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You are here: Home / Past Elections / 2020 Elections / Thursday Morning Open Thread: Inspiration for Us All

Thursday Morning Open Thread: Inspiration for Us All

by Anne Laurie|  July 11, 20195:30 am| 161 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, I'm With Her, Kamala Harris 2020, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Warren for President 2020

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Addressing an overflowing town hall of 650+ in Peterborough, NH @ewarren said “It’s not enough to knock the current occupant out of the White House. Things were broken before he ever got there…a country that is healed & in good shape does not elect a man like that to president” pic.twitter.com/sv7TW2vKQP

— Julia Jester (@JulesJester) July 10, 2019

"We have to be better. We have to love more. Hate less."

Megan Rapinoe's closing statements ?#USWNTParade | #USWNT pic.twitter.com/BUJvBfLkYT

— Sporting News (@sportingnews) July 10, 2019

"Now is not the time to be shook," @cthagod says at tonight's @KamalaHarris fundraiser, according to @NPR's @scottdetrow. "Now is the time to be fearless. And if you saw Senator Harris at the debate, you know she is indeed fearless."

— David Gura (@davidgura) July 10, 2019

And for my Garden Chat peeps…

“No no, I can still plant a tree”

pic.twitter.com/I6dcoeAcvU

— Henry Jones (@hthjones) July 10, 2019

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  1. 1.

    gene108

    July 11, 2019 at 5:35 am

    Good morning

  2. 2.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 5:38 am

    QUEEN SOLVES CLIMATE CHANGE!!!

    @gene108:

    Good morning.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 5:54 am

    Hate less.

    I’m not sure I agree with this. “Hate better” might be better message.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 6:03 am

    @gene108:

    You scared everyone else away.

  5. 5.

    MagdaInBlack

    July 11, 2019 at 6:04 am

    ? Loved Ms Rapinoes speech. She put some sparkle in my crappy day ☺

  6. 6.

    eclare

    July 11, 2019 at 6:05 am

    I am really scared for New Orleans.

  7. 7.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 6:07 am

    Buttigieg details ‘Douglass Plan’ for black Americans

  8. 8.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 6:08 am

    @eclare:

    Yeah, scary days.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 11, 2019 at 6:09 am

    @MagdaInBlack: She also said “motherfucking” on live TV. :)

    It was a good speech.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 6:09 am

    Biden will propose summit of democratic nations in foreign policy speech

  11. 11.

    MagdaInBlack

    July 11, 2019 at 6:11 am

    @mrmoshpotato:
    That was the whipped cream and cherry on top of the sparkle ?

  12. 12.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 6:11 am

    A Florida cop planted meth on random drivers, police say. One lost custody of his daughter.
    …..
    Wester, who was fired last September, was arrested Wednesday and charged with 52 counts of racketeering, false imprisonment, official misconduct, fabricating evidence and possession of controlled substances, among other charges. He’s accused of indiscriminately targeting innocent drivers and hauling them off to jail after planting meth or marijuana in their vehicles while feigning a “search.”

  13. 13.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 6:13 am

    @eclare: 118 0f 120 pumps “are online, and that they were “all hands on deck” and “continuing to work this event”. Time will tell. Just happy mine is up here to visit.

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 11, 2019 at 6:14 am

    @MagdaInBlack: Agreed.

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 11, 2019 at 6:16 am

    @Baud: Dirty cop goes under the jail.

  16. 16.

    Aleta

    July 11, 2019 at 6:18 am

    @Baud: QUEEN SOLVES CLIMATE CHANGE!!

    Now then! Fancy a cuppa?

  17. 17.

    plato

    July 11, 2019 at 6:23 am

    France passes tax on tech giants despite US threats.

    France has approved a digital services tax despite threats of retaliation by the US, which argues that it unfairly targets American tech giants.

    The 3% tax will be levied on sales generated in France by multinational firms like Google and Facebook.

    The French government has argued that such firms headquartered outside the country pay little or no tax.

    The US administration has ordered an inquiry into the move – which could result in retaliatory tariffs.

  18. 18.

    eclare

    July 11, 2019 at 6:28 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: So glad yours is up. Thank you for the update, we will see if the levees and pumps hold.

  19. 19.

    Betty Cracker

    July 11, 2019 at 6:40 am

    @Baud: Quote from the linked article:

    Wester, who joined the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in 2016, fell under suspicion last year after a prosecutor noticed inconsistencies in what Wester wrote in his reports and what was captured on his body camera — if he turned it on. The problem was he seemed to leave the device off most of the time, conveniently only recording after drugs were already “found” in a vehicle.

    There’s got to be a way to make body cams turn on automatically when cops are on a call.

  20. 20.

    Aleta

    July 11, 2019 at 6:41 am

    weather balloons

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 6:45 am

    @Betty Cracker: Maybe not, but there is a way to make it a fire-able offense.

  22. 22.

    rikyrah

    July 11, 2019 at 6:46 am

    Good Morning, Everyone ? ??

  23. 23.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 6:48 am

    God Save all the Queens!@gene108: @Baud: Good morning ?

  24. 24.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 6:49 am

    @rikyrah: and good morning rikyrah!

  25. 25.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 6:54 am

    @Betty Cracker: @OzarkHillbilly: they should ask the team that developed Alexa for some help.

  26. 26.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 6:56 am

    @rikyrah:

    Good morning.

  27. 27.

    Kay

    July 11, 2019 at 6:57 am

    @Baud:

    I wonder if foreign policy might be what makes him stand out in a positive way. His campaign just seems passive to me- like they are relying on people drifting away from the other candidates in some inexorable gravitational move towards the center.

    I wish I thought the huge mass of D voters who won’t be tuning in for another year cared that much about foreign policy – “relationships” and “institutions”- but I don’t think they do.

  28. 28.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 6:57 am

    @satby:

    Good morning. God save satby!

  29. 29.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 6:59 am

    @Kay:

    Biden does seem to be playing prevent defense. But I don’t know, his chief rivals are all competing for the progressive space, so maybe there’s so method to his madness.

  30. 30.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 7:00 am

    Hope this is on the radar of the Democratic party leaders. Especially with the current court case threatening the ACA again.

  31. 31.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 7:01 am

    @Baud: ?

  32. 32.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:02 am

    @satby:

    You really think the Dems will ignore health care?

  33. 33.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 7:05 am

    @Baud: I still think he’s doing it because he feels it’s his duty, not because he still has the fire in his belly to be President any more. And he’d be a perfect competent one, though not my first choice. So I’m willing to let the process play out.

  34. 34.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 7:06 am

    @Baud: of course not, but there’s a lot of competition in the idea factory right now, and it still needs to lead.

  35. 35.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:08 am

    Big banks vs. Patriot farmers.

    Wall Street banks bailing on troubled U.S. farm sector

  36. 36.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:10 am

    Trump to hold news conference on 2020 Census, citizenship question

  37. 37.

    debbie

    July 11, 2019 at 7:13 am

    @plato:

    It’s time to put tariffs on Trump.

  38. 38.

    evodevo

    July 11, 2019 at 7:13 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I’m a rural mail carrier. We carry scanners to record the packages we deliver. They upload our location every few minutes, and if they malfunction or are turned off, headquarters knows it immediately…The tech is there – but I bet the “will” to make it happen is not…

  39. 39.

    debbie

    July 11, 2019 at 7:15 am

    @Kay:

    You’re right about passive. We are supposed to support him because he was closer to President Obama than we are. Osmosis will elect him!

  40. 40.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 7:15 am

    @satby: and though the article was written by a former Republican official, it has some good statistics on how overturning the ACA will impact purple states. Plus this:

    Nearly 70% of the US rates their healthcare coverage as either good or excellent. In other words, most of the US is not looking to recreate the world anew.

    which I see in my circle of acquaintances. Though part of that is because Americans really don’t understand how it works in other countries at all, so fear drives some of that percentage.

  41. 41.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 7:17 am

    @Baud: good, make it harder to hide the real reason they’re doing it. Every time he opens his ignorant yap he undermines a legal argument his team is trying to make.*
    * And I bet that’s why Pelosi made the speech on that question that she did. She knew he’d want to answer her. She’s got his number.

  42. 42.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:18 am

    @satby:

    Yep.

  43. 43.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:20 am

    @satby:

    People here don’t trust government to not make things worse. For reasons both valid and manufactured.

  44. 44.

    oatler.

    July 11, 2019 at 7:23 am

    Denise Nickerson RIP

  45. 45.

    Another Scott

    July 11, 2019 at 7:23 am

    @evodevo: Around here, the excuse I’ve always heard involves things like “I need to be able to turn it off when I go to the crapper!!”. Which is a reasonable concern, but it gets stretched by bad cops (and their enablers) into “I need to be able to have it off unless I control exactly what’s recorded.” Beat cops shouldn’t be spending 98% of their day in the toilet…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  46. 46.

    debbie

    July 11, 2019 at 7:24 am

    @satby:

    Someone needs to stand up an ask him how he, as a second generation immigrant, can have the immigration policies he supports.

  47. 47.

    Kay

    July 11, 2019 at 7:25 am

    @Baud:

    JPMorgan grew its farm-loan portfolio by 76 percent, to $1.1 billion, between 2008 and 2015, according to year-end figures, as other Wall Street players piled into the sector. Total U.S. farm debt is on track to rise to $427 billion this year, up from an inflation-adjusted $317 billion a decade earlier and approaching levels seen in the 1980s farm crisis, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

    Obama was the best US President for agriculture. Better than Bush, much better than Trump.
    Facts don’t care about their feelings.

  48. 48.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:27 am

    @Kay:

    Facts don’t care about their feelings.

    If they support Trump, then neither do I.

  49. 49.

    debbie

    July 11, 2019 at 7:29 am

    But Marcus [CEO of Home Depot who is donating unspecified millions to Trump’s campaign], who retired as $231 billion company’s chairman in 2002, told the AJC that Trump has “got a businessman’s common-sense approach to most things.” He added that, “the truth is he has produced more than anybody else. He has. If we look at this country, I would say that we are better off today than we were eight years ago or six years ago.”

    Such an idiot. Obama was his president for six or four of those years, far more than Trump.

  50. 50.

    Immanentize

    July 11, 2019 at 7:31 am

    @Baud: Just so.

  51. 51.

    Betty Cracker

    July 11, 2019 at 7:31 am

    @satby: I’ve long suspected the high marks insured Americans give their coverage is mostly directed at their healthcare providers, not the coverage provided by insurance companies. Most people I know despise insurance companies, especially if they actually have to interact with them, and they’re annoyed by rising deductibles, co-pays and referral processes.

  52. 52.

    Kay

    July 11, 2019 at 7:33 am

    @debbie:

    It might though. Never underestimate how little people pay attention :)

    I’m fine with polling the primary candidates- obviously I read it and it interests me- but a lot of these people are just lying. They don’t have a clue about these candidates. You would not even believe the conversations I’ve had with supposedly “engaged” D voters. In 2012 we canvassed Obama donors. Small donors. We canvassed on Obama and Sherrod Brown. Half of them had no idea who Sherrod Brown is- like “is she the senator?” DONORS, so the best list you could possibly have, the most engaged 10%.

