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Nicole44

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  1. Not a good start today reading from cards at NATO Summit. Tried to speak off the script. Went right back to script. I want to cry. 😭 I’ve been there with relatives. It’s sad to watch. If Dems want him out then a united damn front. No defections. Everyone on same page. It’s too fucking important. Either all together behind him or all together forcing him out. Strong arm. Remind him this can and will get ugly. The division hurts all of us. Jmo. again I’m not some political bigwig or donor. I don’t know anything. But that which cannot continue won’t.
  2. He won’t be able to keep it together. I had this dream (yes I know it will never happen) that Trump only wants to be President for a month. To get pardoned/saved and he will feign some health issue and resign a month in and it’s really the VP nominee sweepstakes that we should all be watching. Trump hates living in the WH. Does he really want to do this shit for four years? He likes rallies and stuff where people chant for him but he hates all that stuff like the actual President activities. Camp David. He thinks the actual White House is a shithole. He just wants to win and raise money for himself and get a full pardon. I should stop taking gummies before I go to bed. That was just a dream. Not gonna happen. Sigh….
  3. I know eventually Dems will be on the same page. Likely after the Repub convention. I don’t think Biden gives Dems the best chance to win the Presidency. But I’m not a pollster nor strategist. They have all said what a threat Trump’s winning is to the the country and the world. So get on the same damn page, not this dribbling leaky faucet of defections. Either have a meeting with everyone and tell them to get on board or everyone agrees Biden has to go and you form a united front of both the senate and house and tell him it’s over. He felt like he won the past two days with support of the HC and BC as well as NATO speech. it just has a frog in the boiling water feel to it. Paralyzed with stages of grief feel to it. Focus on the senate and the house races I guess. The truth is Cheeto is unpredictable and ultimately the more he talks the more he turns people off. Maybe they are banking on the Repub convention giving them so great talking points. George Clooney, Stephen King, etc…calling for Biden to step aside I’m not sure moves the needle. Maybe it does with the undecideds. George ripped him today. Saying he saw him 3 weeks ago and Biden just ain’t the same guy.
  4. I really do think it might actually help the country if the two parties were to fracture. Maybe we get better candidates. There has to be a shade of something other than just red and blue. It hasn’t worked for people like me in a long time. I have no idea what it would look like but I’d rather that than watch Biden at the Dem convention pull a Jerry McGuire and yell “Who’s coming with me?” and basically it’s the black caucus riding a dead donkey off a cliff. Or on the other side see a Repub platform that Trump will claim as brilliant! He wrote it! It’s amazing! Everyone in the history of historians will agree it is amazing! And a hale bopp comet sucks most everyone up. Except the ones in the party who made a deal with the real aliens which is why spaceforce exists and Biden expanded it. maybe we need a third party. Maybe we are better served and can hold more ppl accountable if we aren’t going to do smart things like have fucking term limits.
  5. Truth. Vote. Vote early. Election Day should be a federal holiday. I don’t know though if I’ve ever seen a campaign despite people saying they’d vote for a dead skunk over Trump, that’s ever worked where the party is saying, “it doesn’t matter who is at the top of the ticket it’s a vote against X.” It would be like committing to a church where you like the building and the congregation and everything about it but not know who the preacher is going to be or be like. Sure you want to fight Satan and your only choices are stay at home, go hang with the devil or go to this one church. I don’t know that it will draw in enough independents to beat Trump. He’s not bringing in many new voters and likely won’t after the convention but Biden is dropping voters. And the fear is people will sit on their hands. Maybe they won’t maybe the Repub convention will scare them. It’s not easy to predict bc this shit has never happened before,
  6. Thats my understanding of the Democrat bylaws for convention. But it’s like never fucking happened so….uncharted waters. speaking of reporters we need more reporting like this man. He is amazing!
  7. The delegates could change their vote. Delegates are “supposed” to honor the voters in their states. Here’s the language in the Democratic party rules for the 2024 convention: “All delegates to the National Convention pledged to a presidential candidate shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them.” if for instance it is learned that Biden has Parkinson’s or other type of neurological condition and withheld that from voters when he decided to run and was getting delegates, I would think that would release the delegates’ from voting for Biden. If they went to their voters and said if you knew X then would you have voted for him? it does appear to be trending in the direction many want in an open primary. But he could step aside. He may not. But the 3,949 pledged delegates and the some $220,000,000 are his/KH’s. That’s my understanding.
