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These Countries Have the Most Income Equality Happiness rankings follow closely, as does health care rankings, longevity, general education, trust of government, peaceful society, functioning justice system, etc. Everything else, i.e. "freedom", guns, free speech, military power, foreign influence, is just b.s.

He, of course, is not. He is merely the better of two bad options.

Just got to watch a total eclipse of the sun, from a Walmart parking lot in Vermont. Along with plenty of other people who had the same idea. No good pictures (I only had glasses, not a camera filter), so you’ll just have to trust me Wendy P.

A non-scumbag, (who just resigned), makes some choice comments about a scumbag still in office: MTN: Fmr. GOP Rep Buck Calls Greene: 'Moscow Marjorie'

No, I think his point is that corporations go to the government and say ‘give us what we want or we’ll sack X hundred/thousand people’.

What's your other hand doing?

I heard it put pretty well by someone else: You can vote for Biden in November, and then in four years have your vote counted for someone better. Or you can vote for Trump in November, and never have your vote counted again.

Well, you guys all did better than I did with recording it... But it was still cool. Wendy P.

WL wasn't exactly in the path of totality but still had 98-99% of coverage. Photo taken through solar glasses with my phone.

The system offers the incumbent another shot at the office. The hope is that without reelection on offer after term two they can make hard and unpopular decisions that benefit the nation as a whole. Also, the chance of the party in power staying in power is great. That is vastly different from it being a competence problem.

I wouldn't use the lesser of 2 evils to describe Biden. Rather to me it indicates that the dems have a competence problem in the party if someone over 80 is the best they have to offer. People age and peak, physical and cognitive decline is real not imaginary. It appears that Biden has done a good job, my challenge is "Is he really the best of the dems?" Trumps age is only irrelevant because there is a laundry list of reasons why he is a walking disaster that far outweigh age being a factor.

Drove to Austin, TX to visit our daughter and see the eclipse. We drove and saw it in Columbia, SC in '17. So cool to see it twice. The weather did cooperate, barely.

I think the Bull Moose candidate, Teddy Roosevelt, is a better choice than the Republican or Democrat offering.

Hi Keith, Re: I don't think either team has a good choice and am faced with not voting for a P at all. The best instructor I had in college was a math teacher. His position was that if had not tried your homework, you could not ask questions about it in class, later. My position is that anyone who does not vote for POTUS, should not comment on the outcome. Once I became eligible, I have never failed to vote in ANY election that I was allowed to do so. IMO it is our most important civic responsibility. Jerry Baumchen PS) I've voted for POTUS 15 times; IMO only 3-4 times were there good choices. C'est la vie.

With the help of a known Russian agent. And she has now stated that Russia is much better than the US. Those two little factoids normally set off some alarm bells.

Wrong topic? Isn't the topic "use one YouTube video as evidence that entire groups are bad?"

My memory is that you didn’t really like Trump, but felt it was more important to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House, so you voted for him. Id submit that Trump is a greater threat to how our country operates; one of the best things about the US is that we trust our succession, and that the person fills the position, not that the position is wrapped around the person. But that was threatened in 2020, and Trump has made it clear that he doesn’t intend to accept a loss this year, that he plans to pardon people who consider an invasion of the Capitol and the shenanigans that went along with it to be OK. In addition, his need for personal loyalty (rather than to the position) is very concerning. Personally, I consider this to be a significant threat to the structure of the country. Wendy P.

As an outsider it's interesting to see the polarised debate. I am not sure that I would vote for someone in their 80's. Trump is awful, but I find it hard to believe Biden is the best alternative. Overall it is a really sad indictment of the state of US politics. The US have lost all moral authority on democracy and it's going to be interesting to watch.

New episode out now! DB Cooper's Glass Slipper with Jennifer Washburn. https://thecoopervortex.podbean.com/e/db-coopers-glass-slipper-jennifer-washburn/ Enjoy!