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If "7" is "many" then yes, as that's the number of states whose earliest "early voting" date falls in September this year. But again, in 1912 the VP nominee was replaced six days before the election. In 1972, Eagleton withdrew earlier (August 1), but still well after the convention, by 19 days; and his replacement, R. Sergeant Shriver, wasn't named until August 8. I'm pretty sure that any court would hold that the VP nominee could be swapped out by someone else as long as the VP nominee withdrew (on paper, at least, even if ordered to do so by his presidential running mate). No federal court is going to mandate that the candidate go through with the election.
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You can't maintain a (mentally) healthy relationship (or at least, not more than a very superficial one) with someone who isn't (mentally) healthy himself. I'm assuming that you did not, in fact, promise him this. If I'm right in that assumption, then he's being blatantly manipulative and for that reason alone should be avoided. But here's the thing: even if you HAD promised this, you can say "I no longer wish to do this, and the fact that you keep pressuring me to do it is proof you do not have my best interests at heart. If you insist on this, I have to cut all contact with you." By entertaining his bullshit, you are empowering him to continue trying his manipulation. You have the power to shut him down. And if that costs you his "friendship" it's not a huge loss, because no friend worth his salt would be trying to manipulate you back into doing drugs with him when you've made it clear you wish to remain sober. I know I'm repeating what everyone else is saying, but (to be blunt) it's because we're right. I've never been as certain of being right as I am about this.
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True. And courts, of course, can cook up all sorts of bizarre rulings (see Cannon, Aileen, of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida). But the general principle is that no one can be forced to stand for office, and if Vance withdrew, whether on his own or on Trump's orders, I don't think there's any court that would force him to stay on the ballot. Given that federal law calls for the electors to be chosen on a set date in November (the first Tuesday after the first Monday)*, there has to be an intrinsic way to have electors pledged to support a particular VP between the convention and the election. I am unaware of any way state law on this could be effective. *Why "first Tuesday after first Monday"? Because if the first Tuesday was on November 1, that would make election day fall on All Saints Day, which is celebrated not only by Roman Catholics but also by Anglicans/Episcopalians, Methodists, and Lutherans, among others.
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No one's going to be able to answer this with anything more definitive than "maybe". Event-based PrEP may not reach its full protection capabilities unless it's taken between 2 and 12 hours before the first sex or if you don't take the additional doses on the subsequent days. That doesn't mean you definitely would get pozzed, for several reasons: 1. It's possible that none of the tops had HIV (even in large cities, a majority of gay men are not poz). 2. It's possible that any poz tops among them were undetectable (which is the case for the vast majority of poz men). 3. Even when a top is poz AND detectable, there's no guarantee one load from him is going to infect any particular bottom. An HIV antigen/antibody test MAY detect HIV infection as soon as 18 days after infection, but such a test might produce a false negative for several weeks more. A nucleic acid test, which tests for the viral particles themselves, may detect a bit earlier, but this is usually only ordered when you have symptoms of infection but the antigen test read negative. Note that at worst, the PrEP failed to protect you. It's not like PrEP taking too soon before sex made you MORE likely to get infected. If you're really anxious about this, I would strongly advise you to avoid unprotected sex until you get a definitive answer from testing, and if you are negative (and want to remain negative), get on PrEP and follow the instructions (whether daily or event-based). You shouldn't start PrEP until you know for certain that you're negative (because taking PrEP while poz can lead to treatment being ineffective), and since you're worried about infection, you shouldn't risk unprotected sex until you can get on PrEP if you're negative. -
Not just competition, but they may be using the software (particularly if it's hosted on a service, rather than being installed on their own computer) in ways that are not permitted by the license.
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Yes. In 1972, Tom Eagleton was the Democratic VP nominee under McGovern. When it was revealed that Eagleton had undergone electroshock therapy for depression in the past, McGovern ended up dropping Eagleton and choosing R. Sergeant Shriver. And in 1912, when Taft was running for re-election, his current VP (James Sherman) died six days before the election. He picked Nicholas Butler. In neither case was the replacement VP nominee approved by a political convention - the candidate simply made his choice and they were on the ballot.
