Politics 2025

[Buster's Uncle]

At least one of those countries had the means to deliver and the possession of a biological WMD - remember the Scud attacks on Israel in 1991?

[shrugs]  I remember - and if stuff like that was reliable, effective and not-so-prone to bite the perpetrator on the butt, they could have been doing it since Victorian times...

[Buster's Uncle]

This ends up belonging here...

I've been on Medicaid for about a year-and-a-half.

Yeah; I'm pretty sure I'm screwed in the coming months -probably before my next appointment in five months- and will have to go back to the charity I'd used since I got back to America.  -It's a badly-run operation, frankly, but not that much difference in quality of care, just more bureaucratic overhead/disrespectful waste-of-my-time.

You know, this is a thing where Pig and the T-party directly hurt me, if it turns out that way - and I have to pray they don't undermine my fall-back medical charity, too, which does depend on gov'ment subsidies, partly.

[Buster's Uncle]

A few words on Biden's Brain are in order.

That crap goes back 13 years or so ago, during his first successful run for President - I said on these boards at the time that he held up his end of a debate with Bernie Sanders -another man already inarguably too old even back then, but one no one has ever accused of senility- without getting humiliated.  I ain't senile, but I doubt I could hang with Bernie in a debate.  Case closed on a mountain of loose talk everywhere at the time.  People's lack of memory in politics makes my brain want to explode - it just wasn't true, and it was, indeed, everywhere.

So maybe I'm just having observer bias on what went down last year - I'll never believe that boy after he Cried Wolf that time.  But Nancy Pelosi and that Barely Democrats crowd behind the turmoil and pushing Joe out have proven themselves collaborators and Political Idiots a million times over for about 24 years straight.  It's way past time for what's left of them to retire, joining Joe and Bakrama and the Clintons, especially Mrs. Pelosi.  I simply never saw the evidence that Joe was out of it, more, an old man who had some days better than others, as one does.



Now, Cousin 'Mala -Harris is my maternal family name, and "Claimin' Kin" is a 'Southern' thing- and what she maybe did wrong is a whole 'nother subject.  I was frequently like Fritz Mondale in 1988, asking "Where's the Beef?"...

[Green1]

A few words on Biden's Brain are in order.

That crap goes back 13 years or so ago, during his first successful run for President - I said on these boards at the time that he held up his end of a debate with Bernie Sanders -another man already inarguably too old even back then, but one no one has ever accused of senility- without getting humiliated.  I ain't senile, but I doubt I could hang with Bernie in a debate.  Case closed on a mountain of loose talk everywhere at the time.  People's lack of memory in politics makes my brain want to explode - it just wasn't true, and it was, indeed, everywhere.

So maybe I'm just having observer bias on what went down last year - I'll never believe that boy after he Cried Wolf that time.  But Nancy Pelosi and that Barely Democrats crowd behind the turmoil and pushing Joe out have proven themselves collaborators and Political Idiots a million times over for about 24 years straight.  It's way past time for what's left of them to retire, joining Joe and Bakrama and the Clintons, especially Mrs. Pelosi.  I simply never saw the evidence that Joe was out of it, more, an old man who had some days better than others, as one does.



Now, Cousin 'Mala -Harris is my maternal family name, and "Claimin' Kin" is a 'Southern' thing- and what she maybe did wrong is a whole 'nother subject.  I was frequently like Fritz Mondale in 1988, asking "Where's the Beef?"...

My take on it is this:

Biden was an experienced statesmen and well liked and probably was the only one who could unify the democrats at the time versus DJT. I mean, who else could? Warren, no one took seriously. Harris had issues but was a political compromise and everybody thogh she'd just get VP and an expanded wikipedia page then retire. And hell no if they'd let Sanders or Yang or Williamson anywhere near the presidency, They buried them.

Biden originally wanted just to send DJT to jail, endless legal battles, and retirement for things DJT legit did that were shady. Wash his hands, everyone retires. After all, DJT IS a Hollywood character actor AND a big city and luxury property landlord with mob ties. Of course, dude's banging supermodel pron stars. But Biden's condition was getting harder to hide and DJT did not just go away. Yes, an amendment lets you remove incapable presidents due to health, but that looks bad and opposing propaganda would not spin it as an elder statesman gained a bad condition and we should thank him and wish him luck but the Dems are "hiding" stuff and incompetent.

When Biden's condition was getting bad, bad they just anointed Harris without taking this into Convention or letting the people or party decide. And while Hariss WAS entitled to run by right as a sitting vice president, it was not the best choice. Even in the 20 primary, Harris was never popular. She had a reputation from her years in CA as locking people up right and left for weed in a time when weed legalization was insanely popular. Really destroyed lives. Plus the avoidance. She would not come on any show to prove her case unless it was heavily curated and certain questions that apply to the working man like housing, drug issues, medicaid for all, etc were forbidden. But she did hit high on ID POL which brings engagement, but mostly divisive rage and people were tired of it.

In effect, handing this to DJT and his alliance.

[Buster's Uncle]

My take is largely that yours is factually challenged in too many places - past my bedtime already, but I'll surely have time to get into a counternarrative tomorrow when I'm woke up good and get bored, no worry.  I'm no news/politics wonk, haven't been -out of disgust- for 25 years; maybe I'm wrong.