Since we are so inundated with polls leading up to this November's election, I figured I would conduct my own internal polling on the subject.
Here goes:
Who will you be voting for this November?
1. Joe Biden
2. Donald Trump.
3. RFK Jr.
4. Cornel West
5. None of the above.
Please explain why you are voting the way you are.
Much appreciated.
118 comments:
Joe Biden.
Any of the other options is a vote for Trump. Which, in turn, is a vote to (potentially) end US democracy.
I'm voting for Biden/Harris and every other Democrat om my ballot
Straight ticket Democrat, as the other options are kind of fascist-y for my tastes...
-Doug in Sugar Pie
Straight ticket for Democrats and a strait jacket for
drumpf and magats.
Only one intelligent choice and candidate who isn't a habitual liar by habit.
Breaking News? Judge Ei lean over and drumpf lets me kiss butt Cannon, has removed herself from drumpf's document case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DvwrOmkFMk
Joe's doing a great job imo. He's got my vote
As always, I vote a straight Democratic ballot. I like Biden and what he's trying to do. If only we could take Congress, we could make progress!
Straight ticket Democrats. Always have.
Biden best chance to beat that POS trump
I agree with many thoughts here. Pretty much everybody in my family has voted a straight democratic ticket since FDR. I while back I had a friend who grew up on a hacienda in New Mexico speaking Spanish and driving a Model T. He never made any bones about voting a straight ticket. Still I need to point out that when I started voting in 1980, we didn't view republicans with suspicion or distrust. We just thought that democrats were nicer, smarter and cared more about people than republicans. Being liberal has always been a good fit.
And I agree with some here today that Joe Biden has been a terrific president. He has remained true to democratic ideals of prosperity through smart government, student debt forgiveness, fighting for meaningful environmental legislation, gun control, social justice and equal rights. I cannot think of one issue in which Joe Biden has compromised his principals. He is strong and pragmatic. His communication is forceful and direct.
What's more I am fiercely proud of Kamala Harris. I have always liked her since getting to know her as the Attorney General of California. I supported her as U.S. senator. I have always listened to her on the radio for the last ten years. Today I see her radically redefining the role of vice president as she travels and makes public appearances like clockwork. In the past five weeks she has been in Selma Alabama, Munich reassuring European allies and back to D.C. to speak with Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet and to Parkland Florida to talk about Federal programs to help states with red flag laws. She has become the leading spokesperson for a woman's right to choose.
I'll vote Biden. While West would be an interesting choice, Biden is the only viable candidate. Biden, while flawed and justly called out for some of his policies, like Gaza, he has shown himself to care about others. That's a plus.
Joe Biden - he's a decent man, doing what he can to make the nation better than the previous president left it.
Joe Biden.
I will also work my hardest as a volunteer to re-elect him.
The alternative, the former guy, must not be allowed anywhere near the White House ever again.
He tried to steal the 2020 election and overthrow the US government.
Most polls this far out from the election should be taken with a bowl full of salt.
Jesus is coming! Hide the eggs!
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Kyle fled from another hostile audience at a different gig, this time at Western Kentucky University, only lasting 20 minutes this time instead of 30.
At this rate, he's only got two more attempted gigs before he just never shows up at all.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Joe Biden. Voting any other way makes it more likely that Trump will win which would be disastrous for US democracy.
How did Pizzagate get started and by whom?
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-125877/
Nearing election time and we need to be aware of more fake noise lies and conspiracies.
LOL.
Republicans have illegal immigration and wokeness on the brain to such an absurd degree that everything they say is turning into a punchline.
A Michigan GOP state legislator got himself very worked up about buses of what he described as “illegal invaders,” which he shared pictures of on Twitter. (Someone should inform him that the folks who are busing migrants around the country happen to be state governors from HIS party.)
It turns out that the passengers in the buses were … the Gonzaga men’s basketball team, in town to play an NCAA tournament game.
Republicans:
I saw a bus. I AM GETTING VERY UPSET!
IDF has murdered seven people working for World Central Kitchen to deliver food to starving Gazans. Their vehicles were almost a half mile apart and were clearly marked with WCK logos. Jose Andres has called for Israel to stop the indiscriminate killing and stop using food as a weapon.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Somebody in Texas caught bird flu from a cow:
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/01/texas-cows-bird-flu-human-infection/
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Netanscrewedup bo0mbed a compound in Syria allegedly killing 2 Iranian Generals and now Iran is sabre rattling at Israel. Jews will likely get the US involved in another M E war whether we like it or not.
