William Lindsey :toad:
"It is still surprising that we have not heard more about the exact diagnosis and care of what may have been a catastrophic injury. And, while all the attention has been on his ear and right side of his head, that doesn’t mean other injuries may not be present."
~ Dr. Sanjay Gupta
#Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
/13
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/18/health/dr-sanjay-gupta-analysis-trump/index.html
William Lindsey :toad:
"Since Saturday’s shooting, it has been notable that there has not been a medical review of Trump’s injuries, although he has said he was injured by a bullet that ripped through his ear."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
William Lindsey :toad:
"This matters not only because of the extent of his injuries, but also because Trump has made the story part of his identity without any fact check, and the media appears simply to be letting it go on Trump’s say-so, something that adds to the sense that media outlets are treating Trump and Biden differently.
Last night, Trump perhaps tried to address this lack by recounting last Saturday’s shooting."
William Lindsey :toad:
"Interestingly, he did not say he was hit by a bullet, but that when he felt the injury he thought, 'it can only be a bullet.' Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo today noted a report from local Pennsylvania television station WPXI that four motorcycle officers standing within feet of Trump suffered minor injuries from flying debris. Trump has likely cut off further discussion of the topic by saying it is too painful to tell the story again."
William Lindsey :toad:
"Much of the media response to Biden’s troubles and Trump’s madness has been mired in equivalences that obscure what’s happening to both men, and what’s at stake for the nation. (As I was writing this, for example, a Washington Post newsletter arrived in my inbox and told me that the GOP had just wrapped up 'an energized, focused convention.' That’s an interesting description of a Republican gathering that featured a sex worker, Hulk Hogan, and a spaced-out Trump.)"
William Lindsey :toad:
Tom Nichols says that when Trump went off-script in the longest acceptance speech ever delivered to a national US political convention, we saw "a man who has serious psychological problems. All of it was on display last night: rage, paranoia, pettiness, desolating selfishness."
William Lindsey :toad:
"Pennsylvania State Police initially told reporters on the scene that Trump had been struck by shards of glass. Then Trump himself said he’d been hit with a bullet and that was the end of the matter. There’s small detail from a local news report from last Sunday that suggests it as at least plausible that the initial report was correct, that Trump was struck by some flying debris."
~ Josh Marshall
William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump’s disastrous speech follows Biden’s disastrous debate. A simple proposal for the press: Give one of these disasters as much attention as you’ve given the other. ...
This post has one central point. It is that the press should give 'fair and balanced' attention to what each of the major candidates is revealing about temperament, competence, and cognition, especially in their public performances."
~ James Fallows
#Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
/7
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-108-days-to-go
William Lindsey :toad:
"We’ve never had any word from investigating authorities at all. This is precisely why it’s necessary that we get that. It really couldn’t be simpler. It’s the most normal and standard thing in the world. And it’s a huge failure of the nation’s leading press organizations that they’ve been afraid to press the point because they’ve feared blowback from the Trump campaign."
William Lindsey :toad:
"Right now we have these opposing, imbalanced narrative cycles:
—For Joe Biden, every flub, freeze, slurred word, or physical-or-verbal misstep adds to the case against him. There’s an ever-mounting dossier, which can only grow in cumulative importance. 'In another difficult moment for the President….' 'Coming after his disastrous debate appearance…'”
William Lindsey :toad:
"The first five times Trump tells the Hannibal Lecter story, reporters notice and write about it. The next hundred times, they’re checking their phones. …
The obvious and unequal result: The public registers more and more about Biden’s “fitness” based on his appearances, less and less about Trump’s."
#Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
/10
William Lindsey :toad:
"—For Donald Trump, every flub, fantasy, non-sequitur, 'Sir' story, or revelation of profound ignorance dulls and blunts the case against him. 'That’s just Trump.' 'Are you new here? Never heard a MAGA rally speech before?' 'It’s what the crowd is waiting for'. 'Oh, here comes the "shark" again!' There’s an ever-thickening layer of habituation, normalization, jadedness, just plain tedium."
DemocracyCrash
The linked article is interesting reading for anyone following the #Biden situation.
"Joe Biden, Kamala Harris or Someone Else? The Convention Rules Might Decide."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/20/biden-democratic-convention-nominee-rules-00169821
BobC
RealJournalism
#Trump now bleeding support in GOP-dominated state as more women voters gravitate to #Biden https://www.rawstory.com/trump-women-voters-2668783716/ #Florida
Uncle Sam
It's just funny to me how fickle the establishment #Democrats are when it comes to AOC.
First, she's TOO #Progressive and pushes 'unpopular' policies like 'The Green New Deal' derailing the platform and 'dividing the party' ...
Then the moment she says #Biden should stay in the race, #BlueMAGA sing her praises from the rooftops. They completely ignore what she actually said about having this conversation six months ago, but all of the sudden it's just, 'LISTEN TO AOC!!' 😅
ManyRoads ☕ 🇺🇦
The money side of things is 'interesting'
"What Happens to Biden’s Campaign Money if He Drops Out?
Here’s what happens to President Biden’s war chest if he drops out, and how it compares to Donald Trump’s."
#Election2024 #Democrats #USA #News #Politics #Biden #Harris
Joshua Holland
The Republican Supreme Court has systematically legalized corruption for the past two decades and we’re less democratic and less free because of it.
(Heinrich called for #Biden to withdraw yesterday.)
#scotus #Election2024
Kailee ♾️ Voting Midterms God
The Department of Homeland Security receives a bulletin from its intelligence branch warning that Russia is behind a scheme to promote Joe Biden as having cognitive decline.
“Russia Likely to Denigrate Health of US Candidates to Influence 2020 Election,”
It is an Op.
Do not be a useful idiot.
Homeland Security’s intelligence division submitted a report that Russia’s propaganda network was behind a campaign to smear President #Biden as having cognitive decline.
The intelligence report was blocked by weak Sycophant Chad Wolf.
https://trumpfile.org/chad-wolf-dhs-refuse-to-release-intel-warning-about-russian-smear-campaign/
Darnell Clayton :verified:
@darnell@threads.net @potus @whitehouse I suspect that #JoeBiden is well aware of the 13 Keys, which is why #Biden has declined to entertain the idea of dropping out.
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