Well let's see Biden utilize his new powers

Exactly. Me too. "Did you try to make more than one post? We were "friends" for years,
but his unfounded obsession with hating on Tornado Alley was a bridge too far for me."

Yes. Am not banned now. Just had to correct that minor point. He ran to admin. behind F6's back, too.

Appreciate fully B402's had to be answered. I appreciated seeing yours. Enough said, i know.

I sent in a notice around noonish....I don't know when the boot swept through.
When they do that the posts are normally removed as well.

Yes, I know. But the suit that gave rise to yesterday's ruling was filed by Trump.

It applies to the current POTUS as well.

Did you try to make more than one post? We were "friends" for years, but his unfounded obsession with hating on Tornado Alley was a bridge too far for me.

I don't think I have. I have a customer whose business shares a parking lot with a local senior center. I was advised to park my car at the far end of the lot lest I come back and find that a senior's car has "kissed" my corner panel while the senior trying to park.

I took that advice.

Exactly. That's it. "Founders, meet MAGA. Problem, unf'ingsolved.
For the founders, this solved a whole array of potential problems: the
risk of leaving too much power in the hands of an ill-informed public,"

Then the USA was poisoned by slavery. Today it is poisoned by a lying, cheating, wannabe dictator, head of
the MAGA movement, Donald 'totalitarian, white nationalist, phony Christian' Trump. And his sycophantic GOP.

All you say there is 100%, will just add a bit. I always felt he was a decent guy down deep, yet that he had some issues that unfortunately for him more than pushed the decent down deep out of sight. In general conversation I told him that privately.

Yes, one was the control freak inclination he had. Evidence of that is that for some reason he accused me repeatedly over some time, even with spells of months between in which i stayed away to ease his angst, of trying to tell him how to run his board. Didn't matter how much i told him no, that it was the farthest thing from my mind (nothing in me ever considered even a hint of it) he wouldn't believe me.

He also banned my pms.

The one minor error in yours is that one day last year i decided to see if i was still banned
from his board and discovered he had lifted it. So i was banned but am not now.

One of my latest there ..

LOLOL Two posts and you come wid da heavy. You really can be something when you don't try to be. Cheers bucko.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170749267

if you read the one i replied to you there will understand mine.

It's only the fact i'm not banned now i had to correct.

Founders, meet MAGA. Problem, unf'ingsolved.

For the founders, this solved a whole array of potential problems: the risk of leaving too much power in the hands of an ill-informed public,

NYT...Biden’s Lapses Are Said to Be Increasingly Common and Worrisome

You and the NYTimes are liars. Quit gaslighting! Why did Hur say that President Biden had a photographic memory if it weren't true? How does someone have a photographic memory yet be delusional and feeble at the same time? Can you also remember the exact moment in time your son killed himself?

there’s the headline:

q: you said to president biden, “you appear to have a photographic understanding and recall.” did you say that?

hur: those words do appear in the transcript

q: never appeared in your report

hur: it does not appear in my report

pic.twitter.com/oaXEis7xb6

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 12, 2024

Thanks. i didn't recall seeing it was a result of a compromise around slavery.
Was a combination of distrust of national popular vote and the slavery angle.
A compromise. Got it now:

"Was a time ago, but i recall at least some of them or one saying the reason
you have the electoral college is that you can't always trust majority rule.
No. It was a concession to the southern states, to preserve slavery."

How did we get the Electoral College?
The Founding Fathers established the Electoral College in the Constitution, in part, as a compromise
between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election
of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/history

Slavery could have been part of that compromise. Since you
said it, am now guessing that was the case. Yep, here we go:

Why does America have the Electoral College — and should we keep it?

By Justin Sherman
March 18, 2021 / 7:00 AM EDT / CBS News

[...]

The founders considered three main proposals for electing the president: direct democracy, election by Congress, and an election by state-based electors.

Option 1: Direct democracy

The idea of direct democracy — whoever gets the most votes, wins — was appealing to many of the founders. In states like New York and Massachusetts, direct democracy was already being used to elect governors. However, it was unclear how voters of that era would be able to identify qualified national political figures, and some worried that the general population would be too ill-informed to take on the responsibility of choosing the president.

"The problem was what you could do at the state level might not be transferable to the national level," Rakove said. "The thing that happens from the 1790s on is that the growth of the popular press, and the growth of an evolving political press, where newspapers are committed to particular candidates or particular parties, became a prominent feature of American politics."

For the founders coming from Southern states, direct democracy would also mean that executive power would likely be dominated by the North because it had a larger voting bloc. At the time of the constitutional convention, nearly 40% of people living in the South were enslaved Black people who were not allowed to vote.

