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Who the hell is this Jeremy Kauffman guy anyway? No idea what being gay has to do with anything and how is Oliver a "race communist"? He's not for affirmative action, he's not for hate speech laws, he doesn't defend rioting. Thinking it was bad that George Floyd got murdered does not make you a "race communist". All I can find about him is that he got fired from the Free State Project. Probably just a skunk looking for an excuse to vote for Trump anyway. If you'd even think about it for a millisecond you're not a real libertarian.

"I believe ideas are bigger than the man, so in good conscience I cannot support this war or continue to support Donald Trump. I deeply resent that he deceived me into believing he was opposed to new wars, while planning this offensive against Iran as soon as he took office. I apologize to the people I doubted when they warned me about Trump and his character. I thought character didn't matter, but now I know that if I'm going to trust a politician to keep his promises in office, I have to trust him as a person as well. I'm going to remember this in all future elections to avoid electing another president like Donald Trump. My commitment is to the United States and the safety of the world, not to a political party or a cult of personality."

LOL, of course not, did I have you going there for a second?

Add to that it's not even like this is liberal arts or something. It's pretty damn important that you have the most competent doctors possible, not ones who flunk basic anatomy exams.

 For who is it important? We know that when Black people have Black doctors they have better patient outcomes across all types of medicine.

Do Black patients fare better with Black doctors?

Presumably those black doctors didn't flunk their medical exams and get passed through for "dIVerSiTY" though since that statistic has been around a lot longer than this kind of nonsense has been going on.

Blair, I guess...

Regardless of my various disagreements with BRTD over the years, I struggle to find a single argument as to why he should be banned or even "Temp Banned" from any Atlas Board or Sub-Board.

Hell, he as an atrocious taste in music sometimes. Continues to claim that there is no connection between "Goth" and "Emo" from a  musical perspective.

Sometimes a bit of a "Stubborn old Goat" on certain items, but ultimately not a hater in any sense.

I remember when he had a GF who briefly joined the Forum, and I did some John Lennon and Yoko Ono jokes out of love and not hatred.

To know BRTD is to love him, regardless of various major political disagreements we might have had over the decades.

Believe I posted this image at some point back in the dazys...




Now he is probably gonna hate me for posting a Grateful Dead Song here, but it is what is and BRTD is getting a bad rap from the haters out there...

Certainly more down-to-Earth than Trump+12!

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1795294092664181246

[Guys, Moreno is guaranteed to win in November.]

Guys, Moreno is guaranteed to win in November.
Trump will just hold another rally for him shortly before the election and all the MAGA voters will just extend their vote to Moreno as well. That's how Moreno won the primary.

And Trump will win Ohio by ten points.

No, he's not. He very well could win, but saying it's guaranteed against such a strong pol like Brown who's won statewide in Ohio 5 times is just silly. Brown is running great ads and has incredibly strong union support and crossover appeal.

[Biden has stayed silent on Trump’s trial. The verdict will change that.]

Biden has stayed silent on Trump’s trial. The verdict will change that.
Biden will speak at some point after the verdict, whether it be a conviction, acquittal or hung jury.

Joe Biden plans to break his vow of silence and publicly address the criminal trials Donald Trump is facing when a verdict is reached, four people familiar with internal deliberations told POLITICO.

Biden intends to initially address the verdict in a White House setting — not a campaign one — to show his statement isn’t political, according to the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

If the jury convicts Trump, Biden’s team will then argue that the result shows Trump is ill-suited for office and that it demonstrates the extremes to which the former president would go to win again. The campaign’s social media team is considering leveraging the line of attack further, with discussions underway about referring to the ex-president online as “Convicted Felon Donald Trump.”

His team is also preparing for a barrage of Republican and Trump attacks if the former president’s acquitted or if there’s a hung jury.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/24/biden-trump-trial-verdict-00159981

That's the real benefit of the verdict, especially if it's a conviction, Biden and other Democrats can finally not have their arms tied behind their back about this.

People have asked why Biden hasn't been talking about this case but Biden really really doesn't want to give Trump a free "tainted jury pool" line for appeals.

Back in 1970 Richard Nixon as President casually commented that of course Charlie Manson was guilty during the middle of the trial process. Nixon said that Manson was “guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason.” Manson's attorneys through the whole appeals process made the case that Manson's verdict should be thrown out as a public statement by the US President was incredibly prejudicial and not something the jury could avoid. Manson's strategy eventually failed but it was a pretty strong argument with a real chance of getting him off the hook.

If Biden were to come out and say "of course Trump's guilty" or publicly comment on the details of the case that'd be the biggest gift he could hand Trump.

All this ends after the verdict comes down.

I tried as well as I could to make these results make sense, but I admit that the ANC collapsing so badly is basically impossible to conceive of. I did at least find a coalition that I think could actually happen if these were the results.

With that out of the way, I actually have a question for you: what election should I do next?

Iceland has their presidential election coming up, but idk if the position is powerful enough for us to bother spending time on. Alternatively, there’s Mexico’s election. Idk which to do next, so I want to hear input from you all.