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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/10/2024
journalists need to stop treating this like it means anything. “what if trump rejects the results” so what, who cares?
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What could happen if Trump rejects the US election results
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that if he does not win the Nov. 5 election, he will cry fraud and not accept the results - just as he did four years ago when he lost to Democratic President Joe Biden.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/10/2024
trump tariffs will destroy the economy www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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‘Off the charts’: How Trump tariffs would shock U.S., world economies
Trump's tariff plans could lead to economic isolation, affecting global markets and increasing costs for American consumers.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
i think that there is a type of person who treats politics as fundamentally a type of discourse, and all political acts as fundamentally discursive rather than material. this is why people say that they are not voting "to make a statement:" political action consists of statements made the powerful.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/10/2024
underrated problem is anonymous democratic “strategists” going to reporters to vent their anxiety
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/10/2024
FAULKER: How can we help people afford bacon? TRUMP: There wouldn't have been a Ukraine and Russia. There wouldn't have been an October 7.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
They think they’re exploiting him instead of the other way around
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Nihl L'Amas @nih-llamas.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
If a piece comparing Trump and Harris contains the phrase "regardless of who is elected," the author can be written off as a liar/dumbass permanently.
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Sam Rosenfeld @samrosenfeld.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Good @awprokop.bsky.social chronicle of Dems' leftward shift on econ policy in the last decade. Substantively, this was a development I loved to see--but its sheer failure to yield any political benefits in the Biden years was dismaying, and warrants sober reflection! www.vox.com/2024-electio...
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The rise — and fall? — of the New Progressive Economics
Progressives conquered economic policy under Biden. Would they lose it under Harris?
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Trump supporters handwave this away by imagining how awesome it'll be when they're the winners in a Peronist system
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
This has been the case for months, but I genuinely think Robert Lighthizer's recent meeting with various executives has genuinely scared them and is beginning to drive coverage. It made them realize Trump is serious about this, and Congress can't and won't stop him.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
“the tim walz story” (although without the Minnesota legislature, which is much more left overall wouldn’t have happened.)
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 16/10/2024
I have to say I find it extremely annoying when someone justifies not voting or voting third party because they think Harris is going to win their state anyway ☔️
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16/10/2024
important to keep saying both parts: they’re running an anti-trans campaign, they’re running a fascist campaign, they’re scapegoating trans people in their fascist campaign
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16/10/2024
appreciated v much @chrislhayes.bsky.social highlighting just now the wall-to-wall Trump ads scapegoating trans people as part his broader fascist campaign
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𝖘𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖆 𝖊 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖉 @sievish.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
sometimes I start to feel anxious and then I start to feel anxious and then I start to feel anxious and then I start to feel anxious and then I
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
one of the most egregious examples was a time profile where the writer all but announced that she also thought wokeness had gone too far
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
trump is melting down in a way that is actually getting the attention of cable news so he is probably going into hiding. the question is whether news anchors will badger the campaign about it (no)
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
I'm convinced the only way to get the press to cover Trump's behavior is to have Biden reenact said behavior so The Times might care.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/10/2024
with Trump pulling out of yet another interview, I think it’s clear they’re trying to run the 2016 playbook: have him go low profile and only play to friendly crowds and hope negative focus on his opponent gets him over the finish line it would sure be helpful if the media wouldn’t play along
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 15/10/2024
I think elite news organizations play a vital role in democracy. I think their obligation is to cover what they think is the most important story. There's the long-standing news value that "news is what's new" but much of this stuff from Trump is new.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
It is HUGE news when the candidate who is narrowly favored to win the presidential election in 21 days (a) runs a literally fascist campaign (b) acts erratic and confused in public
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 15/10/2024
I don't think the fact that the info won't persuade most people who encounter it means elite media organizations shouldn't feature in prominent places coverage of Trump's fascist proposals and cognitive decline. Editors shouldn't be doing political psychology on the fly. It's not their expertise.
