scoobdog

I can think of one reason why the venue might not have been properly secured. Trump has been increasingly relying on public venues, often on very short notice, because of his horrid reputation of stiffing the bill. No modern president would ever appear in some of the places Trump has had a rally because they’re outdoors, in public spaces that are not designed for large gatherings. Add the fact that Trump usually ignores his security team when choosing where and when to appear and you have recipe for disaster.

It’s a conspiracy!

I’m just here to see what the latest on the false flag op is…. Because we all know that some random dude that is on record as being a registered Republican who somehow gave to an unrelated Dem action committee and is now conveniently dead after one of the worst assassination attempts I’ve ever seen is totally legit.

Oh I know she’s an antisemite. She’s just being a bigot at the wrong time. Supposed to keep the Jew hatred under wraps until the election is over. Now someone is going to have to do a little false flag op to get the heat off. Lol.

I’m slow… but why would she be so vocally anti Israeli if she’s supposed to be Trump’s future DEI side piece? Is it some kind of stupid false flag to get conservatives to rally for Netanyahu?

Was she directly hired by Baldwin? I kind of think that would have been a more important point in his prosecution.

It was overreach from the beginning. This should have been handled in civil court where Baldwin’s role as a producer could be litigated, and he does have civil liability for not maintaining a safe workplace.

That’s between me and the Ghosty in my dreams.

How do you wish him a Happy Sunday? Because I do it in my own special way.

When you all going to invite me to the ghostier group chat?

I clicked it. Who else needs to? Maybe @[classic swim] will click it.

Getting in a vehicle collision is no fucking joke. I'm glad your're ok.

I think there’s enough evidence to suggest he’s probably not going to physically hold up for four more years, and now is the time to address it by getting Kamala out there.

I'm just going to post this here from the other thread: You don't have to read it again, but it definitely had me looking for the PSP traits the doctors in the article mention, particularly the one about his eye movement and his vocalization. Jury's still out after just this news conference.

I get that, and you're not wrong. I really feel like it's easy to overlook a lot of the workshopping these young local politicians are doing, because the dysfunction and an absence of tangible gains wears on patience. The current progressive movement is in its infancy at a time when its platform centers on increasingly urgent issues; it's why an otherwise caretaker Biden administration has outsized emotions attached to it. We really shouldn't be feeling excited about the prospect of four more years of stalemate, just hopeful that we've bought enough time to see results in cities like New York and Los Angeles that can be carried to the national level.

I don’t know if it’s grim, but there’s a reason there aren’t any “dream” candidates. The superstars of the progressive movement are working at the munincipal / district and, occasionally, state level in states that don’t have a major metropolitan region. The issues that are most important to Democrats are regionally located, even if they’re more or less universal, because those issues interconnect at the local level.

This isn't a usual campaign, though. He's up against an equally suspect old man who hasn't run anything close to a coherent campaign.

That's the general consensus. I voted her into the Senate, and I don't even know much about her as a politician other than there was purportedly an unofficial agreement between her an Newsome about staying out of each other's lane when he was looking at his national prospects when running for governor. True or not, the implication is that the party was trying to boost her national prospects early on.

What about Kamala Harris doesn't work for you? In all likelihood she'd be the candidate if Biden drops out anyways because there are no other candidates with a national profile that could possibly step in.

Happy Birthday Former Pac12 Conference Mate

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