"A big part of the Southern population consisted of African American slaves, who have no political existence whatsoever," Rakove said. "If you have a truly popular election for a single officer chosen from the whole nation, there would be a big regional disadvantage for the South."

Option 2: Election by Congress

For Southern states at the time, having Congress choose the president would solve both of their main concerns with direct democracy. Congressional representatives, the country's political elite, would have no problem identifying qualified national political figures.

And Congress had also already addressed potential Northern dominance with the so-called three-fifths compromise. The compromise stated that 60% of a state's enslaved population would be counted towards the state's total population for the purpose of allocating seats in Congress — giving Southern states more political clout.

"That was emboldening and empowering the South," said Wilfred Codrington III, an associate professor of law at Brooklyn College. "It really disincentivized the desire to get rid of slavery because the more slaves you had, the more political power you had."

A presidential election by Congress, however, would infringe on the founders' desire to establish a separation of powers.

"If we have a congressional election and the president is ambitious then the president will become, in their terms, the lackey or the tool, the toady of Congress," Rakove said.

Option 3: A system of electors

The compromise that was eventually enshrined in the Constitution is a system of state-based electors based roughly on state population. For the founders, this solved a whole array of potential problems: the risk of leaving too much power in the hands of an ill-informed public, Northern dominance of the executive branch, and breaching the separation of powers.

"The upshot is the system having presidential electors became attractive, not because it was attractive in itself, but because it was the least unattractive option," Rakove said.

The Constitution specifies that each state gets same number of electors as its total number of representatives and senators in Congress, and the founders left it up to the states to determine how to they would choose their electors. All but two states — Maine and Nebraska — have adopted a winner-take-all system that awards all their electoral votes to whichever candidate won the popular vote in the state.

Pros and cons in modern America

Advocates of the Electoral College celebrate its check on the power that large cities would have in a purely popular vote election.

Tara Ross, author of "The Indispensable Electoral College," says it forces presidential candidates to court the votes of a more diverse electorate across the country.

"We have a system where you have to win simultaneous victories in multiple parts of the country and the only way to get there is to build the biggest coalition you can," Ross said. "Because of the Electoral College, presidential candidates serve themselves best if they try to appeal to a wide variety of people."

[Insert: Australia handles the 'need to appeal to as many voters as possible, need to build a broad coalition bit, by the use of optional preferential voting as used in a number of US states now.
* Maine - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=159296913
* Ranked-choice voting in the United States ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States .
* How preferential voting works in Australian elections
"If America used Australia’s voting system, there’s no way Trump could win"

Then there is, again, , compulsory. As most here know i think it's a good idea.
How Australia's compulsory voting saved it from Trumpism
In a new book, historian Judith Brett takes a deep dive into an electoral system ‘Americans can only dream of’
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EpicExplorer53, the alias was. It had only made two posts when i looked at it. Both on this board.

It's been booted - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/profile.aspx?user=851247

Looks like we collect flies. Or fliers. Both read, studied. Perfect. Form-like. Botish. Would guess a bot had written the two.

NYT...Biden’s Lapses Are Said to Be Increasingly Common and Worrisome

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/us/politics/biden-lapses.html

In the weeks and months before President Biden’s politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed that he increasingly appeared confused or listless, or would lose the thread of conversations.

Like many people his age, Mr. Biden, 81, has long experienced instances in which he mangled a sentence, forgot a name or mixed up a few facts, even though he could be sharp and engaged most of the time. But in interviews, people in the room with him more recently said that the lapses seemed to be growing more frequent, more pronounced and more worrisome.

The uncomfortable occurrences were not predictable, but seemed more likely when he was in a large crowd or tired after a particularly bruising schedule. In the 23 days leading up to the debate against former President Donald J. Trump, Mr. Biden jetted across the Atlantic Ocean twice for meetings with foreign leaders and then flew from Italy to California for a splashy fund-raiser, maintaining a grueling pace that exhausted even much younger aides.

Mr. Biden was drained enough from the back-to-back trips to Europe that his team cut his planned debate preparation by two days so he could rest at his house in Rehoboth Beach, Del., before joining advisers at Camp David for rehearsals. The preparations, which took place over six days, never started before 11 a.m. and Mr. Biden was given time for an afternoon nap each day, according to a person familiar with the process.

Referring to the start time, Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said “the president was working well before then, after exercising.”

The recent moments of disorientation generated concern among advisers and allies alike. He seemed confused at points during a D-Day anniversary ceremony in France on June 6. The next day, he misstated the purpose of a new tranche of military aid to Ukraine when meeting with its president.

