scoobdog

I don't think that's r.... ... Eh, close enough.

And then they made out in front of Shaggy and Scooby.

Shut up, Scoob2 (But seriously, I bestow this upon you as sign of my deepest respect.)

The reality is that all of this discussion about whether or not Biden is fit to be running really has to be dealt with at least a month before the convention. The more I think about it, the more it occurs to me that most of these questions about his mental fitness are just a proxy for questions about the basic malaise that has surrounded his presidency from almost the beginning. That's not to suggest that concerns about his longevity are not valid, just that all this talk about reporters ignoring his health is generally misplaced and misleading. To this point, we haven't seen any evidence that he's actually ill or infirmed, and his obvious age has been a known quantity from the very beginning with the various anecdotes about him resurfacing only because the very same questions most people were asking when Biden was first elected are also resurfacing. What we did see was a failed stress test with that debate that exposed all of the issues we expected they would show, particularly the fact that Biden is still fighting his stutter, he's an old man that isn't well suited for the fast pace of an angry, bruising debate (which is notably easier when you're a bald face liar), and that he's never been the polished dynamo that people expect after a ground breaking President Obama. This general lack of Obama-like presence is the root of his unpopularity. A lot has been made about the fact that Biden isn't trusted with the economy even though the economy has been solidly stable throughout his presidency, and that comes from a belief that Joe Biden, as good and honorable a man as he is, isn't going to take charge in a situation where people expect him to. That's never been his MO, and it's not in the DNA of truly great negotiators, all of whom excel at that ability to make otherwise dominant voices in a negotiation listen to each other. I would argue that this has always made Biden a bad fit for the presidency, yet it was really the reason most people elected him in the first place - he was going to unify government not by dominating it in an authoritarian way but but by forcing the many factions to listen when things were dire. It got us through at least two potential government shutdowns, which is just about as far as we can get negotiating with an irrational opponent. That skill probably also won't be enough to win him a second term, at least in the absence of a truly monstrous opponent. All of this is to say that all this discussion about his health is smoke over a valid discussion of whether or not he's the right personality to take us into a second term. I don't necessarily believe we need someone who's a fighter on par with Trump to compete, but we most certainly need someone who can be unflinching in the face of the abuse, which Biden was definitively not. Kamala Harris deserves a shot at the presidency by being in-waiting throughout this first term, and she's more than qualified as a politician. I don't know if she has that presidential quality, and nobody can know until she's put through the same gauntlet Biden is going through. We're running out of time to get her and any other potential candidate out there to do that as a viable alternate to Biden at the top of the ticket.

It's even part of a bribery scandal. Wow.I

Shut up, Scoob.

You are on a roll.

That seems a bit dramatic. What are you basing this “biased” opinion on?

Parkinson’s isn’t just a movement disorder. People with the disease also suffer psychological symptoms, Robin Williams being a notable example. That being said, there is no evidence Biden is experiencing symptoms of Parkinson’s. At his most recent physical he tested negative for it.

Good, man

So this is a delay tactic?

GMan doesn't worship the hurricane, the hurricane worships him.

I've met at least one Beryl irl. It's actually a gemstone -an aquamarine is one particular form of beryl (and why the name appears in Sailor Moon) - so it's a name you would give to someone precious to you. As such and as is generally the case with the naming convention for destructive storms, it's rather ironic that a name meant to impart endearment is being used to describe a something so apathetically deadly.

Happy Birthday!

If you had grammed it, that squirrel wouldn’t have died in vein.

The worst part is it isn’t even idiots and kids that are doing it, though there are plenty of them too. It’s the dude in the $1mil house that’s holding a pool party in back. He probably spent more on his illegal fireworks than he would have going to the high school band’s fireworks stand on the corner.

They’re legal in my city…. And no one uses the legal safe and sane fireworks. They just wheel out the cardboard barrels of death, scaring the shit out of every animal in a mile radius.

It’s kind of funny. SoCal Edison has a long running ad campaign where friendly squirrels traipse around the south land reminding somewhat bemused residents not to do stupid shit like walking across the lawn with a hissing power line downed on it, letting a mylar balloon fly up to a transformer, and (everyone’s favorite) putting a tree trimmer too close to wires. They’re sickeningly cute, with their hipster bow ties. Presumably, they’re the ideal spokesmascots because everyone sees those little shits running around, miraculously avoiding divine retribution as the jump from power line to power line. Apparently Ohio squirrels aren’t being paid enough by AEP, so they’re resorting to TikTok challenges. Ghosty rolls over thinking it was high time those little fuckers found out.

Had to be better than the cats fighting over squirrel jerky.

Welcome to the NHK!

That’s cold, man.

Cause he got blowed up?

Did you bury the poor little guy?

Tsar too classy for fucking Kelsey Grammer.

Dude, you should still be playing quarters.