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Rather curious that at a time like this Zelensky has chosen to visit Ireland.

Where he was welcomed by President Connolly.

Wiki:

"Ideologically left-wing, Connolly describes herself as a socialist and pacifist.[4] A supporter of Irish neutrality, her foreign policy views were described by Politico as "often anti-Western";[5] she is critical of NATO, the European Union's increased military and defence spending and general European militarisation.[6] Connolly has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has also described NATO's attitude toward Russia as "warmongering".

Fat lot of use she is.

You see the Irish have no experience of a neighbour invading and occupying them, if they did they would be more positive to Ukraine.

Even our Green Party, with probably reluctance, said NATO had a legitimate role to play though.

I have always felt that the crucial test for any Democratic candidate is whether you can imagine them being able to rock up to a bar and talk with ordinary working Americans.

You could imagine Joe Biden doing that before age did for him. But never, in a million years, Kamala or Hillary.

Mark Kelly? Yep.

Your crucial test is very much a bloke's test, so it's no surprise Kamala and Hillary fail. Same over here - the "who'd be good company and fun to have a pint with in a pub?" test has a male bias.

I’d imagine both Hilary and Kamala would probably be fascinating company over a drink. I appreciate I’m not the US presidential target audience, but I think Democrats are often guilty of drinking too much of the Republican koolaid.

John McCain once referred to Hilary as '...a hell of a gal.' I think we can take it they got on well. Not sure, but I think she likes a tipple and can hold her liquor.

But they are both swifts, and girly swots at that. For a small but apparently decisive slice of the US electorate, that's enough to rule them out. It shouldn't, but it does.

I thought for a moment you meant John McCain.

"Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️
@LeftieStats

➡️ REF: 31% (+4)
🔵 CON: 21% (+1)
🔴 LAB: 20% (-2)
🟠 LD: 12% (-1)
🟢 GRN: 8% (+2)
🟣 YP: 4% (-4)

Via
@Moreincommon_
, 28 Nov-1 Dec (+/- vs July)"

https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1995827789380157840

• This poll from MoreInCommon: https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1995827789380157840
  
• The previous poll from MoreInCommon: https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1991108455600644575
  

The current poll is being compared with a hypothetical MIC poll containing YP from July, not from the last MIC.

I know. That was the point I was making. They're picking the wrong comparator

Nah, YP are in the main prompts with this poll and the July poll, usually YP aren’t prompted, they are lumped in with others.

Have you come across this concept, @Foxy ?

Leavitt claims that Trump had a "preventative" MRI
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1995567329082487122

Baseline + trend monitoring is quite common although i wouldn’t use “preventative” to describe it. But it’s costly so I doubt the NHS does it outside of high risk categories

However it was interesting that Leavitt went into a lot of data about cardio and abdominal. What about neurovascular?

There are all manner of theories.
This one is quite ingenious.

The drug to treat Alzheimers, Leqembi, requires regular MRIs of the head due to potential brain bleeds as a side effect. It is given by infusion. The multiple MRIs along with his hand bruising at regular intervals all point* to him getting Lewembi infusions for Alzheimers.
https://x.com/lorimariemarie/status/1989524466620395676

*They could point to a lot of other things, of course

Not enough advantage in treatment for the NHS to buy it, apparently.