So the tiki-torch nazi got recalled from his city council seat in Enid Oklahoma.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
There is disturbing news today that Israel have been using an AI system to tell them which targets to bomb. It’s like winning the world’s worst lottery.
“Bad news, Abdullah. The computer has decided you’re a terrorist.”
none of the above. After 50 plus years of voting, I have decided to stop. My votes have not made one iota of difference, ever. I quit national elections last time and will skip them all this time.
I don't want to hear: 'You cant complain if you don't vote.' Fuck you. The limited choices controlled by the 'two party system' means often 'voting for the lesser evil'. Why even bother folks? Have fun.
Have fun telling yourself that your vote wouldn't have mattered when Fergus is rounding people up and putting them in camps.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I voted 'uncommitted' primarily as a protest against Biden's support of Israel's many terrible policies, but I'll vote for him in Nov. as the lesser of evils. The alternative is worse by a factor of 1000. To bad the Dems won't get behind someone I might be interested in supporting: like Cortes, West, Talib, Warren, or Sanders.
I was a Warren supporter in the 2020 primary, but Biden has gotten more done than she could have. He was right and I was wrong. Being able to admit that should be a precondition for citizenship.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Apparently, RFK Junior offered to make Tulsi Gabbard his running mate for the election, but she turned him down.
That would really have been something — a double annoying-nutjob ticket. I can’t stand either of them.
I am amazed at how partisanship turns minds into mush. Plenty of proof of that here.
Biden/Harris with enthusiasm. Any third party or independent vote is a vote that puts Trump back in the White House, which is the last thing our country needs.
“I am amazed at how partisanship turns minds into mush. Plenty of proof of that here.”
If you don’t realize that Trump is a threat to democracy and Biden isn’t, or you are aware of these things and still believe voting for a no-hoper third-party candidate or not at all is somehow the best option, then you might be the one with the mushy mind.
No Labels has officially decided not to run a presidential candidate. So it looks like the main spoiler candidates will be fake environmentalist/real conspiracy kook RFK Jr, plus egotistical lefty gadflies Jill Stein and Cornel West.
Any love for Kamala Harris? I see some have acknowledged her as running mate.
I always liked her. It's funny. I never thought of her as any particular race. I did watch a documentary about her life and heard her say and describe how she identifies as black. She was certainly raised among brown and black people.
I troll several blogs where both conservatives and liberals joust. I didn't realize that she was black, or identified as black, until the conservatives pointed it out to me. Of course they said all manner of disgusting and insulting innuendo and falsehoods. But it had never occurred to me that she was black.
Funny how they always seem hyper-aware of racial makeup.
I've been watching her ever since she kicked Terence Hallinan's ass to be DA of San Francisco. Not too many folks can take down a political dynasty like she did, so I've been paying attention to her ever since.
All of the bullshit she's been taking from the right is just that: bullshit.
Thomas Ten Bears said that she's the reason he voted for the ticket in '20.
Here's a video of Politics Girl breaking down the VP's career:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQUaWPZ4A2E
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Someone tried to burn down Bernie Sanders’ office.
Who will the culprit turn out to be? Crazy person? Wingnut? Crazy wingnut? Place your bets.
I am voting for Biden/Harris because we should have a woman president. This seems the most achievable path to that goal.
Turns out the guy that posted 175 million buck bond for drumpf offered to post 464 million buck bond. drumpf's lawyers didn't inform trial judge as required by law.
If you don’t realize that Trump is a threat to democracy and Biden isn’t, or you are aware of these things and still believe voting for a no-hoper third-party candidate or not at all is somehow the best option, then you might be the one with the mushy mind.
annoynmous has reading comprehension skills. I NEVER FUCKING ONCE indicated that I would vote for any of them. Learn to read what I said and attack that. DON"T make up shit!
So one of RFK Jr.'s crew has admitted that his real purpose for running is to stop Biden's reelection.
Perhaps he's jealous of some of his forebears...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“So one of RFK Jr.'s crew has admitted that his real purpose for running is to stop Biden's reelection.
Perhaps he's jealous of some of his forebears...”
RFK is an antivaxxer, and he seems to hold a grudge against Biden for promoting accurate information on COVID/vaccines and trying to get misinformation removed from social media. Maybe that explains his motive to run for president.
I’m in South Carolina (aka Republicanistan) this week, and I can immediately see the damaging effect Trumpism has recently had on this part of the country. There are quack doctors on TV advertising scammy treatments for “Long Vax” (i.e., treatments for alleged COVID vaccine injury).
