One slightly funny point I’ve seen made is that Biden was 77 when the 2020 election happened. Trump is already 78 and Kamala Harris will of just turned 60 when the election happens this year. Will be interesting to see if the media will harp on Trump’s age much now that it is obvious he is very much the old man of the contest, but unless he makes a massive blunder, I imagine a lot of outlets will be a lot more quiet about it than Biden.
Shocking to think though that Obama is only 3 years older than Harris, he was only 47 when he was elected. Seems like a very young man in comparison, and I think his 2008 presidential campaign really had that youthful vigour.
That debate between Biden and Trump is going to go down in history though isn’t it? It basically killed off Biden’s re-election campaign by itself. I think it makes for an interesting parallel between that debate and the famous one of JFK and Nixon, how much optics can matter so much.
Well, we can’t really say that for sure, because we already know what one of the candidates will be like in office as President, because they’ve been there before, while the other has not, so we don’t really know what would happen.
Gov. Whitmer has signed a bill banning the so-called gay/trans panic defense in criminal trials. Michigan is only the 20th state (+D.C.) to abolish the defense.
But we don’t know for sure. Being president isn’t the same as anything a person had done before, so while we might have an idea, if they haven’t done it already, we don’t really know.
Eh, VP’s job is to basically look busy while waiting to see if the boss dies. I’ve never seen anything from one that tells me how they’d be as president. Then again, I’ve only paid attention to a handful.
France’s high-speed rail network was hit Friday with widespread and “criminal” acts of vandalism including arson attacks, paralyzing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe only hours before the grand opening ceremony of the Olympics.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal wrote on the social media platform X that France’s intelligence services have been mobilized to find the perpetrators.
Attal characterized them as “acts of sabotage,” which were “prepared and coordinated.”
There were no known reports of injuries.
EDIT 1300 Local
Map of the attacks (the south bound line attack was foiled), source Le Monde
Venezuela held its Presidential election today. An exit poll released after polls closed showed an overwhelming victory for the opposition which rallied behind Edmundo Gonzalez. Though any actual results haven’t come out yet. And with the added chaos of Venezuelan politics it wouldn’t be surprising if the exit poll is off or what Maduro or the military’s response might be.
Joe Biden, in a Washington Post op-ed, is (finally) calling for term limits–18 years–and enforceable ethics rules for the Supreme Court. Somewhere, Clarence Thomas is rolling over in his grave.
He can’t be rolling over in his grave, because he’s still here, sadly. I do hope he felt a great disturbance in the Force and has a bad feeling about this…
