Dan Lawson

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Anyone who says the election is a done deal is a clown or an op or just someone who's so tired they've given up. Do not listen. There's always something we can do. gregpak.net/2024/07/02/t...

There’s Always Something We Can Dogregpak.net Tough week, huh? Hard not to feel a little overwhelmed with what feels like relentless, catastrophic political news. But I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years -- the image ab...

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lol www.npr.org/2024/07/12/n...

After Biden's debate performance, the presidential race is unchangedwww.npr.org The poll also found that, at this point, no other mainstream Democrat who has been mentioned as a replacement for the president on the ticket does better than President Biden.

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Amazing results and a perplexing narrative. People want Biden to step aside. Elites want him to step aside because he'll lose. But the poll shows a dead even tie despite two weeks of only negative press.

Most Democrats nationwide say that President Biden should end his reelection campaign based on his performance in the presidential debate two weeks ago, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.

Most Democrats want Biden to drop out, but overall race is static, poll findswww.washingtonpost.com More than half of Democrats say Biden should end his candidacy. Overall, 2 in 3 adults say the president should step aside, including more than 7 in 10 independents.

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She makes a great argument.

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The media is so worried about Biden's cognitive decline, but not a word about Trump's impulsive, narcisstic, sociopathic behavior. Or like, you know, his... crimes?

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there were legit concerns that came out of the debate! I shared those legit concerns! since then: 1) the polling has stubbornly refused to fall off a cliff 2) Biden has done enough to convince me, and I think convince anyone else who's being fair, that he doesn't have dementia.

Perhaps it’s more due to who I follow but my feed’s an echo chamber of absolute denial. I saw everyone freak out in the debate! People’s concerns aren’t just a product of the media, but their own eyes! Biden’s been inconsistent since then, too. Normie dems are, in fact, worried!

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the Claudine Gay "plagiarism scandal" was such a vivid illustration of this, the paper deciding to do constant, full court press coverage of a story that had tenuous actual news value.

In this chat, we suggest a distinction between covering something (NYT does great reporting on Trump's autocratic plans), and *crusading.* The latter is wholly different: It uses saturation coverage to alert readers that they should be alarmed. That's just not happening w/r/t Trump's unfitness.

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In this pod, we ask you to keep several things in your heads at once: 1) NYT does essential work on Trump threat 2) Biden probably shouldn't run; doubts about his ability to carry this through are too great 3) It's STILL true that NYT is asymmetric on Biden/Trump unfitness

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This is how they did it last time.

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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"RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS" is, to me, a deranged and instantly disqualifying thing for a presidential candidate to say, but on the other hand joe biden looks and sounds very old

In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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I do captioning for a living, & a big part of my job is cleaning up false starts & filler words. That has always been the norm at every media outlet. Print media edits Trump so carefully that you would never know what he actually sounds like. Doing this to Biden is a 180 from decades of policy.

Now everyone--The Times and, sorry to say, MSNBC--is noting every missed syllable. The man has a stutter. I don't stutter but I am a mushmouth who speaks too fast and slurs words. I've had to overcome fear of public speaking. I have empathy for Biden. The press has empathy for no one (but Trump).

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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This fucking guy voted in the last two elections voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...

How many times does Matthew Walther get to publish his essay about why he doesn't vote in a prominent outlet? Because two seems like too many bsky.app/profile/greg...

Voter Referencevoteref.com VoteRef.com is dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America.

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They need a new self help book for companies called “how to solve all your problems by giving up on that product no one wants.”

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI.

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maybe seizing and arresting the Supreme Court majority for aiding and abetting an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government can be a "core constitutional duty" and an "official act," why not

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Ball’s in Biden’s court. Time to do some illegal shit. Take advantage while you can!

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I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).

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Over the weekend, one of the major party presidential candidates promoted the idea of trying a former congresswoman for treason with televised military tribunals, and I’ll bet you haven’t seen a news article—much less a catastrophizing op-ed—about it.

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An analysis of how we got here is certainly reasonable, but it is worth noting that it is exceedingly rare for a party to reject the incumbent, and it is more anomolous that the GOP chose a multiply-indicted candidate who lost the last election and fomented a coup. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/u...

The Road to a Crisis: How Democrats Let Biden Glide to Renominationwww.nytimes.com An 81-year-old candidate and no Plan B. “How did we get here?” one leading Democrat asks. The answer is complicated.

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Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.

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Democrats, worried about optics, are beginning day 4 of a panicky meltdown where they scream about how weak they are

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Friendly reminder that Ronald Reagan was called senile so often it became a running gag on SNL and the late night shows. He then won 49 of 50 states in the 1984 election.

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i think donald trump should withdraw from the presidential race, for the good of the country

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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY