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Reply #15 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 10:18am
 
Whatever the Dems do now will show that they and Big Media have been cynical swindlers for years.

Biden didn't just have a bad night. Biden has been like this for years. Yet they all protected and shielded him and lied about his decline. 

In other dementia care news:
Elderly Surgeon Assures Patients He’s Still Lucid Between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.


TOPEKA, KS — After several reports emerged of Dr. Don Williams showing signs of cognitive impairment, the surgeon assured his patient population that he is still reliably lucid between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

"Don't you worry," said Dr. Williams to a patient being prepped for surgery. "I'm still totally coherent about 25% of the time. I'm the man for the job."

Surprisingly, Dr. Williams' reassurances did little to quell the patient's fears. "Um, don't you have to operate before 10 a.m. sometimes?" asked the patient, Landry Smith. "Wait a minute, isn't my surgery scheduled to start at 9 a.m.?!?" cried Smith. However, Dr. Williams just laughed and walked out of the room.

A terrified Smith called for a nurse, demanding to know why Dr. Williams was still allowed to operate. "What on earth are you talking about?" replied the nurse. "Dr. Williams is at the absolute top of his game. I have worked with him every day for the last four years and he is literally the best surgeon on the planet."

"Are you nuts?" responded Smith. "Be quiet for just one second, and listen to him talk!" The nurse did as requested, and the two listened as Dr. Williams explained to a toaster that he was about to remove its gallbladder through its nose. "You honestly think he should be doing my surgery?" asked Smith.

"Of course not. He's obviously got terrible dementia," said the nurse calmly. "Crazy how I never put that together after watching him butcher patient after patient the past four years. He's got to retire immediately!"

Despite the sudden calls from nursing staff for Dr. Williams to retire due to his mental decline, he has thus far steadfastly refused. "Nothing but the Lord Almighty could make me stop operating on people," said Dr. Williams. "I know my mind and my surgical skills aren't so good anymore. Heck, I know I hallucinate in the OR and forget where I am. That's not going to stop me from cutting on people, not after all I did to claw my way to the top of the surgical department. I can still do this. They will have to pry the scalpel out of my cold, dead hands."

At publishing time, the hospital had decided to just let Dr. Williams keep butchering patients as he had brought in a lot of donations to the hospital and it would be a lot of hassle to make him quit.




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Reply #16 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 2:23pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 10:06am:
Karnal wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 12:17am:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 6th, 2024 at 3:57pm:
Lichtman's 2024 assessment for Biden so far is not to just withdraw his candidacy as, given there is no concensus on a replacement, the instability it would cause within the Democratic party would guarantee a loss.

His 'Plan B' as he calls it, if Biden cannot see off Democratic pressure for him not to run is:

“He should resign the presidency for the good of the country, that would be greatly applauded by the American people.

“Kamala Harris, much younger, no issue about her mental sharpness would become president, that would check off the incumbency key, and Biden would release all his delegates to support Harris at the convention to avoid an internal party fight, and that would also check off the contest key."



He also says that, were Biden to resign, the Dems would lose the all-important key - incumbency.

Lichtman says the opposite.

If Harris became president through Biden's resignation, the Dems would hold the incumbency key.


Incumbency describes the prez, Meister, not the party. He said Sleepy shouldn't resign for this reason in an interview.
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Reply #17 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 2:27pm
 
Frank wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 10:18am:
Whatever the Dems do now will show that they and Big Media have been cynical swindlers for years.

Biden didn't just have a bad night. Biden has been like this for years. Yet they all protected and shielded him and lied about his decline. 

In other dementia care news:
Elderly Surgeon Assures Patients He’s Still Lucid Between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.


TOPEKA, KS — After several reports emerged of Dr. Don Williams showing signs of cognitive impairment, the surgeon assured his patient population that he is still reliably lucid between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

"Don't you worry," said Dr. Williams to a patient being prepped for surgery. "I'm still totally coherent about 25% of the time. I'm the man for the job."

Surprisingly, Dr. Williams' reassurances did little to quell the patient's fears. "Um, don't you have to operate before 10 a.m. sometimes?" asked the patient, Landry Smith. "Wait a minute, isn't my surgery scheduled to start at 9 a.m.?!?" cried Smith. However, Dr. Williams just laughed and walked out of the room.

A terrified Smith called for a nurse, demanding to know why Dr. Williams was still allowed to operate. "What on earth are you talking about?" replied the nurse. "Dr. Williams is at the absolute top of his game. I have worked with him every day for the last four years and he is literally the best surgeon on the planet."

"Are you nuts?" responded Smith. "Be quiet for just one second, and listen to him talk!" The nurse did as requested, and the two listened as Dr. Williams explained to a toaster that he was about to remove its gallbladder through its nose. "You honestly think he should be doing my surgery?" asked Smith.

"Of course not. He's obviously got terrible dementia," said the nurse calmly. "Crazy how I never put that together after watching him butcher patient after patient the past four years. He's got to retire immediately!"

Despite the sudden calls from nursing staff for Dr. Williams to retire due to his mental decline, he has thus far steadfastly refused. "Nothing but the Lord Almighty could make me stop operating on people," said Dr. Williams. "I know my mind and my surgical skills aren't so good anymore. Heck, I know I hallucinate in the OR and forget where I am. That's not going to stop me from cutting on people, not after all I did to claw my way to the top of the surgical department. I can still do this. They will have to pry the scalpel out of my cold, dead hands."

At publishing time, the hospital had decided to just let Dr. Williams keep butchering patients as he had brought in a lot of donations to the hospital and it would be a lot of hassle to make him quit.




That sums Biden up very well.
He has the life of all of us in his hands.
Putin has his finger on the red button.
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Reply #18 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 3:20pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 2:23pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 10:06am:
Karnal wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 12:17am:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 6th, 2024 at 3:57pm:
Lichtman's 2024 assessment for Biden so far is not to just withdraw his candidacy as, given there is no concensus on a replacement, the instability it would cause within the Democratic party would guarantee a loss.

His 'Plan B' as he calls it, if Biden cannot see off Democratic pressure for him not to run is:

“He should resign the presidency for the good of the country, that would be greatly applauded by the American people.

“Kamala Harris, much younger, no issue about her mental sharpness would become president, that would check off the incumbency key, and Biden would release all his delegates to support Harris at the convention to avoid an internal party fight, and that would also check off the contest key."



He also says that, were Biden to resign, the Dems would lose the all-important key - incumbency.

Lichtman says the opposite.

If Harris became president through Biden's resignation, the Dems would hold the incumbency key.


Incumbency describes the prez, Meister, not the party. He said Sleepy shouldn't resign for this reason in an interview.

Harris would be the incumbent Democrat president.

Sure, Lictman believes Biden should hold his ground.

His "Plan B" if Biden relents to pressure not to run:

He should resign the presidency for the good of the country, that would be greatly applauded by the American people.

“Kamala Harris, much younger, no issue about her mental sharpness would become president, that would check off the incumbency key, and Biden would release all his delegates to support Harris at the convention to avoid an internal party fight, and that would also check off the contest key."

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Reply #19 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 3:22pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 2:27pm:
Frank wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 10:18am:
Whatever the Dems do now will show
"Are you nuts?" responded Smith. "Be quiet for just one second, and listen to him talk!" The nurse did as requested, and the two listened as Dr. Williams explained to a toaster that he was about to remove its gallbladder through its nose. "You honestly think he should be doing my surgery?" asked Smith.

"Of course not. He's obviously got terrible dementia," said the nurse calmly. "Crazy how I never put that together after watching him butcher patient after patient the past four years. He's got to retire immediately!"

Despite the sudden calls from nursing staff for Dr. Williams to retire due to his mental decline, he has thus far steadfastly refused. "Nothing but the Lord Almighty could make me stop operating on people," said Dr. Williams. "I know my mind and my surgical skills aren't so good anymore. Heck, I know I hallucinate in the OR and forget where I am. That's not going to stop me from cutting on people, not after all I did to claw my way to the top of the surgical department. I can still do this. They will have to pry the scalpel out of my cold, dead hands."

At publishing time, the hospital had decided to just let Dr. Williams keep butchering patients as he had brought in a lot of donations to the hospital and it would be a lot of hassle to make him quit.



That sums Biden up very well.
He has the life of all of us in his hands.
Putin has his finger on the red button.


Are you suggesting DL, who fawns and preens over Putin, is up to the task?

