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Hi head, Ah, kids these days. :) Jerry Baumchen

Anyone that watched the keynote speech of the 2004 DNC knew who Obama was, and that he was someone very significant. Obama's life was interesting. Maybe Moore's has been, but I had never heard of him until this week, and still don't know anything at all about him.

I’m not sure why some people here think Harris can’t win. Biden did not win last time on a pro-Biden wave. He has never been terribly popular. He won as the anti-Trump. And he could do it again if he was not several years past his due date. Hell, Hilary even came close to beating Trump. Why do you think a D nominee must be popular to win? I see that she would just need to be not hated and be competent.

Never argue facts with MAGA republicans. They will drag you off to YouTube and beat you with ignorance and stupidity.

Hmmmm the motto of MAGA republicans.

I neither get this way of thinking or respect it, sorry to say. To say you aren't "voting against" is self chicanery; just a cheap mechanism to pretend the truth isn't the truth: you reserve the right to sit out the hard ones. Please rethink your position.

Agree but his base is dwindling at a slow rate. Most are driven by a few core principals which are aligned with Trump. As been stated many times most voters don't like either candidate. So the turnout will be determined by interest and devotion to those principals of the motivated. Given the stakes its hard to conceptualize why any voter would lose interest. But thats human nature. One editorial in the NYT today is entitled "Republicans will regret a second Trump win ". I never read it but the carnage to the party of a win relating to "2025" principals is obvious.. Many republicans have given up on the current leadership of the GOP and fallen into the camp like yourself, Jerry, Liz Cheney, et al.

What about VP Harris. We all know diversity is our greatest strength and Harris checks all the boxes. Female, Black, Asian…she is a guaranteed winner.

But, it's more about the mean per capita income of $37,000/median household income around $69,000 and their loss of purchase power for necessities.

That's us(a) in a nutshell. He doesn't need to resign, just decline the nomination.

I don’t understand the US system. I don’t see any reason for Biden to resign the presidency as he is doing a good job. If he simply declined the nomination what is it that makes Harris an automatic contender? Is it simply good manners or are there rules that mean it should be her? Not knowing much about her, it seems logical that she could be the nominee and she comes across as quite competent. I guess racism and sexism would undermine her chance of winning.

You want me to pick 1 out of the over 30,000 ones he made during his 4 year presidency? I mean there were over 500 of them on some single days. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/ Excluding the pandemic the economy grew by 2.67% under Trump (1.45% if you include the pandemic). Under Biden the economy has grown 3.4% so far. During the Trump presidency 2.7 million jobs were lost, if you exclude the pandemic Trump added 6.7 million jobs. Biden has added 15.4 million jobs. Trump added 461,000 manufacturing jobs, until the pandemic turned that into a loss of 178,000 jobs under Trump. Biden has added 773,000 manufacturing jobs. Sure Inflation has been higher under Biden than Trump, though it has been decreasing. Should note that under Trump inflation was more than 100% higher than under Obama. By the majority of objective measurements, Biden has done much better for the US economy than Trump has done. Though I am sure that Trump's infrastructure plan will finally get somewhere......lol

That is a GOOD thing for an unknown. Trump won't have as much time to come up with his usual spate of lies, and FOX News won't have time to spin up a conspiracy over a laptop or her emails.

Too late for someone too unknown. Most people won't read an email for comprehension much less a must read a book about a potential VP candidate. I'm back on the Biden train because no one has convinced me of a viable path to someone else and the clock is ticking, as ever.

Jerry, With great respect that is why I haven't been pulled fully into the Joe Must Go camp. No one, even the most fervent proponents, has been able to articulate who that might be and how it would happen. As I've said, Harris would need to bow out gracefully either by resigning as VP (and be very publicly supportive to the point of insisting it was her idea) so Biden can fill the slot with a moderate white male from the rust belt like Sherrod Brown and then resign. But that ain't happening. Harris is a close as she's ever going to get and she will be not scorned and go quietly into the night. Hence, bad as it is we need to stay with the date we brought to the party, seems to me. Oh, also, I don't think I can get comfortable with this Joe Must Go stuff.

The moment there's a tiny chance, Brent jumps in to FLEX! Yep, not insecure at all

Looks like we need to make some changes.

This is now being used on a small scale to deal with power outages. Earlier this year, a storm caused damage to a transmission line in Australia, causing a coal power plant to trip off-line. This immediately caused a blackout for 90,000 people, and the blackout was growing as the grid destabilized from the sudden loss of power. However, 16 EVs were connected via V2G chargers and automatically started feeding ~100kw of power back to stabilize the grid, preventing the outage from growing. Had there been ~100,000 EVs plugged in to the grid at the time (which would be less than 0.5% of Australia's cars) then the blackout would not have happened to begin with. https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/07/10/v2g-evs-prove-they-are-big-batteries-wheels-they-power-electricity-grid-during-blackout

Exactly. We need to see what our opinions are before we have them prematurely.