The former president has always considered himself to be the ultimate disrupter. But this time, the disruption is on the other side.

Through the weekend, there were an awful lot of questions that were going back and forth from people in the presidentā€™s tightest circle, and one of the questions that kept being asked was whetherĀ Joe BidenĀ was going to endorseĀ Kamala HarrisĀ or not. And the question didnā€™t revolve around whetherĀ heĀ wanted to or not, but whether people in her camp thought it would be better for her to fight for it, win it on her own, and not be seen as somebody who was tapped by President Biden and so, in her own way, have a fresh startĀ going into the campaign.

So the timing seems to be about as good as it could have been to end what has just been one of the craziest two or three weeks in American politics in quite some time.

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    3 months ago

    Free speech can be limited if you have a good reason. For example, if you donā€™t want people to see how their food is raised, you can just ignore key constitutional freedomsā€¦

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      Yup. The ag-gag laws seem to be a huge carve-out - if that can be managed, I donā€™t see why we donā€™t start limiting the election cycle, too.

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        I donā€™t see why we donā€™t start limiting the election cycle, too.

        Totally.

        We have freedom here, and yet our elections are like 2 months long, start to finish (including hand-counting ballots from that one day of voting). My polling place is a masonā€™s hall about a block away that they convert to a polling station with some cardboard boxes and folding tables.