Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

He really is that stupid.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

When we show up, we win.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Republicans in disarray!

An almost top 10,000 blog!

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

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138Comments

  1. 1.

    Violet

    Why do some people show up with names and avatars and others have “Comment from [username]”?

  2. 2.

    sb

    Okay, the live chat was fun until we all started having (ahem) too much fun and the comments went by lightening fast.

    I’d suggest moderating the live chat and letting the threads run free.

  3. 3.

    Violet

    Some of my comments are showing up and others are not. Didn’t use a known filter word or profanity so not sure why that’s happened.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    Can we get rid of the the Share buttons on this thing? They are distracting, especially as everything moves quickly.

    Someone said you could turn off auto scrolling, but I haven’t seen where/how to do that yet.

  6. 6.

    Comrade Mary

    Hey, that thingy on the front page rejected my comment. Do we need to login somewhere?

  7. 7.

    gogol's wife

    I don’t get this at all. I guess there’s no hope I’ll be able to tune into Balloon Juice when big events happen. Either it shuts down because of too much traffic or there’s some new system I don’t understand.

  8. 8.

    Capt. Seaweed

    Comments go by too fast. No way to respond to individual posts.

    Comments don’t always get posted. Go to the fridge for a beer and miss 25 posts. Hard to read.

    Why not just create a blogger account/blog. Edso’s works nicely, looks good, free.

    /bitchbitchbitch

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    Just a minute ago, the page seemed to refresh itself, and everything before 9:10 just disappeared. ??

    Edit: duh. It happened when I posted a comment. So with the live blogging, you can’t come in to it late, and read the older live blogging comments as well as current ones? That doesn’t seem right.

  15. 15.

    Violet

    Is there no way to pay for additional bandwidth for Balloon-Juice for, say, a month? Like now through the election? That might be easier.

  21. 21.

    Capt. Seaweed

    I appreciate you are trying to do something to fix a problem.

    Your solution is a disaster waiting to happen. It is awful in many ways. Do you know what Battling Seizure Robots are?

    Think about getting a Blogger site.

    Thank you for your consideration.

  22. 22.

    jwb

    Not really working very well. I posted under two different names, once under the name here and once under a twitter handle after signing in. Each time the the first comment posted, but none of the subsequent ones did.

  23. 23.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @TheMightyTrowel: seriously, i’ve just tried to post a about a gillion comments – at least 7 under the name Sarah Palin – and the thing won’t post any of them. Clearly it’s anti-American, probably Kenyan and definitely a communist.

  25. 25.

    Comrade Mary

    At this moment, here’s what the suckage to awesome scale looks like for this app.

    SUCKAGE - + - - MEH - - - - AWESOME

    I know what it’s like breaking in new software, and I’m sure you guys and the hamster are working on it, but I’ve made several comments and only 1, maybe 2 have gotten through (FF15, Windows 7).

  26. 26.

    eemom

    This is all DougJ’s and mix’s passive-aggressive way of trying to get us all to boycott the blog until Cole does whatever the thing is he needs to do so that the site doesn’t crash on the five occasions every four years when 10 million drunks are all clicking refresh at the same time.

    You heard it here.

  27. 27.

    realbtl

    I’m not that pleased with the speed the comments pop up.

    Though it could get entertaining around minute 75 or so when some of the folks hit the +5 stage. :)

  33. 33.

    Comrade Mary

    @Jim Pharo: I could sign in to Twitter, but the agreement says that I’d be granting access to my feed and as Sister Quinn once told us in Catechism class, fuck that shit.

  37. 37.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    MisterMix:

    So maybe what we should do is let a few people in at the start and then just pick a few comments after that. That will be slightly better than the whole blog crashing.

    What happened before was better. Some got through, some didn’t. The difference is that all were equally able or unable.

  38. 38.

    burnspbesq

    Aye, Captain, I can restore the phasers, but I’ll have to take the warp engines off line for 90 minutes to do it.

  39. 39.

    burnspbesq

    Aye, Captain, I can restore the phasers, but I’ll have to take the warp engines off line for 90 minutes to do it.

