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I was a little nervous with that at first but now I'm just gonna call Bibi Señor Cici. Everyone has brain farts regardless of age though it does happen more later in life. He corrected himself real fast, didn't skip a beat in moving on and staying on topic, and even left the press with a big surprise (of the timing of the Hamas attack). He couldn't have done that if he didn't have his sht together. The thing with aging that isn't ever mentioned, is that even if you might have moments of forgetting a word or whatever, and in speaking that can seem or even be compounded by someone with a stutter, aging also provides improved abstract reasoning, inaccessible to younger minds who don't yet have all that experience, but beneficial to decision making of such importance.

PS, on other poster's comment on Biden's speaking, try to keep in mind that Biden always always always struggles with his lifelong stutter. It's an amazing accomplishment to have gone from stutterer to president. Granted, not as remarkable as someone else being a pathological liar and becoming president but we'll take what we can get.

In Trump U. Lawsuit Deposition, Trump Can't Remember 'World's Greatest Memory' Boast (nbcnews.com) "He cited memory lapses 59 times during the December deposition, a transcript from which was released on Wednesday." Let me illustrate that for you. "I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall" said Donald J. Trump in one single testimony. Trump said he couldn’t remember 36 times in response to special counsel Robert Mueller’s questions - MarketWatch "Trump said he couldn’t remember 36 times in response to special counsel Robert Mueller’s questions Published: April 19, 2019 at 10:06 a.m. ET In written responses under oath, the president said his memory of crucial questions was hazy." I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall I don't recall " said Donald J. Trump at another time. I'm sorry, your were saying something about someone's memory?

If less loss of life is the measure; if as much chaos, maybe a tie. Was just kidding but it does seem that way sometimes and where that'd be funded, that's the same pair of ideological pants whether one pocket Putin, another the Republican Party, etc. I don't know what will be the evolution of democracy but this certainly is a test of it. As to the trump fluffer designation, cute, yet considering the toadstool in question, yikes, ick, yikes!

Listening to the court case I kept shaking my head. That Colorado lawyer blew it. Trump's lawyer did a way better job. I'd imagine in the more professional briefs submitted by better lawyers, professors and the like, the evidence would have favored Colorado, but this hearing favored Trump. Better luck at the ballot box.

Unless his mounting legal bills interfere with their pay checks first.

Unless she's his vp pick and his plan is to become her bitch which might be his bed fantasy but unlikely his preferred public persona of being a misogynist, said not as a disrespect but as an obvious matter of fact.

I think the fright factor comes both by the power the US yields & that the US is not just the longest continually living constitutional democracy that now seems in jeopardy but also is seen by many as democracy's protectorate, particularly considering the other two biggest powers in the world are authoritarian and that we've seen other smaller countries go that way lately. So, yeah, that's scary and it magnifies the 10% (40% of 25%) crazy but still does not yet make the US a "dangerous place"; that's the job of our lack of gun safety laws. You are right that the Constitution of the United States provides for conditions qualifying candidates for presidency. I still have faith that the "justice delayed is justice denied (the people)" will assure the most important cases (14th Amend & Smith) on Trump are adjudicated before a general election, though time is becoming ever more precious. What might have become dangerous in America is that the 10% crazies and their adjunct 20% sympathizers that make up the 30% of the Republican "base" have been aided by the rest of the GOP's capitulating to them, with the traditional real conservatives abandoning (or being kicked out of) their own party. We've seen misstatements, misdirection, outright lying, even criminal behavior but we've never seen a pathological liar before which I think is also denied by the Constitution's 25th Amendment and, given today's technology not known at our founding, could be medically verified simply by getting an MRI image of Trump's brain to check for an overabundance of white matter. That alone ought disqualify because it prevents him from living in reality and thereby unable to perform the duties of president to protect and defend the country's constitution from which our laws derive. So we have on the one hand the technology (MRI brain scan) to prevent a Trump candidacy which has not even been considered while on the other hand the technology (social media) for a pathological lying con artist to bamboozle a large enough portion of the population to gain office when the electoral college was originally affected to deny that very thing but in a time when the founders could not have known of electronic social media* and even that was before the electoral college, which was supposed to be independent, was coopted by a two party system. *Hamilton's Federalist Paper 68, March 14, 1788 https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed68.asp "election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations... The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States." (bolding mine) So the very thing established by the founders to prevent the likes of a Trump has been perverted by the Republican Party to elevate such a pathological lying con man of "talents for low intrigue and the little arts" to the presidency. We defeated them last election. I place my hope there.

