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[[deleted user]]

Good to see you participating in the democratic process, J. What are boosters?

I'm beginning to wonder if my conspiracy theory about Trump being prevented from running will prove wrong. I hope so. He seems to be gathering a real head of steam. VP pick could seal it, as long as there are no more DNC underhand shenanigans. Any ideas who it might be?

[J.]

The "boosters" are campaign volunteers who hang out at polling places and hand out flyers while they praise their candidates. By law, they have to remain a certain distance from the entrance, and they can't bribe people.

The Dems aren't done, yet.

Trump's VP is best left to Vegas odds makers until he announces.

[J.]

And Haley's done.

Nikki Haley suspends her campaign and leaves Donald Trump as the last major Republican candidate
https://apnews.com/article/nikki-hale...

[[deleted user]]

Good news for the US, bad news for the Swamp, but I still wouldn't discount her until election day, in case the swamp has some more dirty tricks to prevent Trump running.

Out of curiosity, if Trump is prevented from running AFTER picking a running mate, who would run for president? Would it automatically be the running mate or would there be a new GOP contest?

[Papaphilly]

Beau wrote: "Good news for the US, bad news for the Swamp, but I still wouldn't discount her until election day, in case the swamp has some more dirty tricks to prevent Trump running.

Out of curiosity, if Trum..."

He is going to be the choice unless he dies or is disabled. If this happens, it depends on when it happens. It probably is Nikki Hailey, but it could be a brokered convention.

[Scout]

Can you give info about a brokered convention, Papa?

And Beau said, "as long as there are no more DNC underhand shenanigans." It seems to me that they never end, instigated by the party that is so worried about Trump undermining democracy. Have you noticed that the Democrats accuse others of doing exactly what they're doing themselves?

[Graeme]

J. wrote: "And Haley's done.

Nikki Haley suspends her campaign and leaves Donald Trump as the last major Republican candidate
https://apnews.com/article/nikki-hale......"

She couldn't find enough Democrats to vote for her?

[Graeme]

Beau wrote: "Good news for the US, bad news for the Swamp, but I still wouldn't discount her until election day, in case the swamp has some more dirty tricks to prevent Trump running.

Out of curiosity, if Trum..."

One Trojan horse refused at the gate.

[[deleted user]]

Ha ha, v good, Graeme.

Thanks for the info, Papaphilly. Here's an explanation, Scout:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broke...

[Graeme]

What's the thinking here regarding Hillary C as a replacement for Biden?

[J.]

Parachuting HRC into the Dem presidential slot could very well kick off the Boogaloo.

[[deleted user]]

If they did that, Graeme, they'd be knocked out by a boomerang, launched by themselves.

They have 3 possible cards to play:

1. Prevent Trump running.
2. Hope Biden lives and if he doesn't, pretend he's still alive.
3. Parachute in Michelle Obama.

Only the first one is guaranteed to stop Trump becoming President again, but the cost will be that 1/2 the population will know their country's entire political and legal system is a sham. Eventually, this will result in the country's breakdown.

[Nik]

You are too hasty to discount Biden, or more correctly - anti-Trump sentiment among many Americans. Although Biden polls low at the moment, there is still plenty of time. With such an unfortunate (in my opinion) pair anything can happen

[Nik]

That would probably be a deviation from decades long tradition

[Nik]

Our media is mentioning that Bidie looked eloquent and energetic during his 2 hours long speech. If anyone cared to watch, would appreciate shared impressions.

[[deleted user]]

Nik, he was drugged and vaccined up. He's probably died since the speech happened.

[Nik]

If they invented viagra, some brain 🧠 stimulator can be a go too. Dying would be unfortunate

[[deleted user]]

Sorry, what I said was cruel. I hope he enjoys a long and happy retirement in Florida, under the care of Gov DeSantis, but as President, he needs to go now. No amount of brain viagra can disguise that.

[Nik]

Elections will retire at least one of them, but then they change the Constitution to allow J. Carter/B. Clint run 🏃 vs George double u

[Graeme]

Beau wrote: "Nik, he was drugged and vaccined up. He's probably died since the speech happened."

Or he died before hand and it was his stunt double .... 😁😉😎

[Graeme]

Beau wrote: "Nik, he was drugged and vaccined up. He's probably died since the speech happened."

Looks like a cocktail of meth to me. Look at the eyes, the guy's wired.

REF: From the SOTU: https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/s...

(Off the point ... but ...) I think he's talking about Maui here...

(Later) Now that the meth has worn off...