On June 10, he appeared to freeze up at an early celebration of the Juneteenth holiday. On June 18, his soft-spoken tone and brief struggle to summon the name of his homeland security secretary at an immigration event unnerved some of his allies at the event, who traded alarmed looks and later described themselves as “shaken up,” as one put it. Mr. Biden recovered, and named Alejandro N. Mayorkas.

He is certainly not that way all the time. In the days since the debate debacle, aides and others who encountered him, including foreign officials, described him as being in good shape — alert, coherent and capable, engaged in complicated and important discussions and managing volatile crises. They cited example after example in cases where critical national security issues were on the line.

Aides present in the Situation Room the night that Iran hurled a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel portrayed a president in commanding form, lecturing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone to avoid a retaliatory escalation that would have inflamed the Middle East. “Let me be crystal clear,” Mr. Biden said. “If you launch a big attack on Iran, you’re on your own.”

Mr. Netanyahu pushed back hard, citing the need to respond in kind to deter future attacks. “You do this,” Mr. Biden said forcefully, “and I’m out.” Ultimately, the aides noted, Mr. Netanyahu scaled back his response.

This account is based on interviews with current and former White House aides, political advisers, administration officials, foreign diplomats, domestic allies and financial donors who saw Mr. Biden in the last few weeks, sometimes just briefly, sometimes for more extended periods. In most cases, they spoke on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the matter.

White House officials have said the president is in excellent shape and that his debate performance, while disappointing, was an aberration. Kevin C. O’Connor, the White House physician, said as recently as February that despite minor ailments like sleep apnea and peripheral neuropathy in his feet, the president was “fit for duty.” He said tests had turned up “no findings which would be consistent with” Parkinson’s disease. The White House has declined to make Dr. O’Connor available for questions and did not respond to detailed health questions from The New York Times earlier this year.

Responding to questions from The New York Times, Mr. Bates, the White House spokesman, said Tuesday that Dr. O’Connor had found no reason to re-evaluate Mr. Biden for Parkinson’s disease and that he showed no signs of Parkinson’s and had never taken Levodopa or other drugs for that condition.

Aides to Mr. Biden responded to questions for this story by asking several senior advisers to describe their interactions with Mr. Biden.

“He’s inquisitive. Focused. He remembers. He’s sharp,” said Neera Tanden, the president’s domestic policy adviser. In briefings, she said, “he will ask you a tough question and he will say, ‘How does this relate to an average person?’ And if you haven’t thought of that in that time, you have to come back to him.”

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, the president’s homeland security adviser, recounted a June 17 terrorism briefing for Mr. Biden in the Situation Room in which he “digested an immense amount of information” and asked questions that were “probing and insightful.” She acknowledged that Mr. Biden’s debate performance had been different. “It doesn’t reflect the experience I have with him on a daily basis,” she said.

But by many accounts, as evidenced by video footage, observation and interviews, Mr. Biden is not the same today as he was even when he took office 3½ years ago. The White House regularly releases corrected transcripts of his remarks, in which he frequently mixes up places, people or dates. The administration did so in the days after the debate, when Mr. Biden mixed up the countries of France and Italy when talking about war veterans at an East Hampton fund-raiser.

Last week’s debate prompted some around him to express concern that the decline had accelerated lately. Several advisers and current and former administration officials who see Mr. Biden regularly but not every day or week said they were stunned by his debate performance because it was the worst they had ever seen him.

“You don’t have to be sitting in an Oval Office meeting with Joe Biden to recognize there’s been a slowdown in the past two years. There’s a visible difference,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian. “I’ve been amazed on one hand,” said Mr. Brinkley, who has not seen the president in person in a year. “The president can zip around the country like he does. But the White House may only be showing the Biden they want us to see.”

Mr. Trump, 78, has also shown signs of slipping over the years since he was first elected to the White House. He often confuses names and details and makes statements that are incoherent. He maintains a lighter public schedule than Mr. Biden, does not exercise and repeatedly appeared to fall asleep in the middle of his recent hush money trial. His campaign has released only a three-paragraph health summary. Voters have expressed concern about his age as well, but not to the same degree as Mr. Biden’s.

Mr. Trump has seized on Mr. Biden’s debate performance and called his own often confusing and fact-free appearance that night the “greatest debate performance” in the history of presidential campaigns.

Former President Donald J. Trump, whose performance at the CNN event was rife with misleading attacks and falsehoods, said he had the “greatest debate performance” in the history of presidential debates.

The picture that emerges from recent interviews about Mr. Biden is one of a president under stress — hardly unusual — as he tried to juggle nervous international partners, a recalcitrant ally whose continued war against Hamas was creating yet another threat to a second term and a family crisis with his own son, who was convicted of criminal charges that could send him to prison.

