WestCanMan

De Nile is in Egypt. It's close, but not that close. Also, did you just collude with Russia or are you saying that Trump just made Putin to do his dirty work for him, so that Trump could take the credit? Do you really think Trump's that much of a genius? Calm down man...

If what you are saying is even remotely true then Trump's administration would be indistinguishable from Obama's and it's night and day. Obama was all about globalism, international concessions, racial division and islam. Trump is all about America & Nato, trade agreements which work for the US, Americans and Judeo-Christianity. As POTUS Trump sets policy and his Generals are there to provide the military strategies to achieve them whenever it's necessary to use force. For sure Trump isn't drawing x's and o's on the board, and conducting the co-ordination of the army, air force and navy like a virtuoso, but he listens to the various proposals and makes the command decision, the US military executes it. For example, when it comes to the killing of Suleimani, Trump probably didn't know anything about him before he took office. The spooks who identified Suleimani as a high-priority target to Trump probably knew what Suleimani ate for breakfast on most days since 2005. They probably had options in place for taking him out on almost every single day in the past ten years. Still, when that day came that an American was killed at an embassy under Trump's watch, Trump's the guy who says "Name a high-profile target that we can hit militarily to show Iran what's up." Generals put forward a number of options, what the probable success of those options is, how such attacks will be perceived by Americans and their allies and the world, how Iran would be forced to react to each scenario.... I bet Trump had 5 to 10 completely different options to choose from, some of them involving an allied presence either with other middle-eastern players, NATO allies, Turkey specifically, etc. But the main point is that Trump wanted an eye for an eyelash. Obama wouldn't even have gone looking for blood. He'd be too busy chillin' with BLM at the Whitehouse, watching the riots. Trump chose Suleimani because it fits Trump's MO to a tee. The op had an extremely low body count, it was utra-high priority strike militarily, it was a huge psychological blow to Iran's leadership because it showed them that he was willing to play the regicide game instead of the attrition game, and it was a blow to the Iranian people who thought that their military was just like the big boys. Trump went right to checkmate in one move. Iran took a pawn, Trump bit the head right off the snake. Obama would have opined & whined and droned on about peace, some more Americans would have been killed in another attack on another embassy somewhere else in a few days or a week, there would be an investigation into why Americans were constantly getting killed, and then they'd just sit back and wait to get smacked in the mouth somewhere else again. 3.5 years into Trump's administration America is losing the "bully" image, because they're not starting any new ME campaigns, and yet they're looking even stronger as a nation because Trump put the boots to islamic state and then he gob-smacked Iran when they nipped at his heels. America has only reacted in the ME under Trump, they haven't stirred the pot. That's a huge deal because the islamic world loves to hate on America. They call the US for help and then the second America leaves they bemoan America's hostility, and add the latest campaign to the laundry list of "transgressions". Trump didn't play the game that way. It's a new game, and the old game is looking pretty sad by comparison. TRUMP

Rachel Maddow seems pretty passionate about what she's saying. Even if she knows that she's lying (and I don't think it's possible for her not to be aware that everything she says is wrong) she seems very excited to do it.

