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The arguments for Biden 2024 keep getting worse - BuckGalaxy - 7/9/2024 9:00:43 PM

The NYT seems all in on ousting Biden - Tony - 7/8/2024 5:50:53 PM
- Parkinson's is vastly different than dementia - podrock - 7/8/2024 11:16:19 PM
  - So may the rest of the Dems calling for his head. - Tony - 7/9/2024 3:32:09 PM
    - P2025 is slowly coming to attention - podrock - 7/9/2024 5:55:41 PM
    - The GOP has always wanted something like Project 2025. - ER - 7/9/2024 4:25:08 PM

Do you want to go down with the ship? - BuckGalaxy - 7/4/2024 9:37:48 PM
- $ - podrock - 7/6/2024 5:05:51 PM
  - Cash options - BuckGalaxy - 7/8/2024 7:07:15 PM
  - A work around - BuckGalaxy - 7/6/2024 5:31:05 PM
- Do I have a choice? - podrock - 7/5/2024 10:26:06 PM
  - I repeat for the umpteenth time - BuckGalaxy - 7/5/2024 11:40:52 PM
    - Cruel summer - podrock - 7/6/2024 2:49:14 AM
      - Anti Trump voters are there for a candidate who is capable of getting them - BuckGalaxy - 7/6/2024 3:10:32 AM
- Biden has lost the Democratic mega donors - BuckGalaxy - 7/5/2024 8:13:42 PM
- More reports coming out about Biden's decline - BuckGalaxy - 7/5/2024 7:57:44 PM
- There is no replacement candidate, unless it's Harris. - Tony - 7/5/2024 3:20:14 PM
  - Yes there is - BuckGalaxy - 7/5/2024 7:49:19 PM
    - There is no unflawed candidate waiting in the wings - Tony - 7/6/2024 3:32:16 PM
      - Democrats have a much deeper bench that you appear to be aware of - BuckGalaxy - 7/6/2024 8:47:53 PM
- sauve qui peut - ER - 7/5/2024 2:53:18 AM
  - "Maybe this will shake the country out of its apathy and political torpor and gets people to thinking that this election stuff is really fucking important" - BuckGalaxy - 7/5/2024 8:12:32 PM

At least Britain moved in the right direction - Tony - 7/5/2024 3:11:53 PM
- Good news in France as well - BuckGalaxy - 7/8/2024 5:33:17 PM
  - Yup. But worry about the future later. - Tony - 7/8/2024 5:52:35 PM
- So did Iran - BuckGalaxy - 7/6/2024 7:36:35 AM

We're doomed - BuckGalaxy - 7/7/2024 12:43:00 AM
- Maybe we're not doomed - BuckGalaxy - 7/7/2024 6:34:02 PM
  - Well, one thing's for certain. - ER - 7/7/2024 7:17:34 PM
- Perhaps its all for the best - ER - 7/7/2024 1:41:53 AM
  - Yep - BuckGalaxy - 7/7/2024 1:46:12 AM

I passed Trump's cognitive competence test. - ER - 7/6/2024 3:18:30 PM
- I realize now... - ER - 7/6/2024 8:07:40 PM
  - Mild prosopagnosia - podrock - 7/7/2024 12:08:41 PM
- Sheer panic - BuckGalaxy - 7/6/2024 8:07:00 PM
- At 92 years old - podrock - 7/6/2024 6:56:46 PM
- My father in law failed this at 75 - Tony - 7/6/2024 4:31:14 PM

Biden said if he gives it his all and loses, it was about trying. - BuckGalaxy - 7/6/2024 7:43:19 AM
- The old American fallacy... - ER - 7/6/2024 3:35:46 PM

Joe digs in while his poll numbers slide - BuckGalaxy - 7/4/2024 2:03:29 AM
- Leaks about Joe Biden are coming fast and furious - BuckGalaxy - 7/4/2024 2:05:52 AM

This is what you get from a Master's in Geography. - ER - 7/3/2024 7:44:25 PM
- The bigger picture - BuckGalaxy - 7/3/2024 10:05:25 PM
  - The deciding factor is not what might happen. - ER - 7/3/2024 11:17:58 PM
- Just thinking out loud... - ER - 7/3/2024 8:25:45 PM
  - Never going to happen - BuckGalaxy - 7/3/2024 10:07:16 PM
    - Coffee or not, nothing surprises me any more. - ER - 7/3/2024 11:16:28 PM

