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    MAINSTREAM COOLER - For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.

    in Water Coolers

    Posted · Edited by Cliff Varnell

    2 hours ago, Bill Fite said:

    I think the bigger issue was Biden overall and not Biden+Debate or Biden+Age.

    Be that as it may, I specifically meant the Biden Debate issue.  On the JFK Records thread I predicted the Biden Debate story would be old news by July 11 (original sentencing date for NY election interference convictions.)

    Instead, Project 2025 was the big story.

    After today the big stories will be political violence and gun control.

    A 20 year old small town white boy registered-Republican gun nut opened fire on Trump.  Trump responded by yelling, "Fight!  Fight!  Fight!".  Isn't that the rhetoric of political violence?

    2 hours ago, Bill Fite said:

    Now, I'm afraid Project 2025 will recede farther into the background.

    It'll be back.

    MAINSTREAM COOLER - For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.

    in Water Coolers

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Bill Fite said:

    W - same here.

    I've read somewhere that someone asked Obama why he didn't do more and his response was - 'You know what happened to Dr. King'.

    The NATO war in Libya was a horrible tragedy.  Clinton claimed it as the achievement she was most proud of.  She worked pretty hard on getting Europeans on board.

    You know who wasn't on board?  Joe Biden.

    https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/joe-biden-libya-wrong-224595

    Biden: I was right about Libya

    Intervening in Libya was the wrong decision, Vice President Joe Biden said in a recent interview with Charlie Rose, suggesting that his worst fears and suspicions about what would happen once dictator Muammar Qadhafi was ousted have come to pass.

    “There are those who argue, ‘Look, we’ve had a problem — overthrowing these dictators, like Mubarak and like Qadhafi and — and like Saddam. And it’s come back and we might ask the question: ‘Would we have been better off if they’d stayed?’ Saddam, Qadhafi, Mubarak?” Rose asked in an interview aired in full on PBS Monday evening and in part on CBS Tuesday morning.

    Biden replied that he had “argued strongly” within the White House “against going ... to Libya,” a stance that put him at odds with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, now the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, whom the vice president endorsed earlier this month after she crossed the threshold of necessary delegates.

    Discussions of Israeli connections to the JFK Assassination

    in JFK Assassination Debate

    Posted · Edited by Cliff Varnell

    11 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:

    IMHO, theories like this undercut the credibility of the JFKA research community. 

    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 JFK Assassination Records Act Discussion

    in JFK Deep Politics

    Posted

    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.

    The JFK Assassination Records Act Discussion

    in JFK Deep Politics

    Posted

    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.

    The JFK Assassination Records Act Discussion

    in JFK Deep Politics

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Matt Allison said:

     

    I think the DC/NYC/LA "important" people are waiting for more polling. The upper crust need their polling...

    Meanwhile, while Cheeto-lini stays home and plays golf for the 14th straight afternoon, Biden is out smoothly running the country every day, hosting the NATO summit, and on the trail campaigning, unscripted, and doing great:

     

     

    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.”

    The JFK Assassination Records Act Discussion

    in JFK Deep Politics

    Posted

    58 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:

    To the worrywarts: Trump was already president once in the US, and nothing happened.

    Unless you count the crashing of the American economy.

    58 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:

    And Biden was already president once, and nothing happened either. 

    Unless you count the recovery of the American economy.

    The JFK Assassination Records Act Discussion

    in JFK Deep Politics

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Kirk Gallaway said:

    He's a very weak candidate.

    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.

    The JFK Assassination Records Act Discussion

    in JFK Deep Politics

    Posted

    On 6/30/2024 at 5:43 AM, W. Niederhut said:

    Cliff,

        Biden's good work as POTUS (with a few exceptions, like the JFK records blockade and Gaza) isn't really the issue right now, IMO.

        Does he look like a man who can effectively serve another four year term in a highly demanding executive job?

        Anyone who thinks so is in denial. 

    William, I stand corrected.

    Olivia Nuzzi is an excellent journalist.  Joe's gotta go.

    Harris-Shapiro '24.

    The JFK Assassination Records Act Discussion

    in JFK Deep Politics

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, Matt Allison said:

    hmm, I thought the CBS poll showed it a wash

    Screenshot_20240703-111801.png?172002135

    Reuters Ipso shows gains for Biden:

     

    Caveat: I think the polls are nonsense this year and vastly overestimate Trump's percentages.

    While no one is "excited" by Biden, Trump is universally loathed outside his cult. Never seen an American as unpopular as him in my lifetime, outside of Nixon.

    My bad. CNN.

    The JFK Assassination Records Act Discussion

    in JFK Deep Politics

    Posted

    On 7/2/2024 at 3:00 PM, Cliff Varnell said:

    The post-debate backlash against Biden appears to be fading.

    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.")

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