I tweaked my shoulder pulling a weighted blanket over my chest this afternoon, so everything is back to normal around here. Another nice day here, though, and the days are getting shorter.
You know, I have sat here for ten minutes trying to think of what I want to talk about and every time I start to say something I decide I no longer want to write about it. I think I’ll just go watch season 4 of the Boys.
Teamsters are going through some things tonight, aren’t they?
War for Ukraine Day 938: Ukraine Reaches Out and Touches Something 500 KM into Russia
RepubAnon
Say hi to Steve the cat for me!
Mousebumples
I wonder how legit those numbers O’Brien cited were. With all of the locals (in swing states, and more states) jumping to endorse… I’m skeptical.
Mousebumples
In other news, as I‘ve mentioned in other threads, I’ve been talking with WaterGirl, and we’re wondering if there’s interest in regularly scheduled postcard threads. I know we have a lot of people postcarding, but would it be fun to have a dedicated thread every week (*or however often) to do it as a collective?
If yes, when works for you?
Any suggestions for associated topics? Eg postcarding/music thread? Or cooking/recipe thread?
For me… I’m postcarding most nights, but Tuesdays are usually reliably free. Or maybe weekends? Those are less consistently available for me, but at least I don’t need to work the next day. XD And, of course, this doesn’t need to fit my schedule either!
P.S. Might be posting this around a bit the next few days so apologies in advance if you see this multiple times… Just want to try to catch all potentially interested postcarders.
lamh47
SMH…the highers up tried to save face from the head guy speaking at RNC…so they chose not to endorse.
The claim is majority of members were turning to Chump…if that was the case then they shoulda just voted to endorse Chump. My money is it’s a lie and they know the membership, even if going for Chump, sure aint’ like ole dude at the RNC.
Also too, the Black caucus of Teamsters and the California segment of the Teamsters already edorsed MVP. SMH…now though with all these bigger local segments endorsing HARRIS/WALZ the national heads looks like fools IMHO.
lamh47
Aye!!! I finally go pick up my new used car tomorrow afternoon guys!
I’m excited!!!
Poe Larity
No more $36B pension bailouts for you.
Reagan Democrats. Fuck ‘em.
Quinerly
Another piece on Springfield.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/trumps-campaign-immigrants-springfield-ohio-haiti/679913/?gift=FaTgSr1DlmjAMpTRhP-EJeXQS0j-YwBUiSR24ZTd3cc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Sister Golden Bear
@lamh47: Woot! Pics or it didn’t happen.
Baud
Has Balloon Juice officially announced its endorsement?
Jackie
@Mousebumples: Regional Teamsters all over the country are making O’Brien look like the fool he is. GOOD!
I’m still pissed he spoke at the GQP convention.😡
Scamp Dog
@Baud: Baud 2028! (maybe)
Suzanne
My neighborhood reached Peak Hipster Douchebag this morning: a dude who rides an electric unicycle was hit by a car in front of my kids’ school. Lithium ion battery caught fire and they had to send the hazmat team out.
Jackie
John, is this the shoulder you hurt a few weeks ago? Or do you now have two wounded shoulders?
zhena gogolia
@Scamp Dog: Has to be!
zhena gogolia
@Suzanne: OMG it’s terrible to laugh but that is something.
I hope he was played by Justin Theroux. With a man bun.
Baud
@Suzanne:
Good funk rock band name.
Leto
@Baud: Pants 2028!
lamh47
dc
@Suzanne: I’m appalled at the car, not the hipster. We are so accepting of cars running people over.
WaterGirl
@lamh47: What vehicle did you decide on?
wombat probability cloud
Teamsters in CA, MI, NV, and WI have endorsed Harris: dKos. I understand the dilemma of endorsement by Teamsters at the national level, and respect that leadership wants to reflect members, but fuck those idjts.
WaterGirl
@Jackie: It’s kind of hard to know which would be worse. Making the bad one worse, or having 2 bad ones.
I woud hazard a guess that he tweaked the one that is recovering from a few weeks ago.
Baud
@wombat probability cloud:
Those are key.
Unions aren’t a social club.
lamh47
zhena gogolia
@lamh47: Of course.
Suzanne
@zhena gogolia: I know, I am also bad….. I totally laughed. I got there shortly after it happened. Unicycle was toasted.
sab
On the apolitical side of life: satby may let me have two middle-aged bonded kittwns next week. My cats are leery, but I am thrilled.
lamh47
@WaterGirl: 2020 LEXUS RX350 Red (same color as my stolen car…sob…)
Ken
Don’t ignore the CA endorsement. Trump thinks he’s going to win there, and NY too.
Mai Naem mobile
I saw a TFG sign at a street corner in South Phoenix today. South Phoenix used to the primarily minority area of Phoenix but its been getting gentrified and the newer areas are more diverse but still not an area I would think TFG has a chance of winning. The area is part of Gallego’s district.
lamh47
@wombat probability cloud: I don’t actually buy that’s it is cause of the members.
I mean the head guy literally had an prime featured speaking spot at the RNC.
No…Chump since then and especially since the debate has steadily lost wind (it’s gott all be about GOTV) and I’d bet head honcho guy just saving face by not endorsing Harris/Walz.
Kayla Rudbek
@Suzanne: I always wonder how people manage to balance on the things whenever I see an electric unicycle; they are big and seem fairly powerful.
Prescott Cactus
I only had to walk 3 picket lines, but the only union that ever crossed one I was on were the teamsters.
scav
I’m sure the one big non-announcement followed by lots of plucky rebellious endorsements strategy is exactly the exemplar of union leadership and solidarity those at the top planned on.
ETA Hell of a media strategy too, for the tacit Trumpesters. Lots of little underdog media-chow!
HumboldtBlue
@Mousebumples:
He cited polling of 21,000 members out 1.3 million members. Regional and local shops are all endorsing Harris.
Ken
I don’t know if anyone else is interested, but the Coast Guard has released more findings in the investigation of the Titan submersible implosion. It’s not really anything new, but confirms that the owner of the company didn’t know what he was doing, and didn’t listen to the people telling him that. We need a name for the special variant of Dunning-Kruger that’s caught by billionaires.
Coast Guard documents, and a more accessible Bluesky thread.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@dc:
Because we don’t know who was at fault here. That’s much of the problem with the “Zero Vision” push: it absolves reckless non-car users of any responsibility. It’s a contributing factor, in the opposite direction of what it’s stated goals are, to the significant increase in injuries/fatalities since that program was pushed: people don’t act defensively. The number of entitled, white people here with children who take their 4-year olds out in traffic on an e-bike is moronic. Better to be alive (and your kids alive) than to make a moral point. As a lifetime motorcyclist, we learned that early on. But these days? It’s always “blame the cars” no matter what.
Again, don’t know who was at fault here but if it was the reckless, e-unicycle person…
Parfigliano
@lamh47: Springfield get the money from Trump up front.
HumboldtBlue
Tim Walz in the rain in Asheville, NC.
Geoduck
@Kayla Rudbek: Yeah, I’d never dare ride one of those things, especially in US traffic, but it is genuinely impressive to watch one go zipping past.
citizen dave
@lamh47: We have two of those, although a 2010 hybrid and a 2013. It’s now my safe, old man default should/when one of ours break down enough. We went from used Acura people to used Lexus people. Both are very good to excellent, IMHO.
Unsolicited parts review:
I recently “did my research” on replacement wiper blades, and whatever website had the Bosch Icon the best overall. Now have those on both vehicles–they seem really amazing, and super quiet, nearly noiseless. Haven’t had a prolonged time in rain driving, though. (I have been using various Michelin wiper blades for years–partly because costco sells them).
Jackie
@lamh47: When does O’Brien get voted out? I think he done shit the bed with his stupidity today.
HumboldtBlue
“Harry, get your fat ass out of the couch. You’re going to vote for Trump today.”
Now that’s GOTV effort right there!
Jackie
@HumboldtBlue: Did he just call JD “Harry”?
citizen dave
Is the electric unicycle what I call (in my head) “the wheel”? A motorized wheel. I tend to laugh at them. I always think of the comic strip “B.C.”, where the main dude would get around on the stone wheel. The Marathon gas station would give away drinking glasses with the B.C characters….
Funny how in our lifetime that prehistoric comic strip has become real. Waiting for a Flintstones-mobile, or of course the Jetson’s car.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
In totally unrelated news, unless you drive a GM EV, today Tesla finally opened up their network to GM vehicles…of course you need to then spend close to $200 on an adapter.
Prescott Cactus
@Ken
In this case, “Tycoon Chum” ?
Jay
@Kayla Rudbek:
They are basically a single wheel Segway.
Chet Murthy
@Kayla Rudbek: I remember in 2014 seeing guys trying to figure out how to ride ’em. I think that was early days for these things. It was ….. interesting. And amusing to watch. I would never try one of ’em though.
delphinium
@Kayla Rudbek: Me too. Used to see a guy riding a non-electric one in the unpaved road shoulder occasionally on my way to work.
BR
Today KamalaHQ posted a bunch of great Barack Obama videos where he pitches voter registration with a bunch of TikTokers:
https://www.tiktok.com/@laronhinesofficial/video/7415609156654124318
https://www.tiktok.com/@carlos_eduardo_espina/video/7415649948244495659
https://www.tiktok.com/@isaacrochell/video/7415647736889937195
(There were more, but I don’t want to hit the link limit.)
Carolina Dave
@HumboldtBlue:
Asheville is pro-Harris, pro Dem. The surrounding areas, not so much. Encouraging that Waltz could get a bigger crowd than TCFG in the same town a month ago. Waltz visit will get a notice (and a soundbite or 2) on local TV that covers the whole area. Hopefully the normal vs weird vibe will influence a few. NC is going to be really close. GOP wack job for Governor has a new unwanted video out where he is anti contraception and blames women for their pelvic urges. Can’t hurt the top of the ticket.
WaterGirl
@lamh47: Pretty car! I picture you as tall, is it a low-riding car? Looks like it might be from the images Google just showed me.
SFAW
@Kayla Rudbek:
Some of them get up-sold and get the outrigger (a/k/a training wheels) package.
Jay
@Chet Murthy:
They are pretty common around here. You lean left or right to turn, slightly forward to go faster, slightly backwards to brake, and they are much faster than a legal e-bike.
Most of the riders here wear full face helmets and serious motorcycle gear.
Carolina Dave
Also, not much made of last week that Harris visited Greensboro and had her event in the Coliseum in the actual Arena and drew over 17,000 to a 20,000 seat Arena. Trump 3 weeks earlier held his event in the coliseum special event center which capacity is 2000 and did not fill it so crowd size is a real thing not just in Donald Trump’s head
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Carolina Dave:
I always say I never thought I’d live to see the day about a lot of things, good thing.
This is one of the bad things. The American Taliban on full display, jfc.
HinTN
@lamh47: That’s a hot ride. It’s sure to handle like my 2015 IS 250C and it’s got more muscle to boot. Enjoy
Jackie
@Carolina Dave:
And it was raining! Doubly insulting to TCFG! 😂
Carolina Dave
@Prescott Cactus: when your die due to your own arrogance and convince others to die alongside you, that’s a new level that deserves a new moniker
wombat probability cloud
@lamh47: Without knowing the background–thanks–I parked my cynicism about the national leadership’s decision. What you (and Baud, previously) indicate makes more sense. Mostly I’m dismayed at the sheer number of Teamster members who are clueless.
NotMax
@Ken
Titandick.
Carolina Dave
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Did I mention he grabs his crotch on the video? No, I think I did not. But he did. AG Joss Stein running for governor declined a local cable TV debate. Smart.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Carolina Dave:
Good lord, I’m not sure your bog-standard member of the Taliban would do that.
I wonder if that behavior actually has a negative impact on certain voters, yunno, the ones that aren’t young, drunk and stooopid.
sdhays
@sab: How can kittens be “middle-aged”?
(Apologies for the probably stupid question from a non-cat owner.)
lollipopguild
@citizen dave: I am still holding out for the anti-gravity belts.
WaterGirl
@Carolina Dave: I read that he kind of waved his hand past his groin area. Not sure which is the accurate description of what happened, but what you described is not what is being reported elsewhere.
Prescott Cactus
@Carolina Dave:
I don’t recall if he charged his “guests” for that pleasure.
Jay
@sdhays:
“kittwns”. Just like dogs can be doggos, puppers, etc, cats can be kittwns, and middle aged. Us pet owners have various “cute-isms” to refer to our and other peoples pets, and many names.
Carolina Dave
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Mark Robinson had a habit of going to churches and getting filmed saying awful and outrageous things. “LBGTQ is filth” “Some folks need killing” Plus what he posted as selfies in Facebook posts.
Not to mention his wife’s daycare business that existed entirely on Federal subsidies, was cited for 100k in fines by the state of NC for improper expenses Mostly for unaccountable salaries paid to family members including GOP governor candidate Mark Robinson.
Carolina Dave
@WaterGirl:
Waved. Ill accept that. To be honest I didn’t pay that close attention to that part of the video it was just so appalling but yes waved let’s agree with that
Scout211
The Ohio County Sheriff has responded to widespread backlash to his Facebook post recommending citizens copy down the addresses of Harris supporters.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: The video(s) I saw on tv showed what you described: a general circle wave around lower abdomen and pelvic area.
Not to say Robinson didn’t get more graphic; it may have been edited for tv.
scav
@Scout211: That boy Bruce D. Zuchowski was sure born with a silver-plate shovel in his mouth. And with a powerful urge to keep digging with it.
Mai Naem mobile
@lamh47: my neighbor’s got that car (in boring white) it’s a nice looking car.
sdhays
@Jay: Thanks. I should have realized. Probably an indication it’s time for bed.
Manyakitty
@sab: squeeeee!
Eolirin
Boy howdy, are we going to get to see if the House Republicans are stupid enough to make the new story about whether they’re going to cause the government to shut down because they can’t pass a bill, a little over a month from the election?
Darkrose
@lamh47: Grats! What are you getting?
Salt Water
@Mousebumples: I’m interested in a postcard writing thread but my most recent order of cards is back ordered. Due here the 25th. They’ve got to go out by Oct 2nd so I’ll be writing everyday after they arrive. I’m fairly open on day/time and am on PDT. Thanks!
mrmoshpotato
@Eolirin: Have you met those idiots?
Cheryl from Maryland
@zhena gogolia: Saw Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice yesterday. Justin Theroux is perfect as a man bro douche with a man bun. I enjoyed the film immensely.
Nettoyeur
@lamh47: I hope Springfield charges Trump a deposit to cover costs and damages.
Nettoyeur
The Teamsters cann forget about any help from a future Harris administration.
dmsilev
@Eolirin: They’re sure as hell going to try. If nothing else, Trump insisting on the SAVE act being part of any CR means that either there’s a shutdown (Democrats, in both houses, absolutely will oppose the SAVE voter-suppression act) or enough of them break with Trump to pass a clean CR.
Chet Murthy
@Nettoyeur: given how many teamsters locals have already declared for Harris, i suspect that the Harris Administration would be kind to the Teamsters.
BigJimSlade
@citizen dave: I liked those BC comics when I was a kid :-)
lamh47
@WaterGirl: I’m 5’8″.
It’s an SUV but not a high sitter. Def higher though than my last car, the Sonata. I went from SUV to Sedan to both save money and for economical reasons, but mahn…I swear my current joint issues started once I got that sedan. So I was going for an SUV even if the car had not been stolen.
Eolirin
@dmsilev: I would expect the latter happens, like it has with every other self-inflicted crisis out of the house. But this just becoming the story for a little bit, even if they ultimately break and vote with the Democrats to get anything done is not what they need to be the story right now.
Not that I mind, mind you :P
lamh47
@wombat probability cloud: naw…understandable…and TBH if the head guy hadn’t already showed his hand by being at the RNC as a featured speaker I might have thought about benefit of a doubt, but anyone willing to speak on a public stage on Chump’s behalf ain’t getting no benefit of the doubt from me.
jonas
@Ken: That guy’s hubris was just something else. “Safety regulations just stifle innovation.” I suppose if your innovation is finding new and creative ways to vaporize yourself and four passengers at the bottom of the Atlantic, yeah.
Jackie
@Nettoyeur: “Tell.” TCFG said he’d visit Springfield in the next “two weeks.”
We know his two weeks promise = NEVER.
wombat probability cloud
@lamh47: Agree fully now that I’m up to speed. Thanks.
Eolirin
@lamh47: Honestly, I think there may be some personal animosity going on too; Harris and the DNC didn’t reach out to ask him to speak at their convention, and he made sounds like he wanted to. It seems like they’ve frozen him out since he decided to go to the RNC. This might be retaliation.
It’s not like the RNC speech was particularly Pro-Trump. He basically went and pitched unions and labor to the Republican party at their own convention. It was profoundly weird.
Jackie
@Nettoyeur: Not true. Harris won’t punish the teamsters ala TCFG. She’s better than that.
dmsilev
@Eolirin: That’s my expectation as well, though I think they’ll go right up against the deadline before the GOP leadership allows any sort of vaguely clean CR to get a vote.
Jay
@Nettoyeur:
I hope Dolt 45 goes to the wrong Springfield.
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Springfield, Ontario?
Chet Murthy
@Eolirin: Instead Harris had Teamsters of all stripes on-stage, right? I mean, what did O’Brien -expect-? You don’t give a speech at the *RNC* and then expect to do the same at the DNC. That’s not how it works. He had to know he’d blotted his copybook.
Manyakitty
@Cheryl from Maryland: great! I’m supposed to see it in the next few weeks.
Jay
@Jackie:
Seems like the Teamster’s Locals are going to punish the Teamster’s National.
rikyrah
LarryO finally says what needs to be said
those “exceptions” in Red States with abortion bans
DO NOT EXIST 😡😡😡
Pharniel
There’s a “Kid” (he’s in his early 30’s) who rides around the neighborhood on All Hallow’s with an electric unicycle dressed as some variant of the grim reaper or ghostface blasting the villian’s theme song and an etherial “my vehicle is running” noise and the (actual) kids love it, so my only impression of them is that they’re a great toy.
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
Nope, not that one.
lamh47
CaseyL
The King County lightrail system here opened 4 more stations along 8 more miles added to the north end of the line. That came in very handy for me today, when I had to take my car to a shop in Everett for some body work and then had to get back down to UW Medical Center, in Seattle, where I work.
Mind you, I always take lightrail to work; the issue was how to get there from the shop in Everett. I was very pleased to find that a bus route about a block from the garage goes all the way down to one of the new lightrail stations. Rode the bus, hopped on the train, and it took about 90 minutes all told. That’s not bad at all; driving in rush hour traffic would take nearly as long and be a lot more stressful.
Tomorrow I do again in reverse, to go get my car.
BR
Tim Walz (in Georgia yesterday, I think) meeting someone who is wearing earrings with his face on them:
https://www.tiktok.com/@vidsoftim/video/7416175585212337450
Eolirin
@Chet Murthy: Deference; this is the problem with having a massively outsized ego.
frosty
@lamh47: New wheels! Always cool. My last one (used) the dealer called me, worried, “You know this is a manual transmission, right?” I answered yes, that’s why I want it. Then I asked him, worried: “It doesn’t have a sunroof*, right?” He said no. I’ve had it eight years. With a little bit of luck (20 years and 200,000 miles) it will be my last car when the kids take my keys away LOL.
