The newest oppo on Tim Walz: Dogs like to say hello to this man when he goes out in public.
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) August 26, 2024
They have been reduced to coming for Tim’s dog, and metaphorically found themselves in the, uh, dog product…
here's a screenshot from a video from that day where walz is with his dog scout and the random dog he ended up taking the pic with
walz continues to be the target of the most embarrassing oppo research campaign of all time https://t.co/SO6izAvPi8 pic.twitter.com/BQgdyi34tq
— manny (@mannyfidel) August 26, 2024
Tell your dog I said hi…
He makes a habit of greeting other dogs at the dog park and their owners love it. 👇 pic.twitter.com/BbEYzCjV8a
— Maudi63 (@maudi63) August 26, 2024
Not to give tips to the opposition, but conservatives would be far better off if they just pretended Tim Walz didn’t exist. Attacking him is a liability at this point. Even Trump kind of gets it and barely mentions him.
— Ryan (@ryeguy427) August 26, 2024
Scout, (not) incidentally, is a rescue dog:
… In 2017, Tim Walz made Gus a promise. If he won the election for Minnesota governor the following year, the family could get a dog. A high-wire and stressful campaign season unfolded over the next several months. But despite the craziness, his son didn’t forget. (He wasn’t the type: Several years before, he delivered a detailed PowerPoint presentation on why they should get a cat. “To be honest, the fight for the cat was one of Gus’s premier projects,” Walz told reporters at the time. “Sold my wife.”)
Walz won the election in November 2018 with 53.8% of the vote. His children congratulated their father…and then came to collect their prize.
Before Scout was the First Dog of Minnesota, he was Gene, an abandoned rescue. At 11 weeks old, someone left him and his nine littermates on the side of a rural road in Oklahoma. Many had crawled down and gotten stuck in a ravine right before a rainstorm. A woman named Kathy discovered them. With the help of her son, she coaxed them all out before the area flooded. They knew if they didn’t get them all out now, they never would.
The litter was taken in by the Minnesota-based nonprofit Midwest Animal Rescue and Services. One by one, they gave each one a temporary name. One male in particular—described by MARS to Vogue as “very calm, slightly nervous, and well behaved”—was called Gene…
They posted an adoption listing for Gene online. Within several days, MARS had an application from the Walz family. They rechristened him as Scout. “I’m proud that Minnesota’s First Dog is a rescue dog, and I hope Scout—who has been a very good boy—serves as a reminder for Minnesotans that there are a lot of pups waiting to be adopted,” the governor said at the time.
Scout settled in well to the Governor’s Mansion in St. Paul. He played frisbee in the backyard with the governor. He drove with his family to Dairy Queen for Pup Cups. He frequently snuck cat food from the bowls of his feline sibling Afton, and later Honey. Oh, and he ate his dad’s glasses before a COVID-19 press briefing. (The Walz family tells Vogue that if Scout had a motto, it would be: “If I can reach it, I can eat it.”)…
A year later, the Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz as her running mate. As soon as the announcement broke, Matt Nelson, the man behind the wildly popular Instagram account WeRateDogs, said he was flooded with notifications about Scout. “I believe we were tagged in [or] sent this tweet no less than 200 times in the minutes after it was posted,” he says. So he reposted it on his account—and it quickly went viral among his four million-plus followers.
Nelson wasn’t surprised. Walz, a former school teacher and high school football coach, felt relatable and familiar to many Americans. His tweets about Scout only furthered that perception: “It is simply a guy having a very human, normal reaction to something their dog did. For most of my audience, they can see their dog doing what Scout did and they can see themselves saying ‘this damn dog’ in response,” he says. But Nelson also believes it showcases something else: his character. “He’s a rescue,” he notes. “I’ve been in this dog internet space for nearly a decade, and I can say that there are few better subtle indicators of character than choosing to adopt an animal in need of a home.”
When Vogue first broke this gripping story, before the DNC convention, JD Vance felt it incumbent upon himself to procure a totally not rented, much more classy professional-type dog of his own to show off. (It’s quite possible the poor thing does live in the Vance household, but I don’t think he’s had much chance to interact with JD… )
This fool has no idea how to hold a leash. It’s going to take a lot more than a rented dog to make him not weird.
pic.twitter.com/m3AWsuRcE0— Marlene Robertson (@marlene4719) August 16, 2024
Vance: Nobody kidnap my dog because we want him back pic.twitter.com/EYX3jVKOZK
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 16, 2024
dmsilev
Meanwhile, “JD Vance oppo researcher” is one of this year’s strongest growing job categories. Apparently the latest is that he’s being weird again about women, saying in resurfaced audio that women teachers who don’t have children make him nervous.
frosty
True!!
