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I Like What I’m Seeing

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I really wanted to title this post Balls to the Wall, but I was able to to exhibit at least a modicum of self control.

Whether it’s our awesome members in the House, or President Biden, or a bunch of young women in MN, I like what I’m seeing.

I’ve been working all day, so apologies if you have already seen all of these already.

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  1. 1.

    piratedan

    when it comes right down to it, most of the elected folks in the GOP have grown used to having to operate in their own media bubble over at Faux and OAN and all of the other fawning rightwing media ensembles…. when they get exposed to anything outside that bubble they find out that while they can try and sell that shit they’re peddling, but its a damn sight harder to sell it.

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I really wanted to title this post Balls to the Wall

    Oh, how I wish you had! But no worries, this year is bound to provide many additional opportunities.

  6. 6.

    FastEdD

    Most people think “Balls To The Wall” is a song by AC/DC because it sounds like them. Not so. It was by a band called Accept. It should have been!

  10. 10.

    wjca

    I really wanted to title this post Balls to the Wall.

    Yes, but….

    It’s the Republicans with their backs to the wall.  (Backed into a corner of their own making, actually.)  And, as seen from their obsequiousness towards TIFG, they have no balls.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    I also like what I’m seeing, WG.  Although I have a concern that a confident, successful Dem party is frightening to a lot of people, we’re better now than we’ve ever been, and I am enjoying it.

    Netanyahu so wants and needs Trump to win.  And he’s not wrong about that.

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    Intense Biden pressure on this gets results: Netanyahu forced publicly reject Gazan displacement and Israeli reoccupation, against the far-right parties in his own coalition.

    This is hopeful, especially with DeSantis endorsing the ethnic cleansing of the population of Gaza when asked about the region during the debates.

    Nikki Hayley’s position on Gaza was just as vile, but less direct.

  20. 20.

    Gretchen

    That was so gross seeing the appalling Nancy Mace telling Hunter that he didn’t have the balls to show up, when he was sitting right in front of her. She thought she’d be able to get off her bon mots without having to do it to his face. Then Marge waved her porno pictures around again. These gals would bring down the tone of a brothel on the waterfront.

  21. 21.

    Gretchen

    @Baud: I wish more people understood that Netanyahu wants Trump to win. The fact that is actions are weakening Biden is a plus for him. Hey, Bibi, can you help me out here? Hell, no.

  22. 22.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Gretchen: And from what I understand, Bibi only said the words in English, not in Hebrew.  In Hebrew he and his cronies use eliminationist language, making Biblical references to genocides.

  25. 25.

    Gretchen

    @Alison Rose: yes. MTG seems to spend a lot of time poring over photos of Hunter and finding opportunities to wave them around. And it’s reported that Nancy’s boyfriend broke up with her after she told the Prayer Breakfast that she gave up sex with him to be there, and regaled her office staff with way more details about her sex life than they wanted to know. If only they’d pair up with each other and leave the rest of us out of it.

  31. 31.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Gretchen: My understanding is that this has been a problem for a long time: since Americans typically don’t understand Hebrew, Israeli right-wingers say one thing to their base, and another thing to Americans.

    It’s somewhat like what happened during Brexit: Brit pols would say all these inflammatory things about Europe, not really understanding that EU pols could understand it all — they all speak English after all.  But when EU pols spoke in their national languages, unless they got translated, often Brit pols didn’t learn what they said.

  33. 33.

    piratedan

    @Alison Rose: as a dude, the whole moral scold thing wears thin, especially so with these two.

    To be fair, however you get your freak on is fine as long as it doesn’t involve kids or animals.  It’s simply kind of laughable to watch anyone from the party of Trump and Gingrich try and plant a flag on this kind of “moral high ground” as if this man has held any public office or has any kind of outsized influence on his father or policy.

  34. 34.

    frosty

    @Jay: I missed all those opportunities back when I was a young’n in California. SAD! Maybe I should have been a little less introverted?

  36. 36.

    Chetan Murthy

    @prostratedragon: My understanding is that the emoluments clause of the Constitution is not self-executing.  Or at least, the Seditious Six say it’s not self-executing.

  38. 38.

    Alison Rose

    @Jay: Speaking as a former slut and sub, maybe you just didn’t get out enough.