DL, who got up before the world and said all the US intelligence agencies were wrong and that Vladimir Putin was telling the truth?

DL, who refuses to call the invasion of Ukraine a war crime and who's initial response was to call it "very smart" and the act of a peacemaker?

DL, who deliberately withheld Congressional military aid to Ukraine to defend its citizens?

DL, who berated Congress to overturn the sanctions on Russia after its 2016 election interference and who, even before he became prez, had his senior campaign team meet with a Russian agent to discuss overturning the Magnitsky Act, the economic sanctions on Vlad's friends the oligarchs?

I'm sorry, Bobby, your proposal has no facts. All you can do is hurl out glib, hyperbolic slogans and dumb, photoshopped memes. You think these hide the fact that you have no truth to justify your case.

On the contrary, dear, they magnify it. Every time you post one of your hysterical one-liners, we know.

That guy's been farmed, they say. He's a complete whack job. He's had a full lobotomy, look at him.

Now now, we say, that's just Bobby the bat. He's one of us.

He's a total nutter, they say. He's telling you Trump's gonna save America from Putin, what a dickhead. Read his posts for Christ's sake, guys like this are a threat to everybody.

I know, we say, but it takes all types. That's our rich multicultural tapestry, no? Different strokes for different folks, all that.

He's trying to get a dictator into power by telling you he'll do the exact opposite of what he's already said he'd do, it's insane. This is how guys like Putin come to power in the first place - because of brainwashed dupes like this.

Yes, but we must be open and flexible in our views. I do feel...

Oh, fuck off. Being open and flexible with cunts like that gets you nowhere. They tell you a dozen lies in one rant, then chase you around for a spelling mistake. The lies, the projection, the whataboutism, the moral equivalency, it's ludicrous.

True, but...

No buts. If Bobby comes at you with the usual krap, call it what it is. Don't minimize it or excuse him. He's had a decent education for fuck's sake, he's been nurtured and cultivated and well taken care of - the best money can by. Even now he gets a pension. Bobby's the product of an affluent liberal democracy, and look at him. He's trying to cash it all in for Putin's Russia.

No no, I think he likes Trump.

Exactly. Putin's Russia.

So what should I say?

Ask him if he's ever been cheated. What's he gonna say - no? No chance of that. Not only has Bobby been farmed, he's been fingered, fucked and fisted, he knows that. Put that to him.

Oh, okay. Bobby? Ever get the feeling you've been, er...

Fisted.

Fisted?

Good, then give him the options.

Right. Oh, and Bobby, a simple yes or no will suffice.
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Reply #20 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 3:50pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 3:20pm:
Karnal wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 2:23pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 10:06am:
Karnal wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 12:17am:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 6th, 2024 at 3:57pm:
Lichtman's 2024 assessment for Biden so far is not to just withdraw his candidacy as, given there is no concensus on a replacement, the instability it would cause within the Democratic party would guarantee a loss.

His 'Plan B' as he calls it, if Biden cannot see off Democratic pressure for him not to run is:

“He should resign the presidency for the good of the country, that would be greatly applauded by the American people.

“Kamala Harris, much younger, no issue about her mental sharpness would become president, that would check off the incumbency key, and Biden would release all his delegates to support Harris at the convention to avoid an internal party fight, and that would also check off the contest key."



He also says that, were Biden to resign, the Dems would lose the all-important key - incumbency.

Lichtman says the opposite.

If Harris became president through Biden's resignation, the Dems would hold the incumbency key.


Incumbency describes the prez, Meister, not the party. He said Sleepy shouldn't resign for this reason in an interview.

Harris would be the incumbent Democrat president.

Sure, Lictman believes Biden should hold his ground.

His "Plan B" if Biden relents to pressure not to run:

He should resign the presidency for the good of the country, that would be greatly applauded by the American people.

“Kamala Harris, much younger, no issue about her mental sharpness would become president, that would check off the incumbency key, and Biden would release all his delegates to support Harris at the convention to avoid an internal party fight, and that would also check off the contest key."



She's not the incumbent. No one's going to value the incumbency of a two-month president.

There's some precedent in the case of Nixon, who resigned to avoid impeachment. This put Gerald Ford in power, but when his election happened, he'd served as prez for two years.