  53. 53.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 7:38 am

    @debbie: he’ll just say his family didn’t come from a shit hole country.

  54. 54.

    debbie

    July 11, 2019 at 7:39 am

    @Kay:

    Agreed. We are a country of mostly very stupid people.

  55. 55.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:40 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Yeah, but I hear people in UK despise the NHS, until someone threatens to take it away.

    I’m lucky in that I’ve never had a major problem with insurance.

  56. 56.

    JPL

    July 11, 2019 at 7:40 am

    @Baud: Once again Pelosi will just shake her head and let the citizenship question be put on the form. I assume that it won’t e illegal if you don’t check the box, but how many people know that.
    fuckem

  57. 57.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:41 am

    @Kay:

    Yeah, it annoys me when people assume that everyone is operating from the same knowledge base.

  58. 58.

    Kay

    July 11, 2019 at 7:41 am

    @debbie:

    Home Depot is a horrible place to work. It’s one of the places you hear horror stories about. The CEO of Menards is also a Right wing nut and GOP donor but they pay better and have happier employees. They pay better right now. They operate on an annual bonus system, so if the economy slides their employee pay slides too. That hasn’t hit yet but it will. The flaw in the bonus system for lower wage workers :)

  59. 59.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:42 am

    @JPL:

    let the citizenship question be put on the form

    WTF?

  60. 60.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 7:42 am

    @Betty Cracker: I suspect that you’re quite correct on that, and because it’s so intertwined by networks of care people don’t understand that it’s two different things. Plus people would hate insurance companies a bit less if every claim wasn’t a battle to the death to get paid for the coverage purchased.

  61. 61.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 7:44 am

    @debbie: misinformed, and often deliberately so.

  62. 62.

    JPL

    July 11, 2019 at 7:44 am

    @Baud: What’s to stop trump from signing an executive order and sending it to the printer? Are they going to impeach him? I think not.

    eeyore

  63. 63.

    Betty Cracker

    July 11, 2019 at 7:45 am

    @Baud: Is it too much to hope that someone will ask 1) when will the two administration officials who committed perjury in the SCOTUS census hearing be fired and prosecuted, and 2) what value InfoWars-backed trolls and QAnon crackpots added to the White House “social media summit?”

  64. 64.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 7:45 am

    @evodevo: I’m not so sure. I am the last person to talk about tech, but it seems to me the amount of data transmitted/recorded by a gps locator is quite a bit less than a body cam running nonstop for 8- 10 -24 hours a day.

  65. 65.

    different-church-lady

    July 11, 2019 at 7:45 am

    a country that is healed & in good shape does not elect a man like that to president”

    She’s absolutely right. But the problem is that the thing that’s broken is roughly half the people. How do solve that with policy? How do you tell half a country, “Your entire approach to life and humanity has gone wrong?” How can you even address the phenomenon without getting raked over the coals?

  66. 66.

    different-church-lady

    July 11, 2019 at 7:47 am

    @debbie: George Carlin vastly underestimated: I’d say it’s more like 90% of the people you meet are below average intelligence.

  67. 67.

    Kay

    July 11, 2019 at 7:49 am

    @debbie:

    I think that’s too harsh. IMO one of the reasons you want a functioning government is so you can do your thing and they can do theirs. People already have jobs and families. They have enough to do. Government functions should work in the background. Conservative policy does not allow that, because I have to be choosing fucking contractors and bidding and navigating hundreds of unregulated markets and getting ripped off 5 or 10 or 20% of the time. If I’m doing that I’m not doing what I do to make money or care for my family or enjoy myself. Think how insane it is to hire “health insurance navigators”. We have just made this endlessly complex and what that means as a practical matter is TIME. Our time. That we could be doing something else, like, you know, what WE do to make money, which is not create spreadsheets to compare health care plans.

  68. 68.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:49 am

    @JPL:

    And do you think impeachment would stop him in that scenario? Your thinking has no logical stopping point, and only reinforces anti-Dem sentiment.

  69. 69.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    July 11, 2019 at 7:50 am

    I get so tired of the unrelenting daily onslaught of evil and cruelty. I have to take breaks from it. I get so discouraged and despairing sometimes.

    Liz Warren is a large part of what keeps me going. And she’s what got me out of the fetal position after the 2016 election.

    I will vote for whoever is our candidate, but I think a lot of Democrats are underestimating the depth and strength of the enthusiasm that Warren could draw if she’s the candidate. And unlike Bernie-bots, it’s reality-based.

  70. 70.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:51 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Yes, I think that is too much.

  71. 71.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 7:52 am

    @debbie:

    that Trump has “got a businessman’s common-sense approach to most things.”

    That explains a lot about why our economics are so fucked up.

  72. 72.

    Ramalama

    July 11, 2019 at 7:53 am

    @Baud: I was thinking more along the lines of the Queen is at the putting green. Note the clapping.

  73. 73.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 7:54 am

    @satby: That’s why they left, because things were so good there..

  74. 74.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 7:54 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    First of all, take care of yourself. Second,

    but I think a lot of Democrats are underestimating the depth and strength of the enthusiasm that Warren could draw if she’s the candidate

    If she really is that, then she should handily win the nomination. I don’t know why we should think Dem primary voters are somehow worse than general election voters*

    In fairness, unlike 2016, there are more than two candidates who are completive, so that could be a factor.

  75. 75.

    Kay

    July 11, 2019 at 7:55 am

    @debbie:

    What conservative “governance” demands is that you become well versed on a whole range of things- health insurance, 401k’s and IRA’s, mortgage lending, college loans, even something as simple as finding a bank that will not STEAL fees from your checking account. I want regulators so I can buy something or purchase a service and think there is some baseline safety and quality regulator, because I can’t be the unpaid regulator. I’m not compensated for that.