    Jeez, Balloon Juice After Dark is firing on all cylinders tonight. I’m gonna go to bed before I make things worse. Or better, depending on your proclivities.

  39. 39.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @piratedan:

    however you get your freak on is fine as long as it doesn’t involve […] animals.

    Hey, those chickens ain’t gonna fuck themselves!

  43. 43.

    Jay

    @frosty:

    I was introverted. But, I had a 6 pack, still do.

    My Momma taught me how to be “The Gentleman”.

    Got picked up one time after close, at the Ovaltine Cafe. Young woman, ( I was a young man) asked if she could sit at my table, her “date” was not impressed. So we talked. It was difficult because she was deaf, and close to mute, but there were lot’s of napkins and I had a pen which I shared. She asked me to come home with her, “for coffee”, so I followed her and her GF on my motorbike, back to her place. An apartment above a retail shop on Willingdon street.

    Her GF left, to drive the babysitter home, (kid????),

    That was okay too.

    In the early AM, while she was back asleep, we, (her son and I) had Captain Crunch and watched cartoons together. When she got up, there was coffee and I made us a proper breakfast.

    I left her my number, but was working night shifts for the next two weeks. Never heard back.

    S’okay.

  46. 46.

    piratedan

    @Yutsano: well to be technical, I’m not sure about strap-ons for Chickens, but I’m not sure that I want to invoke the advertising gods and look.

    I do agree with Ms. Rose that I fully believe that Ms. Greene and Ms. Mace would be willing to interview HB in a closed door session… thoroughly

  47. 47.

    Jay

    @Alison Rose:

    I got out plenty. As a Dom, your “job”  if you are ethical, is to curate your Sub’s kinks. Lead a little, but not too far.

    A key part of that is getting to know your Sub’s, as people and their kinks.

    Informed Consent.

    After High School, I had a ton of “friends”.

    I actually get along better with women, than most men.

  49. 49.

    JWR

    Just saw this story on local SoCal news. Sorry about the ads, (I can’t find it on Youtube), but once you get to the end of the 3 minute dog video, it’ll be well worth the wait. ;)

    Inland Empire man rescues near-dead dog from freeway shoulder
    By Matthew Rodriguez
    Updated on: January 10, 2024 / 10:58 PM PST / KCAL News

    ETA, Jeebus! I finally post a cute dog story only to find you… people, talking about strap-ons for Chickens? Heaven help us!
    ;)

  50. 50.

    TriassicSands

    @Gretchen: ​
    Well said. My exact sentiments.

    (I’m not poking fun at you; I don’t know that there is much, if anything, left to say about the Republiclowns.)

  51. 51.

    Jay

    Another way to put it, is any woman that was willing to sleep with me, even for just one night, was not a “slut”,

    any woman who was not willing to sleep with me, had dicerning taste.

    Allison and I hooked up at at Club. She, me and her BF, staggered drunkenly back to her parents house, ( they were away), where we slept in blankets on the Rec room floor, (remember those?). There was some slight macking, but no more that that. There was never anything more than that.

    For the next 3 years, until she got married, she would come by my house, hang with my mother for a bit, then come into the basement, to wake me for work. We would then hang for an hour or so, and just talk.

  52. 52.

    Jay

    @JWR:

    At least it’s not enlargement surguries for Roosters,..

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    with links,………

  53. 53.

    Splitting Image

    @prostratedragon:

    Well I guess that’s that.

    I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that the scariest thing about Trump is how stupid he is.

    Most of us know a few people who are really, really stupid, and it’s tempting to think that you know someone who is as stupid as Donald Trump. But you’d be wrong.

  54. 54.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @Splitting Image: The frightening thing is that, if he were a Dungeons and Dragons character, he’d have maxed-out charisma, sacrificing both intelligence and wisdom as dump stats.

    Hitler and Mussolini had a similar dark charisma, though neither of them were as stupid as TFG (both were incredibly unwise, though).

  55. 55.

    TriassicSands

    @Splitting Image: ​
    I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that the scariest thing about Trump is how stupid he is.

    Trump’s stupidity is only a small part of what makes him so scary, and the flip side of that is that his stupidity has helped immeasurably in limiting the damage he has done.

