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who is this different, younger candidate who they want to take on Trump -- because Biden has it all over Candidate ?

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https://whitecatgrove.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/do-not-live-half-a-life-on-trauma-politics-and-why-this-country-has-lost-its-damn-mind/

"Joe Biden is a deeply competent, accomplished man – and someone who surrounds himself with similarly accomplished, competent people. He has a speech impediment – a stutter – that makes him a nightmare in public speaking engagements,
... And what is the media talking about? “Joe is too old. Joe should be replaced.” – even though Biden has been doing the job and replacement guarantees that the opposition will win, putting a dictator in power."...

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which new candidate, and how long before they are so imperfectly no good?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/07/05/nato-summit-biden-russia-ukraine-europe-defense-security/

This #NATO Summit Is a Big Win for #Biden
The alliance’s resurgence since #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine is a signature achievement.
By Michael McFaul

..."That NATO can also celebrate its powerful resurgence since the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a signature achievement of U.S. President Joe Biden. Under his leadership, the alliance has expanded to include two well-armed, strategically savvy new members, Finland and Sweden. On Biden’s watch,. "...

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I see all these arguments why Biden should not be the nominee he currently is, but where are the well-stated, cogent arguments for the person we would all be much happier to elect? Does Trump really need to run unopposed?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thomas-jefferson-disagrees-with-john-roberts-about-presidential-immunity

Thomas #Jefferson Disagrees with John #Roberts About #Presidential #Immunity
By Josh Marshall
July 4, 2024

..."You can’t read any part of the discussions of the Constitutional Convention, the discussions leading up to it or the debates over it without seeing that the idea that the President would be immune from the criminal law over his conduct in office would have struck these people as simply absurd. But Jefferson himself "...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSdVkrT1sSs

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the debate was a media gameshow -- it was not a debate; it was not people running for a serious office making serious points -- it was an embarrassment to all involved

I couldn't watch past the first few minutes as I realized just what a farce it was

https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraine-situation-report-north-korea-may-send-forces-to-occupied-territories

#Ukraine Situation Report: North Korea May Send Forces To #Occupied Territories
Even sending hordes of laborers, let alone troops, to Ukraine would mark a new phase in #NorthKorea's mutual aid relationship with #Russia.
HOWARD ALTMAN
POSTED ON JUN 26, 2024

..."The agreement calls for Pyongyang to send construction and engineering forces to Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine for rebuilding work. The ."...

https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-putin-visit-north-korea-june-18-19-2024-06-17/

#Putin to visit #NorthKorea for first time in 24 years
By Guy Faulconbridge and Josh Smith

..."MOSCOW/SEOUL, June 17 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea on Tuesday and Wednesday for the first time in 24 years, the two countries said, underscoring Moscow's burgeoning partnership with the nuclear-armed state since the invasion of Ukraine.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un extended an invitation to Putin during a visit to Russia's Far East ...

https://pressnewsagency.org/china-should-pay-for-propping-russias-ukraine-war-nato-chief-bbc-news/

#China should pay for propping #Russia’s #Ukraine #war – #Nato chief – BBC News

..."His comments come as Russia shows no sign of easing its war against Ukraine.

A peace summit held in Switzerland at the weekend saw dozens of nations commit to supporting Kyiv, but Russia called it a waste of time and said it would only agree to peace t....

So easy, entertaining, to complain.
Far too lazy to take on the menial work
day by day,
responsibilities of real leadership.
We don’t really want to be free,
to be decent, to be realistic, to be what
we claim to want to be.
So easy to play our habitual games,
ride neurochemical highs, believe
flattering lies. Letting our lives,
your lives, all life unravel, run out of
disguises, numbed from marination
in pain.

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so prisoners have guns now?

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yet Hunter's case had already been working out a plea deal in which he pled guilty -- and how is that dealt with in a criminal trial?

Terrorists by definition commit acts of terror. The point is to make terrorism condemned and rare by making mutual respect the norm.

Every wave of immigrants to the US gets castigated, put down as dirty evil job stealers. (Well, maybe except for that first wave back in the creation of the colonies where the immigrants did attempt to annihilate the natives – maybe that’s why we have this deep psychological fear of immigrants?)

Fighting to survive, responding to threats with aggressive action, does not jump to wars of convenience or war at all. Of course the living will violently DEFEND themselves from perceived attack. We think through enough to build weapons, strategies, armies. We could, with a better will, strategize for peace. Thinking, communicating beings can develop more useful strategies for dispute negotiations. That is once we get over this silly notion that armed conflict is honorable, or inevitable.

Everyone can be as successful as they want, if they define success as the stretch they get from reaching for personal goals.

It can be argued that more equitable distribution of access to resources is both more democratic as the majority of people can vote with their dollars for the kinds of goods and services we want, and better for economic growth and the optimal functioning of market economy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-is-running-out-of-time-to-achieve-breakthrough-in-ukraine/ar-BB1nQDhl?ocid=BingNewsSerp

#Putin Is Running Out of Time to Achieve Breakthrough in #Ukraine

..."For months, Russia’s army has made only limited gains on the battlefield against Ukrainian troops starved of weapons and ammunition. That’s a growing challenge for President Vladimir Putin as his milit..."