Legacy media is gasping for air, the current and future generations won't even get their news the way Boomers (and older), Gen X, or Millennials did. But this THIS is the big one right here:
“I don't think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here not aspiring to be humble. This is not the 1950s anymore.”
I loved that quote so much! I am a boomer who has fought for women’s rights since the beginning of time it is starting to feel like. And no, we are not aspiring to be humble. Au contraire.
If you remember the pressers that Huckabee Sanders held while working for Trump, she did not come across as “humble.” Haughty, condescending, imperious and deceitful would be my adjectives for her.
And Huckabee is not humble with her lying self. Telling lies about yourself and the world is the opposite of humble. In fact, Christian Nationalists with their agenda to take over the US and then the world are anything but humble.
Same here. Gen X. I watched the DNC on YouTube. Get my news from Substack and Threats. Read international newspapers online occasionally. It think the last time I watched news on the TV was when the bridge in Baltimore collapsed. I rarely ever watch live TV anyway.
I am a boomer and I have the same sort of news choices, and I subscribe to independent presses, that is ones that are free I donate to like The Guardian, or The Intercept. I don't even agree with them on a lot of things because they are more left than I am, but I prefer to hear what they have to say, just as I like The Bulwark because it is the more conservative viewpoint it exposes me to.
Since they got rid of the Putin licker, Greenwald (who burned three sources, some 'journalist') They are a bit better than they were under him. As he just hates America.
Honestly, regardless of what happens, the convicted felon can’t touch her. She’s smart and funny. She can talk to folks. Her accomplishments are her own, NOT because she was lifted up by billions. Love her.
If Kamala wins, Joe goes down as one of the greatest Presidents ever, and willfully gave up power, with a very strong track record of domestic accomplishments!
Can't wait to celebrate Harris/Walz victory wearing this funny "Kamala removes stubborn orange stains" shirt on November 5th 👇 🤣
I keep banging this drum. Yes, we all need to keep our eyes on the prize at this moment, but if we take a break after, that will be time they will USE. And just remember - they are still planning to attempt to steal THIS election. We're not going to be out of the woods for a good long while.
Yes...Vance is clearly grooming himself for a run in 2028 (not that he has the people skills to be anything but as awkward and stilted and dimwitted as Ron Desantis)
Hopefully he is one and done like many unsuccessful Vice President candidates. He offended just about every demographic out there. But I am sure the Heritage Foundation has more candidates waiting in the wings. The fight will not be over. They are at it since decades and they won't stop.
I have this shirt and wore it the day of the Walz debate at two doctor visits and my truck mechanic's shop. Got some smiles but no threats, and I live in a ruby red area of Nevada. Whew
About Kamala's strategy of communicating through multiple non-traditional (and more popular) channels, Robert Hubbell in his Substack post today notes that legacy media continues to have its knickers in a very big twist (my paraphrasing) about no longer being the nexus of everything and points to Josh Marshall's critique in TPM: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-insider-newsletters-still-struggling-to-make-interview-fetch-happen .
Sanders also doesn't get that by comparing her own status as a mother to Harris' status as a woman without her own offspring, she isn't demonstrating humility, she's bragging. I think the term is "humblebrag." So if she needs her kids to keep her humble, it appears she is making it too hard for them.
Boomer here and Harris is doing a brilliant Media blitz. The MSM are doing sour grapes now but they made their choice to try to give up investigative reporting and manipulate people instead of presenting the News with revelent facts exposed to allow people to make intelligent decisions. I had a revelation about the Rich Male Commentators bloviating their opinions at us were actually "Mansplaining" per Rebecca Solint book MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME. I highly recommend it as it also revealed what's behind the far Right's Anti Gay Marriage stance and it's not what you think. Christian Marriage is about male domination of wife and kids. Two guys married are equal and that's what they think is a abomination equality. She says it better than me.
Boo hoo for corporate media. They has done absolutely nothing to earn Harris' loyalty that is true. In fact, they are making themselves more and more irrelevant. I am a boomer and I have given up my subscriptions to NYT and WaPo because this election has revealed who they really are. If it looks like a duck (substitute White Supremacist for duck) and walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a duck.
I have heard Harris on Call Your Daddy, and what was disturbing to me were the comments made below. I was discussing these with friends yesterday who also read them. These young women were upset at having politics foisted on them. So, it is even more amazing that the host chose to do this, because it is in keeping with her women positive vibe. Kamala was talking about health care in general when talking about abortion since the abortion clinics do a lot of pap smears and breast exams as well. By shutting them down, women are losing access to cancer prevention and treatment care too.
