Betty Cracker – Balloon Juice

She hates him as much as we do.

April 24, 2018 /186 Comments/in Assholes, General Stupidity, Open Thread, Politics /by Betty Cracker

Damn, Melania hates the loud-mouthed fatberg she married for money and a green card! Check out how she avoids holding his tiny, damp hand as they’re lined up to meet the Macrons at the White House: Melania fending off Trump's pinky advances here is just brutal. pic.twitter.com/ag4PkxLYbO — Dan Murphy (@bungdan) April 24, 2018 The […]

Hop on Pop (Open Thread)

April 24, 2018 /168 Comments/in Birdwatching, Open Thread /by Betty Cracker

We’ve got a family of purple house finches in the yard with three fledglings. The fledglings are still a bit awkward in flight but do well enough; they can land on our feeders and gorge themselves, as they do pretty much all day. But they still harass their parents for food. Here’s Father Finch being […]

State Dinner (Open Thread)

April 23, 2018 /138 Comments/in Assholes, Birdwatching, General Stupidity, Gun nuts, Open Thread /by Betty Cracker

Here’s a non-state dinner happening outside my window this morning: Don’t you hate it when someone takes a picture right when you’re shoving a big piece of food into your mouth? Happens to me all the time. Sorry, birds. Anyhoo, French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in DC today for the first state visit of the […]

I Am Left Panda (Open Thread)

April 22, 2018 /66 Comments/in Critters, Domestic Affairs, Open Thread /by Betty Cracker

Left Red Panda here exemplifies my approach to life these days: "panda1: Don't creep up on me like that!! — panda2: Jesus dude relax it's the food delivery monster" pic.twitter.com/9QRQMZDiLU — Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) April 21, 2018 “OMFG, what fresh hell is thiiiiiis?!?” Just expecting the worst all the time. That’s no good. I’ve got […]

Dems Sue Russia, Trump Campaign and WikiLeaks

April 20, 2018 /300 Comments/in Election 2016, Goddamned Traitors, Open Thread, Politics, Russiagate, Trump-Russia /by Betty Cracker

Breaking from The Post: Democratic Party files lawsuit alleging Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks conspired to disrupt the 2016 campaign The Democratic National Committee filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Friday against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and the WikiLeaks organization alleging a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the 2016 campaign and tilt the election to […]

Back, and to the left…

April 19, 2018 /203 Comments/in Assholes, Birdwatching, General Stupidity, Goddamned Traitors, Open Thread, Politics, Trump-Russia /by Betty Cracker

A depressing thought occurred to me recently. Those of us who experienced the 2016 election as a national and personal trauma could be forever doomed to live with the mysteries and what-ifs associated with it, in the same way my parents’ generation is still haunted by the Kennedy assassination and the horrors that unfolded from […]

In Plain Sight (Open Thread)

April 18, 2018 /148 Comments/in Assholes, General Stupidity, Open Thread, Our Failed Media Experiment, Politics, Republican Stupidity /by Betty Cracker

TPM has an interesting article about Trump’s shady fixer, Michael Cohen, who grew up ass-deep in Russian mobsters on Long Island. An excerpt (link to article here): From the 70s through the 90s at least, the bosses of the Russian mafia in the U.S. literally ran their crime organization out of the El Caribe. So […]