I mean what gets me here is that at this point they are reporting on absolutely non-starters like a fringe group trying to draft Jamie Dimon to run. All the “Johnny Unbeatable” candidates have declined to throw their hat into the ring. There’s obviously no there there any more but they keep going!
I'm of the opinion that Biden age discourse isn't a pure media invention. A lot of people watched that debate and had the same instant reaction, and that's newsworthy. But major, important events happened immediately after, and the fact that the media can't move on shows this is now about them 1/
bsky.app/profile/hamm... sadly no! But it also tells me the cycle is running on fumes- this isn’t “Governor Pritzker is hiring outside national Dem staff and has scheduled a press conference” this is fanfic.
Galaxy brain moves afoot
“In recent days, some company leaders and Democratic political operatives have called the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, according to someone with knowledge of the calls, to gauge his interest in replacing Mr. Biden”
its all fanfic until you break out and go bestseller with your novel about teen vampires and werewolves and Jamie Dimon and a self insert mary sue character they all desire
I mean, I am in need of a new career path since academia is… well, academia. Time to start outlining and looking up synonyms for “turgid,” “passionate,” and “fiscal”