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richtheflopper2024.bsky.social @richtheflopper2024.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Oof
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Personally I think this is Bad but what do i know www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
Trump Plots to Declare 2024 'Rigged' -- Using GOP Efforts to Slow the Vote Count
Donald Trump and his allies have worked to make sure 2024 mail-in ballots are counted slowly, so he can again demand officials “stop the count.”
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/10/2024
but he was convicted of 34 felonies
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Re-upping this today: You don't need to see a conspiracy to help Trump when journalists engage in "sanewashing" aberrant behavior. Rather, like a bias towards conflict, the bias towards making news comprehensible is baked deeply into how journalists approach their job. But it benefits the less sane.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
he won’t even take questions from his loyal acolytes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
to the extent that there is a “youngkin coalition” it will almost certainly not reassemble to elect either sears or miyares, who are actual maniacs
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
i think that if the press hadn’t turned totally against biden with the afghanistan withdrawal, mcauliffe would have won
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
anyone who looks back to the democratic party of roosevelt or johnson or even carter as an example of ideological coherence and forthright adherence to a set of broad and inviolable beliefs needs to read more
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
“the democratic party is a cobbled together and ideologically incoherent coalition of disparate and often mutually antagonistic interests” has been true since it was founded to elect andrew jackson in 1828 and is arguably less true now that it has ever been in its history
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
In a normal campaign there’d be repercussions for a guy that pardoned or commuted a half dozen or so people who went on to commit more crimes.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
The risk of organized disruption or worse at the polls and during vote counts is real www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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How Trump allies stoked election chaos in Detroit in 2020 — and what they're planning in 2024
Trump campaign and RNC staffers were central players in attempts to “stop the count” in Detroit in 2020, an NBC News investigation reveals. Next month, they claim 200,000 “patriots” will volunteer to ...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
The powers of the president are incredibly dangerous in the hands of an authoritarian like Trump
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
not for nothing louise lucas had a good and productive relationship with the last republican governor, bob mcdonnell, who was no moderate but knew how to navigate richmond
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
but part of the issue is also how youngkin won — he race-baited his way to the governor’s mansion and as sure as rain alienated the whole cohort of black VA dem legislators who have a living memory of segregation
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
seriously though, an actually competent republican governor would have immediately seen lucas as a potential threat and would have done everything in his power to either win her over or, at the very least, get her on the sidelines bsky.app/profile/kals...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
you might be wondering, “jamelle, you seem to really hate this dude.” and it’s true, i do! he fucking sucks more than people realize.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
anyway, youngkin is a great example of how you either a) need experience in government to be good at governing or b) need to be absolutely willing to bend yourself to people who do have experience while you learn the ropes (the mark warner model)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
one of the most infuriating youngkin actions was when he killed a potential deal with Ford motors to put a battery plant in Southside VA, a region of the state that desperately needs higher-paying jobs. screwed his own voters in an attempt to build his national brand.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
very good piece from earlier this year on glenn youngkin absolutely sucking shit at the actual job of governor. tl;dr: he’s a vicious partisan, got entirely high on his own supply and treated the legislature as an obstacle to overcome vs. a partner to work with.
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Va. Gov. Youngkin arrived like a GOP star, but arena failure clouds legacy
The Republican parlayed business success into the Governor’s Mansion, but the failed deal to move the Wizards and Capitals to a new arena in Virginia is a political setback.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/10/2024
they're doing the weird-ass thing they were doing at that last PA rally where they play this string of songs that seem to have absolutely no connection to one another, except now he's just sort of standing and half-ass swaying to it, his brains are fucking liquids just sloshing around
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Weird how neither the NYT or the Washington Post mentions their own paper's reporting about Trump falling asleep at his own criminal *multiple times* as relevant context for his bizarre senior episode last night!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2024
this is where the observation about the need for less toxic male role models is correct. young men do need to see that there isn’t some shortcut to a decent life.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Also a total abnegation of responsibility by media who rely on sports betting for their sports coverage.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 15/10/2024
I’ll say this for Harris: She does seem to be trying to win. There are so many democrats who are trying for the silver medal with a special citation for moral superiority or something. I think her campaign is pragmatic and good
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