Wrong. I'm saying that if Pelosi would have been saying "we should do this" at the start, and in the end she was proven to be right, then she would have ample room to bash Trump. Nancy was worse than Trump. The Dems were not talking about Covid at all in January and the first part of Feb except to bash the travel ban. When he did the right things they all said that he was racist and then Nancy had a party in Chinatown which was the exact opposite of social distancing. Dems all over the country were giving the exact wrong advice to people until at least the last week of Feb, if not later. If the coronavirus can take over people's brains and influence their vote, they will all vote for the Dems. DEMS NEED TO STFU because they were the most useless, harmful idiots in the country back when Americans needed their politicians to do and say the right things. Trump did listen to his health advisors. He was even ahead of them on closing off travel from China. When he started shutting down the country there weren't even 100 covid deaths yet. You're forgetting that he has more than one person giving him advice. If the POTUS always acted on the advice of the scaredest person in the room then Russia would have been nuked back in the '70s. Re: Canada, if Canadian Conservatives were agreeing that Trudeau was right to say "don't wear masks" and "Banning travel from China is racist and unnecessary" then we wouldn't have any great reason to say that Trudeau is a total fucking moron. I don't know any Conservatives who were agreeing with Trudeau back when he was saying that the travel ban was racist. I don't know any Conservatives who were saying that Trudeau was right to say "don't wear masks". So Conservatives were totally right about those things and they have every right to criticize the village idiot for his awful decisions. Close to 5,000 people died for no other reason than Trudeau is a moron. Not only that, the virus spread far more here than it should have, and as a result businesses are still closed, schools are still closed, etc, so there is a massive economic impact to his stupidity as well. You're right, many world leaders "failed". Some got a 99%, like Japan and SoKo. Some got a 60%, like Trump (all Trump did wrong was shut down the whole country too late). Some got a 25%, like Andrew Cuomo (put those old sickies back in the care homes). Trudeau was the only world leader I know that got 0%. Trudeau was just as late as Trump to start practicing extreme social distancing, but Trudeau didn't ban travel from covid hotspots and he gave the bad advice of "don't wear masks".

