Alain investigated and found out it was a good old fashioned HTML blitz attack. Someone decided they wanted us offline for a bit and directed heavy fire to achieve it. Treat this as an open thread and feel free to speculate on the likely suspects in the comments.
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James E Powell
Look, let’s get ’em all — let’s get ’em all now, while we got the muscle.
―Frank Pentangeli t
Feudalism Now!
Kudlips. That is all.
PaulW
someone wanted to stop us from (
Baud
They. Fear. Baud!
debbie
That RtR guy?
different-church-lady
The losses are piling up and the Buadiacs can’t handle it.
different-church-lady
The good news is the site rankings should get a nice bump!
Baud
Seriously, who bothers to attack the 10,000th most popular political site on the Internet?
greennotGreen
Reposted from an older thread:
With all this talk about death and with the site being down, I have a question: who “owns” Balloon Juice? I’m assuming JGC owns the domain name and pays the bills. So, John, this is actually a serious question. Have you put the site in your will? If, FSM forbid, you decide to mop naked again or slip on the ice again or any of the other nearly lethal activities you undertake, what would we do if something happened to you? I would much rather have a cartoon of you above Tunch’s asking us to donate to Act Blue or animal rescue or whatever cause is closest to your heart than for this band of brothers and sisters to dissipate like so much…hot air.
Carolina Dave
NC Rethuglicans? They were so efficient in their special session debating and passing the bathroom bill they must have had some extra time today.
PaulW
@James E Powell:
Michael, we’re bigger than US Steel
japa21
@Baud: The people who run the 10,001st most popular political site on the Internet.
Baud
@japa21: Bastards!
PaulW
@Baud:
someone who wants to stop you from running for President.
and really, BJ is ranked higher than that. I’M running the 10,000th least-popular blog on the net.
redshirt
It’s probably The Punisher.
Or the Chinese.
Or the Russians.
In that order.
redshirt
@greennotGreen: John Cole rarely if ever actually reads this blog. Tweet him if you want him to see something.
tsquared2001
It was Canada, of course. Connect the dots, people!
Starfish
I bet it is some Bernie Bros or some Hillbots.
Baud
@greennotGreen: We need to safety blog we can congregate to if and when BJ goes to the big FYWP in the sky.
greennotGreen
@redshirt: I do not know how to use the Twitter machine. Does it come as a cassette tape?
redshirt
Watch your back BJers! They’re out there. On the Internets. Plotting…..
Mnemosyne
Hello, it was the Illuminati. Duh.
redshirt
@greennotGreen: Alas. Send him an email then, but use ALL CAPS due to his poor eyesight.
Enhanced Voting Techinques
Coles cat did it, because that’s what cats do.
jl
@Enhanced Voting Techinques: A message from Tunch, from the Great Beyond.
MomSense
I’m guessing it was the one smart cousin of the ranching/sovereign/militia/wahoos we’ve been mocking.
Starfish
@Baud: I like Southern Beale’s.
Patricia Kayden
“Alain investigated and found out it was a good old fashioned HTML blitz attack.”
Sure. Thanks Obama.
Mai.naem.mobile
The Ghost of Rob Ford
Baud
Ok, I confess. I was trying to get information out of a Juicer.
Jay Noble
My money’s on the folks behind that darn autoplay video ad!
Ultraviolet Thunder
I’m not saying it was aliens but…
It was aliens.
RSA
I’m not a security person, but does this mean a Denial of Service attack?
Poopyman
Is there such a thing as an HTML casual attack?
(You know who else blitzed …)
tsquared2001
@Mnemosyne: The Canadian illuminati ain’t no joke. Y’all better recognize!
Mai.naem.mobile
@greennotGreen: gawd you are stupid arent you? Twitter. Duh. You have to use one of those bird clocks and learn the bird alphabet.
redshirt
I believe it was Freddie De Boer.
Hired by the Chinese but using a Russian front hacker group.
Feudalism Now!
Now we know what Right to Rile spent the ‘Brinks trucks’ on.
Hungry Joe
NEWMAN!
geg6
It was Lovey. Her revenge for getting her nails clipped. She’s devious like that.
different-church-lady
@Mai.naem.mobile: Everybody knows you learn bird TIME from a bird clock.
geg6
@redshirt:
Bwahahahaha! And where may I send your internets?
TaMara (BHF)
@Baud: I’ll have snacks if we congregate at my place.
redshirt
@geg6: There’s a 3rd party PO box in Taiwan. Use a USB drive.
Chris
BALLOON JUICE REFUSES TO SAY RADICAL ISLAM!
