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now it is. but it didn't have to be fait accompli. and I get the age issue, but if the party rallied around Joe and his accomplishments instead of doing what they did, we'd already be much better off. the complicity of the party and the media and most specifically left leaning media did this.

I fucking ragey right now. Everything I think is wrong with the world is on display right now. 1. FUCK THE MEDIA. Biden is old, okay. So is Trump. The fucking media is all over Biden. Until that Guardian clip above you had to rely on viral media to find Trump gaffs which are more plenty than Biden's and have been going on longer than Biden. 2. FUCK THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Stop eating your own. The drumbeat by purists inside the party created this. Republicans are rallied around a rapist, convicted felon, pathological liar, insurrectionist, senile old man and NO ONE is beating that drum loud enough. Biden has a near undefeated record in politics, his instincts and that of his team are the best in the business. He hasn't even really started campaigning and the party trashes him, for what? See point 5 below. 3. FUCK THE DEMOCRATS AND MEDIA FOR LEGITIMIZING TRUMP. He's a sham candidate, a farce, a fucking convicted felon. Why on EARTH did you agree to debate that piece of shit? Every time Trump gets coverage, he gains legitimacy. Every time folks play by the old rules and he breaks them, he gets legitimacy because he's associated by proximity to the institution - in this case the institution of a presidential debate. He gets on stage and vomits lies and yet we play by the standard debate rules with "impartiality" - fuck that nonsense. He needs to be sidelined. 4. BIDEN STEPS DOWN WITH THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ADMINISTRATION IN MY LIFETIME. Holy shit. If he can only operate 9am - 4pm, so fucking what? His administration is light years better than any POTUS Administration in my life time and second isn't even close. Yet here we are, he's being forced to step down. NO ONE is beating the drum about his record, it's PHENOMENAL. It's EXACTLY what we need for 4 more years. 5. LOVE HARRIS, BUT ... Kamala is a fan favorite at our house, no doubt. My wife has a crush on her bigly and we would be thrilled to see her as POTUS. This is not personal. But we both have grave concerns that this country will not elect a woman and certainly not a Black woman, and women will likely be her downfall. Women, minority groups, we all eat our own, it's not even a secret. I also think she is a wildcard as a candidate generally and I think there is no way she can be as effective as Joe Biden in the white house. Even if elected, her Admin will be stymied. We are taking a risk on electability but we are guaranteeing a downgrade in leadership at this point and that's not a knock on her leadership potential, it's a recognition that Biden is THAT GOOD. I only hope and pray she keeps the entire administration and they all agree to stay. I'm quite concerned about Ukraine. 6. PREEMPTIVELY, I STILL HATE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE MEDIA. Kamala isn't going to have a cake walk. I predict the media will come at her and I fully expect the Democrats to be mealy mouthed shit for brains competitors and still refuse to hammer the fuck out of Trump. TAKE THE FUCKING GLOVES OFF and tell the American electorate - the choice is democracy or a child rapist, convicted felon, insurrectionist, Project 2025 dehumanize all non-Christians, women, LBGTQ folks, etc. thug - Americans it's time to save your country from the Handmaid's Tale. I fucking hate this shit. HATE IT.

But the responses to that NIL tweet says A&M is rich and Texas is poor?

Can we just get the media to report Trump sexually assaulted a child in the Epstein saga? I mean shouldn’t that be enough for whomever to win? Dems and the media - Biden is old he has to step down. Pubs and media - Silence on Trump. Jesus fucking Christ the double standard is shocking.

our prison system and the inhumane treatment of the incarcerated is one of the worst aspects of our society. we aim to punish not to rehabilitate. it would be a major step forward if we did both, but we only punish. it's why the prison population only seems to increase. it's shameful.

how this isn't front page news on every channel is beyond me.

we are here now, had dinner last night with new friends, gay couple we met playing tennis. there was a fire here pre-covid. they evacuated, their hood and home were saved. the whole town was saved but the scars on the mountain are still here. there's been enough recovery that it's not an eye sore (grass/scrub covered mountain now) but you can definitely see it.

isn't her district basically all of the mountains?

Ah for state wide. Gotcha. Well that’s shitty, but hopefully I’ll be gone by then. Seems inevitable though.

Yes gotcha now. its only real relevance is as a contrast to the majority opinion to better understand the primary holdings of the majority. Sucks big time.

Good enough for the hall of fame.

We are doomed. She’s an asexual 76 year old, so I guess it ain’t happening.

I hope you’re right. I am not super familiar with the evidence used other than stormy Daniels testimony lol.

spot on.

I hear it smells like kansas too.

interesting. Chaffee seems a bit maga-y. I always think durango / pagosa are further central than they are. too many texans going there for my liking.

If it follows the center line then it’s the path the last one had to take for those 10-12 inch predictions to be accurate. So yes.

Not following you

This map aligns with our decision making. there are parts of the mountains in CO that are as nutty as rural Texas. They are pretty easy to spot too. we are likely passing on Durango (though I think that’s the blue county south central?), Pagosa Springs, Gunnison, Salida, Buena Vista, Lake City… preferences are HWY 82, steamboat, crested butte, outside of telluride, maybe ouray and silverton. Southwest CO though is so effing isolated so it’s likely a no for that reason alone.

That to me falls in the civil violence category where no geographical location is safe. We’ve now been to CO for the summer twice. I think we are narrowing in where we would choose to be and while not urban it seems relatively liberal.

C.Jay Engel in that tweet is actually serious. that's not a sarcastic quote. his twitter account is shocking.

this is a real and considerable risk.

My wife was addicted to the drama of his indictments. I've barely paid attention. I said to her, "when they haul him off in handcuffs to prison let me know, until then, meh."