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regarding the soft support of Harris... that's conventional wisdom from the pundits. But is it true? I'm trying to determine who the voter is that's fine with Biden but not with Harris and will accept another 4 years of Trump over her. Who are these people?

Ann Coulter was right.... our only hope is to see what happens when Trump dies. I used to enjoy politics like I enjoyed sports. I could detach from my own views and get into the spirit of who was beating who, what was a good point made, what is their strategy, etc. Analysis. That's all gone now. There is no shame by our politicians. There are no electoral penalties anymore. It all comes down to winning for your side and hurting the oppositon and certain groups. I'm not both sidesing this either. Democrats by and large want to govern. Republicans do not and don't care if you tell them that. They know that 47% of the voters will still vote for them and they have a gerrymandered and EC guaranteed shot at running every branch of government and plenty of states to prevent Constitutional Amendments they don't want. We'll never ever see another Constitutional Amendment.

Everybody in the future should be a DH except Riley Greene and Meadows.

Mike Pence was in a similar situation. I bet W and Obama and Bill and Cheney and Gore have some classified docs in their stuff that they don't know about. A scrap piece of paper with a phone number on it could be classified. It's how you act after it's discovered you have them that matter. The nature of their jobs required them to have classified documents to review and study and their jobs were pretty much 24 hours a day and they would work from wherever they happened to be. They didn't drive into the office on public transit for a 9-5 office shift. By the way, does anybody actually work 9-5?

It's a catch 22 for sure. She was a great pick for VP. The only way out of this without Biden is if she can convince people she didn't want to run without it being a "They made me say this, it's not how I feel". That's a hard sell because if you say you don't want to run for President this year then you shouldn't be VP right now. AA's will definitely see it as a slight if she were not the nominee if Biden dropped out. She was good enough to court for demographics and all that but when **** got real then let's bring out the great white hope? They will stay home.

Which could be related to a stutter and verbal tic. Not a memory.

Are we getting an LBJ moment? An update on Gaza and Ukraine then at the end “by the way…. I’m not running”

9-0 and 8-1 decisions are good. Of course Trump will say it means he's innocent and didn't do an insurrection. And I have some doubts that if CO had for some reason ruled Biden ineligible for something that the ruling would be 9-0 or 8-1. Alito and Thomas, and Gorsuch probably, would come up with a reason to sustain it.

It will be 6-3 decision. I'm not telling you which way but I can see Barret/Chief/Kavanaugh siding with the libs, and I could just as easily see them siding with the other 3. But I suspect it will be the latter. No way a court with 6 conservatives will let "states rights" prevail.

this is so true

From my recollection the objections the GOP had was over embryonic stem cell research, not stem cell research in general. Not much of a distinction in my opinion as it's just a glob of cells but in their mind it is.

In all seriousness... when you are at the level the Tigers are, mediocre, it doesn't take much to swing one direction or the other. I could see them getting breaks and winning 90. I could also see them losing 90.

To follow up on that… if Romney had won in 2012 Trump would have run in 2016 as a D. Unless Romney didn’t run again.

Im re-reading a book about Hollywood in the late 60s and 70s ( after seeing many of these films for the first time since I last read it) and this passage stuck out at me and I saved it. It’s Warren Beatty

yeah I think the gaffes are already baked into it. He's always been this way, maybe it's his stutter as much as any other cognitive issues.

what I think helped put him over the top in 2020 was his empathy and connecting with people directly.

I believe what a debate can do for Biden is simply have him out there being President. He was inaugurated during covid. That restricted a lot of the ability to "be President". Use the pageantry of the office as an advantage. That's the draw of being an incumbent. Flying around in Air Force One and Marine One. RIding around in The Beast with the long caravan of security. Hearing Hail to the Chief played as he walks into the room. Yeah I know they don't do that during a debate itself but Biden needs to get out there showing that he's the President. He needs to exude the power of the office and show his competence.

Doocy has changed over the last few months....

well... American music is traced back to black men, sons of slaves probably, teaching white boys how to play the guitar on the front porch of the old country stores.... and that is where the blues birthed country music which then lead to.... everything.

Good luck sister

Was just thinking along these lines with Wayne Kramer dying. Ted Nugent had some very nice things to say about him and their history and friendship. Makes me wish Ted wasn’t the way he was because I like hearing his musical takes. Check out this article from Detroit Free Press: Ted Nugent and Wayne Kramer: An unlikely friendship, forged in Detroit soul https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2024/02/04/wayne-kramer-ted-nugent-friendship-detroit-music/72466031007/

Besides the ****ty country music has, I think, two major award for that genre so not winning a grammy won't hurt them.

A few years ago I made the decision that when I'm on the beach I am not "checking out" a woman if I can immediately tell she's under 40. Once I hit my late 40's I could not distinguish between 14 and 35. But what about if she looked like she had kids? Doesn't matter. She could be a mama with 3 young ones at the age of 19. To quote daddy bush, not gonna do it. Plus many of my friends now have kids approaching 40 and well... that's a deal breaker for me too. So if you are 40 and under, feel safe around me. I'm not ogling you.

In this case I don't think so... they are trying to figure out what they are going to say and once they get it in their head then they resume. The beginning parts are pretty slow as if they are thinking about it. It could be a symptom of the patriarchy.... women have to talk faster before they get cut off by a man in the room. So that just gets passed down as how you normally talk. My father in law would talk really fast and he said it was because he was the youngest of 10 and had to do that in order to be listened to.

according to the republicans we don't anymore. Something happened in the past week or so that made it go away.