Hi AC,

Honestly, if I was an American I would be embarrassed to admit that is the best we have to offer for leadership.

You ask; should the Democratic Party have a chat with the President and persuade him to retire prior to the election? And if he agrees, who would they nominate as his replacement to run against Trump?

Anyone who is still standing vertical and seems to be breathing.

"have a chat" Well the men in the white coats arrive; "Mr President come with us, you are going to the new White House...its called 'The Shady Pines Retirement Home For Old Farts"....Biden "That's nice...do they have warm coco?"...."Yes they do Mr president, and you will get your medication eight times a day, now come along with us."

America is in decline, they most certainly are, and it will be poetic justice that they will pay for their years of crimes against humanity. Unfortunately millions of innocent people, maybe the whole world, will also pay with their lives, as the monster thrashes about in its final deadly throws! Ironically it might be down to the likes of Putin and Jinping to prevent it.

I just want a peaceful transition to a multi polar world, but yes you're right, empires seldom go away without a bang.

Right now Putin is playing the long game, apparently there were 13,000 Ukrainian losses last week. They are sending 18 year old girls in to demine as sappers, it's kind of sad.
America meant it when they aid 'We will fight to the last Ukrainian'
But NATO and the West is being demilitarised.

America would be stupid to pick a fight with China.
North Korea and China have a military alliance.
Russia and North Korea have a military alliance.

1.2 million North Koreans will cross the 38th parallel and take Seoul, and don't forget they have thermonuclear weapons with hypersonic glide vehicles that can even reach the US east Coast.

Japan and Seoul need to accept the changing geopolitical reality in the region re North Korea who is lo longer isolated.

Not to mention that China would take Taiwan in weeks, and the US stands to see 200+ naval ships sunk to the bottom with as many of its allies along with it.

The big problem is the US would pick a fight that it can't win, and then they would them move to use nuclear weapons to prevent their total annihilation.

How will the US react if it loses 2 or 3 carrier fleets?

Beyond that, the western empire is over, they are not going to beat Russia, China, Iran and North Korea and would find themselves in serious trouble just openly taking on any one of them, so far from home.

But a war with China would seriously impact the global economy and supply of goods.
- The single mums will go to war themselves when Kmart and Best n Less are all out of stock.

Financially the world is moving towards BRICS, and at the end it will be the West who might be the ones isolated.

Albo wouldn't win a war with the single mums, let alone the Chinese themselves.

If I was to be honest - the debate to me made me
want to ask - "Is this the best America's got?
A bully running against a frail grandfather?

It was sad. Pathetic in fact.

Biden did not pull up Trump in his exaggerations
and downright lies. Neither did the hosts of the
debate. No fact-checking.

Pathetic.

My hope now is that Biden's advisers will tell him
to just pull out and allow someone else to take
the party reins.

Trump belongs in either a mental institution or jail.
He simply deserves to be booted out - for good

And no - I don't have "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
I have an anti-bully, pro-integrity, anti-stupidity,
pro-truth telling, syndrome.

I would like to see real leadership. A person of vision
who thinks not just of himself.

However it seems that currently in the US stupidity and
bullying are not handicaps

Well if we can move away from the moronic fantasy-land that is AC's world, and back to the US elections...some more takes from the fall-out of Dementia Joe's performance:

* there are myriad people in the Democrat Party world currently talking about how to replace the silly old duffer. They seem to forget that he was elected as the candidate by the people who make up the Democrat Party. All they are showing. yet again, is that they don't give a rat's arse about what the people think. In the Democrat world the plebs will get what they're given and like it, and the leftists here are just fine with that.

* anyone who purports to follow politics should be drawing some lessons from what we've seen in the last 24hrs. For months (years really) the people who should know better, have been saying that Joe is fine, Joe is running things, Joe is on top of the brief, thank God Joe is there. We now know they were lying. Not just gilding the lily but straight out lying. Lessons should be learned from that.. but they won't be.

* why did they allow Joe to go on stage and make such a fool of himself, the office of President and all those who've been telling us lies about his capacity? Well, in a form of Stockholm Syndrome, they get to the point where they start to believe their own lies. That's extraordinarily dangerous.

* way back in January I predicted that Michelle would be the candidate. Others here scoffed at my naivety - not scoffing now. But it seems that Michelle is rather fond of her new life of luxury in her multiple $million mansions (all earned legitimately mind you!!) and doesn't really want to deal with the plebs any more. But they all know that if they (the Democrats) lose control of the deep state then they could all swing, so she might have to suck it up to try to save all the crooks in the Democrat hierarchy.

"Well if we can move away from the moronic fantasy-land that is AC's world, and back to the US elections...some more takes from the fall-out of Dementia Joe's performance:"

It makes little difference who wins the elections
I've been telling you all for some time
America is going down the toilet, and no president is going to save it.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/trump-slams-manchurian-biden-s-military-policies-as-insane-claims-china-killing-us-as-a-country-101719556815919.html

>>The Republican previously said he’d raise tariffs by 10% on all imports and indicated he’d put taxes as high as 60% on products exported by China. Biden has maintained charges that Trump hiked on Chinese goods while president, announcing new tariffs as high as 100% on electric vehicles.

Trump brushed aside claims his policies would raise US inflation, and cause pain for American consumers. A hike in import taxes would likely raise costs for US households, according to economists, and be damaging to nations across Asia and elsewhere that run trade surpluses with the US.

Such hikes would only hurt countries “that have been ripping us off for years, like China,” Trump said. “It’s going to just force them to pay us a lot of money, reduce our deficit tremendously, and give us a lot of power for other things.”<<

Is Trump an idiot or are the US citizens idiots?
Trade tariffs aren't going to hurt China any more than it will hasten the United States own demise. It will be American consumers who will be paying those tariffs and becoming even more impoverished, to try to build up U.S. industry (and US oligarch class) which is uncompetitive compared to eastern markets anyway.

- So I'll just sit back with my Moccona coffee and Arnotts Tee Vee snacks and watch the whole entire West devolve and eat itself with a bunch of clueless maniac school children in charge.