This song by "Zebra" because Democrats will be asking this weekend. And my band covered this decades ago.

Concur. The DNC weakness seems to have been messaging and not promoting their platform of helping working and vulnerable Americans.

The dysfunctional GOP leaders mirror their dysfunctional supporters and vice versa.
Good thing the NATO Summit in Wash DC ended before this "------- circus ---- show" began, but there's always the internet. And the US is the #1 nuclear power in the world whose arsenal may be in GOP hands this November.

Yes and no about sentencing, as each case is different and the federal sentencing guidelines determine the range. SDNY Judge Denny Chin sentenced Bernie Madoff to 150 years in prison and US District Judge Edward Davila sentenced Elizabeth Holmes to 11 years and three months.

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The government of Australia recently announced a record military assistance package to Ukraine, worth nearly $250 million at the 2024 NATO Summit which recently concluded in Washington, DC.

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And #45 appointee Louis DeJoy is still Postmaster-General, making money hand over fist:

"Thanks to the USPS board of governors, the former North Carolina logistics executive had a compensation package totaling $480,985 for the fiscal year ending 30 Sep. A performance bonus approved by the board pushed DeJoy over the $400,000 salary of President Joe Biden. Plus DeJoy's base salary of $305,681 is "the highest ever paid for the top job at USPS," according to the Center for Public Integrity."

Republicans just know how to make money off the American people as if we're their food.

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Name recognition is key. Does anyone remember Hilary Clinton's 2016 VPOTUS candidate?

Here's a college or NFL wildcat offensive play from scrimmage for the DNC:

Request ex-SECDEF USMC Four-Star General James Norman Mattis (Ret.) to run for POTUS. General Mattis can stand up to bullies, his Marines loved him, he reads book after book, and he won't blunder the US into another wasteful war because he cares about his fellow soldiers. General Mattis is 74 years old and about #45 he said: "I've earned my spurs on the battlefield ... Donald Trump earned his spurs in a letter from a doctor."

Lastly, #45's running mate is an ex-Marine (a combat correspondent for six months in Iraq).

Some may consider this a Hail Mary pass, but the DNC is going to need somebody experienced and charismatic to replace Uncle Joe on the ticket.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the last general to become POTUS. And in the 1930s, the GOP reportedly asked competent and charismatic USMC MG General Smedley Butler (Ret.) to lead a campaign against a popular FDR, which he forcefully declined.

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I hope Steve Bannon didn't catch the "Kung Flu" from him.

Per the SDNY AUSA:

"Miles Guo, an exiled Chinese businessman and purported billionaire, brazenly operated several interrelated fraud schemes, all designed to fleece his loyal followers out of their hard-earned money so that Guo could spend his days in his 50,000 square foot mansion, driving his $1 million Lamborghini, or lounging on his $37 million yacht."

Sounds like #45.

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LL: Thank you for lighting a lamp for those who may be in the dark with this canon; I should have referenced my post better.

So, here we are. In the middle of massive casualty causing wars, Abraham Lincoln won re-election in 1864 as did FDR in 1944. But in 2024 a peacetime POTUS who ended America's "forever wars" was undone by a trifecta of terror in the likes of Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Donald J. Trump, who just wore away at our Rock of Gibraltar with problems from all flanks. I trust the Democrats will nominate a charismatic and compassionate candidate with name recognition that won't hurt the downticket and who can stand up to those three bullies.

No surprise, Leonard Leo is a member of Opus Dei. The GOP and the Federalist Society vision is to establish the Republic of Gilead in the US. Dylan Mulvaney would be hung as a "gender criminal" in their dystopian future.

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In the first link below, observe the health, fitness, and glee of the men's Israeli soccer team that is competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics for the first since 1976.

Concur with all above. If the defendant fully cooperates and de-briefs CIA and FBI on what she provided to Seoul, the SDNY judge may have have her serve the two five-year counts simultaneously. From what I read in the indictment, Sue Mi Terry did not endanger any USIC sources, but we'll have to see at her trial and sentencing how much damage she did. All this for a pittance. I too am shaking my head at her and at NIS. Footnote: I have read some of Max Boot's books, too.

Addams Family, meet the Munsters.

Perhaps the percentage of Americans living in dysfunctional families is so high that liking and electing someone dysfunctional seems normal to them. Concomitantly, there is an upward trend in mental illness cases reported in the US.

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Two more reflections:

1) This public message for POTUS to resign reminded me of D/FBI James Comey's 2016 public comments right before the election regarding candidate Hilary Clinton's e-mails. No good came from that, costing her the election. In NYC we call that a "hit job."

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Perhaps Corky is right and the DNP calls for Pres. Biden to resign are out of self-interest: keeping their jobs. But note that our Founding Fathers were not concerned about POTUS being too elderly, but too youthful.

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One poor debate performance by POTUS has led to this? So, if Pres. Biden steps down and Kamala Harris (or whoever the DNC convention selects) loses the Nov 2024 election (WH, HoR, and/or Senate), who will the DNC blame? Arm the circular firing squad. Regardless of Pres. Biden's age or health, his opponent is elderly, forgetful, and mangles his syntax as well, and his policies will not help working Americans.

An abstract regarding the 1944 DNC Convention:

"Despite the obvious physical decline in President Roosevelt's appearance, as well as rumors of secret health problems, FDR's fourth nomination as president was largely unchallenged. Roosevelt delivered his acceptance speech remotely, from a Pacific Coast naval base.

1944 was the last time a major party presidential candidate accepted a nomination remotely until Joe Biden accepted his nomination in 2020 from his home town of Wilmington, DE due to the COVID-19 pandemic."

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Thank you for posting this. USLE and the USIC cannot interrogate a corpse, so now they have to piece all this together through Thomas Matthew Crooks' computer history, friends, family, and diaries.

And we can only wonder how many more of these Travis Bickles are out there.

This is shocking news, so I had better sit down.

As somebody once said: "Anything that Trump touches, dies."

The research paper linked below may be helpful.

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"Islamic State is a vicious opponent of Hamas and both groups have repeatedly spoken out against each other. Al-Qaeda, IS's global jihadist rival, has a distinct position vis--vis both Hamas and IS too, thus further complicating the picture."

"Caucasian" didn't fit within the character limits allowed for the headline.

And President Joe Biden has an in-grown toenail! Put him on the Injured Reserve List! POTUS Woodrow Wilson attended the 1919 Treaty of Versailles conference stricken with COVID (AKA the Spanish Flu). This illness affected him, but he nevertheless attended and did the best he could. #45 conducted his criminal probation hearing in NYC via VTC.

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Doc Sarvis: You are most welcome; I thought you might appreciate that. History offers beneficial lessons if only we pay attention.

Thank you Lamplighter for the further elucidation. Without sounding judgmental, some people should just never become parents. Some parents in middle America were recently prosecuted after an unsecured firearms accident led to a child fatality. While I was away on missions I would call long distance to my extremely competent cat-sitter every 48 hours to make sure my kitty was fine.

Absolutely hideous; thank you for posting.

Elsewhere in the US, another example of sterling parenting. A morbidly obese woman sat on her 10-year-old foster child who would later die of catastrophic internal injuries.