Forget Vance. It’s •Trump• the Republicans should be talking about replacing.
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Morten Grøftehaugereplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
@inthehands The 2016 campaign was a lot of trump ranting about the mainstream media. He doesn't anymore. Seems he won that fight.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
The ongoing trickle of replies to this whole thread along the lines of “well the Republicans would never •actually• replace Trump” and “whose mind would that change?” are totally missing the assignment here.
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@inthehands Interesting thought. A rational party might well want #tRump to quit, but he still has massive support in the US <:. Plus if he quits the election he could go to jail. And the #GOP is not necessarily rational.
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jonathanpetersonreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
@inthehands That entire thread of conversation is 100% on target. I'm not a journalist, I'm an engineer. But I did go through journalistic ethics training when I was at CNN and helped launch CNN.com. The right long since abandoned mainstream media because they thought it was biased against them. It's not becoming very clear that it's ALSO biased against ANYTHING that doesn't maximize the drama and thus eyeballs and ad revenue of politics.
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Dave Goldsmithreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
I think you do get the rare hint that there are Republicans who wish Trump was not their candidate but it's suicide for any of them to say it out loud.
I imagine the second that he loses in November the long knives will finally come out.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Dave Goldsmith on last edited by
@Dave_Goldsmith
Agreed if he does indeed lose.In the meantime, the press has absolutely no business just sitting around waiting for that.
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Dave Goldsmithreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
What would they write? An unnamed source says that he wishes Trump was not the presidential candidate for the Republican party?
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Dave Goldsmith on last edited by
@Dave_Goldsmith
Yes, exactly.That’s what they did with Biden. Got paragraph after paragraph about it, story after story.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
“Even his most ardent base checked out after an hour, streaming out of the sparsley-populated auditorium, as he rambled incoherently past the hour mark.”
Gosh, how many of those Republicans “streaming out” wish they had a better candidate? Kind of wish Trump would just drop out?
You don’t know until you ask, my dear pressfolk! Chase them to the local diner! Fish for quotes until you get a juicy one! I know you know how this works: you did it with Biden.
From @wdlindsy:
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
@inthehands You're right: those diners are beckoning! All over again. Jess Piper recently reported on her blog that she saw very few Trump signs in deep-red, very pro-Trump southern Missouri, as she vacationed there. Lots of diners in that region to visit and get "real Americans" to talk!
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by [email protected]
Trump campaign desperately tries to paint president as cognitively competent, as his campaign is dogged by relentless press coverage of business leaders “startled by his inability keep a straight thought”
Just kidding
That happened, but the press dropped this story and wandered off because they were covering Biden, and the only person talking about it is Trump. #uspol
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At long last, the NYT •finally• picks up the thundering chorus of concern about Trump’s obvious cognitive incompetence…
…by writing an embarrassingly credulous piece about how Trump’s mental state is just fine, citing as its source — wait for it — Trump:
#uspol From @melaniesill:
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Greg Sargent takes out his scalpel and, dissection by dissection, goes on an absolute •rampage• about the MSM’s failure to cover Trump’s mental unfitness:
#uspol ht @heidilifeldman:
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by [email protected]
Sargent takes headlines about Biden pre-dropout, flips them to refer to Trump — basically what I'm doing upthread — and then asks:
❝ Are these headlines really stretches, based on all we’ve seen? I submit that they are not. … How often do you see headlines like this? Why don’t we see more of them? ❞
❝ This argument has never received an even remotely serious hearing from newsroom leaders at big media organizations. ❞
You’re damn right, Greg.
#uspol https://newrepublic.com/article/185622/finally-top-journo-erupts-media-ignoring-trumps-mental-state
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Sargent was amazingly gentle in this article
He softpedelled everything
He could have been 5 times harsher while still being completely accurate
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@aureliano
Gentle, yes. I wouldn’t quite agree with “soft pedalled;” I think his methodical gentleness makes it hit extra hard. He’s not coming at them like an angry heckler hurling punches; he’s dissecting them alive. -
Not the impression I got.
It felt very much like a man using very gentle language to describe a heinous crime.
Something like "the projectile intersected with the man's cranium" instead of "It blew his fucking head off"
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@aureliano
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“Wait, you're still keeping this megathread going, Paul?”
THE MEGATHREAD WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS NECESSARY
Trump just had the worst single day in a US presidential general election since…gosh…when?? He is a humiliation — not just a bad candidate, but mentally and emotionally incompetent.
Where is the mainstream coverage of that decline?
Where is the mainstream coverage of the behind-the-scenes effort to replace him?
Come to think of it, where are his hacked emails? Press has 'em!
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by [email protected]
I am again tapping the sign:
Don’t tell me there isn’t a single person, not a one, somewhere in the Republican Party machine who’s privately wishing for a different candidate right now.
This is totally absent in press coverage: not hinted at, not murmured about, not quoted anonymously on background, not echoed by Serious Columnists, not amplified, not manifested.
I mean, Dick Cheney endorsed her, for god’s sake. Dick Cheney!! Yet…zero speculation about palace intrigue to yeet Trump.