How do you call out the legacy media’s failure to be journalists? I think we all need to do it with our friends and family and beyond. If Trump does it, it’s called whining. How about DeSantis, Haley, and other leading Republicans put together a coalition. I’m rambling but this is frightening that the media is bring purposefully blind to her ineptitudes in the past, the fact that she was a laughing stock six months ago, and helped perpetuate the “Biden is not only fine, but better” lie that was exposed in June. At the very least, ASK THE QUESTIONS in an unscripted environment!
We'll see if she can talk, she and her handlers clearly know she's weak w/o a script, hence no press appearances. Trump has a proven policy record, he's hardly an empty fraud. Kamala and the MSM have erased all kind of history to try to recreate something she's never been. It's a total sham and offensive to all Americans. She's a fraud, a liar, an idiot and a complete puppet.
As much as I hate to say it, she has the sounder argument here. The Harris campaign is executing strategy while the Trump campaign still seems to be searching for one. The kid glove treatment and in-kind contributions from the corporate media are sickening, but they're working. And if a good bit of the Trump/Vance strategy hinges on the top of the ticket not making any unforced errors, I'm afraid the probability of that is an asymptote approaching zero the longer the election wears on. It might not matter in the end, because the "ground game" (read: sketchy mail-in ballot harvesting) Democrats have built in the swing states might make polls and strategies moot. Ugh...
"Harris’s best hope is that Donald Trump makes an unforced error."
As much as I wish he was right, Savodnik argument is delusional. Not only does he rely on a lot of ifs (polling equilibrium after convention; people caring about Walz; protests making a dent; etc.), but he largely ignores the media giving cover for any and all of Harris' flaws.
I think Shrier is overstating Harris' chances, but Savodnik is only right in the sense that this will be another close election.
So interesting, Free Press! If anyone thought you might be leaning left, this article balances well and has attracted right leaning commentators. As an independent voter and former journalist, I can definitely say, “you done good!”
The normal people who follow our politics don't trust the media and they are the only Harris cheerleaders so Trump should just give her all the rope she needs because she will hang herself, the economy alone along with food prices will determine this election. The ride to the election will be bumpy and the Oct. surprise should be epic.
All of this is biblical. Definition of biblical: Everything is nuts/crazy, nothing makes any sense whatsoever, unexpected, an enormous black swan event. The future is totally unpredictable. Heaven help us (both in the secular and religious sense).
Effectively lambasting Harris is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, but the only thing Trump is shooting is shooting off his mouth. It would be SOOOO easy to focus on the issues, and yet what do we hear, "he's better looking than Kamala". There are a lot of people I know who despise Trump, yet might have voted for Trump upon seeing Harris, this ludicrous cackler who has no grasp of the issues, zig zags from the most extreme leftist positions to half-hearted half-expressed adoption of moderate policies, and until her miraculous rebirth as the savior of America was rightly considered a bubble-headed DEI VP. Now Trump is showing them what ludicrous really looks like. Poor America, poor world.
I agree with you and all others who are disgusted and appalled with Trump's juvenile insults, silly seventh grade behavior and time wasted on idiotic crap like references to Hannibal Lecter.
However, I still am a firm believer in the adage "Actions speak louder than words." Trump's administration had some beneficial policies that helped millions of Americans: a hard line against China and the Islamofascists of Iran; encouragement of domestic oil production leading to lower gasoline prices, rather than paying vile dictators for their oil, thus funding terrorists; corporate tax cuts that stimulated wages and job creation; low inflation; a genuine effort to secure the border; respect for religious rights (no jack-booted thugs banging on the door of pro-life activists in the middle of the night); and the Abraham Accords, to name a few things.
Polls generally oversample Democrats and undersample Republicans. And frankly, many respondents who support Trump won't say so for fear of repercussions. After all, we live in an uber-surveillance society, and it is not at all farfetched to believe many of our phone calls and emails are being monitored. It's horrifying and sad that we've come to this, but the evidence sure seems to say so.
The way I heard it, the first time Harris tried to accuse the grocers of gouging, she mispronounced gouging and said gauging ... like the Channel 83 Weather Bunny.
