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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday lamented President Joe Biden's rocky debate performance but defended his status as the Democrat nominee. In an interview on MSNBC, Buttigieg conceded "It wasn't the debate I would have loved for us to have." "I know what it's like, to have a night on the campaign trail or a day or a moment or an event or an interview that you go back and say, ‘I would have done this different or done that different,' " he said. Buttigieg went up against Biden in a debate in 2020 as Buttigieg was seeking the Democrat...

Jo Biden has earned the contempt being shown for him now. He is a warmonger. He has weaponised the justice system for political advantage. He gave the vice presidency to an incompetent woman for racist and sexist reasons and to make it harder to replace him when his own unfitness for the presidency became obvious. But I feel a tiny bit sorry for the old bloke as his own mob turns on him. His dithering geriatric incompetence to be in the Oval Office was obvious long before last night. Why the hell did all the alleged Democrats let him become...

Nearly 48 million people tuned in to watch the CNN presidential debate via television networks on Thursday night, while the event racked up more than 30 million additional viewers on YouTube and through digital modes. The network indicated the debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden is apparently the most-watched program in the network’s history.

My doctor has been pushing me to get the 23 valent pneumonia vaccination. I already had the PCV 15. Any recommendations from health professionals on site would be appreciated. Thanks.

***Here’s the truly sinister thing: many of these people who said Biden was fine knew he wasn’t. They knew the White House insisted he always be flanked by minders, lest he stumble physically or verbally, in what was known by insiders as ‘Operation Bubble Wrap’. They knew he had become so frail that even special counsel Robert Hur decreed he should not be charged for keeping classified documents because he is an ‘elderly man’ with ‘poor memory’ and ‘diminished faculties’. They knew he was receiving regular physical tests but not cognitive tests, for fear of what might show up. They...

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President Biden has repeatedly and rightfully described the stakes in this November’s presidential election as nothing less than the future of American democracy. Donald Trump has proved himself to be a significant jeopardy to that democracy — an erratic and self-interested figure unworthy of the public trust. He systematically attempted to undermine the integrity of elections. His supporters have described, publicly, a 2025 agenda that would give him the power to carry out the most extreme of his promises and threats. If he is returned to office, he has vowed to be a different kind of president, unrestrained by the...

As the Democratic Party scrambles following a “nightmare” showing from President Biden at Thursday’s presidential debate, former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has thrown her support behind his candidacy. “I’ll be voting Biden,” she wrote in a post Friday morning on social platform X.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended granting a marketing authorization for the mRNA respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine mRESVIA (mRNA-1345) to protect adults aged 60 years or older from lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV infection. RSV is a highly contagious seasonal respiratory virus and a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections and pneumonia. It is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms but can lead to serious consequences in older adults. mResvia (Moderna Biotech) is an mRNA vaccine that consists of an mRNA sequence encoding...

IMHO If Kamala is the one replacing him, that is better for us, probably. Yet, if Biden is out, it will hurt Dems. image too. Trump calls Biden ‘a bad Palestinian’ as president’s halting debate showing rattles Dems. After US leader says Netanyahu backs ceasefire proposal laid out last month, predecessor claims Israel wants to continue the war and that it should be allowed to 'finish the job.' By JTA, Jacob Magid, and Agencies. https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-calls-biden-a-bad-palestinian-as-presidents-halting-debate-showing-draws-scrutiny/ Biden ‘a very bad … weak’ Palestinian, Trump says at debate. The current and former US presidents clashed briefly but explosively on Israel in a...

ACIP also votes to recommend new pneumococcal vaccine for adultsThe CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) endorsed new COVID-19 and influenza vaccines for the 2024-2025 respiratory virus season on Thursday. In a unanimous 11-0 vote, the ACIP recommend that everyone 6 months of age and older should receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine, similar to last year's recommendation. The committee also voted unanimously that everyone 6 months of age and older should receive an updated 2024-2025 influenza vaccine, with rare exceptions. Also, in another unanimous vote, members voted that high-dose inactivated (HD-IIV3) and adjuvanted inactivated (aIIV3) influenza vaccines are acceptable...