Nuclear energy isn't the be-all, end all. Or maybe it is: Nuclear plant accidents and incidents with multiple fatalities and/or more than US$100 million in property damage, 1952-2011[10][25][27] Date Location of accident Description of accident or incident Dead Cost ($US millions 2006) INES level[28] September 29, 1957 Mayak, Kyshtym, Soviet Union The Kyshtym disaster was a radiation contamination accident (after a chemical explosion that occurred within a storage tank) at Mayak, a Nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Soviet Union. Estimated 200 possible cancer fatalities[29] 6 October 10, 1957 Sellafield aka Windscale fire, Cumberland, United Kingdom A fire at the British atomic bomb project (in a plutonium-production-reactor) damaged the core and released an estimated 740 terabecquerels of iodine-131 into the environment. A rudimentary smoke filter constructed over the main outlet chimney successfully prevented a far worse radiation leak. 0 direct, estimated up to 240 possible cancer victims[30] 5 January 3, 1961 Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States Explosion at SL-1 prototype at the National Reactor Testing Station. All 3 operators were killed when a control rod was removed too far. 3 22 4 October 5, 1966 Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan, United States Meltdown of some fuel elements in the Fermi 1 Reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station. Little radiation leakage into the environment. 0 132[31] January 21, 1969 Lucens reactor, Vaud, Switzerland On January 21, 1969, it suffered a loss-of-coolant accident, leading to meltdown of one fuel element and radioactive contamination of the cavern, which before was sealed. 0 4 December 7, 1975 Greifswald, East Germany Electrical error in Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant causes fire in the main trough that destroys control lines and five main coolant pumps 0 443 3 January 5, 1976 Jaslovské Bohunice, Czechoslovakia Malfunction during fuel replacement. Fuel rod ejected from reactor into the reactor hall by coolant (CO2).[32] 2 1,700 4 March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, United States Loss of coolant and partial core meltdown due to operator errors and technical flaws. There is a small release of radioactive gases. See also Three Mile Island accident health effects. 0 2,400 5 September 15, 1984 Athens, Alabama, United States Safety violations, operator error and design problems force a six-year outage at Browns Ferry Unit 2. 0 110 March 9, 1985 Athens, Alabama, United States Instrumentation systems malfunction during startup, which led to suspension of operations at all three Browns Ferry Units 0 1,830 April 11, 1986 Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Recurring equipment problems force emergency shutdown of Boston Edison's Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant 0 1,001 April 26, 1986 Chernobyl, Chernobyl Raion (Now Ivankiv Raion), Kiev Oblast, Ukraininan SSR, Soviet Union A flawed reactor design and inadequately trained personnel led to a failed backup generator test. This test led to a power surge which overheated the fuel rods of reactor no. 4 of the Chernobyl power plant, causing an explosion and meltdown, necessitating the evacuation of 300,000 people and dispersing radioactive material across Europe (see Effects of the Chernobyl disaster). Around 5% (5200 PBq) of the core was released into the atmosphere and downwind. 28 direct, 19 not entirely related and 15 minors due to thyroid cancer, as of 2008.[33][34]Estimated up to 4000 possible cancer deaths.[35] 6,700 7 May 4, 1986 Hamm-Uentrop, West Germany Experimental THTR-300 reactor releases small amounts of fission products (0.1 GBq Co-60, Cs-137, Pa-233) to surrounding area 0 267 December 9, 1986 Surry, Virginia, United States Feedwater pipe break at Surry Nuclear Power Plant kills 4 workers 4 March 31, 1987 Delta, Pennsylvania, United States Peach Bottom units 2 and 3 shutdown due to cooling malfunctions and unexplained equipment problems 0 400 December 19, 1987 Lycoming, New York, United States Malfunctions force Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation to shut down Nine Mile Point Unit 1 0 150 March 17, 1989 Lusby, Maryland, United States Inspections at Calvert Cliff Units 1 and 2 reveal cracks at pressurized heater sleeves, forcing extended shutdowns 0 120 March 1992 Sosnovyi Bor, Leningrad Oblast, Russia An accident at the Sosnovy Bor nuclear plant leaked radioactive iodine into the air through a ruptured fuel channel. February 20, 1996 Waterford, Connecticut, United States Leaking valve forces shutdown Millstone Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 and 2, multiple equipment failures found 0 254 September 2, 1996 Crystal River, Florida, United States Balance-of-plant equipment malfunction forces shutdown and extensive repairs at Crystal River Unit 3 0 384 September 30, 1999 Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan Tokaimura nuclear accident killed two workers, and exposed one more to radiation levels above permissible limits. 2 54 4 February 16, 2002 Oak Harbor, Ohio, United States Severe corrosion of reactor vessel head forces 24-month outage of Davis-Besse reactor 0 143 3 April 10, 2003 Paks, Hungary Collapse of fuel rods at Paks Nuclear Power Plant unit 2 during its corrosion cleaning led to leakage of radioactive gases. It remained inactive for 18 months. 0 3 August 9, 2004 Fukui Prefecture, Japan Steam explosion at Mihama Nuclear Power Plant kills 4 workers and injures 7 more 4 9 1 July 25, 2006 Forsmark, Sweden An electrical fault at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant caused multiple failures in safety systems that had the reactor to cool down 0 100 2 March 11, 2011 Fukushima, Japan A tsunami flooded and damaged the plant's 3 active reactors, drowning two workers. Loss of backup electrical power led to overheating, meltdowns, and evacuations.[36] One man died suddenly while carrying equipment during the clean-up.[37] The plant's reactors Nr. 4, 5 and 6 were inactive at the time. 1[38] and 3+ labour accidents; plus a broader number of primarily ill or old people from evacuation stress 1,255–2,078 (2018 est.)[39] 7 September 12, 2011 Marcoule, France One person was killed and four injured, one seriously, in a blast at the Marcoule Nuclear Site. The explosion took place in a furnace used to melt metallic waste. 1 The scary thing about all of these accidents (27 of them already, and there are only 440 nuclear reactors on the planet...) is that they're not happening in backwards countries with shifty dictators and high illiteracy rates. They're happening in highly-developed countries like Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Germany and the US. Another thing, the initial death toll and the accumulated death toll from radiation is completely downplayed. I watched a documentary about Chernobyl and they said that 100s of miles away there were towns where several kids were known to have multiple forms of cancer. Severe birth defects are also common and not even mentioned on this list. We've all seen the sad pictures of birds covered in oil, only the Simpsons cartoon really touches on the subject of the effect of nuclear reactors on wildlife around nuclear reactors. How many birds and other animals do you think died around Chernobyl, Fukijima and all of these other places? Terrorism hasn't been a big concern in those countries in the past, but the number of muslims, in France and Germany especially, means that terrorism is an ever-growing concern: .

