@#47 ... He isn't dropping out. Good luck with that, ...

At this point, I have to note that Pres Biden was quite (extremely?) adamant that he would not be dropping out.

That is, until he did.

Pres Biden seemed to wait strategically until after the Republican Convention to announce he was dropping out.

Apparently, much to the dismay of the GOP who had put into place a VP candidate who has proved to be, well, at this point I'll be kind and just say, quite weak.

Related?

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... Their support potentially boosts former CNN political analyst John Avlon's appeal to political moderates in his bid to wrest a seat Democrats see as crucial to winning back the House majority.

Avlon depicted Molinari's and former Congressman Adam Kinzinger's cross-over endorsements " among a group of others who include former Massachusetts GOP Governor William Weld " as reflective of his aim to "rebuild the middle of our politics."

LaLota's campaign didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

LaLota is more conservative than the four other freshmen New York City-region Republicans swept into Congress in the 2022 midterm elections but more moderate than most House Republicans, according to the Lugar Center and Georgetown University. A fifth Republican from a Long Island and Queens area district elected in 2022, George Santos, is no longer in Congress, and that seat is now represented by a Democrat. ...

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... Why it matters: This caps 10 excruciating days for Johnson. At each step, he's insisted the inevitable wasn't inevitable. No one bought it.

- - - Johnson spoke with Republican appropriators about drafting a "clean" three-month funding bill, Axios learned this afternoon.

- - - The speaker hasn't publicly endorsed the three-month plan, which the White House and Senate Democrats always favored.

- - - But he's inching toward the outcome many Senate Republicans privately said was coming: A spending bill through November that didn't include a GOP voting proposal to require proof of citizenship to vote.

Johnson's six-month stopgap plus the voting legislation failed yesterday.

Zoom in: Axios reported on Wednesday that Johnson has a Plan B -- but he wouldn't share it. That's still the case.

- - - Into the void stepped Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.), who told reporters Thursday ...

@#6

Yup.

@#60 ... Robson is inarticulate and half baked but not Stupid. He's probably young. ...

And your current alias has determined it is qualified to assert that determination ... why?

@#1 ... The incidents are becoming so widespread in recent days ...

Yeah, the lead story on the local Connecticut evening news now seems to be along the lines of ... ~ multiple school threats ...~

This ain't good.

What are the kids learning from this?

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... The incidents are becoming so widespread in recent days that officials in towns that have not received a threat are upping their police presence in the schools as a precaution, some officials said.

Bridgeport schools initially opened on a two-hour delay Thursday morning, after a juvenile was charged with making threats that went "viral," officials said.

What we know and don't know about the school threats across Connecticut

However, by around noon, the schools announced that students would be dismissed early and schools would be closed on Friday, after "additional" threats were found online. The exact nature of the new threats was not immediately clear. ...

@#4 ... What, exactly, does fmr Pres Trump hope to accomplish by grinding Springfield's resources into the ground with his visit? ...

imo, he just wants to keep what he seems to call those ~evil immigrants~ in the focus.

Nothing more, nothing less.

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... While Trump's speech mostly tried appealing to Flint's "Vehicle City" history, talking at length about manufacturing and tariffs, he took time to mention a claim about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a topic he's revisited throughout the 2024 presidential campaign.

Recalling the resources left behind at Bagram Air Base, Trump said that as well as discarding billions in military equipment, he alleged that dogs were also abandoned.

"But to give up and work to give up the biggest air base, military air base in the world," Trump said.

"And they left it in the dark of night with the lights on and they did leave the dogs behind.

"There are a lot of people. They say 'What about the dogs?'

"They left the dogs behind. But we would have been a much different country right now."

While U.S. forces did not take some dogs back with them as they left Afghanistan, Trump's claim omits important details about the types of animals that were left, who they belonged to, and efforts made since by nonprofits.

In 2021, the U.S. military denied reports that it had left military working dogs behind in Afghanistan and that photos being shared online of other dogs were misleading.

"Photos circulating online were animals under the care of the Kabul Small Animal Rescue, not dogs under the care of the U.S. military," the department's spokesperson told Newsweek at the time.

