Was this a joke or a repressed sexual fantasy?

@Robusto Biden calls Kamala Harris ‘Vice-President Trump’ and Zelenskiy ‘President Putin’, but hails alliance and touts domestic record.

Yeh, the NATO speachie everybodies ben way ding four.

@tchrist We need a candidate who can beat Trump. Right now.

@Robusto This will not end well.

> President Biden, in a nearly hourlong appearance, gave no indication he would consider dropping out and made the case that the “gravity of the situation” at hand calls for experience.

Gravity of the situation? I don't think the gravid can get an abortion in the third trimester.

It's all just heart breaking.

It is.

This is doing people a disservice.

You speak like that and you will never even get your résumé looked at. You'll be marked as uneducated and denied any chance at landing a good professional job.

You won't be allowed to address customers or clients, whether orally or in writing. You'd be an embarrassment.

And you won't be allowed out of the fifth grade.

At least, people will think you never managed to finish that year of elementary school, let alone anything higher.

@Robusto I'd say we need to cut our losses and focus on who'll be control of Congress. Biden has truly screwed this country over by handing Trump the election and history will not look kindly on him.

@alphabet I don't know. The top of the ticket is supposed to have coattails that sweep those Congress folk into office.

@Robusto We probably aren't getting the coattails, but hopefully enough campaigning can compensate.

Kids these days are so sensitive. Can't even jokingly wish death on world leaders without getting censored. I'm guessing I broke some rule or other?

The Super Heavy booster for the fifth flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket rolls out to the launch pad at the company's Starbase site in South Texas. SpaceX posted this photo on X on July 9, 2024.

> Asked if he has concerns about vice-president Harris’s ability to beat Donald Trump if she were at the top of the ticket, Biden said he, “wouldn’t have picked vice-president Trump to be vice-president if I didn’t think she was not qualified to be president. From the very beginning, I made no bones about that. She is qualified to be president. That’s why I picked her.”

But perhaps the confusion is from more than that. :)

Hm. He didn't even answer the question asked. But that's standard for politicians.

He was not asked if he thought she could be president, but about her ability to beat that guy in an election. Not the same thing.

@CowperKettle Be careful of low bridges.

Unless you are not thinking of not driving the obelisk beneath them.

ELU references to negatio.

Human rights activist jailed for 28 days in Yekaterinburg for obtaining and making public a video of a prisoner being beaten by jail guards. e1.ru/text/gorod/2024/07/08/73804511

Officially he was jailed for 28 days for "publishing a weblink to Facebook, a website operated by the terrorist organization Meta"

Numerous Russians have Facebook and Instagram accounts so theoretically every one of us could be jailed for a month without any hassle

For cooperation with an international terrorist organization

Remember when I said about Shurcle, the intermediacy between a taxi and a bus? Its name changed to "Ieung Bus". So it's uh... null consonant bus?

@CowperKettle Russian authorities are rightfully fearful of lizard people and their world domination plans.

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (63): It’s an insult to us each‭ by Jack Jokky‭ on english.SE

@M.A.R. All those illegal aliens in our country! /s

Horrific double murder and antiracconist hate crime will not lead to homicide charges

"Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down."

@Robusto Impressive.

@Mitch Fake. Not enough random for the dot matrix to be credible ;-)

@Mitch and I would've if I could've