Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

Biden and Harris have filed paperwork to transfer Biden-Harris funds to “Harris for President.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/21/politics/fec-biden-harris-campaign-account/index.html

As of 4:55 pm, 7/21, these Democratic Senators, Representatives, and Governors have endorsed #KamalaHarris (source: Washington Post).

Biden endorses Harris.

“While a major party’s presumptive nominee withdrawing his presidential candidacy is an extraordinary occurrence, rules and procedures are in place to respond to this development. Americans can be confident that this situation falls well within existing rules and that their election system continues to allow for a free and fair election.” - National Task Force on Election Crises https://electiontaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Candidate-Succession-pre-Election-Day.pdf

US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.

We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.

If you're feeling doom and gloom about Biden withdrawing, go look at the feeds of your horrible MAGA family members. They are despondent and have no idea what to do. What, talk about cognitive decline? Abortion? Windmill cancer? Electric sharks?

Donald #Trump before the attack: We should kill all the libs and make America great again.

Donald Trump after the attack: We should kill all the libs and make America great again ... together.

Journalists: This is the day he became president.

It's fascinating to see so many comments fly past on the global feed that assume it's an issue called "CrowdStrike" that's Microsoft's fault. Seems giving CVEs cool names like "HeartBleed" has caught on.

Sooo. I am sitting in an ICE train in Germany. Train is - of course - delayed.
Train manager comes on and does an announcement about the upcoming delays.
Then he mentiones that the train is very full because a lot of air passengers have been rebooked onto the train by Lufthansa due to "a hacker attack against multiple airlines".

There has been no hacker attack, the airlines are just experiencing the consequences of their actions, specifically their vendor choice (crowdstrike) and their process choices (staggered rollouts? pish pash, damn the torpedoes and full steam ahead).

But now I am hearing passengers discussing why their kids online game does not work, which is certainly related to the hacker attack...

I am starting to understand so much about the dark ages...

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There’s not a single policy the Democratic Party is uniqly advocating that’s comparable to this level of violence and authoritarianism.

"Mass Deportation Now!" is a slogan of absolute evil. The ugliest, most vile thing I've ever seen as a political convention.

Here's my weekly assertion that Biden is going lose, thus causing the D-party, up and down the ballot, to sink (perhaps never to rise again given that Project 2025 will dismantle our Constitution.)

I am so very tired of the argument that "Biden did wonderful things" - that only reminds me of what is on every corporate prospectus:

""Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

Biden's new (third) case of Covid is a very good excuse for him to withdraw and let the convention pick a new flag bearer.