jerrymahoney

Sure like these -- but i don't care about breakfast. I just wanted to join the ranks of cereal topic starters.

Well most days I start my my 4 AM with brewed coffee and granola cereal. Just like some serial topic starters start every morning with a new topic.

So now I can join the ranks of cereal topic starters.

As noted in the Washington Post story above, the persons behind the new law that allowed the disclosure of the 2006 grand jury testimony including Gov. Ron DeSantis are Republicans.

Judge releases Epstein grand jury records from criminal case in Florida The records from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2006 criminal case show how prosecutors raised doubts about the credibility of teenage victims recruited by the wealthy financier. Updated July 1, 2024 at 8:46 p.m. EDT|Published July 1, 2024 at 4:23 p.m. EDT Judge Luis Delgado ordered the records released on the day a new law signed by (Republican) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took effect permitting grand jury records in the 2006 case to be made public. Grand jury files are usually kept secret. State Rep. Peggy Gossett-Seidman (R) who co-sponsored the bill to allow the records to be released, noted that two victims took their own lives in recent years. “This debacle should never again be allowed to occur in our court system,” she said. “Law school professors throughout the country have lectured on this case as an example of miscarriage of justice and abuse of our system.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/01/jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-records/

When I said 'physical' I really meant the non-political but you're point is taken.

As I linked before: and before Biden officially declared his candidacy: Updated March 6, 2023 The Democrats’ SOS Candidate Keeps His Options Open Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois has maintained his political organization, built a progressive record and is open about his ambitions. For now, he says, they don’t include the White House. The billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune may be seen by some Democrats as the “in case of emergency break glass” candidate, one of the few prominent politicians who could stand up a White House run at a moment’s notice. Although President Biden has said he intends to mount a campaign, that has not eased Democrats’ obvious worry: the famously dilatory Hamlet on the Potomac might decide not to run for re-election at 81, and worry could turn to panic. “Look, we have only one president at a time,” said Bob Reiter, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor and an ally of the governor. “But one of the things I watched when he became governor was the way he scooped up political and policy talent as he was taking office. His ability to put together a team and put them in the right spot was and still is really impressive.”

There may have been others but I remember this one from a Washington Post columnist not an Editorial: Opinion President Biden should not run again in 2024 By David Ignatius Columnist September 12, 2023 at 7:16 p.m. EDT Joe Biden launched his candidacy for president in 2019 with the words “we are in the battle for the soul of this nation.” He was right. And though it wasn’t obvious at first to many Democrats, he was the best person to wage that fight. He was a genial but also shrewd campaigner for the restoration of what legislators call “regular order.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/12/biden-trump-election-step-aside/

You are talking about a sitting first term President and the results of 2022 mid-terms were positive. Still better than if all this dust-up hadn't happened until September after the convention. Personally I have taken a lot of flack on here for saying -- particularly with Trumps criminal and civil cases -- do not underestimate this guy. No one is above the law but some are just better at jerking it around.

CNN does not carry the same weight as the NYT. But in 1948, even the NYT endorsed the Republican Dewey against then President Truman:

Not CNN. The NY Times. To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race June 28, 2024

No doubt silicone From HitcHcock's North by Northwest (1959): Roger Thornhill: How do we know it's not a fake? It looks like a fake. Bidder: Well, one thing we know. You're no fake. You are a genuine idiot.

I think the sheer physicality of it is that people -- rightly or wrongly -- do not question Trump's ability to last 4 years in office but they are now doing so with President Biden.

I don't know all the details just that it will not be pretty if Biden digs in his heels.

Maybe it gets put that way because, as of now, Biden would have the committed delegates to win the nomination first round at the Chicago convention. As of now, the rules are that only he can release the committed delegates. Again, as of now.

Well gee I never saw that one coming.

Some have called Trump's performance "a fire-hose of lies". While not proven, some say that those who watched the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate on television thought Kennedy won; while those who listened only on the radio thought Nixon won. A detailed analysis of Trump's 90 minute performance takes a lot of involvement while seeing Biden's performance, unfortunately, does not.

Again so that is water under the bridge. What do they do now?

Yes. A prodigious set of knockers.

I think a lot of people after the strong 2022 election showing were willing to go along. But whether they chose to overlook the physical then, that's where it is now.

Maybe so. But sometimes it just takes a tipping point.

So the best thing about this debate happening in June is that the editorial staffs of 3 left-leaning big city newspapers -- The NY Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution -- have all said on record that Biden would best be serving the Party and the Nation by withdrawing his nomination. Now instead of in September.

The best thing about the first Biden-Trump debate is that it happened in June and not September

Judge Delays Trump’s Sentencing Until Sept. 18 After Immunity Claim Donald J. Trump’s lawyers want to argue that a Supreme Court decision giving presidents immunity for official acts should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star. July 2, 2024 Updated 4:54 p.m. ET The judge in Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal case delayed his sentencing until Sept. 18 to weigh whether a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling might imperil the former president’s conviction, the judge said Tuesday in a letter to prosecutors and defense lawyers. The judge, Juan M. Merchan, may ultimately find no basis to overturn the jury’s verdict, but the delay was a surprising turn of events in a case that had led to the first conviction of an American president. With the election on the horizon, the sentencing might be the only moment of criminal accountability for the twice-impeached and four-time-indicted former president whose other cases are mired in delay. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/nyregion/trump-sentencing-hush-money-trial.html

From The Manchurian Candidate 1962 version: Iselin: [to her husband] I keep telling you not to think! You're very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon', just simply isn't one of them.