Forget Vance. It’s •Trump• the Republicans should be talking about replacing if they want to win.
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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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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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“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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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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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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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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Amazing: @wdlindsy has gathered a whole collection of commentators echoing this thread:
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/113130161223719501Members of the press, we’re all thinking it.
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We are now at the point where:
- Trump is mass-cancelling crucial appearances, which Biden never did
- Trump is far more rambling and incoherent than Biden has ever been, ever
- Trump stopped answering questions and lapsed into swaying to his own playlist for 39 minutes at a live event, which Biden…I mean, come the fuck on
- Trump is even more overtly fascist…yet none of this receives even a fraction of the mainstream coverage Biden’s mellow old age received.
Where is the press?!?
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Here is the top of this thread:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112884273119572617I started it at the end of July. Depressingly, I could have written almost all of it this afternoon and it would be just as accurate.
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Trump is doing all of those things and his cult member followers keep putting up more and more signs. They love him.
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@mishi
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The press is largely owned by billionaires who've been firing anyone who speaks up for workers
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@inthehands bought? I think the press was bought. Or fighting to get noticed by the algorithms that could be skewed a bit/a lot by their owners.
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@inthehands I was just talking to my wife about this. I don't think you can convince me that the position of certain press (or perhaps their wealthy owners) isn't that Trump is a useful idiot to install Smooth Used Car Salesman MAGA Vance. It doesn't really matter how that happens, be it ill-health or the law. The age thing, on which they're now silent, was to hopefully get an inferior candidate.
Which sounds like fringe conspiracy nonsense. I honestly don't know - I guess if the shoe fits?
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@alienghic
This is certainly true of Sinclair, Fox, etc.It may unfortunately be true of WaPo now.
I don’t think it fully explains NYT, NPR, all the broadcast networks who should know better — though certainly there is pressure behind the scenes even if it’s not from direct billionaire ownership.
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@mdione
I think it’s complicated. Some press orgs are pure right-wing propaganda efforts at this point. There are plenty of reporters, even some at those orgs, who aren’t bought and would like to do better, but can’t get their heads out of the horse race mentality. There are certainly owners who are exerting pressure down the ladder, and editors responding to that pressure. It’s a whole-system failure, complex in its details, disturbingly straightforward in its results. -
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@inthehands There is no 'press' just propaganda.
