Kirk Gallaway

What? this Stevenson memo? To be clear, Jim Di has not at all conclusively proved Britain had any role at all in replacing Wallace. in 1944. The U.S.was in the driver's seat. Britain was in debt to the U.S. for becoming the critical piece in the turning of WW2. And both FDR and Wallace were anti colonialist. It was all domestic U.S. It was the Dem party bosses that were concerned about Wallace splitting off the Southern wing of the party , so they put in a Missourian , Truman. ***** Cliff: Where did the buck stop? He got tricked by WASP elite types. Same thing with the Bay of Pigs. The buck stopped with JFK -- and the hero worship is over the top. I agree with Cliff. Is JFK ever going to stop being characterized here as an innocent victim being betrayed by all of his appointments and everybody else around him? Then we hear endlessly that JFK surrounded himself with the ivy league "best and the brightest"? But FDR never had these problems, his cabinet was largely a grass roots of people throughout the country. Including Wallace who graduated from Iowa State university and whose first job was working for his family's farm Journal, and then he started a hybrid corn company.

Trump as a private citizen is not required to release his medical records, so you can bet he won't. But in fairness, How can Trump really know what hit him? Groubert for 2 hours on this Ben? Get a life or migrate back!

Gil, Your first post raised more questions than it answered so I very much I appreciate your efforts in spelling out your beliefs. I subscribe to a lot of them, but not with near your inner certainty. Well that's unfortunate. Hopefully you won't think my questions are hateful.ned in 1963? Except it was almost nonexistent Gil, This myth regrettably has been perpetuated by a number of JFKA authors. JFK was not at all controversial and didn't have a hundredth of the negative ratings of Trump. There was some newfound resistance to JFK in the south when they heard JFK's civil rights stand as JFK won the south in 1960.* Outside of that, resistance was isolated to relative handful of right wing ideologues. That's why the assassination was such a shock! There's really no comparison between JFK and Trump. If all the elites don't like Trump, how do you explain all of his donations? IMO, You've got the whole nature of the power game wrong. The elites can back one or both candidates. For example, After the Trump assassination attempt the stock market sold off tech, and alternative energy stocks and started buying healthcare stocks, because they sense that Biden's $35 insulin and regulatory attempts toward the sector were now waning. (Gil, is that because Trump is so anti elitist?) They also bought crypto currencies because Trump reversed himself and now likes Crypto. They bought the banks because they know there will be less regulation. it sounds like you're still caught up in the 60's MIC deal. Defense is only 3% of the GDP! But if you were to get a Mc Govern type or Bernie Sanders who was really interested in winding down the U.S. war machine, do you really the CIA would assassinate him? The answer is no, because their election would reflect a sea change in American politics, and because the interests they represent will just reallocate their resources when Defense goes out of favor. They'd be much more concerned about Sander's taxation policies, and have loved Trump's! Ok, give me current concrete examples. *This fomented a complete party realignment which is again happening today!

Can't agree with you there Tom, i think there's a lot of personality, particularly after Biden. The question is, is there too much personality?, and is it a personality that can stick with people, or will they get tired of the optimistic smiles. I think it's different in that the Democrats now have a opponent they genuinely fear more than say Mitt Romney. Yes that's the issue. But what she's doing now first is shoring up her base. She was talking to a women's group that's ecstatic that they now have a women candidate. i just saw her today and It's a very direct and substantive policy criticism of Trump. She's addressing the teacher's union who also have a lot of women. I suspect this will mostly continue as sort of a coronation to the convention where she'll pick a more centrist VP, and go after the unaligned after the convention. In the meantime, she'll be able to gauge in polls what advantage she has gained by being new, novel and younger than Biden or Trump. IMO, When Biden endorsed her, any other potential candidates probably felt that they'd be seen as ambitious troublemakers if they immediately put their hat in the ring. Harris first said she's going to earn it, and then she went out to the delegates, and in one day got the nomination. So I guess she did!? Not at all the process I wanted but I think the unique personality you mention that she has to develop has to be as a hard nosed prosecutor of Trump.