He could have won, but there was a definite "it's-time" factor, something the Lichtman model doesn't take into account. Also, Ford pardoned Nixon. Many voters turfed him for that alone.

I doubt many voted for Carter, they merely turfed the guy who was so close to Nixon, Watergate and the oil shocks that were prevailing at the time

Those shocks lost Ford the economy key, and on and on. But his incumbency was definitely a benefit, in as much as his proximity to Nixon was not.
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Reply #21 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 4:21pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 3:22pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 2:27pm:
Frank wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 10:18am:
Whatever the Dems do now will show
"Are you nuts?" responded Smith. "Be quiet for just one second, and listen to him talk!" The nurse did as requested, and the two listened as Dr. Williams explained to a toaster that he was about to remove its gallbladder through its nose. "You honestly think he should be doing my surgery?" asked Smith.

"Of course not. He's obviously got terrible dementia," said the nurse calmly. "Crazy how I never put that together after watching him butcher patient after patient the past four years. He's got to retire immediately!"

Despite the sudden calls from nursing staff for Dr. Williams to retire due to his mental decline, he has thus far steadfastly refused. "Nothing but the Lord Almighty could make me stop operating on people," said Dr. Williams. "I know my mind and my surgical skills aren't so good anymore. Heck, I know I hallucinate in the OR and forget where I am. That's not going to stop me from cutting on people, not after all I did to claw my way to the top of the surgical department. I can still do this. They will have to pry the scalpel out of my cold, dead hands."

At publishing time, the hospital had decided to just let Dr. Williams keep butchering patients as he had brought in a lot of donations to the hospital and it would be a lot of hassle to make him quit.



That sums Biden up very well.
He has the life of all of us in his hands.
Putin has his finger on the red button.


Are you suggesting DL, who fawns and preens over Putin, is up to the task?

DL, who got up before the world and said all the US intelligence agencies were wrong and that Vladimir Putin was telling the truth?

DL, who refuses to call the invasion of Ukraine a war crime and who's initial response was to call it "very smart" and the act of a peacemaker?

DL, who deliberately withheld Congressional military aid to Ukraine to defend its citizens?

DL, who berated Congress to overturn the sanctions on Russia after its 2016 election interference and who, even before he became prez, had his senior campaign team meet with a Russian agent to discuss overturning the Magnitsky Act, the economic sanctions on Vlad's friends the oligarchs?

I'm sorry, Bobby, your proposal has no facts. All you can do is hurl out glib, hyperbolic slogans and dumb, photoshopped memes. You think these hide the fact that you have no truth to justify your case.

On the contrary, dear, they magnify it. Every time you post one of your hysterical one-liners, we know.

That guy's been farmed, they say. He's a complete whack job. He's had a full lobotomy, look at him.

Now now, we say, that's just Bobby the bat. He's one of us.

He's a total nutter, they say. He's telling you Trump's gonna save America from Putin, what a dickhead. Read his posts for Christ's sake, guys like this are a threat to everybody.

I know, we say, but it takes all types. That's our rich multicultural tapestry, no? Different strokes for different folks, all that.

He's trying to get a dictator into power by telling you he'll do the exact opposite of what he's already said he'd do, it's insane. This is how guys like Putin come to power in the first place - because of brainwashed dupes like this.

Yes, but we must be open and flexible in our views. I do feel...

Oh, fuck off. Being open and flexible with cunts like that gets you nowhere. They tell you a dozen lies in one rant, then chase you around for a spelling mistake. The lies, the projection, the whataboutism, the moral equivalency, it's ludicrous.

True, but...

No buts. If Bobby comes at you with the usual krap, call it what it is. Don't minimize it or excuse him. He's had a decent education for fuck's sake, he's been nurtured and cultivated and well taken care of - the best money can by. Even now he gets a pension. Bobby's the product of an affluent liberal democracy, and look at him. He's trying to cash it all in for Putin's Russia.

No no, I think he likes Trump.

Exactly. Putin's Russia.

So what should I say?

Ask him if he's ever been cheated. What's he gonna say - no? No chance of that. Not only has Bobby been farmed, he's been fingered, fucked and fisted, he knows that. Put that to him.

Oh, okay. Bobby? Ever get the feeling you've been, er...

Fisted.

Fisted?

