Monday, October 28, 2024
That's A Big Number
Both the NYT and WaPo marketed themselves explicitly to Trump-fearful liberals post-2016 and well...
T
he Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.No Wordle to make them stick around!
More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
Speaking Of Election Shenanigans
VANCOUVER, Wash. — KATU was on the scene at Fisher's Landing Transit Center in Vancouver early Monday morning, where heavy smoke was seen coming from inside a dropoff ballot box.
Looks Good... But Then
It's good to see news outlets can describe things accurately when they are in the mood to.
Or so it seemed!
The ex-president’s blistering anti-migrant rhetoric ranks alongside the most flagrant demagoguery by a major figure in any Western nation since World War II. But it was also complemented by a sharp economic argument that represented the second leg of Trump’s closing pitch and targeted the frustration of many Americans who are struggling with high grocery prices despite cooling inflation.[no argument identified]
“I’d like to begin by asking a very simple question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Trump asked. “I’m here today with a message of hope for all Americans: With your vote in this election, I will end inflation. I will stop the invasion of criminals coming into our country, and I will bring back the American dream.” He also said he would push for a tax credit for “family caregivers who take care of a parent or a loved one” – after Harris unveiled her own platform proposing that Medicare cover home health care.
“If Kamala Harris gets four more years, our economy can never recover. If I win, we will quickly build the greatest economy in the history of world,” he said.
Brain Points
Tucker's just doing "acceptable racism" a bit crassly here.
You can't disentangle the belief in "meritocracy" from this kind of racism.
“It’s going to be pretty hard to look at us and say ‘you know what? Kamala Harris, she got 85 million votes because she’s so impressive as the first Samoan-Malaysian, low I.Q., former California prosecutor ever to be elected president. It was just a groundswell of popular support, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just a freak or a criminal,’” Carlson said, facetiously.Pick someone at an elite publication over 50, at random, and there's a pretty good chance they fully embrace "scientific racism" and various forms of IQ nonsense. Who was signing Andrew Sullivan's checks for years?
You can't disentangle the belief in "meritocracy" from this kind of racism.
Endorsement
If there's any kind of thought behind what they're doing here, other than the belief that it will help them win, it's to make clear that, if they do win, The American People have endorsed this.
The huge rally was billed as the launch of the final stage of Trump’s bid to pull off one of the greatest comebacks in American political history after trying to overturn the result of the last election and leaving office in disgrace in 2021. Before he spoke, some of the ex-president’s top supporters flung race-based and vulgar rhetoric. Former congressional candidate David Rem called Harris the “antichrist” and “the devil,” while others lashed out at Hillary Clinton, “illegals” and homeless people. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Lindsey Graham: On Background and Off The Record
You know he never shuts up. You know he has spent 25 years having "private" conversations with journalists in and out of the green room. My bet is he bullshits them just enough so that they think he doesn't mean the worst of it. Probably he claims that he stays close to Trump to restrain him, or some shit like that.
I don't really care about Lindsey Graham, but it is like that with all of the Beltway's favorite Republicans.
Is Merrick Up
We know the feds are capable of leaping into action - rightly or wrongly - when they choose to, and I would like to suggest that the way to stop the election shenanigans which we all think are likely is to do just that.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
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