Millions yes but out of 332 million total population (a google search shows "2022, the total voting-aged population in the US was 255,457,000 people"). Here's a recent take on the maga portion of that by percentage https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/views-maga-movement-correspond-iowa-caucus-support-poll-finds-rcna133878 "Views of MAGA movement correspond to Iowa caucus support, poll finds... Overall, the new NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll finds a combined 40% of likely caucusgoers identifying themselves as either “Ultra MAGA” (18%) or “Regular MAGA” (22%) when asked how they view the phrase. Another 38% say they’re neutral to the MAGA movement, and 17% are anti-MAGA." So you've got a Republican Party (which isn't newly nuts as before this was their Gingrich t party nonsense, before that Nixon etc) & the GOP makes up about 25% of all voters currently* and out of that you've got 40% always trumpers. So 40% of 25% of over 255,457,000 people. Yeah, that's millions. 10s of millions. But also that's not the 230 million of the other USA voters who are not that. *https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx Republicans Independents Democrats %%% 2024 Jan 2-22 25 45 27

You are wrong to say US News in reporting Trump as among the very worst of US presidents in all of USA history is a reporting from the far left, according to your own Republican, conservative founded and run media bias checking website https://www.allsides.com/news-source/us-news-and-world-report

Perhaps I can word it more to your approval: At least the virus against democracy who has just been found to have no immunity doesn't have to register as a criminally convicted sex offender, but he has been civilly judged in a court of law as a sex offender who was also then found liable to pay $80+ million for defaming his sex offended victim that he had forcibly stuck his tiny fingers in E Jean Carroll's where the sun don't shine. Better?

The United Nations is laughing @ Trump The world is laughing @ Donald Trump Trump's former national security adviser says world leaders think he's a 'laughing fool' https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/01/31/john-bolton-trump-second-term-dictators-src-vpx.cnn But at least Trump isn't rated as the worst president in US history. US News just ranked him 2nd worst. Who's laughing now? https://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/the-worst-presidents/articles/ranking-americas-worst-presidents Here are America's Worst Presidents President U.S. News Siena College's Presidential Expert Poll (2022) C-SPAN Presidential Historians Survey (2021) Presidential Greatness Survey (2018) James Buchanan No. 1 No. 2 No. 1 No. 2 Donald Trump No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 1 Andrew Johnson No. 2 No. 1 No. 2 No. 5 Franklin Pierce No. 4 No. 5 No. 3 No. 4 William Henry Harrison No. 5 No. 6 No. 5 No. 3 Warren G. Harding No. 6 No. 4 No. 8 No. 6 John Tyler No. 7 No. 7 No. 6 No. 8 Millard Fillmore No. 8 No. 8 No. 7 No. 7 Herbert Hoover No. 9 No. 9 No. 9 No. 9 Zachary Taylor No. 10 No. 10 No. 10 No. 10

Right, because we've seen how the threat of jail prevents his misbehaving.

"...hypothetical, Nikki Haley leads Biden 47% to 42%" I'd contend that at this point there is no objectively projectable, hypothetical Haley v Biden because even if he did nothing, there'd still be a wide orange shadow cast over the 2024 election, and unless he's muzzled in solitary confinement where he belongs, does anyone think Putin's puppet won't get his MAGA Republican puppets to sabotage Nimbra (orange racist naming) aka Nimarata Nikki Randhawa (birth name)? Or do you really think he's so concerned with policy that in a Biden v Haley matchup he'd put his misogyny aside & subdue his ego having had just lost a primary to Haley to sick his MAGA on Joe?