Good, then give him the options.

Right. Oh, and Bobby, a simple yes or no will suffice.



I'm sorry, Bobby paki, your proposal has no facts. All you can do is hurl out glib, hyperbolic slogans and dumb, photoshopped memes. You think these hide the fact that you have no truth to justify your case, just grimacing idiocies.

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Reply #22 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 4:30pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 3:50pm:
Those shocks lost Ford the economy key, and on and on. But his incumbency was definitely a benefit, in as much as his proximity to Nixon was not.

No doubt Ford could not shake off the ghost of Nixon and remained unforgiven for pardoning him.

Nor could he wear down the stigma of being 'only' an unelected 'caretaker president'.

He probably lost the charismatic key-12 as well - something Harris would likely not hold as well.

But, in his apology to the American people for Nixon's pardoning, Ford told them that the country needed to move on from Watergate and heal - on that the American people took his advice and moved on from the last remaining vestige of Nixon - his 'father confessor'.

Harris would not have to apologise for Biden.
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Reply #23 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 4:47pm
 
Frank wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 4:21pm:
Karnal wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 3:22pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 2:27pm:
Frank wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 10:18am:
Whatever the Dems do now will show
"Are you nuts?" responded Smith. "Be quiet for just one second, and listen to him talk!" The nurse did as requested, and the two listened as Dr. Williams explained to a toaster that he was about to remove its gallbladder through its nose. "You honestly think he should be doing my surgery?" asked Smith.

"Of course not. He's obviously got terrible dementia," said the nurse calmly. "Crazy how I never put that together after watching him butcher patient after patient the past four years. He's got to retire immediately!"

Despite the sudden calls from nursing staff for Dr. Williams to retire due to his mental decline, he has thus far steadfastly refused. "Nothing but the Lord Almighty could make me stop operating on people," said Dr. Williams. "I know my mind and my surgical skills aren't so good anymore. Heck, I know I hallucinate in the OR and forget where I am. That's not going to stop me from cutting on people, not after all I did to claw my way to the top of the surgical department. I can still do this. They will have to pry the scalpel out of my cold, dead hands."

At publishing time, the hospital had decided to just let Dr. Williams keep butchering patients as he had brought in a lot of donations to the hospital and it would be a lot of hassle to make him quit.



That sums Biden up very well.
He has the life of all of us in his hands.
Putin has his finger on the red button.


Are you suggesting DL, who fawns and preens over Putin, is up to the task?

DL, who got up before the world and said all the US intelligence agencies were wrong and that Vladimir Putin was telling the truth?

DL, who refuses to call the invasion of Ukraine a war crime and who's initial response was to call it "very smart" and the act of a peacemaker?

DL, who deliberately withheld Congressional military aid to Ukraine to defend its citizens?

DL, who berated Congress to overturn the sanctions on Russia after its 2016 election interference and who, even before he became prez, had his senior campaign team meet with a Russian agent to discuss overturning the Magnitsky Act, the economic sanctions on Vlad's friends the oligarchs?

I'm sorry, Bobby, your proposal has no facts. All you can do is hurl out glib, hyperbolic slogans and dumb, photoshopped memes. You think these hide the fact that you have no truth to justify your case.

On the contrary, dear, they magnify it. Every time you post one of your hysterical one-liners, we know.

That guy's been farmed, they say. He's a complete whack job. He's had a full lobotomy, look at him.

Now now, we say, that's just Bobby the bat. He's one of us.

He's a total nutter, they say. He's telling you Trump's gonna save America from Putin, what a dickhead. Read his posts for Christ's sake, guys like this are a threat to everybody.

I know, we say, but it takes all types. That's our rich multicultural tapestry, no? Different strokes for different folks, all that.

He's trying to get a dictator into power by telling you he'll do the exact opposite of what he's already said he'd do, it's insane. This is how guys like Putin come to power in the first place - because of brainwashed dupes like this.

Yes, but we must be open and flexible in our views. I do feel...

Oh, fuck off. Being open and flexible with cunts like that gets you nowhere. They tell you a dozen lies in one rant, then chase you around for a spelling mistake. The lies, the projection, the whataboutism, the moral equivalency, it's ludicrous.

True, but...