I did not see 60 minutes, or the Howard Stern interview, but I saw Steve Colbert and it was a hoot. It reminded me of when Bill Clinton played the sax on Arsenio Hall, and at that point I knew Clinton was in. Also, Obama stumping for her is great. It reminded me of when I saw the will i am Yes We Can campaign video for Obama. When I saw that brilliance of that song, I knew that Obama was in too. The message was just right. Obama is hitting the right message too.
Today in the Bulwark someone said that the one thing that Obama got wrong in the speech in Philly, was that he said if Kamala Harris lost it would be on Black men's shoulders, and that it is White people who have overwhelmingly been supporting Trump. No surprise there. However, I still think Obama was going with clean up your own house and let others clean up theirs. We need people like Dick Cheney, George Bush and Mitt Romney to go out there and speak to White Men. I know Adam Kinzinger is, but where are the rest of the Republican men who are not voting for Trump? Pence is also staying in the immoral lane by not coming out and endorsing Kamala Harris fully. He needs to reclaim the courage he had on January 6. These old White Men needs to show that the Times they are a changin' and they are changing with them.
“She doesn't lie in a complicated way because her mind doesn't work that way,” Trump insisted. “She’s not a smart person. She’s a low IQ individual ... She’s a stupid person. We can't have a stupid person as our president.” I find it hilarious that when he's pointing a finger at Kamala, he's really pointing at himself. And I'll agree with him on one thing: We can't have a stupid person as our president -- which is why he shouldn't be re-elected. One stupid person as our president one time, was one time too many.
This week someone in my neighborhood put up a sign that says "My dog is smarter than Harris" and it literally set me off. Seriously people think he's smart??? WTAF? Do they listen to him or is their IQ so low that they just don't get it.
I would refer you to Aaron Sorkin’s movie the American President. “People want leadership. They’re so thirsty for it they’ll crawl through the desert toward a mirage and when they discover there’s no water, they’ll drink the sand.” To which President Shepard replies, “People don’t drink the sand because they’re thirsty. They drink the sand because they don’t know the difference.”
It's a pretty good movie. Written by Alan Sorkin; directed and produced by Rob Reiner. Cast included Annette Bening, Michael J. Fox, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, Richard Dreyfus. It's a likeable sort of precursor to the series, The West Wing.
I’d tape a sign over that one: Donald Trump des not have a law school degree. Harris does. Trump never passed the bar. Harris did. Trump was never a State Attorney General. Harris was. Trump was never a Senator. Harris was. Who’s the real dummy? Not Harris!
You'd likely get shot if you tried that. These MAGAts are not necessarily known to have a real sense of humor, but they do seem to have easily lost tempers.
I suspect there are a fair share of lower intellect white people which are very threatened by a smart, successful, powerful woman, who speaks her mind, particularly a woman of Indian and Jamaican descent.
YES! My mom raised me with this jewel: "When you point a finger of mockery, cruelty, or hate in another person's direction, just remember that three more fingers are pointing right back at you, my dear!"
If I had a friend who began reminding others how brilliant they are and continually critiqued others' intelligence, I'd quietly pull my friend aside and ask: "Are you okay? What's going on?" Of all the Republicans, not one is his friend. Not one is concerned for him. Only three options explain this: they fear him, find him repugnant — or hope to use him.
But they will still be planning to do so if (when) he loses. And they have another four years to figure out who they might get that'll be a little smoother, a little more likeable, a little less obviously self-involved - and THAT'S the one we're gonna have to watch out for.
It sure seems to me that the major media has completely LOST their understanding of how people, especially younger voters, actually communicate. Maybe because they don't really trust the major media ? Harris and her team have figured out what media outlets are REALLY communicating with the voters. Maybe this is also reflected in the newspapers continuing to lose subscribers. I am a senior citizen and I have almost completely stopped reading my daily newspaper and have subscribed to several sources on Substack and other outlets for my "trusted" news sources.
So many of us have become disallusioned with the corporate press, but please keep supporting your local newspaper, if you have one, if it is locally owned!
Our local newspaper isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. There’s no competition and no independent reporting. All they do is monitor the police and fire radios and reprint statements issued by local politicians and businesses. I gave up on them long ago.
Me too! I still watch MSM, and I am appalled at their lack of "smart" reporting. Last night NBC said Trump shares "misinformation." Lies, people lies. And some of them very dangerous.
That's one of the most insidious Media tricks, the use of language to obscure or inflamed. The words have lost their actual meanings and words that were beneficial have been turned into insults. This means they aren't available anymore for use in negotiating a better world.
Same here. Although while we're living with Mom (moving out very soon, though) we have been watching the 5:00 ch. 7 news and the 6:00 PBS news hour. My reviews are mixed.
It happened to me in SW FL with Obama - I gave up after the 5th one disappeared over night. I got my brand new car keyed for having a Pete Buttigieg bumper sticker. Now I am down to a 'White Dudes for Harris' hat.
The one that honks me off the most is the banner that reads, “Trump won in 2020. You know it, I know it.” I practically snarl every time I drive by it.
Rural road in my neighborhood. On person has "God and Guns - Trump 2024" Banner in his trees that is as large as a panel truck. It is a free country. I have to tolerate it. But I have my fantasies about what I would like to do to it. Not going to anyway.
The Constitution defines the qualifications for the office, and mentions nothing about felonies or character. And since SCOTUS has gelded the 14th amendment, even sedition apparently is no longer disqualifying.
Stacking the court is *possible, but unlikely. It's a VERY heavy lift, politically speaking, and would definitely require a large majority in both Houses of Congress. Getting rid of the electoral college would require a Constitutional amendment - very difficult, especially when so many people are still swallowing the propaganda of the hard right. Neither of these is a 4-year, or even 8-year project, I'm afraid.
The Politicos of the world think the only real interview Harris can do is one in which every question starts with “Donald Trump said today that you …” They consider that “unbiased.”
Meanwhile, let’s not forget that the NABJ said Trump was an hour late because he refused to go on if his lies were corrected. Which leads to the question of how many “unbiased” outlets have agreed to this demand over the years. Judging by the debates, I’d say a lot of
When Biden and Harris announced Harris's candidacy on a Sunday afternoon, after the legacy media (Sunday TV shows, WaPo, NYT) had closed shop for the day, they took control of their message.
A breath of fresh air to see the president of our future understanding and using the media of our future. Makes me believe she can and will move us forward.
She saw what they did to Biden and knows their Bias. They've been blocking progressive ideas for years and are controlled by Establishment Billionaires who have monopolized the conversation long enough. To save America, we will need to break numerous Monopolies in Media, Energy, Health, Big Agra, Big Pharma, Private Equity, and a few Right Wing Extremist Organizations like the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation and more. The Right Wing started this with alternative education, alternative media, alternative science and alternative facts. They have beaten down or taken over legitimate journalists and sources of information. Therefore our answer is to create our own new avenues around their blocks. Like Substack.
It’s almost like the legacy media doesn’t understand that she has zero time for their gotcha tactics nor how they phrase every question like they’re reading from a list of GOP talking points. Shocking.
They don't really care like that. We lost "news" as we knew it when the big investors started shoving money at the ever more consolidating media companies, and then demanded the news become a profit center - which it had NEVER been. The notion that the news is a public service and they are obligated to treat it as such has gone, gone, gone. They would "survive" by toeing the party line. Actual journalists would be jailed and murdered, of course - see: Putin's Russia.
As I posted elsewhere, I do not understand why anyone would listen to anyone who refuses to be fact checked. Is there a more direct way of saying, "I'm a liar, and I'm gonna lie"?
His cult followers believe everything he says, not realizing he lies constantly. Do we just write those people off and try to find the persuadable voters?
Oh, they do realize it (at least many of them do) - and they love that it triggers US. And the ones that believe every damn thing that falls outta the mouths of The Convict and his lackeys are beyond help.
They do not GAF for policy, for qualifications, or really anything about governing. They care about "owning the libs", maintaining a "Christian" nation, and (of course) feeling superior to Black and Brown people. They are the result of a long-term proj... I mean "con" to convince them that they have been screwed by everything every Democrat has ever done, and see to it that their education has been truncated, with emphasis on Biblical "truth" as opposed to any kind of secular facts. Which is why they want to kill public education, and have done a bang-up job at it in so many areas of the country. Only the oligarchs children are going to get anything resembling a real education if they get the power they're after.
We will need to win and then deal with those who can be reached later with the help from mental health practitioners like Dr Brandy X Lee and Steven Hassan.
Great article Jay. I haven’t watched the “news” since my kids were born (19 years ago) because who wants to expose them to all that? I read the news every day from people like you. I say “F” the whiney mainstream media. They are hardly doing us any favors, and they refuse to “understand the assignment.” This election is a not a game and not the time to pretend that they should “level the playing field.” If we lose, the media will have contributed to it 100%. Thank you for giving it to us “straight.” Lol. 😉
It's absolutely hilarious that an inside-the-Beltway publication like Politico is bleating about "access" and "Where's Kamala?". Well, for starters the 0.00002% of voters who regularly read Politico are overwhelmed by the millions who daily/hourly are on SM of one sort or another, and are being reached by the Harris-Walz campaign. Legacy/corporate media still don't get it...it's a new paradigm in voter out-reach, and despite the hallowed and self-regarded stature of the NYT, WaPo, cablenews, et al, they no longer are the indispensable gatekeepers they once were, and are finding it difficult to adapt to new realities.