"Harris’s best hope is that Donald Trump makes an unforced error."
Arguably, he already has. We (political independents in the Keystone State) were ready to hold our noses and vote Trump: between the debate, the assassination attempt & a well run RNC (with what appeared to be a semi-sane Trump ready to put on his big-boy pants this time around), it looked like Trump was finally coming into his own as President. Then he subsequently shit the proverbal bed & his true colors reemerged. I don't want to listen to him for one more month let alone another 4 years. I don't trust him to keep us in NATO where we belong. And as much as Israel supporters wish it to be so, given his isolationist tendencies, I don't trust him to keep the support there either.
So I likely won't be voting for him. Because as bad as Harris [probably] is (because as is correctly pointed out, she doesn't have an eloquent bone in her body so we really don't know), and as much as I'd like to stick it to the legacy media & DEI supporters that much harder by having their "golden goose" go down, I think she's a better representative for our interests on the world stage.
So I'd argue that Trump's "unforced error" is he let himself be badgered into showing that he hasn't changed a bit and that he's as big an ass today as he was the first time I refused to vote for him. Ah well...maybe we'll vote GOP next time.... if they can get their act together and put forth for a sane candidate.
What was Trump doing? —playing Tough Love with Europe by refusing to support deadbeat European countries. Countries who failed their commitments to NATO, and fawned all over NORDSTREAM thus enriching Russia. Playing the American Taxpayers as the fools, Trump put a stop to that now didn't he. The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder was the CEO of the Nordstream Corporation. That corporation made Russia very wealthy and Ukraine very poor by routing Russian natural gas undersea as opposed to across Ukraine.
Where did all this European malfeasance lead us? —to Russia starting a war, just as Trump foresaw, a Russian War against Europe funded by European energy purchases.
Whom is it you want facing down the likes of Putin, Kim, and Xe? —the guy whose career was international negotiations in building branded resorts all over the world and running beauty pageants all over the world, or the woman who—when asked why she's never been to the border—stated "I've never been to Europe either."
What are you voting for, a good vibe or the leader of the free world?
Just watched DNC convention and saw the Governor of Kentucky talk for 10 minutes about how joyful abortion is...what the fuck is this country becoming....while he might suck dick in his spare time...not sure that killing babies is the most important issue in our country...what a POS loser
As we all know...it's early, but not that early. Polls are showing how close it is. Polls??? I was watching an interview of a major bi-partisan pollster a few years ago. He said that when polls were done years ago their 'acceptance rate' of people who would take the poll was about 90%. Fast forward to '16 and '20,
He said their 'acceptance rate' was down to 10%. That's right, only 1 in 10 calls would take the survey. Further research indicated that Trump supports refused to take the survey/poll way higher than Dems.
Just saying...be careful when the polls come out. When you look at the 'spread'...aka the +/- I would believe that the actual Trump numbers will be at the extreme of the tolerance in his favor. Just my 2 cents.
Here in Michigan, during the 2016 Democrat primary, Hillary had a 20-point lead over Bernie Sanders in one poll. Sanders ended up winning Michigan's Democrat primary. Twenty points!
The fact that zero interviews and a media-managed reinvention of her image "has worked" is reason enough to vote against Kamala Harris, much as constant media bias between 2016-2020 was, for me, enough reason to vote for Trump.
A media that is complicit in obfuscation and outright lies is already causing damage to this country - including, as the most obvious example, a distrust toward previously authoritative sources and the proliferation of conspiracy theories.
How do you call out the legacy media’s failure to be journalists? I think we all need to do it with our friends and family and beyond. If Trump does it, it’s called whining. How about DeSantis, Haley, and other leading Republicans put together a coalition. I’m rambling but this is frightening that the media is bring purposefully blind to her ineptitudes in the past, the fact that she was a laughing stock six months ago, and helped perpetuate the “Biden is not only fine, but better” lie that was exposed in June. At the very least, ASK THE QUESTIONS in an unscripted environment!
