Live right next door, so not so much 
As Pierre Trudeau said in a 1969 Washington Press Club speech -
āLiving next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt,ā
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That is not just true for Canada. We worked on projects about āwhen the USA sneezes, Australia catches a coldā 20-odd years ago when I lived in Melbourne.
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Just watched the Joe Biden press conference from last night. Ffs, the democrats have got themselves into a bit of a hole now. Biden clearly too old and deteriorating, the gaffs will only get worse and he certainly isnāt fit for any sort of televised debate. Time is rapidly running out to find a successor, if it hasnāt already. Where do they go now to prevent Trump from walking it? Proposing Biden for another five year term is just ludicrous.
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Unfortunately, if Biden is the best they can drum up, the Democrats are doomed.
Sadly, I think it is. Apparently Harris is not well liked and polls very low so she is a no no. They donāt seem to have put any sort of succession planning in place which is an unforgivable oversight considering his age and condition. I donāt follow US politics that closely but according to the political pundits Iāve seen itās defo going to Biden which is so fcking preposterous itās almost beyond belief they are even considering it.
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He was called āsleepy Joeā 4 years ago. Coma Joe doesnāt ooze nation building dynamic energy - Itās a shit show.
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If your political system canāt produce and elect people capable of leading the nation then as a democracy you are fucked.
And yeah, I know.
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Judging by the state of both likely contenders itās clear dysfunction / corruption and full power derp are driving democracy down the pan. In a game of chess one would attempt to bluff, the other would think heās looking at the tiles on a tiny toilet floor. What a state, craft.
Trump or Biden?
Insanity or senility.
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At least if Biden got in there would be others of a reasonably sensible persuasion pulling the strings. But who the fck will vote for him other than die hard democrats? If that was my old man I wouldnāt be letting him venture into town on his own and heād be getting his meals delivered from Wiltshire Farm Foods.
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Iām hoping the Dems spin this one appropriately - itās a fairly blatant bit of partisanism from the Republican investigator.
Thereās long been convention that incumbents donāt really get serious challengers if they seek re-election. Unfortunately Biden appears to lack the common sense to stand aside given the perceptions of his mental state. And whilst itās easy to say thereās no obvious alternative candidates, itās worth noting that Obama was a pretty unknown candidate when he first pitched in for the nomination.
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I genuinely donāt think Biden has a clue about his mental state, he still thinks he is sharp as a tack. Itās down to people in the party to tell him and shout down his wife, who by all accounts is the driver. Heās done, someone needs to tell him that and the damage he may cause if he doesnāt step down. If he doesnt listen then someone needs to challenge him publicly If they donāt then Trump is a shoe in
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American politics: the cunt of personality writ large
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While this performance wonāt help, on the plus side. Mrs was out in North Carolina last week with a mostly liberal thinking cohort who were doom and gloom re Trump 3-4 months back. Not so much now, theyāre heartened that he can only scrape 50% of the vote in the first couple of primaries on a very low turn out. Should be getting 80% and more as an incumbent. Feeling is heās majorly lost the womenās vote and thereās a good deal of people prepared to vote to ensure he doesnāt get in, Republican leaning as well as Demās. Much can change but isnāt looking quite the forgone conclusion it was a few weeks back. Hopefully Joe wonāt go to sleep at the lectern in the coming weeks
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The fact that Trump has personally taken responsibility for the overturn of Roe v Wade should lose him plenty of votes.
Abortion rights are probably the single biggest thing motivating an anti-republican vote.
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Appears to have made a difference, hereās hoping
Biden is leading in polls again. But yeah, not much of a choice between the two.
The Republicans have shown their incompetence several times latel;, they voted no to a bipartisan immigration bill that contained billions of dollars for the border because Trump wants border āchaosā as an election issue, their impeachment of Biden stalled because it was such an incompetently organized sham (their own witnesses admitted there was no impeachable crime they could name), their Hunter Biden fishing expedition found nothing but some dick pics, they lost their impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when they control Congress 
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Senator Jamie Raskin trolling Marjorie Taylor Greene and forcing her to stomp out of the hearing and her media meltdowns in the ensuing hours 
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