Math Guy
Seriously, dogs are good judges of character. Let them decide who should hold office.
‘’Canines for Kamala”
Maxim
Open thread: superseding indictment in the Jan 6 case:
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5090925/trump-indictment-jan6
Tony Jay
Yes, Republican oddball. That is weird.
Heh. No. No, no, very much no.
Anoniminous
Next Up: Walz is KNOWN to have helped LITTLE OLD LADIES safely cross a street!!!!!
BR
Since this is a Walz thread, I will repost his excellent interview about cleaning your gutters and keeping your receipts from Menards. Stay for the duet he sings at the end:
https://www.tiktok.com/@subwaytakes/video/7407837291240082718
http://instagram.com/reel/C_LXHF9OIom
hueyplong
We’re getting to the point at which I half expect JD Vance to be revealed as a pod person a la Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
There isn’t a whiff of humanity.
Even the current political media is going to be tempted to run with this.
Old School
Both Harris and Walz are doing an interview on CNN on Thursday night.
Scout211
@dmsilev: It’s worse than that. He said biological children. (Because those are the only kind of children he finds acceptable?)
TBone
GUS! 💙😎 I need to see this presentation so I can persuade my neighbors to stop abandoning their cats to the great outdoors.
frosty
@dmsilev: Two of my favorite (and best) HS teachers were only a year or two out of college, not married, and of course didn’t have kids. I can think of one or two older women teachers who were burned out or simply mean. Having kids didn’t make them better teachers.
I hear echoes of Phil Hartman: “These female teachers without children – they confuse and frighten me.” What a putz. Vance, not Hartman RIP.
Flanders Other Neighbor
The man is a legend. He’ll fix your headlight AND teach you how to get total recall from your dog!
Elizabelle
The video of Vance in the rain w the German Shepherd is the first thing I’ve seen that humanizes him.* He smiles as he follows the dog up the aircraft steps.
* Mind you, this is the first Vance video I’ve watched. Ever. At least it’s got a dog in it.
TBone
@Scout211:
Did JV’s mom have any children that lived?
An old classic, but so deserved…
zhena gogolia
BR posted the greatest Walz video today, of him talking about cleaning gutters.
zhena gogolia
@BR: Oh, thanks!
eclare
@dmsilev:
I’m thinking back over teachers that I had from elementary school to high school, and I can only think of one who mentioned that he had kids. I have no idea about the rest.
Anoniminous
So are these women teachers supposed to push out the rug rats in marriage or are we talking some sort of revival of the Lebensborn program?
Elizabelle
Tonight is the Taylor Swifties for Kamala organizing call. Should be fun.
apocalipstick
My grandfather had five different stock dogs over the course of my life. They were all named Pup.
Falling Diphthong
How weird do you have to be for “Dog people like to pet dogs” to not even cross your mind on the way to balls-to-the-wall DogGate, the dog is a fake, this is the lie that at long last will up-end the Democratic ticket?
TBone
@Elizabelle: but he doesn’t even know how to grasp a leash properly! That dog could have escaped his grasp very quickly.
VeniceRiley
@Tony Jay: One of the first things I’ve noticed about living in Suffolk is everyone wants to talk and pet our dog(s), ask about them, etc. No dogs? People will barely make eye contact like avoiding a weirdo. It’s hilarious.
Falling Diphthong
I think Trump can’t remember Walz’s name. Seriously.
Though he might just be avoiding all names with S sounds after that Musk fiasco.
hueyplong
@Falling Diphthong: I think you might be on to something.
TBone
@Falling Diphthong: 😆
Darkrose
@BR: Now I want Vance to try to copy him by getting up on a ladder and pretending he knows anything about home maintenance. “I am relatable, fellow air-breathing mammals!”
Baud
Walz’s dog was taking the picture, asshole.
