Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“woke” is the new caravan.

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Motown is Joe-Town!

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

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

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

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They Are All Mob Bosses Now

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They are all mob bosses now.  So brazen – they are confident that they can get away with anything.

Mob Boss Neil Gorsuch:

Don’t like your neighbor?  Don’t like how someone votes?  Now, in Georgia, you don’t have to just grumble about that.  You can request that they be taken off the voter rolls!

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Lady Justice cannot be happy abut any of this.

In November, let’s show them that they’re wrong about that.

Update:  Drip, drip, drip, you bastard.  Maybe if you step down you won’t be prosecuted.

Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report a 2010 trip from Hawaii to New Zealand on the conservative donor Harlan Crow’s jet, Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said.

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— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Aug 5, 2024 at 11:52 AM

h/t M31

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If You Only Watch One Thing Today

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If you only watch one thing today, watch this.  Powerful.  Inspirational.  Memorable.

If someone can find this on YouTube I’ll gladly embed it. In the meantime, do yourself a favor and watch.

Open thread.

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Black Women Are Showing Us The Way. Again.

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Busy week working, and I am back at it today, but I took one minute to check in on my buddy, the (fake) jack Smith.

Let’s model Taraji’s behavior, shall we?  We are not famous, but what if each one of us shared Project 2025 information with just one person this weekend.  What would the ripples be?

And if you didn’t catch the awesome poem by niqaeli torres in yesterday’s thread, go check it out.

Four Directions Wisconsin – We Have Angels, and Poetry!

She is right.  All there is is what we do now.  This fight is for everything.  Get up and fight.

Open thread.

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Raising Funds for 2024: NC Black Alliance Youth Engagement

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Update at 9:15 am on Thursday morning:

You guys are amazing!  

We have only 875.00 left on our $3,000 Angel match from Total Lurker!

We can make a difference in North Carolina!  It’s as easy as 1-2-3.

  1. Trump won NC by ~ 75k votes, just 1.5% of the 5,500,000 votes cast.
  2. NC now has 16 electoral votes, similar to GA (16) and MI (15).
  3. The Republican candidate for governor is bat shit crazy.

And we have a new match!  A lurker came forward offering a match, so we are starting a new $1,000 $3,000 Angel match right now.  Up to $100 per person, add a comment or send me an email message in order to be matched.

Thank you, Total Lurker!

This can pay off in 2024, and it’s an investment in the future.

The NC Black Alliance Youth Voter Engagement Program has a ten-year track record of registering, inspiring, training and engaging students at North Carolina’s 11 Historically Black Colleges and Universities.   With our help, they’re taking their engagement and registration template on the road to reach students of color outside of the HBCU environment.

  • Our goal for June is $30,000.
  • NC Black Alliance found an external match for us!
  • Any donation amount will matched.
  • When we have a Balloon Juice matching angel, and you tell us about the donation in the comments or by email to WaterGirl at balloon-juice.com, your donation is matched 4x!

What are the stakes?

  • Targeted campuses are in state legislative swing districts.
  • Potential to take back 2 Black Democratic seats that went Republican in 2022.
  • All it takes is a Democratic gain of one seat in both the state House and Senate to bust the Republican’s veto-proof supermajority

Read about the plan:  NC Black Alliance Youth Voter Engagement Program Summary Document  (pdf)

In case you missed the two previous posts:

It’s Up To Us Now, Next Stop, North Carolina!

It’s Up To Us – Kicking Off Our North Carolina Fundraising!

One more thing you can do!

Please consider sharing the thermometer link and link to this post on your social media – and if you’re on a blog that doesn’t raise funds like we do, feel free to share there, too.

Out-raise them.  Out-organize them.  Out-strategize them.  OUT VOTE THEM.

 

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It’s Up To Us Now, Next Stop, North Carolina!

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Are you guys up for helping to flip North Carolina!

I am super excited about the group we’ll be supporting in North Carolina, but before we tell you about them, let’s talk about North Carolina!

Why North Carolina?  Key points:

  1.  NC is not a red state.
  2.  NC is a voter suppressed state.
  3.  NC now has 16 electoral votes, similar to GA (16)and MI (15)..
  4.  Trump won NC by ~ 75k votes, just 1.5% of the 5,500,000 votes cast.

Let’s talk demographics:

  1. NC is changing fast, and Republicans know it – which is why they’re cheating!
  2. NC is growing rapidly in ways that are similar to AZ, NV and GA!
  3. NC has an influx of out-of-state younger people relocating for tech and finance careers.
  4. Northerners are retiring in cities like Asheville, where beth, our BJ calendar girl, moved to.

In a recent press release, The North Carolina Black Alliance sets the stage:

For the past 14 years, through race-baiting, fear-mongering, and political theater, the NC GOP, after a hiatus from leadership…returned to play for keeps.  What was once a state in revival during the early 2000s is now a state of upheaval as Republicans use their last grasp of power to enforce more strict and exclusive provisions beyond the constitutional mandate for voting.

What does that look like, exactly?

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Ohio Issue 1 Results: Polls Closing at 7:30 pm

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Ohio Voters had their last chance to cast their votes today – hopefully NO on Ohio Issue 1 – with polls closing at 7:30 pm Eastern time.

GOOD REASONS TO VOTE NO ON ISSUE 1.  I can’t see a single reason to vote Yes unless you’re an authoritarian prick.

Here’s what it does:

  • Require 60% of voters to pass a new constitutional amendment, instead of a simple majority of 50% plus one.
  • Require citizens who want to place an amendment on the ballot to collect signatures from at least 5% of voters from the last gubernatorial election in all 88 counties, instead of the current 44.
  • Eliminate a 10-day cure period that allows citizens to replace any signatures deemed faulty by the secretary of state’s office.

Come on, Ohio!   Results:

Columbus Dispatch

Ohio Live Results

Ohio Secretary of State live results

Are there folks on twitter to follow who particularly know Ohio?

 

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Pins and Needles: Democracy On The Line Today – with Ohio Issue 1

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This probably isn’t news to anyone who reads Balloon Juice, but everything is on the line in Ohio today.  No matter how the vote on Issue 1 comes out, this is a big Joe Biden deal, and we are going to learn a lot about how much people are paying attention.  And by people, I mean “normies”.

Polls close at 7:30 tonight.  I’ll have a post up for the Ohio results, which I imagine will start coming in pretty much right away.  Ohio peeps, is that correct?  By what time do we expect to know the results?

(Columbus Dispatch)

Ohio Voters will decide TODAY Aug. 8 special election whether they support Issue 1, a measure which would:

  • Require 60% of voters to pass a new constitutional amendment, instead of a simple majority of 50% plus one.
  • Require citizens who want to place an amendment on the ballot to collect signatures from at least 5% of voters from the last gubernatorial election in all 88 counties, instead of the current 44.
  • Eliminate a 10-day cure period that allows citizens to replace any signatures deemed faulty by the secretary of state’s office.

One look at the three changes and it seems obvious that this is not good for democracy.

I have high hopes for Ohio, but when the day for voting comes, it really hits home that you’ve done all you can and now you just have to wait to see how it turns out.  It’s a hard day.

Open thread.

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