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They just can't help themselves.

Walz is a basic, good guy by longstanding accounts of people that have known him a long time. The only mud coming up is self-inflicted from his puffing up of himself. The military record has been unnecessarily puffed up. 24 years in the Guard can stand alone without puffing. And eight years as an assistant high school football coach in charge of the defense stands up just fine all by itself without puffing. He didn't lead a team to the State Championship, that's what the head coach gets to say. Walz didn't say he led the team, but why let his puffer uppers do so?).

Puffery, puffery, so much puffery.

I know what John meant, and he didn't mean that. What he meant is something simple, true, easily forgotten, and in need of reminding. I was reacting to words that I found to be... well, all that matters is I was reacting to words on a screen, not a person, a person I do like, admire, and find darn interesting.

Reacting to words, not a person. And if it were a person standing in front of me, not words in an ongoing argument with words over frustrating irritating words, but a person, well that's a very different deal and it takes a reminding... takes me a reminding... repeatedly. Don't get lost in word world, remember the people part.

And the earlier "I would punch you" wasn't a threat or anything to with punching. It was, well, kind of a Billy Budd deal. And internet words on a screen are the shipmates that bedevil, change, and cause something in us that isn't us to strike out.



Anyway, I'm reminded again. And I was reacting to words, not you. And I'm taking a ten-minute timeout in the corner with a beer.

Oh, I think I got it. These aren't John's questions for Kamala. These are hypothetical questions that John thinks Democratic operatives disguised as members of the press would ask Kamala Harris if she were a Republican and if the questions were different questions about different things.

Ok. Makes sense now. I think. This is 4-D chess kind of stuff.

You don't know the politics of Kamala's mother and you don't understand the politics of her father. And the politics of neither parent are politics of the child when grown and approaching 60 years of life and accumulated life experience. That is a nutso question. A nutso belief!

As for the policies she favors, that is what the campaign is about. Ask about policy, not nutso innuendos about her parents or broad speculations on what socialism was, is, and might be to some people in some contexts in some future.

My policy: Enroll every newborn in Medicare and drop the entry age for adults to 60. Private insurance plans for everyone else will drop 50% and there will be an easy and predictable transition to single payer; Medicare for all within 60 years. Insurance companies will have time to plan ahead for a future of supplemental policies only (like for sex changes, hair transplants, and belly tucks).

Refuting bologna shouldn't be necessary.

We were all here on the forum the day after the debate. And, except for a magic thinker who knows what we think before we think it, most of us were shocked (I would say all, if honesty were to rule). Shocked at how clearly Biden's ability to organize and articulate his thoughts had deteriorated. And dismayed at the implications his showing had for the state of his mental faculties and their readiness for going forward into a second term.


Prior to what all saw during the debate, there was wide-spread concern over the advanced age of both candidates, Joe 81, Donald 78. And there was wide-spread concern over the appearance of both candidates. Joe appeared frail and Donald appeared orange. But, concern is not knowledge. But, if those who claim to know what we knew before we knew it thinks we covered up what we didn't know before we didn't know we should have knewed and should apologize, in the spirit of the complaint, I will apologize for everyone on the forum, the country, and the planet, as that's how wide the conspiracy apparently was.


For the record, there still is not "knowledge" that Biden is cognitively incapable of performing the duties of a second term, but the appearance showed in spades that night and concerns became CONCERN. As in DEEP CONCERN. And Biden's appearance and performance during that debate sealed the deal for most.

But, knowledge? Perfect knowledge is only available to a select few. For most, appearance is all we have, and after that debate, concerns turned concrete and Biden clearly did not appear to be up to the demands of another term. And good sense and good judgement ruled. Not crooked coup or botched coverup. Good sense and good judgement. Use your brains. We were there. We all saw what we saw when we saw it.


And without delving magically into the brains of MAGA-ites and claiming to know what they thought before they thought it, it is a matter of public record, their own words, that the MAGITES were initially so elated by Biden's public meltdown and the implications it held for the election that they were wetting themselves... until the Democrats recognized that what the MAGITES were joyously claiming to be, was... and acted on it... and the fat lead Trump had in the polls slipped away... then MAGITE joy turned to desperation... and the openly sensible turned to twisted whines of conspiracy, coup, unjustness, unfairness... "the most unfair coup ever in the history of the planet, so unfair, never such unfairness ever, in history, to me, so unfair to me, to me, so unfair!"

This tells you all you need to know about John's claims of bias. When you are teetering on the far, far edge, even the middle seems far, far away. Way off in space beyond grasp and recognition.

Policies will get worked out in congress. First things first. And first is to keep a pathological liar and narcissist who holds his fellow humans in contempt far, far away from the White House.

Donald needs one of his nicknames (only to be used by surrogates, not Kamala or Walz). Could be Dumb Donald or Demented Donald, but I like Daffy Donald. It would be sweet. Daffy Donald is one of those types that love to dish it but can't take it. He'll blow his top.