Got my signage up, and I am the first in the town:
The village idiot is apparently going to speak in a little bit and no doubt promise a bunch of shit he doesn’t have the legal authority to do and that the Democrats probably already passed in May but the Republicans won’t pass in the Senate.
What We Can Do: 85 Days, 85 Things
Lapassionara
Looks great!
Salty Sam
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/07/i-was-republican-i-drew-my-red-line-too-late-where-is-yours/?
Cry me a fucking river. You are
a day late and a dollar shortdecades late and trillions of dollars short, not to mention hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and millions immiserated. May your conscience gnaw at you and cause you to sleep poorly, if at all, for the rest of your miserable life.Hunter Gathers
By this time Monday, the NYT will be blaming the failure of Trump’s executive orders on Obama and the Woke Left.
JPL
Lookin good!
PsiFighter37
I like it. Hope you don’t get too many dirty looks from your neighbors.
pamelabrown53
I’ve had my Biden sign displayed for a month. I planted my Biden sign in a dense Tuscan Blue rosemary bush in the desert mountains of El Paso (solid rock). It withstands the high winds beautifully. Just waiting for the VP pick to order a sign for the second bush.
BTW, in my neighborhood, there are zero signs; truly in the desert!
P.S. Good on Cole for having the courage of his convictions. Plant those Biden signs with pride!
SiubhanDuinne
Looks great, John!
Kay
People are noticing mail is delayed. We just have to connect the delay to the Trump Family and their low quality hires.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I’m always so impressed by how much you’ve improved the look of your house, John.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Kay: If they’re aiming at the election, I think they started sabotaging the Post Office too early. People have plenty of time to notice that the mail is screwed. It’s delayed for us.
Kay
@Salty Sam:
It’s now or never. After Donald Trump the Republican Party is going QAnon. They have Q protests now- we had one in my little town yesterday.
The basis of the Q religion is you kidnap and then execute your political enemies. That’s it- that’s the sum total of the belief.
Frankensteinbeck
@Kay:
Good lord, no. They have a whole mythology, and it is detailed and bugfuck insane. Any urging of violence is a small part. They do have the same ‘someone else is going to rise up in a revolution that sweeps across the country’ that is common in conservative circles.
mrmoshpotato
@Salty Sam:
Drew your line too late? Yeah 40 years too late.*clicks on link* Blah blah, subscribe to the Post.
Hmmm that’s a picture of Susan Collins but who’s this author – Beth Fukumoto?
Wikipedia says she’s a former state rep in Hawaii, and she’s 37!?!?!?!?!?!
A fellow Millennial was a Republican from 2009-2017? But left the GOP in 2017 over concerns about racism and sexism?!?!
Whose ass did she have her head shoved up for the entire Obama presidency?!?!
Kay
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I used to work for the postal service and I still know some of the local postal workers- they say everyone is complaining. It’s delayed by as much as 2 weeks where I live.
The Trumps hired some sleazy lobbyist to do a real job, as usual. None of the people they hire know how to do anything, have you noticed that? No actual skills at all.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
@Kay:
I saw a truck/personal vehicle leaving my company with the Qanon approved hashtag on their back window. My company is a government contractor. On the military facility we work next to, I have seen Oath Keepers stickers on cubicle doors.
Blows my mind.
Kay
@Frankensteinbeck:
It’s all just window dressing for enemies lists and threats to imprison and murder people. When they go out into saneworld and get angry they all start screaming that everyone will be arrested.
japa21
@Kay: He’s doing exactly what he was hired to do.
ETA: I believe it is a Federal crime to hamper the delivery of the mail. If any of this can be proven to be intentional to do that, he could be in a lot of hurt post 1/20/21.
zhena gogolia
I expected a BLM sign. One of my neighbors has one, so they aren’t all Trumpanzees, I guess.
I was going to wait until Biden has a running mate.
mrmoshpotato
@Kay:
Fixed.
Kent
The ads write themselves.
Pull up stock footage of rural mail trucks delivering mail in bucolic rural America to farmers on tractors, and friendly mail carriers carrying mail door to door in picturesque Norman Rockwell urban neighborhoods to little old ladies. Voice over how Trump and the Republicans are deliberately sabotaging the mail. Show some kindly old mail carriers talking about how the Trump people won’t let them do their job properly anymore. etc. etc. Little old ladies talking about how they aren’t getting their heart medicines on time. And so forth.
