But it’s one of the … darker cities in the US of A. Shithole countries, shithole cities – same thing – so she doesn’t deserve to be Veep. She needs to born into it, like everyone else we’ve had.
I mean, we had that scare with Geraldine Ferraro a while back. Harris is ever so much worse.
Remember back when Individual 1 said he was going to throw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees said it was all news to them? And then Individual 1 said he couldn’t do it anyway, because he was too busy? That was yesterday. He played golf.
On the same day his brother died.
Today Trump spent his Twitter time complaining about Fox News not being nice enough to him:
In some convoluted fashion Trump’s apologists will “explain” that this was a tribute to the brother, supposedly Trump’s “best friend,” who just died.
(I was more-than-usually surprised by the claim about the brother’s death in the statement attributed to Trump–that he was Donald’s best friend. Has Donald ever mentioned the brother, in the past four years? At all??)
It’s all so sad, and so far from normal human experience. How can his followers explain it to themselves?
Hey, look! Biden sniffing hair!
Yeah, pretty much. That, combined with a good dose of LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA MY FINGERS ARE IN MY EARS AND MY EYES ARE SHUT AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT LALALALALALALALALA …
The statement attributed to trump about the death of his brother was so simple and normal-sounding-- like something a human being would have said-- that I can only conclude that trump didn’t compose it.
Is this the place to complain about the postal service BS??
I mail a statement to the AZ Dept of Revenue every month for TPT (transaction privilege tax) on the 2nd of the month. It needs to be there by the 20th. The Dept. of Revenue is maybe 10 miles away. Now it doesn’t get there on time. So I get a notice that I owe $25 for being late. I get the notice on a Wed., they need a check in the office by the following Wed. I have to sent it overnight or registered or whatever it is (I just told the clerk it absolutely had to be there) and to do that it cost me another $12. She assured me yesterday (Sat.) that it would not get there on time by regular mail. I tend to believe her based on experience.
Of course, being the Dope, you will ask why didn’t I just drive it down there. It’s been over 110 degrees all month, and the last time I was down there, there was major construction and parking was about 6 blocks away. So yeah, I mailed it.
But it’s wrong and it sucks. My fella gets his meds thru the VA by mail. He has to have those meds to be alive. I hate the orange asshole.
The USPS mess is getting some national attention, and about time, too, with so many people likely to rely on it to vote in less than 80 days: Mail-in voting: Several US states considering legal action against Trump administration and USPS | CNN Politics
I was technically driving with an expired plate and expired registration until this weekend. Our BMV has a handy self-serve kiosk which I used to renew my registration almost a month ago (no way am I standing in line with a bunch of other people for that). Because it was time for me to have a new plate, the kiosk couldn’t just print it out, and it had to be mailed. I finally got my new plate and registration this past weekend, more than two weeks after the old one had expired. I’m lucky I didn’t get stopped by the police or anything.
Like many people, I get medication through the mail. Indeed, I have to. For long term meds, my insurance won’t cover it unless you get it through mail order. I suspect a lot of insurances are similar. And long-term meds like this tend to be for things like high blood pressure, or diabetes, or blood thinners like Eliquis. People’s lives are literally at stake if those are delayed. I hope that aspect of it gets the attention it deserves. The post office doesn’t just move paper around.
Trump lies in warning that absentee balloting leads to massive fraud… but his campaign in North Carolina encourages people to get absentee ballots, in lit with his $%^&*! picture on it: 2020 election voters have received absentee ballot request forms in the mail with Trump's face on them | CNN Politics
It’s getting some localized attention to:
I’m guessing his campaign has finally woke up to the fact that fucking up the postal system is going to affect rural voters more than urban ones.
I subscribe to four magazines. The two science-fiction ones are bi-monthly and, honestly I don’t remember when they arrive for sure. Scientific American and National Geographic, though, arrive like clockwork between the 20th and 22nd each month, until July.
SA was right on time but NG came trickling in last week. In a similar vein, my AAA membership auto-renewed on July 30th but the new card has yet to arrive. Luckily this has little effect as the number stays the same and dispatchers and drivers don’t care if you’ve got last year’s card in the wallet.
The people I feel most badly for are the Postal Workers themselves. I worked in a Corporate mail center for a couple of years. I dreaded company holidays. It would take a week to clear up the backlog of taking off just one day.
My letter to my GOP U.S. senator today:
I hope you share my disgust and alarm at how the President is apparently trying to cripple the U.S. Postal Service in order to ensure his reelection.
The Postal Service is a key national asset and an important part of the American economy. It is a vital lifeline for people around the country only partially served, or not served at all, by for-profit carriers. It is also the single largest employer of military veterans in the country.
*Two bills now pending in the Senate deserve your strong support: *
H.R. 6800, the HEROES Act, includes $25 billion allocated to the Postal Service to ensure its continuing operations for the good of everyone in the United States.
H.R. 2382, the USPS Fairness Act, repeals the requirement under current law that the Postal Service annually prepay future retirement health benefits – an onerous requirement not imposed on any other comparable enterprise.
Given the COVID-19 pandemic, many more people are likely to vote by mail this fall than in a typical presidential election year. It is crucial to American democracy and a fair, lawful election that the Postal Service be able to do its job without crass and self-serving political interference from the White House.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Very truly yours,
My first real job was in the supply/mailroom at the National Endowment for the Arts during Mapplethorpe & Serrano. We needed a couple of these canvas postal carts just for the director’s hate mail.
I’m not surprised. Mapplethorpe was an abomination.
It’s not just people who are going to have critical medications delayed. I’ve got an elderly cat on several medications, including cardiac, that I get from an online prescription compounding pharmacy specializing in pet meds, and they’re delivered by the postal service. I’ve pre-ordered as much as I can, switched some prescriptions to a local pharmacy that can do them, but one critical medication I can only get from the mail-order pharmacy.
Yes, small potatoes compared to human beings’ lives and all the other havoc being created by sabotaging the mail, but it matters to me.
Not at all. I’m a cat lover and this would cause me tons of distress. And I feel distress for you knowing you are worried about this.
The ripples of this postal thing will be felt everywhere. Hell, even during wartime, prisoners got mail in their camps! Geez-Louise!
Thanks, ThelmaLou. It’s especially upsetting because this cat was in rough shape when the rescue took him in, in fact they weren’t sure he’d make it. He needed emergent surgery, recuperation with a foster mom, and many months of careful tending by me and further medical procedures by my vet to get him as happy and healthy as he is today – well, happy except at medication time twice a day when I’m squirting two to four (!!!) liquid meds down his protesting throat. Given how difficult to impossible it was in the beginning when I was trying to medicate him with pills, being able to use compounded transdermals and liquids is literally a lifesaver for poor old Buster – and makes my life so much easier.
Oh, my heart… 
Hug that fuzzy fellow for me (gently). 
