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hanimmal said:

That is a big reason I like Biden, he is one of the only politicians to wait until they were out of office and didn't have any power to trade on to make his money.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/once-the-poorest-senator-middle-class-joe-biden-has-reaped-millions-in-income-since-leaving-the-vice-presidency/2019/06/25/931458a8-938d-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html
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CCGNZ said:

Watching Nancy P as Speaker vs. McCarthy/Johnson is like a NASCAR driver vs. someone blasting around in go-carts at a family owned track off the highway.Say what you will but that lady KNOWS how to conduct business and work the room for consensus,and if she sat down w/Putin/Xi she has way to much moxy to be swayed by being buttered up w/compliments. Tell the Orange man his hair looks great and he is looking svelte and diaper and he's like shooting fish in a barrel,STRONG............as a wet noodle.

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GenericEnigma said:

Generally speaking, politicians are motivated by getting money and keeping power. With this in mind, it is my strategy to suss out good character by listening to and watching the actual candidates - not selected clips from wherever, which are parsed before being presented by a pundit who tells me what they think. Speeches are useful for this, but interviews are better.

Then I vote for the person with the most ideal character.

Since 2008, that set of vote recipients has been very lopsided in partisanship. Guess on which side I found better character overall. (I won't insult intelligence by asking about the presidency.)

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cannabineer said:

One thing that has soundly impressed me is how, when presented with necessity, the legislators of one party pulled together and held the line against the wilder subversive bills of the other.

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doublejj said:

Michelle Obama Favorite To Replace Joe Biden if He Drops Out
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Michelle Obama favorite to replace Joe Biden if he drops out

Concerns about Biden's health, strengthened by a series of recent gaffs, have triggered speculation over whether he could step down from the presidential race.

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Drop That Sound said:

Both.

Don and Joe end up working together as a badass team, side by side as both the president and vice president, uniting Americans back together even better again, for the greater good of the country. Flip a coin (or a golf\bicycling challenge) to see who gets to be pres or vice pres first, and take turns each year. With their powers combined..

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1. When in control of the Senate, demand the end of the filibuster; when not, don’t.
2. Call for the end of the Electoral College–but only if it appears to recently favor the candidate of the opposition.
3. In an election year, change any state balloting laws deemed unhelpful through administrative fiat or court order to favor your political candidate.
4. Seek to flip electors from voting in accordance with the popular vote count in their states; indict as an insurrectionist any of the opposition who dare do the same.
5. Raid the home of any opposition ex-president who removed classified files; exempt any sitting president of your party who did the same.
6. Swarm the private homes of, and then bully and intimidate any, Supreme Court officials, politicians, or citizens you oppose.
7. Appoint two special counsels: one to go after the current chief presidential opponent in an election year; the other to exempt and excuse the sitting president for the very crimes charged against his rival.
8. Lobby to remove any oppositional president through the 25th Amendment; smear any one as ageist who suggests a cognitively challenged sitting resident of your party should be subject to similar invocations of the 25th Amendment.
9. Exempt thousands of arrested rioters from charges of 120 days of arson, looting, injuring 1,500 law enforcement officers, and assault—but only if they are radical supporters of your party.
10. Excuse any demonstrator or rioter for desecrating public monuments and cemeteries or shutting down bridges and freeways, or swarming and disrupting the Capitol Rotunda—but only if they agree with you and/or are pro-Hamas. Otherwise, ensure the charged face lengthy prison sentences.
11. Try to pack the Supreme Court—but only if justices you don’t like are in a majority.
12. Seek in an election year to remove a presidential opponent off state ballots for crimes for which he has never been charged, much less convicted of.
13. First target a presidential opponent, and then change, warp, or redefine laws to convict him. Weaponized prosecutors should always indict their political opponents in jurisdictions where they are guaranteed like-minded justices and jury pools.
14. Violate the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (the prohibition of “excessive fines”) by having sympathetic judges level multimillion-dollar fines to bankrupt the opposition candidate during a presidential campaign. The more there is no victim of a crime, the higher fines should be leveled for “damages”.
15. Open the border by destroying all the protocols and executive orders of a predecessor president. Then welcome 8-million illegal aliens to “surge” into America on the premise a new constituency might support agendas that American citizens do not. Then call the nonexistent border “secure,” while blaming a predecessor president for having left it secure.
16. Have local prosecutors invent criminal acts of an opposition national presidential candidate in efforts to make it impossible for him to campaign for the presidency.
17. Use the FBI to hire out social media auditors to censor any news deemed problematic for the correct presidential candidate.
18. Hire a foreign national to concoct a smear dossier about one’s opposition political nominee. Ensure the FBI also uses and pays the foreign national to spread untruths among the media and administrative state.
19. On the eve of any major national or midterm election, ensure a president drains the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices.
20. On the eve of any major national or midterm election, ensure a president promises to cancel billions of dollars in contracted federal student loans

Livininthecreek said:

The Left has created new rules for national politics. Here are 20 some precedents they now have established for America in the future:

