2024 Presidential Election thread

[LaceyLou]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

 

That is pretty much exactly the tone of the emails I keep getting. I'm already a nervous Nelly and they don't help. These groups don't listen to feedback, either. 

Occasionally a 'win red' email goes through and they're even worse, so there's that.

[chasfh]

Well, whaddya know ... democracy really does die in darkness.

[Motown Bombers]

The registration of the early voters is D+4. This would mean Harris is peeling off a lot of republicans and/or independents. 

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[mtutiger]

Wow

[romad1]

This is what my wife sent me when i sent her the Posts own article explaining their "decision".  

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Yep. That bill just came and I haven’t paid it yet. I’ll pay the part of it for the past year but will cancel and not pay for the upcoming year. BTW, don’t know if you looked at the comments under the article. It’s a loooong stream of “I’m cancelling my subscription” comments. Democracy Dies in Darkness my ass.

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

25 minutes ago, romad1 said:

 

I have great respect for Marty Baron (and every journalist at the Boston Globe) for the work they did spotlighting the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal. It won't matter much one way or the other that the Washington Post is not endorsing, but I agree with Mr. Baron here.

[romad1]

3 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

I have great respect for Marty Baron (and every journalist at the Boston Globe) for the work they did spotlighting the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal. It won't matter much one way or the other that the Washington Post is not endorsing, but I agree with Mr. Baron here.

When moral and ethical judgements needed to be made.  They didn't. 

[mtutiger]

7 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

I have great respect for Marty Baron (and every journalist at the Boston Globe) for the work they did spotlighting the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal. It won't matter much one way or the other that the Washington Post is not endorsing, but I agree with Mr. Baron here.

He is right, and the folks saying "well, no one cares about endorsements" are missing the point; the billionaire owner telling the board what they can and can not put out there 10 days before this particular election was never not going to cause controversy.

I personally don't care about paper endorsements, but it's pretty clear what happened here and, at least in my view, really hits at the issue of trust.

Edited October 25, 2024 by mtutiger

[pfife]

Yep.   Dont trust their product.

[romad1]

5 minutes ago, pfife said:

Yep.   Dont trust their product.

Concur

[Motown Bombers]

I don’t have a Post subscription so I canceled my Amazon Prime instead. 

[romad1]

This was a fantastic episode even if a bit heavy-handed.   Her monologue is great. 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[pfife]

Seeing that Robert Kagan resigned from wapo.   Yes that guy.   Reminds me of fighting with ROMAD 1.0 decades ago

[CMRivdogs]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

cancelling

We cancelled a couple of weeks ago. It goes beyond the latest issues 

[pfife]

ICP with better judgment than Wapo

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, pfife said:

Yep.   Dont trust their product.

The product hasn’t been great for a while now

[Mr.TaterSalad]

 

[mtutiger]

 

[Dan Gilmore]

JD, what an immoral turd.

[romad1]

THis is a great comment to the Kagan news

 

[romad1]

I don't know if it is anticipatory obedience to Trump as much as Bezos wants to make his tax breaks permanent so he can enjoy kleptocracy and no regulation of his businesses.

[romad1]

 

[romad1]