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So the resident Trump Troll finds one objectionable guy who identified as a Democrat, and immediately declares he's a "completely archetypical Biden supporting Trump hater". And yet when we point out some degenerate racist and misogynistic homophobe who's one of Trump's loud backers, we're told that we can't judge all Trump supporters by the actions of this one guy. If this weren't so incredibly stupid and ignorant I'd laugh, but unfortunately, I can't, because there are people among us - on a site about bareback sex - who are short-sightedly and stupidly behind the candidate who would gladly allow his administrative appointees and his cohorts in Congress to pass laws and regulations that made this site - and all the activity it discusses - illegal. What I have to do is consider the posting source. And THEN I can laugh.
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Trump today, at a rally: "You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again." How much clearer does the man have to be? Elect him, and you won't ever have to worry about voting again, because that will be the end of voting. He'll fire any general (or lower level officer) who stands up to him, and simply stay in power till he dies. And hand it off to whoever is the MAGA heir-apparent. I know it's considered bad form to compare anyone to Hitler, but bear in mind, this is exactly what happened in Germany. They turned to someone who happily took power when it was offered to him, and then he made sure he would never have to give it up. Ditto the installation of the Kim dynasty in North Korea - dictators come to power more or less legitimately, but seize the reins of that power to keep in office. That's what you Trumpanzees are supporting.
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Because, as I noted, some tops - quite a few, in my experience, don't want the bottom to USE a big cock; they want the bottom to HAVE a big cock, because it soothes the top's fragile insecurities to think "this guy could be in high demand as a top with that cock and he wants ME to fuck him - that's great!". It's all about (some) bottoms being savvy enough to cater to the insecurities of those tops who want a bottom that COULD be a top but isn't.
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Tested positive for Syphillis....
BootmanLA replied to Cubbtm4poz's topic in HIV/AIDS & Sexual Health Issues
Not necessarily. Many processed foods are bad for us, but not because they contain no nutrition; it's because they have so much junk added, including sodium and sugar. That doesn't mean they don't have any nutritive value; it's that the nutrition comes with a bunch of crap attached. As long as a person's diet has sufficient vitamin C, scurvy is pretty much not even a potential issue. And while we think of that primarily as something to get from citrus (because some citrus have high levels of it), quite a few vegetables and fruits have significant levels of vitamin C. Sailors got scurvy because *all* they ate, generally, was preserved meat and hard tack (crackers in the US, biscuit in the UK), sometimes for months on end on a repeated basis, with no access to fresh fruits and vegetables. -
I don't think anyone is downvoting you for being right, because you're not. A doctor's job is to treat and advise, not to judge. There are ways to convey information about the risks of STIs without coming across as morally judgmental, and apparently that's what this doctor did. Yes, it's theoretically possible that an HIV+ person barebacking for receptive anal sex *might* become infected with a medication-resistant strain at some point. But those strains are pretty rare. So is untreatable syphilis. And any sensible doctor would tell a patient to get tested more regularly, rather than criticize him for not living the way she prefers.
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For starters, his claim that Obama was born in Kenya and his birth certificate was faked. Or any one of many thousands of other lies the lying liar from Queens has uttered, when he's not rambling incoherently about jumping from a sinking electric boat into shark infested waters after dinner with Hannibal Lecter.
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A surprising number of tops want their bottoms to be hung and/or muscular and/or gorgeous, because they want the validation of "this stud wants ME to fuck him." Quite a few such tops want nothing to do with a bottom who has a smaller cock.
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Why is a bottom having an amazing cock "misleading"? I don't, but I don't see why that's in any way "misleading". It sounds to me more like you're imposing expectations on someone you don't know and are then disappointed when they don't live up to whatever expectations you've placed on them.
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In 30 years I will almost certainly be dead. But if the voters apologize for voting for Mango Mussolini, as Biden did when he acknowledged it was a mistake, then I might forgive them. I don't think any of them will, though, because to vote for him today after knowing all we know about him means that the voter is a shithole of a person.
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At least in the 20th century, the president has always chosen his vice presidential running mate. The idea that "the convention" did so is bad history. The party always ratified the nomination, but the president was always in the driver's seat and I can't think of a single president in the last 120 or so years who was stuck with a VP he didn't want. It's true that the party sometimes has had influence - especially when the president was a draftee nominee, like Eisenhower; the party pushed him to choose Nixon because they thought a younger and strongly conservative second in command would help the ticket. But that's about as close as it's come.