  41. 41.

    raven

    @Violet: I logged in with twitter when it first started. That’s why my handle is different and the Vets for Obama thingy is there.

  42. 42.

    LGRooney

    I sent in a comment from my iPad saying all is okay re:reading the feed but my comment never made it through. Is there a filter or login of which I am as yet unaware?

  44. 44.

    Capt. Seaweed

    @jwb:
    I don’t know. One way to find out:

    1. Create a site, call it Green Balloons or something catchy.

    2. Have a FB create a post tsunami: between 7pm to 8pm some-night-this-week everybody go swamp the new temp Debate posting site. Post and refresh as much as you can.

    3. See what happens.

  45. 45.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Violet: “Violet: I’d love it if Biden came up with the Ryan version of “A noun, a verb and 9/11.” ”

    “a lie a lie and PX-90”

  48. 48.

    PeakVT

    Wait, comments in the coveritlive doodad are going to be off during the liveblog? What’s effing point, then? It isn’t the FPers giving the BJ hamsters heart attacks; it’s the brilliant commenters.

  51. 51.

    jwb

    @Baud: If you got here early, mistermix approved a bunch of handles as moderators. Those people are able to post at will. The rest of us schmucks, not so much.

  56. 56.

    mistermix

    Yeah, I’d say that was a mixed bag. We’re damned if we do and god damned if we don’t.

  58. 58.

    smith

    I have used this type of liveblog on other websites and all my comments have gone through – but on this one, I posted several comments and none of them made it through.

    I even signed in on my twitter and nothing posted.

  59. 59.

    mistermix

    @jwb:

    If you got here early, mistermix approved a bunch of handles as moderators. Those people are able to post at will. The rest of us schmucks, not so much.

    Yep, that’s what happened. I think we’re going to try 10 at the VP debate and then just green light a few comments. Or the site will just be down for 2 hours. Which is better?

  62. 62.

    BGinCHI

    I guess if this doesn’t have to work I’ll just have to treat Mrs. BG to my oral liveblog.

    She loves that.

  63. 63.

    jwb

    @Baud: Because mistermix approved so many as moderators, the screen now moves so quickly we can’t read all the comments. On the other hand, the rest of us have to wait for our comments to be approved.

    Aside from the fact that the last debate brought twitter to a grinding halt, I’d say we should just move the whole discussion to Twitter with a special hashtag.

  64. 64.

    Comrade Mary

    It’s a really tough challenge, and I appreciate you and Doug trying it out, mistermix, but even if your plug-in works perfectly without comments, and you have only a handful of people talking in there, the rest of us mouthy fucks will want to jump in one way or another with comments, so we’ll either be reeeeally frustrated, or the site will crash anyway.

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack

    I “sent” two comments, but neither went through (so far). Is there a time lag?

    I clicked “Login” and got an option only to log in via Twitter, which I don’t use.

  69. 69.

    sb

    @Keith I hear you. It depends on the thread. I go there for soccer chats often but anything NBA, forget it.

  71. 71.

    PeakVT

    @mistermix: That makes the whole effort entirely pointless. Ten commenters will be paying attention to the liveblog, and everybody else will still be reloading the website.

  73. 73.

    jwb

    @mistermix: Yes, in one of my comments that I don’t think posted, I suggested that you choose an arbitrary number of commenters to post and let them post at will. The rest of us can try our luck both there and here. Remember it won’t be BJ if at least one of the commenters is not a parody troll.

  79. 79.

    Anya

    Okay, so now I know I am not a member of the BJ Center-Right Fight Club because my comments did not appear.

  81. 81.

    WaterGirl

    Comments;

    1. can we just pay for more bandwidth for the next month?

    2. can you disable the extra WP junk for the big event nights?

    3. can we have just one “live” thread at a time on special nights like debates, election, etc?

    4. people could comment on debate thread #1, until 300 comments or so, then close comments on that thread and create a debate thread #2, which accepts comments up to 300, then close that one. repeat

    5. that way everybody could catch up on the “old” debate threads without reloading all the time, which would help, too

  82. 82.

    jwb

    @PeakVT: If possible, the live blog should be offsite, because the blog will bring the portal to a crashing halt unless they turn comments off on the entire site as well.