FYI, “Long Vax” is not a medically recognized condition.
The wheels of justice, etc. (from WaPo via the Maddow Blog):
“Two right-wing political operatives must pay up to $1.25 million in fines after they were found liable for launching a robocall campaign designed to keep Black New Yorkers from voting in the 2020 election, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who have a history of concocting conspiracy theories to try to smear Democrats, were found liable last March of orchestrating a robocall campaign that reached about 5,500 predominantly Black New Yorkers in the summer of 2020.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
More deplorable magat election cheating...
https://www.newsweek.com/michigan-republican-candidate-living-florida-mike-rogers-1888388
There's no one to vote for.
Weaselberg is off to Rikers for five more months.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Donald J. Trump
ANTIFA
If you love Democracy, there is only one Biden to cast your vote for. Biden has decades of service to America. drumpf serves only himself and can and will diseminate top secret naterials to anyone he wants to, including Russkies and Japanese guests at drumpf dumpf South.
"Canned" Ass Owens got her ass canned from Daily Wire. Too bad, so sad.
https://www.newsweek.com/sage-steele-candace-owens-daily-wire-interview-1884660
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-accidentally-made-a-mouse-grow-legs-in-place-of-genitals
So what's the problem? That mouse can't eff around but it can still be a big runaround.
Joe Biden for sure. He is the most consequential president since FDR
Scotus to hear oral arguments for drumpf's presidential immunity on April 22.
I can see at least 5 of the 6 magats saving drumpf's ass.
I was for Nixon in 60. I campaigned for Goldwater in 64. But I learned that republicans only recite the principles of Constitution, law, order, truth, national defense, and justice but refuse to defend those same principles. I don’t need to agree on everything by that Biden and Harris support in order to vote from them. The republicans only avoid the “party of traitors” label because the Constitution defines ‘war’ and ‘traitor.’
“I can see at least 5 of the 6 magats saving drumpf's ass.”
Unlikely. As many people have pointed out, Trump is arguing for unlimited presidential immunity, like an emperor. Which means that if the justices accepted this defense, then any president could get away with committing literally any crime, so if Biden didn’t feel like running against Trump, he could just order the CIA to assassinate him and it’d be totally legal.
There’s no way SCOTUS will ever sign off on this, and Trump’s lawyers know this. It’s just a bad faith argument solely intended to drag out the trial, and SCOTUS should have shut it down immediately.
Anon is right. Biden could have SCOTUS killed under that doctrine, and saving their own asses seems to be perhaps the only thing they are good at.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
so if Biden didn’t feel like running against Trump, he could just order the CIA to assassinate him and it’d be totally legal.
Oh please, please, please, with a cherry on top!
drumpf'shush money trial has everything.....a porn star, an ex (as in has been) potus and a publisher named Pecker.
It is illegal to mass protest in Texass. Looseranna and Pississippi.
https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter
I imagine drumpf's thugs will get waivers.
Voting for Bro. Cornell West. My state is solidly blue so not concerned and gotta vote for my frat bro.
BTW check this out. I guess I'm not the only one who sees that Timmy will cancel the wedding when he doesn't get picked as TFG's VP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqeYICGyCHI
Judge to Fergus' lawyer: "Get yer client to STFU in my courtroom now."
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"Judge to Fergus' lawyer: 'Get yer client to STFU in my courtroom now.'"
"Your honor, my client is intellectually incapable of Shutting TFU. He is a 77-year-old man-baby."
Shameless freakshow political candidate and Trump disciple Kari Lake says that Republicans should “strap on a Glock” to prepare for the fall election.
Gosh, that doesn’t sound menacing or fascistic at all. When we learned about the American democratic system in junior high school, I must have have been absent on the day when they covered the lesson about “strapping on a Glock.”
Like Kari Lake, Glocks are trash.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
In today’s latest Twitter/X death spiral news, Elon is going to start charging people to use Twitter. I understand that people with existing accounts will be grandfathered in and will not see a change. But any new users will have to pay a fee in order to gain the right to tweet.
How long before he starts charging existing users as well?
Time for magats to strap on rocks and go swimming before November.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/politics/senate-mayorkas-impeachment-articles/index.html
Senate quickly votes out both alleged articles of impeachment and McCTurtlefuckface evidently forgot how he essentially dismissed articles of impeachment against drumpf when he ejaculated in December the senate would not vote to remove a true criminal like drumpf.
I would not trust a right leaning Rasmussen poll as far as I could chuck a mad bobcat, whuch, for the record, is not far.
