kalm wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 9:09 am
GannonFan wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 8:56 am
Someone who is already reading the NYT is most likely not an apolitical voter and is most likely not going to be voting for Trump anyway. And frankly, the only voters who really matter are the ones in the battleground states - if you're a voter in a non-battleground state your state is already in the column of either candidate. And believe me, being in a battleground state, there is literally no way you could be oblivious to really either candidate, given the volume of political ads that have been playing for months. Sure, if you want to turn yourself off and isolate so as not to have to hear any of this crap, you can do that. But you're unlikely to be a voter who does that and then reads the NYT's political stories. And really, again, it's not like Trump just popped up out of nowhere and is an unknown - he was a lunatic back in 2016 and for the 4 years in office and then the 4 years shouting in the distance during the Biden administration - if you don't know who and what Trump is by now you never will.
And just adding to this, I admit I don't know where in the paper you (or your source) pulled that quote from the NYT. But, being a newspaper, there is of course an objectivity to the style of writing that is normally done in the non-editorial sections of the newspaper. I don't really expect that section of the newspaper to make an editorial decision that Trump is a lunatic. While I believe he is, I'm not a doctor, and no respectable doctor would make that diagnosis from afar anyway. In that section of the newspaper, reporting the news without editorial comment is not only fine, it's good journalism. If you want the objective portions of newspapers to color their reporting with opinion and editorial comment, that's your opinion, but I'd rather have some area of the news not be that - it's already rare to find that anyway.
Fair but the NYT was just one example.
How many voters right now realize Trump has stated that gender re-assignment is being performed in public schools behind parents backs?
The fact he can get away with that and a whole host of other equally ridiculous statements and
still be tied in the polling means the media isn’t going it’s job or we are nation half full of idiots.
Both might be true.
Lol the fact that Commiela can be tied in the polls despite.in the past:
-Advocating for eliminating ICE, an agency which she compared to the KKK.
-Advocating for decriminalizing illegal immigration.
-Advocating for mass amnesty of illegal immigrants.
-Being against Remain In Mexico.
-Advocating for Defund the police.
-Advocating for eliminating cash bail.
-Advocating for giving violent felons the right to vote.
-Promoted a link to bail out violent BLM rioters.
-Supports a self described Marxist organization (BLM)
-Being for some form of reparations
-Promoted a fake lynching hoax (Jesse Smollett)
-Advocating for banning fracking.
-Advocating for banning offshore drilling.
-Advocating for banning the internal combustion engine/mandating electric vehicles.
-Advocating for eliminating all private health insurance
-Should consider a 70-80% top marginal tax rate
-Advocating for a mandatory gun buyback of modern sporting rifles (that the left likes to call assault weapons)
-Having zero restrictions on abortion, including partial birth.
-Advocating for banning plastic straws.
More recently has proposed:
-Govt price controls.
-Govt conficating drug company patents (never mind the orsky detail of it being illegal and unconstitutional, you just have to have the will to do it).
-$25k of taxpayer $$ to all 1st time home buyers to cause even more demand for the current housing shortage, driving up housing inflation (and inflation in general) even more. Developers/flippers/sellers just tack on 25k onto the price of their houses.
-Increasing the Cap Gain la tax rate from 20% to 45%
-Taxing unrealized gains.
-Accomplishing nothing of significance in close to 4 years as VP.
-Being a disaster in the one job of significance she was given, Border Czar.
-Often speaks in patronizing word salad like she is talking to a bunch of 1st graders.
-Has the most annoying cackle.
-Being the most unpopular VP since VP polling began.
And you think the nation is half full of idiots for 1/2 of them being against the above? Maybe you should take a look in the mirror.