List of Democrats not to be in attendance for Netanyahu. https://www.newsweek.com/list-democrats-skipping-netanyahus-speech-1929619

I apologize, but If we're going to make some allegations here. We have to deal with some of the current politics. The intelligence agencies are much more regulated, much more bureaucratic than they were 60 years ago, and has been on a stiff rather narrow course., which doesn't mean there's never overreach. The biggest danger to that in the short term would be Trump getting rid of all the "administrative state" and employing his ideological cronies and sycophants, unless you think his judgment reigns Supreme and you weren't here for his first Presidency. They are the people who ignored Trump when he said he wanted to bomb Iran! The current situation has so many checks and balances, lots of abuses 60 years ago are not as likely to happen. The same is true of "Operation mockingbird," Who on the left or right doesn't think that the MSM has been unfair to their cause? I personally think the big issue was at the beginning was the MSM fascination with the Trump ratings that diverted them for subjecting Trump to any real scrutiny. But that's just me! Let me go further, Someone answer this: Is Merrick Garland really the "deep state"? We've had 4 years to prosecute the Election fraud, false slates of electors and the 1/6 riots, the smoking gun tape recording of a phone call, where Trump is not too ingeniously asking the Georgia Attorney General to find him 11,720 votes! For 3 years we've known now that had Trump stole classified files and refused to give them back. This is a case many Republicans at the time, said was the strongest case against him. But after that, we now have knowledge he was intentionally hiding them and a Trump appointed judge throws it out! Where is thy deep state? All they've been able to accomplish in 4 years is a conviction on the most minor charges of the 92 counts. Then to even the score, they reverse and bring charges and convict Hunter Biden on a gun charge. Boy if you guys think the deep state is deep, you'd be 100 feet under water if Bobby or I was running the show. You'd really have something to whine about! * the most real issue as far the deep state in modern times is surveillance and individual privacy rights, which is a problem brought on by the fact that we just can't keep up with the changes in technology fast enough..

Yes, Bill, California is a huge Green state. But there's an underlying trend that people are being silent about. The big money corporate state has now determined that the U.S. is going to have to seriously beef up their energy needs to accompany new huge AI data centers and crypto mining, so who suffers? The environment! This whole short term thinking about climate change is now being quietly pedaled as a necessary risk! That's why the Biden and the Dems have touted the fact that we are now producing more energy than ever to counteract Republican false claims. No one wants to be on the wrong side of the issue! Economically, this is very good for Texas, North Dakota and the energy producing states. But for the world, it's a mess! Efforts have to be redoubled! If elected, we'll see with how much teeth, Harris resists. But with Trump and the GOP, the environment will be lead to slaughter like the Palestinians!

Hmmm, Are you saying Jim likes frisky women? I'll have to think about that. Heh heh, yeah I like that song too. It 'does have an innocence. From South Bend?, makes sense. Cliff: It's "San Fran" that's a problem. Well Cliff, some here will think you're being blasphemous!

Well, it was quite a leap. When Joe endorsed her, any other potential candidates probably felt that they'd be seen as ambitious troublemakers if they immediately put their hat in the ring. Harris first said she's going to earn it, and then she went out to the delegates, and in one day got the nomination. So I guess she did! But as I posted earlier in the other thread. It looks like she's fitting in perfectly with my role and using her prosecutorial instincts to stick it to Trump! Looking good there! Wow W.! Was that in Santa Barbara? I saw Joni, with Metheney, Mays and Pastorius earlier in SF. in 79. She was doing mostly from Hejira which I thought was a great album! Jim Di: This is nutty, she was in office for like 17 years. DA in Frisco, AG in California, and then senator. Ahem, yes, "nutty." Hey Cliff, and Joe, I don't want to get you in trouble. "Frisco kid",??? Jim Di, "strictly Socal homey" from Erie, motivated by the Disneyland Dream! Ok, no big deal! But he's been here for 40 years! Maybe Brancato can serve as a California docent and have a talk with him. heh heh Yes you called it Cliff, Congrats!, 😆 that was his intention, but alas. Too wacko for even Maga!