  76. 76.

    MomSense

    July 11, 2019 at 7:57 am

    @different-church-lady:

    That’s what scares me. You’ve got the non voting millions who don’t care enough to vote. Then there are the 60 or so million who are voting for racism and cruelty either because they like racism and cruelty or because they don’t care what happens to other people as long as they get their tax cuts. How the hell are we going to deal with that mess?

    I’m also pretty fucking furious that some of he never trumpers who were the purveyors of racism and cruelty are now making $$&& by writing books and selling them to resistors. Rick Wilson should have been publicly canceled for his Max Cleland ad and that was a loooong time ago.

  77. 77.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 7:57 am

    @JPL: Damned near every executive order he has signed has been stopped in it’s tracks by a lawsuit. Sign away donald, just so much more toilet paper.

  78. 78.

    Kay

    July 11, 2019 at 8:00 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    I’m a supporter too but I fret. I’ll admit I’m risk averse at this point. If Biden shows me he has a better chance to win I’d switch and I’ve never been a Biden fan. I don’t think I’m willing to rely on the unproven enthusiasm of the D base and I think sexism in presidential politics is real and wasn’t factored in enough in ’16. I heard it, and I heard it from Democrats. This happened. I witnessed this thing. They can tell me it was Clinton-specific but these weren’t Clinton-specific smears. These were smears that are directed at women. It also comes from some women. That’s the other thing we pretend doesn’t happen.

  79. 79.

    Another Scott

    July 11, 2019 at 8:01 am

    @JPL: Donnie can’t spend money on an (Warning: Politico) “addendum” with the citizenship question on the census unless Congress appropriates it.

    The House will not appropriate funds to do so.

    There are still some checks on the wannabe God Emperor. Don’t give up.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  80. 80.

    Cheryl Rofer

    July 11, 2019 at 8:04 am

    Good morning all. Despite a lovefest with hard rightwingers today in the White House and a promise of mass deportations on Sunday, Gramps is having a bad morning.

    I try not to analyze every tweet, but today’s are tempting.

  81. 81.

    MomSense

    July 11, 2019 at 8:10 am

    @Kay:

    My own feminist mother turned into a misogynistic Sandernista. When I called her on it she told me that all her women friends agreed with her.

  82. 82.

    JPL

    July 11, 2019 at 8:10 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: Apparently he hasn’t had his meds yet.

  83. 83.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 8:12 am

    @Kay:

    I’m in the same position. I don’t want Biden. I can say with 100% certainty that I would not have preferred him in 2016. But his current strength is his numbers against Trump, especially in the Midwest. It’s a pretty compelling strength to have.

  84. 84.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 8:14 am

    @MomSense: She doesn’t consider you a friend? Or she doesn’t consider you a woman?

  85. 85.

    Raven

    July 11, 2019 at 8:15 am

    As of Thursday morning, six people have returned about $4,400 in loose bills that flew off the truck when its side door came open Tuesday night, according to Dunwoody police. That’s only a fraction of the more than 50 people police think took advantage of the “cash storm.”And it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated $175,000 missing from the GardaWorld truck.

  86. 86.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 8:16 am

    @MomSense:

    Nothing signifies feminism more than a herd mentality. :-\

  87. 87.

    Chyron HR

    July 11, 2019 at 8:16 am

    @Baud:

    Look, “progressives” are as tired of whining about an impeachment vote as anyone else. That’s why they want the Democrats to get the vote over with, so they can move on to whining that it was just another “sternly-worded letter”.

  88. 88.

    JPL

    July 11, 2019 at 8:17 am

    Here’s one of trump’s tweets from this morning.

    …or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas (1000/24th), as your President, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius! Sorry to say that even Social Media would be driven out of business along with, and finally, the Fake News Media!

    The horse genius is back

  89. 89.

    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 8:20 am

    @JPL:

    (1000/24th)

    Some white nationalist code?

  90. 90.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 8:21 am

    @Raven: How come it never rains money on me?

  91. 91.

    MomSense

    July 11, 2019 at 8:22 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I think she was talking about her friends her age – a lot of whom started as work colleagues. There is probably a doctoral dissertation or two in looking at the first wave feminists and their 2016 preferences.

    One time she was complaining about Hillary’s hairstyles and voice and my oldest son said something sarcastic about preferring bernie’s Hair and voice while he was acting particularly shouty while looking quite disheveled.

  92. 92.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 11, 2019 at 8:24 am

    @JPL: I actually went to twitter to check that tweet because it’s so preposterous. It reads as if one of his staff got hold of his phone and is punking him.

    Went to my regular Wed night writer group last night. They meet next door in the public library. We moved in here without knowing that, so I just lucked out to find them. Today we’re taking the Metra downtown and doing the riverboat architectural tour.

  93. 93.

    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 8:27 am

    @MomSense: I was joking. It’s what I would say to my wife if she ever said something about all her male friends.

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    Betty Cracker

    July 11, 2019 at 8:27 am

    So, here’s a contractor drama question for y’all. We’ve had a nightmarish experience trying to get a new shower installed. Critical background info: this house has 1 full bath and 2 half-baths, so we’ve only got the one shower, unless you count the outdoor camp shower that’s right next to an alligator-filled lagoon, which I do not!

    Anyhoo, I’ll spare you all the gory details, but this project has been a clusterfuck from day one. Finally, four months after the initial agreement, the contractor showed up Tuesday to start the installation. After they had ripped out our existing shower, the idiots discovered that the replacement they’d ordered and hauled into the house is the wrong fucking shower! Getting the right shower would take several weeks — we can’t just go to Lowe’s and get a shower that will fit; it has to be ordered.

