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Oh, absolutely bad optics regardless. I had no intent to negate your comment by posting mine. I think I had meant to put it at base level instead of as a response.

The party’s sense of optics long ago took a back seat to its cult of subservience and power structure. That may have been somewhat viable back when they could count on the major TV networks and many of the foremost newspapers to mostly give them the type of coverage they would prefer. Things don’t work like they used to. And anyone who works for any media at all knows a whole lot of registered Democrats who are beyond fed up with the top-down tactics.

Good news, the decision was reversed.

Ohio was the only state presenting a major problem of that kind and it got taken care of. That issue is out of the way, from what I’ve read in the past two days.

Agreed. It’s all very disgusting but no reason for despair, just continued fight.

Why is it even OK for any case involving a former president to be tried before any judge that he appointed?

The question now might be whether he appeals to the 11th Circuit Court or straight to the Supreme Court. I fear either way may be too slow to get anywhere before November.

True, but it will all take so long that the case still won’t get anywhere before the election. In a way this might even have been the judge’s ultimate delay tactic, capping off the slow-walk that she already perpetrated.

Thanks, that was worth the read.

It has been very noticeable – like should-be-embarrassingly noticeable – the change from the first week after the debate (where any pundit who mentioned swapping out Biden, regardless of them being in support of that or not, basically always mentioned that Harris would not be a viable/successful alternative) to just the past 2-3 days where suddenly that perspective is forgotten or forbidden. (for-Biden?)

When reminding or teaching the younger community about George H.W. Bush, let us not forget to mention that when the US elected him, it elected the former CIA director to the presidency.

A supposedly democratic Republic elected its own chief of secret police to lead the executive branch of government. Somehow even at that time most Americans didn’t seem to be aware of that glaring fact, and far fewer have seemed to realize it ever since.

And then the country went on to elect that guy’s completely unqualified son to the same office less than a generation later. /facepalm