REF: RNC: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/stat...

[[deleted user]]

Graeme, although I've always respected you and Adrian, after just watching a game of Aussie Rules, I've now fallen in love with Australia again.

Anyway, I don't discount what you said. In fact, when Biden appeared on our 6 o' clock news, Mrs Beau, who is an expert in organic skin care, said he didn't look real. She thought there could be wires and microchips hidden below the surface of his skin. She even mooted the possibility of him being a robot. Who am I to dispute trusted, expert opinion?

This possibility is worrying for America, and for wider mankind. The sooner the 6'3, 230lb, A-grade physical specimen, President Donald J Trump, is back in power, the better for all of us..

[Graeme]

Beau wrote: "Who am I to dispute trusted, expert opinion?..."

I have the same survival instinct. 😉

[[deleted user]]

Having just analysed Graeme's compelling evidence showing that the POTUS is a meth head, I'm gravely concerned. A drug addict has his finger on the nuclear button. He needs to resign immediately and go into rehab, in the free state of Florida.

Who is supplying him, that is the question? 'Walter' Clinton? 'Jessie' Pelosi? Or Newsom's ruthless cartel?

Forget Sleepy Joe, Creepy Joe and Uncle Joe. Now it's Breaking Biden - a danger to all clean living, God fearing Americans.

[Graeme]

Beau wrote: "Having just analysed Graeme's compelling evidence showing that the POTUS is a meth head, I'm gravely concerned. A drug addict has his finger on the nuclear button. He needs to resign immediately an..."

When Hunter says, "10% for the big guy," he's apparently talking about sharing his personal stash.

[J.]

So...

During is speech, Uncle Joe slurred "Lincoln Riley". Her name was Laken Riley. While jogging, she was attacked and beaten to death by an illegal alien.
https://people.com/laken-riley-killin...

Because Uncle Joe decried her murderer as an "illegal", the libs got upset.
https://youtube.com/shorts/u2ArPSLuP0...

Of course, the illegal in question came into the country in 2022, during the surge for which Biden had asked.
https://youtu.be/rYwLYMPLYbo?si=QkCWH...

For comparison, here is a clip from Clinton's 1995 SOTU.
https://youtu.be/1IrDrBs13oA?si=yp2gJ...

[Nik]

Took a quick glance at random parts. Bidie indeed looks and speaks Ok. As it seemingly happened at attendance, a bionic robot could fool some of them

[[deleted user]]

Ha ha! Nice one, Graeme. I'd forgotten about Hunter!

[J.]

While y'all are debating the merits of meth vs cocaine, enjoy the laugh.
https://youtu.be/MM1-0_cve1o?si=eD5Dr...

[Nik]

Even in J’s uncensored version, he looks kinda talkative

[Papaphilly]

Scout wrote: "Can you give info about a brokered convention, Papa?

And Beau said, "as long as there are no more DNC underhand shenanigans." It seems to me that they never end, instigated by the party that is so..."


A brokered convention is one where no candidate receives enough delegate votes to win the nomination on the first ballot. If no candidate gets enough votes to win the nomination, it goes to a floor vote. At that point the party bosses get together and try to hammer out a deal on the candidates. This is where the Super Delegates the Democrats have come into play. They do not vote on the first ballot, but then on the second ballot they are allowed. A Super Delegate is nothing more than an undeclared delegate to any one candidate.

I would suspect it is a candidate with the most votes already, but it can be anyone. So the thought is that Gavin Newsom could be the candidate at the convention if Biden fails to live or drops out for whatever reason.

[Papaphilly]

Nik wrote: "You are too hasty to discount Biden, or more correctly - anti-Trump sentiment among many Americans. Although Biden polls low at the moment, there is still plenty of time. With such an unfortunate (..."

I have been saying exactly what you just wrote. This is going to be a nail biter. It is a debacle, nobody can beat Trump in the Republicans, but they very same candidates ALL beat Biden. Trump is the one candidate the can unite the Democrats against him to vote. The one policy to watch against the Republicans is the abortion issue. I think it is going to bite them badly.

[Graeme]

Nik wrote: "Even in J’s uncensored version, he looks kinda talkative"

Indeed, given Biden's perceived performance in the SOTU, my prediction that he will be replaced before November is somewhat tarnished...

If he keeps this up, I'll have to throw away my crystal ball.

[Papaphilly]

Graeme wrote: "Nik wrote: "Even in J’s uncensored version, he looks kinda talkative"

Indeed, given Biden's perceived performance in the SOTU, my prediction that he will be replaced before November is somewhat ta..."