We'll see if she can talk, she and her handlers clearly know she's weak w/o a script, hence no press appearances. Trump has a proven policy record, he's hardly an empty fraud. Kamala and the MSM have erased all kind of history to try to recreate something she's never been. It's a total sham and offensive to all Americans. She's a fraud, a liar, an idiot and a complete puppet.
As much as I hate to say it, she has the sounder argument here. The Harris campaign is executing strategy while the Trump campaign still seems to be searching for one. The kid glove treatment and in-kind contributions from the corporate media are sickening, but they're working. And if a good bit of the Trump/Vance strategy hinges on the top of the ticket not making any unforced errors, I'm afraid the probability of that is an asymptote approaching zero the longer the election wears on. It might not matter in the end, because the "ground game" (read: sketchy mail-in ballot harvesting) Democrats have built in the swing states might make polls and strategies moot. Ugh...
"Harris’s best hope is that Donald Trump makes an unforced error."
As much as I wish he was right, Savodnik argument is delusional. Not only does he rely on a lot of ifs (polling equilibrium after convention; people caring about Walz; protests making a dent; etc.), but he largely ignores the media giving cover for any and all of Harris' flaws.
I think Shrier is overstating Harris' chances, but Savodnik is only right in the sense that this will be another close election.
So interesting, Free Press! If anyone thought you might be leaning left, this article balances well and has attracted right leaning commentators. As an independent voter and former journalist, I can definitely say, “you done good!”
The normal people who follow our politics don't trust the media and they are the only Harris cheerleaders so Trump should just give her all the rope she needs because she will hang herself, the economy alone along with food prices will determine this election. The ride to the election will be bumpy and the Oct. surprise should be epic.
All of this is biblical. Definition of biblical: Everything is nuts/crazy, nothing makes any sense whatsoever, unexpected, an enormous black swan event. The future is totally unpredictable. Heaven help us (both in the secular and religious sense).
Effectively lambasting Harris is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, but the only thing Trump is shooting is shooting off his mouth. It would be SOOOO easy to focus on the issues, and yet what do we hear, "he's better looking than Kamala". There are a lot of people I know who despise Trump, yet might have voted for Trump upon seeing Harris, this ludicrous cackler who has no grasp of the issues, zig zags from the most extreme leftist positions to half-hearted half-expressed adoption of moderate policies, and until her miraculous rebirth as the savior of America was rightly considered a bubble-headed DEI VP. Now Trump is showing them what ludicrous really looks like. Poor America, poor world.
I agree with you and all others who are disgusted and appalled with Trump's juvenile insults, silly seventh grade behavior and time wasted on idiotic crap like references to Hannibal Lecter.
However, I still am a firm believer in the adage "Actions speak louder than words." Trump's administration had some beneficial policies that helped millions of Americans: a hard line against China and the Islamofascists of Iran; encouragement of domestic oil production leading to lower gasoline prices, rather than paying vile dictators for their oil, thus funding terrorists; corporate tax cuts that stimulated wages and job creation; low inflation; a genuine effort to secure the border; respect for religious rights (no jack-booted thugs banging on the door of pro-life activists in the middle of the night); and the Abraham Accords, to name a few things.
Polls generally oversample Democrats and undersample Republicans. And frankly, many respondents who support Trump won't say so for fear of repercussions. After all, we live in an uber-surveillance society, and it is not at all farfetched to believe many of our phone calls and emails are being monitored. It's horrifying and sad that we've come to this, but the evidence sure seems to say so.
The way I heard it, the first time Harris tried to accuse the grocers of gouging, she mispronounced gouging and said gauging ... like the Channel 83 Weather Bunny.
"Harris’s best hope is that Donald Trump makes an unforced error."
Arguably, he already has. We (political independents in the Keystone State) were ready to hold our noses and vote Trump: between the debate, the assassination attempt & a well run RNC (with what appeared to be a semi-sane Trump ready to put on his big-boy pants this time around), it looked like Trump was finally coming into his own as President. Then he subsequently shit the proverbal bed & his true colors reemerged. I don't want to listen to him for one more month let alone another 4 years. I don't trust him to keep us in NATO where we belong. And as much as Israel supporters wish it to be so, given his isolationist tendencies, I don't trust him to keep the support there either.
