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The pressure mounts on Biden not to run in WH2024 – politicalbetting.com
The pressure mounts on Biden not to run in WH2024 – politicalbetting.com
It does not take long searching on YouTube to find compilation videos like the one above showing gaffes by 80 year old Joe Biden. As we look forward to WH2024 the incumbent’s age is becoming the big issue.
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No. Sixth like Rees-Mogg Jr
Moreover, their view is that they have decided when it comes to Harris to,
use a phrase, put the lipstick on the pig and see if it works. Her political history suggests she is quite happy to switch opinions in self-interest. So, have a President Harris for let's say 12 months, with an improving economy, and she may just make it.
"The Whale" film.
Audience rating 91%
Critics rating 65%
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_whale_2022
Is there an actual “Next President” market anywhere, as opposed to “President sworn in on Jan 20, 2025” market?
Rather, digital MEDIA should have stayed, and digital TECHNOLOGY and INFRA should have moved.
I’m far from convinced Sunak has a clue.
These re-orgs don’t especially signal big priorities and cause some months of internal distraction when presumably every week counts for Tory electoral chances.
Like Reagan, sunny-ish experience beats gloomy inexperience (DeSantis) or corrupt stupidity (Trump).
Biden also has a great record, so far.
Better, perhaps, than any President since Clinton and sheer getting-stuff-done.
I agree he would ideally need a new VP though.
Will write up that report at some point, got busy over the weekend, kids and all that.
Alternatively each poll sample is likely to have little margin of error movements here there, let’s spread out 9 Savanta in a row and see if there is any noticeable movement month on month over that time.
I accept there is a small slice of the general population and a larger slice indeed of membership that likes what Lee Anderson says.
But I propose that it is smaller than the number of people who think he is absolute arse.
Last year, would anyone have backed @MoonRabbit over @HYUFD for ToryRamper2023 ??
Biden has also proved he can beat Trump unlike any other Democrats
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/skinamarink
She is Hillary without the charisma
"Spain spends €258m to build trains too big for its tunnels
The embarrassing blunder led to a blame game between Renfe, Spain’s national rail operator, and Adif, the track company, while the country’s Left-wing coalition government also came under fire for failing to notice the error.
Raquel Sanchez, the country’s transport minister, admitted that an “error” had been made and promised those responsible would be dismissed.
Renfe announced that its rolling stock manager had been fired along with Adif’s technology inspectorate head.
The trains must now be redesigned to ensure they can pass safely through tunnels on their intended routes. The first services will not begin until 2026 at the earliest, two years later than expected."
Biden is vastly superior.
Would they really be in so deep if they had toughed it out with Boris for the full Parliamentary term? He was taking a midterm hammering from the media, but the polling wasn’t stuck anywhere near this crisis level.
The sack Boris to win the next election by giving someone else a try just just has not worked. Winning the next election is not losing all an eighty seat majority, or somehow clinging to power. It’s hard to see where the swingback for that is going to come from, so the objective now is hope for a hung Parliament and avoid such a reduction in seats coming back to government doesn’t seem such a mountain to climb?
And if she doesn't get the votes, she doesn't get the votes.
But the amount of time for that is diminishing rapidly. Biden would have to resign as POTUS this year. And I think, if he's not standing again, he'll want to run out his term.
This is probably right, too:
… It is very difficult to argue other than that the 80 year old is simply too old and frail to contemplate a second presidential campaign and the possibility if he succeeded of serving as president until his late 80s.
Problem is that Mike consistently said much the same before the last election, as did many others. Biden proved us all wrong then, so it’s going to be pretty hard to dislodge him if he’s determined to run.
Timing, or run with whichever of those two has the better chance even if neither is optimal.
There are many clips of Trump where he comes across as a complete and utter a*sehole. Biden comes across as kind but doddery.
Vote for the dotard, or vote for the insane liar? That comment is foully libellous. But it's so easy to imagine the alt-right side of a Trump campaign running with that kind of thing.
https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles-1975-online
And yes, there is a lot of potato peeling in it. Particularly well done in the second act.
A really interesting film, though builds very slowly.
There’s also an angle in how deep does US intelligence, security and Military go are in distrusting, fear and loathing Trump, the investment in Ukraine for example, so if Trump did start to look like a winner they would like, do stuff?
Do voters in the Red Wall believe the Government is currently taking the right measures to address the cost-of-living crisis? (5 February)
No 70% (+7)
Yes 18% (-4)
Don't know 13% (-2)
Changes +/- 23 January
https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1623018941109895171
You analogy is very silly.
Braverman, Raab*, Barclay, Dowden, Frazer, and Jenrick.
*Originally went to the dump then realised he needed to go the best.
At one level, they had (and I've used one), a permanent way trolley would be run through structures, with a low wooden structure to pick up widths (as platform distances are a killer). Nowadays, with unusual rolling stock, they do a proving run.
Goods depots (as was pre 1970) used to have a loading gauge, to check everything loaded was within gauge.
But I have never, ever, seen a picture of a mock-up of a full loading gauge run up and down the line. And I've seen pictures of wooden huts built on the front of steam locos, so that engineers could measure smokebox pressures...
The problem is one of dynamics. A trolley containing a wooded and tin-plate structure being run through at 10MPH exhibits very different behaviour to one being run through at 60 MPH. They sway, and in a way that is quite hard to model. Running one through can be the best way - especially with modern 'mind the gap' concerns with accessibility.
Although in this discussion, it should be remembered that Spain recently built submarines that could sink very well, but not surface:
https://www.military.com/military-life/how-misplaced-decimal-point-nearly-took-down-spains-newest-submarines.html
And BTW, this is a brilliant site - if you can stand the Web 1.0 formatting:
http://www.traintesting.com/
Keeping up with UK Prime Ministers would be challenging for someone half his age
Although you appear to have risen above the disadvantage of your education in a way they didn't.
I fear for the horror that will now inevitably befall Lucy Frazer.
You're wrong on your final point. Biden is very hands-on. The effectiveness comes from him, not competent underlings.
Perhaps President Biden ought, if challenged about his age, adopt the same attitude as then-President Reagan did when challenged by Walter Mondale in 1984.
Many of the arguments being used about Biden now were used against Reagan then and there's a general concensus Reagan's eight years were among the most successful in recent American history.
Redfield & Wilton has its latest round of Red Wall polling - last evening's UK-wide poll had a swing of 19.5% in England. Tonight's Red Wall has a swing of 16% from Conservative to labour so that begs the question as to whether the Conservatives are actually doing worse in some of their core areas then the national UNS would suggest.
The 2019 Conservative vote splits 51% Conservative, 18% Labour and 17% Don't Know which is a little better than last night's UK-wide numbers.
Trying to think whether we’ve ever had a cabinet minister who was senile. Not that I can think of. They tend to be a bit younger in the UK.
If the Democrats force Biden to stand aside then Trump will most likely win a second term. Harris will lose to him, as will Mayor Pete. Who else is there?
Having been critical of @hyufd re his views on inheritance I am almost certainly going to do what he suggests. I am going to inherit half of a small semi. I can't spend the money I currently have before I die so will probably pass my inheritance to my children. Sigh.