Board of Supervisors meeting the Board decided In a 3-2 vote to terminate Shasta County's contract with Dominion Voting Systems after next month’s special election in the city of Shasta Lake. The term of the contract was set to run through December 31, 2025. The Board majority emphasized that “You can’t put a price tag on voter trust”. Acting CEO Patrick Minturn says it will likely cost at least $1 million to bring in a new electronic voting system and train employees. Implementation of a new voting system will begin immediately to adequately prepare for upcoming elections. Finding any vendor...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced he’s open to the idea of replacing Biden on the Democratic presidential ticket. In an interview with News Nation, host Chris Cuomo said the Biden campaign is in “free fall” and that placing Kennedy as the Democratic nominee could really solve the party’s problems. Cuomo asked Kennedy, “Would you be open to talking to them if they reached out to you?” Kennedy responded, “Of course I would talk to them. It would put me on the ballot with nobody trying to get me off.”

So, today's national democrat party press corpse (to reuse Obama's phrase) has been told to cut Biden off and remove him from the national ticket. All the expected names (Newsome and Harris of course) first and the expected national women and racists and TV publicity seekers are repeated. Hillary and Michelle lead the "unexpected" attention getters too. So. Why is RFK Jr ignored? He is STILL RUNNING a national campaign. He is the ONLY PERSON on state ballots other than Biden. He has democrat party delegates. Obviously, his positions on abortion are acceptable. Well, to democrat party socialists anyway. And...

The head of Russia's top criminal investigation agency on Friday urged President Vladimir Putin to lift the country's moratorium on the death penalty. Russia stopped carrying out capital punishment in 1996 as a prerequisite for joining the Council of Europe, the rights group it was expelled from in 2022 after launching its offensive in Ukraine. A growing number of Putin's allies and lawmakers have since called for the death penalty to be brought back, seeking the sentence for the suspects in the terror attack at a concert hall near Moscow in March in which more than 140 people were killed....

Kin of the 13 US troops killed in Afghanistan during President Biden’s disastrous 2021 withdrawal told The Post on Friday they were infuriated – but not surprised – by the disrespect he showed in falsely claiming at Thursday’s debate that no service members died overseas under his watch. In one of the lowest of his numerous low points during his presidential showdown with Donald Trump, Biden seemingly forgot about the 16 troops who have died in overseas attacks over his tenure in the White House, including the 13 in Kabul on Aug. 26, 2021, and another three in Jordan just...

BOSTON -- Drivers for Uber and Lyft will earn a minimum pay standard of $32.50 per hour under a settlement announced Thursday by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, in a deal that also includes a suite of benefits and protections. The two companies will also be required to pay a combined $175 million to the state to resolve allegations that the companies violated Massachusetts wage and hour laws, a substantial majority of which will be distributed to current and former drivers. ... The companies were pushing a ballot question that would classify drivers as independent contractors eligible for some benefits,...

[Catholic Caucus] Priest: Pope Francis causing ‘many schisms’ and ‘deeper wounds’ in the Church than any other PopeIn the past, the Popes stood for purity of Church doctrine, while the schismatics rejected this doctrine. Today, however, Pope Francis rejects traditional Catholic teachings and seems to condone schisms or even provoke them.Anyone who has been following Church news recently will increasingly come across the term “schism,” which is causing an unusually strong stir.In Spain, a convent of Poor Clares has broken away from the Church and considers all Popes after Pius XII (1939-1958) to be illegitimate. In their view, the Apostolic...

Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have posted that Biden should stay in the race. I agree with them. Joe, stay in the race!

"If, for whatever reason, there’s a change at the top of the ticket, you guys are in trouble with Donald Trump. Because the guy who was up there tonight is not a guy who’s going to inspire people,” Axelrod said on CNN following Thursday’s debate, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.