Jeffro
Trae Crowder had a very funny take on all these pathetic anti-Walz oppo efforts. If someone has a link to today’s post on Twitter (or elsewhere) please share.
Tony Jay
@hueyplong:
When the colony of alien lobsters animating the Ron De Santis skinsuit realised they’d messed up their world domination plot, they abandoned that vessel to a skeleton crew and went looking for another Republican rising star with sufficient empty cranial space to gestate in.
I’ll give them some credit, they’re persistent little buggers.
Baud
The media portrayed Al Gore as a liar. This is just a repeat of that playbook.
Geoduck
At least he didn’t abandon the umbrella in the doorway of the plane.
hueyplong
@Falling Diphthong: Doesn’t Trump say “Kamala” instead of “Harris?”
So maybe he’s afraid of rain (“hair”) and the letter S (dentures?).
And eagles. And prosecutors. And judges not named Cannon or Thomas or Alito.
Jeffro
@Scout211: pure psycho stuff
I’m sure JD would describe it as “teacher power x female power = my complete inability to brainwash my children as I see fit”
(JD thinks it’s bad enough that he can’t just reproduce via mitosis.)
Citizen Alan
@hueyplong: A pod person would be more skillful at pretending to be human.
Jeffro
that’s awesome!
“WHAT KIND OF PERSON TALKS ABOUT CLEANING GUTTERS? A SOSHULIST, THAT’S WHO!!” (please waste time doing this, RWNJs!)
twbrandt
@Scout211: wait until he hears about Catholic school
The Audacity of Krope
Al Gore
supported government investments that helped lead to the development ofinvented the internetTBone
I wasn’t gonna tell this but since dogs are the subject, here goes. Rumpy neighbors got a golden retriever puppy about four months ago. She’s a very sweet, very submissive girl. It was the family patriarch’s idea, and we have been asked to puppy sit several days per week because she needs to be let out to pee, etc. when everyone is at work/school During our convo with matriarch, it was explained why patriarch recently dropped a big, uncharacteristic Eff Bomb in the driveway – puppy has mysterious bladder/urinary and vaginal deformities and had peed in the car seat (again). Mom said Dad wanted to “give puppy back” to wherever they got her because of the vet bills and the pee everywhere, all the time. We are not going to let that happen! It’s not puppy’s fault!! So we will do our level best to help!
Manyakitty
@dmsilev: not to bring up a painful topic, but any luck with your disaster at work?
Jeffro
@Darkrose: LOL
I have a bet with a co-worker that Vance is going to try for a re-do photo/video op at a local bakery or donut shop before the week is out.
He’ll stride in CONFIDENTLY with his order this time, yes sir!
“I would like 3 of the strawberry frosted, 3 of the Boston cream pie…isn’t that odd, a donut named after a pie?…3 chocolate with chocolate frosting, I mean, chocolate that aren’t glazed but are instead…er…”
<short-circuits trying to figure out how to say it>
Darkrose
YouTube
hueyplong
@Jeffro: … and then sings “Daisy,” more and more slowly until he breaks down altogether.
Tony Jay
@VeniceRiley:
Its part of the Norfolk/Suffolk rivalry. Canine noses can detect Norfolkian heritage at up to three removes and react by howling uncontrollably until the threat is removed. If you have a dog, you’re not an infiltrator.
It’s the same in Whitby. Up there all the locals seem to have a dog of some size or another. My theory is they’re the first line of defence against the reappearance of Undead wolves.
bbleh
“My consultants told me that obtaining a dog and being photographed while holding the rope-thing attached to it would improve my image and effectively counter the unfair ‘weird’ label. Sadly, they have been proven wrong, so I have FIRED them, because that’s the kind of EFFECTIVE MANAGER I am and that I’ll continue to be with your Hard-Earned Tax Dollars™ when I’m Vice-President!”
Or something.
Srsly, how did this guy get elected Senator? I mean, I know, Tuberville, but ffs come ON Ohio …
JWR
For those having a hard time listening to the latest JD Vance audio, Blue Georgia EQ’d out the muddiness.
The Audacity of Krope
@bbleh: As long as he didn’t fire the dog…
bbleh
@The Audacity of Krope: or, y’know, NOEM it.
zhena gogolia
@TBone: I’ve never owned a dog, but I learned the proper way to hold a leash when I was a child.