What you should know. The Times makes a careful decision any time it uses an anonymous source. The information the source supplies must be newsworthy and give readers genuine insight.

By necessity, it is an incomplete picture. As Mr. Biden has aged, the White House has limited his encounters with reporters. While he frequently stops for a couple minutes to answer a question or two, as of Sunday, Mr. Biden had granted fewer interviews than any president of the modern era and fewer news conferences than any president since Ronald Reagan, according to statistics compiled by Martha Kumar, a longtime scholar of presidential communication.

On the occasions that Mr. Biden has chosen to speak with reporters on short notice, it has not always gone well. In February, he angrily hit back against a special counsel’s report on his handling of classified documents, in which the special counsel, Robert K. Hur, characterized the president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” The furious president defended himself and his memory to reporters but referred to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt as the “president of Mexico” in the process. On Monday, House Republicans sued the Biden administration in an attempt to procure audio of Mr. Biden’s interviews with Mr. Hur.


Mr. Biden speaking at the White House in February about the special counsel report, which had described him as “an elderly man with a poor memory.”Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times

But those 23 days before Mr. Biden met Mr. Trump on the television stage in Atlanta may be viewed by historians as the most critical three weeks in a consequential presidency, as the president faced an opponent he not only loathed, but viewed as an existential threat to American democracy. Were the wandering, inconclusive thoughts broadcast live to more than 50 million viewers just a bad night, a product of the exhausting month, or something larger? Had he not been crisscrossing the globe so frequently — including leaving Italy for a trip spanning nine time zones to a fund-raiser in Los Angeles — would it have made a difference?

Mr. Biden’s trips to Europe were marked by moments of sharpness in important meetings — including a complex session on diverting income from Russian assets to aid Ukraine — mixed with occasional blank-stared confusion, according to people who met with him. At some points, he seemed perfectly on top of his game, at others a little lost.

In Normandy, he met former soldiers brought to France by a veterans’ group. One American who attended said Mr. Biden at times seemed disoriented. During the later ceremony, the president turned away from the U.S. flag when “Taps” was played instead of facing it, possibly to not turn his back to the veterans. Jill Biden, President Emmanuel Macron of France and Mr. Macron’s wife then followed suit.

There was an awkward moment when Mr. Macron made sure the president got safely down the ramp, then came back up to shake all the veterans’ hands. Mr. Biden had been expected to stay for the handshakes.

During a meeting the next day with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Mr. Biden spoke so softly it was almost impossible to hear and said a new burst of aid was meant to reconstruct the country’s electric grid when it was not.

During a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, President Biden said a new round of aid was meant to reconstruct the Ukrainian electric grid when it was not.
I’ve announced six packages of significant funding. Today I’m also signing an additional package for $225 million to help you reconstruct the electric grid. And once we got the national security bill passed — that was a political issue — we were able to get it all done.

During a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, President Biden said a new round of aid was meant to reconstruct the Ukrainian electric grid when it was not.
But when it came time for the president’s own speech on D-Day, he delivered it forcefully and clearly, gathering momentum and ending on a vigorous note. It was a reminder that, much like during the State of the Union address earlier in the year, he often rises to big occasions and once he gets the rhythm of a speech, adrenaline appears to kick in.

Age was a running theme throughout the visit to France as the president honored American veterans who were near the century mark.

“Age is just a number,” Hilbert Margol, a 100-year-old who served in World War II, recalled telling Mr. Biden.

“You’re right,” Mr. Biden agreed.

Mr. Biden greeting World War II veterans in Normandy during the D-Day commemorations last month.

Bill Casassa, 98, who was also honored at the Normandy ceremony and supports Mr. Trump, said he came away with the impression that Mr. Biden was infirm. “He did not appear any different to me in person than he does on television — and that is as a person who is fragile and not really in charge,” Mr. Casassa said.

Another veteran, Marvin E. Gilmore Jr., on the other hand, said he came away with newfound respect for Mr. Biden’s energy. “He greeted me very openly, very warmly and very, very, alert,” said Mr. Gilmore, who plans to vote for him. “There was nothing I saw in him that said he was an old man — and I am 99, three months from being 100.”

After several days in France, Mr. Biden flew home briefly and dealt with the family crisis of his son’s conviction. He hosted an early concert marking the Juneteenth holiday where he was spotted standing stiffly during a musical performance. One person who sat close to the president said that he had a “dazed and confused” expression during much of the event. This person said Mr. Biden had shown a “sharp decline” since a meeting only weeks earlier.

