this is in all seriousness a great example of "if they don't say anything relevant you don't have to print it." the easy solution here is to just paraphrase, say you asked the campaign for comment and they responded with something unrelated. it should not be open-mic night
my favorite Kris Kristofferson story remains this one townhallmeeting.org/2021/01/18/h...
Kristofferson was a GOAT. Fought for his country. Stole a chopper to deliver a demo to Johnny Cash. Spoke out for peace. Put performative patriotism in its fucking place. Showed compassion and never minced words. He also wrote some damn good songs, sang, and was a hell of an actor. RIP
I look forward to Trump’s threat to allowed armed agents of the state, armed agents infiltrated by white nationalists, to trample constitutional rights in an orgy of state-sanctioned lethal violence get … one billionth the attention of Harris getting the tenths place wrong on a stat.
“she was too prepared to be there and i didn’t trust that” is absolutely wild. trump has absolutely acculturated a lot of voters into thinking that being a stark raving maniac is a welcome form of authenticity
probably no real danger in giving this guy the power of the military, to pardon anyone for anything, and total immunity
I think if voters can't tell the difference between an 82-page list of specific policies and a maniac shouting nonsense on stage that's kind of on you and your reporting
Absolute abnegation of even the barest vestiges of journalism by journalists. Congrats to decades of ref-punching by the GOP. Genuinely one of the greatest political victories in modern politics, and I’m not being even remotely sarcastic.
CBS News Says It Will Be Up To Vance And Walz To Fact-Check Each Other In Veep Debate In other words, Vance will be allowed to spew a firehose of lies with no pushback from “moderators,” who won’t actually moderate anything because CBS is scared of the right wing reaction.
CBS News says it will be up to the candidates, not the moderators, to fact-check each other.
It is absolutely insane that he is still a part of our lives. No other way to describe it. A completely unremarkable man, with no obvious talent for anything other than bullshit, and yet our entire system bends over backwards to prop him up. Just insane.
The craziest shit for me is that there's an audio recording of Donald Trump asking for Georgia officials to "find votes" in 2020 and he's running now. How is that not instantly disqualifying? We HEARD him. Not Meadows. Not Giuliani. How is asking officials for votes (with proof) not instant jail?