Duane Moore

How does that not even get reviewed?

So much has changed, but the Co-Op abides.

Cucina24 is very good. I haven’t been to Rhubarb. Sovereign Remedies is a nice place for craft cocktails. For breakfast, Early Girl Eatery and Green Sage are good options near the Indigo. The Mast General Store is also worth a quick visit nearby for shopping.

Yes, very walkable downtown. Grove Park Inn and Biltmore Estate (and Biltmore Village district) would require an Uber.

Well said. Thank you for being the adult in the room.

That’s what I was thinking but do they make that much noise?

He’s literally going to be able to wave a bloody shirt

Sorry, this was a distinction I didn’t understand about the case.

Tick tock. Biden running the four minute offense.

Thank you, very helpful.

I had always understood the Stormy liaison to be a pay for play kind of deal (which, to be clear, is reprehensible behavior nonetheless). I heard at the hush money trial that for the first time she added some new details that made the encounter seem more non-consensual but Bill Maher said that was a 180 from the way she had described it to him. Thank you for this link, very helpful. I had read the Newsweek fact check which I linked above which said it was false that he had been convicted of rape (because it wasn’t a criminal trial) and that while the jury could have have found Trump civilly liable for rape, they went with “sexual abuse” instead. I had forgotten that he had filed a defamation suit in response. This Guardian article explains that the court found there was sufficient evidence to defeat the high evidentiary bar that a plaintiff must prove in those cases. That would explain why Biden is so careful in the way he phrases it. The Snopes fact check seems to question whether Katie Johnson is even a real person. I just have a hard time believing, with Michael Cohen spilling his guts to anyone who will listen, with progressive billionaires who want to take Trump down willing to pay any liquidated damages imposed by an NDA, and every media organization looking for a nuclear bomb story like this, that more about it hasn’t come out in the last 8 years. Given the timing it seems this was just as likely an oppo hit by the Cruz campaign from the primary. Sorry to be so pedantic, I don’t want to be a JAQ-off, I tried to do my research before asking and wanted to make sure I hadn’t missed something, which I had. Thanks again @Red Five for the link.

Is there any real basis for the “Trump is a rapist” charge beyond the E. Jean Carroll civil lawsuit that found him liable on the sexual assault claims but not on rape? https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-was-donald-trump-found-guilty-rape-1799935 The “Katie Johnson” story seems to go nowhere when you look into it, as Snopes did when it all first came up in 2016. https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/06/23/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit/ This woman who wrote a book on Epstein says there was nothing new about Trump in the recently released Epstein files: I mean, no question he has the morals of an alley cat, but is there an actual rape somewhere that has been proven? If not that would probably explain the media not reporting this allegation, for fear of a libel suit.

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From watching the Mark Halperin Zoom calls, he’s hearing that Harris would be the only realistic alternative to Biden. Whitmer, Newsom, Shapiro, and any other hopeful would rather have time to build a proper campaign in 2028 than be dropped in as a replacement and have to mount a campaign of their own in August.

Every day that Clyburn isn’t calling for Biden to step down is a win for him.

This seems big. As long as Clyburn sticks with him, I can’t see Biden stepping down.

If Kamala is the political talent some people think, the campaign should have her out there front and center making the case in the winnable battlegrounds. Keep her on a rotation of holding rallies in Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Detroit on a continuous loop from now until November.

Really puts it into perspective

They’re not perfect, but what else do we have to give us a sense of how the election is going? Vibes? Counting lawn signs in your neighborhood?

Russians have lost more men in the last two months than we did in Vietnam: It’s like the stories from WWI where they would just send waves of men at German machine gun positions getting mowed down until the machine guns became too hot to operate.

Make the election about Trump, which was always the theory of the case for them. The longer we have the media focusing on this palace intrigue of whether we’re going to have the first incumbent resign since LBJ, the less time there is for them to turn their attention back to Trump and start chipping away at the independents who need to be reminded of why they didn’t vote for him in 2020. This house divided storyline is consuming all the oxygen and Biden’s still in striking distance.

Marist/NPR with your morning dose of hopium: Switching Harris, Whitney, and Newsom does not improve the chances, about the same. 3rd post-debate poll this week that has the race as a toss up. Again, I know a tied NPV result favors Trump, but the point is there’s plenty of time to get those 2-3 extra points for Biden.

Live Zoom call with Mark Halperin discussing the PC