The hacking of the DNC server is officially a myth now. The FBI was never given access to the DNC server which was theoretically hacked. The DNC just made the accusation that the server was hacked, they had a company called crowdstrike investigate it, and Crowdstrike said "The Russians hacked it". Trump was blamed, and the Dem Gestapo, AKA the FBI, just took their word for it. Turns out that in Dec of 2017 the President of Crowdstrike, Sean Henry, admitted under oath that there was actually NO EVIDENCE that the server was actually even hacked. And if you recall, the owner of wikileaks also said that the info that they got was leaked, not hacked. If you're keeping score, there are only 2 sources officially on the record regarding the porous DNC server, one says that the info was leaked, the other says that they don't have any evidence of hacking. This was from 2017 remember, a full year before the mid-term elections in 2018, and the spectre of a hacked server still hung over the GOP party until late 2019, and the FBI was pumping that cloud up the whole time.

It wouldn't be so galling that the Libs can't give the veterans a fair shake, but they give away a billion dollars left and right like it's no big deal. The Conservatives don't throw money around like it's burning a hole in their pockets but they can't seem to do right by veterans either. Obviously the greens would never give anything to them, and Jagmeet Singh can't be trusted to do anything decent, nor can the NDP, traditionally. "Thanks for your service, thanks for risking your life and losing a limb, too bad you had to see things that would give ambulance drivers nightmares. Carry on. Oh, and you get to live with returning islamic state terrorists too, but we call them 'fighters' now (just like you)."

This post meets your standards.

All good, valid points. Asian countries like Japan and SoKo kicked butt vs covid. We should have been copying them instead of listening to the WHO. Luckily this virus wasn't deadlier or we'd be royally screwed. I'm not a huge conspiracy theory guy, but I had my doubts from the beginning that this came from a wet market and I have very little doubt left that it came from the BSL4 lab in Wuhan now. Whether it was released accidentally or intentionally is another topic all on it's own, but China acted very conspicuously in a number of ways, and America was hit pretty hard which is also suspicious. Red Flags: Chinese gov't forced Doctors who raised the alarm to sign confessions that they were lying, some of them are missing or dead from "covid", the gov't destroyed data, they lied about H2H transmission, they banned travel from Hubei province to other parts of China while they were still allowing passngers to fly to international destinations from there, they lied about the number of dead (they corrected their death total upwards by 50% on one day), they had people in foreign countries buy up the N95 mask supplies, they're selling fake N95s at a huge premium now, they didn't allow foreign scientists in to help, and the US [China's main geopolitical rival] was effected to a greater extent than any other country. Honestly there are a lot of red flags, but allowing passengers to fly from Wuhan to other countries when they couldn't go to Shanghai or Beijing is very telling. Couple that with the fact that were lying about H2H transmission, it seems like they really wanted to infect the world. If they were actively trying to infect the whole world they would have played it all out the exact same way.

That's probably a good thing.

Agreed, but you have to admit that the US is less divided now than it was in 2014-2016. The racial riots have ended completely, violent FB-Live hate crimes are down, terrorist attacks are down, the only real division is from alt-leftists who spew CNN's drivel. That's just a childish insult with no substance to back it up. Trump's America was doing far better than Trudeau's Canada before covid and no doubt they will continue to do so once it's gone. Trump was running large companies when Trudeau was in elementary school and Trudeau's job experience includes substitute drama teacher, snowboard instructor and what else? It's not surprising the US did so much better with Trump than we did with Trudeau. Trump ran circles around Russia and Iran in the ME, he hasn't started any new wars, he ended islamic state 4 years ahead of Obama's timeline, he has had several large successes and no undue failures to speak of. Trudeau embarrassed Canada on his India trip, he embarrassed us by calling Shinzo Abe Chinese twice, he's had major scandals, he is viewed as a twit worldwide, he sold us out to islamic state, he racked up catastrophic debt while times were good and now we're adding covid debt to that, he gave Canadians the worst advice possible to "fight" covid and he utterly failed to take any actions to protect Canadians until March 16th, Quebec separatism is up, there is a strong separatist movement in Canada now which didn't exist in 2015, honestly Trump has no failures to compare with Trudeau's failures doozies.