The Audacity of Krope
@bbleh: Damn, I had blissfully forgotten about that. These fuckers aren’t just weird, they’re psychotic.
KatKapCC
I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone sound less enthusiastic when referencing their dog than Vance did, and I would include whoever owned Cujo.
Bill Arnold
@Scout211:
Is there any public evidence that JD Vance has biological children?
By evidence, I mean multiple DNA analyses, by independent companies.
The Audacity of Krope
@Bill Arnold: We can’t force Vance to undergo medical tests and procedures against his will. Does he look like a woman to you?
karen marie
@The Audacity of Krope: I feel bad for Vance’s dog. It’s obviously not being trained. Just straight up the stairs, with Vance giving the dog no direction at all. I give it a month before the dog goes to “live on a farm.”
Elizabelle
@TBone: True. Although it was out of the limo and up into the waiting plane.
Which is what most American dogs do, every day of the week.
GSD makes me smile that Joe Biden will get to spend more time with his beloved dogs, excellent judges of character.
The Audacity of Krope
@karen marie: At least there was some slack in the leash, so you know they weren’t fighting. The dog seems better behaved than the owner.
TBone
@Elizabelle: 👍😊
Kelly
@BR: A couple years ago I got new shop vac with a gutter cleaning kit. A stack of wand extensions and a gooseneck. I can vacuum gutters 20′ up standing on the ground and get the 30′ gutter leaning out the windows. No more ladders or walking the roofs for this 68 year old senior citizen.
TBone
@zhena gogolia: EXACTLY
Jay C
@bbleh:
Simple, actually: Undeserved reputation as an “noted author”; Red state, Republican officialdom lining up to endorse him; said lining-up financed by Peter Thiel’s money; poor campaign by his opponent.
But even so, yeah: “…ffs come ON, Ohio…”
The Audacity of Krope
It helps that they are typically designed with an obvious grip.
bbleh
@The Audacity of Krope:
Oh give me a home
without Kristi Noem
where never a gunshot you hear,
where doggies can play
in the sunshine all day
and live out their lives without fear.
Ok rather dark, but hey, spur of the moment, and it rhymes …
The Audacity of Krope
@bbleh: I loved it.
Then again, my tastes run dark.
theturtlemoves
@BR: That freaking Menard’s jingle is a powerful ear-worm. I haven’t lived in the Midwest for almost 20 years and I can still hear that damn thing. And I can picture the former Iowa professor who used to do their commercials, too.
bbleh
@Bill Arnold: And I want the LONG-FORM birth certificates.
HumboldtBlue
More footage of the oppo researchers…
Baud
@Elizabelle:
I bet that’s why Major spiked Biden’s cold meds at the debate.
scav
@KatKapCC: I’m also rather struck by the fact that his professional small talk includes asking the police not to steal his dog and asking restaurant owners what their crappiest menu item is (while being filmed for public distribution) so that he can feed it to reporters (some of whom are probably filming and most of whom are part if the viewing public). Serious misunderstanding of what a Charm Offensive is? Did he woo his wife by calling her utterly useless until she popped out an offspring to her face?
Manyakitty
@Kelly: jealous
brendancalling
I hope that dog bites off his tiny little dick and balls like in Desperate Living.
zhena gogolia
@The Audacity of Krope: I was taught to put my hand through the loop and hold onto the actual leash. Is that not right? I’ve been doing it ever since.
prostratedragon
@Falling Diphthong: After all his talk about Wall, the name confuses him.
The Audacity of Krope
@zhena gogolia: Oh, you got it down.
Harrison Wesley
You can bet your ass that poor pup will never be allowed on the couch.
zhena gogolia
@scav: We know what his Mr. Big-quality pickup line was; “Well, you’re not white . . . but I love you.”
TBone
@zhena gogolia: that is correct.
zhena gogolia
@TBone: Whew! I’ve never lost a dog yet.
The Audacity of Krope
@zhena gogolia: There is, after all, a hierarchy of minorities in this country. If you subscribe to such a thing…
Steve LaBonne
@Bill Arnold: The phrasing “my wife has three beautiful children” is certainly… interesting.
TBone
@Harrison Wesley: snort!
Ivan X
@KatKapCC: Haha.
