I would pay quite a bit of money for us to switch to even only six months of campaigning. *NM*
Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 07/07/2024 01:58:18 AM
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~Camilla
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When the NYT Editorial Board calls for the incumbent President to step down...
- 29/06/2024 02:51:38 PM
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Now the Biden campaign is calling the people who are sounding these alarms 'bedwetters'
- 01/07/2024 05:16:12 PM
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Re: Now the Biden campaign is calling the people who are sounding these alarms 'bedwetters'
- 01/07/2024 05:56:14 PM
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Re: Now the Biden campaign is calling the people who are sounding these alarms 'bedwetters'
- 01/07/2024 06:03:52 PM
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That term has been used for months if not years, they didn't just make it up...
- 01/07/2024 11:52:54 PM
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Right, but since Joe (and Donald) probably both wear adult diapers...
- 02/07/2024 03:29:23 PM
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Re: Right, but since Joe (and Donald) probably both wear adult diapers...
- 02/07/2024 03:50:08 PM
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Honestly, the word's been used so much it's an established term by now. Don't think they invented it
- 02/07/2024 08:54:50 PM
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How can you say this with a straight face?
- 04/07/2024 03:24:48 PM
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Very easily, I assure you - though there's a difference between 'did' (past) and 'would' (future)
- 04/07/2024 07:23:44 PM
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Re: Very easily, I assure you
- 08/07/2024 05:35:19 PM
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I'm not fool enough to think I can go toe to toe with you on the Russian-American relationship.
- 08/07/2024 09:33:57 PM
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Security doesn't exist in a vacuum
- 09/07/2024 02:42:36 AM
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Sure, but Russia is a threat to others far more than others threaten it.
- 10/07/2024 09:45:58 PM
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That's actually empirically not true
- 11/07/2024 02:35:23 PM
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You're right that I was thinking of Eastern Europe re: NATO, not Central Asia or the Caucasus.
- 12/07/2024 04:07:43 PM
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Let's not fool ourselves about Montenegro and Macedonia
- 15/07/2024 03:41:14 PM
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A smarter NATO
- 16/07/2024 11:35:46 AM
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Sure, for those two it was clearly more the political factors. For others not, it varied.
- 16/07/2024 06:02:47 PM
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I would pay quite a bit of money for us to switch to even only six months of campaigning. *NM*
- 07/07/2024 01:58:18 AM
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It was a bad debate, but I can't imagine a lot of people are actually swayed by it.
- 07/07/2024 01:56:44 AM
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I'm centrist enough to consider voting Red over voting Blue this year due to
- 08/07/2024 10:51:46 AM
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I've voted Libertarian for President the last two times
- 08/07/2024 02:55:35 PM
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You make a good point about the popular vote.
- 08/07/2024 03:01:42 PM
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Re: You make a good point about the popular vote.
- 08/07/2024 03:26:20 PM
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This is the part that bothers me as well.
- 08/07/2024 03:46:15 PM
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I agree he's putting his ego ahead of the Republic.
- 08/07/2024 04:44:15 PM
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I will vote for who I think will do best at standing up to Xi and Putin.
- 08/07/2024 05:21:43 PM
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Sensible enough as as criterium for your vote - but unsurprisingly I don't agree with the reasoning.
- 10/07/2024 10:21:24 PM
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Your analogy is pretty poor honestly.
- 08/07/2024 04:54:45 PM
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You also are trying to redefine how the score is kept
- 08/07/2024 05:44:02 PM
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Sure, that's how it has always been - doesn't mean it's fair or that the popular vote is irrelevant.
- 08/07/2024 08:06:01 PM
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If popular votes were paramount then Rassemblement National
- 08/07/2024 08:29:13 PM
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FPTP sucks in general, yes, whether in the US, in France, or elsewhere.
- 08/07/2024 09:53:57 PM
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Re: FPTP sucks in general, yes, whether in the US, in France, or elsewhere.
- 08/07/2024 10:34:12 PM
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To be clear I didn't say it should be eliminated entirely, but as for what would happen if it was...
- 08/07/2024 10:50:57 PM
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You're wrong.
- 09/07/2024 01:19:30 AM
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You're still looking at it from the current two-party system framework.
- 09/07/2024 07:17:39 AM
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Re: You're still looking at it from the current two-party system framework.
- 09/07/2024 01:45:33 PM
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I meant California
- 08/07/2024 08:43:35 PM
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The popular vote is the popular vote - one citizen, one vote, wherever they may live.
- 08/07/2024 10:37:56 PM
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I'm concerned about a lot of things.
- 09/07/2024 04:41:03 AM
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From a left of center/liberalish substack author about the Republican national platform
- 09/07/2024 11:15:00 AM
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It's an interesting read.
- 09/07/2024 09:46:47 PM
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It would be an interesting read, if it actually meant anything, but does it?
- 12/07/2024 04:42:21 PM
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James Carville has a pretty interesting suggestion in today's NYT
- 08/07/2024 06:32:51 PM
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I think Biden and his Inner Circle are playing the clock
- 10/07/2024 12:41:20 PM
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I don't care for Biden, but I think that time has long since come and gone. *NM*
- 10/07/2024 02:25:13 PM
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Agreed that it wouldn't be a good idea for Obama and Clinton to take a leading role.
- 10/07/2024 09:49:28 PM
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