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Hugin

(38,002 posts)
1. They'll know the unicorn when they see it.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 12:53 PM
Jul 2024

Three weeks after the election, it'll be, "Aw, we could'a had a V8".

Specifics aren't important when you're dumping on the old guy.

SCantiGOP

(14,758 posts)
2. There's only one alternative
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 12:54 PM
Jul 2024

And that would be VP Harris. Anything else would decimate the black and women vote and destroy the Party’s chances at every level.

Peacetrain

(24,291 posts)
4. VP Harris is already on the ticket and queuing up for 2028
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 12:58 PM
Jul 2024

If anything (God forbid) were to happen to the President for real and not in someone's fevered imagination in the media .. VP Harris is there..

RandomNumbers

(19,263 posts)
9. Exactly, which is why this "too old" narrative doesn't make sense
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 01:11 PM
Jul 2024

in any way UNLESS the parties stoking that really don't want Harris to step in for Biden at some point before his next term ends. What they really want, is SOMEONE ELSE to head the ticket so that becomes less likely.

Of course then it is much less likely that we even win the election. So maybe that is where concern about their precious tax cut comes into play.

It is really hard to figure out a rationale that doesn't involve some bad motive. Sorry, I tried.

unblock

(56,263 posts)
3. Starting to think they don't actually want an alternative.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 12:54 PM
Jul 2024

They just want Joe to back off having the irs audit rich people.

If they wanted an alternative, they'd be pumping someone else up rather than just dragging Joe down.

Hugin

(38,002 posts)
8. I've been curious about how it's related to...
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 01:03 PM
Jul 2024

The PPP. What was that, like two trillion dollars? What happened to the money?

 

Marcus IM

(3,001 posts)
10. Are you implying that capitalism influences media?
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 01:21 PM
Jul 2024

That would be SHOCKING!
Not.

Funny how few see this about media coverage of Venezuela or Cuba, for example.

I see the same factless hyperbolic pile-ons about those topics right here.

It should cause people to reevaluate their media molded opinions on the govts of the Latin Americas.

unblock

(56,263 posts)
11. Our media coverage of foreign nations has almost always been about business interests.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 01:26 PM
Jul 2024

The Middle East coverage gas pretty much always been about oil, e.g. Latin America for sure, but it's not at all limited to that.

 

Marcus IM

(3,001 posts)
14. LatAm coverage was an example.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 01:36 PM
Jul 2024

That's what I posted.

Never said it was exclusive.

There has been several fervored pile-ons and meltdowns over the decades here about various corporate media fabrications regarding the Latin Americas.

The Biden pile-ons are the same thing.

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