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Democrats Need to Act Quickly and Unify. Can They?

1. Will the Dems take advantage of Newsom being available? Will they do it quickly? Will they do it cleanly, without alienating more voters?

2. The Dem Convention starts Aug 18 and was supposed to be at least partly virtual. Can the Dems afford to wait that long? Do they need to drop the virtual stuff (which seems to me an impediment to an open convention where a new ticket can be picked)?

3. You know the Rs have built a playbook in case Newsom replaces Biden. It will be full of smears and lies. It's what they do. Can they take down Newsom?

4. They'll have a playbook against other prominent Dems, too. Harris, Pete, Amy.... Would anyone be better than Newsom?

5. Will the Dems split between those who feel they have to stick with Kamala and those who want someone with a better shot at winning?

Seinfeld Season 1

Man...it’s like watching a play. Seriously. It’s also very noticeable that they tried to make George exactly like Larry David. His hair is all standing up like his was in the 80s and early 90s. A lot less studio laughing but that’s because they aren’t sure what they’re watching yet. It was always good.

And Chandler and Nick Offerman suck!

JK
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You have been banned for the following reason: Accuses PSU wrestlers of PED's but refuses to back accusations up with facts or a bet.. Your ban will be lifted on Jun 30, 2024 at 12:00 AM.

^^^^^^ This is the actual message from the POS F*** st board!!!!! Please remember it is MY thread, and MY opinion!

PLEASE NOTE: "refuses to back it up with facts(we will get to that) OR A BET" !!!!!!! YES I am serious!!!!! Plus I did offer their wannabe bandwagon fans SEVERAL BETS!!!!

FACTS, they have moved up more then a handful of wrestlers and they are now saying StarFish will go to 197!?!??!? CassarSalad put on 40+ pounds according to HIM!!!!! He now fights at 205 or something!?!?!?!? HMMMMMMMM

Please see a photo of BabblinBrooks from only a few years back!!!!

A bunch of thin skin, soft, yellow bellied COWARDS is what THEY ARE!!!

Sen. Mark Warner seeks to assemble group of Democratic senators to ask Biden to exit race

Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) is attempting to assemble a group of Democratic senators to ask Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, according to two people with direct knowledge of the effort.
Warner is telling Democratic senators that Biden can no longer remain in the election in the wake of his faltering debate performance, according to the people familiar with private conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely. The Virginia senator has told others that he is deeply concerned Biden is not able to run a campaign that could beat former president Donald Trump.


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Warner spokeswoman Rachel Cohen would neither confirm nor deny that the senator thinks Biden needs to drop out of the race, instead issuing a statement that read, “Like many other people in Washington and across the country, Senator Warner believes these are critical days for the president’s campaign, and he has made that clear to the White House.”


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A number of tactics are being discussed as senators with growing concerns are weighing the best way to relay their worries to the president.
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Among the options under consideration is a meeting at the White House between senators and Biden. Even if some senators do not want Biden to drop out, advocates for the meeting argue they could use that forum to air candid concerns in person. Though no sitting Democratic senator has publicly called for Biden to step aside, they’ve privately shared mounting concerns with each other over the past week as they fight an already uphill battle to maintain the Senate majority.
As the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Virginia Democrat is viewed as a serious voice at this point privately advocating for the president to step aside. He represents a state that Democrats must win in November to maintain their hold on the White House.



There’s a growing consensus among Senate Democrats that the situation with Biden at the top of the ticket is untenable and senators are trying to figure out the best way to relay that message to an insulated president. Some senators don’t believe Biden has people around him who are giving him an accurate picture of the fallout, according to one Democratic senator and a senior Democratic aide.
Still, many senators are in wait-and-see mode. Many want to see how Biden performs in his interview with ABC’s George Stephanopolous Friday evening and at his Wisconsin rally before committing to taking such a drastic step.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-N.Y.) has told senators to try to wait to make any moves until there is more polling data about Biden and Democrats’ standing, according to two people familiar with the conversations. Polling data is unlikely to be reliable until later this month because of the July Fourth holiday and the bump Republicans are expected to receive from their national convention, some Democrats have argued.



Warner has not commented publicly on Biden’s debate performance, even as many of his colleagues posted initial messages of support while privately fretting about the fallout.
“The bottom line is, Joe Biden is our president. He’s a patriotic American. He’s done a good job. He puts others first, not himself,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Warner’s co-senator who’s running for reelection this fall, said at a recent campaign stop, according to a report in the The Progress-Index newspaper. “He had one race that was an existential race in 2020 and he had to win it. He’s racked up a great record as president.”
If Warner’s group were to materialize, it would be a major shift in how Democrats are approaching whether Biden can stay in the contest against Donald Trump.

In August 1974, it was three Republican congressional leaders who went to the White House to inform then-President Richard M. Nixon that he no longer had enough support to survive impeachment over the Watergate scandal. Nixon resigned two days later.


In this case, Democratic senators, many of whom personally know and like Biden, are concerned about Biden’s future and prospects after his debate performance raised questions about his mental acuity and health.
“I think there is a sense among many that the current path may not be sustainable for him,” said one Democratic senator who described the general mood of the caucus. “Not because of the debate alone but how well he performs in the future. He obviously has to show strength right now.”

Senators have been back in their home states since the debate, but have been communicating via phone, venting their concerns and trying to plot a way forward. Schumer has publicly stood by Biden.
Warner, these people say, is ready to make the case now.
The former governor of Virginia and ex-businessman has occasionally criticized the Biden administration in the past, over their decision to promote content on TikTok and in their handling of a classified documents inquiry. In 2023, he was one of eight Democrats to urge Biden in a letter to commit more resources to securing the southern border.
Warner has often been a moderate dealmaker in the Senate, including helping negotiate the 2021 infrastructure bill.

Preach It, jo: Biden says only the 'Lord Almighty' can convince him to drop out as calls from Democrats intensify

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Carl Sagan's Foreboding About America - 30 Years Ago

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness....

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Carl Sagan, from Demon-Haunted World (1995)

Flo Bill

Well,for the second time in as may years flo has done it again. I pay monthly through the season, then cancel. Then three months later I get popped for an annual charge and I have to go through the process of canceling through the credit card company. I have checked and clicked everything possible to avoid this. My account is even shown as inactive. It's like Hotel California, you can unsubscribe anytime you like, you can never leave.

Et tu, Hakeem?

Jeffries to huddle with top Democrats amid Biden worries​


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is set to connect with his House committee leaders just before Congress returns to session for a conversation that is expected to touch on President Biden's candidacy.

Why it matters: Next week could be a watershed moment for House Democrats, many of whom remain shaken by the president's poor debate performance and convinced he cannot beat former President Trump.

  • Lawmakers from across the party have told Axios they are hearing from donors, constituents and other stakeholders with grave concerns about Biden's strength.
  • Democrats in swing districts are doubly fearful the president could drag down their races as well, throwing the fight for Congress into doubt.
Driving the news: Jeffries will meet virtually with committee ranking members on Sunday afternoon, just a day before the House is set to reconvene after a week-long recess, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
  • One of the sources expressed "certainty" that Biden will come up in the meeting as "part of a wider discussion of topics."
  • The meeting comes as Jeffries has been sounding out various factions within his caucus on the issue, including his leadership team and a group of newer Democrats, mostly from the class of 2018.
Zoom in: On the other side of the Capitol, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is expected to convene a meeting of his colleagues to discuss Biden's future, Axios' Stephen Neukam reported.

What we're hearing: House Democrats have told Axios that Jeffries, despite publicly affirming his support for Biden, has been careful not to stifle criticism of the president.

  • He has also delicately avoided taking a firm position in some private discussions.
  • Two House Democrats have come out publicly for Biden to withdraw from the race, with lawmakers telling Axios they expect more to come. Others have strongly criticized the president's campaign.