HOW CAN WE DEFEAT THE ENEMY WHEN WE WON’T EVEN NAME IT?
and other inanities.
NotMax
Progress through technology, as it now takes only 3 hours to rise from the dead.
p.a.
@Baud: 10,001
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Jeez, you guys are slippin: I blame Obama
Baud
@TaMara (BHF): You should do a front page post where we nominate and debate alternatives.
NotMax
If Mr. Cole hears barely suppressed giggling coming from the frat house….
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Oligarchy is fighting back.
Baud! is a threat to the rigged establishment and plutocracy.
redshirt
What blogs does John have feuds with?
LGF?
LGM?
tsquared2001
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: That is EXACTLY what the Canadian illuminati want you to think.
NCSteve
I blame Obama. He was tangoing with Che Guevara rather than flying back to the U.S. state of Belgium to show his resolve and concern in the face of cyberterrorism. Thanks, Obama!
p.a.
Well, it was a yuuuuuge attack. Just sayin’.
NotMax
@redshirt
All of ’em, Katie.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Threat? I thought I was supposed to be a “treat.”
No wonder I have no delegates!
NobodySpecial
@tsquared2001: Canadian Illuminati? I know better – THEY WOULD HAVE APOLOGIZED ALREADY.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I’m spending today working through lists of book review blogs, asking if they would like to review Becoming Phoebe. This is every bit as tedious as it sounds.
Juju
@greennotGreen: actually I think it’s in a floppy disk, or something.
Mike E
Please clap harder
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Well that Loomis guy is a known agitator…
Chris
@p.a.:
Sure, but was it classy?
A Ghost To Most
@TaMara (BHF):
Slushies, in honor of the day?
Steeplejack
Balloon Juice repels dreaded HTML attack.
schrodinger's cat
Someone attacked us? But why?
Thoroughly Pizzled
This is honestly rather flattering.
lollipopguild
@greennotGreen: 8 track.
Mike J
@greennotGreen: He really should file in DE as a corp and name a few of the cobloggers as officers. Better for him if the site got sued for some reason too.
Roger Moore
I bet it was Bob in Baghdad sicking the Russian hackers on us for not acknowledging that Ukraine is run by fascists.
tsquared2001
@NobodySpecial: I AIN’T fooled by that veneer of politeness and their good nature.
I am on to those amiable bastids. Can’t fool me, no sir.
Mike J
@greennotGreen:
The basic source code for the program is available in the back pages of Compute magazine for you to type in at home.
tsquared2001
@schrodinger’s cat: Obviously, because of our freedom to spend hours lurking, giggling & sucking away time that should be spent on work. Like, duh, homie.
p.a.
@Chris: Classy as a combover in a strong wind.
redshirt
@Mike J: Delaware is home to actual BUSINESS. He’s a demon of some repute.
sinnedbackwards
Okay, so I’m waiting for the #10 bus to go to the North Park Farmers’ Market. Open the i-phone to News. Flashing Breaking News “Trump reveals Heidi was a (anti-euphemism for paid lady)”; “Cruz calls Trump Sniveling Coward, Stay Away from my Family”; and so on.
Wow, I message Ms. Sinned that all hell had broken loose. She says “wah?” and I go back AND IT WAS GONE. (found it later debunked on Snopes)
Just about the same time BJ crashed!
Coincidence? I think not ratcopulating much.
Kathleen
@Baud: For the snacks?
p.a.
@tsquared2001: Balloon Juice down. Productivity, efficiency skyrocket! Wages remain flat.
Anoniminous
FIFY
jl
I don’t understand why an influential almost top ten thousand blog doesn’t have protection against internet attacks. The fate of the Republick is in its hands.
Were will people be able to whine complain about the virtually invisible Baud! 2016! campaign?
lamh36
Superman III with Richard Pryor on SyFy….guilty pleasure.
Chris Reeves was awesome as Kent/Superman. Def proving to pull off the whole Clark Kent/Superman thing took a bit more than just a pretty face and buff body…
tsquared2001
@p.a.: Giggle
raven
Two fucking blowouts. I’m sure when I go to bed the second games will be great!
p.a.
@jl: Stealth Baud! surges late with Silent Majority. Domination of the nation thru procrastination.
redshirt
@lamh36: Perhaps the best Superman but then George Reeves sorta defined the film character.
sm*t cl*de
@Roger Moore:
More likely Ukrainian fascists trying to deprive BiP of his platform.
greennotGreen
@Starfish: Me, too. Maybe she will volunteer to be our rendezvous in case of emergency.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Clearly it was a Bundy, or perhaps Shawna Cox on behalf of a Bundy. Or Ritzheimer – we were pretty hard on him (appropriately so). But look West people.
schrodinger's cat
Tere vaaste mera ishq sufiana
For you (Tunch blog) my love is like that of a Sufi.