No buts. If Bobby comes at you with the usual krap, call it what it is. Don't minimize it or excuse him. He's had a decent education for fuck's sake, he's been nurtured and cultivated and well taken care of - the best money can by. Even now he gets a pension. Bobby's the product of an affluent liberal democracy, and look at him. He's trying to cash it all in for Putin's Russia.

No no, I think he likes Trump.

Exactly. Putin's Russia.

So what should I say?

Ask him if he's ever been cheated. What's he gonna say - no? No chance of that. Not only has Bobby been farmed, he's been fingered, fucked and fisted, he knows that. Put that to him.

Oh, okay. Bobby? Ever get the feeling you've been, er...

Fisted.

Fisted?

Good, then give him the options.

Right. Oh, and Bobby, a simple yes or no will suffice.



I'm sorry, Bobby paki, your proposal has no facts. All you can do is hurl out glib, hyperbolic slogans and dumb, photoshopped memes. You think these hide the fact that you have no truth to justify your case, just grimacing idiocies.



You see? These cunts are so dumb, they think you'll buy their own tactics projected onto you. 

Yes, I think I'm starting to realize.

Good. So give it to the old boy.

Okay. Old boy, have you ever had the feeling that you might have been a little fist...

Fisted? Not him. He's so tight it'd take a jackhammer to get it in.

Sorry, I'm confused.

Good, now you're curious. Use it. What killed the old boy off? Probably fell out of a window drunk, but who knows? Put it to him.

Ever get the feeling you've been defenestrated?
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Reply #24 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 4:54pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 4:30pm:
Karnal wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 3:50pm:
Those shocks lost Ford the economy key, and on and on. But his incumbency was definitely a benefit, in as much as his proximity to Nixon was not.

No doubt Ford could not shake off the ghost of Nixon and remained unforgiven for pardoning him.

Nor could he wear down the stigma of being 'only' an unelected 'caretaker president'.

He probably lost the charismatic key-12 as well - something Harris would likely not hold as well.

But, in his apology to the American people for Nixon's pardoning, Ford told them that the country needed to move on from Watergate and heal - on that the American people took his advice and moved on from the last remaining vestige of Nixon - his 'father confessor'.

Harris would not have to apologise for Biden.


Harris is polling worse than Biden. Put her in if Biden is impeached or dies, not by choice.

Biden has left this too late. He should have transition planned much better but he didn't, so they're stuck with him. Only Biden can make this choice, but Harris would be a disaster in an election.

He's right. They'll have forgotten this debate in a month. But the question of his age is not going away.
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Reply #25 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 5:01pm
 
Of the five unelected presidents - vice presidents who became intra-term presidents and successfully stood for election as president in their own right - only one lost: Gerald Ford.

The four winners were Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman and Lyndon B Johnson.

Harris would have that going for her as an intra-term incumbent president.

However, the four winners ascended to the presidency due to the natural death/assassination of their president.
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Reply #26 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 5:11pm
 
Karnal wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 4:54pm:
Harris is polling worse than Biden. Put her in if Biden is impeached or dies, not by choice.

Truman was an unpopular nobody in 1945 but went on to win in his own right despite all those predictions that he would lose huge.

He mocked those predictions:

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Reply #27 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 5:11pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 5:01pm:
Of the five unelected presidents - vice presidents who became intra-term presidents and successfully stood for election as president in their own right - only one lost: Gerald Ford.

The four winners were Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman and Lyndon B Johnson.

Harris would have that going for her as an intra-term incumbent president.

However, the four winners ascended to the presidency due to the natural death/assassination of their president.


Ah. Unfortunately for Karmala, that option is not open to her yet.
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Bobby. wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 2:27pm:
Putin has his finger on the red button.


Trump has his finger on Putin's prostate.

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Reply #29 - Jul 7th, 2024 at 6:21pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 7th, 2024 at 5:01pm:
Of the five unelected presidents - vice presidents who became intra-term presidents and successfully stood for election as president in their own right - only one lost: Gerald Ford.

The four winners were Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman and Lyndon B Johnson.

Harris would have that going for her as an intra-term incumbent president.

However, the four winners ascended to the presidency due to the natural death/assassination of their president.

Harris is unelectable. Even Democrats gave her only 1 percent in the primaries. She is a ridiculous diversity hire nobody. A cackling fool
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