    The shower these fucking idiots accidentally ordered is smaller than the old shower, which really sucks because that one was already smaller than I’d prefer. Since the footprint is smaller, they’ll have to figure something out about the tile, which they claim they can do, but I suspect it’s going to look stupid. I’m so fucking pissed, as you can imagine, but I don’t see any solution aside from letting the morons finish the job.

    But once they do finish up, I’m not sure how I should approach paying them. I intend to pay them less than the original agreement, obviously, since this is 100% their fuck-up and I have all the receipts to prove that. They’ve been apologetic but have not mentioned anything about charging us less for installing the wrong shower. How would you handle it?

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    JPL

    July 11, 2019 at 8:28 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Have a wonderful time on the tour.

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    JPL

    July 11, 2019 at 8:32 am

    @Betty Cracker: That sucks and I’m so sorry.

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    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 11, 2019 at 8:32 am

    A Trump campaign worker apparently has video of him forcibly kissing her. Court charges have been filed.

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    BretH

    July 11, 2019 at 8:33 am

    Maybe they rig up a temp shower that will hold you until they get the effing correct one made.

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    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 8:35 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Cool. I hope the video comes out and it’s everything it’s hyped to be.

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    Quinerly

    July 11, 2019 at 8:36 am

    @JPL: All of the tweets in the last couple of hours are a sight to behold. I am enjoying the remarks of most tweeting back at him, though. Scathing.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 8:43 am

    @Betty Cracker: Fire them, fire them now Betty and don’t look back. If they are this incompetent at ordering a shower, how incompetent are they at installing one?

    Seriously, you can get any halfway decent plumber to come up with something that will suffice until you get what you really want, which if you don’t get it this time you will be cursing yourself for it starting 2 hours after they are “done” until the day you sell the house.

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    Kay

    July 11, 2019 at 8:44 am

    @MomSense:

    I think we have to get over the idea that is about “smart” or “well informed”. That’s not where bias comes from and because it’s not where it comes from “smart” and “well informed” can’t cure it. Our all-purpose remedy doesn’t fit this particular ailment.

    I don’t know anything but as I have argued for the last 100 years in Democratic meetings if Democrats want to sell a government health insurance plan they could sell it as security. It will be there. Change jobs, move to a different part of the country, start your own business, have a kid, get married, get divorced, it will be there.

    “Security” is underrated in D politics and “opportunity” is overrated. Secure people like and seek opportunity because they are secure enough to take risks. A lot of our voters ARE NOT. Give them security and they will then want opportunity, but that doesn’t work in reverse. Why would they like government health insurance? Because they can stop worrying about being covered and do something else. A lot of other things. All kinds of things.

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    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 8:47 am

    @Kay:

    I think we have to get over the idea that is about “smart” or “well informed”. That’s not where bias comes from and because it’s not where it comes from “smart” and “well informed” can’t cure it. Our all-purpose remedy doesn’t fit this particular ailment.

    Truth.

    if Democrats want to sell a government health insurance plan they could sell it as security. 

    My slogan is, “Corporations enjoy limited liability, so should you.”

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    Keith P.

    July 11, 2019 at 8:48 am

    @Betty Cracker: I’d take them to…The People’s Court. Or maybe Trump them.

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    MomSense

    July 11, 2019 at 8:48 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I’m probably still sort of weirded out by the whole thing. It’s like the time my dad started saying a bunch of nadery things in 2000 and I had to have the talk with him.

    Courts for Demmies. If I ever write a political screed, that may be the title.

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    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 11, 2019 at 8:49 am

    @Betty Cracker: This is the kind of thing that led us to sell our house. How maddening.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 8:52 am

    @MomSense: My mother evolved in the opposite direction. Before she died in ’06 she, a life long Republican, told me that Bush was the worst thing to ever happen to this country and she would never again vote GOP. If my father hadn’t succumbed to Alzheimers I’m pretty sure he would have felt the same.

  108. 108.

    MomSense

    July 11, 2019 at 8:52 am

    @Kay:

    I agree with you. I often talk about the ACA as peace of mind. Coverage you can count on. Health security. When people talk about not wanting their money paying for others I explain that we do pay now but we aren’t getting good value for our money. People make emotional decisions in politics. That’s why the usual Dem strategy of countering with facts rarely works. Everything has to be tied to a value and/or emotion.

  109. 109.

    O. Felix Culpa

    July 11, 2019 at 8:53 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    the riverboat architectural tour.

    I love that tour. One of the best ways to see and appreciate Chicago.

  110. 110.

    Betty Cracker

    July 11, 2019 at 8:53 am

    @BretH & @OzarkHillbilly: Good points, thanks. I think these folks are capable of doing the installation because they successfully did some other stuff for us without causing a flood or burning the place down. They apparently are just rank incompetents when it comes to ordering items and showing up on time.

    I was super tempted to fire these assholes on the spot when I found out they’d ordered the wrong shower. But because I live way out in the middle of fucking nowhere, it’s really difficult to get a contractor out here. We’ve engaged in non-stop home reno since October, and it’s just incredibly hard to find someone competent and willing to show up.

    For those reasons, I think we’ll be better off letting them install the wrong fucking shower and either just living with that or replacing it some years down the road. I mean, it is just a shower. But there’s no way in hell I’m paying them the price we agreed on for a different shower.

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    MomSense

    July 11, 2019 at 8:55 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Get it right or I sic my trained gators on you and your crew? You could stand by the gate looking fierce while you say it.

