Forget Vance. It’s •Trump• the Republicans should be talking about replacing.
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@inthehands I stand corrected. I was thinking of us here, who worry that a sane Republican would win and want this creep humiliated.
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Paul Cantrell (@[email protected])
@[email protected] My and-I-want-a-flying-laser-pony fantasy is that the GOP kicks Trump out and he runs as a third party candidate.
Hachyderm.io (hachyderm.io)
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@inthehands @exchgr The Republican Party, now desperate for someone to run at all, drafts their nominee from 2012, Mitt Romney, plus some luckless Senator or governor as VP. The non-Democratic vote is gloriously split, and Harris wins all the states won by either Obama or Biden at some point, with the possible exception of Indiana. A few other states fall in her column that wouldn’t have otherwise. Romney wins Utah and maybe Idaho and one or two other Western states. Trump, whose loss is beyond the wildest ability of corrupt election officials to undo, disappears into a black hole of self-pity before any of his remaining trials.
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@dpnash @exchgr
It’s beautiful. And then I get the laser pony, right?But seriously, this is •exactly• the scenario the Republican elites have been trying to prevent since Trump clinched the nomination in 2016. And that is what made Trump’s takeover of the party so swift and so complete. They’d rather destroy the country than split the party.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
It seems emptywheel is also wondering when exactly the press will apply their objective, unbiased reporting principles and trumpet the many, many possibly hypothetical calls for Trump to drop out (via @wdlindsy
“Outlets like the NYT have largely memory holed what a shit show [Trump’s press conference] was.
“In response to Joe Biden’s similarly awful performance at the debate, the NYT dedicated weeks to demanding he drop out.
“Not Trump.”
William Lindsey :toad: (@[email protected])
"Trump spent 6 minutes lying about crowd size. He spent 6 minutes lying about polls. He spent 6 minutes lying about the criminal cases against him. None of that has led the press to call the GOP to replace him. ... In response to Joe Biden’s similarly awful performance at the debate, the NYT dedicated weeks to demanding he drop out. Not Trump." ~ Marcy Wheeler #Trump #media #CorporateMedia #MediaFail #democracy /8 https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/08/09/trumps-imaginary-helicopter-friends-and-bacon-emergency/
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
Amid cratering support, key Trump supporters call for campaign overhaul, privately pressure him to drop out
[…is the headline the NYT would print if they had consistent editorial standards]:
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Kevin Severud :donor:replied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
@inthehands Who would be the candidate in that case, I wonder. Nikki? Vance? DeSantis?
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Kevin Severud :donor: on last edited by
Paul Cantrell (@[email protected])
Replies ask: Who would replace Trump? What other Republican could win nationally? What other Republican could possibly unite the party?! Hey folks, guess what: unless you’re a Republican, you don’t have to worry about it! The press had no answers when they called for Biden to drop out, and they don’t need any now to call from Trump to drop out!
Hachyderm.io (hachyderm.io)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
@inthehands Thanks for sharing.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
I am completely confident that the US press will now begin doling out the hacked material to the public piece by piece, keeping this story alive over a period of weeks and months, fostering all sorts of wild speculation about the internal corruption and sinister machinations of the Trump campaign while implying the campaign is incompetent and possibly in violation of the law for having been hacked — as we all know is standard journalistic practice in this situation:
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Blake Coverettreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
@inthehands Who gets the job of decoding their take-out food orders and determining which menu items are secretly encoding their child abuse plans?
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
We now have confirmation that both the NYT and WaPo have received the hacked materials. That means the clock is ticking for them to follow their own precedent and start doling out the juicy tidbits as news. Neutrality demands it, after all!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/trump-hacking-documents-iran -
@inthehands I want 2 see all the files
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@julieofthespirits
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
Re the post upthread, Brian Beutler lays it out in embarrassingly (for the press) stark terms. Here’s what Dean Baquet of the NYT said in 2016:
“When we learn important things, to not publish is a political act. The calculation cannot be, we’re just not going to publish because that would screw up American politics. You know, at that point, I will go into business as like a campaign adviser to people and not as a journalist.”
But now…
Via @KimPerales:
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
Meanwhile, behind closed doors inside the Republican Party, pressure grows for Trump to drop out
Presumably
And shouldn’t the press be frothing and speculating endlessly about it? Because that’s how journalism is done, apparently
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by
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 very serious columnists, not amplified, not manifested. And that contrast to 2 months ago is damning.
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Michael Halligan 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️replied to Paul Cantrell on last edited by [email protected]
@inthehands because 99.99999% of all journalists in this world have less integrity than a bridge made out of wet paper towels. That’s my guess anyways.
This is why I snicker at people ranting and grandstand over The sanctity of the hallowed free press.
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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.