  8. No sport in drugging and drowning elderly or dementia/Alzheimer’s patients. Luring some out of town nondescript random guy away from his group takes skill. Just sayin’
  9. It’s terrible. I lost my aunt to early onset vascular dementia (genetic) last year and my grandmother to a separate kind of dementia in 2018. I’m not suggesting the President has either type of dementia. But at some point we will all have to have this conversation with a loved one. It’s heartbreaking. On a positive note they have shown with the results of a 5 year study which will be released later this summer that exercise, eating a largely plant based diet, doing cognitive exercises and being social with loved ones has shown better results in 40% of the participants (that were in that study) and may help decrease the acceleration of the disease. Which was heartening to hear. I watched Dr Sanjay Gupta’s special last night. That radical lifestyle change works better than any meds available so there is a small glimmer of hope for some patients. i think TPTB (elite or not-the powers that be) will yank Biden off the stage. The info keeps dribbling out. The WH presser today with KJP was largely contentious regarding exactly how many times the particular Parkinson/neurology specialist has come to the White House and did he see Biden all those times even if signed into to see two other people (one is the WH physician.) the most contentious exchange happened between KJP and a CBS reporter. if he does not step off the stage gracefully I fear he will be thrown off. If it is shown that a disease has been covered up (particularly from the delegates who voted for him) it will be disastrous. TPTB play hard ball. If he won’t exit gracefully they will destroy him to ensure that Trump doesn’t win and in their view destroy the country. Shitshow. It’s depressing. No one wants to see this. It’s a moment without hope. For Joe. Jmo.
  10. I think “they” are going to strong arm him out. Push an open convention. How does axios get all this scoop that appears to be coming from fairly close to Biden’s inner circle? The smart play is as you describe or if he decided to step aside and back Kamala. But now it’s spun off on its own merit. Pandora’s Box has been opened. I’ve no doubt Dems will get it together for a united front in the fall but right now it feels like a shitshow.
  11. I think @gmr548 meant that Biden was on Morning Joe or whatever this morning. I mean he could still run out to the podium in a few minutes when the WH has their presser/briefing.
  12. The WH is about to have a briefing. “They” are going to strong arm him out is how it feels like. Whoever “they” is comprised of.
  13. The news is fluid. I typical wait for MSNBC to report something. But those logs were available to the public all this time were they not? I’m depressed about all of this quite frankly.
  14. “Parkinson’s doctor made 10 White House visits, logs show“ <<This may become an even worse shit show.>> A neurologist and Parkinson’s disease specialist has made nearly a dozen visits to the White House Medical Unit, visitor logs show, raising new questions about President Biden’s fitness for office as he battles efforts to push him off the 2024 ballot. Dr. Kevin R. Cannard, a Bethesda neurologist and movement disorder specialist affiliated with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, visited the office of the White House Medical Unit ten times dating back to November 2022, the visitor logs show. The logs, last updated on July 1, show Dr. Cannard visited the White House most recently on March 28.
  15. If the Dems don’t prevail Biden’s legacy may very well be that he handed the country right back to Trump. But that story hasn’t been written. Anything can happen. I would have been shocked by Biden’s digging in if I had not heard from his biographer who was making the rounds on networks after the debate. He said no chance he steps down. And his inner circle is tight. His family WANTS him to run. If they did not he would be very conflicted. what I wonder is: will this create a legit third party? A middle of the road one? Will progressive Dems split with the moderate ones (who appear to have been in hiding like Liberals were in the 80’s and 90’s)? I don’t see anything other than Biden is running and the party will defend him and step behind him. sometimes I feel like there is this amazing mythical cabinet, that is full of these incredible candidates we will never get a chance to vote for and the powers that be open the doors showing us our wildest dreams and just pick out the two they want and when we say, “Well what about that?” And the powers that be say “nope. These are the two you get. Go vote.” ————- CNN just said records show a Parkinson’s specialist met with Biden’s physician at the White House early 2024. For what that is worth. There are things that can cause Parkinson-ism but none good for future of running the country next four years.
