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@cobalt The problem with publications like that is, it actually supports the guy to his voters.

The right way to counter Trump is to point out that he's a loser, he's ineffective, and he won't be able to do the things that his supporters want.

Headlines like this play right into his hands.

@banty Right, a system is only as good as the people in the positions of influence, and there are millions and millions of people, literally, in positions to make sure no one elected president would be able to do something like not have elections in 2028.

It reminds me of moon landing conspiracy theories. It's often pointed out that we know the moon landing happened because the number of people that would have to be involved in a hoax is so huge that it would definitely have gotten out by now.

Same thing here. For the 2028 elections to be canceled would require basically the whole country to be involved in the conspiracy. It's not going to happen.

@_dm

@_dm

I mean you can think that but it's a ridiculous thing to think 🙂

No, with the US system of government there is not a candidate who is an existential risk to fair elections. That's just sensationalized conspiracy theory that has no basis in reality, basic knowledge of civics debunks those groups trying to sell that story in the same way that flat Earth theories are pretty easy to debunk on their face.

So, since there is no one candidate who is an existential risk to fair elections, we can move on to talk about how to encourage the parties to nominate reasonable candidates next time around. We shouldn't let them scare us into voting for their bad choices.

@banty

@manton I mean the paper merely pointed out that the Democratic Party powerful really screwed us over by nominating Harris, an obviously deficient candidate, without a democratic process.

A whole lot of people are seeming to publish the paper for just pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.

I'm sorry the party screwed us all over. It was obviously a bad decision from the beginning. But it's really foolish to hold the Washington Post responsible for just noticing that Harris is a bad candidate, unqualified for the presidency, that the party should not have selected.

Unsubscribe from the Democratic Party until they get their act together. That's not the fault of the paper though.

@bigheadtales That's not the choice this year.

This year both parties put forward ridiculous candidates who are not worth voting for. And so these institutions are just pointing that out, refusing to endorse any candidate who is not worth endorsing.

If anything it makes them more trustworthy that they aren't bowing to either party.

The two parties, Democrats I'm looking at you, need to put forward candidates worth voting for. I'm sorry Harris is a steaming pile of crap. I'm sorry you nominated her without going through normal democratic processes.

The papers are merely responding to the bad decision that the party made. It's about holding them accountable.

Harris is an awful candidate. A good candidate would be running away with this election because Trump is also so bad. For some reason the Democratic party elite decided to put her in, and it is perfectly reasonable for papers to say they aren't going to rubber stamp that decision.

We need to call the Democratic Party out for screwing us over. This is part of that.

@ERBeckman not really.

It's just another conspiracy theory making its way through sensationalized media, the exact same kind of sensationalization that have pushed so many people away from trusting in the journalistic institutions.

No, it's not very interesting. It's just another bit of propaganda.

@realTuckFrumper The reason this rhetoric isn't going to work is because Trump is on the record saying he was looking to debate Harris.

So anyone who has been following this knows this rhetoric isn't really going to go anywhere.

@dugglebutt I wonder if he thought it was a good movie.

I think I would have had trouble not telling him off for ruining Star Trek If I had seen him there.

@lisagetspolitik More importantly, if any president has the authority to go against the economy like that then we need to fix the laws.

And that's a matter for Congress.
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We should be challenging our Representatives to address these issues, they're not really about the president or Trump at all.

@ManyRoads she has to be flawless?

No.

She has to at least not be an imbecile that can barely seem to string two sentences together. That's not a high bar. And somehow the Democratic Party decided, without consulting its members, to nominate a person who can barely get over that low bar.

She doesn't have to be flawless. She has to be better than Trump. And she struggles to be better than Trump.

I'm sorry, Harris is terrible. Our party should have nominated someone better. We need to hold the party accountable for that.

We're not looking for flawless, we're looking for not terrible, and the Democratic Party settled on a terrible person as their nominee.

@ManyRoads I keep laughing about posts like this because saying Trump might not last makes it easier to vote for him.

The people who don't like him, well don't worry, he won't be president for long.

It minimizes the danger of voting for him.

@sfwrtr

Occam's razor would have us consider that maybe, just maybe, it's not actually a conspiracy here, but that they didn't endorse either candidate because they are both garbage.

Maybe they didn't endorse either candidate simply because neither candidate is worth endorsing.

That's certainly my feeling.

@NZedAUS @KamalaHarrisWin

@YadyO The problem is that Harris is openly promising to break the law and implement policies that go against women.

You say you're baffled, but it sounds like you don't understand because you're not informed.

@breedlov Well right. He was the employer, and any employer expects employees to be loyal.

There's no breaking news here. There is sensationalist media outlets trying to make hay over it, which is why so many people have given up on sensationalized outlets like this.

@breedlov Well right. He was the employer, and any employer expects employees to be loyal.

There's no breaking news here. There is sensationalist media outlets trying to make hay over it, which is why so many people have given up on sensationalized outlets like this.

@banty

Right. Which is why I would never make such of an equivalence. And it's weird that people try to excuse Harris by distracting with such falsehoods.

Unfortunately it happens all too often.

Harris needs to be a judged on how weirdly close she is to Trump. Not that she's equivalent, just to try to avoid the false equivalencers in the crowd, but all too comparable.

And the Democratic Party needs to be held accountable for nominating such a candidate despite democratic opinion.

@_dm

@LeftistLawyer My reaction is, I don't actually know what you're really proposing here.

I don't know what substantial steps you are calling for.

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