It appears Israel has made a direct strike on Iranian territory. Things are escalating dangerously. Everyone needs to find a way to calm the hell down.
Israel reminds me of dirty cops that attempt to enter your residence without a warrant. They will stick a foot in door threshhold and will not move it. Even though this is trespassing on their part, they dare you to close the door. If you do they will arrest you and charge you with assault.
Virtually every move Israel has made with regards to their neighbors has been illegal and yet they are allowed to get away with criminal acts.
Former Allman Bro's band guitarist, Dickie Betts, has left the building. age 80.
Goddamn house Republicans, worried about Mikey trying to change the rules and take away some of their power, are monitoring the situation with the Floor Action Response Team, or FART.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Perjury Taylor Greene's true identity when the makeup comes off.....
https://juanitajean.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Toon9-1.png
Schumer warned the other senators to stick around this weekend in case they needed to vote on the Ukraine supplemental, but it looks like the vote won't come until Tuesday. Either way, aid to Ukraine will be moving within days and Margie is SO MAD...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Schumer warned the other senators to stick around this weekend in case they needed to vote on the Ukraine supplemental, but it looks like the vote won't come until Tuesday. Either way, aid to Ukraine will be moving within days and Margie is SO MAD...”
Yeah, because it means she and her fellow members of the farthest-right fringe will have basically nothing to do for the rest of the term until Election Day. The stunt queens are all out of pointless, attention-grabbing stunts. The federal government is funded through Sept. Arms have been issued to support the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Alejandro Mayorkas has already been impeached. So Congress will do more or less nothing from now on, and there’s no real excuse for Marge to get in front of a news camera and spew her usual nonsense. She’s gotta hate that.
Oh well, I guess there’s always Republicans’ dopey crusade against Hunter Biden, but that doesn’t amount to much.
Thanks for all of your comments and contributions. I respect your choices. This informal poll of TFN blog has Biden winning it all. Folks will say this poll is bias because this blog is left leaning, and thus all its readers are left leaning as well. The same could be said of some of these polls from Reuters, Emerson College, and the WSJ. They never poll black folks, because we don't answer calls from unknown callers. :) Still, IMHO, it's a 50/50 race going into November. ~Field~
Video of drumpf heaping praise on himself because some dumbfucker self immolated outside courthouse. If I can find the vidseo again i will post it here.
“Video of drumpf heaping praise on himself because some dumbfucker self immolated outside courthouse. If I can find the vidseo again i will post it here.”
The guy who killed himself, in especially horrific fashion, outside the Trump trial seems not to have been motivated by any views for or against Trump. He was just mentally ill and sought out the publicity of the trial so that his suicide would attract maximum attention, because apparently that was important to him.
We need Alvin Bragg to hurry up and put that fool in jail!
"Margie is SO MAD..."
Good, I never thought the GOP would destroy itself.🤷🏾
“Margie is SO MAD..."
Margie is going to be even more mad if she attempts to fire Mike Johnson as House speaker. Democrats don’t hate him on a personal level like they did Kevin McCarthy (although his political views are worse than McCarthy’s, his legislative tactics are not, so far). So they will probably vote to save Johnson’s job, and will tell Margie to go pound sand. Her inability to fire Johnson will just further highlight her powerlessness and irrelevancy for the rest of the congressional term.
Those Ukrainian Jesus freaks must have gotten to Mikey:
Bill Browder
@Billbrowder
BREAKING: US House of Representatives approves confiscation of frozen Russian assets in the US and handing them over to Ukraine. I’ve been working on this since the war began with many good people in Ukraine and around the world. This is a huge milestone and paves the way for the rest of the allies to do the same. A good day for Ukraine and a bad one for Putin
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I would like to see that too, Mike. You won't find it if teh googol doesn't wish to show it to you. Scrubbed by now.
They should have let the poor perisher die. All the efforts to put out the flames and take him to the hospital only prolonged his agony for 24 more hours. Horrible.
I bet you never found the naked Ivanka pics either, did you. lolz
I was never able to find the full video of the Charlottesville car murder after the first week I watched it. Someone filmed the entire block-long acceleration. It was brutal.
The primary choices are: Gaza Genocider Joe Biden vs. Gaza Genocide supporter Donald Trump vs. Gaza Genocide supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
So the only candidates with an actual chance to win are Democratic Party war criminals, Republican Party war criminals, or "independent party" aspiring war criminals.
American democracy is a war criminal democracy.
