Kudos to your friend, but normies don't think through things like the quality of news outlets enough to notice that NYT is shit--if she's figured this out then she no longer qualifies as a normie.
Slightly unrelated, but it seems there's an obvious GOTV strategy with the message "Vote Biden/Harris because he's 82 and she's got next." I suspect a message like that would be pretty popular among Black voters, though the crowd you're talking about probably wouldn't like it much.
The life cycle of every DC policy debate has Dems re-enacting the American Chopper meme, loudly contradicting what they said a few minutes earlier when it's time to own the Left.
I doubt anyone would've predicted Mark Warner looking like the closest thing to a leader the Dems currently have. The last time he accomplished anything was 2003. If this group of Senators materializes, he might actually be right about deserving the presidency.
Every organization--including presidential administrations and political parties--needs to have some idea what to do if the head guy doesn't wake up one morning, or becomes an invalid. It's easier to say "well that's too awful to consider, so we'll have no plan" but life doesn't always oblige.
My Occam's Razor take: his ongoing public appearances mean he's not at end-stage Feinstein incapacity, but refusal to speak even with the Dem governors group means he can't engage in unscripted conversations--I suspect him staying this cloistered will soon invite increasing pressure to step down.
A few isolated actions of MAGA Republicans may be disappointing, but it would be wrong for Democrats to erode the public's trust in government officials or in my valued GOP colleagues.
Don't forget issues #3 (ratcheting up police violence against minority communities in the name of being "anti-crime") and #4 (eliminating Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid in the name of "fiscal discipline") where Trump is possibly too soft and lefty for NYT leadership.
Chumps like ezra believe they are literally the Jedi Council from Star Wars--which, you know, is a pathetic conceit on its own. Worse, they can't even bother to notice that when faced with a fascist challenge, the self-important council at issue was hopelessly overmatched and failed disastrously.
One of this crowd's key tactics is to deliberately and shamelessly stall during any period in which action is possible. Then the moment it's effectively too late to do anything, they put on a sad wide-eyed expression and say there are just no changes they can make.
"Some bad decisions have been made by some absolute ghouls" yeah that explains roughly 100% of this country's policy problems, from Israel policy to trans rights to abortion access to health insurance to court reform.
On the twitter I've said: "During the 2004 Dem convention they had a great visual with a bunch of veterans who served with Kerry standing in a row. At the time I thought 'great, these guys can go on TV every day until November vouching for Kerry's record' and haha Team Kerry couldn't be bothered."
Oh you are somewhere on the Left? Then it follows that Chomsky and Alinsky and Marx, none of whom were elected to anything, are your bosses and I expect you to prove to me that everything they ever said is correct. No, I don't ask anyone on the Right to answer for George W Bush or Donald Trump.
Old white man swears his politics haven't lurched to the right, it's that Democrats have become so extreme they won't support an excellent fellow like George W Bush and his fantastic war.
The GWB and Trump presidencies were 12 years of uninterrupted "how dare you not respect the voters' wishes" from mainstream media. But when Obama or Biden win, the same media swear up and down that the only important Americans are the ones who didn't support the current president.
And it's not just right-wing media that see O'Keefe as a role model. It's everyone in mainstream media. All of them. Their ideal form of journalism is the one practiced by O'Keefe. Look at how famous he became!
Stan Greenberg was recently swearing everyone loves the right-wing position on crime, and insisted if Dems are asked about it they should "say nothing or mumble". The sad thing is, he probably also urges Dems to avoid talking about abortion because he can't imagine anyone supporting it.
The way people become top Democrats is by shamelessly elbowing aside anyone who might get in the way of their ascent, through sabotage and lies. The process self-selects for people with no recognizable concept of caring about others. If they're showing concern, it's on a consultant's instruction.
Also I wouldn't keep assuming that having big stars in the cast will guarantee people love the film even if the script comes from typing "hero movie dialog" into an AI bot.
Another tragedy is the crap media. This might as well be a Pitchbot piece with people complaining that Biden's the reason they can't afford to commute by helicopter.
Everyone who was in charge of the Kerry campaign got rich and it never occurred to a single one of them that they did anything wrong that year. Also in the subsequent 20 years Democratic leadership has gotten far more arrogant and stupid than they were in 2004.
