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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 11:12:38 JST Paul Cantrell

   • br00t4c

   Today in “Not The Onion,” via @br00t4c: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/113218376738939820

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 11:19:12 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I would once again beg the press to take more seriously the fact that Trump is old and in poor health and fairly likely not to survive to the end of a 2nd term, and if Trump is elected there's a nontrivial chance we end up with this walking faceplant as president.

     #uspol

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 00:43:12 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Mathaetaes

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     “it seems like some democratic politician somewhere should be making coments go generate those headlines… but clearly they’ve decided not to.”

     It seems to me they’ve tried multiple times during this election — specifically about Trump’s age — but the press just doesn’t bite the same way.

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     Mathaetaes (mathaetaes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 00:43:13 JST Mathaetaes

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     @inthehands my theory is that the press just regurgitates what the candidates say.

     They don’t run a story saying “Biden is old”, they run “‘Biden is old’, Trump says”.

     Trump can’t run on his positive qualities; he has no good ideas, no qualifications, and no historical record to point to. All he can do is try to make his opponent look worse than him.

     Harris, on the other hand, has plenty of positives. Lots of policy, lots of qualifications, lots of history. Harris doesn’t need to spend her time levying insults at Trump. Since she’s not talking about how old he is, the newspapers aren’t writing articles about her talking about how old he is.

     I don’t know if it’ll be a winning strategy, and it seems like some democratic politician somewhere should be making coments go generate those headlines… but clearly they’ve decided not to.