It’s been beyond parody for a long time now.
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15-20m are being targeted for removal. He has previously acknowledged that US citizens will probably be caught up in it and its just the price we have to pay. He is now openly admitting it will be a bloody story
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1832797962814009628
Yet we have no details for how the biggest policing operation the country has ever seen will be implemented. How do the press approach this? Either with silence or by positioning it soberly as his him “introducing his housing affordability policy”
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The latest major poll (NYT/Siena) has Trump back in the lead narrowly with all the battleground states effectively tied , with the possible exception of Wisconsin where Harris seems to have opened up a lead.
More worringly for those of us who believe that the bookies are generally the best predictors of an outcome , the trend is very much now with Trump. After a short period of parity , following an even shorter one of Harris achieving favouritism , her odds are drifting now and Trump is a clear , albeit close , favourite.
“Mr. Trump holds a 13-percentage-point advantage on the issue that remains most important to voters: the economy. With similar numbers on the second most important issue , immigration. Only 30 percent of likely voters said the country was on the right track. More than 60 percent of likely voters said the next president should represent a major change from Mr. Biden, but only 25 percent said the vice president represented that change, while 53 percent said Mr. Trump, the former president, did.”
Sobering stuff.
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Vote for a dumb, racist, dictator-wannabe cunt because he represents a major change from the current incumbent. That’ll set the country on the right track.
Fucking idiots.
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I’m not sure if its quoting people because they were polled - surely it would be or I fail to see why they were quoted - but the article quotes the misgivings about Harris from a voter in Tennessee and one in Missouri. Are these states being polled? And if so, why? They are both automatic Republican wins.
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There’s an explainer , and links , for the polling method at the bottom of the piece… not that I understand any of it.
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The New York Times, as with too many major media outlets these days, have become a pitchbot for right wing ideology. Uber wealthy, right-leaning businessmen are buying up large media in droves, including CNN, The Washington Post, among many others, and pushing the narrative to keep Trump’s mental decline, and fascist agenda under wraps as much as possible.
I, personally, take anything “reported” from these outlets with a massive grain of salt.
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Same. Can’t be arsed trawling through all that. I just find it odd to quote from two states are not in play.
I did notice in that explainer that 20% of the respondants to the poll did not vote in the 2020 election. That seems an extraordinarily high number to base predictions on - given that 2020 was a historically high turnout. Are these people really worth even talking to? They’re obviously not going to vote. More to the point who the heck is not voting in the actual elections but will sit through a phone questionnaire?
There are some weirdos out there.
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In polling, you get yourself in trouble when you throw out the best random sample you can produce because it doesn’t match your expectations. But that does point out the sheer pointlessness of a national poll in the context of the electoral college. The views of a Tennessee voter are not interesting, regardless of whether they intend to vote or not. We know enough of them are to make the state a safe GOP win 95% of the time.
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Let’s hope she pushes the right buttons tomorrow night and he has a stroke on live television.
Would settle for him just unravelling, not fussy.
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I can’t speak to the rest, but as a long-time subscriber of the NYT, I can tell you that’s not the case. The ownership hasn’t changed significantly.
But the paper’s approach has been one of “enlightened centrism”, giving airtime to “both sides” uncritically in the name of “balance”. Whether ill-informed idealism or a braindead attempt to reach audiences they’ll never be able to reach anyway (which I believe was the drive behind CNN’s efforts), they’ve always given airtime to the right-wing. Some of the right-wing contributors they have had write for them have been genuinely thought-provoking and enlightening. But unfortunately the vast majority of them that I’ve encountered, in my opinion tend to be ironically affirmative-action conservatives, hired pretty much only because of their name and ideological viewpoint rather than any genuine intellectual contribution.
But regardless you’ll see this pervasive attempt to try to portray it as “both sides are equal”, and treating Trump as a serious candidate for example. @Limiescouse’s criticism is very relevant here.
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Yeah, the Times is one of the few high profile outlets that has been spared these recent ownership or big management changes. They’ve just long had really bad perspective on editorial decisions.
The same poll tested responses to various issues. It polled two different ways of asking about Harris’ proposed anti-price gauging policy. One was 10 points underwater the other was 15 points above it, despite it being the same fucking policy, and neither phrasing being structured as confusing or as a gotchya. That is what is sobering
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It’s basically saying the same thing. Only Wisconsin is (just) outside the margin of error.
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Well to be fair, being endorsed by Dick Cheney of all people, is a real nightmare.
This guy is one of the reasons why the US are in their sad position nowadays. By working for his own profit while in the Bush Jr administration, he has done more than anyone to undermine the credibility of the Washington ‘establishment’ and opened the door wide open for the MAGA cnuts to enter the scene.
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Sure, if you ignore what the man’s entire career has been.
For someone who’s that thoroughly distasteful to look at the options available and pick someone whom he shares so little policy ground with, I think it’s hard to argue that the alternative is better.
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The thing is his support is rock solid , regardless of how he performs tomorrow night it will barely budge. Hers is a lot softer , meaning she has a greater capacity to add to or subtract from it. Her own performance then will be far more consequential and additionally she will subject to greater scrutiny and , what is now simply a fact , she will be held to a far higher standard than him. She has more to gain but also a lot more to lose.
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That is, if you believe that there is any political culture left in the US.
In fact, the following quote resumes it best:
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This is true, but we have to be adults about it. We have spent 8 years being publicly disgusted with high profile Republicans pretending to view Trump as reasonable and demanding some dignity and backbone from them. Republicans have spent the same period making demands of the Democrats for what they’d need to do for Republicans to join them in opposing Trump (become Republican). Harris has made none of those concessions, and so when someone (the Cheneys) do what we’ve been demanding of them to do then the only reasonable thing to do is acknowledge it and praise it, without feeling such grace has to be viewed as any sort of endorsement for anything else about them.
We know from the primaries there is a sizeable portion of the old GOP electorate who are looking for an exit ramp from Trump, but Dems are not going to be the ones who convince them to switch over. Never Trump groups like the Bulwark have done an amazing amount of the intellectual and emotional lifting in terms of generating the arguments to use for how to speak to those groups, but it still needs to come from Republicans who have already seen the light to make a difference. People like Cheney going public is who will give these people the permission to alter their vote. That is what is important about this news, plus the fact that Harris changed nothing about her campaign to earn it nor, seemingly, is she doing anything to promote the endorsement and risk turning off her own people.
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Stroke it is, then.
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