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Many of Trump's circle are a "bad joke". Yet he welcomes them and lets them help set policy because he doesn't personally give a fuck about anything except himself and what he can get for himself via the presidency. Which is why so many horrible people ended up in high places working for him last time, and why (if he gets in again) many more will.
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I agree everyone is allowed to "never forget". I would say that Mengele was several orders of magnitude worse than Thurmond, but you're also allowed to think otherwise. But again, this is, for all intents and purposes, a two-party system. If someone I know in a swing state were to vote third-party, and Trump won a second term because he carried that state, I would "never forget" that this person I know had a chance to help stop it, and deliberately chose not to. I would also "never forget" to remind that person EVERY FUCKING TIME he complained about something the administration was doing that he should shuck the absolute fuck up about it because he forfeited his right to complain by wasting his vote. For better or worse, however, Biden has chosen not to run. I'll be interested to see all the people who complained about Biden's age or the fact that he was friends with a centenarian racist to start telling me that they can't vote for Harris because she used to be an attorney general who didn't unlock all the prisons and let all the felons loose. I'm just sick of purists who have no interest in taking the steps we CAN take to make things better because they aren't happy with anything less than 100% of their demands. Your mileage may vary. Tax, title and license extra. Void where prohibited.
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Your profile doesn't say where you live. And if you live in a reliably red or blue state it doesn't matter much if you throw away your vote on a third party candidate or don't vote at all for president. But if you live in a swing state, understand that not voting for Biden means one more vote for the racist party not offset by a vote for the other side. Given your interest in racial issues and recognition of the racist agenda on the Republican side, I'd think that would be enough motivation to hold your nose and vote for Biden. But you do you.
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A lot started letting themselves go well before marriage, even.
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An astute point I read this morning: virtually every national Democrat calling for Biden to withdraw is from a deep blue district or state. Why is that important? These people are used to fighting in primaries for the base vote, not for competing for swing voters. Their perception of what sells is informed by their experience in those districts/states, and they're not used to having to appeal to the middle, which is where Biden's strength lies. I realize that there are some Democratic voters who are frustrated that bigger advances haven't been made in some areas, and other Democratic voters angry about the situation in Gaza. Both of those groups are substantially to the left of the middle, though, and any candidate who pulls closer to them is pulling away from the persuadable center. Ironically, Harris herself is also in that middle (with her less-than-liberal approach to law enforcement in CA as a guide). Most of those calling for Biden to step aside seem to think the answer is a more progressive white guy - which might energize the base but alienate the edge voters. But the base can also be motivated by means other than a really progressive candidate, as we saw in 2020. Fear of a right-wing takeover might well get a lot of them out to vote, if that's capitalized on sufficiently. That fear doesn't work as well on edge voters, but a more center-left candidate can be appealing enough to get them to vote Democratic. The question is: which nets more votes, switching to a progressive candidate and praying that the base turns out in more-than-record numbers to offset the loss of centrists, or keeping a centrist candidate and trying to motivate the base to turn out heavily? I'll admit I don't know the answer, but I'm not sure I'd trust politicians from deep blue districts to know, either.
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As Nate Silver (who I don't hold in high esteem, but there's no doubting he's at least aware of what's going on) said last night, he's never seen an election where it appears both major parties are trying to throw the election.
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He's also dined at Mar-a-Lago as Trump's invited guest. So I would not rule him out as irrelevant just yet. He is probably incapable of being elected to anything, but Trump's fond of appointing people like this to high-level administrative jobs. I could easily see him being named to some "just-below-Senate-confirmation-needed" position somewhere in Homeland Security, within one of the ICE/CBP/CIS agencies.
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Actually, I think quite a few of the people trying these stunts are pretty sharp, and it's the people who fall for them whose IQ is, shall we say, closer to room temperature than a heat wave. Not defending the scammers in the slightest, but dismissing them as underdeveloped brains - when there are people who DO fall for it - seems a little odd.
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I'm not necessarily opposed to group gay debauchery. I absolutely refuse to be around meth-ed out Xers, which is pretty much all of what I see at circuit parties.