The Audacity of Krope
Who knows? Some people like to rub up against a little fur…
KatKapCC
@scav: Well, when one shows up to a Charm Offensive without any charm…
zhena gogolia
@The Audacity of Krope: I love that the couch thing has such currency that it made its way into Randy Rainbow’s song.
Steve LaBonne
One of our two greyhounds will try to eat absolutely anything she can get in her mouth. And greyhounds are champion counter surfers so we have learned (the hard way) to be very paranoid.
scav
@zhena gogolia: “you’re such a good mom” being the timey-wimey element of his initial pickup line.
Trollhattan
Every time I see this
J. D. Vance (R-OH)
Think it needs to be this
J. D. Vance (RuR-OH)
Steve LaBonne
@Trollhattan: I used to call him VD Jance but have switched to JV Dunce.
eclare
@Steve LaBonne:
Pretty much all of my dogs have tried to eat absolutely everything. Luckily I have a pantry with a door that closes securely, that is where the garbage can is.
Manyakitty
@Steve LaBonne: maybe he knows HE doesn’t have any.
The Audacity of Krope
@zhena gogolia: I like how we can call this dude a couch fucker and no serious person questions it. It doesn’t even matter that it might not be literally true.
Steve LaBonne
@eclare: We have one of those locking kitchen garbage cans.
prostratedragon
@hueyplong: Pretty please, can I run the unhooking? I promise to bring all the passionate intensity of Dave Bowman to the task.
hueyplong
@prostratedragon: “prostratedragon… don’t”
dmsilev
@Manyakitty: Thanks. It’s been an …amusing few days. We had a temporary cooling system in place that keeps the buildings at least vaguely habitable and lets us run some instruments, but it was mysteriously cutting out for several hours each night. Fine for the building, Really Bad for the lab gear. Today, we figured out that it came from the rental agency with a “turn off at night to save energy” program loaded. Solution: Clear program.
Sigh.
A real fix, to the in-ground piping, will take weeks. Maybe several weeks.
3Sice
IIRC the couch humper should be barking orders at the leg humper in German. Drumf fans like that authenticity.
pat
Teachers have to have “biological” children. Where on earth does this come from???
I don’t think any of the women teachers I had in the 60s were even married!! You get married, you stay home with your own kids, right?
eclare
@Steve LaBonne:
I thought I had one too!
Manyakitty
@dmsilev: oy. That blows.
eclare
@The Audacity of Krope:
But it seems true!
Baud
@eclare:
It’s truthy.
prostratedragon
@JWR: Aha, specifically Randi Weingarten.
The Audacity of Krope
@eclare: It sure does.
Steve LaBonne
@eclare: I, uh,know what you mean. That needs constant vigilance too.
Harrison Wesley
@Steve LaBonne: I roll with Jay Deviance sometimes.
The Lodger
@hueyplong: Makes me wonder how he talks to Susie Wiles.
Jay
@zhena gogolia:
Depends.
Usually when walking a dog, I have my right hand through the loop, and my left hand “choked up” on the leash, keeping the dog in the heel position. Allows one to quickly do figure 8 movements when the dog stops paying attention to your walking. Also allows one to stop the dog from pulling. When the dog is interested in a scent, an object or needs to pee or poop, you just let go with the left hand to give it enough leash to do what it wants to do.
JWR
@scav: Re professional small talk: Another weird thing about Vance’s donut shop adventure was that he asked each employee how long they’d worked there. Just pointless blather.
BR
@JWR:
You saw this Vance in the donut shop parody right? :)
https://xcancel.com/samcahntent/status/1827181564163194960
https://www.tiktok.com/@samcahntent/video/7406532851887377707
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@pat: I’ve seen it often depicted, so I assume it has some basis in fact, that in the Real America (TM) of the western frontier in the 19th century, teachers were REQUIRED to be unmarried.
The attitudes about women needing to have borne children before they can be considered full citizens is so weird. I’ve never heard anything like that, even from weird cults. Where the hell is that coming from? Or is that his own damaged psychology, his own invention? I wonder if a C-section is allowed under his rules?
About the 60s: We had a couple of married female teachers in our elementary school. And a couple of instances where teachers got married and were hazed by the other teachers, with the students enrolled to assist.
different-church-lady
Trump doesn’t mention Walz because he thinks Harris is still running against Vance instead of him.
Craig
@zhena gogolia: yeah, that doofus has spent no time with that dog.
