Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

This is how realignments happen…

Nevertheless, she persisted.

False Scribes! False Scribes!

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Consistently wrong since 2002

I’m going back to the respite thread.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Lighten up, Francis.

Yes we did.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Dinky Hocker shoots smack!

How do you get liars to care about the truth?

I thought we were promised Infrastructure Week.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Wetsuit optional.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Militantly superior in their own minds…

What fresh hell is this?

I can’t take this shit today. I just can’t.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Shelter in place is one thing. Shelter in pants is quite another.

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Late Night Open Thread: Do What You’re Best At

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Remember when politics was so boring, we could go days at a time without thinking about it?

Nervous fellow Repubs:

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  2. 2.

    Uncle Jeffy

    Hoarse Whisperer: “I still can’t believe Brit Hume thought.”

    Neither can I.

  4. 4.

    kindness

    Uncle Joe is cool.  I think he’s taking lessons from Nancy Smash! as to how to piss Trump off.

  6. 6.

    smike

    @kindness:

    Yeah, Joe seems to playing it quite well, so far. I’m sure he’ll stumble a few more times along the way, but at least he will admit that he stumbled. Refreshing, it is.

  7. 7.

    West of the Rockies

    Does Trump buy his bronzer at The Dollar Store?  Does he think that crusty orange varnish is fooling anybody?

  8. 8.

    LeftCoastYankee

    Uncle Joe’s not always eloquent, but when it comes to calling bullshit on a fool, he is Hemingway, fierce and to the point.

    Joe goes straight old school East Coast blue collar:  “yeah, that’s bullshit (and come prove me wrong monkey-boy)”.  Joe wants to punch Trump in the nose, and (probably?) can, and nothing scares Trump more than grade school ass-whooping.

  10. 10.

    James E Powell

    Wasn’t the person asking that ridiculous question the same one who declared that Trump was the leader we need right now?

    Every day for four years now. The news is what Trump says or does, what people say about it, and what Trump says about those people. Over and over and over and over . . .

    Villago delenda est!

  11. 11.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Were can I get that mask Biden is wearing? That has some style to it.

    And Biden’s confidence with that mask is pretty amazing to watch.

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    @West of the Rockies:

    Well, that photo does catch Trump at an unfortunate moment: the wind has lifted that ridiculous swoop of hair away from his face, so you can see the bronzer line a consistent 1cm away from his hair (implant) line. And yes, he looks even more clownish than usual; I hadn’t known that was possible.

  16. 16.

    joel hanes

    @Amir Khalid:

    cleaning your hands with sanitizer

    Just my periodic reminder that properly washing your hands with soap and water is better.

  20. 20.

    West of the Rockies

    Totally OT, but it’s late night, so I will ask:  anyone encountered Abbey Park, a steampunk band?  Their covers of Minnie the Moocher and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are very fun and catchy.

  22. 22.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    CNN: A month after reopening, Georgia coronavirus cases continue slow and steady

    A month since Georgia took some of the earliest and most extensive steps to reopen parts of its economy, Covid-19 cases have largely flattened in the state, albeit with a slight recent uptick.

    “The bad news is we are not seeing a reduction in transmission, but I don’t see a spike in transmission,” said Dr. Gerardo Chowell, professor of mathematical epidemiology at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health.

    Data from the Georgia Department of Health shows that the seven-day moving average of coronavirus cases steadily declined from late April until mid-May, a reflection of the earlier stay-at-home order. The moving average of cases then flattened at just over 500 new cases per day, and the totals have risen slightly since May 12.

    […]

    Some health experts worried that the reopening, combined with the state’s limited testing capability, could lead to an increase in cases that could overwhelm hospitals, such as happened in Albany, Georgia, in the early days of the pandemic.

    So far, that fear has not been borne out. The preliminary data suggests that reopening has not led to a spike in cases — but the virus has continued to steadily infect people and shows no signs of waning.

    “I’m proud of what we accomplished over the last several weeks, but we cannot rest on our laurels,” Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said last week. “We need to further expand access to testing and we need to encourage Georgians to make it a priority.”

    Dr. Carlos Del Rio, a professor of epidemiology at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, said he thought Georgia was doing OK but worried about the beginning of an uptick in cases. Because the virus can spread so rapidly, a small increase can quickly spiral into a major spike without proper precautions

    […]

    Dr. Chowell told CNN the recent increase in cases was likely due more to expanded testing in the state rather than the reopening. He said he expected the current transmission rate to remain steady through the summer.

    However, both Del Rio and Chowell said Georgia’s issues with its testing data made their analysis somewhat uncertain.

    Georgia was one of several states that combined numbers from diagnostic and antibody tests on their website. Because those two tests measure different things — diagnostic tests check for current infection, and antibody tests check for past infection — combining them could draw a misleading picture of where the virus is spreading and how many people currently have the virus.

  23. 23.

    West of the Rockies

    @Amir Khalid:

    Trump is said to wear lifts.  He slathers on bronzer and has plugs.  He must be wildly insecure, which explains his incessant need for praise.

  25. 25.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @joel hanes:

    It’s not any better. As long as 60% or higher alcohol is contained in the hand sanitizer, it will kill the virus provided enough is used for 20-30 seconds. Handwashing is more for when the hands are visibly soiled.

  28. 28.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @NotMax:

    That is true. Generally speaking, hand sanitizer is fine to use. It’s preferable to use soap and water if you can, but sanitizer is good on the go

  29. 29.

    smike

    @NotMax:

    If you have a source of plentiful, clean water and soap, hand washing is great, but I don’t see any problem with scraping some of that hand sanitizer under your fingernails (even if they are not-so-clean).

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    CaseyL

    @West of the Rockies: Do you mean Abney Park?  Back when I went to Steampunk conventions, their concerts were a high point.  I just loved everything about them.

    I don’t go to cons anymore, and stopped going to stand-alone concerts ages ago.  The thing is, I much prefer Abney live.  There’s  nothing wrong with their recorded music, per se – but the lead singer’s voice for some reason is much softer and milder in the studio.  Live, he  has powerful pipes, it’s like the voice of God.

  34. 34.

    Bruce K

    I was wondering if that AdotSad tweet was being sarcastic, and then I looked at its feed in an incognito window, and now I desperately want to punch something until it breaks.

  36. 36.

    Luciamia

    @Amir Khalid:  I think  that’s why Hume likes it. Hair gently aloft in the breeze. Maybe he’s fantasizing some kind of Lifetime movie.

  38. 38.

    different-church-lady

    Joe Biden: “He’s a fool.”

    Biden’s gonna win this by being more of an alpha dog than Trump. Hard to believe, since Trump manages to alpha dog nearly everyone simply by the fact that he has no clue he’s not an alpha dog.

    ******

    And P.S.:
    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

      And Biden’s confidence with that mask is pretty amazing to watch.

    That’s the kind of thing I’m talking about.

  40. 40.

    J R in WV

    @joel hanes:

    cleaning your hands with sanitizer

    Just my periodic reminder that properly washing your hands with soap and water is better.

    Yes, of course it is. And when 4-door SUV’s come with running hot water, I’ll do that more and use alcohol-based hand sanitizer less often.
    But for now, when I get back into my vehicle while out shopping, I goober up with hi-test 77% ethanol hand sanitizer, and lots of it.

    I try to avoid setting it on fire, too!!

  41. 41.

    andy

    Forget the mask (though those are easy enough to hammer out even hand sewing), but how about his socks?

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