Personally, I ignore anything coming from the Times political desk, and even the "bombshell" - for NYT - article by Peter Baker & co. FINALLY describing at length and in great detail tRump's mental decline is too little and too late, as several Substack writers and independent online media were and are miles ahead of the corporate media, and seeing IS believing, after all.
Imho, Kamala went to the people she needs to motivate to vote for her. NYT and WaPo are both dinosaurs owned by right wing billionaires who want the tax breaks tfg would give them. They aren’t opening up to new possible voters who can swing the race in her direction. OTOH, Call Her Daddy and Howard Stern reach an entirely new demographic that hasn’t been used before. I think her strategy is brilliant.
Yeah, the corporate media hates it when they aren't the center of attention. But they did this to themselves. Thank goodness we have found other sources of information that we can trust. And they are doing a good job, too. Thanks, Jay!
Jay, and isn’t that the same with polls?! Who and where are they talking to people? I’m 63 and have read the NYT since I lived in NYC 30 years ago! But not anymore. I get my news from so many other sources since they’ve let me down.
I've never valued the polls since I took a Statistics Class at UCLA. First trying to get a accurate response is incredibly hard, just phrasing the questions in bias is a issue. Then there's trying to reach your audience. It became obvious you can easily slant it any way you wish on purpose or accidentally by personal bias. Exit Polls after voting are the only acknowledged correct polls and show if the election is fair. Otherwise they are propaganda.
And now the only ones they can get to respond at all are very old people who answer their landline telephones.
I mean - do YOU know any younger folks who will answer a call from a number they don't recognize? Or even one they DO - no one TALKS on the phone - they text. How are you going to get any sort of reliable sample if the sample universe has contracted to this extent?
I totally agree with you! I used to live to catch the Times in the morning. Now, I find myself just eye rolling way too much…more than once I have considered cancelling my subscription this electoral cycle, including yesterday when some political operative was criticising Jack Smith’s release of his brief, because, you know, electoral influence and scoffing at DOJ rules. No mention of the questionable behavior of the other side of course, because he is the other side… published in opinion like it was a credible, representation by a credible observer…😖
Yep - I used to read three newspapers every single morning (2 on Sunday). Haven't cracked one in years. Local paper is shot to hell, both Detroit papers ditto, and all the rest have just caved to the money men.
Whats so sad to me is that I have childhood friends, for over 60+ years. I sent one of them a copy of your newsletter and he texts me that he HATES my political beliefs! He's one of the cult who just wont allow himself to educate himself on why the former P is so evil and his term as President destroyed our country and was responsible for over 800,000 Covid deaths. One of them being the Father of my two children he was found unresponsive in the Riverdale Nursing Home (where Cuomo put all the covid patients) rushed to Columbia Pres. on respirator for 30 days, my son and daughter had to watch their Dad die on facetime and couldnt attend his funeral. His cult has total Covid amnesia remembering these details and now we find out that he was shipping hospital equipment and covid tests to Russia! I dont have the words to express my disgust!!! Cant wait to wash that orange stain out of our country!
Legacy media is gasping for air, the current and future generations won't even get their news the way Boomers (and older), Gen X, or Millennials did. But this THIS is the big one right here:
“I don't think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here not aspiring to be humble. This is not the 1950s anymore.”
BOOM! Game Over!
I loved that quote so much! I am a boomer who has fought for women’s rights since the beginning of time it is starting to feel like. And no, we are not aspiring to be humble. Au contraire.
Neither is fuckabee.
We are sick to death of the expectations of being humble. Sarah Huckabee can go to hell.
If you remember the pressers that Huckabee Sanders held while working for Trump, she did not come across as “humble.” Haughty, condescending, imperious and deceitful would be my adjectives for her.
And Huckabee is not humble with her lying self. Telling lies about yourself and the world is the opposite of humble. In fact, Christian Nationalists with their agenda to take over the US and then the world are anything but humble.
As a boomer, I have to say that I haven’t gotten news from the media for a long time. Same names, but a whole different ballgame.
Same here. Gen X. I watched the DNC on YouTube. Get my news from Substack and Threats. Read international newspapers online occasionally. It think the last time I watched news on the TV was when the bridge in Baltimore collapsed. I rarely ever watch live TV anyway.
I am a boomer and I have the same sort of news choices, and I subscribe to independent presses, that is ones that are free I donate to like The Guardian, or The Intercept. I don't even agree with them on a lot of things because they are more left than I am, but I prefer to hear what they have to say, just as I like The Bulwark because it is the more conservative viewpoint it exposes me to.
