This says that Ricchetti, Biden's aide, wrote and posted the letter.There was no speech and no press conference. People working on Biden's campaign had no pre-warning.Biden allegedly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democrat candidate for the presidency.Let's remember that Harris, of Asian/Indian decent but playing black, is a former California prosecutor who failed in 2020 to get any votes in the primaries. Biden selected her as his vice because she was a woman of color not because she is a person fit for the job.What does it say about a democracy when some obscure party functionaries and billionaire donors contradict the will of the primary voters and decide against another presidency for Joe Biden?What does it say about a democracy when similar powers install a new candidate who is by no means qualified and has never received any votes?Steve Ricchetti, who’s been with Biden since his days in the Senate, drove to see the president at his house on the Delaware shore on Friday.
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In addition to presenting new concerns from lawmakers and updates on a fundraising operation that had slowed considerably, they carried the campaign’s own polls, which came back this week and showed his path to victory in November was gone ...
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The only other people with Biden in the residence when he arose Sunday were first lady Jill Biden and two other trusted aides: deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini and assistant to the first lady Anthony Bernal. At 1:45 p.m., he notified a somewhat larger group of close aides that he had decided the night before to end his quest for another term, reading his letter and thanking them for their service. A minute later, before any other campaign and White House staffers could be notified, he posted the historic letter from his campaign account on the social media site X.
This says that Ricchetti, Biden's aide, wrote and posted the letter.There was no speech and no press conference. People working on Biden's campaign had no pre-warning.Biden allegedly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democrat candidate for the presidency.Let's remember that Harris, of Asian/Indian decent but playing black, is a former California prosecutor who failed in 2020 to get any votes in the primaries. Biden selected her as his vice because she was a woman of color not because she is a person fit for the job.What does it say about a democracy when some obscure party functionaries and billionaire donors contradict the will of the primary voters and decide against another presidency for Joe Biden?What does it say about a democracy when similar powers install a new candidate who is by no means qualified and has never received any votes?Steve Ricchetti, who’s been with Biden since his days in the Senate, drove to see the president at his house on the Delaware shore on Friday.
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In addition to presenting new concerns from lawmakers and updates on a fundraising operation that had slowed considerably, they carried the campaign’s own polls, which came back this week and showed his path to victory in November was gone ...
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The only other people with Biden in the residence when he arose Sunday were first lady Jill Biden and two other trusted aides: deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini and assistant to the first lady Anthony Bernal. At 1:45 p.m., he notified a somewhat larger group of close aides that he had decided the night before to end his quest for another term, reading his letter and thanking them for their service. A minute later, before any other campaign and White House staffers could be notified, he posted the historic letter from his campaign account on the social media site X.
It's not my problem that you can't or won't accept the explanation provided... my point still stands that your interpretation on the author's grammatical intent with use of a dash, while valid, isn't the only option in this scenario.Blackvegetable » 26 Jul 2024, 5:59 am » wrote: ↑ No, Country.
You haven't explained the function of the dash in your scenario.
Because you aren't just a coward, you're also an imbecile.
I don't believe that capitalism is responsible for America's success. I believe that technology is. And I believe that technology flows from individual liberty, and from individualism itself, which is an inherited trait but also a learned cultural trait that we got from the savages who are our cultural forebears as much as are Europeans.LowIQTrash » 26 Jul 2024, 7:31 pm » wrote: ↑
If I had to play Devils Advocate that's exactly what I would argue - that "Capitalism" has been so successful that many people can AFFORD to be structurally unemployed and yet still not starve to death.![]()
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Your fears are not aligned with reality .....maineman » 28 Jul 2024, 11:04 am » wrote: ↑ I asked you, and you obviously can't come up with an answer.
I would suggest that he's going to make the act of voting obsolete. Brits don't need to vote for THEIR King, do they?
He clearly wants 1/21/25 to be a coronation rather than an inauguration.
"AN" apologist for terrorism?Punch » 31 Jul 2024, 1:45 pm » wrote: ↑
We have an apologist for terrorism in Congress. Hard to believe.
Tlaib ally mourns assassination of top Hamas leader: 'His martyrdom is not in vain' (msn.com)
You think differently?
Here ya go, unmanned spaced station. Some math for you, using an actual case history.maineman » 01 Aug 2024, 7:22 pm » wrote: ↑ how many abortions are there every year?
how many school girls are molested by boys wearing dresses in girls rooms in schools? How many girls don't get scholarships because transgender boys take them from them?
those numbers are literally of different orders of magnitude.
US Sanctions are a finite and rapidly diminishing commodity. Each time we apply them, they become less effective.Zeets2 » 07 Aug 2024, 1:26 pm » wrote: ↑ No, I don't.
I'd foresee Biden throwing tens of billions of dollars at them just like he's doing with Ukraine, in what would be an equally lost cause and a wasteful effort. I can't imagine Trump would throw them a penny. But the sanctions he'd put on China would cost them billions, while at the same time bringing millions of jobs back here. And many businesses will be happy to return here if they got the new tax cuts Trump has promised, as opposed to the higher business taxes that Kamala would charge them, on top of the revocation of the Trump tax cuts they've already said they'd put back on everyone here.
Taiwan isn't any more of our business than Ukraine is, and I'm actually shocked that China hasn't invaded them yet while we still have a demented feeble president, although they still have several months left to do so. I believe they look at Trump as a wild card, and are unsure about what he would do if he held the reigns when they decide to invade. Right now, while this idiot is throwing hundreds of billions at the losing cause in Ukraine and while we've taken a stronger position in defending Israel as that war is rapidly expanding, it would appear to me that this would be the optimum time to take Taiwan if they choose. And while I wouldn't be as apathetic as you seem to be if they do so, I wouldn't be eager to defend them either if China did so. If it happens over the next 6 months, Trump might throw some sanctions at them and condemn them for doing so, but I don't see him doing much more than that, and I'm fine with that.Cannonpointer » 07 Aug 2024, 10:38 am » wrote: ↑ Okay. Fair enough. Chyna wants to make friends with Americans they can use to peddle influence.
That makes sense. They're adopting our M.O.
One of the things I like about Trump is that I believe he would have us mind our own business.
What Chyna decides to do about Taiwan in Chyna's business. It is sovereign Chinese territory. It belongs to Chyna. It is not an independent nation. It has no membership in the UN or any of its subcommittees, because it is not a country. The status quo under American law and treaty is that Chyna has sovereign jurisdiction over Taiwan.
I would query you, who told you the relationship between Chyna and Taiwan is any of our business?
@maineman will explain to you that someone ELSE made the "misstatement," and Walz "regrets it."*Huey » 08 Aug 2024, 10:57 am » wrote: ↑ That is true. He never went to the Sergeant Major Academy and the promotion he accepted required two more years of service. He was demoted to E-8, Master Sergeant.
This is from his governor web page:
After 24 years in the Army National Guard, Command Sergeant Major Walz retired from the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion in 2005. Tim won his first election to the United States House of Representatives in 2006 and was re-elected for another five terms serving Minnesota’s First Congressional District in Southern Minnesota.
https://mn.gov/governor/about-gov/timwalz/
Russia is not communist. If anything, they are restoring the Tsardom / Monarchy / Holy Russian Empire.