"So they will probably vote to save Johnson’s job"
IDK. It may be worth it to also vote to vacate to highlight GOP disfunction. The added bonus is they can't pull any stunts during the time they're fighting over a new leader. Win win for Dems.
“IDK. It may be worth it to also vote to vacate to highlight GOP disfunction. The added bonus is they can't pull any stunts during the time they're fighting over a new leader. Win win for Dems.”
Yeah, but having a semi-functional Congress is better than risking having a totally dysfunctional one.
Most of the must-pass legislation, like funding to keep the federal government running or arms for Ukraine, has now been passed, so we can probably get away with a do-nothing legislature for the rest of the year and hope the impasse is broken by the election in the fall. But what if we can’t? What if a real emergency comes up? We just went through one with COVID a few years ago.
It would be nice to have someone in charge who will at least TRY to negotiate with Democrats in good faith and work on legislation where actual common ground exists — which admittedly is not very many places, but still … in a disaster, you’d like to have a leader who cares about preventing total societal collapse. If an MTG type is running things, then literally everything is just an “F U Democrats” opportunity; she just does not care about governing the country at all.
And on that note: Four years ago today, Fergus, being too damn stupid not to, wondered aloud about the efficacy of shining UV light up your butt or injecting disinfectant (see, it's right there in the word dis INFECT ant). I sometimes wonder how we managed to live through that lethal idiocy, then I remember that over a million of us didn't.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Poor sad little Vlad: the Ukraine aid bill passed the senate.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
From Steve Benen at the Maddow Blog:
“The Gateway Pundit, a rightwing website known for spreading election conspiracies, will declare bankruptcy as it faces lawsuits for defamation.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“The Gateway Pundit, a rightwing website known for spreading election conspiracies, will declare bankruptcy as it faces lawsuits for defamation.”
Excellent. More accountability for the Bullshit-Industrial Complex.
The wingnutosphere has operated for several decades on the principle that lying all the time is absolutely fine. But at last their arrogance has gotten the better of them as their lies have ballooned into the realm of the defamatory and legally actionable, and they’re getting pummeled in court. Go anti-woke, go broke.
Jim Hoft and Alex Jones can now get drunk at the bar together and moan about how unfair it is that so-called Liberal Elites sued them into oblivion.
It looks like Israel is getting ready to attack Rafah, which is where most Palestinians have ended up, after being driven out of all the other parts of Gaza. This will likely result in a very high civilian death toll.
I'd vote for Charlie the tuna, before i vote for any of these tyrants. They are all genocidal, war mongering terrorist criminals. They are all a bunch of lunatics.
Bye-bye, TikTok?
President Biden signed the “get China out of TikTok” law (not its actual name; just what I’m calling it). TikTok’s parent company has to sell it to a non-Chinese company or else the app will be banned from the US.
If TikTok gets banned, that’s bad news for Gen Z, but good news for YouTube/Google, I guess?
More criminal charges! Arizona indicted a bunch of Trump’s chums for (what else?) trying to rig the 2020 election for him.
Poorer people with outstanding child support or student loans aren't allowed to file bankruptcy to clear debts. No hiding assets for the poor, just the wealthy and religious institutes.
Magats on the scotus are torn between abortion and protecting drumpf at all costs. Half the magats want to ban abortion permanently and the other half want it banned for ever plus one day Half the magats want total protection of drumpf from any accountability and the other half want him protected for ever plus one day..
Harvey Weinstein got his New York rape conviction overturned on appeal. He still has a 16-year sentence to serve on a California rape conviction, though.
Holy hell, SCOTUS is so completely in the tank for Trump.
No, they haven’t chosen to grant blanket dictatorial immunity to Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 election. But instead, it looks like they have decided to dick around and pretend there is a serious argument there that must be considered, and so they’re gonna let it ping-pong back and forth between themselves and the lower courts for a few more rounds — instead of what they should do, which is say that his argument is ridiculous and immediately shut it down.
In short, they are actively helping Trump delay his trial, in the hopes it will eventually go away.
R.I.P. Mike Pinder, original member of the Moody Blues and early adopter of the Mellotron.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Net neutrality is back, baby!
If you don’t know what net neutrality is or why it matters, Google it. But the short answer is that this is another area where the morons in the Trump administration broke something, and the Biden administration has fixed it.
Pinder was the last surviving member of original Moody Blues iteration. Then dudes made beautiful symphonic music.
I'm voting strait Democratic as I always do. So Joe Biden gets my vote.