Since they got rid of the Putin licker, Greenwald (who burned three sources, some 'journalist') They are a bit better than they were under him. As he just hates America.
Me, too!
Honestly, regardless of what happens, the convicted felon can’t touch her. She’s smart and funny. She can talk to folks. Her accomplishments are her own, NOT because she was lifted up by billions. Love her.
If Kamala wins, Joe goes down as one of the greatest Presidents ever, and willfully gave up power, with a very strong track record of domestic accomplishments!
Can't wait to celebrate Harris/Walz victory wearing this funny "Kamala removes stubborn orange stains" shirt on November 5th 👇 🤣
https://libtees-2.creator-spring.com/listing/votek
After that it is over for Trump, he won't make it to another four years to run again.
It may be over for trump, but MAGA will still exist and other will want to try their hand. They will be slicker than trump, and more dangerous.
I keep banging this drum. Yes, we all need to keep our eyes on the prize at this moment, but if we take a break after, that will be time they will USE. And just remember - they are still planning to attempt to steal THIS election. We're not going to be out of the woods for a good long while.
Yes...Vance is clearly grooming himself for a run in 2028 (not that he has the people skills to be anything but as awkward and stilted and dimwitted as Ron Desantis)
Hopefully he is one and done like many unsuccessful Vice President candidates. He offended just about every demographic out there. But I am sure the Heritage Foundation has more candidates waiting in the wings. The fight will not be over. They are at it since decades and they won't stop.
Vance has repulsed just about every Ohio voter out there - even the MAGAts! He'll be a one-and-done Senator, too.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving asshat.
May you be a prophet, at least in this.
I have this shirt and wore it the day of the Walz debate at two doctor visits and my truck mechanic's shop. Got some smiles but no threats, and I live in a ruby red area of Nevada. Whew
Do you actually sell any of these shirts that I see in every comment thread?
Yeah, I always comment on it and decided to stop wasting my breath
About Kamala's strategy of communicating through multiple non-traditional (and more popular) channels, Robert Hubbell in his Substack post today notes that legacy media continues to have its knickers in a very big twist (my paraphrasing) about no longer being the nexus of everything and points to Josh Marshall's critique in TPM: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-insider-newsletters-still-struggling-to-make-interview-fetch-happen .
(https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/russia-russia-russia-its-always-russia?publication_id=271358&post_id=149999358&isFreemail=false&r=9fqy2&triedRedirect=true)
Sanders also doesn't get that by comparing her own status as a mother to Harris' status as a woman without her own offspring, she isn't demonstrating humility, she's bragging. I think the term is "humblebrag." So if she needs her kids to keep her humble, it appears she is making it too hard for them.
I've never heard the term "humblebrag;" I like it!
hum·ble·brag
noun
"an ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud."
Good point.
Boomer here and Harris is doing a brilliant Media blitz. The MSM are doing sour grapes now but they made their choice to try to give up investigative reporting and manipulate people instead of presenting the News with revelent facts exposed to allow people to make intelligent decisions. I had a revelation about the Rich Male Commentators bloviating their opinions at us were actually "Mansplaining" per Rebecca Solint book MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME. I highly recommend it as it also revealed what's behind the far Right's Anti Gay Marriage stance and it's not what you think. Christian Marriage is about male domination of wife and kids. Two guys married are equal and that's what they think is a abomination equality. She says it better than me.
Boo hoo for corporate media. They has done absolutely nothing to earn Harris' loyalty that is true. In fact, they are making themselves more and more irrelevant. I am a boomer and I have given up my subscriptions to NYT and WaPo because this election has revealed who they really are. If it looks like a duck (substitute White Supremacist for duck) and walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a duck.
I have heard Harris on Call Your Daddy, and what was disturbing to me were the comments made below. I was discussing these with friends yesterday who also read them. These young women were upset at having politics foisted on them. So, it is even more amazing that the host chose to do this, because it is in keeping with her women positive vibe. Kamala was talking about health care in general when talking about abortion since the abortion clinics do a lot of pap smears and breast exams as well. By shutting them down, women are losing access to cancer prevention and treatment care too.
I did not see 60 minutes, or the Howard Stern interview, but I saw Steve Colbert and it was a hoot. It reminded me of when Bill Clinton played the sax on Arsenio Hall, and at that point I knew Clinton was in. Also, Obama stumping for her is great. It reminded me of when I saw the will i am Yes We Can campaign video for Obama. When I saw that brilliance of that song, I knew that Obama was in too. The message was just right. Obama is hitting the right message too.