Tie it securely around Trump’s neck. You don’t even have to talk about mail voting. Just how he is destroying an American institution.
Kay
@RobertDSC-Mac Mini:
I actually encountered them in real life. They targeted a local woman because they believed she had been trafficked as a child. It was all wrong- she was the wrong age, she denied ever having family in Milwaukee, she begged them to leave her alone. Still they came after her until she eventually agreed to a DNA test- she was (of course) not the “missing child” from 1982 or whatever. Eventually the sheriff’s department had to order them to leave her alone.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the person they chose to harass was AA/Latino. Dangerous nutjobs.
zhena gogolia
@Kay:
Oh, he’s doing his job all right. His job is to fuck up the postal service.
gkoutnik
We live on a relatively busy residential street (busy for a sleepy “small city” in upstate NY) and place our signs ninety degrees from your orientation, so they can be read easily from a car going by.
We have signs for two local Democrats, running for State Senate and State Assembly. Neither has held office before. Retail politics! And we don’t have a Biden sign; everyone in town knows who we’re voting for.
japa21
@Kent: You don’t even have to talk about mail voting. Just how he is destroying an American institution.
So very true. Take the politics out of it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Kent: “He put one of his donors in charge of your mail…”
the O’Bros did some deep polling and focus groups and said trump’s corruption is one of the best messages for reaching disengaged voters. I find myself asking how the ever loving blue-eyed fuck they don’t notice it already, but it’s worth a shot.
Geminid
@pamelabrown53: Good luck with your Rosemary! They eventually grow big enough to make shiskebob skewers. Some people use them to grill lamb, but they are probably also good for vegetables, mushrooms, etc.
J.
The sign and the house look great!
Anyone else on your street a Biden supporter?
Salty Sam
Her own, most likely. Probably pictured herself carrying GOP water for just long enough to parachute into some sweet sweet wing nut welfare position and avoid any real work for her entire adult life. I hope she got a cold feeling in the pit of her stomach when she realized the gravy train has gone off the rails.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kay:
A couple of weeks ago, I ordered some product from our own Satby. She is conscientious, almost to a fault, and sent the package on July 23 or 24. It arrived August 5. I blamed DeJoy.
And my brother mailed me a birthday card meant to arrive last Monday. As of yesterday, it still hasn’t shown up.
I can survive without shampoo bars and birthday cards, but if I were waiting for a check, or important documents, I’d be beside myself by now.
Punchy
Havent checked….any recent posts on the Sturgis (Jonestown?) SD rally? 250K anti-maxxers gathering for the largest dealth cult party in the COVID era. And the SD gubbnah fully on-board? Isnt that criminal negligence?
NotMax
@Kay
Even the uninvolved will sit up and take notice once they discover they’re being dunned for late payment fees as a result of the intentional slowdown.
Kay
@Kent:
You may know this, but veterans who use the VA get their prescriptions mail order. They got a 3 month supply in one parcel when I worked for the postal service. There were enough of those parcels that we had a special tag to route the mail sacks- we would segregate those sacks in small offices because people were concerned enough to ask us to hold the parcel back for them so they could pick it up the AM it came in.
rikyrah
Looks fabulous, Cole :)
Kay
I’m early voting in person. I refuse to let these disgusting crooks suppress my vote.
The Trump incompetents have now ruined the mail. Good work, Republicans. Let’s see what else you can break in the next 90 days.
mrmoshpotato
@Salty Sam:
And all of the gravy burst into flames because it was laced with kerosene. :)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Norman Lear and his outfit are on it!
debbie
Sometimes, I like to count the Biden signs while I’m out walking. The last time I did so, there were 24 signs in a 28-minute walk. Two houses (across the street from each other on a corner) have Trump signs, but they’re very tentative. One guy puts his up close to the house, takes it down, then a couple of days later, puts it back up. The other guy had his in his front window, then set it out close to the house. He now has a second sign inside the window (this one doesn’t have Pence on it). Both moved into the neighborhood one or two years ago. I’d bet they’re pretty surprised how outnumbered they are.
zhena gogolia
I thought I was in a sane state, but we just drove by the local athletic field, and there was a crowd of parents, unmasked and with no distancing, watching a basketball game. It depressed me. They don’t realize how quickly it can flare up again.
What a stupid country.
Meanwhile my friend in Madrid is now able to go to museums and movies.
