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Why? Well, because as they say at the club, "she's not right".

Hillary Clinton has all of that. But she's poisoned. She was Secretary of State in wartime; she was a respected senator who did work with both sides of the aisle, etc. You're looking for a governor who's also a veteran (preferably wartime) in a state that's not just a lock for one party or the other. The Vietnam era vets are generally too old. A Pew Research study showed that only 14% of candidates for governor in 2022 were veterans (as compared with 16% of the Senate, and 21% of the House). That's way down from when nearly every politician was male and a WW2 or Korea vet. Serving has become more something that people who don't have tons of resources do more than rich people, and it takes money and connections to run for office. But Wes Moore (who I know you favored) is on that list; I'm not sure he wants it, and you have to REALLY want to be president. Wendy P. Wendy P.

Except that a variety of complimentary descriptors and points of virtue can also be used to describe Harris. Whereas for Trump it only gets worse.

Because why? Reasons?

"Installed puppet of the DNC" - we heard the same thing about Biden and Obama. Wasn't true then either. Our choices were a woman with a stupid laugh and a felon/conman. The woman respected the institutions of democracy; the con man does not. Simple choice if you care about democracy.

And somehow that made him the best choice for president?

I’ve heard that view before and it’s an interesting view. The combat leaders they actually had in Normandy and beyond (Winters/Spears) were almost universally loved and/or respected by the men… so the rush to give all the credit to the guy who was a dick is slightly strange to me. But he’s not though, is he? The mass firings have zero connection to DEI, zero connection to performance. He’s ripping acceptable staffing levels out by the roots, period. None of your vague platitudes change how shortsighted, dangerous and ultimately counterproductive and expensive that is.

Right, a Democrat or a multiple Felon conman. Tell me again how you’re not one of the most intransigently partisan people here if you think those two things are the same?

A Magic 8-Ball would be preferable to Trump. At least it isn't a vindictive bully.

If you hate liberals you voted for Trump. If you loved democracy, you voted for Harris. Simple.

A rapist? An insurrectionist? An election fraudster? A best friend of Putin? A dismantler of NATO? A destroyer of the independence of law enforcment and justice from political control? A normaliser, even legaliser of poitical corruption? A person causing indiscriminate damage to the essential organs of the federal government that will cost countless billions to fix in the short and long term? I mean, what exactly was she worse at?

Is it her party, her gender, her color, or her cackle that makes her worse? I'm asking because she's not actively vindictive, so that eliminates a whole lot of comparisons to Trump. If Trump's going to be such a fiscal conservative, how come he wasn't in his last term -- especially during the first two years when he had control of the House and the Senate. Don't forget that he didn't have a Senate minority leader whose stated goal was to block every.single.thing that was proposed. If you'll recall, there was an actual bipartisan bill to address immigration AND the budget in 2013; it wasn't pretty, but it passed the Senate, but the Republican-controlled House, of course, refused to vote on it. Just as they refused to vote on a Supreme Court justice when Scalia died in February. Sorry, but the Republican playbook of the last 25-30 years appears to be "my way or fuck you." I don't really think that's governing, it's poisoning the well. Wendy P.

The USA under Trump has shown itself to be an unreliable ally. No wonder Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, etc. are worried.

I ran across this by accident just hoping there was an archive site. But it seems the same as before the shutdown. Word will get out, maybe slowly at first, but it will spread.

Agreed. 100% We are facing a recession. Bulls in a china shop.

Yeah, not going to happen. Elon did pretty much the same thing to Twitter. What happened was he reduced spending, but he also tanked revenue so - according to Elon himself - it's still "barely breaking even". But he lost millions of users too so it's just a much smaller company in all measures (valuation, user count, expenses, revenue). So my guess is they *won't* balance the budget, but make the US a smaller, weaker country while China pushes forward and becomes the new number 1.

You think that's going to be accomplished? Massive LOL.

I'd say the side that added more debt is more responsible. Both republican and democratic presidents have presided over wars; in the long run it averages out. The one thing that does NOT average out is the republican tendency to cut taxes and increase spending.

Doesn’t take much figuring out - Putin has dazzled him with how much money they can both make mining for minerals in the land that’s been stolen from Ukraine. They’ve pretty much said this out loud multiple times.

In my lifetime which is now quite long, GOP administrations have added more to the debt than Dem ones. That included Reagan (tripled the debt) and Trump 1, both of whom railed against deficits. If you think Trump 2 will do anything different, I have a nice bridge for sale.

Right - fixing ducts costs money, and so no matter how important it is that the ducts get fixed the administration will make sure it's impossible to fix them. Let alone the on the nose analogy of accidentally firing thousands of the wrong people. Maybe if you spent less time fantasizing about helping the police kill people and more time finding out how politics works (like, what the US constitution actually says for a start) you'd be in a better position to have this conversation.

Was hospitalized for a bit (nothing major, just annoying), followed by a month sailing the South Pacific (Fiji to Tahiti with stops in between).

A couple of years ago my aunt posted on FB asking if anyone had any good BBC video recommendations. My ex being Aussie was horrified and asked my aunt if she had meant to post that publicly:) Very funny seeing the acronym have 2 very different meanings

Obviously false. Described by who? Yes. A police officer was convicted of murder for something he did while on duty - the single most difficult thing to achieve in the entire American legal system. That didn't happen because of a narrative, it happened because of what Chauvin did. "At 8:20, a witness across the street began recording a video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck, Kueng applying pressure to Floyd's torso, and Lane applying pressure to Floyd's legs, while Thao stood nearby." You were going to shove another cop out of the way so you could help? Good luck with that, let me know how it goes for you. Seems like we;ve found something you know even less about than the US Constitution.

You realise you are making the point that the MSM is not staying away from the story? It's a domestic US crime story getting global MSM coverage?

I guess you could say that. Wokism was a mass psychosis that decided that the freedom of black people was more important than the livelihood of rich plantation owners in the South. This ruinous psychosis destroyed their economy, and set those white plantation owners back decades. Wokism was a contagious mind virus that made black people think they were the equals of white people - even though the whites of the time knew that blacks were naturally shiftless. And like any virus it spread until many Americans thought the same. Wokism was a disease that drove blacks to marry whites, even though all moral white Americans at the time did not approve of the unholy, immoral mixing of the races, or the mulattos that resulted. The White Declaration of Indepedence even had a term for such a marriage - "black rape." Today wokism is a virus that teaches us that people who are black, white, male, female. straight and gay can all have the same opportunities in our society - but that sometimes that does not happen. Anti-wokism is much more comfortable, since not being awake is infinitely easier than waking up. It takes zero introspection and does not require you to consider any people who do not look, talk, act and live like you do. It requires only ignorance and fear, two drives which have never been in short supply. And it allows people of specific races to feel superior to all others. And to many people, that's a nice feeling.

The BBC is the biggest news website in the world…

Oh well, if Tesla said it, it must be true Wendy P.

Glad to see you back

Cool. By who? Racists, probably? Like how Hegseth complained that no one could know if the chairman of the joint chiefs was qualified or just black, and has now fired him and replaced him with another white guy who is explicitly, legally unqualified for the job. Someone explain to me again how DEI is standing in the way of the glorious meritocracy ‘cos I’m still just not quite getting it.

Well, I don't think Elon should be involved in politics at all and am completely opposed to anything that even closely resembles a nazi salute. I am of an age where my parents served during Korea and had great Uncles that served during WWII. Anything Nazi or Commmunist goes against the grain.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5353 Canadian’s you can do your part to try and get Elon’s citizenship revoked.