Today in the Bulwark someone said that the one thing that Obama got wrong in the speech in Philly, was that he said if Kamala Harris lost it would be on Black men's shoulders, and that it is White people who have overwhelmingly been supporting Trump. No surprise there. However, I still think Obama was going with clean up your own house and let others clean up theirs. We need people like Dick Cheney, George Bush and Mitt Romney to go out there and speak to White Men. I know Adam Kinzinger is, but where are the rest of the Republican men who are not voting for Trump? Pence is also staying in the immoral lane by not coming out and endorsing Kamala Harris fully. He needs to reclaim the courage he had on January 6. These old White Men needs to show that the Times they are a changin' and they are changing with them.
“She doesn't lie in a complicated way because her mind doesn't work that way,” Trump insisted. “She’s not a smart person. She’s a low IQ individual ... She’s a stupid person. We can't have a stupid person as our president.” I find it hilarious that when he's pointing a finger at Kamala, he's really pointing at himself. And I'll agree with him on one thing: We can't have a stupid person as our president -- which is why he shouldn't be re-elected. One stupid person as our president one time, was one time too many.
This week someone in my neighborhood put up a sign that says "My dog is smarter than Harris" and it literally set me off. Seriously people think he's smart??? WTAF? Do they listen to him or is their IQ so low that they just don't get it.
I would refer you to Aaron Sorkin’s movie the American President. “People want leadership. They’re so thirsty for it they’ll crawl through the desert toward a mirage and when they discover there’s no water, they’ll drink the sand.” To which President Shepard replies, “People don’t drink the sand because they’re thirsty. They drink the sand because they don’t know the difference.”
Also..."he tells you what to fear and who's to blame for it..." Trump in a nutshell.
I too have quoted the American President so many times since 2016. And this particular quote I've posted numerous times since then.
That explains a comment I saw on FB the other day that said "they are drinking the sand".
I guess I should watch it!
It's a pretty good movie. Written by Alan Sorkin; directed and produced by Rob Reiner. Cast included Annette Bening, Michael J. Fox, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, Richard Dreyfus. It's a likeable sort of precursor to the series, The West Wing.
It's a good movie on many levels!
It's actually one of my all time favorite movies (and I really love the regal music, too) :)
I’d tape a sign over that one: Donald Trump des not have a law school degree. Harris does. Trump never passed the bar. Harris did. Trump was never a State Attorney General. Harris was. Trump was never a Senator. Harris was. Who’s the real dummy? Not Harris!
You'd likely get shot if you tried that. These MAGAts are not necessarily known to have a real sense of humor, but they do seem to have easily lost tempers.
Tempers may not be all they've lost.
I suspect there are a fair share of lower intellect white people which are very threatened by a smart, successful, powerful woman, who speaks her mind, particularly a woman of Indian and Jamaican descent.
They don’t really listen to what he says, and they are also low IQ.
So we're my Cats. 😸😸😸
So are their "leavings". And they probably smell better too.
YES! My mom raised me with this jewel: "When you point a finger of mockery, cruelty, or hate in another person's direction, just remember that three more fingers are pointing right back at you, my dear!"
If I had a friend who began reminding others how brilliant they are and continually critiqued others' intelligence, I'd quietly pull my friend aside and ask: "Are you okay? What's going on?" Of all the Republicans, not one is his friend. Not one is concerned for him. Only three options explain this: they fear him, find him repugnant — or hope to use him.
The last one is the answer for the Heritage Foundation. They will run the country if Trump wins.
But they will still be planning to do so if (when) he loses. And they have another four years to figure out who they might get that'll be a little smoother, a little more likeable, a little less obviously self-involved - and THAT'S the one we're gonna have to watch out for.
They'll have everyone expecting JDV or Mike Johnson, but they'll stunt and have Amy Comey resign and run.
He's master of the projection room, foisting on others his own failings.
The old saying, 'It takes one to know one,' is biting in its painful truth.
It sure seems to me that the major media has completely LOST their understanding of how people, especially younger voters, actually communicate. Maybe because they don't really trust the major media ? Harris and her team have figured out what media outlets are REALLY communicating with the voters. Maybe this is also reflected in the newspapers continuing to lose subscribers. I am a senior citizen and I have almost completely stopped reading my daily newspaper and have subscribed to several sources on Substack and other outlets for my "trusted" news sources.
So many of us have become disallusioned with the corporate press, but please keep supporting your local newspaper, if you have one, if it is locally owned!
Our local newspaper isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. There’s no competition and no independent reporting. All they do is monitor the police and fire radios and reprint statements issued by local politicians and businesses. I gave up on them long ago.