They both failed, but the people who are being critical of Trump didn't have a better plan back when it was time to act so they have to stfu. Trudeau on the other hand, was blatantly wrong and everyone who knew it has a right to say it.

The fact that democracy will have been completely thwarted should concern you. Islamic state is gone (Obama thought they'd still be landholders until 2021), the 3 years of rioting and looting came to an end, Iran attacked an American embassy and there are more Iranian Generals dead than American soldiers, FBI corruption has been exposed and high-level members were fired, Americans were fortunate enough to have a travel ban put on China, what is wrong with the US qm85? Trump has been a far better leader in the US than the village idiot has been in Canada.

And the whole time that Flynn was in jail those scumbags, who coerced a false confession out of him by threatening to lock up his son via the same dirty FBI tactics, were letting CNN get away with insinuating that Flynn was in jail because of collusion with Russia. They same thing happened with Manafort, who was only in jail for tax evasion from the '90s. So they indicted a bunch of Russians whose faces we've never even seen and who will never stand trial, and charged two Americans with things unrelated to Russian collusion, and CNN said that there were 13 people charged with Russian collusion lol. Their lack of integrity is somewhere between 99.999% and 100.0001%. The FBI could charge anyone with 3 things, find them guilty of 1, and then CNN could blab to the world that "A dude was charged with felony counts of having sex with a dead animal, raping children, and failure to appear in court for 47 unpaid parking tickets. He was found guilty and is now being processed in the county jail. More to follow." Then they can say: "Well one thing's for certain, he won't be raping any kids or having sex with an dead animals while he's in jail!" Their moronic viewers would assume that the person was found guilty of all 3 things, even if you showed them a link saying that they were found innocent of the other 2 charges. No one that watches CNN on a regular basis has an IQ over 60. I trust the FBI with the power to arrest people like I trust Graham James to babysit my son.

What if there's someone brilliant pulling the strings? The Dems have big money. They basically got Trump elected by getting CNN to give him all the oxygen in the room back in 2016. What if they were smart enough to put a guy in the WH, knowing that they could unify their idiotic base against him 100%, to the point where they could nominate a rattle snake to run against him and still get 30% of the popular vote? Now they put a guy in there who's just barely holding it together in 2020, and who is surely going to be gone by mid-2021 at the latest. If Biden doesn't lose his marbles, they probably have some serious dirt on the hair-sniffing, kid-kissing freak to get him impeached. That just leaves the VP in the way of them putting whomever they want in the WH, if they can just get control of the Senate in 2020. IMO the US is just one VP away from getting an unelected American into the WH.

Listen to anyone pre-pandemic. Check out my comments, they're all still here. I stand by every single thing I said right from day 1. Look at what the Dems and CNN were saying back on Jan 31 They were talking about Ukrainian collusion and the Primary. They didn't give a rip about covid. They were calling the travel ban racist because they're all dumb AF. Nancy Pelosi had a "social distancing is BAD" party in SF on Feb 24th. Oour own PM called the travel ban racist. Trump only got it partly-right. Trudeau got every single thing wrong. He didn't ban travel, he told people NOT to wear masks, so he was 100% wrong on both counts. If you wanna chuck shit at Trump, then find the examples of people on Trudeau's team or within the ranks of the Dem party who were giving better advice than Trump WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. Go ahead NWO. Find some of that, could ya? Find ONE DEM who was saying all the right things back when Trump was "screwing up" and then you'll have something that you can actually talk about, because right now you're just running your mouth but you have nothing intelligent to say.

