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I wonder if Anderson Cooper will start crying again and yelling at people if anyone laughs at Trumps jokes.

No live audience.

Is it this time of the year again?

If I were Biden, I would accept under the condition that Trump publishes his tax returns.

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1791695874512363954

Biden would never accept to any drug test under any conditions, no matter what was offered in return.

 

https://twitter.com/mbrodkorb/status/1791928846641406350

We don't need GA or NC all we need is NV and or AZ to clinch

which is why every red avatar is panicking when someone suggests to move GA into lean R or suggests that Biden cannot really win GA anymore.

Besides you don't look as great in AZ and esp. NV either.

The statements were not made while he was an employee.  That, to me, is highly relevant.  His position was not a political position, it was not public employment, and it was not a position like, say, law enforcement, where the very appearance of bias is something that can jeopardize one's credibility.

If we want to "go there", how long should it be before this year's Ivy League grads get their first professional job once people find out they were part of the "From the River to the Sea . . ." crowd?  Would it be right to assume the worst of these students and simply not hire them for their issues positions, even in positions that were not political or ideological? 

In a job like being the manager of First Avenue, the manager's politics should have nothing to do with it; only his conduct as an employee should matter. 

It dawns on me here that lots of people who are all in on this would be bent out of shape if a person of color were fired from a job after an old criminal arrest were discovered, even if it were a misdemeanor or a drug felony that was old and the person passed pre-employment drug screening.  Most people here would be upset; they would be going on and on about systemic racism and not wanting to give someone who's changed a chance because of their past.  And I generally agree with that, but you have a Forum full of people that would likely be upset if a person were fired from First Avenue for prior felony, but who are fine with firing this person who has committed no crime at all.

 Republicans are the ones who want at-will hiring and firing to be legal and Republicans are the ones who have voted for it. Democrats generally aren't in favour of that. So we can sit here and talk about who thinks this is fair and who thinks that is unfair, but the only reason this situation even happened at all is because Republicans enacted their poltiical power to make sure that there were not laws to prevent things like this from happening. "Being lawfully fired for supporting Trump" doesn't exist in a world where Democrats write the laws.

Madeira election campaign update:

As the campaign enters in its final week, it remains somewhat low profile, however, some national party leaders have been campaigning in Madeira:

- Pedro Nuno Santos, PS leader, and Marta Temido, the PS' European election head list candidate, campaigned this Saturday in Funchal with the party's Madeira candidate, Paulo Cafôfo. PNS accused the PSD of only creating confusion in Madeira and that PM Luís Montenegro is "ashamed" of Miguel Albuquerque and that's the reason why Montenegro will not travel to Madeira during the campaign;

- Albuquerque and CHEGA are in a contest on who "flip-flops" more, regarding a possible deal and/or coalition after the elections. Albuquerque has said everything and its contrary regarding this, from there is "no red lines" to CHEGA is an anti-autonomy party so a deal is difficult. CHEGA and its main candidate, Miguel Castro, is following the same "path", with André Ventura saying the party will never support Miguel Albuquerque because of his corruption investigation, however, the party's candidate said, at a RTP debate, that he could be open to support a PSD led government, if the PSD proposes "good solutions", and pressing that he doesn't closes the door at any party:

- But, today, Miguel Castro "erased" parts of his statements in the debate, now saying that the party will not sign any deal with either the PSD or the PS, thus closing the door at some parties after all;

Death to Russia and death to imperialism. There, I said it.

Hopefully a good deal of these f#ckers not only get killed but maimed, blinded, lose a few limbs. A permanent reminder of the consequences of living by the sword and conquest.

I wonder if Anderson Cooper will start crying again and yelling at people if anyone laughs at Trumps jokes.

Is Twitter use declining to that degree in other countries? Seems to still be on the upswing in places like India and Nigeria.

[Joe Biden (D, inc.)]

Joe Biden (D, inc.) 46.5%
Donald Trump (R) 45.9%
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) 3.9%
Cornel West (I) 1.3%
Jill Stein (G) 0.9%
Libertarian candidate 0.8%
Other 0.7%

Resulting in a Trump 2016 + NV win. With MN as the closest state.