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This may have been the most watchable debate Trump has ever been in.

For once this isn’t an unreasonable complaint. The third debate is, indeed, meant to be focused on foreign policy and the announced debate topics don’t reflect that at all.

They are doing him a *huge* favour and he won't appreciate it.

I am not a fan of Morales’ political party, but this feels like cosmic justice.

To this day I’m still a little confused as to what the plan was for Sanders to get over 50% of the delegates. There was this Twitter meme about how Sanders would be in trouble if he had to face off against the Voltron centrist candidate which was, in hindsight, an accidentally brilliant piece of punditry. Edit: the most prescient political tweet of 2020

The primary was effectively over before COVID-19 became a major issue. Super Tuesday was a death blow to Sanders’ campaign.

Biden, more than any candidate in any election I have ever followed, is running on the message of being the most vanilla politician imaginable.

This sport is just begging to be kicked out of the Olympics at this point

“The country has gone to hell during my four years as president, vote for me” is a bold strategy.

Is this permanent or only because of COVID-19?

I predict this debate won’t change many minds, which is much better if you are Biden than if you are Trump.

Can’t wait for “innovative” Olympics formats, such as the Marathon being decided by a 100m sprint among the first 8 athletes to finish the Marathon.

I think it's mostly surprising that there is only one Protestant on the court vs. six Catholics, given that the majority of American Christians are some flavour of Protestant and given that there has only been a single Catholic president in American history (Joe Biden would, if elected, only be the second Catholic president). As for Asians on the high court, Trump seriously considered Amul Thapar and Obama seriously considered Sri Srinivasan (who is currently the DC Circuit Chief Judge, meaning he is the most senior member of the judiciary branch other than the Supreme Court justices). Jacqueline Nguyen had also been floated as a potential Obama pick for the Supreme Court. To be honest if Biden is elected and gets to appoint two Justices I wouldn't be surprised at all if he nominates Srinivasan (Ketanji Brown Jackson would be all but a lock to replace Breyer).

There is no stereotype of Catholics being particularly conservative in the US - Catholics are all over the ideological spectrum and Catholics vote roughly in line with Americans at large. This is very unlike some other religious groups in the US, such as Evangelicals, Mormons or Anglicans (overwhelmingly Republicans) or Unitarians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and non-religious voters (overwhelmingly Democrats) that have very clear political leanings.

Who did Ahn piss off at ITF?

On what planet is Feinstein a "Democratic Party hero"? It has long been a source of frustration among the base that the senior senator from California (of all states) is a centrist.

If you are trying to convince left leaning Americans that the Clinton welfare reforms were a disaster, or that Clinton was generally too conservative, you are selling way past the close.

The FIS has renamed the “mute grab” to the “Weddle grab”, following efforts from Tony Hawk to rename the trick to better honor it’s creator, Chris Weddle.

Lol what is this nonsense? The way Trump acts is a huge outlier within the US business world and a huge outlier in the world of old money. He’s famously a giant oddity within the NYC elite.

No he can absolutely nominate someone and get them confirmed even after the election. The only real leverage Democrats have is that the number of justices can be changed by simple legislation.

And this will further radicalize everybody.

Ah yes, this is obviously the most likely explaination.

Bouchard played the best tennis she's played in years last week. IIRC she won more matches in Istanbul last week than she did in all of 2019...

What an absolutely odd final. Made for compelling viewing, but in terms of quality of play it was... bad. First men to win their maiden grand slam singles title since Marin Cilic way back in 2014. Kind of wild.

There are (were, most are in Israel now) quite a few Jewish Ethiopians. About 2% of Israel’s population has recent Ethiopian ancestry.