President Biden appeared to freeze up momentarily at a Juneteenth celebration at the White House.

After just a couple days at home, Mr. Biden turned around and flew back to Europe, this time to Italy for a summit of the Group of 7 leaders. Throughout the meetings, the pattern was the same, according to senior officials who attended.

Mr. Biden, one said, appeared “quite sharp in the meetings,” and was well prepared. He articulated American views. He appeared on his game at a news conference with Mr. Zelensky. But at one point Mr. Biden appeared to wander off from the group of leaders to talk to paratroopers and the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, came up behind him, and gently brought him back. A clip of the event that went viral had been edited to make it appear Mr. Biden had just walked away. In fact, he was greeting a paratrooper. But the image suggested he needed guidance from his host.

A senior European official who was present said that there had been a noticeable decline in Mr. Biden’s physical state since the previous fall and that the Europeans had been “shocked” by what they saw. The president at times appeared “out of it,” the official said, and it was difficult to engage him in conversation while he was walking.

Ms. Meloni and the other leaders were acutely sensitive to Mr. Biden’s physical condition, discussing it privately among themselves, and they tried to avoid embarrassing him by slowing their own pace while walking with the president. When they worried that he did not seem poised and cameras were around, they closed ranks around him physically to shield him while he collected himself, the official said.

Two administration officials who traveled with Mr. Biden to Italy said it is common for leaders to be guided to the day’s events. They said the hotel where the Group of 7 summit was taking place was a warren of confusing corridors filled with 25 world leaders and their security details. But they said Mr. Biden was articulate and sharp through hours of meetings.

Mr. Biden walking down stairs with other world leaders.
Leaders of the Group of 7 nations meeting in Italy last month reportedly tried not to embarrass Mr. Biden by walking too fast, and shielded him from cameras when he did not appear poised.

Asked if one could imagine putting Mr. Biden into the same room with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia today, a former U.S. official who had helped prepare for the trip went silent for a while, then said, “I just don’t know.” A former senior European official answered the same question by saying flatly, “No.”

Some White House officials adamantly rejected the suggestion of a president not up to handling tough foreign counterparts and told the story of the night Iran attacked Israel in April. Mr. Biden and his top national security officials were in the Situation Room for hours, bracing for the attack, which came around midnight. Biden was updated in real time as the forces he ordered into the region began shooting down Iranian missiles and drones. He peppered leaders with questions throughout the response.

After it was over, and almost all of the missiles and drones had been shot down, Mr. Biden called Mr. Netanyahu to persuade him not to escalate. “Take the win,” Mr. Biden told the prime minister, without reading from a script or extensive notes, according to two people in the room. In the end, Mr. Netanyahu opted for a much smaller and proportionate response that effectively ended the hostility.

Mr. Biden left Italy to fly directly to Los Angeles for a star-studded fund-raiser with Hollywood celebrities and former President Barack Obama, stopping back in Washington just long enough for Air Force One to be refueled. Aides pointed to the trip as an example of remarkable stamina for an octogenarian — or for anyone, for that matter.

But Mr. Biden appeared tired during a 40-minute discussion onstage at the event, seated between Jimmy Kimmel and Mr. Obama. A few times, the president stumbled over his words, and when the other men were speaking, Mr. Biden often stared into space, his mouth slightly open, like he would later do at the debate.

Mr. Biden standing onstage and waving. Former President Barack Obama is seated behind him and clapping. Both men are wearing black suits and white shirts.

After lengthy back-to-back trips to Europe, Mr. Biden flew to Los Angeles for a fund-raising event with former President Barack Obama. However, he appeared tired during a 40-minute discussion onstage.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Two days after finally returning to the White House, Mr. Biden invited members of Congress, former administration officials and leading immigration experts to the White House to celebrate action taken under Mr. Obama to spare young undocumented immigrants, known as Dreamers, from deportation.

Two people with a clear view of Mr. Biden said his quiet, soft-spoken mumbling and occasional fumbling over the right words despite reading from a teleprompter left some in attendance concerned over his condition. He momentarily appeared unable to say the name of Mr. Mayorkas, his homeland security secretary, before recovering, leaving some in the audience jarred.

“Thanks to all the members of the Congress and Homeland Security Secretary — I — I’m not sure I’m going to introduce you all the way,” said Mr. Biden, who has contended with a stutter since childhood. “But all kidding aside, Secretary Mayorkas.”

President Biden momentarily struggled to summon the name of his Homeland Security secretary at an immigration event on June 18.

