Forget Vance. It’s •Trump• the Republicans should be talking about replacing.
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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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“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.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by [email protected]
At this point, politicians are just openly trolling the mainstream media for their unwillingness to apply their own standards. Good for Moskowitz.
(Update: this is not an endorsement of the guy in general; I know nothing about him.)
From @lovelylovely:
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@inthehands man fuck that guy he's a bigot and a racist, a desantis appointee who supports the genocide in gaza
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@cam
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My dear political pressitarians, you don't even have to •find• these people in the Republican machine desperately trying behind the scenes to replace Trump. You just have •speculate• about them!
Again, we all know you know how this works. You did it with Biden.
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Jima :Compromise_bi_flag:replied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands Err...Dick Cheney endorsed *who*, again? 🤨
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Jima :Compromise_bi_flag: last edited by
@jima heh, my poor brain
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Jima :Compromise_bi_flag:replied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands ...but as the joke goes, they conceived this campaign, and at this stage, they need to carry it to term, like it or not.
Despite the not-Biden naysayers' (almost said Harris naysayers', but she wasn't even part of it the formula at that juncture) assertion that it was too late to get ballots changed, AT THAT POINT it was not; now, Kennedy's dropout is illustrating that it's mostly too late to make any substantial changes, court intervention kind-of-aside. #USPol #USPolitics
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Jima :Compromise_bi_flag: last edited by
@jima
I mean, all this, yes, of course. My point is that the press can choose whether to gin up doubt and chaos about a candidate and a campaign, and they are making some very inconsistent choices about the conditions under which they do that — or rather very consistent, but unprincipled.It’s not too late, for example, to publish the Trump campaign’s hacked email.
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Jima :Compromise_bi_flag:replied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands And sorry (as I was replying to my own toot), to be clear, I agree with your argument: I'm SURE folks in the party are looking around, nervously, wondering how much blast radius the flailing campaign will have on legislative races, or even future presidential elections. Similar story for the media.
But probably none of them are willing to take the risk of putting that kind of target on themselves by saying anything out loud. Which is...still concerning. #USPol #USPolitics
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@jima
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@inthehands I’m for the equivalent to the Clooney op-ed in the Washington Post. Maybe from Hulk Hogan.
Drove Dawn to O’Hare yesterday. Listened to Ezra Klein podcast. Annoyed Dawn by continually saying to Mr. Klein, “So this is where you call for the GOP to dump Trump, right?” Preferably with some giddy speculation about how exciting the succession struggle would be. But no.
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@marick
Keep repeating it. Broken record.Not because we expect it, but because (1) it’s only fair, and (2) asking the question is itself a form of argument.
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@inthehands I don’t think Ezra Klein heard me, and Dawn has little influence at the NYTimes.
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@marick
Heh, yeah. But media pressure can start from the grassroots!