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The problem is I don't think he's going to be "out."

 

i live in washington, and I even forget jay inslee is running

 

So is Julian Assange.... If we could cut him and then shift him into better things, I’d be down for it.

 

The dumbest thing to me about Biden polling so much higher than everyone else is that he doesn't even have any policies. The man isn't even running yet and we have no idea what he actually wants to do with healthcare, climate change, immigration, taxes, etc. People just assume he will be good because they liked Obama

 

If all that reporting was true about him only wanting to formally enter the race if he was guaranteed to win, there's always the chance, however small, that he may never enter it in the first place. There's never going to be a poll that shows him that far ahead, especially as the field continues to grow. At this point our only hope is that he gets sour grapes from not consistently polling above 40% and just decides it's not worth it.

 

If this was a solely policy oriented race (which it never will be) Bernie and Warren would be way at the top, and Buttigieg and O'Rourke would be at 1-2%.

 

Joe Biden will decide not to run

I’m putting it out to the universe

 

I honestly don't even know who my third choice would be after Bernie and Warren. If we're talking about people who realistically have a chance it would probably be Buttigieg I guess maybe. If we're talking anyone in the field it would probably be Inslee.

 

I see close to zero possibility that a politician, who 'are wired to run in elections', would not enter the race if they're leading the polls.

I think Biden not running would be legitimately shocking. I think he'll wait for the current bad press to calm and be forgotten, and then he'll announce.

 

I'm still Bernie/Warren and then probably Castro. I like a lot of what he's had to say, and it sucks he hasn't gotten the same bump that Booch has gotten.

 

His policies are his three decades of votes and stances on matters. A lot of them are ... ehhh ... But one could also make the case that a lot of them are very much in line with a moderate democratic position, which is popular.

Joe Biden is leading the 2020 polls. Here’s what he thinks about policy.

 

Yeah I mean that's a way more likely thing to happen for sure, I don't dispute that. Although he declined to run in 2016 when he would have had a much better chance so it's not like he hasn't declined to run before. And I definitely believe he's the kind of person who would say something like "If it isn't a done deal I'm not doing it."

 

nevermind @ zionist lurkers, i found a post in a local facebook group where people are arguing about whether its good that Stop and Shop workers are striking, that'll occupy me til 4

 

Foxconn is confusing the hell out of Wisconsin

I heard many theories about what Foxconn was doing while I was in Wisconsin: that it’s a scheme to get visas for Chinese workers, a plot to acquire intellectual property or to buy up real estate and become a landlord or to get access to Lake Michigan water for mysterious reasons. A nearby farmer who’d been watching the project closely thinks it’s a ploy to get investor visas using commercial bonds and an excuse for Koch Industries to pipe freshwater over the subcontinental divide and for the military to make large screens inside the US, and that the final product will be a city of tax-protected warehouses and assembly facilities for mostly imported goods. “It’s all opaque so it’s nothing but a guessing game,” he told me.

But the most plausible explanation I heard is that Foxconn’s secret is that it has no idea what it’s doing in Wisconsin.

“In China, people announce projects like this all the time, and some of them get built, and some of them don’t,” said Willy Shih, a Harvard business school professor who consulted in the screen industry for several years. They’re called “state visit projects,” he said. Politicians get a photo op, and companies to get some political goodwill, but everyone knows the announcement is extremely preliminary. Ultimately, the company will do whatever makes economic sense, and sometimes, that turns out to be nothing.

This entire thing is super shitty.

 

Archive.org says European agencies sent it 500+ takedown notices falsely identifying terrorist content, showing pitfalls of proposed EU terrorist content law

 

Sources: Bezos to meet with federal prosecutors, signaling an escalation of the inquiry into whether Saudi Arabia gained private information from his phone

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is scheduled to meet with federal prosecutors in New York as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter. The meeting signals that the US attorney's office is escalating its inquiry connected to Bezos's suggestion that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia was behind a National Enquirer story that exposed his extramarital affair and his claim that the tabloid attempted to extort him.

Plans for that meeting come as prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are seeking to obtain access to Bezos's electronic devices, these people said. They are attempting to examine Bezos's private investigators' allegation that the Saudis "gained private information" from his phone, and that such information wound up in the hands of American Media Inc. tabloid the National Enquirer, which published Bezos's texts.

 

the only black hole I know is my bank account when my ex wife had access to it

 

Amirite, guys?

 

Somebody has to have spliced the black hole picture into this by now right

 

“One of the clients, Geoffrey Ernest Johnson, was a mentally ill paraplegic on disability who won a $4-million settlement of a suit against Los Angeles County. The money was wired to Avenatti in January 2015, but he hid it from Johnson for years, according to the indictment.”

What a garbage human being. I always thought he was shady but... jeez.

Avenatti indicted on 36 charges of tax dodging, perjury, theft from clients

 

Look I already had to see LittleJohn's ice cream and queso so I'm just done with bad food opinions today.