1. When in control of the Senate, demand the end of the filibuster; when not, don’t.
2. Call for the end of the Electoral College–but only if it appears to recently favor the candidate of the opposition.
3. In an election year, change any state balloting laws deemed unhelpful through administrative fiat or court order to favor your political candidate.
4. Seek to flip electors from voting in accordance with the popular vote count in their states; indict as an insurrectionist any of the opposition who dare do the same.
5. Raid the home of any opposition ex-president who removed classified files; exempt any sitting president of your party who did the same.
6. Swarm the private homes of, and then bully and intimidate any, Supreme Court officials, politicians, or citizens you oppose.
7. Appoint two special counsels: one to go after the current chief presidential opponent in an election year; the other to exempt and excuse the sitting president for the very crimes charged against his rival.
8. Lobby to remove any oppositional president through the 25th Amendment; smear any one as ageist who suggests a cognitively challenged sitting resident of your party should be subject to similar invocations of the 25th Amendment.
9. Exempt thousands of arrested rioters from charges of 120 days of arson, looting, injuring 1,500 law enforcement officers, and assault—but only if they are radical supporters of your party.
10. Excuse any demonstrator or rioter for desecrating public monuments and cemeteries or shutting down bridges and freeways, or swarming and disrupting the Capitol Rotunda—but only if they agree with you and/or are pro-Hamas. Otherwise, ensure the charged face lengthy prison sentences.
11. Try to pack the Supreme Court—but only if justices you don’t like are in a majority.
12. Seek in an election year to remove a presidential opponent off state ballots for crimes for which he has never been charged, much less convicted of.
13. First target a presidential opponent, and then change, warp, or redefine laws to convict him. Weaponized prosecutors should always indict their political opponents in jurisdictions where they are guaranteed like-minded justices and jury pools.
14. Violate the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (the prohibition of “excessive fines”) by having sympathetic judges level multimillion-dollar fines to bankrupt the opposition candidate during a presidential campaign. The more there is no victim of a crime, the higher fines should be leveled for “damages”.
15. Open the border by destroying all the protocols and executive orders of a predecessor president. Then welcome 8-million illegal aliens to “surge” into America on the premise a new constituency might support agendas that American citizens do not. Then call the nonexistent border “secure,” while blaming a predecessor president for having left it secure.
16. Have local prosecutors invent criminal acts of an opposition national presidential candidate in efforts to make it impossible for him to campaign for the presidency.
17. Use the FBI to hire out social media auditors to censor any news deemed problematic for the correct presidential candidate.
18. Hire a foreign national to concoct a smear dossier about one’s opposition political nominee. Ensure the FBI also uses and pays the foreign national to spread untruths among the media and administrative state.
19. On the eve of any major national or midterm election, ensure a president drains the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices.
20. On the eve of any major national or midterm election, ensure a president promises to cancel billions of dollars in contracted federal student loans

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Livininthecreek said:

The Left has created new rules for national politics. Here are 20 some precedents they now have established for America in the future:

1. When in control of the Senate, demand the end of the filibuster; when not, don’t.
2. Call for the end of the Electoral College–but only if it appears to recently favor the candidate of the opposition.
3. In an election year, change any state balloting laws deemed unhelpful through administrative fiat or court order to favor your political candidate.
4. Seek to flip electors from voting in accordance with the popular vote count in their states; indict as an insurrectionist any of the opposition who dare do the same.
5. Raid the home of any opposition ex-president who removed classified files; exempt any sitting president of your party who did the same.
6. Swarm the private homes of, and then bully and intimidate any, Supreme Court officials, politicians, or citizens you oppose.
7. Appoint two special counsels: one to go after the current chief presidential opponent in an election year; the other to exempt and excuse the sitting president for the very crimes charged against his rival.
8. Lobby to remove any oppositional president through the 25th Amendment; smear any one as ageist who suggests a cognitively challenged sitting resident of your party should be subject to similar invocations of the 25th Amendment.
9. Exempt thousands of arrested rioters from charges of 120 days of arson, looting, injuring 1,500 law enforcement officers, and assault—but only if they are radical supporters of your party.
10. Excuse any demonstrator or rioter for desecrating public monuments and cemeteries or shutting down bridges and freeways, or swarming and disrupting the Capitol Rotunda—but only if they agree with you and/or are pro-Hamas. Otherwise, ensure the charged face lengthy prison sentences.
11. Try to pack the Supreme Court—but only if justices you don’t like are in a majority.
12. Seek in an election year to remove a presidential opponent off state ballots for crimes for which he has never been charged, much less convicted of.
13. First target a presidential opponent, and then change, warp, or redefine laws to convict him. Weaponized prosecutors should always indict their political opponents in jurisdictions where they are guaranteed like-minded justices and jury pools.
14. Violate the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (the prohibition of “excessive fines”) by having sympathetic judges level multimillion-dollar fines to bankrupt the opposition candidate during a presidential campaign. The more there is no victim of a crime, the higher fines should be leveled for “damages”.
15. Open the border by destroying all the protocols and executive orders of a predecessor president. Then welcome 8-million illegal aliens to “surge” into America on the premise a new constituency might support agendas that American citizens do not. Then call the nonexistent border “secure,” while blaming a predecessor president for having left it secure.
16. Have local prosecutors invent criminal acts of an opposition national presidential candidate in efforts to make it impossible for him to campaign for the presidency.
17. Use the FBI to hire out social media auditors to censor any news deemed problematic for the correct presidential candidate.
18. Hire a foreign national to concoct a smear dossier about one’s opposition political nominee. Ensure the FBI also uses and pays the foreign national to spread untruths among the media and administrative state.
19. On the eve of any major national or midterm election, ensure a president drains the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices.
20. On the eve of any major national or midterm election, ensure a president promises to cancel billions of dollars in contracted federal student loans

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Russia’s Staggering Success In Duping GOPers And Right Wing Media

The implications of this Russian operation are staggering, especially for the willing Republicans and right-wing media stooges who were Putin’s useful idiots.

talkingpointsmemo.com