Dump Trump! Totally dishonest every time he opens his mouth… please hold the mainstream press accountable for lack of willingness to demand sensible answers to fair questions.
That ”press conference” was a sham. It was a reality TV performance with a tenuous connection to reality. The “journalists” were PR props and deserve Emmy’s.
They don’t deserve Emmy’s, they deserve a figurative public flogging. That was not journalism by any stretch of the imagination. No fact checking, little to no follow up, and WHY aren’t there stories about his decline? They were all over President Biden like white on rice. Talk about a double standard.
And the press at that “press conference” were so supine and quiet. Nothing like the shouting that goes on when Biden gives a press conference, and the angry accusations about not being truthful or not answering questions. Trump spoke in word salad and he wasn’t called on it. Why?
Yeah, it’s maddening how the mainstream media just gives him a pass. I really believe Trump thinks ‘Asylum’ equates to insane asylum. Anytime he’s asked about it he goes off on a tangent about mentally ill illegals.
Heritage Foundation hubris brought this document to light. So assured were they of Trump's victory over Biden they released this toxic prematurely. A major PR blunder. But more telling is the fact that they thought most Americans would find it palatable. It turns out that marinating counter-elites in right wing think tanks is not the best way to discover what the people want but excellent at divining the wishes of their funders. What did we expect from people whose primary motivation is a white hot animus toward elites? By the chip on their shoulders shall ye know them.
Well, at least in the Bush and Romney campaigns, there were efforts to actually present rather detailed policy positions, however unpopular many were, and that some were discarded or soft-pedaled heading into the general elections. The tRump campaigns, in 2020 and 2024, OTOH were and are bereft of what passes for implementable policies, but rather all about the man himself, Dear Leader, and all his grievances and prejudices.
Sure, by default we look to Project 2025 as tRump's "platform", as it's conventionally meant, as there is nothing else offered up of any substance, and tRump and Hillbilly feint and dodge around all the controversy surrounding all 900 pages of the document, but the simple fact of the matter is that the campaign is designed to center on tRump the man, and nothing else matters. And, more than Project 2025, tRump the man is what is crashing the chances for his election prospects, as his increasingly erratic and self-sabotaging appearances have really pulled the curtain back, and once a viable and exciting Dem ticket presented itself, tRump's glaring fallibilities are driving voters toward Harris-Walz and away from tRump-Hillbilly, and it only can get worse for their side,
I'm totally optimistic on the Dems' election chances, and it's not an unreasonably held position, IMHO.
"What are they hiding?" is a useful campaign message in itself, even when it isn't coupled with, y'know, active efforts to *hide* something. Timing for this message matters, too, imo. Here, in a short, late campaign, the hidden stuff - P2025 - appears to be plainly unpalatable to most of the public as they learn about it. So attempting to hide it from the electorate while it nevertheless leaks out this late in the campaign will stick with some voters and animate them.
"...Trump couldn’t run an ideas-based campaign if he wanted to..."
But he wouldn't want to - and I'm not sure Harris/Walz should either. There's ample evidence that voters are moved by feelings. Probably why Democrats rational, policy-focused candidates lose so often, despite promoting policies that are "in the voters' interests."
At this point, "Trump old and weird, Vance young and weird" and "they want the freedom to tell women what to do in their doctor's office" are probably better than detailed policy.
Thanks Brian for the walk back in history. It’s supposed to be a teacher as to what works for humanity and what doesn’t. Instead, it’s now employed by media owners and conservative investors like a worm that embeds and maneuvers to plant ideas and bring about their desired message of pro-billionaire legislation and society structure.
As long as Murdoch’s, et al is in control of conservative’s news, the high from feeling relief and hope for the future will no doubt be short lived. It’s only good for a few news cycles in selling adverts and it’s just bad for pushing conservative agendas like Project 2025. They don’t people united in any way about anything. That’s when power shifts.
Our wealthy media class is addicted to the big reveal. It's why you're right about the Project 2025 coverup -- it's related to the way they made Hillary Clinton's emails "scandal" the most important story of the 2016 election because it came through hackers and shadowy webs of informants and it just made them all feel wicked supercool even though all they had was John Podesta's risotto recipe, while Donald Trump confesses to felonies on an almost daily basis and they shrug.
I guarantee if Trump just said "Project 2025? Yeah I'm totally behind it I think it's a great idea," they'd present it to the American people as an interesting if sweeping set of changes backed by an unorthodox politician with an energetic following.
I'm already excited thinking about the 2028 Republican primaries. I think it'll genuinely be anyone's ballgame, and I do mean anyone. I have the strangest feeling it could be Shaq.
I would, however, like to issue a caution with respect to your starry eyes regarding the election at hand. If there exists an "emails for Kamala", we wouldn't know about it yet -- and Trump wouldn't know about it either. That guy wouldn't be able to keep a strategic lid on anything -- we all know that. He's like the human incarnation of the meat-seeking collective voter. The biggest shark when the water is chummed.
If I were a shadowy Republican strategist - and if I were still interested in Trump winning this election, which I don't know that I would be - I would sit my shadowy behind very firmly on anything remotely juicy until a few weeks out, and I'd be perfectly happy to let Trump twist in the meantime.
I would bet you at least two nickels that it's all-hands-on-deck right now at shadowy Republican institutes, and I'd bet you further that those hands are combing through everything Kamala ever wrote, signed, agreed with, or was in the proximity of since she was in preschool. You don't get to breathe yet. In fact, now's when you should really start holding it.
"Two nickels!". Love it. And your take on political strategy sounds like the exact plan a professional political game player would do. I just wish political contests weren't such a game.
