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Immediately after the Biden-Trump debate, where Biden admittedly made a poor showing, Republicans started asking Biden to withdraw from the Presidential race. Now, a Democrat, Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas (LBJ's old district) is calling for Biden to withdraw.

This debate was one of the earliest in Presidential campaign history. A new theory is that the Democrats pushed for an early debate to assess if Biden is fit to run, and to give them time to replace him if the debate went bad, which it did

What do you think?

Did the Democrats want an early debate to give them time to replace Biden?

Please vote in the poll.

We went from conquering new lands to calling conquerors evil land grabbers "guilty" of war crimes

Considering the divorce rates and who initiates most divorces, i would say this is true.

how do you look so far?

You can't have both! One guy is in shape but alwas wears sweatpants and sometimes a T-shirt, and one guy is out of shape but always looks good or at least tries his best. And the out of shape guy is not fat he's still active and has a job but he doesn't work out. I'm just curious :) I want to do both but we'll see how it goes I'm not there yet :)

Not sure what other countries are doing about this, but Canada's aiming to have electric cars in all/most people's driveways in the somewhat distant future. Do you think this a reality for most countries or is is shooting for the stars. I've heard/read the following:

- The batteries only last so long and at 13 to 20 K for Tesla's outside the warranty period.

- If you are charging on the go, you can wait hours for a charger due to line-ups, I've seen this at a few stations along the 401 in Ontario;

- More often than not, charger stations are out of order creating longer charging line-ups at popular station stops;

- The rare earth materials used in the manufacture of the magnets in EVs is a limited resource and mostly in countries where there are no limitations on the cost of these materials, similarly the Lithium in the batteries is not a renewable resource and the amount of dirty air industry to mine these materials will simply worsen air quality in these other countries. Does this just equate to an out of sight, out of mind feel good scenario;

- That just adding an at-home charging station in your garage may not possibly due to poor electrical infrastructure in most cities. The lines can easily be upgraded on your property, but the cities don't have the electrical power to support EV charging stations in everyone's homes.

Are these true? What's your opinion, do you think electric is the way to go or will the changeover have more environmental concerns in the long-run with waste battery materials etc.. Are we trading one necessary evil (carbon emission vehicles) for another that may potentially pollute the groundwater and surface water once the batteries start piling-up...

So hypothetically, polling within the DNC shows Biden is going to lose to Trump, and instead of replacing him this late in the race with another candidate, they decide it's a better idea to work behind the scenes to get RFK Jr elected to stop a Trump presidency.

For those of you triggered, this is only a hypothetical situation and will not likely happen.

So most people when they think of Canada, they think we live in Arctic Circle conditions directly across the border from the USA.

Interesting fact, most of southwestern Ontario, Canada has similar Carolinian forest/river/lake habitats to those observed along the eastern-southeastern seaboard of the USA. The limestone-mixed wood plains in this area (which was formerly covered by sea/ocean) creates a unique assemblage of forest, beaches, dunes, sloughs and deltas. Directly south-southwest of us in New York state is the Appalachian Mountain range which cuts through/between the two (2) areas of limestone in Ontario and the eastern seaboard, like a gigantic divide. Regardless, of the separation, we still get a good majority of those trees/groundcover/animals/etc. observed in those states and some that are uniquely ours.