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    Denali

    July 11, 2019 at 8:57 am

    I would hold out for the right size shower. Perhaps you could go camping or away somewhere. You will be happier in the long run. Contractors are notorious for delays, etc.

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    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 11, 2019 at 8:59 am

    @Denali: A contractor once took our stone-walled front porch apart, scattered the pieces all over the lawn, and went to China for a couple of months. I eventually had to hire someone else to put the porch back together again so someone could get to our front door. A friend who’s an attorney said any jury of home owners would vote for the death penalty.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    July 11, 2019 at 9:00 am

    @Betty Cracker: Living rural does present difficulties. I found a good plumber, did a good clean install of a water heater and water softener in a really difficult location. But I can’t seem to get him to come back for other stuff.

    Still, nothing pisses me off more than “I fucked up, but you are going to have to live with it.” and I’d send him down the road in a NY second. Of course, being a skilled carpenter who can manage at electric and plumbing gives me leeway most other’s don’t have.

    ETA: and I would still angle for, “That is not what I want, it is not what I ordered and I will not accept it. You will fix up something temporary to use until I get what I do want.”

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    O. Felix Culpa

    July 11, 2019 at 9:00 am

    @Betty Cracker: @Denali: What a PITA. But I would do what Denali suggests – hold out for the right shower. It will take time, of course, but living with the wrong shower will last a LOT longer. Maybe also discount their fees due to self-inflicted delays?

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    MomSense

    July 11, 2019 at 9:01 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    The Maine way is to rip out your kitchen/bath and then go hunting for the month of November.

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    Just One More Canuck

    July 11, 2019 at 9:04 am

    @Betty Cracker: Maybe Lowe’s can recommend a contractor for you. I agree with OH – if they fuck up something simple like that, they can’t be trusted with figuring out how to do a non-standard installation

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    J R in WV

    July 11, 2019 at 9:05 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Betty,

    Fire them now, obviously incompetent. You could put in a plastic sheet shower while you wait for one that fits, or hire a tile setter to just make the shower the size of the room corner it is in. Or get a big washtub to use on the kitchen floor until the tile guy is done.

    But first things first, fire the guys who can’t measure the hole and order a shower that size.

    First thing they teach at carpentry school, how to measure, measure twice or three times before you cut that board! Once the board is too short, it’s now waste. Same for that shower, send it away with them, it is now waste for them to dispose of, don’t pay them another cent. In fact, demand they repay every cent you gave them, ask for damages to your existing shower. Idiots.

    ETA: The first thing they should have done when they showed up was measure the current shower space, and then go out to the truck and measure the new unit they brought. Not doing that, they lost the whole job. No one else can do worse than they have done right now. When they finish, the new shower will leak, guaranteed.

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    Spanky

    July 11, 2019 at 9:05 am

    @Betty Cracker: Do not be surprised if they try to charge you MORE because they have to do more labor to make it fit. Get an agreement in writing with them before moving forward.

    I have a shit-ton of problems here at Chez DeferredMaintenance myself, but at least there’s a pretty broad range of contractors around here. Maybe you should make OH an offer he can’t refuse to come down and finish it up.

    ETA: I defer to OH’s opinion. Shit-can them now.

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    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 11, 2019 at 9:06 am

    Trump apparently plans to order the citizenship question put on the census later today. John Roberts? Anything to say?

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    MomSense

    July 11, 2019 at 9:07 am

    @J R in WV:

    I would probably hire a good tile person to make a shower that fits.

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    kindness

    July 11, 2019 at 9:08 am

    You gotta love the Queen. I’m glad we don’t have a monarchy here because, well Trump would be a civil war King, but Elizabeth is so cute in that. What she’s 90 and in an official event she says ‘Oh no! I can plant that.’ Cute. Very cute.

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    Gin & Tonic

    July 11, 2019 at 9:09 am

    @Betty Cracker: Do not settle. You’ll hate it, as OH says, forever. Better to live with sponge baths or whatever for the six weeks it takes for the new shower to come in , than to spend the next five years cursing those idiots every time you take a shower, and then paying to do the job over.

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    Doug R

    July 11, 2019 at 9:12 am

    @Another Scott:

    Around here, the excuse I’ve always heard involves things like “I need to be able to turn it off when I go to the crapper!!”. Which is a reasonable concern, but it gets stretched by bad cops (and their enablers) into “I need to be able to have it off unless I control exactly what’s recorded.” Beat cops shouldn’t be spending 98% of their day in the toilet…

    In that case, there should be a function to pause it for a few minutes IF THE OFFICER BOOKS OFF. If you’re getting paid, the camera’s on.

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    Dorothy A. Winsor

    July 11, 2019 at 9:19 am

    @Doug R: You could specify the circumstances under which the camera can be paused. In the middle of a traffic stop would presumably not be on the list.

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    leeleeFL

    July 11, 2019 at 9:28 am

    @Betty Cracker: the body cams should be on all the time, remotely.That way both parties are shown in real time. No more BS. There have been too many incidents to discount evil intent.
    Cameras and recordings during ALL interrogations, also remotely controlled. Let’s stop pretending it’s not necessary.
    Madison said, if men were angels, there would be no need for laws. Smart guy.

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    leeleeFL

    July 11, 2019 at 9:40 am

    @evodevo: Thanks for the information. Good data for an argument.

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    Droppy

    July 11, 2019 at 9:41 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Fire them, fire them now Betty and don’t look back. If they are this incompetent at ordering a shower, how incompetent are they at installing one?

    this is 100% correct. You will be angry and regretful for many years if you let these bozos do any more “work” on your project.

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    leeleeFL

    July 11, 2019 at 9:42 am

    @Another Scott:As we say back home in NY, tough s–t! Power has a price!