Dump Trump! Totally dishonest every time he opens his mouth… please hold the mainstream press accountable for lack of willingness to demand sensible answers to fair questions.
That ”press conference” was a sham. It was a reality TV performance with a tenuous connection to reality. The “journalists” were PR props and deserve Emmy’s.
They don’t deserve Emmy’s, they deserve a figurative public flogging. That was not journalism by any stretch of the imagination. No fact checking, little to no follow up, and WHY aren’t there stories about his decline? They were all over President Biden like white on rice. Talk about a double standard.
And the Emmy for the best performance acting like a journalist when you’re really just a clickbait hack, goes to….
And the press at that “press conference” were so supine and quiet. Nothing like the shouting that goes on when Biden gives a press conference, and the angry accusations about not being truthful or not answering questions. Trump spoke in word salad and he wasn’t called on it. Why?
Yeah, it’s maddening how the mainstream media just gives him a pass. I really believe Trump thinks ‘Asylum’ equates to insane asylum. Anytime he’s asked about it he goes off on a tangent about mentally ill illegals.
Heritage Foundation hubris brought this document to light. So assured were they of Trump's victory over Biden they released this toxic prematurely. A major PR blunder. But more telling is the fact that they thought most Americans would find it palatable. It turns out that marinating counter-elites in right wing think tanks is not the best way to discover what the people want but excellent at divining the wishes of their funders. What did we expect from people whose primary motivation is a white hot animus toward elites? By the chip on their shoulders shall ye know them.
Well, at least in the Bush and Romney campaigns, there were efforts to actually present rather detailed policy positions, however unpopular many were, and that some were discarded or soft-pedaled heading into the general elections. The tRump campaigns, in 2020 and 2024, OTOH were and are bereft of what passes for implementable policies, but rather all about the man himself, Dear Leader, and all his grievances and prejudices.
Sure, by default we look to Project 2025 as tRump's "platform", as it's conventionally meant, as there is nothing else offered up of any substance, and tRump and Hillbilly feint and dodge around all the controversy surrounding all 900 pages of the document, but the simple fact of the matter is that the campaign is designed to center on tRump the man, and nothing else matters. And, more than Project 2025, tRump the man is what is crashing the chances for his election prospects, as his increasingly erratic and self-sabotaging appearances have really pulled the curtain back, and once a viable and exciting Dem ticket presented itself, tRump's glaring fallibilities are driving voters toward Harris-Walz and away from tRump-Hillbilly, and it only can get worse for their side,
I'm totally optimistic on the Dems' election chances, and it's not an unreasonably held position, IMHO.
"What are they hiding?" is a useful campaign message in itself, even when it isn't coupled with, y'know, active efforts to *hide* something. Timing for this message matters, too, imo. Here, in a short, late campaign, the hidden stuff - P2025 - appears to be plainly unpalatable to most of the public as they learn about it. So attempting to hide it from the electorate while it nevertheless leaks out this late in the campaign will stick with some voters and animate them.
"...Trump couldn’t run an ideas-based campaign if he wanted to..."
But he wouldn't want to - and I'm not sure Harris/Walz should either. There's ample evidence that voters are moved by feelings. Probably why Democrats rational, policy-focused candidates lose so often, despite promoting policies that are "in the voters' interests."
At this point, "Trump old and weird, Vance young and weird" and "they want the freedom to tell women what to do in their doctor's office" are probably better than detailed policy.
Thanks Brian for the walk back in history. It’s supposed to be a teacher as to what works for humanity and what doesn’t. Instead, it’s now employed by media owners and conservative investors like a worm that embeds and maneuvers to plant ideas and bring about their desired message of pro-billionaire legislation and society structure.
As long as Murdoch’s, et al is in control of conservative’s news, the high from feeling relief and hope for the future will no doubt be short lived. It’s only good for a few news cycles in selling adverts and it’s just bad for pushing conservative agendas like Project 2025. They don’t people united in any way about anything. That’s when power shifts.
Our wealthy media class is addicted to the big reveal. It's why you're right about the Project 2025 coverup -- it's related to the way they made Hillary Clinton's emails "scandal" the most important story of the 2016 election because it came through hackers and shadowy webs of informants and it just made them all feel wicked supercool even though all they had was John Podesta's risotto recipe, while Donald Trump confesses to felonies on an almost daily basis and they shrug.
I guarantee if Trump just said "Project 2025? Yeah I'm totally behind it I think it's a great idea," they'd present it to the American people as an interesting if sweeping set of changes backed by an unorthodox politician with an energetic following.
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I'm already excited thinking about the 2028 Republican primaries. I think it'll genuinely be anyone's ballgame, and I do mean anyone. I have the strangest feeling it could be Shaq.
I would, however, like to issue a caution with respect to your starry eyes regarding the election at hand. If there exists an "emails for Kamala", we wouldn't know about it yet -- and Trump wouldn't know about it either. That guy wouldn't be able to keep a strategic lid on anything -- we all know that. He's like the human incarnation of the meat-seeking collective voter. The biggest shark when the water is chummed.
If I were a shadowy Republican strategist - and if I were still interested in Trump winning this election, which I don't know that I would be - I would sit my shadowy behind very firmly on anything remotely juicy until a few weeks out, and I'd be perfectly happy to let Trump twist in the meantime.
I would bet you at least two nickels that it's all-hands-on-deck right now at shadowy Republican institutes, and I'd bet you further that those hands are combing through everything Kamala ever wrote, signed, agreed with, or was in the proximity of since she was in preschool. You don't get to breathe yet. In fact, now's when you should really start holding it.
"Two nickels!". Love it. And your take on political strategy sounds like the exact plan a professional political game player would do. I just wish political contests weren't such a game.