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How confident are you that [see below] has the mental and physical stamina necessary to carry out the job of president?Donald Trump Very/Somewhat 45% Not too/Not at all 54%Joe Biden Very/Somewhat 52% Not too/Not at all 45%(Monmouth U. Poll, RV, 6/26-30/20)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYdSdawgMrw
You go with what you got, not with what you want.
Trump looks like the mind has already gone.
I'll go Biden.
https://twitter.com/Soupelina/status/1279390752880164864?s=20
Just been running some errands in town. 3 mobile testing centres in action, 2 only a mile apart on the Uppingham Rd, all with a few punters. Vicki Park and Spinney Hill Park both very quiet. Food and takeaways busy, queues socially distancing well, mask wearing greater than 50% particularly amongst Asians. A few visible police strolling about. 1 pub just outside lockdown area shut, 2 others a little further out look pretty quiet, one with its carpark coned off to deter non locals.
@Charles I'm surprised to see you getting hung up on the "once in a generation" remark by Salmond like HYUFD does.
Do you agree with the principle that no Parliament can bind its successor? Do you agree that no PM/FM can bind their successors?
Constitutionally Johnson isn't bound by comments May made. Sturgeon isn't bound by comments Salmond made.
By the way, thanks to algarkirk for his amicable disagreement on the last thread (I value the friendly tone of many disputes that we get here as much as anything else on PB - conversely I agree his theses are also perfectly possible.
How is un-lockdown going elsewhere than Leicester? Haven't been out myself.
Brown saw his oxygen cut off by Biden.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/883024992/npr-reads-the-declaration-of-independence
Still, in the final analysis, the primaries were won by the guy who finished fourth and fifth in Iowa and New Hampshire. It's like Asimov's Mule, an event breaking the laws of social science.
Who then got chased out of town by the most dangerous gang there is - Big business.
Mr. Borough, something amiss?
F1: bit irked I didn't back Bottas. He was 5 for fastest in qualifying, but there we are.
Happy Independence Day.
BUT note that Brown decided not to run BEFORE Biden announced his candidacy.
From Time, March 2019 -
Ultimately, Brown concluded his path was too narrow to be viable. Much of the Democratic base has its eyes on the history-shattering candidacies of Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar or Kamala Harris. Others are thrilled by the likes of social-media darlings Cory Booker and Beto O’Rourke. All signs point to former Vice President Joe Biden jumping in the race in short order. The gruff, plain-spoken Brown had a tough path to match would-have-been rivals’ charisma. While he may have offered Democrats their best shot at a Midwest revival that is desperately needed should the party stand a chance at the White House, he was unlikely to survive a crowded primary, one adviser told TIME.
The Oaks looks a three-horse race on paper. LOVE won the 1000 Guineas and looks a top-class filly. FRANKLY DARLING beat ENNISTYMON in the Ribblesdale and you'd have to think there'd be little between them. I've not played on the race but my selection is LOVE.
The Derby looks wide open but it's easy to have doubts about a lot of the principals. ENGLISH KING won the Lingfield Derby Trial but the second that day might not be anything special and ENGLISH KING has a poor draw.
KAMEKO won the 2000 Guineas but he's a mile and a quarter horse on breeding so I oppose him. The Aidan O'Brien horses look nothing special - MOGUL may well come on from his King Edward VII run but he'll have to. RUSSIAN EMPEROR won the Hampton Court and the ground should be ideal - I think he'll go close.
PYLEDRIVER won with an enterprising ride at Ascot and he won't get that advantage again. HIGHLAND CHIEF won a handicap on soft ground last time and isn't anywhere near good enough.
I've backed MOHICAN HEIGHTS each way at 20/1. I thought he ran home well behind PYLEDRIVER at Ascot and could be staying on from the rear when others are running on fumes.
Related to age....
Two things in recent days have made me feel really old.
1) We're closer to 2050 than we are to 1990.
2) People who weren't born when The Fellowship Of The Ring was released at the cinema are now having children.
Yours sincerely a 41 year old.
Suck it up snowflakes
Just hoping the Norris bet sticks and he doesn't get penalised.
Another apt quote : "Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason." - John Harington
Have they hired Luca Badoer?
A bit like how Johnson decided not to run in 2016 before Gove announced his candidacy but after he knew Gove was going to run and that meant he wouldn't win.
It appears Ferrari forgot to do this.
I continue to find it quite staggering that we are witnessing a battle - in a defining, "culture war" election - between two septegenarians, one of whom would be an octogenarian before the end of his first term.
And neither could be said to be looking especially well on it - they both look and act not a single day under their chronological age.
https://twitter.com/LewisFeilder/status/1279315529577226240?s=20
Brown is the definition of "generic Dem" . He would have been perfect for this election.
Maybe not the best analogy.
Absolutely anyone is entitled to do so.
Why is that odd?
Exactly what Twitter was made for. Ten out of ten.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/trump-covid-economy.html
IF you want to understand why Black Lives Matter is resonating so strongly with a diverse spectrum of Americans in the wake of the killing of George Floyd - despite the wretched excesses of a small minority of anarchists, rioters & other opportunists - these key words from the Declaration of Independence are the reason.
We often fail to live up to them - their author Thomas Jefferson certainly did - but they keep ringing in our ears and appealing to what our greatest president Abraham Lincoln called "the angels of our better nature".
Edited extra bit: nice to be missed, though
Good luck.
Seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson tests positive for COVID-19, will miss Sunday's Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Speedway.
Believe JJ is biggest US sports star to contract the Creeping Crud.
PS: Hamilton another of your invisible Tories that no-one has ever heard of or would recognise if they fell over them.
Everyones talking about Nige in the pub with a pint.. he plays his enemies like a fiddle
The age profile of Georgia Covid cases is amazing, a complete inverse of Sweden's with the majority of the cases amongst young adults.
All those articles from a few weeks ago talking about why no spike after reopening, not looking so clever now...
I see Australia and Israel are also now suffering new outbreaks.