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    Quinerly

    July 11, 2019 at 9:42 am

    @Betty Cracker: fire them.

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    chopper

    July 11, 2019 at 9:43 am

    @JPL:

    jesus this is even crazier than usual.

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    Topclimber

    July 11, 2019 at 9:45 am

    @JPL: I can’t be the first on this but I will gladly repeat that what makes Trump a stable genius is his unmatched ability to shovel horsesh-t at an entire country.

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    rikyrah

    July 11, 2019 at 9:47 am

    Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) Tweeted:
    In direct defiance of last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Trump plans to announce an executive order today to add a citizenship question designed to rig the U.S. Census in favor of Republicans.
    https://t.co/eNfb2tZVYl https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1149301003499515905?s=17

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    chopper

    July 11, 2019 at 9:47 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    sounds like these guys are fuckups. you’re gonna end up with a shitty shower and it’s gonna take them forever to put it in, or they’ll try to get it done quickly and it’s going to leak like hell and look like shit.

    fire them all and start fresh. sucks, but if you don’t trust them then you’re definitely not likely to end up with something sufficiently waterproof. unless it’s a whole fiberglass unit, those are pretty easy.

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    rikyrah

    July 11, 2019 at 9:48 am

    @Quinerly:
    Morning to Poco and the tribe ???

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    the Conster

    July 11, 2019 at 9:52 am

    @JPL:

    What powers do you think Pelosi has to stop it, exactly?

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    leeleeFL

    July 11, 2019 at 9:53 am

    @JPL: No mirrors in his WH, eh? Or perhaps his addled mind addled has his vision? Or?????

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    Baud

    July 11, 2019 at 9:54 am

    The Air Really Was Cleaner Under Obama

    Pollution is up nearly 14 percent under the Trump administration.

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    Quinerly

    July 11, 2019 at 10:00 am

    @rikyrah: Tail waves and waves back. John Lennon, fearless rescue kitty, appears to be sleeping in… somewhere. Have a great day!

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    leeleeFL

    July 11, 2019 at 10:01 am

    @leeleeFL: apparently I was speaking YODA!

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    Elizabelle

    July 11, 2019 at 10:06 am

    @Betty Cracker: Poor Betty. Oh for some Polish plumbers, eh?? (Brexit subtext)

    Firing them, or sponge baths/a camping shower set-up while you await the actual shower, sounds best. Don’t settle.

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    BC in Illinois

    July 11, 2019 at 10:08 am

    @JPL:

    Trump’s tweet of Elizabeth Warren as

    a nervous and skinny Pocohantas

    started my morning off with a stiff dose of anger. But it’s part of a longer, vile, contemptible sentence, over two tweets.

    Could you imagine having Sleepy Joe Biden, or @AlfredENeuman99,.. …or a very nervous and skinny version of Pocahontas (1000/24th), as your President, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius!

    The 3rd-grade name-calling of Biden and (I assume ) Buttigieg and Warren is what we’ve come to expect from Trump. But for him to say,

    “Can you imagine them as President, rather than ME!
    Great looking! Smart! Stable! Genius!”

    . . . is delusional.

    And this level of delusion is packed into a larger narrative of how “The Fake News is not as important as Social Media,” how all the social media “will all be Endorsing me at some point, one way or the other” (whatever the hell that means; and why is “Endorsing” capitalized?), and

    When I ultimately leave office in six…… ….years, or maybe 10 or 14 (just kidding), they will quickly go out of business for lack of credibility, or approval, from the public.

    This man is no joke. He must be resisted, fought, removed, imprisoned, impoverished, scorned, and whatever the next set of verbs will be.

  143. 143.

    Kathleen

    July 11, 2019 at 10:10 am

    @Baud: If Obama were President and had pulled Trump’s tariff tantrum the 24×7 story would be “Black Guy screws over Real American White Farmers In The Heartland”. (trademark)
    In addition, Village Frownie Faces would intone sad stories about companies scrambling to realign their supply chains and impact of tariffs on consumers.
    I post this in vain.

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    Elizabelle

    July 11, 2019 at 10:14 am

    @JPL: Do you ever consider how much of the “Pelosi is a douche” coverage is driven by misogyny and unrealistic expectations (fed perhaps, by some well-placed barbs by those who actually fear Pelosi and her effectiveness)? Don’t discount naivete or stupidity, either. They’re tearing down another powerful woman.

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    the Conster

    July 11, 2019 at 10:15 am

    @Kathleen:

    Anyone who is screeching that impeachment hearings would be covered in a way that would change people’s minds or educate them about Trump’s criminality is delusional. It will be non-stop trashing of Dems 24/7, like always, except on steroids.

  146. 146.

    satby

    July 11, 2019 at 10:21 am

    @BC in Illinois: it’s weird who he calls names. He’s hated Warren forever, Biden is a threat according to polling, but Buttigeig? Even though I like my mayor, he’s barely in the top 5 of candidates. I assume it’s his fundraising haul, because the traitor only cares about $$.

  147. 147.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 11, 2019 at 10:29 am

    @satby: Buttigieg is also young and smart and is captivating just the sort of people who would never invite trump into their homes, the people who think what their (grand) parents would have said about him, and probably did, “Not our kind, darling”

  148. 148.

    Elizabelle

    July 11, 2019 at 10:34 am

    Elizabeth Warren from tweet at top: “Things were broken before he ever got there…a country that is healed & in good shape does not elect a man like [Trump] to president”

    Truth.

  149. 149.

    Kelly

    July 11, 2019 at 11:14 am

    @different-church-lady:

    She’s absolutely right. But the problem is that the thing that’s broken is roughly half the people. How do solve that with policy? How do you tell half a country, “Your entire approach to life and humanity has gone wrong?” How can you even address the phenomenon without getting raked over the coals?

