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carpetbagger

(5,516 posts)
Tue Sep 3, 2024, 03:08 PM Sep 2024

A right wing site has yummy doomscrolling today.

I'm not suggesting you go there, both for DU rules and for overall intellectual health. But if you're worried about polls and Pennsylvania and whatever the NYTCNNWAPO is shilling, it's refreshing to see the other side looking like a crumbling dam. It'll be close and needing a lot of GOTV work for us, but a good first day of the Fall campaign...

The current headlines on that website that used to have the breaking news siren...

FINAL SPRINT/FOCUS ON 7 STATES/HARRIS +4/SURGE IN SOUTH/REPUBLICAN CONFIDENCE SHAKEN/Trump Ousts Volunteer Over Warning New Hampshire is Lost/The Don claims God directing him to save USA/PRO-LIFE REVOLT AFTER FETUS FLIP/SIEGEL: 'Alarming cognitive decline'

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A right wing site has yummy doomscrolling today. (Original Post) carpetbagger Sep 2024 OP
They like to keep their cult members scared and willing to send more money cutroot Sep 2024 #1
Another pathetic sign that the idiot is mentally sick, that he claims that GOD talked to him, directing him to SWBTATTReg Sep 2024 #2
"Voices in my head" central scrutinizer Sep 2024 #3
Yes. SWBTATTReg Sep 2024 #5
What website? Johnny2X2X Sep 2024 #4
A lot of them have this same headline...apparently, they all are saving money by grabbing the same headlines.. SWBTATTReg Sep 2024 #6
The OP is referring to Drudge Report whopis01 Sep 2024 #8
Let me tell you something MFM008 Sep 2024 #7
Drudge has been never Trump for a long while now. BannonsLiver Sep 2024 #9
To some extent, but this is what the RW gets to see today. carpetbagger Sep 2024 #10

SWBTATTReg

(26,395 posts)
2. Another pathetic sign that the idiot is mentally sick, that he claims that GOD talked to him, directing him to
Tue Sep 3, 2024, 03:25 PM
Sep 2024

save something, yada yada yada.

Moron. An absolute moron and one that is ready for the loony bin.

SWBTATTReg

(26,395 posts)
6. A lot of them have this same headline...apparently, they all are saving money by grabbing the same headlines..
Tue Sep 3, 2024, 03:47 PM
Sep 2024

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Yahoo
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-trump-brace...
Harris and Trump brace for final sprint to Election Day
10 hours ago — The map is wide open and the attack ads are coming in ‘snap election’ between Harris, Trump. At a moment when presidential campaigns traditionally formulate their closing …

Tags onald TrumpKamala HarrisAttack ad

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AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris...
The presidential campaigns brace for a sprint to Election Day | AP …
15 hours ago — The presidential campaigns brace for an intense sprint to Election Day. Voting in the 2024 election begins in some states on September 6th, but televised debates and a …

Tags:Associated PressElection Day (US)
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The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/03/...
The presidential campaigns brace for an intense sprint to Election …
14 hours ago — Trump’s side is actually narrowly outspending Harris’ on the airwaves in Pennsylvania, where both sides will spend more than $146 million between Tuesday and …

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GMToday.com
https://www.gmtoday.com/news/national/the...
The presidential campaigns brace for an intense sprint to Election …
4 hours ago — LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — After a summer of historic tumult, the path to the presidency for both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump this fall is becoming much clearer.

Tags onald TrumpKamala Harris

ETC.

whopis01

(3,931 posts)
8. The OP is referring to Drudge Report
Tue Sep 3, 2024, 05:47 PM
Sep 2024

with the comment about "used to have the breaking news siren".

That particular site has been pretty anti-Trump for since around 2020. Of course that is after being hugely pro-Trump in the 2016 election.

MFM008

(20,042 posts)
7. Let me tell you something
Tue Sep 3, 2024, 04:08 PM
Sep 2024

Keith Olberman had said that this particular website had flipped it's become a lot more fairer, the person whose name is the website must have become more anti Trump.

carpetbagger

(5,516 posts)
10. To some extent, but this is what the RW gets to see today.
Tue Sep 3, 2024, 07:09 PM
Sep 2024

I check a few of them to see what I'm not seeing on my group of old school, leftist, and wonkish sources. It's usually not that stark. Like i said, in found it a refreshing counterpoint to my own concerns, they're sweating more heavily.

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