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Whether It’s Biden or Someone Else, Gaza Remains Top Priority for “Uncommitted” Voters
  • ...it's not part of the poll.

    That quote comes directly from the poll you linked.

    ...that means their floor is where Biden is.

    That's a specious conclusion you're jumping to because it supports your biases. With out more information it's more likely that once the respondents know who the candidates are the overall responses will fall in line with the population averages and the candidates polling results will be the same as they are now.

    All we can confidently conclude for now is "39%-71% of people polled don't know who the candidates in the polls were".

  • Whether It’s Biden or Someone Else, Gaza Remains Top Priority for “Uncommitted” Voters
  • You kind of buried the lede there:

    Overall, these results show that voters continue to be concerned about Biden’s age — but there is not yet clear evidence that an alternative nominee would significantly outperform him against Trump in a head-to-head matchup.

    That's evidence that some candidates poll similarly to Biden.

    That's not evidence the best thing Biden can do to stop Trump from becoming president is drop out.

  • How would I troubleshoot an AC unit that isn't working well.
  • Another possibility is the starting capacitor for the compressor motor is bad.

    If the capacitor is bad then the compressor motor won't actually start, but the fan will still turn on. This will make it seem like the AC unit is running, but there won't actually be any cooling going on. The fans will still blow air, and it'll feel slightly cooler because it's moving air, but it won't actually be cooler.

    Replacing capacitors is pretty easy and not too expensive. However, it can be extremely dangerous so I recommend you leave it to the professionals unless you have some experience working with electricity.

  • Useful idiot
  • You just said a lot of things that are wrong in a very short amount of time, try to fact check yourself instead of spreading FUD and misinformation.

    This is the only thing I'm going to correct, you can fix yourself on the rest:

    So voting for the lesser of two evils doesn't work. We've done that for the past 50 years...

    No we haven't. We vote for the lesser of two evils every other election or so, then get butt hurt and stop voting because Clinton's emails, or because Gore is boring, or some other dumbass reason like that.

  • Biden turns to family on his path forward after his disastrous debate: 'It's a mess'
  • To clarify, that case was thrown out becuase plaintiffs lacked standing. I guess that counts as the DNC winning?

    In Wilding v DNC:

    Plaintiffs filed a putative class action alleging that during the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries the DNC and its chairwoman improperly tipped the scales in favor of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was challenging Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.

    This website reports a similar quote about replacing candidates though with more context:

    [I]f you had a charity where somebody said, Hey, I'm gonna take this money and use it for a specific purpose, X, and they pocketed it and stole the money, of course that's different. But here, where you have a party that's saying, We're gonna, you know, choose our standard bearer, and we're gonna follow these general rules of the road, which we are voluntarily deciding, we could have — and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we're gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That's not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right, and it would drag the Court well into party politics, internal party politics to answer those questions." - DNC attorney Bruce Spiva

    That isn't the entire quote and it seems to be missing some important context. The link to the transcript is dead unfortunately.

    Even if that is the complete context:

    • I don't know if what Spiva is saying is legally true. As the Trump trial has shown us just because a lawyer argues something in court does not mean it's true or legal.
    • Assuming what Spiva is saying was true then and is still true now, he also says "And that would have also been their right, and it would drag the Court well into party politics, internal party politics to answer those questions." I'm not 100% sure what this means because of the missing context, but it seems to imply simply picking the candidate in a cigar filled room would have brought legal trouble to the DNC.

    It's still not clear the DNC can unilaterally replace Biden as the candidate without his consent. If they did it would open a whole host of new problems, the least of which is how do the pick the new nominee now that nearly all states have already held their primaries.

    Saying "it's a simple thing that has to happen, just do it DNC" is just blatant misinformation.

    Also, Spiva appears to no longer work for the DNC. It isn't clear if their current counsel holds the same opinion.

  • Biden turns to family on his path forward after his disastrous debate: 'It's a mess'
  • But one DNC lawyer’s argument actually tries to justify the party’s right to be biased on behalf of one primary candidate over another, according to an article from The Young Turks. In other words, they could have chosen their nominee over cigars in a backroom. That’s what the attorney reportedly said in a Florida federal court:

    Do you have a more reliable source than "a laywer said"? Do you know which lawyer is alleged to have said it? Do you know if that lawyer is still working for the DNC? Have the DNC bylaws changed sine 2017 when this quote is alleged to be from?

    You're making a lot of assumptions based on a poorly sourced anonymous quote from 7 years ago.

  • Angry Republican hangs anti-IVF posters outside congressional office
  • Honestly I think they're just to pretend like that doesn't exist. I would be interested to hear their stance on it though.

    There isn't a lot of self consistency with the conservative logic around abortion. Abortion is murder to them, but they drive by abortion clinics every day and do nothing. You'd think a building dedicated to murdering children would demand a stronger response.

    Abortion is murder, but it's okay to murder the child if it wasn't conceived under the right conditions.

    Abortion is murder, but we can leave it up to the states to decide when it's murder and when it's okay.

    Just a lot of mental gymnastics.

  • Angry Republican hangs anti-IVF posters outside congressional office
  • They've backed themselves into an ideological corner.

    For years the right has campaigned against abortion on the premise that "life begins at conception". Because of this stance IVF puts them into a tricky situation: continue to maintain their extreme view that life begins at conception and oppose IVF, or accept IVF and concede that life doesn't begin at conception.

    If they accept IVF then that undermines their entire argument against abortion, which is obviously not a choice you make if your goal is to make all abortions illegal. So conservstives take the ridiculous stance that IVF embryos are babies, and since some embryos are lost during the IVF process, IVF must be murder.

  • CNN's debate was no fair fight
  • Pretty much every Trump debate has been like this. This one was actually an improvement from 2020 and 2016 because his microphone was turned off so he wasn't able to just yell over the other person and constantly interrupt.

  • Biden campaign rally - 6/28/2024

    m.youtube.com WATCH LIVE: Biden attends campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina after first presidential debate

    Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show.Ne...

    WATCH LIVE: Biden attends campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina after first presidential debate

    Biden looked completely different at this rally compared to the debate last night.

    Maybe it was the prepared script and notes, maybe he was really sick and had some covid head fog, or maybe it was sundowners. I don't know what changed, but he seems like an actual fullt functioning human here.

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    finance.yahoo.com Billionaires in Silicon Valley are opening up to Trump. It's not just because of taxes.

    Donald Trump is set for a major stop in the 2024 money race Thursday when he travels to Silicon Valley for a high-profile fundraiser with tech billionaires.

    Billionaires in Silicon Valley are opening up to Trump. It's not just because of taxes.
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    newrepublic.com Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn

    His posting of a video of a man cursing at Joe Scarborough sends a broader message: If elected, he’ll use state power to come after countless other Americans.

    Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn
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    bbc.com Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof flees after jail sentence

    Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced over his new film, which is to be premiered at the Cannes festival.

    Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof flees after jail sentence
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