We are ten months out from the general election. This is normal for us. Nobody gets replaced, they are the standard bearer and nobody is going to replace an incumbent. However, if there was a good candidate and that candidate start to run away with the nomination process, then I could have seen Joe go at that point. That did happen in 1968.

[Graeme]

@Papa.

Still plenty of time for someone of his vintage to have a medical emergency between now and November.

We'll see how this plays out.

[Scout]

Lots of interesting stuff here. First, Graeme, please don't hex us by even mentioning Hillary. If I had to watch and listen to her for 4 years, I'd be constantly depressed and annoyed.

And, Beau, Michelle has said she won't run. Anyone who read her autobiography as I did (I was curious about what she was thinking when in the White House) would know that she didn't want Barack to run, doesn't like Washington politics and having her freedom curtailed by it, and wouldn't voluntarily go back there.

[Scout]

I watched Biden's speech, and he jumped the low bar I set for him by not becoming completely lost (although he teetered on the brink a couple of times). He spoke so fast that it did seem he was on something, and I'd like to know what they gave him. Whom do you guys think his speech was aimed at? Conservative or liberal Democrats? And was he trying to unify the country, as he promised to do in his campaign speeches?

Concerning the robot theory, that's not why he looks the way he does. If you think back, every time he knows he's going to be on camera for any length of time, he has several days beforehand when he disappears from view. I think this is when he has botox and other cosmetic treatments to make him look younger - but they've started making him look unnatural instead.

[Scout]

J., thanks for that Clinton clip about illegal immigration. Those were the days when Democrats had common sense. Now, it's something Trump would say. What happened?

[Scout]

Thanks, Beau and Papa, for explaining a brokered convention. What would have to occur for Democrats and/or Republicans to have a brokered convention this year?

[J.]

Trump in a cell or Biden in a casket.

[Graeme]

Regarding my Meth assessment, I'm not alone.

A professional weighs in.

REF: https://twitter.com/OlgaBazova/status...

[Scout]

"The U.S. Constitution specifies in clear language the qualifications required to hold the office of the presidency. In Section 1, Clause 5 of Article II, it states: “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”

These three requirements – natural-born citizenship, age, and residency – are the only specifications set forth in the United States’ founding document."

Trump in a cell doesn't disqualify him.

[Scout]

I can believe that Biden was on amphetamines. Compare his SOTU speech to his behavior the next day, which Graeme posted:

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/stat...

[Nik]

He can unify Americans by legalizing amphetamine and giving out some :)

[J.]

You know how America leads the Free World in prison population and how those prisoners are disproportionately black? That is in no small part due to the Crime Bill which established mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes and set punishments an order of magnitude more draconian for crack than for cocaine. Joe Biden used to brag how he wrote that bill. At the same time he was bragging his son was snorting and smoking to his heart's content. That's why Uncle Joe is a hypocritical cracker who put more black men in prison than Apartheid.

[Nik]

That sounds grave and I doubt you have less drugs as the result

[Papaphilly]

Scout wrote: "Thanks, Beau and Papa, for explaining a brokered convention. What would have to occur for Democrats and/or Republicans to have a brokered convention this year?"

I think both would have to have deaths or debilitating illness. In Trump's case maybe a guilty verdict with jail time on the Mar-a-Lago. I do not see him going to trial before the election although I do see this case as a real problem for him. I do not see Trump with his ego stepping aside at all and Biden is the incumbent and the Democrats have rigged the run up to the nomination only for him alone. If he stepped aside, the party would bein disarray.

[[deleted user]]

Nik, I don't want to damage the group's structural integrity, but this is more of a political post than a musical one. What's more, it's BREAKING NEWS...

Most US political campaigns have stirring campaign songs, by artists such as Bruce Springsteen, which convey a feeling of the candidate's all-American values, help rally the troops, and attract new voters.

And, as active group members will realise by now, Beau is politically in the know, so I'm now able to bring you EXCLUSIVE news of Joe Biden's 2024 Presidential Election campaign song:

https://youtu.be/txKWzW1rdy4?si=Aqdn3...-

[Nik]

Nice beat, the geezer seems hectic. The group might survive this musical onslaught, albeit sustain critical damage

[Papaphilly]

Beau wrote: "Nik, I don't want to damage the group's structural integrity, but this is more of a political post than a musical one. What's more, it's BREAKING NEWS...

Most US political campaigns have stirring ..."

Maybe it should be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaGzw...