Cliff Varnell

Careful there, Mr. Cole. You've promoted the back-wound-short-load-at-Z190 scenario -- a theory that cannot be supported by fact. Jim DiEugenio and Pat Speer have also. When I read or hear the phrase, "undercut the credibility of the JFKA research community," those guys come to mind.

The GOP platform calls for an "Iron Dome" missile defense shield across the entire country, a massive increase in military spending. They also call for tax cuts for the rich. Top Trumpers Steve Bannon and Kash Patel promise "the biggest infrastructure project in history" -- a network of "detention centers" for undocumented immigrants, "tent cities" for the swept-up homeless, and we can be sure black sites for the lefty vermin. A gulag, Where will the money come from for all? "Reform" of Social Security and Medicare.

Ambivalence in action... https://split-ticket.org/2024/07/10/we-polled-the-nation-heres-what-we-found/ President Joe Biden trails former President Donald Trump by one point in a survey conducted by Split Ticket and Data For Progress. The poll was conducted online between July 1–3, 2024 with a sample size of N=2,067 likely voters, and was weighted to be representative of age, gender, education, race, geography, and the recalled 2020 vote.

WAPO today: “In a closed-door meeting Wednesday, some of the country’s union leaders — many of whom are strident backers of Biden — said Americans’ doubts about Biden’s ability to do the job were damaging his candidacy and repeatedly asked Biden campaign officials for their plan to defeat Trump.”

Ben, where do you get the idea Politico is "lefty" iike a Murdoch publication is "righty"? I don't think you realize the "liberal media" is a myth.

Or not. I can't think of any prior ambivalence I've had to compare with this. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/10/dems-fear-biden-fundraising-cratering-00167496 Dems fear Biden’s fundraising is ‘cratering’

Unless you count the crashing of the American economy. Unless you count the recovery of the American economy.

With the exception of one debate, when has Biden ever lost? Can you name any legislative defeats outside the Republican immigration bill? How about state and local elections for the Biden-era Democratic Party? I recently spoke to someone who'd spent a couple of weeks driving around Oklahoma, Arkansas, and North Texas. She said she didn't see a whole lot of Trump gear flying, but she did see a lot of signs indicating an infrastructure project signed off by Biden.

Donald Trump's Chances of Winning Election Suddenly Slip https://www.newsweek.com/trump-biden-election-simulations-poll-president-1922326

Dr. Niederhut posts an anti-Biden meme Ben Cole posts an anti-Trump magazine cover. Who'd of thunk it?

Or not. Bernie and AOC back Biden. Joe ain't leaving. We all best get used to it! Wtf do I know. I haven't handicapped a winner since the 2022 NBA Finals...

William, I stand corrected. Olivia Nuzzi is an excellent journalist. Joe's gotta go. Harris-Shapiro '24.

My bad. CNN.

Or not. Recent NY Times, CBS, and Wall St. Journal polls show Trump leads outside the margin of error. Over the next week or maybe two Biden needs to come across like Bryan Cranston ("I am the one who knocks.")

For someone who self-righteously decries any partisan framing of the JFK Records Act, Ben Cole sure seems fond of politicizing the JFK Records Act.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/one-three-democrats-think-biden-should-quit-race-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-07-02/ WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - One in three Democrats think U.S. President Joe Biden should end his reelection bid following last week's debate against Republican Donald Trump, but no prominent elected Democrat does any better than Biden in a hypothetical matchup against Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Tuesday. The two-day poll found that both Trump, 78, and Biden, 81, maintain the support of 40% of registered voters, suggesting that Biden has not lost ground since the debate. Election Day is Nov. 5. </q> An earlier poll showed 45% of Democrats thought Biden should drop out. The post-debate backlash against Biden appears to be fading.

Is Biden going to catch a cold again? He gave a rousing speech in North Carolina the next day, and a strong denunciation of the immunity ruling yesterday. He raised $33 million within 48 hours of the debate. An aggregate of post-debate polling shows a 2% drop -- hardly a collapse. Four factors in Biden's favor: abortion on the ballot in Nevada, Florida and probably Arizona; the GOP get-out-the-vote effort is led by rank amateurs, Lara Trump and Charlie Kirk; Biden's masterful intrusion into the global oil market should result in significant price drops at the pump this fall; Trump will become even more unhinged as he tastes victory. And the last thing we need is a Democratic Party squabbling over another nominee over the next two months. Spread the word, my brother!

Higher by orders of magnitude compared to 28 hours ago. Trump acts like he's already won and he's laying out his second term agenda -- "televised military tribunals." We need to help him spread the word. Biden caught a cold and liberal pundits wet the bed.

Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunals https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/us/politics/trump-liz-cheney-treason-jail.html “Donald Trump over the weekend escalated his vows to prosecute his political opponents, circulating posts on his social media website invoking ‘televised military tribunals’ and calling for the jailing of President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer and former Vice President Mike Pence, among other high-profile politicians,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Trump, using his account on Truth Social on Sunday, promoted two posts from other users of the site that called for the jailing of his perceived political enemies.” <quote off> The entire world is teetering!

Sounds fine to me.

Except for one debate, he's never lost. The reality is that the price of gas will drop significantly in October due to Biden's bold use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. North Carolina. With abortion on the ballot Florida is also in play. Dems have been over performing in state and local elections since the Dobbs decision two years ago. This is no longer a Presidential election. It's an election for King. Should the Democratic Party spend the next two months in pitched internecine battle over another nominee, or spend the next four months harping on the consequence of a certain Trump dictatorship? Buck up, lad.

In light of the Supreme Court's ruling today which grants the President the powers of a King, the hand-wringing over Biden's debate performance seems petty in the extreme.

Battle of big fonts? America’s Top 100 Donors Heavily Favor Trump and the Republicans https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/rich-top-100-campaign-donors-lean-trump-republican/ And if your hero Trump had been President it would have been a half million plus. Trump says Israel needs to ‘finish what they started’ and said war with Hamas is ‘taking a long time’ https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/politics/trump-israel-comments/index.html Syria/Russia: Strategy Targeted Civilian Infrastructure Unlawful Attacks on Hospitals, Schools, Markets Forced Idlib Population Out https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/15/syria/russia-strategy-targeted-civilian-infrastructure Lots of blame to go around in Syria, best you leave that alone unless you're willing to blame Putin and Assad as well. A peace deal proposed after Putin's catastrophic invasion of Ukraine was more of an invitation to surrender. Putin wanted to keep NATO at bay so his invasion added 800 miles of heavily armed Finns to the Russian border. Trump called Putin a "genius" and "savvy" for one of the biggest military blunders in history. Trump would have pulled out of NATO and left the rest of Eastern Europe to Putin's tender mercies. He may do it yet.

A lot of Republican politicians withdrew their support for Trump following the Access Hollywood tape release. 3 weeks later no one was talking about it anymore. In two weeks Trump is sentenced for 34 felonies falsifying business records in order to interfere in an election. Think people will be talking about Biden's debate performance after that?