Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

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

In my day, never was longer.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Books are my comfort food!

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

We still have time to mess this up!

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

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  1. 1.

    hovercraft

    Please pretty please can you give us an open thread. If you don’t, we’ll shit all over this one, because the one downstairs is infested. : )

  4. 4.

    Spanky

    OK, I’ll dupe the comment from the tail of the last thread. Discuss ….

    Howzabout this from the WaPo?

    LONDON — Swedish prosecutors on Friday dropped their investigation into a rape allegation against Julian Assange, closing a nearly seven-year legal saga that led the WikiLeaks founder to seek sanctuary at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London.

    But British police said that Assange still faces arrest for jumping bail if he walks out of diplomatic protection, which Assange claims is still needed to keep him from being extradited to the United States to face charges of disclosing confidential military and diplomatic documents.

    The Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement that Sweden’s director of public prosecution, Marianne Ny, “today decided to discontinue the investigation” into a rape claim against Assange.

    My favorite part where he channels Mussolini:

    The silver-haired activist made a rare appearance on the balcony of the embassy late Friday afternoon with a clenched fist in the air.

    “Today is an important victory,” he told the throng of journalists camped outside the embassy, a stone’s throw from the Harrods department store.

    Moar…

  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @hovercraft: @Baud: make it so

    we can’t wait for Cole to make a top down decision, we are the activist grass roots, and it is up to us to open this thread to jackals and directionless ramblers

    we are the ones we’ve been waiting for

  18. 18.

    Felonius Monk

    @Baud:

    We need to fundamentally reform Balloon Juice.

    Now all we need is Wilmer to come over and show us how the revolution should be fought.

  25. 25.

    TenguPhule

    When Donald Trump sits down for dinner in Saudi Arabia, caterers have ensured that his favorite meal – steak with a side of ketchup – will be offered alongside the traditional local cuisine.

    FFS. Is there no end to the shame he’s going to make this country feel?!

  27. 27.

    Felonius Monk

    @Baud:

    since he’s not even a Juicer.

    Exactly. But I’m sure he will tell us that we are not juicy enough or corporate juicers or some other purity crap.

  30. 30.

    Miss Bianca

    @Omnes Omnibus: Fine, too. My hands are pretty much all healed up from injudicious honeybee installation, the weekend is almost upon us, and I sense a fine bottle of wine in the offing to accompany the evening meal. Life Is Good, as a certain stick figure likes to remind us.

  33. 33.

    Miss Bianca

    @Major Major Major Major: Not to open up the can of worms that got flung over the last thread (honest!) but Just Curious: as an IT professional yourself, what is your take on the whole “BUT HER EMAIILLZZZ” thing? My take on it was that the private server may have been unorthodox, and not the optimum solution, but not the Big Stinking Deal that either the Republicans or the concern trolls were making it out to be. Am I wrong?

  35. 35.

    TenguPhule

    @Miss Bianca:

    but not the Big Stinking Deal that either the Republicans or the concern trolls were making it out to be. Am I wrong?

    No. You’re not wrong.

  38. 38.

    TenguPhule

    @Spanky: Its going to be a race between who gets to throw him off of a tall building. The NSA or the Russians.

  39. 39.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Miss Bianca: depends on who you ask. But my take is that the State regulations, in combination with the old authorized computer types etc., made modern office work essentially impossible. Hillary wanted to work in a 21st century manner, so she broke the rules in a nudge-wink-‘unauthorized’ way that shouldn’t have been a big deal. But Clinton rules.

  40. 40.

    Felonius Monk

    @TenguPhule:

    Well done filet mignon.

    That’s inedible. I remember reading about Henry Ford II some years back. When he wanted a hamburger the only thing the chef was allowed to use was ground filet mignon. The chef thought he was a shithead.

  41. 41.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    @Spanky:

    So this albino meal worm has lived in the embassy for seven years… does he pay rent? Does he do his own laundry? Is he just a friggin’ leach? What does Ecuador get out of it?

  43. 43.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Miss Bianca: I’m not M^4, but I have run enterprise-scale messaging platforms. You are not wrong. HRC’s setup was solid and conventional from what could be seen from the technical perspective. There is no evidence it was ever hacked. She went the route she did because DoS IT could not meet her stated requirements.

  49. 49.

    JCJ

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I am planning buying a drink for my JD tonight, since it turns 21 today.

    Oh dear. I don’t want to know what you did when it reached the age of consent…

  50. 50.

    Mnemosyne

    Admittedly, this bout of the flu is making me crankier than usual, but I’m pretty pissed that a post about Anthony Weiner’s lack of dick control turned into 300+ comments about how his lack of dick control was all Hillary and Huma’s fault. Jesus fuck, I hate people sometimes.

  51. 51.

    Raoul

    After at least a year of not being bothered, autoplay video ads are now in the right hand column of the site again. Wasn’t happening even yesterday.

    I do not like this.

  52. 52.

    Another Scott

    @Raoul: uBlock Origin (and similar ad blockers for web browsers) let you turn off ads like that. (When it’s running, right click somewhere on the page, click “Block element”, then click on the thing you don’t want to see any more. It will create a “rule” that you can modify (e.g. use “*” to make it more general, etc.).)

    HTH a little.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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