Me too! I still watch MSM, and I am appalled at their lack of "smart" reporting. Last night NBC said Trump shares "misinformation." Lies, people lies. And some of them very dangerous.
That's one of the most insidious Media tricks, the use of language to obscure or inflamed. The words have lost their actual meanings and words that were beneficial have been turned into insults. This means they aren't available anymore for use in negotiating a better world.
Me, too. A fellow senior citizen.
Same here. Although while we're living with Mom (moving out very soon, though) we have been watching the 5:00 ch. 7 news and the 6:00 PBS news hour. My reviews are mixed.
I still find it so hard to believe we are even having a discussion about our future president. How is the convicted felon even permitted in the race?
Every TFG sign I see in someone's yard literally outrages me.
What does it say about a huge segment of voters in this country? I don't see them going away anytime soon.
In our area Harris Walz yard signs are being stolen.
It happened to me in SW FL with Obama - I gave up after the 5th one disappeared over night. I got my brand new car keyed for having a Pete Buttigieg bumper sticker. Now I am down to a 'White Dudes for Harris' hat.
that's awful. And people I know don't seem to see what his violent rhetoric as an issue
The one that honks me off the most is the banner that reads, “Trump won in 2020. You know it, I know it.” I practically snarl every time I drive by it.
Slap a "Paid for by Putin". sticker across it. 😄
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Oh I would want to tear it down, it would infuriate me.
You need to slap a sign in the yard that says "If he won then he can't run for another term" LOL
Rural road in my neighborhood. On person has "God and Guns - Trump 2024" Banner in his trees that is as large as a panel truck. It is a free country. I have to tolerate it. But I have my fantasies about what I would like to do to it. Not going to anyway.
Oh they have banners and flags. Just anything supporting him makes me ill
If it was up to me, I would be asking this question as the lede of every discussion.
The Constitution defines the qualifications for the office, and mentions nothing about felonies or character. And since SCOTUS has gelded the 14th amendment, even sedition apparently is no longer disqualifying.
Stacking the court is *possible, but unlikely. It's a VERY heavy lift, politically speaking, and would definitely require a large majority in both Houses of Congress. Getting rid of the electoral college would require a Constitutional amendment - very difficult, especially when so many people are still swallowing the propaganda of the hard right. Neither of these is a 4-year, or even 8-year project, I'm afraid.
The Politicos of the world think the only real interview Harris can do is one in which every question starts with “Donald Trump said today that you …” They consider that “unbiased.”
Meanwhile, let’s not forget that the NABJ said Trump was an hour late because he refused to go on if his lies were corrected. Which leads to the question of how many “unbiased” outlets have agreed to this demand over the years. Judging by the debates, I’d say a lot of
When Biden and Harris announced Harris's candidacy on a Sunday afternoon, after the legacy media (Sunday TV shows, WaPo, NYT) had closed shop for the day, they took control of their message.
A breath of fresh air to see the president of our future understanding and using the media of our future. Makes me believe she can and will move us forward.
She saw what they did to Biden and knows their Bias. They've been blocking progressive ideas for years and are controlled by Establishment Billionaires who have monopolized the conversation long enough. To save America, we will need to break numerous Monopolies in Media, Energy, Health, Big Agra, Big Pharma, Private Equity, and a few Right Wing Extremist Organizations like the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation and more. The Right Wing started this with alternative education, alternative media, alternative science and alternative facts. They have beaten down or taken over legitimate journalists and sources of information. Therefore our answer is to create our own new avenues around their blocks. Like Substack.
It’s almost like the legacy media doesn’t understand that she has zero time for their gotcha tactics nor how they phrase every question like they’re reading from a list of GOP talking points. Shocking.
They also don't understand that there will be no free media under Trump. Their survival is at stake and they are not even fighting.
They don't really care like that. We lost "news" as we knew it when the big investors started shoving money at the ever more consolidating media companies, and then demanded the news become a profit center - which it had NEVER been. The notion that the news is a public service and they are obligated to treat it as such has gone, gone, gone. They would "survive" by toeing the party line. Actual journalists would be jailed and murdered, of course - see: Putin's Russia.
As I posted elsewhere, I do not understand why anyone would listen to anyone who refuses to be fact checked. Is there a more direct way of saying, "I'm a liar, and I'm gonna lie"?
His cult followers believe everything he says, not realizing he lies constantly. Do we just write those people off and try to find the persuadable voters?
Oh, they do realize it (at least many of them do) - and they love that it triggers US. And the ones that believe every damn thing that falls outta the mouths of The Convict and his lackeys are beyond help.
