I’m sorry I cannot really respond because my eyes gloss over as soon as I see your name, for some reason.

You're talking about the procedure.

But the reason given does sound entirely democratic to me. People don't want to vote for him, therefore he shouldn't run.

No, it sounds stupid. If people don’t want to vote for him, they shouldn’t vote for him. But they did. Nullifying people’s votes is anti-democratic.

That’s exactly what you lot said in 2016, and you were wrong. You were wrong then, and you are wrong now. Repeating the lies isn’t going to make them any more real.

He already won the primary election, meaning he has already been chosen to be the candidate. That simply cannot be erased because he is not winning in the general.

Jesus

I suspect they will cheat or assassinate or jail their opponent in Stalinist fashion.

That’s just not the case. They weren’t describing his fitness; they were describing his debate performance. They don’t seem to care that no one is leading the country, that a dementia patient holds the nuclear codes. They want him out because they think he’s going to lose.

Mr. Biden answered an urgent question on Thursday night. It was not the answer that he and his supporters were hoping for. But if the risk of a second Trump term is as great as he says it is — and we agree with him that the danger is enormous — then his dedication to this country leaves him and his party only one choice.

The clearest path for Democrats to defeat a candidate defined by his lies is to deal truthfully with the American public: acknowledge that Mr. Biden can’t continue his race, and create a process to select someone more capable to stand in his place to defeat Mr. Trump in November.

It is the best chance to protect the soul of the nation — the cause that drew Mr. Biden to run for the presidency in 2019 — from the malign warping of Mr. Trump. And it is the best service that Mr. Biden can provide to a country that he has nobly served for so long.

I’m not sure what you’re getting at when you start speaking in questions. The NYT argued Biden should step aside because he might lose to Trump, not for any democratic reason.

It isn’t up to the New York Times who runs, is it?

Trump's going to win, then Vance. Vance will change the presidential term limits and rule for the rest of his life.

Trump isn’t going to win. Biden campaigned from his bunker, drew crowds of max. 50 people at his rallies, was the first virtual candidate, and for some strange reason got the most votes in US history. Never underestimate the corrupt abilities of his party.

What's undemocratic about a candidate dropping out because of health reasons? Shit happens.

His party is telling him to step aside because he’s doing bad in the polls, and for no other reason.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-biden-conversation/index.html

Remember this when they utter “our democracy” or “democratic norms”.

Senator Bob Menendez, who accused Trump of being a foreign agent, was just convicted of being foreign agent.

And now writer Max Boot, an anti-Trump propagandist from the Washington Post who made his name accusing Trump of being a foreign agent, his wife has been accused of being a foreign agent. You can’t make this stuff up.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqv5qd82pjlo.amp

Accuse others of what you yourself is doing is the modus operandi of these people. It applies to nearly everything.

They even had a mock gallows that could hang pence if only he was 2 feet tall.

That’s right.

One accepted bribes from foreign countries, the other’s accountant wrote “legal fees” in a ledger. One did something wrong, illegal, the other did nothing wrong and was railroaded by a corrupt prosecutor. That’s the difference.

Remember when everyone was duped by these crooks?

For months, Democrats have alluded to but largely danced around the question of whether President Trump might be compromised by Russia. On Thursday, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) decided it was time to stop dancing so much.

“I’m talking about the entirely legitimate question of whether Donald Trump could be compromised by the Russian government,” he says in prepared remarks for a floor speech he just began. “It’s more than a legitimate question.”

“For should the facts confirm our greatest fears to be true, I ask my colleagues to consider what the history books will say about those who knew the president of the United States was compromised by a foreign power and yet still did nothing.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/14/they-deserve-know-if-donald-trump-is-an-agent-russian-federation-democratic-senator-makes-case-trump-being-compromised/



Sen. Bob Menendez found guilty on all counts, including acting as foreign agent, in federal corruption trial

Sen. Bob Menendez was found guilty on all counts Tuesday in his federal corruption trial.

Federal prosecutors in New York alleged the New Jersey Democrat accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, mortgage payments and more in exchange for the senator's political clout. Three New Jersey businessmen who were also charged, along with the governments of Egypt and Qatar, were the alleged recipients. Two of those co-defendants, Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, were also convicted of all counts they faced.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/sen-bob-menendez-federal-corruption-trial-verdict/story?id=111295557

It must feel so embarrassing.

His criminal son is his closest advisor in case you were worried.

Sorry, I don’t believe you. Perhaps you should post more links.

“They” is people like you, except plural.

Teamsters union president calls Trump ‘tough SOB’ in unprecedented speech at RNC

“Sean O’Brien thanks ex-president for ‘opening RNC’s doors’, breaking with most major unions who have backed Biden”

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/15/teamsters-union-president-sean-obrien-rnc-trump-speech

I wager that the Democrat’s blue-collar support is bleeding out. I imagine they’re tired of that power hungry cult thieving their money for more boondoggle policies, and all that’s left are panty-wasted and woke soys. That party wants nothing to do with workers anymore unless it comes election time. It’s fun to watch.

Equally as hilarious are stalwart Republicans, like Trump’s would-be assassin, who have to watch as their former party gets invaded by instagram models and union bosses and the lgbt. Trump is reordering American politics, so it’s glorious to watch the party apparatchiks seethe.

Nope.

I don’t know. Do you believe in the draft?

I don’t think anyone should be forced to register for anything.

The United States has not had a draft since 1973. Congress and the president would have to authorize a draft. In the case of a national emergency, the Selective Service will follow this process to draft eligible young men.

https://www.usa.gov/register-selective-service

Oh, you mean the one that isn’t a draft?

What draft policy would that be?

Yes. People who think you should go to war because the government tells them to.

The relevant law in Morrison was the Independent Counsel Act, which expired in 1999. CFR means federal regulations. Regulations are not statutes. Judge Cannon notes there is no such statute that exists today, nor was there one when Garland appointed Smith.

“Congress may grant authority to the judicial branch to appoint independent counsel without violating the separation of powers, even though the independent counsel are members of the executive branch.”

I’m not sure it applies because Smith wasn’t appointed by the judicial branch.

Durham was already an employee of the state, confirmed by the senate. Mueller, however, was not. One of his indictees raised the issue of his unlawful appointment, but it was denied by the DC court. It wasn’t appealed so never made it to the Supreme Court.

I suspect Cannon’s decision will be overturned in the court of appeals, but instead of the Mueller case, will reach the Supremes where the final decision will come through. No more unlawful appointments.

If you’ve seen a relationship, and in fact it is all you ever see, what does one look like?

Oh, and they’re criminals.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/15/judge-dismisses-trump-classified-documents-case

Florida judge dismisses criminal classified documents case against Trump

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/15/judge-dismisses-trump-classified-documents-case

Smith illegally appointed. Why do anti-Trumpists keep violating the constitution?

But you (and everyone else) cannot describe a thing in the absence of relationships.

for all X
{
X=not(Everything else)
}

The intrinsic properties, essence or identity of X are irrelevant. X is not what it is - X is its relationships with everything else (what it is not).

With this in mind - I fail to see how a thing is anything, let alone everything.

You, a thing, are describing things. You cannot describe a relationship in the absence of things. X is a thing. Everything else are things.

Less talked about was when Trump rid the GOP of their anti-gay stance, their homophobia, which for me was a pivotal realignment of that party’s social conservatism and neocon agenda into the more libertarian spirit we see today.

Everyone has a right to contest or doubt an election, unless it was Biden, of course.