Yes, Kudos to Joe! Not at all the way I would have liked it. But it's a story that a lot of families have faced. But Netanyahu's coming to town now. WTF!! I give Morrow credit. He said it just right. The Centrist position regarding the Israel-Hamas war of both the Democrats and Republicans is Genocide in Gaza. It's a niche both parties have retreated to where the public outrage in most districts can be managed. I don't expect Harris to make major changes in policy during the campaign. The razor thin difference between the parties is that the Dems publicly express some reservations. Now there are starting to be some cracks between the parties about this. Pelosi has come out against the visit, and others are to follow.

Presidential candidate RFK Jr. floated taking a job in a Trump White House as he weighed an endorsement for the Republican nominee Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested being given a senior job overseeing a portfolio of health and medical issues, an idea that the Trump campaign rejected, according to several people familiar with the matter. I had first heard that RFK Jr. did this secretly in 2017, but no this just happened! RFK approached Trump about throwing his support to Trump if Trump gave him a job to head a "Vaccine task Force." ??? And Trump rejected him! "But there were concerns among some Trump advisers that Kennedy — a fervent critic of vaccines — would not be appropriate in such a job and that such an agreement could be problematic, the people said." Yes we in MAGA land, just don't think that would be "appropriate." heh heh heh heh Too wacko for even MAGA! Talk about selling your soul to the devil for a wacko cause, and getting rejected! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/22/rfk-jr-floated-job-trump-white-house-he-weighed-endorsing-trump/?location=alert

Presidential candidate RFK Jr. floated taking a job in a Trump White House as he weighed an endorsement for the Republican nominee Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested being given a senior job overseeing a portfolio of health and medical issues, an idea that the Trump campaign rejected, according to several people familiar with the matter. I had first heard that RFK Jr. did this secretly in 2017, but no this just happened! RFK approached Trump about throwing his support to Trump if Trump gave him a job to head a "Vaccine task Force." ??? And Trump rejected him! "But there were concerns among some Trump advisers that Kennedy — a fervent critic of vaccines — would not be appropriate in such a job and that such an agreement could be problematic, the people said." Yes we in MAGA land, just don't think that would be "appropriate." heh heh heh heh Talk about selling your soul to the devil for a wacko cause, and getting rejected!

-Sandy, I did get out my other laptop and I have all capabilities there. But I noticed the font is smaller and you're right. I've adjusted the size in my first computer because my eyes are getting worse. It's interesting in that in one general downsizing. I go from having 9 capabilities to 18 capabilities including sizing. But the preview option is always the last function on the right. Anyway Thanks!

Sandy, I have neither text size or text color. I'm using windows on a laptop. This has happened before but it's continuing every day now.

As far as VP, I go with the swing state where there are the most votes and Harris is weak, and that's Pennsylvania and Josh Shapiro. Though going after a tossup state like N. Carolina with Cooper could be a good idea because after 2024, Cooper will not be giving up an office as his term is ended. Where other non VP candidates like Whitmer or Newsome can still use their office to stay in the news for 28 or 32. I like the image of Mark Kelley, but is that too Westy? Beshear, Kentucky, ehh. Yes W. It could easily be a very polarizing racist and sexist campaign which is one of the reasons she's not my first choice, but that could easily backfire on Trump! Also because he's more vulnerable than ever, any debate where he gets exposed by a black woman like Harris,Trump could become unraveled and blow it! Now it's revealed that RFK JR. went to Trump in 2016 after his victory lobbying Trump to start a "Vaccine task force". And of course, now there's speculation after the phone call that Trump might offer a post to RK in exchange for throwing his votes to Trump. Yes that was the debate if you remember where Pence had the fly squatting on his forehead! Yes, Harris did well, but what I hated about that debate was the moderating by Susan Paige, who caved in to the man and let Pence ramble on endlessly and keep extending everything he was saying!