They do not GAF for policy, for qualifications, or really anything about governing. They care about "owning the libs", maintaining a "Christian" nation, and (of course) feeling superior to Black and Brown people. They are the result of a long-term proj... I mean "con" to convince them that they have been screwed by everything every Democrat has ever done, and see to it that their education has been truncated, with emphasis on Biblical "truth" as opposed to any kind of secular facts. Which is why they want to kill public education, and have done a bang-up job at it in so many areas of the country. Only the oligarchs children are going to get anything resembling a real education if they get the power they're after.
We will need to win and then deal with those who can be reached later with the help from mental health practitioners like Dr Brandy X Lee and Steven Hassan.
Great article Jay. I haven’t watched the “news” since my kids were born (19 years ago) because who wants to expose them to all that? I read the news every day from people like you. I say “F” the whiney mainstream media. They are hardly doing us any favors, and they refuse to “understand the assignment.” This election is a not a game and not the time to pretend that they should “level the playing field.” If we lose, the media will have contributed to it 100%. Thank you for giving it to us “straight.” Lol. 😉
Politico can stick it.
It's absolutely hilarious that an inside-the-Beltway publication like Politico is bleating about "access" and "Where's Kamala?". Well, for starters the 0.00002% of voters who regularly read Politico are overwhelmed by the millions who daily/hourly are on SM of one sort or another, and are being reached by the Harris-Walz campaign. Legacy/corporate media still don't get it...it's a new paradigm in voter out-reach, and despite the hallowed and self-regarded stature of the NYT, WaPo, cablenews, et al, they no longer are the indispensable gatekeepers they once were, and are finding it difficult to adapt to new realities.
Personally, I ignore anything coming from the Times political desk, and even the "bombshell" - for NYT - article by Peter Baker & co. FINALLY describing at length and in great detail tRump's mental decline is too little and too late, as several Substack writers and independent online media were and are miles ahead of the corporate media, and seeing IS believing, after all.
Imho, Kamala went to the people she needs to motivate to vote for her. NYT and WaPo are both dinosaurs owned by right wing billionaires who want the tax breaks tfg would give them. They aren’t opening up to new possible voters who can swing the race in her direction. OTOH, Call Her Daddy and Howard Stern reach an entirely new demographic that hasn’t been used before. I think her strategy is brilliant.
Yeah, the corporate media hates it when they aren't the center of attention. But they did this to themselves. Thank goodness we have found other sources of information that we can trust. And they are doing a good job, too. Thanks, Jay!
Great point about redefinition of “media.” Wapo and NYT are no longer sought after for their stodgy coverage.
Stodgy? Try biased.
Jay, and isn’t that the same with polls?! Who and where are they talking to people? I’m 63 and have read the NYT since I lived in NYC 30 years ago! But not anymore. I get my news from so many other sources since they’ve let me down.
I've never valued the polls since I took a Statistics Class at UCLA. First trying to get a accurate response is incredibly hard, just phrasing the questions in bias is a issue. Then there's trying to reach your audience. It became obvious you can easily slant it any way you wish on purpose or accidentally by personal bias. Exit Polls after voting are the only acknowledged correct polls and show if the election is fair. Otherwise they are propaganda.
And now the only ones they can get to respond at all are very old people who answer their landline telephones.
I mean - do YOU know any younger folks who will answer a call from a number they don't recognize? Or even one they DO - no one TALKS on the phone - they text. How are you going to get any sort of reliable sample if the sample universe has contracted to this extent?
I totally agree with you! I used to live to catch the Times in the morning. Now, I find myself just eye rolling way too much…more than once I have considered cancelling my subscription this electoral cycle, including yesterday when some political operative was criticising Jack Smith’s release of his brief, because, you know, electoral influence and scoffing at DOJ rules. No mention of the questionable behavior of the other side of course, because he is the other side… published in opinion like it was a credible, representation by a credible observer…😖
Yep - I used to read three newspapers every single morning (2 on Sunday). Haven't cracked one in years. Local paper is shot to hell, both Detroit papers ditto, and all the rest have just caved to the money men.
Whats so sad to me is that I have childhood friends, for over 60+ years. I sent one of them a copy of your newsletter and he texts me that he HATES my political beliefs! He's one of the cult who just wont allow himself to educate himself on why the former P is so evil and his term as President destroyed our country and was responsible for over 800,000 Covid deaths. One of them being the Father of my two children he was found unresponsive in the Riverdale Nursing Home (where Cuomo put all the covid patients) rushed to Columbia Pres. on respirator for 30 days, my son and daughter had to watch their Dad die on facetime and couldnt attend his funeral. His cult has total Covid amnesia remembering these details and now we find out that he was shipping hospital equipment and covid tests to Russia! I dont have the words to express my disgust!!! Cant wait to wash that orange stain out of our country!