NotMax
BTW, today is the primary.
mrmoshpotato
@Kay: It’s time to go all Steve Goodman vs the Lincoln Park Pirates on these bastards.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Redshift
@Kay:
To me, this one seems more competent (in an evil way) than most Trump hires. Instead of going obviously and directly contrary to his oath of office like others (the EPA now says pollution is good!), he’s hiding it in corporate reorganization gobbledegook. He declares “it’s essential to cut costs” (which people who aren’t paying close attention won’t immediately disagree with) and that slows down mail delivery and hurts service, instead of just trashing service directly.
Sab
@Kay: My sister in California has neen trying to write to my father locked down in a nursing home in Ohio and none of her letters are getting through. She has been blaming the nursing home.
So now we know who is really responsible.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Half the days the mail truck drives right on past my house. That never used to happen before.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: What races are the primary for?
Salty Sam
Wife and I had a discussion a few weeks ago, stating similar resolve- Team Broken Glass, after all. We mailed our absentee ballot applications the next day, and of course, heard nothing back as yet. We are increasingly worried that rather than broken glass, it will involve 2500 miles of air travel through covid infested airports to vote in our home district.
Still trying to wrap my head around this shit show.
zhena gogolia
I was able to put my absentee ballot for the primary in the drop box yesterday. But I don’t think I’m going to risk it for the general. I’ll mask up and go to the middle school.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I am so tempted to join twitter right now just to ramp up this hashtag
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ETA:
Tokyokie
I believe Social Security checks go out on the 5th of the month. If by this time next week a whole lot of people haven’t received theirs, a whole lot of voters will be receptive to the message that fatso’s flunky has destroyed the postal system.
zhena gogolia
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
One of J.-L. Cauvin’s best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuWQ0YEXziY
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
On Maui, U.S. House, bunch of state legislature offices, all county council seats*.
The biggie state media will focus on, as always, is the the mayoral race on Oahu.
*Because of the uneven way population is distributed, all voters in the county are able to vote for a candidate in each of the nine districts rather than just voting for someone in the district in which the voter resides. This way the tiny island of Lanai gets someone on the council who lives there, but that person is elected by the votes of the entire county. There is no government below the county level in the state – no individual town or city mayors, for example.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Damn, that’s a cool vid of Biden.
Brachiator
Good sign.
A sign on the other side of the walkway will be cool after Biden announces his running mate.
JaySinWA
Here in Western WA I haven’t noticed a significant mail slowdown. Medications arrive on time, the one magazine pretty much ontime or a business day late. I wonder which regions are being affected and why.
ETA our primary ballots arrived as scheduled. We take them to a drop box, not mail. It took a few days to show up, I suspect they quarantined incoming ballots for a couple of days.
Tokyokie
The spousal unit and I don’t trust the post office to deliver absentee ballots in a timely fashion, but we don’t want to risk our lives standing in a long line on Election Day. So our plan is to early-vote at a time we don’t think there will be much of a crowd. I hope that will work.
Mary G
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I rarely tweet much for myself, but I saw that and wrote one immediately. Noted Joe was biking while wearing a mask whereas Twitler can barely wobble down a ramp and has people around him constantly catching the ‘Rona.
O. Felix Culpa
We were planning to vote via absentee ballot, but New Mexico has a generous early voting period. There are hardly ever any lines during normal times and probably less now, so we might just early vote instead. This messing with the postal service is verkackt.
Haroldo
Mail in NE Massachusetts has been pretty timely, as best I can tell.
We’ve sent out applications for absentee ballots. We’ll see how that goes.
Calouste
@JaySinWA:
Blue areas in swing states, because of obvious.
greenergood
All those people (like my mom) waiting for prescription drugs that come by mail – what the hell is going to happen when these are delayed by crippling the USPS? Does this ‘president’ lunatic realise the consequences – or is it that he just doesn’t give a sh*t? and relishes the chaos that ensues?
WaterGirl
@Tokyokie: I would imagine that Social Security is direct deposit for most people these days, isn’t it?
prostratedragon
The perfect ornament for Cole’s lovely home.
Got my snail-mail confirmation from Chicago Board of Election Commissioners that I have applied for a mail-in ballot, which I did by way of their e-mail offer a while back. Ballots go out late September/early October, and you can trace yours on-line through the system. I intend to drop mine off somewhere.