I didn’t even know that these beautiful ruins existed, now I have to go visit on my next trip. Gorgeous video that I discovered today. It features Vidya Balan and Emran Hashmi from the critically acclaimed movie The Dirty Picture. It is loosely based on the life of a femme fatale of the Tamil film industry, Silk Smitha, played here by Vidya Balan.
A Ghost To Most
@sm*t cl*de:
Ruckus
Look what happens when I go to work.
Going to have to stop doing that, I miss having something totally unimportant to bitch about.
Matt McIrvin
@lamh36: Christopher Reeve is still the definitive Superman. As cheesy as those movies got, everyone who’s played the role since is in his shadow, and nobody else has really been able to make it work, at least in live action.
Pogonip
I blame Obama.
LAO
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I just watched an episode of Hate In America” on ID channel. Worth catching. Bottom line, scary!!!
Felonius Monk
CyberTerrorists attacking Balloon Juice, OMG, OMG. Let’s go hide under the bed while Obama does the tango.
redshirt
@Matt McIrvin: Jolly Chris Reeves Superman killed his fellow Kryptonians in Superman 2. No one cared much.
Superman in “Man of Steel” kills one Kryptonian with his hands in an obviously difficult situation: Monster.
schrodinger's cat
@Pogonip: Of course!
redshirt
@Felonius Monk: Tangos in Argentina while also watching baseball in Cuba. It’s like wingnut bingo.
raven
@Felonius Monk: Oh, we have nothing to lose anyway!
Steve in the ATL
@Mike J: Delaware? Fuck that shit–Isle of Man!
PhoenixRising
You people. Went to work today, missed the whole shebang and by the time I log in, all the good accusations have been made.
Unlimited corporate cash/RighttoRise
BiP’s Ukranian paymasters
Sandernistas trying to end the Baud!2016 momentum
were all things I thought of too. That is freaky.
schrodinger's cat
@PhoenixRising: Hitlery because Cole criticized her about her AIPAC speech
/snark
redshirt
Doug J
Major Major Major Major
At least I’m starting to infiltrate the Twitter network of the Balloomibati. Mwahaha
Matt McIrvin
@redshirt: Oh, the scripts never made any sense even by comic-book standards, and Superman was often completely off model ethically. But he sold the character.
Ultraviolet Thunder
Anyone who thinks ALL Canadians are polite and mild mannered has never tried to sleep through a Saturday night in a Toronto hotel.
Drink makes some of them forget their upbringing.
MomSense
@Major Major Major Major:
Ha!!
Major Major Major Major
@MomSense: fuck I misspelled Balloominati
Anya
@Baud: Cole’s twitter nemeses
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
Fixed that for you.
PhoenixRising
@Ultraviolet Thunder: My sister went to undergrad, or ‘yoonee’ as they pronounce it, in Canada. They are polite, well-behaved individuals…when sober. If you have or can obtain enough alcohol to get a Canuck drunk…bar the door.
Disgruntled former Baud supporter
Congratulations, Scotland! Last coal plant in Scotland is shuttered…
Article also mentions new developments in China’s coal phase-out:
Better late than never…
raptusregaliter
Wake up people! This is obviously a false flag operation orchestrated by Cole and the usual suspects: Erick Erickson, Bill Kristol, George Will, and Al Roker.
Trust no one!
Mike J
@Steve in the ATL:
Other options are available, but I’ve done the paperwork and gone from zero to corp in 15 minutes in Delaware. They made it easier than the state I was living in did, and it was dirt cheap.
MomSense
@Major Major Major Major:
Probably for the best. As long as you know the secret song it’s all good.
I am balloominati. I can be nice or naughty.
Just One More Canuck
@PhoenixRising: yoonee? Where did your sister do her undergrad?
Bill Arnold
Insufficient information. Is there something to work with, e.g. a collection of source ips?
(Add Zandar’s stalker to the amusing-possibilities list.)
BruceFromOhio
@sinnedbackwards: band and album names:
The Ratcopulators:Fingering Puppets
Adam L Silverman
@Bill Arnold: I have no idea, I just reported what Alain told me.
BruceFromOhio
@Major Major Major Major:
is the next Tom Hanks film, I hear.
Csbella
120 comments and not one mention of Drumph and the opossum.
10,0001 without us lurkers?