Identifying a person's gender by any one particular body part when another more important body part counters that claim reveals less about the person's sexuality being so gender identified and more about the identifier's lack of intelligence because if you place more importance on the imagined meaning of a penis than on the physical reality of a brain, well, what can I say but... And don't use their penis either. Because while it's wonderful for you that you enjoy your physical penis so much that you think it is the measure of everyone else, for someone whose physical brain (as proven by autopsies of post and pre-op trans people) does not match the penis (or vagina) attached to them at birth, wouldn't that be like defining a guy born without legs by, what, their chair? So according to the idiots, this is not a male athlete, this is an athletic chair... Stop dehumanizing people. Because trans people are not the only people who go through life with their lower body not matching their upper body the way others think they should be matched. His lower body doesn't match what someone else might imagine to be his athleticism. And a trans person's lower body doesn't match their brain. And not even just their psychology, but their physiology, the physical make-up of their brains. Don't use your penis for a brain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky American neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is a professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University.

Citibank CEO Jamie Dimon says we've got about 10 years to get debt under better control or we might be taking the world down with us.* By that, if the US doesn't handle this right, things could get interesting late 1st term of whatever presidency follows Biden's 2nd term. Meanwhile peak COVID Q2 2020 Debt to GDP was at 133%, since then down to 120% Q3 2023. So that's what a pandemic does when 1,100,000 Americans lost their lives to this war. The ratio had gone up to about 120% for WWII when 420,000 Americans lost their lives to that war. Then the ratio went from 120 i think 1945 or so down to 20 or 40something% (feel free to check my ballpark numbers/dates) 1970s, so it sounds to me that this is still quite fixable and I'm guessing it was inevitable to keep not just the US but the world from falling into covid chaos now. Meanwhile, by all the numbers aggregated, I don't know how anyone could say that Biden and his administration haven't steered a prosperous course for America. By the economic data available, he absolutely deserves a 2nd term to carefully (as it is not a cakewalk) continue building upon & strengthening this path. Now picture if Orange were to raise as he says he will a 10% tariff on all imported goods? Good luck maintaining even a comfy lower cost expat living under that. https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/trumps-proposed-10-percent-tariff-considering-the-impact/ Conclusion Former President Trump’s 10 percent tariff proposal would have a substantially negative impact on the U.S. economy. * https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jamie-dimon-says-washington-faces-115018135.html ...Dimon added, saying: "It is a cliff. We see the cliff. It's about 10 years out."

Through most of life I nearly always had at least one very good friend who was a Republican, including that my last partner of 10 years (RIP) was a pre-maga Republican (I imagine he'd sadly be a Republican without a party today), but now I not only have no close friends who are Republican but I even purposely distanced myself from some old friends, who were conservative Republicans but became radicalized orange, in the hopes that they'd come to their senses & that those relationships could be revived. I have other old friends (these are from my childhood) who tried maintaining those relationships and continuously tell me of their upsetting encounters. We had all enjoyed up to fifty year-long relationships (many of us were in kindergarten together) before those were destroyed by MAGA. To be clear, this is damage the Republicans did to the very fabric--neighbors getting along with neighbors--of this melting pot, of this great nation. They destroy human rights long established in law just as they destroy families of friends. Kamala Harris fighting against the MAGA-packed SCOTUS decimation of the very precedent they lyingly testified to honor is by no means an example of a radical left agenda. Here are her politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Kamala_Harris Harris was described by The New York Times as a pragmatic moderate, with policy positions that broadly mirror those of Biden. However, the non-partisan GovTrack rated Harris as the most liberal U.S. Senator, prompting debate over her position in center-left and left-wing politics. Despite this, left-wing activists have criticised Harris on numerous occasions for her past actions as a prosecutor, which have been called “right-wing”. So absolutely liberal but basically, the far right thinks she's too far left and the far left thinks she's too far right. How surprising! As to the polarization of politics in general, here is a Pew Poll from 2022 on political polarization showing that Congress overall has moved more conservative over the last recent years. First though, here's Pew's take on my own vanishing (vanished, yikes!) political position which I view as the ballast of this ship, dangerous to sail without: "As Democrats have grown more liberal over time and Republicans much more conservative, the “middle” – where moderate-to-liberal Republicans could sometimes find common ground with (my) moderate-to-conservative Democrats on contentious issues – has vanished." https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/

"He shouldn't be within 100 Miles from the White House" Sooooo, the closest Federal Penitentiary is 150 miles away? Probably Biden was just being polite.