Wrong. You're stuck in the prison of two ideas P77. Alt leftists literally blame Trump for everything or give all credit to Obama. There are no shades of grey, there's no sliding scale, there's no distribution of credit or guilt, there's just no logic or reason or fairness applied to anything. LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM COVID IN THE US - TRUMP KILLED 90,000 PEOPLE! A rational person looks at the ACTIONS taken by the President, what info was available at the time, what other politicians were saying and doing at the time, what the conventional wisdom was at the time the actions were taken, which actions (or lack thereof) resulted in good and bad outcomes, etc. An irrational person just finds a way to attack with the benefit of hindsight. This is especially problematic when the people launching the attack didn't have the right answers back at the time the decision was made. EG - I called Trudeau an idiot for not banning travel from China and for telling people not to wear masks back at the end of January. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, it's obvious that I was right. There were other countries that were doing those things, so these are things that Trudeau was aware of as well - the conventional wisdom was out there but he didn't follow it. That means that now, I can say that Trudeau did the wrong things and killed people because I've been consistent right from the time the original actions were taken. On the other hand, there are people attacking Trump saying "woulda coulda shoulda" now, with the benefit of hindsight, but they weren't saying any of those things back in January. Pelosi wasn't telling people to wear masks, to practice social distancing, etc back in January. She complained about the travel ban and then she attracted a massive crowd to Chinatown in SF 24 days after Trump was already taking the virus seriously enough to block travel from China. It was basically a huge anti-social distancing party. The Dems and CNN weren't talking about taking actions to fight covid back when Trump was already busy doing it, the Dems and CNN were talking about Ukrainian collusion and their Primary nomination process. Now all of a sudden it's "TRUMP DID THE WRONG THINGS - LOOK HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED!!!!" Sorry but people like Pelosi, DeBlasio and Cuomo who were doing things that were EXTREMELY COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE back when Trump was taking positive strides don't get to blab. They need to stfu. Their criticisms aren't valid. They're stupid and hypocritical. Your post was cute, but not on point. There are realistic criticisms of Trump to be made re: covid, as with anything, but as Canadians we have to make those criticisms realistically, and hold our PM to the exact same standards when possible: what did they do both do in January? In February? In March? Any realistic comparison of their actions shows Trump way ahead. So anti-Trump idiots point to situations which aren't comparable and then draw straight-line comparisons to make idiotic noise. As usual. FYI NYC is the planet's Petri dish. The UN is there, so people constantly fly in from every corner of the globe. They have a subway with 4.3M people on it every day. That doesn't compare to anything we have in Canada. America's population density is an order of magnitude higher than ours. They'd have to cover 3 continents to get their pop density down to ours. Was I right to characterize leftist's opinions as "BLAME TRUMP!!!!"? No, I should have said "BLAME TRUMP!!!! SCREAM IDIOTIC PLATITUDES AND SHOUT DOWN REASONABLE DISCUSSION WITH AD HOMINEM ATTACKS"

That's a Dem talking point, and not a real topic for discussion. FYI Trump banned travel from China back when it was the exact right thing to do. None of the Dems were even talking about covid then. They were all talking about Ukrainian collusion and the Dem primary. THAT'S IT.No covid discussion at all from the Dem party. Almost a full month later Nancy Pelosi was still acting like covid was a big joke. "Come to Chinatown and be a part of this experiment in extreme non-social distancing". Would you like a chance to express justifiable outrage Boges? Then be mad at the people who said that the travel ban was racist, when it actually saved a lot of lives. Be mad at Dems who TOLD Americans to ride the Subway and go to restaurants like everything is fine after Trump had already had to ban travel from China. Be mad at the WHO for giving the exact wrong advice back when it mattered the most. Be mad at Trudeau for doing absolutely nothing until 45 days after Trump banned travel from China. Be mad that Trudeau just gave the WHO money, despite the fact that every single human being on earth knows that the WHO fucked more than 100,000 people into their graves and cost western nations trillions of dollars in debt. Your Mickey Mouse reasons for being mad at Trump are peanuts compared to the laundry list of actual reasons why you should be mad at Trudeau, the WHO, CNN, CBC and Pelosi, to name a few.

