• edge [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Honestly an insane thing to think if you just look at the polling. Biden was down 4.5 in Pennsylvania, Harris is down 0.8. Biden would have been wiped.

    Biden’s polling was threatening to bring New York into play. Which I really wish we could have seen.

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    Would President Biden have been a better candidate and choice despite suffering from the effects of age and 81 years?

    suppose that the disastrous June 27 debate with Trump had not taken place, or that Biden had been firing on all cylinders that night.

    “What if we lived in a completely different universe”?

    Bob Woodward’s new book, “War,” might not be dispositive in representing Biden’s strengths and weaknesses. The book does add weight to this thought experiment, though. Woodward paints a very positive picture of Biden’s ability to lead and to govern

    That’s absolutely not my takeaway from the book, and I finished it the same day it came out.

    Woodward tries his very best to make Biden seem commanding at all times, and maybe during 2020 through 2022 maybe that was the case? But even Woodward couldn’t paper over Biden’s incredible deterioration in the last two years.

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    Bob Woodward’s new book, “War,” might not be dispositive in representing Biden’s strengths and weaknesses. The book does add weight to this thought experiment, though. Woodward paints a very positive picture of Biden’s ability to lead and to govern despite making mistakes, most notably the disastrous withdrawal from Kabul.

    The fucking ghouls.

    Woodward also reports that Biden’s obvious decline was physical and not mental.

    What the fuck. A stutter is not a load bearing wall for a tall building.

    For some reason, the Harris campaign has downplayed this conviction and his three other pending cases, as well as Trump’s major character flaws.

    The “some reason” is that it’s an electorial loser. Voters who are voting for Trump tune it out. And people who are voting for Kamala or are considering voting for her - might want to know other stuff even if it’s just superficial details of her plans as president.

    And with the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, Biden now has an opportunity to help conclude a peace agreement in the Middle East. That would be Biden’s legacy. One hopes he will pursue that opportunity.

    What’s worse than baby brain? Dropped on his head baby brain?

    Harlan Ullman, Ph.D., is a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council and the prime author of the “shock and awe” military doctrine. His 12th book, “The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD: How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large,” is available on Amazon.

    I wonder what the Atlantic Council pays him every year for his shitposts. And who is this dipshit?

    Harlan K. Ullman

    Theories

    Ullman was the principal author of the doctrine of “shock and awe” that was a product of the National Defense University of the United States. This concept is technically known as “rapid dominance” and is a military doctrine based on the use of “overwhelming decisive force,” “dominant battlefield awareness,” “dominant maneuvers,” and “spectacular displays of power” to “paralyze” an adversary’s perception of the battlefield and destroy his will to fight.

    He additionally theorized that Russia would never invade Ukraine, but was later proven wrong within 2 weeks.

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      Ullman was the principal author of the doctrine of “shock and awe” …

      Had to use “shock and awe” 'cause blitzkrieg was already taken.