Hanaguma

Welcome to the discussion, Dr. Freud.

Interesting that you should include this particular video. It demonstrates clearly that Joe Biden based his candidacy on a complete and utter fabrication. Trump NEVER called the supremacists and neo-nazis "very fine people", that has been debunked by myriad media outlets for years. Kind of says something about the man that he would willingly make his case to the American people based on a lie, doesn't it?

Mike, did the Bad Orange Man really injure you so deeply that you can't give him up? Really seems like some kind of love/hate relationship happening. You dislike him but you can't stop talking about him even when it is completely irrelevant.

I gotta admit, I am no Al Franken fan (at least as a politician, loved his work on SNL) but he shouldn't have been hounded from office for this. It was tasteless and crude, but in no way criminal.

...and we stray yet further from the topc to rehash yet more irrelevant tidbits from the pevious president. Trump really got to you, didn't he. Just can't resist injecting him into every discussion. If you could explain the connection between the two, I would be more than grateful.

Those are pretty funny, but more funny than sad. The current President can't even muster up sentences long enough to do so. No doubt Trump is a bombastic blowhard, but at least he can still talk. And think on his feet. Poor Joe is lost without a teleprompter. Actually, he is still lost WITH a teleprompter. No comparison whatsoever.

Considering more than HALF of Democrats don't want him to run in 2024, and very few mid-term candidates want him to visit their districts, I don't think this can be characterized as a "right wing attack". Again, nothing to do with Trump, however much you try and drag him into the discussion. Think I'll have a covfefe myself, good idea.

I'll take madness and 2% inflation over mumbling Joe and the stock market tanking any day. But this discussion isn't about the former President, is it? I am sure you can make substantive points without referring to the Bad Orange Man who continues to dominate your days and nights.

Really? I can't see that at all where I am. Biden is almost invisible on the news except brief 2 or 3 second shots as he is boarding a helicopter or standing at a podium. Nobody cares about American domestic political issues outside the US. Hell, they don't even care INSIDE the US. Those issues barely register at all with voters. In spite of the fevered dreams of the mainstream media, who make money whenever the Bad Orange Man appears in their articles/programs.

Not in play because it wasn't part of the survey. Also most Europeans and Asians don't have much access to or interest in American mainstream media so they aren't exposed to Biden's deterioration on a daily basis. One important point was that confidence in Biden was uniformly LOWER in 2022 than in 2021. That is worrying to say the least.

"People like me"? What does that mean? Something tells me that you have very little contact with "people like me". I am somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun politically, yet I don't know anyone who has a problem with gay marriage, contraception, etc. Perhaps you need to expand your social circle... Pretty weak sauce my friend.

Did you also see confused Joe being led off the stage by his wife a day ago? Quite bizarre and sad really. He carries himself very awkwardly as well, with his arms in a very stiff and unnatural posture. Jill says "you go down here" in a failed attempt to get him out of the public eye ASAP.

Also the question of, if not Biden, then who? The Democrats are right to start worrying now. The alternatives to Biden are....VP Harris? Polled at something like 1% in the 2020 primaries. Gov Newsom in Calli? Maybe Hillary will make a comeback.

One justice out of nine. That is what is worrying you?

No relevance whatsoever. As stated clearly by Justice Alito in the ruling. You and others are just being paranoid and once again trying to tack an American political issue where it does not belong.

...and your evidence of this would be.....

...and this has exactly WHAT to do with the obvious mental decline of the current President?

How about a little ultra bass, Geoff Castellucci?

Not sure who you are arguing against here TBH. I do not disagree with you, nor do any of the other posters I have read, unless I missed something.

Dont know a lot about the Texas law, it sounds ridiculous from what you are saying. I already said that what I think is reasonable would include a doctor judging whether the mother's life is in danger. Of course that means with no repercussions. Seems to me, from an outsider's view, that both sides are reacting without thinking and aren't honestly trying to reach a workable solution.

Not sure what your point is. I agreed that late term abortions are rare. So I see a reasonable compromise that would probably make both sides equally unhappy. No abortions after 15 weeks, but exceptions at any stage for rape/incest victims, or if the mother's life is in danger. This excludes the vast majority of abortions, as your stats indicate. So what are we really fighting about?

If you ask a direct question, you will get a direct answer. If you ask deliberately vague questions, you will get inaccurate answers.

Not fifteen percent, ONE POINT FIVE percent.

According to this article, they account in total for 1.5% of abortions. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/24/rape-and-incest-account-few-abortions-so-why-all-attention/1211175001/ I would call that "rare".

The American public disagrees, as do most Europeans.