"Despite an ongoing complicated and dangerous retrograde mission, U.S. forces went to great lengths to assist the Kabul Small Animal Rescue as much as possible."

Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder said at the time that the U.S. military "did not leave any dogs in cages at Hamid Karzai International Airport." ...

From the cited article...

... "Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign," the spokesperson said. ...

Two things:

... and fmr Pres Trump is saying he will visit Springfield, OH, in spite of all the damage he and his campaign's rhetoric has done to that town?

What, exactly, does fmr Pres Trump hope to accomplish by grinding Springfield's resources into the ground with his visit?

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... The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, issued a proclamation Thursday claiming temporary emergency powers "to mitigate public safety concerns" as false claims about Haitian immigrants continue to stoke bomb threats and the specter of violence in the community.

The proclamation grants Mayor Rob Rue temporary emergency powers to obtain and mobilize resources and address potential threats.

"This will enable departments to respond more efficiently to emerging risks, including civil unrest, cyber threats, and potential acts of violence," the proclamation said. ...

... Former President Donald Trump said if he loses the election in November, Jewish voters "would really have a lot to do with that." ...

OK, there are at least two levels of discussion here.

1) fmr Pres trump continuing to blame others for his own shortcomings. In this thread, he seems to be blaming Jewish people if he loses the election, totally ignoring his policies that the Country seems to have issues with.

2) seeming to ignore the baseless anti-Jewish propaganda he seems to be offering.

@#1 ... Working alongside contributors for Kremlin state media, the former Donald Trump policy aide George Papadopoulos, his wife, Simona Mangiante, and others have become editorial board members of the website Intelligencer, which is increasingly becoming a source of news for those in the rightwing ecosystem. ...

How obvious can they be in their apparent intent?

@#1 ... As much as I hate it, its probably better spent than spending it on the homeless industrial complex. ..

Got any evidence to substantiate that?

@#58 ... Too nslow. ..

I'm not there yet.

I would say, however, maybe too oriented towards spouting the MAGA cult indoctrination.

@#12 ... More curious to me is why did that current alias apparently see the need for an unsubstantiated deflection attempt on this thread? ...

... and if I may add to my comment ...

There does seem to be an extraordinary effort (on so many levels) on the part of MAGA to deflect all discussions towards immigration.

I mean, visiting Springfield, OH, when that Mayor implies, "please stay away?"

Maybe because the Trump thinks that immigration is their only winning topic of discussion?

@#55 ... You can't pull up a .gov website and prove me wrong ...

The purpose of my comment (#52) was not to prove your current alias wrong.

It was a comment on the nature of response your current alias proffered.

Do try to keep up.

That aside.

Yeah, I did see, and visit, the fec.gov links your current alias posted.

What I did not see was how the content of those links have any revelation to your current alias' posts.

Posting random links does not necessarily justify an opinion.

So... what else does yer current alias got?

@#5 ... So will our resident deplorable trumping MAGAts. ...

... and why do you think the Trump campaign has been striving to keep this issue at the forefront?

Because it detracts from the abortion issue, the issue that they seem to realize may not be in their favor (I may understate).

So, all the discussions about eating pets are little more that MAGA trying to change to topic away from their losing topic.

I mean, can they be anymore obvious in that?

@#1 ... I think I understand what Vance is saying: When an event/situation/person does not comport with your political narrative, it's okay to lie ...

Well, yeah.

While it is great that Sen Vance admits that, there's more to discuss here.

I'll start with...

Welcome to MAGA.

@#5 ... The guy was maybe 21. Never once looked me in the eye the half hour I was there. I've run across my fair share of Gen Zers who have zero social skills ...

The area supermarket chain hires high school kids (in CT kids 16 or older can do that job) for bagging and, if they prove themselves, cashiers.

I do have to commend the hiring process.

Every one has been excellent in my interactions with them.

So, I just want to state that not all Gen-Z may be properly described by the cited article.

Of course they did.

They seem to endeavor to refuse the ramifications of the political doctrines they enact.

Why?