Aleta
LuciaMia
@greenergood:
Yes
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Cant find, and don’t feel like looking, but I believe there is a surprising number of SS recipients who don’t have bank accounts and/or computers.
jackmac
I took a leisurely drive from my suburban town through some rural Illinois communities this week, enjoying a beautiful summer day featuring sunshine, puffy clouds and corn stalks that reached for the sky. The idyllic day that wasn’t even marred by the numerous “Pritzker sucks” signs and occasional “Trump-Pench 2020: No More Bullshit” flags. I simply drove past thinking: “We overwhelmingly outvote you whiny bitches.”
Tokyokie
@WaterGirl: If you don’t bring your account information with you to the SS office when you sign up, then you have to go online to do it. And people rarely carry their checkbooks any longer.
NoraLenderbee
Ugh. I pulled out four tomato plants today that were dead or dying. All the remaining plants look pretty bad. We normally grow enough to keep us supplied with tomatoes (for cooking, not fresh) for the entire year, or nearly so. We don’t even have enough for salad now. I’ve never seen them all get sick. Anyone else in the San Jose, CA area having similar troubles?
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
The biggest thing I get in the mail is my meds from the VA. It is dramatically better to have them mailed, or was. First the VA doesn’t want people showing up if they don’t have to, most of the patients have some sort of comorbidity, a lot are my age or older. (Most of the WWII guys are gone now, the youngest to serve during the war are now in their 90s. Vietnam era are pretty much in their 70s to 80s.) Second the VA has gone to video appointments if possible, the exposure to vets and to medical personnel is zero. I’ve had in person appointments as well as video. But the pharmacy is one place that one wants to avoid at all costs, unless you have nothing but free time on your hands. I’ve taken now to reordering online 3 weeks out instead of two. Hopefully that will be enough.
On a post office note, I suggest that everyone that can votes by mail but drops off their ballot. CA makes that extremely easy to do, it may be similar in a lot of other states. I did this in the primary and it was far better/easier.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I’m surprised, but not surprised, about the SS checks, I guess. :-)
thanks!
Shana
@Kay: Are we getting wistful for “Heckova Job Brownie”? <shudders>
TomatoQueen
SSA (my employer) does everything it can to encourage every recipient to use its steadily-growing list of electronic services, starting with direct deposit, but there is still a huge mail-only clientele. Some of this has to do with access in rural areas, level of skill in electronic use, and some of it is trust–people still want the dubious comfort of that paper check in the mail, no matter how delayed it might be. At the moment, outside contact with the agency is a miserable exercise, whether by phone or on line (ssa.gov), and I see no sign of it changing, so I have doubts about any immediate or even medium range improvement. We’d all like to be able to have that happen, but as we’re nearly all working at home, there’s not much to be done, apart from processing cases and monitoring the fcukbook page for answerable questions, increasingly hard to find as the trolls ‘n’ morans brigade is on overtime.
Ruckus
@Tokyokie:
The vast majority of SS recipients use direct deposit. Some use a debit card system. You have to have a very good reason to still receive a check and I’m not sure there is one. The deposits are made on the second, third and fourth Wed of the month for retirement income and on the 3rd for other payments or those receiving payments for a long time.
Ruckus
@greenergood:
He does want to harm anyone he thinks is not a supporter. Dems, non racists…. OK that pretty much covers it. He is not in any way a normal human being, he is a life long total fuckup. He will never admit that (narcissism) but he knows it and he attempts, in his twisted way to compensate. Said compensation he fucks up, just like every other thing he’s involved with in any way.
J R in WV
@SiubhanDuinne:
We had a tree fall and hit the house, right over the front door. Shook us both, huge noise, house bumped a little bit. That afternoon Davey Tree Service local manager was here, the next morning they started taking the big old Black Oak Tree down off the roof.
It was NOT cheap, but our home owner insurance (which is actually a farm co-op because of the acreage we own) is paying for this… nearly $6K. We sent a personal check to Davey Tree corporate in the return envelope they provided. I remember dropping the envelope with the payment into a mailbox at the big Post Office down town!!!
Since then we got a second bill, and then a third.
The third talked about turning the account over to a collection agency — seriously bad for your credit rating!
When I called the local office, the lady manning the phones in their office said I was not the first person calling about a payment made but NOT RECEIVED by the company. Told me she would put a hold on our account to prevent it from going into collection.
