i am about to mute the word panic, this kind of screamy baby shit is embarrassing, if you are either an amateur or professional politics nerd, you know better than to cry yourself into a hysteria about one debate in fucking june
if you actually get *paid* to write about politics for a living, screaming that the nominee has to drop out after one bad debate *in june* (and one in which the challenger did not do well, either), you are unqualified for your job and your salary
Everything is fucking reactionary now . People on social media panicky reacting to things has infested every other form of media. It's god damn fucking annoying. The press is turning into the political equivalent of reaction videos on TikTok/Youtube which the lowest form of "entertainment".
Also, the nominee needs to be finalized before the convention this year. A contested convention is logistically impossible, so there is no mechanism for selecting a new candidate. The professionals should know this.
If only there had been some sort of process where we could have allowed people to state their preferences, perhaps over a series of statewide contests earlier this year. If only.
One reason many of us here has had to outsource punditry to our online friends — probably not recommended under ideal circumstances!! — is there is no alternative
it's never been clearer to me how much big press and media rely on "created" news, taking last night's debate in contrived directions for profit
you can imagine how excited they were, just giddy with anticipation and excitement, about what they'll manufacture for consumption for hours on end
There was a 30% decline in viewership from last campaign season's debates. I'm assume b/c most of us already know how we're voting and don't feel like listening to that crap. I don't know if the press is banking on that and trying to shift opinion through headlines, but it kind of feels that way.
Televised debates are just dumb. They need to be ended, for good. No decision or policy is developed in this format; it does nothing to inform anyone.
And when the host network agrees to such laughable conditions as *no fact-checking* it reduces it to its basest ratings-grabbing component parts.
It’s also hard to forget how easily Hillary crushed Trump in every debate by any objective measure, and yet.
Maybe voters dgaf about debates? Worth considering
To be honest, I think that was going to be their line no matter what Biden did in the debate. Especially since they gave Trump a pass for his crap.
Prediction: The standard commentary on the next debate will be "Trump was surprisingly presidential".
I was commenting on supposed journalists saying a compulsive liar won a debate. Journalists at one time used to be concerned with the truth.
But perhaps I shouldn’t consider NYTimes opinion people journalists.
You wanna see some alternate reality nonsense? Go check out the video titles over on TYT in the last 24 hours. It's fucking nuts. Worth it for a laugh.
pod save america shit libs (shit libs is not a criticism from me, I've reappropriated the word and self-identify) were in near panic mode and I had to turn 'em off.
horrible gym listening, anyway.
You will miss my long thread about Panic! At The Disco.
Ok not really a long thread because I think I only know one song and I thought it was Fall Out Boy for like a decade.
The only reason I know the difference is because they are childhood bands and in my brain forever, better or for worst lol
IDKhow is a good project btw, by a former member and does... weird 80s pastiche? Control (the video game) core? Idk
I only learned I was wrong because my old boss and I had a working joint playlist at the office and he's 13 years younger than me, so was Peak Audience for that