* An invitation for leaks. Never ever cut a hole in a roof!
eclare
@BR:
So cute, both Walz and the lady with the earrings!
frosty
@lamh47: Springfield! Get the money up front!!!!
Mart
@Suzanne: Cars don’t kill people, people kill people.
Jackie
@Jay: Yup. And hopefully the union members vote him OUT when O’Brien’s up for re-election.
Trivia Man
@Mousebumples: for music background, might I suggest the Spotify list provided by somebody in the last Medium Cool. “Great cover songs”, along with many of the originals. Great playlist. I prefer having it on rando so I don’t get 3 versions in a row of the same song but YMMV.
cckids
@Mai Naem mobile: I was in Phoenix/Scottsdale last week. Some Trump signs, but fewer than in May.
A truly disturbing number of Cybertrucks though. Including one in sparkly Hot Wheels lime green; which once you’ve seen it, seems the only appropriate color for the thing.
frosty
@Jay: There are so MANY of them!! How could he possibly do it right?
frosty
Dead thread? At 1:15 Eastern? Where’s the Left Coast? Where’s NotMax out in the Pacific somewhere??
Nevertheless, have fun, jackals. I’m out for the night.
Jay
@frosty:
I think NotMax is still in NYC.
NotMax
@Jay
Comfortably back in my little non-grass shack as of September 8th.
NotMax
FYI.
DJT stock slides again, closing at $15.62.
StringOnAStick
We drove from very rural central Oregon through rural WA to Leavenworth, WA yesterday, and on to Whidbey island today, so lots of rural roads and residents but only 4 tRump signs, one a tiny one tacked onto a huge state office seeker’s sign, and another just a very ragged small flag. Noted an equal number of Harris/Walz signs here on Whidbey, including a Veterans Against Trump sign. There’s a naval air base here so you’d expect it to be conservative but looks pretty darned blue to me.
The lack of tRump kit everywhere in rural central Oregon is a huge change from 2020; it slowly disappeared from 2020 through 2022. It’s almost like loser stink does matter to these racist jerks.
Gretchen
O’Brien’s fee-fees were hurt that his speech at the Republican convention made him unwelcome at the Democratic convention. He thought he was too important to ignore.
I love love love weighted blankets.
Gretchen
@rikyrah: O’Donnell is FURIOUS about the abortion situation. He could hardly keep his composure last night talking about the Georgia case, fighting back tears and remembering that his own mom needed a D&C after a miscarriage after she had 5 kids and the Catholic priests in Boston didn’t weigh in with their opinion about it. I think he has a young adult daughter that makes it more personal for him, but I love people who don’t need to have personal involvement to feel other people’s pain. I feel like he’s going to stay on this issue.
NotMax
Weird.
Trotted down to the street to check the mailbox. Tossed onto the lawn there was a blank 16×20 artist canvas with a knife cut sliced across about half the middle.
Used to finding the odd beverage can or empty take-out container from impolite litterbugs but this is a first.
Jay
@NotMax:
Frustrated artist?
NotMax
@Jay
I know the size because it was still shrink wrapped with the label.
cckids
@Jay:
Bad breakup with the frustrated artist.
Yutsano
Still way overvalued.
And now I must repose.
satby
@sab: oh, it’s a done deal, we’re coming!
satby
@sdhays: “kitties” is just a diminutive, these are about 7-8 years old.
karensky
@HumboldtBlue: Many thanks for the Walz video.
Betty
@lamh47: Not the first time union heads did not act in the best interest of members. Time for new leadership. Maybe this will help make that happen.
JML
My joint council immediately responded to the international sitting this one out by endorsing Harris/Walz. But it’s embarrassing to see this kind of eff up, and the international has a lot more resources to put towards the race. Dems saved Teamster pensions and O’Brien wants to sit this one out because he didn’t get a spot at the DNC?
I’m not a happy Teamster today.
Baud
@JML:
It really is bad. They can hide behind general union support for Harris, but it’s a black eye on unions if a major one cares more about the non-union-related culture wars of their members than union business.