I am inclined to inform Post Master General that I plan to hold him personally liable for any injury to our credit rating in court, and to inform him via a service provider.
“Are you Post Master General Mr. DumbAss?”
“Yes…”
“Here sir — you are hereby served with this legal document, which I will testify to in any court of law. Good luck!”
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Those folks very likely now use a debit card system if they don’t have an account, unless they were getting benefits before 1997. I just looked it up again.
TomatoQueen
@J R in WV: Before you waste more time and energy on this notion, please look up sovereign immunity.
J R in WV
@TomatoQueen:
When did you lose your sense of humor?
Has it been gone long?
Do you know where it went?
Would you like help finding it?
Take care, these are hard times without a sense of humor.
Mousebumples
Wisconsin anecdotes:
1) my mail in ballot has been received (and was done fairly timely) after being mailed in late July
2) Local Clerk confirmed drop boxes will be available in November. Probably available by now but they were still on order a few weeks ago when i emailed for info.
3) not noticing a huge mail delay here (yet). But this area trends red (though was blue for the spring judicial election), so maybe they’re targeting cuts more in some areas than others ?
HinTN
Way out here in the very red sticks of rural Tennessee I’ve had my Biden sign and my Hale Yes (Christopher Hale ran and lost in the primary two years ago and won the primary Thursday for the right to run against the odious Scott Desjarlais) sign out on the road at the bottom of the driveway. So far nobody has done violence to them. ;^)
Sab
This checks lost in the mail is interesting. I pay almost all my bills by checks on the mail and I have no intention of changing.
That will finally give me something to discuss with Rob Portman’s intern when I call. Sen. Portman could care less if this registered Democrat is pissed about the USPS but he might care if he realizes that Ohio businesses are being hurt by it and voters are making the connection to Republican bad actors.
WaterGirl
@Sab: That’s a good idea! I just added it to the “things you can do” list we were making in the thread before this one.
Ian
@mrmoshpotato:
I think we might have spotted one of the famous creatures, the concern troll.
Sab
@WaterGirl: You did a much better argument for it than I had. Thanks.
opiejeanne
@Tokyokie: SS checks go out at various times during the month, and ours shows up in our account on the second Wednesday of every month. We use Direct Deposit, which everyone should sign up for because no one can steal it from your mailbox.
burnspbesq
@Salty Sam:
Rent an RV and stay at state park campgrounds. Build a stash of memories.
Gravenstone
@PsiFighter37: The man has (had?) a “piss on Trump” installation in his front yard. Imagine the neighbors are pretty clear on his position and feelings.
Gravenstone
@Kay: Why bother with the kidnapping aspect? Are they too afraid to “shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue ” as it were?
TomatoQueen
@J R in WV: Plausibility fail. Your post was a bit too long to make any sarc/joke claim. And as an old Federal court employee, I will never not take the opportunity to raise the sov immunity subject, if it can stop even one person from filing an expensive heart-breaking time waster. Yes the courts live on filing fees, but fuckem.
When did you lose your sense of humor? It’s right where I put it last.
Has it been gone long? Never left.
Do you know where it went? Over there, under the corn.
Would you like help finding it?No.
Uncle Cosmo
@SiubhanDuinne: I mailed a check for my MD state taxes, certified first-class mail, return receipt requested, on July 15. The receipt showed up in my mailbox two weeks later, stamped July 23. Eight days by certified first class mail to go from the central Baltimore post office to the Comptroller’s office in Annapolis. I could have covered the distance on foot in half the time even walking only 6 hours a day.
My summer job in college was as a foot carrier for the Post Office, and I am not unsympathetic to their trials and travails – but this is ridiculous.
Uncle Cosmo
@NotMax: A couple of decades ago my mortgage was payable to a post office box at the central Baltimore PO. I discovered the hard way that even if I mailed the payment at the same location, it could take several days to travel the ~30 yards between the mail slot and the destination box. IOW it’s not that these sorts of delays haven’t happened before – it’s just that they’re now the norm.
WaterGirl
@Sab: win-win!
brantl
@mrmoshpotato: I miss Steve Goodman so much. He would have had a field day with Stumpy.
rikyrah
@prostratedragon:
you can drop it off at any Early Voting site
brantl
@J R in WV: She was just letting you know, in case you didn’t…..
fancycwabs
I’m holding out until I can get one that says Biden / Harris or something like that.