Magats on the sc otus decide not to decide this case based on present facts, as they are supposed to, but rather want to speculate on future potii's behavior because they are ideologues with no concern for precedence and the desire to protect drumpf fom any liability.
“Magats on the sc otus decide not to decide this case based on present facts, as they are supposed to, but rather want to speculate on future potii's behavior …”
It was less future presidents they were concerned with, and more future prosecutors. They went full Trump, wringing their hands about the potential danger of theoretical, scary, conspiratorial Deep State Democrats bringing down some innocent, honorable Republican president of tomorrow with fake charges. They were too busy worrying about that to devote any concern to the massive crook who currently heads up their party, not theoretically but in reality, and who already tried to overthrow the government just 3.5 years ago!
Of course, this is all assuming that the wingnut justices actually believe any of their own arguments. I don’t buy that for a second. They just wanted to help Trump by giving him the trial delays he demands, and they came up with whatever excuses would justify this. It’s pure partisanship.
https://www.theroot.com/clarence-thomas-just-hired-this-controversial-white-kar-1851290405?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2nvBuv6vsB6SHJ-drMPOs_sCVajOWZ0JuudFVAC4PJvoC7MDN54pUlUfY_aem_AZl0XjiCOPLTO1SIK62Gfh2ww_Hd0D4-99XdhpXWCcTK8DNLEDVdZBM_RUb46aOs3jSvMMdu7PfpnU-VWMMnlqrY
What's the difference between Pecker's National Enquirer and the goddamn New York Times, which is currently publishing negative things about Biden because he hasn't granted them an exclusive interview?
More people take the NYT seriously, that's the difference, and until the goddamn Sulzbergers stop the fucking proto-tabloid bullshit, perhaps that should change a little.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“What's the difference between Pecker's National Enquirer and the goddamn New York Times, which is currently publishing negative things about Biden because he hasn't granted them an exclusive interview?”
What negative things have they published? I haven’t seen too much recently in the Times, other than griping (some of it justified, some not) about Biden’s handling of the asylum-seeker surge at the border and how it is giving Republicans an opening to attack him.
According to the Politico piece, it's mostly carping about his age and bullshit false equivalence between him and Fergus, but the very fact that AG Sulzberger is holding Biden's refusal of an exclusive interview against his coverage by the "paper of record" is fucking disturbing.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
So the despicable pricks in Texas are trying to send Crystal Mason back to jail.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“According to the Politico piece, it's mostly carping about his age and bullshit false equivalence between him and Fergus, but the very fact that AG Sulzberger is holding Biden's refusal of an exclusive interview against his coverage by the ‘paper of record’ is fucking disturbing.”
Hmmm. I’ll probably read the Politico piece, but my initial response is skepticism.
I’m sure that the Biden campaign team is genuinely annoyed with liberal-leaning, reputable papers like the NY Times giving even glancing credence to Republican-created phony narratives like Biden’s alleged senility or alleged massive corruption schemes involving Hunter, or whatever other nonsense.
But garden-variety “bothsidesism” is probably a better explanation for this behavior than the Times nefariously trying to extort Biden into granting an interview by intentionally giving him unfavorable coverage until he gives in. Like most establishment media outlets, the Times feels pressured to be “fair” to wingnuts, and this usually results in them indulging shameless wingnut lies, to one degree or another. The root cause of this is just cowardice: Bending over backwards to please wingnuts will never stop their bad-faith whining about “bias”; the only sensible response is to tell the whiners to go to hell and accurately report the facts.
Kristi Noem bragging about shooting her dog is pretty close to peak Republican, if you ask me, and may increase her stock with Fergus, who famously hates dogs.
Somewhere, Mitt Romney is thinking "All I did was tie my dog's crate to the top of our station wagon, and look at what they did to me for it."
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Kristi Noem bragging about shooting her dog is pretty close to peak Republican, if you ask me, and may increase her stock with Fergus, who famously hates dogs.”
Don’t know if it’s going to help her become Trump’s running mate, but her sharing a story about executing her pet for disobedience does illustrate something disturbing about the Republican Party.
They now view being a mean, ruthless, amoral bastard as a positive attribute to brag about, and an actual job qualification. This is because they have morphed into the party that doesn’t promise to do anything FOR you as a voter, but instead offers to do something TO the people you dislike. They are the party of spite.
From Paul Krugman on Bluesky (and probably on Twitter, too, but screw that Elon-infested dump):
“There’s far too much demonization in our politics. I mean, just because MAGA types have bad ideas doesn’t mean they’re the kind of people who would shoot puppies.
Oh, wait”
You misspelled "Junta"
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