Christmas in July - ER - 7/3/2024 7:00:57 PM

The best way to handle replacing Biden - BuckGalaxy - 6/29/2024 1:17:50 AM
- SEVEN DEMOCRATS FLOATED AS POSSIBLE BIDEN REPLACEMENTS - BuckGalaxy - 7/2/2024 8:59:13 AM
  - What about Sherrod Brown? - ER - 7/2/2024 2:13:57 PM
    - I like Sherrod - BuckGalaxy - 7/2/2024 4:24:24 PM
- (MUST READ) TRUE AND UGENT WORDS FROM A LIFELONG FRIEND OF JOE - BuckGalaxy - 6/30/2024 9:55:17 PM
- ELOQUENT, MUST READ ARTICLE BY DAVID IGNATIUS - BuckGalaxy - 6/29/2024 6:41:28 PM
  - "the Democrats will have two months to choose another candidate. It will be a wide-open and noisy race, but that will be invigorating for the country. " - BuckGalaxy - 6/29/2024 6:56:05 PM
- 1920 - podrock - 6/29/2024 3:27:01 AM
- My picks in this scenario - BuckGalaxy - 6/29/2024 2:21:24 AM

Uncharted waters - ER - 7/1/2024 1:59:20 AM
- So, if it is now an official act - podrock - 7/1/2024 7:26:50 PM
  - Well, Biden is, officially, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. - ER - 7/1/2024 11:12:20 PM

another brick in the wall - ER - 6/29/2024 1:08:14 AM
- And Trump winning in Novermber could give him 2 or 3 more SCOTUS picks - BuckGalaxy - 6/29/2024 1:14:17 AM
  - Show trials and a Trump DOJ - ER - 6/29/2024 1:55:02 AM

Joe, please do the best thing for America, for the world... - BuckGalaxy - 6/28/2024 3:07:14 AM
- Maybe not a good idea. - ER - 6/28/2024 1:13:27 PM
  - Committed people - BuckGalaxy - 6/28/2024 8:13:41 PM
  - If you think Joe can't win - BuckGalaxy - 6/28/2024 8:03:14 PM
- It was a rout. - ER - 6/28/2024 3:13:20 AM
  - of us. - podrock - 6/28/2024 3:51:59 AM
- Yeah, who? - podrock - 6/28/2024 3:11:19 AM

I've a liter of margaritas for the debate - podrock - 6/28/2024 12:07:28 AM
- Jon Stewart's reaction - podrock - 6/28/2024 2:00:49 PM
- Hard to pick a low point of that debate but - BuckGalaxy - 6/28/2024 6:17:57 AM
  - All he had to say was - podrock - 6/28/2024 12:52:02 PM
- Now that was the most awful thing I've ever witnessed - podrock - 6/28/2024 2:41:15 AM
  - Joe didn't have a good night - BuckGalaxy - 6/28/2024 2:46:48 AM
    - Yeah, pour me one, neat. - podrock - 6/28/2024 3:09:35 AM
- Should have bought two liters - podrock - 6/28/2024 1:56:06 AM
- I can't watch... - RL - 6/28/2024 1:01:53 AM
- I'm breaking out a bottle of scotch - BuckGalaxy - 6/28/2024 12:23:53 AM

My home state continues its march back to the bronze age - RL - 6/28/2024 2:31:50 AM
- Its 1964 all over again. - ER - 6/28/2024 1:26:14 PM

Nate Silver Gives Trump a 66% chance of winning in November. - ER - 6/27/2024 12:38:29 PM
- I think that just went up. - BuckGalaxy - 6/28/2024 3:13:16 AM
- He gave Hillary a 71% in 2016 - RL - 6/28/2024 12:51:56 AM

Sharks and batteries - BuckGalaxy - 6/11/2024 10:53:20 PM
- It gets worse... he doubles down on sharks, batteries, and snakes - RL - 6/24/2024 1:52:58 AM
  - And Trump advocated for a Gladiator type solution for migrants - RL - 6/24/2024 1:55:09 AM
    - And he joked about the Nazi ovens - RL - 6/24/2024 1:58:45 AM
      - And he keeps endorsing cannibal serial killer Hannibal Lecter - RL - 6/24/2024 2:02:29 AM
- I understand the sharks and batteries. - ER - 6/22/2024 4:10:14 PM
  - You give Demensia Don too much credit - BuckGalaxy - 6/24/2024 4:30:37 AM
    - What's really baffling... - ER - 6/24/2024 1:50:48 PM
      - Just read an article - podrock - 6/25/2024 10:57:32 PM
        
        The message is not that difficult to understand. - ER - 6/26/2024 12:33:22 AM
        
        The message is difficult for you to understand - BuckGalaxy - 6/26/2024 3:52:37 AM
        
