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Interviewer's question to Haslam...how did you get through all of this? Haslam's one word answer ... "scotch." "Ha!

We've voted! Me in a voting place. My wife by mail deposited in a special U.S.P.S. drop box in front of our local library just half a mile away. We live in California. Wonder how many have voted already here in our state? Watched the V.P. debate last night. Couldn't believe how many times the moderator allowed Pence to keep on talking way past his limit. I was expecting some strict control regards violating the time limit rules. Chris Wallace was actually more aggressive in trying to keep Trump under control despite his 145 interruptions. I had to mute the volume for quite awhile as there were relatives in the room who were somewhat apolitical and wanted to talk about other things such as UFO's, Bigfoot, haunted house stories and the death of Eddie Van Halen. At one point a young grandchild who was watching the screen shouted "Hey, there's a fly on that man's head!" That stopped the other discussion and we all silently watched the fly. We speculated about the fly and how it remained on Pence's head for so long. I threw out a spontaneous thought that Trump will probably say it was a highly sophisticated drone dispatched by Democratic Party dirty tricksters to embarrass Pence. Still thought like 58% average national poll numbers that Harris was the winner of the debate. Can't comment on the full substance of the candidate's talking points. However, from a visual perspective I found Harris the more real person with expressive eyes, sensual mouth and a big healthy white tooth smile. Whoever fixed her up cosmetically did a great job. She was very attractive looking in a hot exotic way imo. Pence always looks like a store front window mannequin to me. An almost plastic smooth face with a fixed, slight, thin lip smile. Squinty, beady, no expression eyes. Nose so small and square it looks like it's carved out of wood. Maximum trim hair cut style with not one hair out of place. Robotic head movement. Slow deliberate fixed plane turns. I actually remembered similar faced car crash dummies and in old movies of atom bomb tests where they put dummies in a model home near the blast site to simulate what would happen in a real life situation. Agree with Kirk Galloway. Tell Trump to jump in a lake if he won't do a virtual debate Biden. The Repubs have been treating the Dems like this for decades. Time to shove it right back at em. For once, show some spine. Voters will see this as strength against Trump, not the other way around imo.

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BRAVO! TOTALLY AGREE!

Here Here. And thank you for allowing this off the JFK topic, unprecedented political and social anxiety times release valve thread for the last few months. These times and this presidential election has everyone on edge like we have never experienced before. Your tolerance in this context is so appreciated. Most JFK forum members are very politically minded anyway due to the nature of the assassination being a political event as much as a criminal one. I am sure this thread will die down if Biden wins the election. However, maybe not while Trump is still in the presidency until January 20th, 2021. What Trump may pull off in his remaining 2 and 1/2 months in office may still rock the nation and/or world. Hopefully not in some crazy dangerous way. Let us pray.

I hope many of their signs directly address the issue of Trump's history of sexual predator behavior. Signs that read Trump's most famous quote: "GRAB EM BY THE PU$$Y" "JUSTICE FOR E. JEAN CARROLL" "FEEL SORRY FOR EPSTEIN VICTIMS, NOT GHISLAINE MAXWELL" "STORMY DANIELS AND KAREN McDOUGAL ARE NOT XXXXX" "ALL THE PRESIDENT'S WOMEN. THE MAKING OF A SEXUAL PREDATOR" " EXPLAIN TO YOUR DAUGHTERS WHY YOU VOTED FOR A SEXUAL PREDATOR?" This issue "alone" ( if given broader national media coverage ) could bring anti-Trump women voters out in droves! It could guarantee a Trump loss ... imo.

Clear violation of tax exempt benefit law in actively promoting one political candidate or party over another. The Catholic Church has been doing this ever since Reagan. Actively telling their flocks to vote Republican. From the highest levels - Bishops. Message to the Republican party law and order touting defenders...enforce the non-political tax exempt law. And even this Bishop "knows" Trump could care less about the abortion issue personally. How many sexual encounters has Trump had ( outside of his marriage ) ... dozens ...hundreds? And without using a condom? Who knows how many flings Trump has had that may or could have resulted in pregnancies with abortions? When you have that many sexual trysts, the odds start stacking up that unwanted pregnancies could have occurred. Catholic bishop in Missouri criticized for letter on voting https://apnews.com/9359aa6c9adf9326429695b2d5a524af 1 hour ago · KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph in Missouri is urging parishioners to vote for candidates who are anti-abortion, which some critics contend amounts to an endorsement of Republican candidates. In a letter dated Sept. 14, Bishop James V. Johnston Jr. does not endorse a political party or specific candidates. It also follows other Catholic leaders who have written similar letters. Two weeks ago, Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik urged his parishioners to vote with their conscience based on church teachings. In September, the Rev. James Altman, a parish priest in La Crosse, Wisconsin, declared in a YouTube video that “you cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat.” La Crosse Bishop William Callahan criticized Altman for entangling the church in scandal. Roman Catholic voters are an important voting bloc in this year’s election, and both parties are appealing for their votes based on their faith. Roman Catholics have voted for the winner in nine out of the last 10 presidential elections. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is a practicing Catholic but he has been criticized by some for his support of abortion rights. Trump, who identifies as Presbyterian, rarely attends church and critics say his stance on other social issues conflict with Catholic teachings.

The refusal by the Shaw trial judge to allow the New Orleans PD booking officer from testifying that Shaw did indeed admit to using the alias "Clay Bertrand" was just one major death blow to the entire case. Imagine if the jury heard a sworn N.O. police officer testify under oath to his first hand account of Shaw admitting to him face to face that he did use this alias which would have tied the testimony of Dean Andrews directly to Shaw. It would have probably destroyed Shaw's credibility to a degree of undermining every other aspect of Shaw's testimony from that point on. Hasn't it been accepted by most that Garrison knew his case against Shaw was unwinnable from an early point in time, greatly because he knew he could not beat the power groups who had blocked extradition of key witnesses, subverted inclusion of key evidence, intimidated prosecution witnesses, tainted the media and blocked key evidence of Shaw's true background ,etc.? However, just getting the case tried with much evidence and testimony heard, read and documented in the public record that otherwise would have never been exposed on this level if the case trial was never allowed, was to some degree a victory in itself?

