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JPPaverage's JournalOk. I'm leaky.
Been deliriously happy all day and at work I was reading stuff about Joe and Kamala and their great victory. I started crying. I've been leaking all day. But tears of happiness. I'm 63 years old and have only been this happy about twice in my life. When I got married the second and correct time and when the Cubs won the World Series. I just can't explain how happy I am. As millions of us are.
Ladies and gentlemen, the 46th President of the United States; JOE BIDEN!
Not sure if I can take this anymore
Ernst wins. Again. Trump takes Iowa. Again. Meeks may win the second district. This state is a repuke stronghold. I used to take pride in being an Iowan. Now, not so much.
I'm old enough to remember when we actually had Democrats in charge of things. Or at least moderate Republicans like Robert Ray and Leach. What happened?
Don't know if this an omen or not
But it is incredibly nice here in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois today. Around 70 degrees or so. In 2008, when Obama/Biden got elected it was similar weather. Just saying. Maybe its a good sign. Or maybe I'm just full of stuff and nonsense. Either way, I feel confident. Bluenami.
Something I have to say
In about 30 minutes the polls open here in Iowa. Let's hope the people here vote the vermin phony joni ernst out. And keep our district blue as well as at least two of the other three districts. Let's hope all is peaceful and things go smoothly.
Now what I have to say. Trump, I hope when and if you lose, your life is absolutely miserable. If you don't do prison time, at least I hope you live in abject poverty scraping and scratching for every penny by begging on the street. McConnell, whether you win or lose lets hope the same for you. Every one of you stinking repukes can kiss my rosy red ass. The blue wave is coming. Run and hide you gutless cowards.
Thats about all I have to say for now. DUers, if you haven't voted yet please do so. Thank you.
Interesting discussion i had with a Hispanic neighbor
The guy who lives across the alley from us is a Mexican guy, married, three kids and owns his own business. Roofing and siding.
A few months ago we had an epic storm, called derecho blow through Iowa. 80 to 100 mile per hour winds, torrential rainfall and lots of damage to houses among other things. In other words, an inland hurricane. Now I am filing an insurance claim to get some new siding on our house because it wasn't spared either. So I went over to talk to the neighbor after he got home about an estimate to put on the siding. He agreed and him and I started talking about politics when he saw my Biden sign in the front yard. He told me that he is real busy now because of the storm damage, but he could give me a reasonable price on the siding and gutters. But...if I would have had a trump sign he may have quoted a higher price or turned me down altogether. I mentioned that didn't seem real professional, that money is all green. He told me that right now he has enough work to keep him and his crew busy until around July of next year right now and just doesn't need any bs trump supporters right now. He also showed me his credentials, licensed and bonded as well as testimonials from other customers.
Anyway, long story short, I did tell him that I needed two more estimates per my insurance company's instructions. He did give me a reasonable estimate and most likely we will hire him to do the job. Especially since he despises the orange pos.
I tried. I really did. But this "debate" is unwatchable
Trump will not shut up and Wallace does little to stop him. So I had to turn it off and look in on the MLB postseason. And the damn Yankees are slaughtering the team from Cleveland. So I'm just going to hang out here at DU for a while.
Phony Joni sends out fund raising text 10 minutes after RBG death
Nothing like opportunism. To be fair these texts may have been scheduled in advance but she could have called them off for a day or two. She didn't and that says a lot about her (lack of) character. We have to double down on our efforts to send her packing.
Ok. Now I'm fighting mad.
A couple of days ago I got a text from my (almost) 12 year old daughter begging to move if trump wins. The death of RBG was being heavily discussed on TikTok or some such forum and some of the older kids correctly pointed out that women, lgbtq people, immigrants and others would lose rights.
When I got home, I tried to explain to her that we were going to bust our butts to stop the senate from confirming any person for Supreme Court justice and to get Biden and down ticket Democrats elected and hopefully return our country to its former glory. I also lost my dad and an aunt earlier this year who both despised trump. My aunt actually said that she wanted to live long enough to see trump beaten. So we have to double down in our efforts to destroy trump and his minions. Not only for RBG, but for my dad, my aunt, and my child. I do not want to sound selfish but its personal now.
Well it finally happened. And I'm beyond livid.
So my (step) daughter goes out daily to walk the dog. She's 11 and well known, and liked, around the neighborhood. And there is an elderly widow who walks her dog every day so TJO and her have become friends and walk the dogs together. So I don't worry too much about harm coming to her.
I do tend to look out the window when she's out there though. Guess maybe I worry more than I let on. Anyway, yesterday, some pos was driving by and started shouting at TJO, "GO BACK TO YOUR OWN FUCKING COUNTRY YOU FUCKIN GOOK!". Did I mention that TJO is Asian?
Well, the widow and a neighbor who was working on his car started yelling at the idiot as he was driving away to get the f out of our neighborhood! And...TJO yelled at him "Trump sucks!" She may have gotten that from me, but I digress. I ran outside to see what was happening and the witnesses told me. The guy working on his car said that his wife had already called the cops and the widow said if we see him again she would help TJO if she needed help. I talked to the cop who showed up and indicated that if I saw the "guy" again, he was going to get an ass kicking. The cop told me to calm down, that apparently this may be the same guy that has been heard yelling at other minorities around town. All while in the safety of his moving car. Just another gutless trumpite coward.
I am a Union man
My late dad was a Union man as was one of my uncles.
I have been a steward on three different occasions and almost always support my Union brothers and sisters. Because, without Unions, we are even more screwed than we already are. But...having said this, I simply cannot support the police unions across the country. The only thing they seem to be doing for their membership is making sure they can go out and kill more minorities. And as a conscientious (thank goodness for spell check) human being, there is no way I can support that. They are not my Union brothers. They need to clean up their ranks and weed out the bad people. Then maybe they'd get some support.
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