        And you don't seem to ever understand my point. - ER - 6/26/2024 1:54:45 PM
        
        We do agree - BuckGalaxy - 6/26/2024 5:45:09 PM
        
        Adam Smith agrees with you. - podrock - 6/26/2024 4:29:34 PM

What will happen when Mecca becomes too hot to make pilgrimage to? - RL - 6/24/2024 1:41:50 AM
- Lose billions in tourist dollars? - podrock - 6/25/2024 10:41:00 PM
- If worshippers can't go there... - BuckGalaxy - 6/24/2024 6:10:06 PM
- They could air-condition the whole venue. - ER - 6/24/2024 2:51:41 AM

Oh, Canada! - ER - 6/25/2024 3:20:38 AM
- Bread and circuses? - BuckGalaxy - 6/25/2024 5:42:44 PM
  - The Tampa Bay Lightning - ER - 6/25/2024 8:05:13 PM

I'm debating whether to watch the debate... - BuckGalaxy - 6/23/2024 6:04:22 AM
- I doubt it will make any difference. - ER - 6/23/2024 9:02:00 PM

Guilty on all charges!!! - RL - 5/30/2024 9:09:03 PM
- America will get the government it deserves. - ER - 5/31/2024 2:56:42 PM
  - I disagree... - RL - 5/31/2024 11:04:38 PM
- Going to be a whole lot of dinner thrown against the walls. - podrock - 5/30/2024 10:14:54 PM
- Justice prevails! - BuckGalaxy - 5/30/2024 9:28:02 PM
  - Not possible - RL - 5/30/2024 9:34:34 PM
    - He might get a tiny amount of time for violation of the gag order... - RL - 5/30/2024 10:10:07 PM
    - Yeah I know it's a very long shot - BuckGalaxy - 5/30/2024 9:53:51 PM
    - And I doubt significant jail time is gonna happen... - RL - 5/30/2024 9:49:34 PM

Poor little guy starved to death - RL - 5/12/2024 2:32:15 AM
- Its been a hellluva week in politics in the oldest democracy on earth. - ER - 5/12/2024 3:24:35 AM
  - **BRAIN-EATING WORM 2024!!** - RL - 5/12/2024 8:14:52 PM

Why does the GOP want to kill people? - ER - 5/9/2024 1:53:27 PM
- Max Weber on steroids - BuckGalaxy - 5/10/2024 2:11:54 AM

I suspect that what Israel will do to Gaza... - RL - 10/12/2023 5:48:58 AM
- Well, the atrocities continue to mount... - RL - 4/19/2024 5:49:12 PM
- I am very surprised that there hasn't been a strike against Iran yet... - RL - 1/1/2024 7:10:17 PM
  - And there it is... - RL - 4/19/2024 5:41:33 PM
    - The Israeli response was design to de-escalate - BuckGalaxy - 4/22/2024 3:35:21 AM
      - This is not about Israel's survival... - RL - 4/22/2024 4:57:04 AM
- Wish I had been wrong - RL - 12/22/2023 5:06:00 AM
- US intelligence says Israel not responsible for hospital blast - BuckGalaxy - 10/18/2023 4:55:37 PM
  - Consensus of millitary analysts - BuckGalaxy - 10/18/2023 7:23:04 PM
    - Sounds like a lot of media organizations jumped the gun... - RL - 10/18/2023 10:09:37 PM
- Biden's visit will likely further delay the ground offensive - BuckGalaxy - 10/17/2023 6:40:29 PM
- And it begins- Israel tells 1.1 MILLION Gaza residents to evacuate IN 24 HOURS - RL - 10/13/2023 5:36:19 AM
  - 96 hours later still no ground invasion yet - BuckGalaxy - 10/16/2023 8:49:28 PM
    - I imagine that delay has more to do with the hostages - RL - 10/16/2023 10:05:02 PM
      - Maybe - BuckGalaxy - 10/16/2023 11:54:19 PM
  - What's the military strategy? - RobVG - 10/13/2023 7:26:42 PM
  - They actually said that several days ago. - BuckGalaxy - 10/13/2023 7:46:44 AM
    - Dude, CHILL! - RL - 10/13/2023 11:36:59 PM
      - We're on the same page almost entirely - BuckGalaxy - 10/14/2023 1:39:14 AM
    - Biden tells Israel not to go too far - BuckGalaxy - 10/13/2023 8:21:05 AM
      - The US followed rules of engagement and "jus in bello" - RobVG - 10/13/2023 7:39:18 PM
        
        400k - BuckGalaxy - 10/13/2023 8:20:59 PM
        
        Absolutely not the same level. - RobVG - 10/14/2023 12:37:39 AM
        
        That's no where near where I'm at - BuckGalaxy - 10/14/2023 1:46:26 AM
- Masada? - podrock - 10/13/2023 4:17:34 AM
- How do you suggest Israel respond? - BuckGalaxy - 10/12/2023 5:23:33 PM
  - One thing is absolutely clear - BuckGalaxy - 10/12/2023 5:27:54 PM

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