LaceyLou

I'm in an awkward generation that grew up to address people formally; your boss would never be Bob or Jane but Mr. Smith or Mrs. Jones, for example. For younger people, 'you're welcome' or even 'my pleasure' sound too formal and stiff, so they go with 'no problem' or 'yup,' which sounds rude to many people. FWIW, I always liked that a former neighbor of mine would respond with 'of course.' Speaking of informality, I think the topic of automatically addressing people with a nickname has come up before. Not only is my nickname not what most people shorten my name too, but I really hate what they shorten it too. When it doubt, address people formally, until somebody says otherwise.

We'd love to have you in Massachusetts, too!

Walz spoke to the same firefighters group yesterday and got a much better reception, I'm happy to say.

This would have been about 10-15 years ago, but I remember reading that many people who came of age when Reagan was President lean farther to the right than others. Not sure what happened in my case... to say I was never a fan of Reagan is an understatement.

I get those emails too. So much money, yet here anyway there's a chain of for-profit hospitals that is going bankrupt-and we've had to struggle to keep much-needed hospitals open. Sigh...

With all the troubles that family has had-including one I couldn't in good conscience support today-I always felt that they were trying to improve the lives of those they served. SMH.

Hey, if G-d will make sure, then Drumpf supporters shouldn't bother to vote, right? Seriously, this is what should convince people to get together and make sure he doesn't get back in-and then go back to fighting for other causes. Put on your own mask first so that you can help others with theirs.

I saw a copy of this in a bookstore today. Is this Vance's favorite book?

Hopefully the Harris team is reviewing those debate moments and preparing. Gabbard really is (yet another) piece of work in the circus posing as a political campaign.

I don't know how much of this is real, either. Since he's being used to appeal to GenZ voters (I assume), it would be best to remind young voters that he will not be affected by things such as Project 2025 the way they will-other than that point it's best to attack the message and not the messenger.

We lost Greg Kihn this week also. I used to drive my family crazy because I listened to The Breakup Song for hours at a time.

I'd rather stay put the entire year, too. Honestly I don't mind if there's some snow, as long as it's a walkable place with everything I need within walking distance or at least accessible by transit. (I've been told that this goal of some to make more '15 minute cities' is a plot to control people and force them to stay in one place, so there's that)

I never found her to be unlikable-she's far less reserved than many of the people I grew up with. For me there were other candidates whose views I liked a bit better. Once they were gone (which was pretty quick, IIRC), I got behind her.

This.

I guess I find the "Trump was an unknown" hard to believe. He was well known in the tabloids for 40 years, and had multiple bankruptcies. And while I never watched The Apprentice (which most likely saved him from yet another financial disaster), I suspect a lot of people knew him from that. I hope that your son fully recovered.

Just curious... is there a reason you don't mention who you voted for in 2016?

Exactly this. Similar to the "well I didn't get my first choice candidate, so now I hope the candidate who is against most if not all of the issues I claim are important to me wins" I heard from people in 2016.

In all honesty, I get that having children changes one's perspective, and maybe can concede that physically giving birth can change perspective in a different way. What I can't agree with is that this is the *only* perspective that is valid.

I've run out of likes for today! I wanted to expand on this with a mantra I once heard: Stop. making. stupid. people. famous.

A lot of the drunks I've met started drinking because they understand what's going on.

Yes, very good post. I really hope you consider writing a book someday.

FTR.... I have always liked a lot of Sander's positions. I just wonder how people who claim to want him for President would prefer a Drumpf victory over somebody who is far closer to him in policy stances.

I had the pleasure (?) of knowing several 'Bernie Bros' in 2016, and they seemed more interested in getting 'revenge' (for what I don't know) against Clinton than in defeating Drumpf. There was even one coworker who pointedly said that as a white man, he 'didn't have to worry about anything anyway.' As for Sanders, if he wants Harris to win, wouldn't it be more productive for HIM to speak forcefully about how much better she will be for the working class, and everything that the Biden administration has been working on for almost 4 years?

I'm going to go ahead and admit that I never read the book, so I can't say whether or not he sounded like a bad guy. I think we've all seen what people will do and say in order to gain and hold on to power-this has always been the case but has become more obvious in the age of social media.

I guess somebody could try to explain to him that some people want to try to leave the world a little bit better-not because they expect to get something out of it, but because they have empathy and kind hearts. Then again, I suspect that whole concept is foreign to him.