"...the White House Medical Unit's pharmacy operations during previous administrations, including the improper distribution of controlled substances and care provided to ineligible individuals..." Huh. I wonder what was their first clue?

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear." ~~saying My mentor of decades no more selected me than Cohen selected Trump. Rather, I decided who I was comfortable with in life, who aligned with my thinking, just like we all do, just like Orange did. Just like the Republican Party did. My great mentor in life was a Menninger's Fellow, who prior to being awarded by Karl Menninger himself, before becoming a psychiatrist, was a psychologist and before that an MD and before that a teacher and before that a freedom fighter imprisoned into solitary confinement by Perón. Just as the orange sex abuser selected a mentor after his own character. Nobody made Trump the way he is but him. No one made you the way you are but you. No one made me the way I am but me. "a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"

Here's the question people don't get that they should ask themselves before voting. Would someone do a bunch of bad things to have the opportunity to do good things? Did Trump sexually abuse Carroll, then defame his rape victim, to have the opportunity to give her $83.3 million? Or does it make more sense that maybe the Orange Sex Offender did a few good things for his maga who control what once was the Republican Party to give himself the opportunity to do a whole bunch of bad things to the United States of America? And then there's the $300 or so million the state of NY is looking for with respect to the Trump fraud case. Good luck finding a bondsman to appeal that one too.

Yeah, I get what you're saying. It's absolutely shocking that it wasn't at least 50% believable that Orange Sex Offender was being truthful in the case against him for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, testifying that she's “not my type” and then identifying "that's Marla, that's my wife", the person who is his type, while pointing to a picture of E. Jean Carroll. How the randomly picked jury of his peers--a whole different set of people from the American public than the recent jury who also found against him--didn't give him the preponderance of believability for his outright lying is absolute mystery. Nor does you statement that "$2 Million for the alleged rape ... A smack in the face of every woman" gain the preponderance of believability of any sincerity even in the face of your problem with a victim bringing a sexual offender to civil justice.

Besides that your math is not precise, your bigger problem seems to be your confusion as there is no "alleged rape" (your words) involved. Rather, a jury of his peers found as a matter of fact (NOT found as a matter of allegation) that in 1996 at Bergdorf Goodman, the twice impeached, Maga Republican, 1-term Xpresident Donald J Trump who's facing 91 other criminal charges including 44 federal & 47 state felonies violently slammed E. Jean Carroll against a dressing room wall, pulled down her tights and sexually forced himself on her*. The $83.3 million judgement against The Orange Rapist was not just for "mean words". It was the jury of Trump's peers awarding punitive damages for his defamations against the GOP rapists' victim to try and get him to stop from continually defaming and defaming and defaming and defaming and defaming and defaming her over and over again. Perhaps if Trump kept raping her and Trump kept raping her and Trump kept raping her and Trump kept raping her and Trump kept raping her and Trump kept raping her over and over again, she'd have gotten more money for that too. Problem solved. * https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db "Trump slammed the door, pinned her against a wall, planted his mouth on hers, yanked her tights down and raped her as she tried to break away."

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/birth-control-ban-alliance-defending-freedom-rcna119675 The right’s war on birth control is already starting A new conservative incrementalism wants to erode access to birth control and lay the groundwork for a future ban. ...a conservative Christian litigation group with a string of Supreme Court wins and a $104 million dollar budget in 2022. Alan Sears, a long-term leader of the group, told the New Yorker of his hopes that one day, Americans would “say the birth control pill is a mistake.”