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Regardless of how you feel about the guy, all the Dems would have had to do is allow him to primary fair and square. He would have been trounced, and unable to set up a run as an Independent. Instead, the Dems forced him to go into the spoiler mode. And now, the dirty tricks... But he'll still pull votes from whoever the Dem elite decide to run.

Waited almost 30 years, until an election year. How convenient. And familiar.

Is that more or less than Brandon Johnson spends? How about per linear inch of hair? Or by subjective results? I mean, the guy's pretty ugly, even done up. https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/06/13/brandon-johnson-campaign-funds-haircuts-styling-makeup-costs-steinberg And did she use campaign money like he did? I'll bet most Chicagoans miss the Dems of their parents and grandparents. Crooked as they were, I lived in a great city as a kid, when Richard J Daley ruled the roost.

Riddle me this... Before Covid, there were 158.0 million jobs. Last count, there were 161.6 million jobs, for a total of 3.6 million added jobs, almost 100% of them going to foreign born workers. Estimates of "newcomers" from the border mess run about 10 million, give or take. Yet, you're saying unemployment is down. Other than some kind of new math (or just making crap up for election year hype), how do you square that? Enquiring minds want to know... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU02000000

You promise her the next Supreme Court appointment when one opens up. Scary times.

The truly racist thing is DEI, discriminating against whites and Asians, based on their ethnicity, or their gender. Case in point: VP Trump. I mean Harris... Biden promised to install a black woman, and he did. Had he promised to install a white guy, he'd have been hung by the short and curlies. Because.... Diversity.

You know what? Not our problem. We can't save the entire world, especially if our own economy is in tatters.

Every time I go by the Chatuchak pet market, I'm reminded of the signs around western prairie dog colonies, warning of the risk of bubonic plague.

I've had a few times where it became obvious that low audio quality put me off listening. I don't know if it was a low sampling rate, signal compression, or what. I don't claim to understand the intricacies. But the same songs sounded great on another device. (Remember when you got your first FM stereo car radio, how bad AM sounded?) Edit: Lots of YouTubes on why modern music sucks. Mostly because it's all written by the same few guys.

Yup. And just like Forrest, That's all I have to say about that.

If they don't exclude foreigners, I can just see the first few influencers decimating tourism to Thailand. "Got stopped at random while shopping and had to pee in a jar..."

How can they call for a 2nd peace summit with Russia, when they haven't had a first?

Might have been a nightmare from the Korean BBQ I ate last night, but I recall someone recently polling an HRC/Kamala ticket and it polled even better. Tell me it was just the spicy BBQ. Please!

I'm open to correction, but for the life of me, I don't ever remember gangs of foreigners protesting on the streets of Thailand and burning stuff down. (Aside from the Japanese in the '40s) Maybe they've got the right idea?

Not to worry. There's a run on BIC pens and USB chips, and NGO's are handing out voter registration cards along the path through Mexico. Along with free Biden Tees.

Did they blur the insignia on the pickup door, or is that just faded?

I'm watching it in uncurated snippets. Eventually, I'll get through it all, but I take breaks when I get that sour taste that tells me I'm going to puke in my mouth.

Thanks for that, and I apologize for being rude and getting off on the wrong foot. But YouTube is blocked here, so I found the Fox News version... https://www.foxnews.com/video/6357664139112 My quote comes from an "unapproved source": “I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President if I didn’t think she was not qualified to be president,” Looks like that may (or may not) have been accurate, the ambiguity being rather disturbing. He mumbled enough that I'm sure the official White House transcript will be interesting.

I used to pull cooked lizards out of mine in Texas. They made a sad and awful noise when they got zapped. Thai lizards must have learned to stay away from the light...

My concern is that it seems like we're only in the first few innings of a tragic game, related to the amount of free money, and sheer numbers of recipients of free money. With white and Asian, working, native born, family men getting the smelly end of the stick.

Have they banned the practice yet? Climate change and all... On a more serious note, I use the tennis racket type to kill them indoors, and the mounted bugzappers outdoors for that satisfying Zzzzt sound. But away from any doors. They attract a lot more than they kill.

But did you, really? I asked a very specific question.

I was thinking Dylan Mulvaney.

I no longer trust transcripts, especially the official ones. Speaking of the MSM and carrying water for Biden, here's an interesting story from Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle: “As a result, viewers of Fox News understood the president’s condition better than our (WaPo) audiences, which ought to be a huge wake-up call for us. Never thought I'd be reading that in a WaPo column. Suck on that, MSM. https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/11/wapo-columnist-left-wing-bias-biden-age-mental-acuity/

Interesting placement of the quotation marks... Do you have the exact quote? NYT is known for carrying Biden's water.