Thanks to all the members of Congress and Homeland Security Secretary — I’m not going to introduce you all the way. But all kidding aside, Secretary Mayorkas, as well as Secretary Becerra, and advocates and families for law enforcement, faith leaders, everybody is here.

President Biden momentarily struggled to summon the name of his Homeland Security secretary at an immigration event on June 18.

While many were celebratory at the event, in which Mr. Biden announced a new program to grant relief to roughly 500,000 undocumented immigrants, some attendees shared their concerns about Mr. Biden’s condition with each other. “People were not feeling great,” one person said. Another person hoped it was just a “one-off” bad moment before Mr. Biden’s forthcoming debate.

Since the debate, Mr. Biden has tried to demonstrate that his trouble articulating himself that evening was not indicative of a larger problem. He gave a robust speech at a campaign rally the next day and attended a string of fund-raisers where he hoped to reassure nervous donors.

“He gave a strong speech, he didn’t stumble or mumble or look confused in any way,” said Judith Hope, the former chair of the New York State Democratic Party, who attended a fund-raiser in East Hampton on Saturday. “He was his old Uncle Joe self.”

Ms. Hope attributed the president’s debate troubles to his demanding schedule. “Are you aware of where he has been in the past seven days?” she said, raising her voice. “He continues to keep up a schedule that I could never dream of doing, that would totally defeat a younger person,” she added. “I think we need to examine our expectations.”

All MAGAS are cannibals.

Wouldn't that be cannibalism?

When I read it, I thought maybe it was some sort of penny stock pump so I looked up the company and there is no stock in involved. The thought never crossed my mind that it could have been a bot so I just figured someone would get around to wiping it. Good to see admin keeping a watchful eye.

I never checked but it's possible that it might have posted the same message to numerous boards.

That mean what to me

It doesn't have to be about you. But maybe you have children/grandchildren/friends who are also on their parent's health insurance. Your MAGAts want to get rid of that and throw 18 year olds to the wolves. Just pointing out to you what the convicted felon/rapist's health care plan is.

Have you also eaten a dog?

On finishing yesterday i saw yours, and discovered i'd been around the "new poster", but still had missed him. Or it. I agree it looked a bot and was obviously just advertising a particular vape. LOL i thought, hang on this isn't the place. I decided to leave it over my night to see whether you or it received any replies, and then to delete the two posts.

This morning i found no replies to you, or it, but that admin had deleted it's two posts.

Was going to thank you for pointing it out, that done now. Just one other little query, OOi (out of interest) did you, or anyone else here perhaps, notify admin about the two posts, or did admin. catch them, it, without help.

Thanks again for asking the question you did.

Borowitz Report- Biden Uses Sweeping Immunity to Replace Supreme Court Republicans with Jill, Hunter, and the Obamas

I love good satire and the Borowitz Report is spot on here

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/biden-uses-sweeping-immunity-to-replace

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In his first official act since the Supreme Court granted him sweeping presidential immunity, on Tuesday President Biden replaced all six Republican justices on the Court with his wife, son, and the Obama family.

In a farewell message to the ex-justices, Biden thanked them for giving him virtually unlimited power and “for making people finally stop talking about the debate.”

The impact on the former justices was sudden and shocking, as both Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were immediately disinvited from a lavish Mediterranean cruise aboard Harlan Crow’s superyacht.

Additionally, John Roberts confirmed he is relocating to North Korea to be the figurehead of a purely ceremonial tribunal that rubber-stamps the whims of Kim Jong Un.

Meanwhile, an irate Brett Kavanaugh was spotted moving his possessions out of the Court, rolling an unwieldy beer keg down the building’s front steps.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219092682

FYI - in case anyone is interested in watching this tonight.

MSNBC EXCLUSIVE:

Rachel Maddow talks exclusively with Stormy Daniels.

It's her first U.S. TV interview since testifying against Donald Trump.

Watch a special two-hour edition of The Rachel Maddow Show.

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That mean what to me

Bombshell all right and gee all of a sudden. NC under pressure I should say constant pressure by certain Democrats ended up not allowing RFK on the ballot in NC. Now this story hmmmm…. Oh well that is politics ain’t it.

Bombshell report hurls shocking new accusations at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is alleged to have had inappropriate contact with a 23-year-old babysitter for the Kennedy family when he was 45, according to an explosive new Vanity Fair report.

According to the report published Tuesday, a then-23-year-old college graduate hired by the Kennedy family in 1998 to take care of the family's children in Hyannis Port disclosed in her diary that Kennedy, who was married to Mary Richardson Kennedy at the time, grabbed her leg under the table during a family meeting one night.

"From everything everybody says about the Kennedys + their Babysitters, they had me worried," she wrote.