    This has been haunting me since Nov 2016. Enough delusional fellow citizens to keep us from fixing things will be here for a long time.

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    Kathleen

    July 11, 2019 at 11:33 am

    @MomSense: I totally agree.

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    Kathleen

    July 11, 2019 at 11:36 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I blame Pelosi. //s

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    leeleeFL

    July 11, 2019 at 11:41 am

    @Kelly: It has kept me worried, somewhat sleepless and more angry than I can say since it happened.
    The fact that in 2019 we are still unable to assume that Women, POC, LGBTQ ppl, Immigrants and many Children are not, in any way, to be protected by the present occupant of the White House, makes me despair for my Grands and 1 Great Grand. How do we fix this cluster-f–k?

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    Kathleen

    July 11, 2019 at 12:17 pm

    @Elizabelle: I also suspect psy ops Bernie Part The Deaux aided and abetted by Cambridge Analytical et. al.

  154. 154.

    Kathleen

    July 11, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    @the Conster: Yup. I agree with Pelosi that the only way we really deal with any of this effectively is by winning elections. I believe the House is doing due diligence on Oversight as best as they can. Pelosi also wants to protect reps (Davids, Underwood, etc) who flipped Red seats because we cannot afford to lose the House. I also agree with Warren that this is much bigger than Trump.

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    Patrician

    July 11, 2019 at 12:32 pm

    https://www.rfs.org.uk/news/2016/11/warm-welcome-for-the-queens-commonwealth-canopy/

    Her Maj is quite partial to a tree.

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    J R in WV

    July 11, 2019 at 1:02 pm

    @Kelly:

    @different-church-lady:

    She’s absolutely right. But the problem is that the thing that’s broken is roughly half the people. How do solve that with policy? How do you tell half a country, “Your entire approach to life and humanity has gone wrong?” How can you even address the phenomenon without getting raked over the coals?

    This has been haunting me since Nov 2016. Enough delusional fellow citizens to keep us from fixing things will be here for a long time.

    I think the issue is education. The public school systems have left real education behind, focusing with laser–like attention to passing the standardized testing, upon which their payroll depends. If you can do simple math, etc, etc, you’re good to go. No Civics, no World History, no real US History with wars and their causes. Nothing about slavery, nothing about death camps right here in North America, nothing about the labor movement working for a 40-hour week and worker safety, NADA about progressive causes in the early 1900s.

    If you know nothing about slavery and Jim Crow, lynching right up into the 1950s and ’60s — why would you care about that? And the answer is you won’t. If you have to pass history tests about those complex subjects, even if you aren’t inclined to be a progressive, you at least know where 8-hour days and 40-hour weeks came from. And vacation and sick leave~!!~

    None of that was a gift from the magnate owners of the factories!!


    Regarding health care for non-citizens — how do you feel about epidemics?
    Typhus and yellow fever and diptheria? Mumps and measles epidemics? Everyone needs health care at some level, if it’s just school nurses giving vaccinations for everything they can invent a vaccine for. OH, Wait, do schools have nurses any more??? Not if Republicans are in charge of anything!!!

    These tropical epidemic diseases will be at home here in no time with the weather patterns changing the way they are, and we need to deal with them right now, for everyone.

  157. 157.

    VeniceRiley

    July 11, 2019 at 1:23 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Have them order and install the right shower. Worth the wait because you’ll have to live with it forever! A few weeks of baths won’t be more than a small unpleasant memory.

  158. 158.

    BellyCat

    July 11, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Architect of 27 years here.

    Refuse the shower. Have them order the proper one and suck up the wait.

    Ideally, you’ve not paid them and should hire a new contractor.

    Short term pain, long term gain. Every time you look at that smaller shower and weird patch job, for the rest of your life, it will piss you off and that is not worth it.

    EDIT: VeniceRiley (and possibly others since I have not read the entire thread) beat me to it.

    Also, very important detail is to hold back 10% from any payment that you make until the entire punchlist is done to your satisfaction!

  159. 159.

    J R in WV

    July 11, 2019 at 1:57 pm

    We have showered using a tiny backyard wader pool and the kitchen sprayer, Navy style, wet down well, turn it off, wash everything, turn it back on for a quick rinse.

    Saves water, encourages family times together…

    Another quich fix for a shower. I planned to do a nice SW tile shower in the AZ cabin, but by the time came to do that, I had a hell of a time just laying a floor, and did a hell of a (F’ed) job, and no nuthing left to tackle the walls.

    So I bought galvanized 8′ long roofing tin, the flat kind that has crimps in the middle and on both long edges. Self threading screws, loads of silicone goo… now all I need to do is put up the curtains. Bright shiny walls lightens up the long narrow bathroom. Took one afternoon to be done!!! Popular treatment at local saloons, too.

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    smintheus

    July 11, 2019 at 2:02 pm

    This is amazing. I never realized there’s a hall in Peterborough NH that holds 650 people.

  161. 161.

    Kay

    July 11, 2019 at 3:01 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    But once they do finish up, I’m not sure how I should approach paying them. I intend to pay them less than the original agreement, obviously, since this is 100% their fuck-up and I have all the receipts to prove that. They’ve been apologetic but have not mentioned anything about charging us less for installing the wrong shower. How would you handle it?

    I would change the contract to reflect the discount before they start work. That’s the new number. It doesn’t have to be complicated. Just write it in- “wrong shower ordered- minus sign- lower number” and have everyone sign by the new number.
    It’s easier than haggling after the fact and you can even still haggle! That’s optional then :)

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