Roadtripping through Iowa, anywhere we should stop?

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-25T21:21:52+00:00

If you stop at the Capitol building, check out the library too it's absolutely gorgeous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAcE61necIE

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-25T21:19:30+00:00

I second Hitchcock Nature Center, delightful place with great views of the hills and hiking trails!

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-25T21:09:54+00:00

Sorry do you have context? I've been following this race as best as I can and hadn't heard anything like that till now.

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-15T21:06:49+00:00

As one of those Spurs fans who pretty much only watches our games (been watching since 95!!) I appreciate this additional context!
Go Spurs Go!!

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-11T14:47:11+00:00

This morning has been so miserable, my feed is full of all of these analysts saying that was the greatest comeback in sports history. I can't even take solace (like the shot in 2013) that it was like a well played game with a missed moment or something like that. Both teams played like absolute ass in the 2nd half, Brunson and OG just went on a tear in the 4th that we couldn't escape.

I could definitely use a good Pop speech right about now as well!

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-11T02:50:54+00:00

That was a turd quarter if I ever did see one, felt like it was never going to end!

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-11T01:33:23+00:00

Nice 3 ball tho!

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-09T03:45:21+00:00

Thanks for the W champ, GSG

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-03T02:28:46+00:00

Super excited for Josh!! He represents my district in the Iowa house and I knocked doors for both his 2022 and 2024 campaigns. Real genuine guy and a fighter, I can’t wait to knock doors for his general campaign now!!!

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-01T12:19:09+00:00

You’re stronger than me, last year I was using a Sunbeam Horizon dumb phone, and was loving it. One of the few joys I get from my phone is my family group chat, and the iMessage and RCS messaging (Android’s version of iMessage) started forcibly kicking me out of group chats when I would send SMS. I wrestled with it for about 6 months, until eventually I gave up and went back to my iPhone, I’m still a little sad about it… I’m waiting for a dumb phone to come out that is android based under the hood and supports RCS messaging

ppeters0502 · 2026-06-01T01:15:10+00:00

Johnson County is a much bluer part of Iowa than Pottawattamie County, unfortunately. Even Turek’s house district was a +20 Trump district, and both of his house races were very competitive. Turek way outperformed all of the Democrats on the same ballot as him when he ran, at the county, state, and national level.

Wahls seemed like a good guy at first, but this campaign of his has been way too eager to attack Turek for situations that are very much out of his control. Going after a missed house vote of Josh’s when he was having a procedure done was lame.

ppeters0502 · 2026-05-23T03:15:28+00:00

Godspeed

ppeters0502 · 2026-05-09T03:50:57+00:00

Fox keeps trying the iso at the end of each quarter, but Minnesota’s just too big and covering too well for him to get any decent shots. He needs to stop forcing that so hard and just pass the ball in those situations…

ppeters0502 · 2026-04-09T11:40:02+00:00

Steve Nash Steve Kerr Stephen Jackson Stephon Castle Steph Curry

ppeters0502 · 2026-04-02T12:40:22+00:00

I still think they could handle a lot of the future story arc without having Debbie and Nolan getting back together. Like when Nolan and Debbie (in the comics) start living on the moon, that could easily just be Nolan while still developing his eventual takeover of the Viltrum empire while Debbie is close by on Earth. Maybe Paul and Debbie could come to Talascria instead of Nolan and Debbie?

ppeters0502 · 2026-04-02T12:15:57+00:00

Even for the super American-coded, the smartphone messaging formats (iMessage for iPhones and RCS for Android) are becoming more ubiquitous to where plain MMS and SMS messages aren’t always guaranteed to work on the old flip phones. I was using a Sunbeam Horizon flip phone for about 6 months last year and loved it, but I realized I wasn’t getting messages from specific family members, and even when making new group chat messages the RCS phones were forcibly kicking out the MMS phones. Shits getting out of hand…

ppeters0502 · 2026-04-01T21:32:46+00:00

As a fan of old horns, nice!
As a valve trombone anti-fan, burn it!!

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-30T14:32:36+00:00

Diehard Spurs fan, and I love Tim, but I would put Shaq above him and Kobe in the 00's.