"Like I have to watch out, be careful. And the other night in the kitchen w/ Murray I could have sworn he was touching my leg + hand. It seemed like he thought I was somebody else or wasn’t paying attention. Like he would come to every once in a while and snap out of it or I would move away. It was like he was on something or really tired or was missing Mary or was testing me."

The report further states that several weeks after that incident, she came into her room to find Kennedy on her bed, shirtless, with her diary detailing her intimate life open, and asked her to rub lotion on him. She described the interaction as "totally inappropriate," and then stopped writing about her encounters with Kennedy for fear he would continue reading her diary.

This episode is one of many allegations detailed in the Vanity Fair article. Another story, complete with photographs, revealed that Kennedy texted a friend a picture of himself and an unidentified woman posing with the barbecued remains of a dog, taken during a 2010 trip to Asia — right around the time he was diagnosed with the remnants of a parasitic worm infection in his brain.



All of this comes after a new book, excerpted by People magazine, that details the final days of Mary Kennedy before her suicide in 2012, over a year after the two separated.

According to this account, during the separation, Kennedy cut her off financially until she was broke, kept her away from his side of the family, and pressured a therapist to diagnose her with mental illness, which the therapist refused to do.

After her death, Kennedy eulogized her to the press as a dysfunctional alcoholic then, after the funeral, had her exhumed and moved to a new unmarked spot away from the Kennedy family's burial plot.
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-2668670034/

President Joe Biden to sit down with ABC News on Friday for first TV interview since debate
Source: ABC News

President Joe Biden will sit down with ABC News on Friday for his first television interview since last week's presidential debate.

The president's poor performance in the debate has garnered calls for him to drop out of the race by politicians on both sides of the aisle.

Biden will speak to "Good Morning America" and "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos for the interview. A first look will air on the Friday, July 5, edition of "World News Tonight with David Muir" with portions airing on Saturday and Sunday on "Good Morning America."

The extended interview will air Sunday, July 7, on "This Week" and Monday's episode of "Good Morning America."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-joe-biden-sit-abc-news-friday-interview/story?id=111618360

A MAGAts wet dream!

Eric Hovde calls ACA provision allowing young adults to remain on parents’ health plans "stupid"

Guy whose career is based on Daddy's name and business connections has thoughts on freeloading kids.

HOT MIC: WI GOP Senate hopeful Eric Hovde says having young people stay on their parents' insurance is "stupid":

"They need to grow up and move on ... We've never had such a large percentage of working-age Americans sitting on the couch ... living with their parents. It's sad." pic.twitter.com/MiKF9z2lGg

— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) July 2, 2024

Eat your heart out, MAGAt! There's no way the convicted felon/rapist could carry on a real conversation for 20 minutes without lying 100 times.

ProPublica releases unedited interview with Joe Biden in wake of debate

ProPublica obtained a rare interview with Biden on Sept. 29, nine days before the Hur interviews began. We released the video, which was assembled from footage shot by five cameras, on Oct. 1. We edited out less than a minute of crosstalk and exchanges with the camera people, as is customary in such interviews.

Today, we are releasing the full, 21-minute interview, unedited as seen from the view of the single camera focused on Biden. We understand that this video captures a moment in time nine months ago and that it will not settle the ongoing arguments about the president’s acuity today. Still, we believe it is worth giving the public another chance to see one of Biden’s infrequent conversations with a reporter.

Conducting the interview was veteran journalist and former CNN White House correspondent John Harwood, who requested it and then worked with ProPublica to film and produce it.

He did not send questions to the White House ahead of time, nor did he get approval for the topics to be discussed during the interview.

Okay dokey

Trump is a fat fuck, President Biden needs to just put him in jail, according to the Supreme Court he can have trump arrested.

Now the convicted felon is running the country! Oh boy…. Hunter Biden has joined meetings with President Joe Biden and his top aides since his father returned to the White House from Camp David on Monday evening, according to four people familiar with the matter.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna159975

It sure doesn’t seem like that will happen now. I know I’m not too worried about it.

John Oliver explains parts of Project 2025. There is considerable time devoted to Schedule F in the second half of the video.

Trump is still going to jail.

Now that’s funny

Fake news. Orangedonshittypants never knew the guy.

🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS Here is why Donald Trump froze up during a Fox News interview regarding unclassifying Jeffery Epstein court filings.

It's because Donald Trump was a client that called in for massages frequently to Jeffrey Epstein. 🚨 pic.twitter.com/PyftogMzqJ

— Ford News (@FordJohnathan5) July 2, 2024

So little Miss MAGAt, do you think the convicted felon/rapist should be the one leading your party when it's so obvious to everyone that he has frontal lobe dementia. Who do you think he should give his delegates to when he's forced to step down? Who is your first choice to replace him?

