Luke

These people are genuinely delusional about the level of threat this middling country thousands of miles and two continents away actually poses

MOOOOOOOOOM THE ENEMY IS VOTING AGAIN

this website is in a froth about him lately. And you’re 100% right. I think he’s gonna win though. If we wanted someone else worth a damn they shouldn’t have put up a 77 year old

superpowers led like this don’t remain superpowers for long.

There are many reasons to impose age (not term!) limits on elected positions.

Senility is obv #1.

But near the top? Ensure that they will likely live long enough to be forced to see the long-run costs of dumb, dangerous actions.

And reduce any panicked desire to secure “a legacy.”

our country is killing people by the dozen and I look around and everything is just…relatively normal. and it makes me feel sick. we’re not doing enough

all their beliefs are both wrong and ontologically evil

I know it’s kind of just a subtext, but it should be stated: the Republican Party is one of the most demonic and destructive political formations in this century and arguably in modern human history

Iran: a young, increasingly secular quasi-democracy with a top heavy religious fundamentalist government that is facing increasing pressure for reform

Israel: a radicalizing garrison state with no opposition or reformist movement to speak of

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

you know personally i find it's quite funny that this suddenly becomes an acceptable view to hold when the guy doing it is One of Your Own and not a Ukrainian.

oh never mind you’re a Zionist. I get it, sorry.

see my other comment but yeah you’re 100% correct

Well no disagreement there. Fuck the donors.

I think sometimes well meaning people like you want to fight with other people of your political persuasion because there are no right wingers or centrists on here. Like I said, you’re just fighting with ghosts.

Shouldn’t he have dropped out earlier to give her more time? Or not run at all, then?

Why do you think people wanted him gone, exactly?

if he stayed in*

you’re jousting with ghosts but yes i’m glad he dropped out because if he said it in the Republicans would have like 65 senate seats. You look me in the eyes and tell me you think he would have done better than Kamala. Really? Do you really?

right? not like there isn’t a contrast!

it’s amazing and fucking infuriating that trump didn’t get tarred with the senile stuff when his brain is violently and visibly melting in front of us

the age thing was a problem in that in provided the donors their casus belli, so to speak. I know you know this, man! That was their excuse at the time!

Yeah you’re absolutely correct that we’re stuck mostly with hypotheticals. Probably I shouldn’t have engaged on this point at all. I’m anti-Platner like the rest of you

I mean there’s ample reporting on how Biden’s age affected his presidency, should you be inclined to read it. I saw my grandfather going through the *exact* same thing, also. That stuff isn’t a joke. It matters.

Yeah I hear that argument, and I was sympathetic to both cases. Even if the age thing hadn’t decisively killed his candidacy, there seems to be massive voter discontent with our older leaders generally. my sense is Biden’s administration was the best of my lifetime, but they couldn’t make the case.

we know it was a liability because Nancy and Chuck and Obama convinced him to drop out because he was down 5 points on Kamala. But you’re absolutely right on the first point. Would have been a good idea!

do you guys just not either read polls or talk to people?

We don’t fundamentally disagree! I would have voted for Biden’s corpse!

man i went out of my way to be concessive to your core point and you’re gonna hit me with the QT for saying having decrepit candidates is a major problem?

I hear you and you’re 1000% right about Platner but Biden really was too fucking old, and being unable to message or make key decisions fucked us way, way more than people complaining about age. Whatever you or I may think, most people were infuriated at Biden running again!

Trump is a budding tyrant and threat to democracy at home but all his foreign policy actions are part of a selfless campaign to advance the torch of human liberty

The Big E confronts Horus while Sanguinius has a bit of a lay down. Warhammer 40K. It’s all big armour and fiery swords.

The Big E: My son, you have betrayed me, your brothers, and our people.

Horus: Should we really be talking about this? THE DOW IS OVER 50,000.