John Cole Presents “This Fucking Old House”

Some good news:

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— David Weigel (@daveweigel) October 3, 2024

For those keeping track, he has now managed to push government funding and a potentially devastating dockworker strike until after the election. The old guy just gets shit done.

In other news, pissing off West Virginia trumpers is my favorite hobby:

You can get your Woke Not Weird car magnet in the store linked above.

Also, don’t forget the Steve Benen book club is coming quick, so make sure you get your book. Read it after you get it, Baud.

In personal news, Joelle sends her gratitude for all your kind words.

It has been a month since I fell and re-injured my shoulder, and while my range of motion is almost back, there is significant pain, so I have an appointment with the shoulder surgeon on Tuesday morning. Might end up getting scoped again, because I never dealt with the bone spurs from five years ago and now it feels like my rotator cuff is torn. How do I know this? Because it feels like it did the last time this happened. Fucking bullshit I’m so tired of this crap.

Finally, I got all the rest of the signs delivered, clearing my weekend to work on the yard and house in preparation for Homecoming next week. Joelle arrives on Wednesday night, so I have a solid four days to get shit together. Wish me luck.

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Very long day today. To start, Joelle had to put her beloved Shiba Inu named Curtis down, so that was awful, but less so because it was really time. He had a great life and his quality of life had diminished to the point that it really had to happen, so it was a relief, and Joelle said that she could see him relax and smile for the first time when he got the initial sedative. It’s such an awful thing to have to go through, but I reminded Joelle that out of all the animals who have lived in this world, so very few get to live their entire lives, from cradle to grave, without pain, trauma, and fear, loved every day, and she gave that to him.

RIP Curtis, the very goodest boy.

I still haven’t watched the debate and at this point I don’t think I will. I just loathe Vance that much. I figured out a good way to put it last night-

You know how when you thank someone for saving your ass from a fuckup when they could have easily screwed you over to their benefit and they jokingly say “well, a lesser man would have…” and you both laugh.

Walz is the guy who saves your ass. JD Vance is that lesser man.

Had to drive to the office for a couple hours of meetings, then picked up some signs at the printers in Morgantown, then drove across the state to another printer in Little Hocking and picked up a hundred more there, then drove up the Ohio River on the WV side and stopped at five counties dropping them off at differing prty HQ’s

Long story short, I am exhausted. Going to watch the newest episode of Slow Horses and then hit the hay.

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I’m dreading this debate not because I think it matters who will win but because I just find JD Vance to be so supremely despicable and odious that the thought of looking at him makes me cringe. Plus the eyeliner and the weird posing and it all reminds me of this:

Maybe I will just go to bed.

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I *REALLY* need to start reading this website before I post because I see Rose has already discussed Vance. I am gonna go out on a limb and guess this is the general consensus of all the front pagers, so we can have some closure on that aspect.

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I’m still alive. That’s something.

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I saw pumpkin spice cheese today in the grocery store and it made baby punching mad.

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Another lousy day here, but not as lousy as WV’s neighbors to the south are going through. I’m just so mad about the whole fucking thing. They’ve been warning us my entire life about climate change and this happening, and no one did anything. Christ, it’s been twenty years since Tim F. was screaming about it on the front page here.

Such a damned mess.

I have nothing to say. Cabbage soup (again) for dinner, couple hours at the gym, afternoon nap, some work. Really all there was to the day. I just want to sit back and watch tv for a few hours and then fall asleep and do it again.

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Looking like that storm down in the Gulf is going to be a total disaster for the region:

A two-story-high wall of water is forecast to swallow a large stretch of the Florida coastline overnight as Hurricane Helene rages ashore. Now a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 miles per hour, the storm is likely to make landfall before midnight as the strongest ever to strike the state’s Big Bend region.

Already rain and heavy surf are pounding much of western Florida, with forecasters warning of a “nightmare” flooding scenario for low-lying communities. They expect the storm’s hurricane-force winds to stretch from the Tampa region to as far as central Georgia.

Up to 20 feet of storm surge is predicted for the Big Bend — an amount exceeded rarely on the Gulf Coast. The surge in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest storms to make landfall in the United States, reached 28 feet. President Biden has approved disaster declarations for Florida, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina.

Reminder that you are not allowed to talk about climate change in Florida.

Keep Betty in your thoughts.

I know that the repulsive comments by Clay Higgins about Haitians has been talked about here at least once by Watergirl (and maybe others my short term memory is shit), but I just want to remind you all that as every day passes, it is going to get worse and worse and they are going to get nuttier and more vulgar, especially as bad polls come in over the next few weeks. And if they lose, everything is going to go bonkers, too. Just keep your heads down and don’t let it bother you, because it is a deliberate campaign tactic. I saw this on twitter earlier:

If Alex Soros wants Harris and Walz to win, this tweet will not help. pic.twitter.com/yOCkCJr3He

— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 26, 2024

If you have not noticed, the Harris campaign’s strategy has been to put forward to the normies in the country a serious, joyful, policy filled and substantive face while also clearly defining the Trump/Vance as weird, dangerous, out of touch, and invasive. And they have been doing a great job of it, too. But the subtext of this campaign has been a constant troll of the Trump campaign. The couch references by Walz, the crowd and hand size stuff at the DNC and debate, and on and on and on. They are doing everything they can to enrage the fanatics to get them to explode, so that they can define themselves as lunatics. What I am saying is that none of your friends who don’t follow politics knows who the fuck George Soros is. He’s not a flashy billionaire like Musk or Cuban or Zuck or Bezos. The only people who know Soros is are the diehard Dems and political obsessives who are chronically informed and online, and the anti-Semitic and racist wings of the GOP (although at this point it’s the whole fucking party except maybe Mitt Romney). And it’s gonna make them explode.

That’s what I think, at any rate.

Before I forget, you can now get free covid tests. Make sure you get yours.

Lot of good recs in the open thread last night about for noir and neo-noir. I of course am using none of them because I got it into my head I wanted to rewatch Jack Irish. I think it was because I was thinking about Guy Pearce in Memento and then that led to that. So that is what I am doing tonight.

Send happy thoughts to Joelle- she’s going through some shit and her very senior blind and deaf Shiba Inu named Curtis has an ulcer on his eye, and that is stressing her out a great deal. And I am absolute shite when dealing with people in tears or near tears. Me trying to cheer someone up is the equivalent of throwing an anchor to a drowning man.

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