Great eyewitness this officer. Not even there when Julia Ann Mercer was. And have you ever "pushed" another vehicle with your own? You might do this to get a car stuck in mud out of it. You go very slowly as otherwise you can crash into each other with considerable damage. And where did they go...on to a freeway? Please! I'll "guess" that the stalled pick up truck miraculously started up 100 feet down the road. Sorry, giving one's "opinions and guesses" regards the actions of others when you have left the scene ( this officer wasn't there ) would draw an immediate sustaining of this testimony in a court of law.

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I heard Stormy Daniels say something contrary to "gargantuan."

Dear God!

Of course I will view this. However, the end of the Trump saga ( the next few months until January 20th, 2021 ) could possibly be the most important part of the story. What in this already super crazy world will happen between now and then?

No exaggeration, no hyperbole, no joking ... Trump truly is the "Spreader In Chief!"

HA HA HA HA! Only when Netflix or Show Time does a seriously researched and thorough multi-part film series on the life of Donald Trump ( from birth to the presidency) will we get the true full creation picture of this strange man. Trump's reaching the highest position of national and even world power despite his massive emotional, psychological, moral and money obsessed other character flaws and how he exercised this power and was enabled in doing so by a blindly loyal Republican Senate, high level government appointees and foreign influence is a warning story of epic historical importance.

These last 4 years of Trump have been like non-stop binge watching TV reruns of The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond and the X Files combined. The Conway family video and responding tweets in the link Steve provides above are surreal (and sad), especially the Conway family situation. Trump times are constantly stomach churning, nervousness and anxiety causing.

Donald Trump: "Don't be afraid of covid" ... ??? I gotta believe that every family member of the 210,000 American people who have died from covid infection ( most torturously) and those hundreds of thousands if not millions of medical personnel that cared for them would be incredibly offended by Trump's covid downplaying and dismissive quote.

So true. Now to disturbing degrees. This SS health risk drive by event was just crazy. As reported over and over by disaffected former aides and staff throughout his entire term, the problem with Trump is he "doesn't follow advice" except when his staff ( as a unified begging team) finally get it through to him that he "must" do or say certain rectifying things to hopefully mitigate the most truly damaging words he has spoken or actions he has taken. Trump obviously does what he wants despite contrary staff advise so often however, even they must feel it borders on mental illness. A latest example is Trump's 3 day delayed public condemnation of "the Proud Boys" ( weak and obviously insincere as it was ) only after his failure to do this when asked in the debate created a nation media firestorm and drop in the polls. His staff must have had to do a lot of spoiled child coddling to get him to do this. Same with this latest impulsive ego need desperate, show boat, drive-by joy ride. Couldn't the guy simply do a Ronald Reagan/ Michael Jackson hand waving, kiss blowing window appearance to his clamoring fans below? Rather than putting SS agents at risk? If Trump isn't "purposely" trying to lose the election, then his judgement abilities are regressing to disturbing levels. I heard that Trump just put out 17 new tweets! Isn't that obsessive? It seems Trump is truly "addicted" to attention feeding audience reacting performances. LOOK AT ME! LOVE ME! CHEER ME! BUY ME! Ego maniac Trump has always been a news media attention hound/drug addict. Having his name "TRUMP" emblazoned everywhere in the most bold, bright light public display way. Decades of appearing on countless TV and radio talk shows and at press, sporting, beauty pageant and other major news covered events and dozens of cameos in other TV shows, national advertisements and major production films. Culminating with his being the star of his own major national syndication TV shows! It never ends and ... "It's never enough!" Trump's estranged niece Mary Trump perfectly nailed this defining obsessive trait of her uncle in her recent tell-all expose book " Too Much And Never Enough. How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man." She knew her uncle's greatest character failings well ... and now most Americans do too.

The "Rose Garden Massacre!" Right on. Just another part of Donald Trump's presidential legacy. I can imagine the official academic history books take on the Trump presidency 20 years from now.

If the massive medical treatment ( 10 specialists-expensive drugs ) protocol being used to treat Trump works in mitigating his Covid afflicted symptoms and over-all condition and perhaps a complete recovery, do you think that the rest of the country's citizens should have the right to demand a similar medical treatment response for themselves or loved ones who come down with the virus or are currently afflicted and suffering through it? Or, is this expensive all out treatment luxury only reserved for our President? Imagine the outcry if Reagan had gotten AIDS in the no cure middle of that plague and was successfully cured with a different level of treatment than everyone else? Leader of the all the people? All for one, one for all? Also, police all over the nation for weeks now have been shutting down no mask, no social distancing gatherings even less attended and virus spreading risk egregious than the White House Rose Garden Amy Coney Barrett honoring event one last week. These college kids can't get away with such behavior. Citations, even arrests have been issued and made! And look at the real and significant virus spreading damage the WH Rose Garden gathering has actually caused! The equal under the law blind justice lady scale is off right now, don't you think?

Thanks for sharing.

Yes Kathy...he called it all "a hoax" for all these months and hundreds of times over and over again. Not a real threat risk he was personally and bravely willing to take take to show us all inspiring brave leadership. One of the worst, most irresponsible consequences of his propagation of the mask and separation warning issue as a hoax is that millions emulated his mask warning hoax beliefs and have spread the virus to millions of others in doing so.

Scary stuff indeed.