So I likely won't be voting for him. Because as bad as Harris [probably] is (because as is correctly pointed out, she doesn't have an eloquent bone in her body so we really don't know), and as much as I'd like to stick it to the legacy media & DEI supporters that much harder by having their "golden goose" go down, I think she's a better representative for our interests on the world stage.
So I'd argue that Trump's "unforced error" is he let himself be badgered into showing that he hasn't changed a bit and that he's as big an ass today as he was the first time I refused to vote for him. Ah well...maybe we'll vote GOP next time.... if they can get their act together and put forth for a sane candidate.
What was Trump doing? —playing Tough Love with Europe by refusing to support deadbeat European countries. Countries who failed their commitments to NATO, and fawned all over NORDSTREAM thus enriching Russia. Playing the American Taxpayers as the fools, Trump put a stop to that now didn't he. The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder was the CEO of the Nordstream Corporation. That corporation made Russia very wealthy and Ukraine very poor by routing Russian natural gas undersea as opposed to across Ukraine.
Where did all this European malfeasance lead us? —to Russia starting a war, just as Trump foresaw, a Russian War against Europe funded by European energy purchases.
Whom is it you want facing down the likes of Putin, Kim, and Xe? —the guy whose career was international negotiations in building branded resorts all over the world and running beauty pageants all over the world, or the woman who—when asked why she's never been to the border—stated "I've never been to Europe either."
What are you voting for, a good vibe or the leader of the free world?
The Democrats are still far ahead in the ballot-harvesting of those who normally don't vote; they go out door-to-door and farm them.
Just watched DNC convention and saw the Governor of Kentucky talk for 10 minutes about how joyful abortion is...what the fuck is this country becoming....while he might suck dick in his spare time...not sure that killing babies is the most important issue in our country...what a POS loser
Abortion is the Dems religion.
“Ms Harris, when you assured the American people two months ago that Joe Biden was mentally sharp, were you lying or just ignorant of the truth?”
As we all know...it's early, but not that early. Polls are showing how close it is. Polls??? I was watching an interview of a major bi-partisan pollster a few years ago. He said that when polls were done years ago their 'acceptance rate' of people who would take the poll was about 90%. Fast forward to '16 and '20,
He said their 'acceptance rate' was down to 10%. That's right, only 1 in 10 calls would take the survey. Further research indicated that Trump supports refused to take the survey/poll way higher than Dems.
Just saying...be careful when the polls come out. When you look at the 'spread'...aka the +/- I would believe that the actual Trump numbers will be at the extreme of the tolerance in his favor. Just my 2 cents.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Here in Michigan, during the 2016 Democrat primary, Hillary had a 20-point lead over Bernie Sanders in one poll. Sanders ended up winning Michigan's Democrat primary. Twenty points!
As a staunch non-partisan, I find it funny how fast the worm turns... A month ago, this is what social media looked like:
* Trump Supporters: the polls are great! Fully trustworthy! Everything looking good!
* Democrats: who trusts polls...they're always wrong ... not a high enough acceptance rate...etc.
Today:
* Trump Supporters: who trusts polls...they're always wrong ... not a high enough acceptance rate...etc.
* Democrats: the polls are great! Fully trustworthy! Everything looking good!
C'mon. It's too early for these predictions. Everything changed a month ago and the dust is far from settled. Talk to me in October.
What happened a month ago?!
DNC Politburo coup
and, wait, wasn't there an attempted assassination enabled by at best criminally negligent security agencies?
Yep. That too. Totally forgotten now, of course.
Personalities can distract. Voting is not the the same as "be my valentine" ... but it should be based on the record.
The fact that zero interviews and a media-managed reinvention of her image "has worked" is reason enough to vote against Kamala Harris, much as constant media bias between 2016-2020 was, for me, enough reason to vote for Trump.
A media that is complicit in obfuscation and outright lies is already causing damage to this country - including, as the most obvious example, a distrust toward previously authoritative sources and the proliferation of conspiracy theories.