Tony Jay
The revelation that Vance is a ‘Friend of Davenport’ hits so hard because it’s one of those things nobody realised they already knew until everybody started talking about it. Like a plug in a socket or Stench in a diaper, it just fit.
Of course he fucks couches. Guy is just weird that way.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
And reportedly answered “OK” to each one. Nothing else. He was only programmed to ask the one question, not to have a conversation where he reacted to what the person said. That capability is promised in a future software upgrade, but no release date has been announced.
Elizabelle
@bbleh: I like that. Doggies deserve happiness. Noem is a bad ‘un.
bbleh
@The Audacity of Krope: @eclare: @zhena gogolia: “you need to take it seriously, not literally.”
eclare
@BR:
Hilarious!
dmsilev
@Manyakitty: At least we got the temporary system fixed. I was so so not enjoying having to put my systems into standby every evening. Especially because starting them up takes about 2 full days under normal circumstances, and going into standby for 8 hours causes the startup process to backslide quite a bit….
BR
@bbleh:
On the couch thing:
https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-couch-sex-joke-author-speaks-2024-7
Bill Arnold
@The Audacity of Krope:
The new (post Olympics) “gender-critical” rues apply, so XX male syndrome.
Can’t be ruled out without genetic testing!
Trivia Man
@BR: Menards is a known dupporter of Scott Walker and hard core MAGA, but otherwise its a solid interview
BR
@Trivia Man:
Home Depot is also far right — I think they were #1 among corporate donors to Trump.
H.E.Wolf
Not until the 1970s did it become illegal to fire female teachers who were pregnant.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/she-was-a-teacher-she-got-pregnant-her-case-ended-up-at-the-supreme-court/2019/10
So this “only mothers can be legitimate teachers” line is… malarkey.
prostratedragon
[Sigh] This is now lodged in my brain for the usual decay period: “Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around”.
Manyakitty
@dmsilev: so chewing gum and baling wire…
Matt McIrvin
WHYYYYYY are all the scary articles about Republican plans to steal the election STILL propagating the false idea that a House contingent election happens if enough electors are un-certified that “nobody gets to 270”?
It’s not true! They keep saying it! It’s like they’re all just quoting each other and nobody is taking five minutes to read the text of the law!
Aziz, light!
@Steve LaBonne: This is not your beautiful wife. These are not her three beautiful children. My God, how the fuck did you get here?
Ksmiami
@TBone: Republicans are bad people. Poor pooch
JWR
@BR:
LoL! and no, I hadn’t seen that one. Thanks! ;)
BTW, your
“X”ETA “XCancel” link was “invalid”, but TikTok worked fine.wenchacha
@frosty: Or Phil Hartman’s Lionel Hutz.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@pat: I had nuns.
The Audacity of Krope
It is noteworthy that the most significant Walz “scandal” is that his son lives him. The horror.
The Lodger
@prostratedragon: Anything I have to say about that would be … petty.
KatKapCC
@BR: HOWLING. Oh man.
Josie
@H.E.Wolf:
This is so true. I was a public school librarian. When I was pregnant with my oldest son in 1975, the school district tried to make me stay home when I started to show. I had to threaten legal action (my husband was an attorney) to keep working. We needed the money so it was important to us. Then they tried to keep me from using my sick days that I had accumulated. So much for the good old days.
CHETAN R MURTHY
@Harrison Wesley: J Divans. I didn’t make it up.
Hoppie
@hueyplong: Chef’s kiss, sir.
TF79
@H.E.Wolf: Not to mention all those nuns teaching at Catholic schools!
pajaro
@prostratedragon:
Of course, Randi Weingarten isn’t a teacher, she’s the head of the union.
And yes, in the 1960’s teacher was a single woman’s job. Obviously, that was the case in parochial schools, but it was also true in public schools. There were places that fired teachers if they got pregnant.
artem1s
@Darkrose:
TCF, RFKJr, and VJV – the Avengers of Off-putting. perfect Trae.
lowtechcyclist
@hueyplong:
The summer camp I went to as a kid used to show that movie every summer.
I would totally believe that about JV Dance.
And Ron DeSantis as well.
And a number of other prominent Republicans, come to think of it.
