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My main point was, why would Reuters/Ipsos poll her if she wasn't in contention?

Maybe he can take some pointers from Team Biden. They seem to be really good at it.

I don't think that was ever Putin's intent. His initial feint toward Kiev was to convince Zelenskyy to run away to one of his luxury villas around the world. If it hadn't been for the USA and BoJo convincing Zelenskyy to stay and fight, the real estate situation would be exactly the same as it is today, with half a million fewer dead people. And the rebuilding of what's left of Ukraine would be much less extensive, and pretty far along. I'm all for loans to help Ukraine rebuild. Forgiven even, if conditions are met. But not a dime more of my money to perpetuate the killing.

Deny what? Inflation is still 2.5x what it was when Biden took office (3.5% vs 1.4%), wage growth is only 1.4x what it was (4.7% vs 3.4%), the numbers were upside down for most of Biden's term, and they're looking worse and worse with inflation being stubborn around 3.5% and wage growth decreasing since July of 2022. Are we winning yet?

As opposed to the lefty media and Dems who have been telling us for years that Biden's fine. No, really. He's fine. “Once again, behind closed doors, Joe Biden rides unicycles and juggles knives — he looks real good behind closed doors! Let me tell you that‘s what we‘ve been hearing for three-and-a-half years. These governors are now participants in the biggest cover up in American political history. The condition of Joe Biden has been hidden from us for three-and-a-half years, now these governors are complicit in it. https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/04/scott-jennings-democratic-governors-backing-biden-mental-fitness-concerns-cnn/ That's a quote from a CNN correspondent.

Even if I agree with her in this case, the fact that an unelected, unaccountable individual has that much sway over American gub'ment is rather disturbing.

70 years ago when Europe was on its knees, it made sense for the USA to carry NATO and subsidize the cost. Today, the Euros are just laughing while we subsidize their defense, 5000 miles away from our borders. While they use their money for their own socialist needs. It doesn't hurt my feelings at all that Trump demands the Euros pay their fair share. They'll pony up before they let NATO fold. That's what you call the art of the deal.

So, you're living off the nugget you made 50 years ago, insulated from the absolute mess the young people have to navigate today. That explains why you'd support politicians that live completely insulated from the mess they've created. You're in the same boat.

His big screw-up was coming out of the basement and challenging Trump to the debate.

Yeah, I quit playing dueling links. Partly because it's a rigged game with 10x as many registered Dems in journalism as registered Repubs. But mostly because if pointing someone in a direction doesn't pique their curiosity, why should I bother? I gave him plenty of information to go down the rabbit hole. Plus, the usual lefty response is that "you can't trust that source" because yet another leftist website posing as an unbiased fact checker says the source leans right and is unreliable. What they really mean is that the source isn't as far left as they are, and it often disagrees with them. Because the "fact checkers" hire from the same pool of lefty journalists.

This court didn't think so. To the tune of $700K. The floodgates are opening. Tennessee woman fired for refusing employer's COVID-19 vaccine mandate wins almost $700K https://fox17.com/news/local/woman-fired-for-refusing-bcbsts-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-awarded-almost-700k-tanja-benton-bluecross-blueshield-of-tennessee-sincerely-held-religious-belief-coronavirus-employee-directive-fired-for-not-getting-shot

I'm just the opposite. I'm a Biden detractor and I don't care at all whether Hunter goes to prison on the gun charge. It's a bit of a nuthin' burger and delays and detracts from his upcoming cases that actually may implicate the sitting president. Or maybe not. But let's play fair and get the subpoenas and the testimony in before election day...

I hope they played it back for him, so he could see just how bad he looked.

False equivalences and conspiracy theories, as usual... Where did you buy your Braille keyboard? Or are you complicit?

Lack of curiosity is not a virtue. Enjoy the nice warm, comfortable MSM bubble where they spoon feed you what they want you to believe.

If he was a Republican, he'd be in jail for pulling a fire alarm and interfering with congressional business. https://edition.cnn.com/bowman-fire-alarm-plea/index.html

If there is a letup at the border, it's because the cartels and Mexico want to give Biden an election year boost. Look up HR.2, and see who's really holding back meaningful reform. Then read the "bipartisan" joke, and report back on how many illegals they were going to allow in each year.

You're the victim of blatant misinformation. It's at least 4 months of misery each year. With 2 weeks of spring, a hot and humid summer, and 2 nice weeks of Indian Summer before it gets bone chilling cold again (if I'm allowed to say Indian...) Is it any surprise that people flee to Florida and Texas just as soon as they don't have to show up at work? I grew up in Chicago and Philadelphia (among other places) and I love Texas, since 1979. But I also loved living in Wyoming now that Gore-Tex and Thinsulate mean we can actually move when we're bundled up and warm. When I was a kid, our woolens made us look like scarecrows because we couldn't move our arms. Buffalo? No thanks.

I doubt that collecting any money was the objective. They just want to put the fear of God into anyone who protests on the other side. BLM, whose riots caused 10x as much damage and mayhem get off scot free, because they rioted "protested" on the correct side. Thaipo7 called it... Dual system of justice. Anyone who doesn't see that is either blind or complicit.

I wonder when BLM is going to be held responsible for the mostly peaceful town burnings that cost upwards of $2 Billion in damages? I'm not holding my breath. But that may change in January 2025.

I'm wondering how long before the MSM correlate the acceleration of Biden's cognitive decline with the start of the EUA's. Because some of the right wing media is already on it, like white on rice. I figure the MSM will cover it some time after the 2028 elections.

Reads like yet another DNC sponsored hit piece to keep more Dem voters from switching their vote away from Biden Michelle, to RFK Jr.

If they offered me the choice of pleading guilty and saying bad things about Trump and face a 500 baht fine, or going bankrupt just defending myself at trial, with a risk of 20 years in prison, I wish I could say I'd stand by my principles. But I'd probably plead guilty even if I wasn't. That's the way Dem lawfare works

Have you been listening to Rachel Maddow again?

Gotta wonder what's the rest of the story? I can't imagine it took him and his family/friends 5 months to scrape up $600 and enough for a ticket home. Which leads me to believe he was banged up for more than an overstay and working illegally. Kudos to him if he's actually gotten his life in order. Edit: As a cautionary tale, I'm scared straight. Doesn't sound like a good idea to get tossed into the IDC detention.