  83. 83.

    Cols714

    Time to put Sullivan back on the blogs we mock and monitor list.

    Two bad polls (among some good ones) and he’s ready to throw in the towel.

  87. 87.

    WaterGirl

    Another suggestion:

    If you do use this LiveBlog tool, which I don’t think would be great (now that we’ve tested it), could you make all front pagers moderators so they could comment at will, and then add 100 predetermined people who could also post? Some of the regulars like BGinChi and others that we would all enjoy.

  91. 91.

    Steeplejack

    @BillinGlendaleCa:

    I’ve been reading down the thread, and it seems like maybe the moderators have to approve each new commenter? Going back to see if my comments have belatedly posted.

    Which reminds me: when you refresh this Balloon Juice page, you lose your place in the CoverItLive stream. Trippy. (There should be a Ghostbusters “Don’t cross the streams” joke in there somewhere.)

  92. 92.

    mistermix

    @WaterGirl: I approved fewer than 20 and it still scrolled by too fast. Maybe the hybrid approach where I post a link to a coveritlive page and then just let the regular blog crash would work best.

  93. 93.

    Schlemizel

    I’m just a simple caveman commentor and your live blog frightens and confuses me.

    Don’t like. No sir, don’t like it at all.

    Now I miss Phil Hartman and Ren & Stimpy

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    @raven: You would be on my list, too. :-)

    I’m not sucking up cause he had a baby. He does make me laugh, though. Besides, isn’t his baby about to start kindergarten? Time flies…

  96. 96.

    sb

    @WaterGirl: A good idea but I think the 100 number would be way too high. We’d have the problem we had just now–the thread would go way too fast.

  100. 100.

    sb

    I’d volunteer to *not* be on the list.

    Frankly, I like the comments of others better that my own.

  101. 101.

    jwb

    @Maude: IRC would be fine too. Of course, that would mean I’d have to figure out how to use IRC but that’s not a problem. I think.

  104. 104.

    eemom

    @WaterGirl:

    and then add 100 predetermined people who could also post? Some of the regulars like BGinChi and others that we would all enjoy.

    Now yer talkin SENSE. I nominate me.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    MikeJ had a ton of great suggestions for cleaning up WP – they were on Cole’s thread from the other day/night when he talked about being okay with BJ not being able to handle traffic for really high traffic events.

  106. 106.

    Maude

    @jwb:
    It’s not hard. You get the hang of it quickly and there are mini instructions at the bottom of the page. I used with Oil Drum and it was fun.
    It’s fast and free.

  109. 109.

    WaterGirl

    Whatever we do, I’d like it to feel like Balloon Juice. I don’t see how letting 10 random folks post, even if you rotate those folks, would feel like BJ.

  110. 110.

    Steeplejack

    Hmm, made a comment on this blog, then refreshed the CoverItLive stream, but the last thing I see is SB at 9:43. That can’t be right. Or did it die?

  111. 111.

    beltane

    Meh. I did like the pictures that were posted.

    I’ll be happy just reading the liveblog as long as normal comment posting resumes after the debate.

  113. 113.

    Steeplejack

    Still not seeing anything after SB at 9:43. And, yes, I have mashed the “refresh” button in the CoverItLive gizmo.

    ETA: And when I mash the “refresh” button in CoverItLive, it takes me back to the original “Test Liveblog” screen.

    ETFA: Now Taco’s in at 10:05. WTF?!

  115. 115.

    geg6

    @burnspbesq:

    A bunch of jurors have been all over the news about this. They are speaking out and saying they expect a life sentence. Several of them plan to attend. As you know, IANAL, so I ask…is this usual?

    That said and back on topic, the live blog thingy didn’t post my comment. I could see it, but it moved very quickly. Then I posted my comment and it all froze up. Then I tried to log in, but there was nothing but something asking for my Twitter account, which I do not have. So there’s that.

  117. 117.

