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I got a feeling that while the republicans are freaking out about the thought of kennedy taking votes from them when election come RFK jr going to take  a good percentage of the votes from joe.

Do the "Ukraine must be part of NATO" people not realize that is the only reason Putin needs to invade?     lol

Bush nor Obama should have treated NATO expansion into Eastern Europe as the doctrinaire imperative they did.  If the point of the NATO alliance is to make the U.S. and our allies safer, then dangling eventual membership for Ukraine has had the opposite effect.

Russia's invasion has been a complete strategic failure in this way. NATO's been expanding ever since they invaded which is precisely what the war was intended to stop, Finland and Sweden already joined and Bosnia and Georgia probably will too, and others are probably coming. He's scared everyone into NATO's arms instead of the other way around.

The idea of Ukraine joining NATO is to enforce whatever the new borders will be and deter a further attack. Ceding territory to Russia and lifting sanctions so the state media can spin it as a victory for the brainwashed public there while Ukraine joins NATO and the EU to ensure its independence has always been the best case scenario here.

I accepted that Trump might get back in but we know whom the fall gal is Harris whom just opened offices in FL and R state due to abortion

The problem with Prez Biden is always Hunter we knew he was scandaled

Another big issue with polling is it suggests a pretty massive re-alignment despite not all that much changing since 2020; the candidates are the same and general messaging is simillar from both sides. There hasn’t been some massive recession or world war.

Elections that prompt large re-alignments have unique circumstances from previous elections like the recession + Obama in 2008 or going from Romney —> Trump in 2016.

https://twitter.com/WedgeLIVE/status/1792426479298458049

Crimea+Donetsk+Luhansk going to Russia and Ukraine joining NATO (or some other defensive agreement that has teeth to ensure this doesn't happen again) is the absolute floor. Ideally of course, Russia leaving entirely and Ukraine joining NATO, but that seems unlikely.

One of the few serious posts here and about what I would say.

Good lord Putin got under you guys's skin with the election interference stuff which is about the only reason I can think of why you're being so intense about this. You wuss out in Afghanistan, want Israel to roll over and just let Hamas take over their country, but then you don't want Ukraine to give up one foot of land even if it means WWII casualties. Some of you are even talking about regime change in Russia which presumably means starting WWIII and invading and hoping it goes better than all the other times in history that's been tried.

As I've said before if this is what it looks like when you're on someone's side in a war than you clearly weren't on the US's side against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

A final vote is beginning.

Nay

What worries me more is honestly the rise of pseudo-academic racists on these social media platforms, many verging on eugenics and stuff. Elon Musk has recently been engaging with a lot of these types on X.

The Los Angeles Unified School District is only 10% White; Boston Public Schools only 15%. 

Even public schools located in predominantly White neighborhoods (like University High School in Brentwood) are less than 20% White.  It's mostly because rich, White parents opt to send their kids to private schools.   

OK and my statement still stands, lol.

Your statement is irrelevant.  Both big city private schools and rural "segregation academies" serve mostly White families in areas where the overwhelming majority of school-aged children are non-White, and thus perpetuate racial segregation.