Gvg
@pat: My mother was married in college. When she got pregnant, her professors coached her on how to hide it while she passed her teachers exams and got licensed and her first teaching position. I was born in August just before another school year. Teachers in the 60’s weren’t supposed to have kids or be visibly pregnant when in front of kids. It wasn’t supposed to be mentioned or something. I never understood the logic but it’s true. I don’t know when it changed. Obviously I was brought up knowing where babies came from and that there were stupid rules some people made other people follow about talking about it.
lowtechcyclist
@BR:
Gutter guards, man, worth their weight in gold. They let the water in, keep the leaves out.
I remember having to clean the damn gutters a few times each year. I so don’t miss that.
wjca
I think that depended on where you were. I know my 2nd grade teacher (1954-55) was Mrs. Sussman. Also my 6th grade teacher (so that would have been 1958-59) was Mrs. Christiansen. This was public school in suburban/rural California.
Barbara
@TBone: Doggie diapers work pretty well, but you might need to experiment for the right size and fit. I used cloth with a little pad inside for my old girl.
TBone
@Ksmiami: it took all of my fortitude not to express outrage and to instead direct my linguistic focus on positive reinforcement of love, and loving care for, the puppy they chose to make a family member. I wanted to say “who changed the diapers at your house?” but no. Catch more flies with honey!
TBone
@Barbara: thank you!
I will be offering discreet suggestions once we get a better handle on the situation – puppy sitting begins next week. You can lead a horse to water…
Some kind of training on top of figuring out the extent of the medical issues is what I suspect is needed. Time will tell!
I am grateful that they have a good vet, puppy is going all the way to State College for an MRI this week 👍
There go two miscreants
@Trollhattan: Very subtle!
TBone
My dad trained our Siamese to use the downstairs toilet. All he had to do was flush.
I’m sure we can help the doggo across the street – ALL of my cats are well trained (although I wish I’d had time enough when they were young to toilet train them, that’s the only thing they lack). They come when called, understand “No,” and generally do not misbehave. Who says you can’t herd cats?
Starfish
I love that these candidates are talking to influencers and not the press. I have no clue who the interviewer is here or why they are talking about gutters.
https://www.threads.net/@subwaytakes/post/C_LaJvcO_Nm/
Juliet
As a working mother my children all did their own laundry by 4th grade. I had grown very tired of being asked if their clothes were clean yet.
cmorenc
@zhena gogolia: Yes, hand through the loop and hold onto the top of the leash/handle with thumb over one side hand of the least hand over the other- makes it near-impossible for the dog to jerk the leash out of your hand. Especially if the dog is large and strong, the other essential is to always keep just a slight tad of tension on the leash (not enough that you are pulling on the dog) – elsewise with that secure a grip, it can quickly generate enough momentum that when the leash does go taut, you can get dragged or even pulled over.
We frequently dog-sit our adult daughter’s dog, a 60 lb rescue who is a sweet girl, but can sometimes have an irresistible prey-chase urge if she sees a squirrel, and so I have learned the hard way to always keep just a slight tad of tension on the leash so I can quickly restrain her if squirrel !! Not enough that she feels me pulling on her, just enough to keep her from accelerating on me a couple of steps before the leash goes taut enough for me to begin restraining her.
Jay
@TBone:
Sugar, (Lab, Shep, RottieX) had a nerve clipped when she was spayed. So she “leaked”.
Anytime she had been alone for a while, she would pee when excited, like when I came home from work,
I learned to greet her on the porch, and make sure she had lots of opportunities to pee outside.
Gloria DryGarden
@Bill Arnold: oh, is he against adoption, while still being forced birth?
what a blight
scraping something sticky off my shoe
Gloria DryGarden
can we keep making him nervous?
pluky
@zhena gogolia: yes. hold on the leash with the non-loop hand threaded through the fingers so one can give corrective signals fairly subtly, quickly adjust the amount of slack by pulling on the loop hand, and by tightening the fist have a grip strong enough to check lunges.
TBone
@Jay: thank you, and I’m sorry that happened to Sugar. First thing each day will be to leash & let her out the door! We hope the vet finds out what is going on with her quickly.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@Tony Jay: Didn’t the Demeter land at Whitby, on Dracula’s little excursion to the UK?
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@The Audacity of Krope: Does “J D Vance” sound like a porn star name to you? To me, yes.