or maybe covid. I bought tests but she’s putting off taking them.

  19. 19.

    bbleh

    @WaterGirl: I saw a line about the judge asking one of the county attorneys whether the defendants would be offered deals, and he made affirmative noises without answering definitively.  Certainly I can see why it would be in everybody’s interests, especially if they agree to testify but even if they don’t.  I think the judge is (rightly) concerned about a gigantic circus, and he wants to cut back on the clown contingent (with the usual apologies to actual clowns).

    But more on topic, what are the plans for managing during the shutdown? I read somewhere that most of the Department of Blog will be closed.  Have you been deemed “essential”?  Do we need to crowdsource living expenses?

  22. 22.

    Jackie

    @NotMax: Ali Velshi published a paperback with all 4 of TIFG’s indictments complete and unabridged. Under $20 including s/h.

    I ordered one and got it Tues, to have on hand for following the trials.

    Already came in handy to jot “pled guilty/9/29/23” next to Hall’s name 😁

  27. 27.

    Tony Jay

    Lady Jay has had exhaustion, tight chest, headache, bunged up nose and inability to taste for about a week, but has had two tests and both negative.

    So she’s very much annoyed that Covid is either test resistant now or she’s just got a crap flu.

  28. 28.

    Doc Sardonic

    @RandomMonster: Do not put off taking the COVID test, that just bit myself and my wife in the ass. Ours started off like a bad bout of hay fever. A couple of days later felt like sinus infection/bad cold. Then the fever, chills coughing so hard you felt like you were either going to puke or pass out or both. Wife missed the Paxlovid window because she didn’t test, I made the window barely, but can’t do the Paxlovid because it conflicts with a couple of cardiac meds and the interactions can hospitalize you or really ruin you. We are both better now 9 and 12 days out, but if this was a mild case due to full vaccinations, don’t want to experience the non vaccinated case.

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    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @RandomMonster: For 24 hours I thought it was a cold. I had a bit of a sore throat and what felt like a chest cough was developing. So I took a couple basic cold remedies: cough syrup, cough drops, etc.

    Tuesday morning it still felt like a chest cold coming on, that I hadn’t managed to fight it off. Then my wife told me (I was out having a cup of coffee at a cafe) she just tested positive. So I came home, took one and also came up positive.

    Main symptoms were a cough, a very painful sore throat, and a low-grade fever of 99-100. The throat made the cough hard to tolerate, but then I found it responded well to Tylenol and I was a much happier camper.

  32. 32.

    Tony Jay

    @Albatrossity:

    “And if you insist on licking a bowl of Jell-O, for fucksake make sure first that it’s Jell-O, because I am not taking you to have your stomach pumped again, Congresswoman.”

  33. 33.

    Doug R

    Well, it’s Truth & Reconciliation Day on Monday. Canadian Federal Holiday, but Alberta is taking its time making it an official day off.

  34. 34.

    Steeplejack

    Maybe too soon, but, c’mon, this is funny.

    I feel bad for Dianne Feinstein, but I’m happy that her cretinous vulture staffers will be sealed in her tomb to serve her in the afterlife.

    — Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) September 29, 2023

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    zhena gogolia

    @Ivan X: He disappears sometimes and then comes back. I think I’ve seen him recently. But Amir Khalid has been gone a worryingly long time.

  38. 38.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    Advice from forest ranger Donald Trump:

    “They say that there’s so much water up north, that I wanna have the overflow areas go into your forests and dampen your forests,” Trump said. “Because if you dampen your forest, you’re not gonna have these fire forest fires that are burning at levels that nobody’s ever seen before.”

    ‘You have very poor land management,” he continued before recalling a conversation he had with an Austrian official about forest fires in that country. “He said, ‘Sir, we have more flammable trees than you do on your coast. We don’t have forest fires. We have land management.’ They take care of the land. They pick up the dead trees. You know, a tree doesn’t burn very easily unless it’s dead. Then it gets dry and it burns. The leaves on the ground – they’re five feet thick over here.”

    h/t https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-offers-californians-a-solution-for-wildfires-dampen-your-floors/

  40. 40.

    Gin & Tonic

    My daughter and her husband own a house in Brooklyn. They are both away on business ( separately.) This morning their tenants called to say water was flowing down the inside of the kitchen wall. That’s a weird situation – like I’m not there, and even if I was, what would you expect me to do?

    Anyway, I expect it will be a day or two before there’s a real damage assessment.

    ETA: Their neighborhood got 7” of rain today.

  45. 45.

    RandomMonster

    @Yarrow: Thank you. She had a sore throat but no fever.

    @Jackie: Any reason for NOT testing?

    No. She just likes to do things on her own time. Good news: She just took the test and it’s negative. So looks like she just has to deal with a shitty cold.

  49. 49.

    cain

    @WaterGirl: Huh.. I had laryingitis for the first time back in March 2020 – but that was the only symptom I had. I couldn’t test for COVID because there was no tests to be had. But I always wondered if I got COVID back then. If it was, I did pretty good considering that was my only symptom and I had no vaccinations.

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