  16. “President Joe Biden defended his place at the top of the Democratic ticket Monday in a surprise television interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” after more lawmakers and donors came forward over the weekend with concerns about his reelection bid. “I’m not going anywhere,” Biden said in the phone interview. “I absolutely believe that I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump in 2024.” “I’m getting so frustrated by the elites in the party” calling on him to step down, the president fumed. “I don’t care what the millionaires think.” Biden insisted to hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that the concerns of his wealthy backers would not dictate his political future. “I want their support, but that’s not the reason I’m running,” Biden said. “I’m not running about what they think and what they care about. And by the way, you don’t see a whole hell of a lot of them flocking to Trump. You don’t see a whole lot of CEOs flocking to Trump.” “I’m not going to explain any more about what I should or shouldn’t do,” the president added defiantly. “I am running. I am running,” ——————- I saw the segment. Very feisty. Not quite yelling but angry tone. Had this been done the morning after the debate maybe it’s a different ballgame. I don’t know. I do know is that it appeared as though for six days (bc of the holiday) after the debate that they had no answer. Waiting on the Friday George interview which mostly didn't help him. I don’t see more people flocking to Trump. The main concern is voters dropping from Biden. Not voting. Looking elsewhere. I am not a fixer. Obviously not a political strategist but I thought after the debate the best hope was for him to take some time after the debate and announce he was stepping aside and Kamala would have the full weight of the White House behind her. And campaign in earnest for her. As her campaign floats the names of the VP candidates. Making that sort of an open process. That I felt was the best hope. the problem with Biden imo is the mental image we were left with of him in the debate. So he’s like a zoo animal now on display. Every misstep will be magnified. Every gaff and every sentence scrutinized. Is it about his inner circle + his pride? Or is it a sincere belief that no one else can beat Trump?
  17. My initial thought was (before listening to his biographer) that Biden would step aside and it would be all hands on deck with the party for Kamala and that the excitement would come from largely from the selection of her running mate. But after listening to Biden’s biographer I realized there was no way Biden would willingly step aside. as a former Republican I am keenly interested in what’s happening bc it’s historic. The idea of an open primary which now seems unlikely. I was thinking what if Trump slipped on a banana peel? And he was incapacitated (permanently)What would happen this close to a convention? Would there be an open convention? but I guess all the talk in the press and mostly private rumblings are for naught because I do not think the delegates will take their support from Biden. So it will be a typical convention I guess.
  18. From his letter (very different tone): This was a process open to anyone who wanted to run. Only three people chose to challenge me. One fared so badly that he left the primaries to run as an independent. Another attacked me for being too old and was soundly defeated. The voters of the Democratic Party have voted. They have chosen me to be the nominee of the party. Do we now just say this process didn't matter? That the voters don't have a say? I decline to do that.
  19. Biden sent a 2 page letter to the House Dems saying he is firmly committed to staying in the race until the end. Saying the one job is to beat the Orange Cheeto. since we have really not seen anything like this: if he does not step aside will the convention be uneventful? Will everyone fall behind him/the talk of an open convention or blitz primaries is a pipe dream? I would think if he doesn’t step aside everyone will fall in line behind him for the message. And for the job of beating Trump. I’m guessing that what happens. I would think the rhetoric dies down this week? Sort of a shut up and get in line type thing?
  20. It was to keep you watching with friends so you wouldn’t be able to put all the pieces together. They want you watching with friends so you won’t figure it all out. You watch alone and you’re like holy shit…the answers are all in this damn show. You watch with friends and all they care about is when Mulder and Scully are going to bang. Lol.
  21. I’m two steps ahead of that. Chess not checkers.
  22. I’ve been rewatching the X-Files. That show was amazing. Not just for its time. I’m pretty sure that @Brisketexan Could find the Rainey ripper if this were 20 years ago. He seemed the type that if someone dropped him in the middle of the desert and told him the truth was out there he’d pick up a shovel and start looking. But now he’s old and wants to live in Finland probably trying to make money as a Ted Cruz impersonator. on a serious note…allegedly the lights they are going to put up around the lake are supposed to happen in August. Meanwhile how many bodies since March of last year when they said “hey we’re doing all we can. We’re gonna put up lights and safety measures.” To be honest, if there is a serial killer maybe having a task force might be a better option. a theory is running around that if the men are drugged that quite possibly they were drugged with Gabapentin. Which was found in Riley Strain’s body (assuming he had a prescription) but it does not mix well with alcohol. Just a thought. To add to the thoughts.
  23. @Dbeasyit's all psychological. You yell homicide, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell serial killer, and we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July weekend man.
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