Donald Trump Dementia Evidence 'Overwhelming,' Says Top Psychiatrist
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-dementia-evidence-overwhelming-top-psychiatrist-1881247

Now that's funny, trump, crimes, there are 1000s.

Yet the Republicans always push tax cuts for the wealthy, and you ignore it.

Do you think Biden should do something like this? Pack the court? On a scale of 1-10, how angry are you about this latest development?

Absolutely. I've been in favor of expanding the court ever since the turtle pulled his stunt with Gorsuch. Could you imagine how different things would be now if Garland was on the bench instead of practicing his brand of jurisprudence as the head of the DOJ? If there were a lifetime prosecutor in that seat, Jack Smith would have been appointed about 18 months earlier and these cases might have had a shot at being adjudicated by now...

RBG was a product of her own hubris ands should have retired when Obama asked her to, so we can't blame the Kavanaugh confirmation on anyone but ourselves and Bill Barr's famous 4 day investigation into his rapey drunken youth.

Slamming Comey Barret on in the last minute sealed the deal for me and made me wish for a special place in hell for McConnel.

The issue with adding seats to the court is that it needs to be done in the senate. Right now, they need 60 votes to change that so the only way to get around it is to get rid of the filibuster. We tried and got blocked by Manchin and Sinema. I'm pretty sure if it would have went differently the court would already be expanded. Now they are gone for the next term but we lost a seat in WV that we need to make up somewhere. A lot of work needs to be done between now and November to try to flip one or two more red seats.

I might be dreaming but I really think Ted Cruz and Rick Scott are in very vulnerable positions right now and if we could send one or both of them packing it would be a seismic shift in the Senate.

Then if we can hold the majority, say goodbye to the filibuster and hello to at least 3 or four more new Justices. All the stars have to align though. We must take the White House back. Joe needs to get out there, do some town halls and some press conferences off script to prove to all these knuckleheads that he is more than capable or he's not going to gain back any confidence. If he can't then, as much as I don't want to see it, he needs to get out of the way.

I was watching the other night and someone mentioned that he might be better suited in some nationally televised one on one interviews because press conferences are quite chaotic these days, you can't even hear what's going on half the time with all the shouting reporters and the questions veer wildly from one topic to another and back again. In a one on one, there is focus and time to expand on a subject with follow up questions before you move on to the next. Not some softball shit either, go on all the networks including Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC etc.. don't be shy.

On a scale of 1-10 I'm a conservative 12 on my pissed-o-meter with the way this current court has turned into another arm of the GOP. They don't even hide it anymore. They give us all the finger while Alito and Thomas collect their bribe money. I have no f'n clue what Durbin is waiting for, he needs to start acting on this nonsense like yesterday. No more stern letters, hold a damn hearing immediately. Invite house members over and turn it into another J6 type of commission. Don't sit back and watch as these guys tap dance on our electorate..

Durbin is my home Senator with offices not too far from here, I've called written and even hand delivered a few letters. I've even met him a few times but it was before this whole debacle started He's always cordial and responds in kind but still manages to weasel his way out of the underlying subject and that upsets me. I wouldn't go so far as to vote him out because I don't see any alternative but I've threatened to do so. Hopefully he takes his thumb out of his ass here soon because I'm not the only one around here who feels this way.

More bullshit, I'm afraid.

Your just a pumper now Janice...And like all pumpers, you've denied and ignored anything and everything that doesn't go along with greed. Dems switched to the rich and its had devastating effects on America.......

Sigh. Why don't you READ the DECISION? The specific case is only about Trump, but it applies to past and future presidents.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

Glenn Kirschner is going to try to put all this bullshit in English for the rest of us. This is the first of probably many vids. Isn't it interesting that the scrotus put all the decisions in 'he' and 'his' because, I guess, this is a ruling for orangedonshittypants alone and not all the president elects? I was under the mistaken assumption this was going to be for all presidents starting next November? What about Biden having assassination power if he gets elected?

It's too early yet to figure out what this bullshit means from the scotus quite yet.

Do you find all this shit just standard procedures which aren't that important?

No, I don't. The prosecutors may still go up against a former president for unofficial illegal acts committed while he was in office, or afterward.

If you maniacs on the left would have just left Trump alone and not make up fake crimes against him, the Supreme Court wouldn’t have to make all these rulings

This timeline includes the check sequence and timing information from when he announced his presidential run on June 16, 2015...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-manhattan-district-attorney-case-donald-trump/story?id=98389444