Thanks for posting @mountaineer , excellent articles and a very interesting site.

Both candidates are widely disliked.

A sudden alternative may well win in a landslide. It takes time to find out the negative details of a candidate and with little time left that may well work in their favor.

This situation is unlike any from the past to reference to.

May 22, 2024
If the Dems ditch Biden, what then?
By Mark C. Ross

Douglas MacKinnon, writing in The Hill, recently suggested that the Democrats were going to nominate somebody else at their August convention.  No problem here — and his reason is that Ol’ Joe is so unpopular that anybody else would do better against Trump.  But how much better?

Besides the obvious problem of the horrible optics that come with dumping the nation’s chief executive in front of the whole world, there’s also the problem of timing.  August is perhaps way too late to grab a fresh candidate out of (ahem) a rather limited bullpen.  Actually, all of 2024 is way too late from the standpoint of political feasibility.  FYI, Lyndon Johnson withdrew consideration for his second full term on March 31, 1968 — in the face of similar distress within his party — and Johnson was a much more astute politician than Biden...which still didn’t help Hubert Humphrey at all.

Others are also speculating that Biden’s abrupt commitment to debate Trump was really a move by party insiders to expedite Biden’s collapse and subsequent withdrawal.  But to what end?

more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/if_the_dems_ditch_biden_what_then.html

A Ukrainian commander had Russian troops in his sights but couldn't attack. He says a US rule is to blame.

Thibault Spirlet  •  6h

A Ukrainian commander operating near the Russian border described how his unit watched as Russia amassed a huge force but had to wait for the troops to cross the border to hit them.

"There were a lot of Russians gathering, and we could have destroyed them on the way in, but we don't have many ATACMS, and we have a ban on using them over there," he told The Times of London.

Drago, a special forces commander with Ukraine's Kraken detachment, was redeployed, along with his unit and other special forces troops, in April from the eastern Donbas region to Kharkiv to strengthen Ukraine's forces there, per the Times.

But instead of hitting the Russians, he and his unit were forced to watch as the troops gathered on their side of the border, according to the outlet.

"We had to wait for them to cross," he said, referring to a US policy that bans Ukrainian forces from using US-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia.  .  .

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-ukrainian-commander-had-russian-troops-in-his-sights-but-couldn-t-attack-he-says-a-us-rule-is-to-blame/ar-BB1mQbnU

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Sound familiar?

The only scenario I can imagine here is Shortbus Joe is intending to send stuff to Hamas, and screw the civilians.  Hamas is converting the stolen aid into cash by creating a black market, forcing the rest of the people to spend what little they have. 

They are killing their own people, as they have for the past 80 years.