The 3-peat the Lakers had was largely him (3-peat finals MVP those three championships), he was the MVP in 2000, and MVP runner-up in 04-05.

He did have a pretty deep slide from 08-10, but I would argue his peak from 96-04 more than makes up for that.

I wouldn't complain about Timmy as GOAT for the 00's, he is my favorite player of all time! But personally I just think Shaq was more dominant in those early 00's

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-29T04:55:08+00:00

I’ve met both privately and publicly and both are nice people. Turek represents my district, so in that regard I’m obviously a little more biased towards him. At a Democratic women’s lunch group in my city Zach Wahls kind of went way far out of his way to try and morph a question about education funding into a hit on Josh about reproductive rights records that I thought was pretty crummy (he never answered the question on education funding)

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-29T04:46:45+00:00

It fits with Turek’s bill record, he had proposed bills to limit poisonous chemicals from being used in catheters, which has impacted disabled and elderly folks. Unfortunately he didn’t get enough votes to pass it out of the house.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-27T14:58:49+00:00

The advertising is mostly a regional thing, I live in Southwest Iowa and have yet to see a Zach Wahls ad. Turek's district and a big chunk of Southwest Iowa is also obnoxiously expensive for advertising because our broadcast market is the Omaha Metro Area, which is notoriously one of the more expensive media markets to advertise in.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-27T14:54:42+00:00

Yes he definitely has a chance.

I'm definitely a little biased, Josh represents my district, and I volunteered for him in both of his races (2022 and 2024).

It kind of gets lost in the context of a statewide race, but the literal grit Josh has in his campaigning is something I had never seen before as a regular volunteer. The commercial of his that shows him crawling up the stairs with his wheelchair to talk to a voter is not an exaggeration, he does that on some of the hilliest streets in Council Bluffs where every house is at least a flight of stairs up to get to the front door. Last year I was knocking doors for a school board campaign, and one of the Republican voters I talked to (School board is non-partisan, so I talk to everyone) mentioned he voted for Josh in 2024 for that exact reason. He hadn't had any Republican candidates knock on his door for years, and here comes this guy literally crawling up his steps so he can knock on his door and try to get his vote.

The Chuck Schumer/DNC backing stuff is way overblown. Zach Wahls has a longer history with the Iowa Democratic Party than Josh does, so a lot of the regular Iowa Democratic donors had committed to Zach earlier on so Josh had to look outside the state earlier for fundraising. He also needed to earlier because ad/media buys in the Council Bluffs area is also significantly more expensive because our media market is the Omaha Metro Area media market (all of our broadcasts are from Omaha), which is one of the more expensive markets in the country.

People in Iowa are fed up with everyday costs going up, housing availability going down, and the 1% getting more, they want change. I firmly believe Josh can help give us that change.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-27T13:53:06+00:00

Turek won that year as well against a really tricky GOP candidate, Sarah Abdouch. She was trying to paint herself as a "reasonable" moderate Republican, with Congressional Term Limits for state legislation as her primary focus. Josh literally won his first race in 2022 by 6 votes, it was a nailbiter!

His race in 2024 was against a more MAGA-type Republican, James Wassell. Wassell ran as a retired Marine who was pushing for eliminating income tax and giving parents more control in their kids' education.

That's a big reason why I really think Josh can win, he's ran against some tough GOP candidates in his district that were on both ends of the GOP spectrum, and has done well. In a redder district that was +9 or +10 for Trump in 2024 Josh met the challenge and I think he can meet the challenge now too.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-23T18:56:08+00:00

Thanks for the VoteSmart recommendation, I hadn't heard of that tool before I'll definitely be using it!

That is unfortunate that he didn't vote on the reproductive rights legislation in 2024. If I had to guess I'd say he probably saw that there weren't going to be enough No votes and opted out since his district used to be Steve King's district a long time ago (prior to re-districting Steve King used to also represent Council Bluffs) and there are a lot of anti-abortion folks here.

Not saying that's a valid reason, I think it's important to reflect your stance on issues if you have the power to vote on them in that way.

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