Rivian's Amazon Delivery Vans Keep Mysteriously Catching Fire

Amazon delivery vans, manufactured by Rivian, keep catching fire.

That was the topic of a new report from Quartz.com this week which highlighted that the blue Prime vans seen all over the country keep catching fire at Amazon distribution centers.

"One starts to wonder why," QZ.com asked.

The report notes that footage from Third Coast Drone reveals Rivian vans ablaze outside an Amazon facility in Houston.

While the video doesn't show how the fire started, it captures firefighters working to control the flames. Importantly, the footage also reveals that each van was parked at a charging station.

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This isn’t the first time Rivian vans have caught fire at an Amazon location, the report notes.

Last August, a similar incident occurred in Salt Lake City, where vans burned in a distribution center parking lot. Posts in Amazon worker subreddits revealed that drivers have reported issues with the vans charging in high heat and suspected the chargers as the cause of the blaze.

Chargers have been blamed for fires before, either due to improper home wiring or inadequate cooling.

What’s still unclear is whether professionally-installed chargers, like these Rivian units, are prone to the same issues as Level 2 chargers plugged into home dryer outlets.

Yet another example of the stupidity of Trump supporters.

When will they realize that everything he does is a way to grift money off them?

"They Came to See Trump. First They Heard a Pitch to Buy Gold and Silver.
At a recent campaign speech, one of Donald Trump’s warm-up acts was a precious metals salesman being sued by federal regulators for fraud."

Trump Advisers Call for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing if He Is Elected

Allies of Donald J. Trump are proposing that the United States restart the testing of nuclear weapons in underground detonations should the former president be re-elected in November. A number of nuclear experts reject such a resumption as unnecessary and say it would threaten to end a testing moratorium that the world’s major atomic powers have honored for decades.
In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Robert C. O’Brien, a former national security adviser to Mr. Trump, urges him to conduct nuclear tests if he wins a new term. Washington, he wrote, “must test new nuclear weapons for reliability and safety in the real world for the first time since 1992.” Doing so, he added, would help the United States “maintain technical and numerical superiority to the combined Chinese and Russian nuclear stockpiles.”
At the Cold War’s end, in 1992, the United States gave up the explosive testing of nuclear arms and eventually talked other atomic powers into doing likewise. The United States instead turned to experts and machines at the nation’s weapons labs to verify the lethality of the country’s arsenal. Today the machines include room-size supercomputers, the world’s most powerful X-ray machine and a system of lasers the size of a sports stadium.
In his article, Mr. O’Brien described such work as just “using computer models.” Republican members of Congress and some nuclear experts have faulted the nonexplosive testing as insufficient to assure the U.S. military establishment that its arsenal works, and have called for live tests.
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But the Biden administration and other Democrats warn that a U.S. test could lead to a chain reaction of testing by other countries. Over time, they add, resumption could result in a nuclear arms race that destabilizes the global balance of terror and heightens the risk of war.
“It’s a terrible idea,” said Ernest J. Moniz, who oversaw the U.S. nuclear arsenal as the secretary of energy in the Obama administration. “New testing would make us less secure. You can’t divorce it from the global repercussions.”
Siegfried S. Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico where J. Robert Oppenheimer led the creation of the atomic bomb, called new testing a risky trade-off between domestic gains and global losses. “We stand to lose more” than America’s nuclear rivals would, he said.
It’s unclear if Mr. Trump would act on the testing proposals. In a statement, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, Mr. Trump’s co-campaign managers, did not directly address the candidate’s position on nuclear testing. They said that Mr. O’Brien as well as other outside groups and individuals were “misguided, speaking prematurely, and may well be entirely wrong” about a second Trump administration’s plans.

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Does serious money bring happiness?

I figured I'd ask here since everyone is worth 8 figures. ;)

I was watching a repeat of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" and wondered if being a billionaire would bring happiness.

In a way, I think it would. You could literally do whatever you wanted whenever you wanted. Fly to Hawaii today or rent a fishing yacht this weekend.

What do you think? Does serious wealth bring happiness?
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