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Earlier I made a point to check to see if anyone here knew why presidents and their doctors haven't ever been bound to sharing their medical information with the public. The answer is pretty simple. So presidents aren't discouraged from seeking out medical attention for either physical or mental health reasons, due to the unfair stigmatisation of those with disabilities or just weird views on who can or can't serve in the oval office based on genetic information. This is why FDR made attempts to conceal the fact that he was paralysed from the waist down. He literally didn't trust the electorate to have any faith in a man in a wheelchair. In Bidens case, the lack of transparency could very well be to hide some aspect of his health data with the public that most reasonable people wouldn't see as something that makes someone unfit for office, like a past history with depression that isn't current, however, a past history of depression is the sort of ammo any political opponent would use and some voters would believe this makes someone unfit to be president. So this is why the presidents expectation of privacy in regards to medical data is left intact. It wouldn't do for a president to be discouraged from seeking medical aid for both simple and complex issues. You really have to put yourself in the mind of different types of voters to see why this is the case. "Oh the president has boils on his rear? No person chosen by god to lead would have boils on their rear. You've lost my vote." Or "Oh I see Biden suffered from a bout of depressipn 40 years ago, what if he gets depressed again and kills himself while in office? Can't vote for him." So there are lots of reasons why a president might not disclose their medical info really. From benign to serious. Hell there is even an incentive not to give out allergy information to not give any workable info to would be presidential assassins. Fortunately, the physician to the president is required to give general health updates to the VP and the cabinet if they are at all concerned. This is why I'm of the opinion that if the democrats want to sensibly and reasonably practice caution, they should leave this in the hands of the VP and Bidens cabinet. The way I see it, if Biden wasn't fit to run, he wouldn't be fit to finish out his term either. If the unfair pressure gets too much and he decides to bow out; I think the best way to make that strategy work, would be to give Harris the reins, make it her ticket, (she is polling better now that people are more seriously considering this scenario, to their own probable detriment) and pick whomever the next best polling willing Democrat is, for VP. That to me is just a hypothetical. I still think ditching biden is shooting themselves in the foot and nobody has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Biden isn't fit for office because the office is still running just fine.

I will try and do what is being suggested. If i am allowed, I will explain in my next post how things in the former thread were all related.

Exactly, the engineers already know what the problems with roads are. It's the profit priority of private enterprise that spins these issues into more ignorance for the masses. Contractors spend money lobbying for contracts that make them more money at the expense of good roads. Not sure if it's this way elsewhere, but in Colorado right now, when they resurface a road, they just pave that road without smoothing intersections. People turning right from the new surface hit the edge of an old surfaces at the intersection, and before you know it, that corner has a big pothole right as you turn. Along comes a special crew to fix just that, at additional expense. This isn't engineering, it's pirateering, private interests taking advantage of social funding and screwing the People for more money.

You and @Peterkin both seem to see the Harris that I do. And just now @iNow has outlined some of the excitement and fresh interest that could be unleashed by an ovarian ticket instead of the wrinkled testicle tickets presently available. Seriously, yes, landmarks are a real thing and we need one over here. Also, full disclosure, I think Kamala is sort of a hottie. I can envision a Harris/Whitmer rally... ME: There's a rally in Denver tonight. Do you want to jump in the car and drive six hours to see it? SPOUSE: What is wrong with you? You have never gone to a political rally in your entire life. And you hate long drives. ME: They're so.... lovely. SPOUSE: What are lovely? ME: Um... the mountains! The mountains are so lovely! SPOUSE: You live in the mountains. Idiot.

No, they were desperately trying to keep Trump from turning it into one of his rallies.

Well, the SFT-Mk5 is all assembled but sadly it is not rigid enough. I'm hoping that if I beef up the supports for the bellcranks that might make it stiff enough to work. The problem at the moment is that the magnets stick to the rotor and the mechanism is supposed to limit their travel so that can't happen but there is too much movement in the bellcrank mounts and that lets the magnets get too close to the rotor. Oh well, iterative process.

The biggest saboteur at this point is Biden himself. If you want to beat Trump, we need someone who can appeal to independent voters. He's still losing every single swing state, as of 3 hours ago. Is that a "winning" candidate? Don't be ludicrous. Nice mental gymnastics. Too bad you'll miss the Paris olympics this time around. The notion that Biden may have Parkinson's is in no way an "extraordinary claim", as numerous medical professionals have attested to at this point, no to mention the senior staff of his inner circle who have come forward and said he's not competent to continue.