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If the Tories have any sense they should stop him from running this as a presidential campaign immediately.

Thank god they have a minister for common sense, surely they’ll have the sense to right the ship!

Is it that time of the month again?

Biden isn't going to be replaced, and wasn't ever since he announced in April 2023. Unless there's a sudden change in his health, he's going to be the nominee. End of story.

My initial impression is that, since Israel isn't known for using incendiary devices, the missile strike set off something like a gas cannister and triggered a major fire that way.

Which is really something that should have been thought about before authorising a strike like that.

I suspect it has been 'thought about' and the response is that it's proportionate in each and every case.

Any real consideration for Palestinian civilians died on October 7.

Con to Lab switchers care about the economy and public services, while Con to Reform switchers are basically single issue anti-immigration voters.

Relatedly, Reform voters are once again shown to be very disproportionately politically engaged, which makes their underperformance in basically every election even odder (read likely big polling error).

Maybe it's more a matter of the *quality* of said disproportionate political engagement, i.e. a higher share of social-media-monopolizing shut-ins--that is, they're the reason the "do not read the comment threads" news-link rule of thumb exists...

But surely such people should be an outsized share of the minority of people who vote in low turnout elections, given they would be so happy to push their opinions. On that note, I see very little pro-Reform comments on social media, but a much larger number of ideologically Reform comments. If even the politically engaged don’t seem to have fully taken notice of Reform, I’m sceptical that more ordinary members of the public with Reform adjacent views are actually intending to vote for them. I mean, Reform are apparently as popular as UKIP were in 2015 according to the polls, but there’s next to no evidence of this in the real world whether data or anecdotes.

He did accurately guess the city where Osama bin Laden was hiding out (and bin Laden had a copy of the documentary he made the guess in on his hard drive…)

https://twitter.com/BidensWins/status/1794900255580000740

I have read hardly any Chomsky, and have never been one of his "followers".

Simple question - did the US, or did it not, massively bomb Cambodia despite the fact that it was a NEUTRAL COUNTRY in the war?? Causing huge destruction and loss of innocent life.

I mean, the KR itself said that nothing did more to bring them to power. And it was observed by many at the time and so wasn't a result of your pet bogeyman brainwashing people.

The reality is that the Vietnam War, like the Iraq War more recently, was both totally indefensible and did massive harm to the standing of America in the wider world.

As I thought you have absolutely nothing.  No evidence,  no theory,  an uncited claim the KM asserted something which even if true proves nothing. Because it is not true, and it makes no sense for it to be.


North Vietnam invaded Cambodia with 100,000 troops and drove the Royal Cambodian Army out of a third of the country. Maybe the foriegn Communist Army which armed the Khmer Rouge had a greater role than the poorly executed ARVN operation which failed to drive them out?

Yes, I guess you could argue a better executed operation would have prevented it. But the failure of the Bay of Pigs can be blamed for the lack of democracy in Cuba too. The closest thing is backing Lon Nol was a strategic mistake in the same way allowing the overthrow of Diem turned out to be.

In short you are proving the point.  This is boo,er mythology spread by people who neither have any knowledge of the period or any interest in it

Replacing Biden would lead to an almost certain loss. It’s just not a good look. The time to replace him would have been through the primary system. The only way it wouldn’t be a disaster is if he needed to be replaced because he was sick/ passed away.

The 'genocide' accusation is not simply a good-faith misuse of terminology. It's part of a concerted attempt to trivialize the Holocaust and draw an equivalency between Israel and Nazi Germany. The goal of recasting Israelis as the 'new Nazis' is to win global acquiescence for the destruction of Israel. Who after all would want to defend a country that's 'genocidal'?

Unfortunately I believe that's the case with most people who use the term. Accusing Israel of committing war crimes is equally grievous but apparently it lacks the historic connotations these so-called humanists desire.

It's a roll of the dice, but it might.

Biden is less popular than the party and running behind many of its Senate candidates. Even a mediocrity like Harris could pull things in their direction. It's one thing to have a candidate who is merely uninspiring, and quite another to have a doddering, out-of-touch figure dragging the party down.

This is all the more important because Democrats are missing out on an opportunity to lay down an obvious contrast with Republicans. It's hard to keep voters focused on Trump's age-related decline when your own candidate is confusedly reading stage directions off of the teleprompter and seeming to forget what year it is.