Stage 1) I think there's a 40% chance that Biden could win the election and a 0% chance that he lasts 4 years. It's not much imagination at all to get to that point. Stage 2) The fact that the Dems are still acting like "Joe's the guy" when he's clearly losing his marbles just makes me think that they have a backup plan in place. Stage 3) When the "power behind the throne" suddenly sees a lane opening up to get literally whomever they want in the WH, you start to think about the list of people who they might like as POTUS that the American voters would never choose. The fact that, in the whole history of the United States the VP spot only opened up twice, and one of the 2 people who shot into that spot was a Rockefeller, just makes me even more convinced that this is more than just a remote possibility. I think that there's a very real possibility that the powers that be in the Dem party view Joe Biden as a guy who could win the election and then they can easily make the public believe that Joe needs to be removed from office. All they need is a VP who's willing to take one for the team and they get whoever they want in the WH. The Dems just need control of the Senate, they already have Congress and they can accept the VP nomination of whomever "Joe selects". Joe will select who they tell him to select. I think that Dem power brokers think of Joe as a Trojan Horse.

Thanks. Does that mean you'll start following me on twitter now instead of Rachel Maddow

From Wiki: The link to the 25th Amendment doesn't specify whether or not the POTUS's choice for VP has to come from the pool of elected federal officials.

I think that everyone in NA would admit, at least to themselves, that Joe Biden is not fit to be president. He is already on shaky ground mentally and he doesn't even have the weight of the world on his shoulders yet. I couldn't imagine him lasting 6 months on the job. We all know that his VP, should he win, is certain to become the POTUS at some point. Here's a question though, for people who really understand all the intricacies of American politics: If Joe wins, and his VP resigns, what is the protocol for the appointment of the next VP? Does the POTUS just get to unilaterally select the new VP, from the entire population? Does it automatically go to his Party's highest ranking member of the Senate, or the House? Is the POTUS limited to selecting an incumbent Senator, Congressman, or Governor? What I'm driving at, is this scenario: The American voters select the POTUS/VPOTUS combo of Biden/Warren to win the election. BOOOooooo. A month later there is an outbreak of ebola within the Cherokee tribe and Warren finds out that she is suddenly their new hereditary chief so she resigns as VP, the POTUS picks his own choice for a new VP unilaterally, and chooses someone who isn't currently an elected official, like Hillary Clinton. Two months later Biden is forced to resign because he starts drooling more often, or he commits suicide with a bow and arrow to the back of his head. Could an unelected civilian could become VP? I don't know the drill. How does the VP spot work?

Honestly, the Republicans and their fast friends at Fox are bashing Joe constantly, and bringing up his questionable mental state, but I think that could backfire if the Dems have no choice but to pull the plug on Joe before the election. The Republicans should be playing their cards closer to their chest imo, in hopes that he actually wins the nomination because beating Joe will be easy. I think that probably 90% of the population of NA agrees with you that Joe Biden is a Trojan Horse. He'd slide into the Whitehouse, only to be replaced by whomever the DNC really wants there. That's hilarious. I think that AOC actually means horrible in English.

TBH I own two pistols, a semi-auto 9mm and a .357, and it's fun going to the gun range and shooting but there's no practical use for those types of guns unless it's to train my son in case he goes into policing. If the government decided that private citizens have no need for pistols I'd go along with a buyback program and I wouldn't even care. However, the general quest to rid society of guns is completely stupid, and there's no doubt about it. The main reason why violent criminals don't do more home invasions is that guns make it a life-threatening scenario for them. Sure, it's illegal for the victim of a home invasion to shoot a home invader, but no one wants to be the home invader who gets killed wandering into someone's bedroom at 3 am. The fact that your intended victim goes to jail is no consolation if you're dead.

So instead of admitting that your article was trash you double on the stupidity of it. You must be a journalist.