    Of equal importance in Trump’s scariness are his seriously failing cognitive abilities. He’s not just stupid; he’s nuts. Now, he wants to build a dome over the entire U.S.A. When he’s not defeating Obama, he’s making one insane statement after another. Magnets don’t work underwater; we could have prevented the Civil War by negotiating; antifa and the FBI led the charge on January 6, 2021; and the pain that Iowans feel over a fatal school shooting is “very unique to your state.” WTF?

    Another obvious and important source of Trump’s scariness — he’s a sociopath. And the list goes on…

  57. 57.

    TriassicSands

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR: ​
      The frightening thing is that, if he were a Dungeons and Dragons character, he’d have maxed-out charisma…

    And that is something that completely baffles me. Charisma is defined as “personal magnetism or charm.” But I simply can’t see anything about Trump that would qualify. Charm? Really?

    As for personal magnetism, I guess all we have to do is submerge Trump in water and his personal magnetism will evaporate. So sayeth the sage himself.

  58. 58.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @FastEdD:

    Great song and the guitar part is fun to play.

    I wish that Hunter had responded to Rep. Silicone Mace (R-epugnant) with “You must have been staring at something else in my dick pics. Maybe you can get Marge to show them again just to see if you are right.”

  59. 59.

    Geminid

    A factor conditioning Netanyahu’s statement yesterday regarding Gaza: South Africa presents its charge of genocide at the International Court of Justice today. South Africa’s counsel will cite inflammatory statements by Netanyahu and his cabinet members* as part of the evidence presented.

    The UN body is based at The Hague, and the hearing was to commence at 10am local time, or 35 minutes ago. Israel wil present its defense tomorrow, with British Professor Malcolm Shaw, KC leading.

    *One reason Netanyahu has so many cabinet members shooting their mouths off about Gaza is there are 30 cabinet positions. That’s lot for a nation of 9.5 million! When he put together his coalition together a year ago, the PM ended up promising cabinet positions to 30 different MKs, almost half his 64 member majority. Many of these positions have only nominal authority, but the staff jobs are patronage positions.

  60. 60.

    Traveller

    Dear WaterGirl:

    I’ve said this before, but not for a while…so I would like to say again how important your news compilations are. All of them were good, but especially the St Paul Council Tweet. This is not something I would normally see, but now I am going to forward this to my 16yo Niece…you can never give enough encouragement to young women. Thanks again. Best Wishes, Traveller

  64. 64.

    RevRick

    @piratedan: What stands out in stark contrast is the gaping chasm between the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress in terms of quality. Our Democrats just skewered the Republicans on the committee. The GOP members, on the other hand, was a parade of the stupids step out.
    Former President George W. Bush liked to talk about “the soft bigotry of low expectations,” and we see it on full display in the GOP itself, where the best they can do is faux outrage. What a bunch of Nimrods. And they are what MAGA sends us.

  66. 66.

    SFAW

    @piratedan: ​
     

    as long as it doesn’t involve … animals.

    I think it’s demonstrably true that many jackals have gotten to the “heavy petting” stage with kitties, so …

  67. 67.

    SFAW

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR:

    but his charisma certainly seems to work on a lot of the GOP.

    Interesting word choice to describe his full-on hatred, denigration, and murderous intent toward The Other.

    Not really disagreeing, but that is the reason they love him, and thus think he’s “charismatic.”

  68. 68.

    SFAW

    @piratedan: ​
     

    It’s simply kind of laughable to watch anyone from the party of Trump and Gingrich try and plant a flag on this kind of “moral high ground”

    Or Hastert, or Gaetz, or … well, actually, that list is so long, I could keep adding to it until the 2028 election.

  70. 70.

    Ruckus

    @moonbat:

    He’s old, he eats crap, he’s in the “best?” shape of his crapola life, and he thinks he’s going to live forever?

    One very rarely knows when the end is near but he’s such a health nut, he’s young (at 77, given his life?) seemingly eats so well, and yes I know old, I’m not much younger than him and see his concept of eating shit, being just a tad overweight, having a life of zero pressure and possible criminal behavior being such a positive force for living forever. As is typical for him, he’s basically in a corner, with zero concept of how to get out, mostly because he has zero idea how he got there in the first place. He thinks he can do no wrong and proves time and time again that being self delusional is no way to go through life.

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