    PurpleGirl

    @Maude: I’m part of science fiction fan club that has an IRC chat every Tuesday night. I use X-chat as my client and there are a couple of free client softwares that can be used.

    I tried to comment maybe 10 or 12 times and only 2 comments posted. I thought the movement rate was too fast to read the comments.

  118. 118.

    Steeplejack

    So I guess this test is over? Do we need a new open thread, or should I trudge back downstairs? Decisions, decisions.

  119. 119.

    Susan K of the tech support

    Suggestion: For any live blog event, please post the time and time zone. 8:00 means 24 different things, depending on time zones (or maybe more, for those time zones that are on the half hour)

    8:00 eastern. <- minimum

    8:00 eastern, 5:00 pacific <- better

    You get the idea.

  120. 120.

    Another Halocene Human

    @Maude: Comments aren’t posting. IRC is better. You sign in and it’s live. It’s free.

    I like this plan. There are some good irc websites out there. What was the one that #TPMRegulars used to use?

    I’m 0/2 with COVERITLIVE! (O’Reilly voice) and it was several minutes behind with its last comment.

  123. 123.

    Maude

    @Another Halocene Human:
    I’d have to look it up. Can’t remember the one I was on.
    You could go back and read all the previous comments.
    All I remember is that it was a Linux free one. You could have pretty colors to mark a reply to you and a little sound to tell you you had a reply.
    I just like stuff that works.

  124. 124.

    Mnemosyne

    @jwb:

    I was having trouble with it, but if it works, why not simply have folks meet up under hashtag #balloonjuice

    Can you explain to me in simple terms how I can get Twitter to show tweets with specific hashtags on my iPhone? I will be iPhone-only for the rest of the debates (probably) so I doubt the CoverItLive thing is going to work for me. Particularly since I’ll be on 3G.

  127. 127.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    since people are talking about twitter, here are some tweets from Nate Silver

    Nate Silver ‏@fivethirtyeight
    So the Pew poll really is a huge data point for Romney. But his polling today was pretty mediocre without it.
    *
    3h Nate Silver ‏@fivethirtyeight
    How much difference did the Pew poll make? We had Romney win % rising to 24.4% from 21.6% today. Without Pew, he’d have made no gain at all.
    *
    5h Nate Silver ‏@fivethirtyeight
    According to Twitter, Barack Obama went from a huge favorite at 1 PM to a huge underdog at 4 PM. Get a grip, people.

  129. 129.

    The Other Chuck

    @Mnemosyne: Just use the official twitter app and search for that hashtag. It’ll continuously refresh. Trust me though, #Debates was a firehose, absolutely impossible to follow.

    And the liveblog thing … it’s like IRC except with about 1% of the functionality, scalability, and usability. It’s completely unreadable on my android tablet with its 1920×1200 landscape display (oh you mean android devices aren’t all low-res phones in portrait mode? Golly). The only constructive comments I can give about it involve constructing a catapult to launch it from.

  131. 131.

    The Other Chuck

    Looks like if I click through, delete the “ipod=y” parameter, and go back in, I get a “droidwidth=300” parameter in the URL, and if I change it to something like 800, it’s much more readable in landscape. Still can’t embiggen the microscopic fonts in chrome, but maybe Opera Mobile will do the trick…

    Nope. Doesn’t even _show up_ on Opera.

  132. 132.

    Steeplejack

    @Anya:

    I am really a hard-liner about not engaging the trolls, but somehow I got lulled into it tonight. All I can say is “D’oh!”

  133. 133.

    geg6

    @The Other Chuck:

    The only constructive comments I can give about it involve constructing a catapult to launch it from.

    I don’t think I understand two other words of your comment, but this one was crystal clear and wins the toobz today, IMHO. Made me actually LOL.

  135. 135.

    burnspbesq

    @geg6:

    In my limited experience, it is somewhat unusual for jurors to show up for a sentencing when they have no role to play in the process.

    And I don’t remember whether life is an available sentence under Pennsylvania law. Sandusky is old enough that 20 years is effectively a life sentence.

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