Board calls Trump ‘a chilling choice against this national moment’ days before Republican national convention
      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        311·
        1 year ago

        I take this as a sign that the swell of derision about their fawning attempts to shit on Biden with every minute of every working day has entered the mainstream and impinged on their consciousness

        And, like a bunch of transparent dishonest hacks, they’re making the world’s most transparently dishonest hacky attempt to solve the problem

        Great job guys, you’re gonna fool em with this one I think

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    493·
    1 year ago

    Oh shit we forget to both sides this, quick put out a editorial.

    now back to bashing Biden.

    • retrospectology@lemmy.worldBannedBanned from community
      178·
      1 year ago

      It’s a pointless thing to talk about because Trump’s support is locked in and there’s nothing anyone can do to push Trump out. His being unfit to lead is a feature to his supporters, not a bug.

      There is, however, a slim chance that Biden may be able to be pressured out before august, so that’s really the only thing people should be focusing on until the convention is behind us.

  • EleventhHour@lemmy.worldBanned from community
    12·
    1 year ago

    oh, gee, didn’t their editor just say that advocating for or defending democracy was a partisan act, and that he wouldn’t do it?

    what’s all this, then?

  • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldBanned from community
    1611·
    1 year ago

    I’m gonna bet the up vote/down vote ratio between this story and the other from NYT calling for Biden to step down will be wildly different

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Saluting Republicans that it said “pursued electoral power in service to solutions for such problems”, such as Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney, the Times board went on to say that “too many Republicans set aside their concerns about Mr Trump because of his positions on immigration, trade and taxes.

    Trump was convicted on 34 criminal charges concerning hush-money payments to a porn star that a jury agreed were designed to interfere with the 2016 election.

    Trump was impeached a second time for inciting an insurrection but Republican senators acquitted him, leaving him free to run for office.

    Instead of a cogent vision for the country’s future, Mr Trump is animated by a thirst for political power: to use the levers of government to advance his interests, satisfy his impulses and exact retribution against those who he thinks have wronged him.

    It added that while Democrats “are rightly engaged in their own debate about whether President Biden is the right person to carry the party’s nomination into the election, given widespread concerns among voters about his age-related fitness”, the importance of that debate was down to “legitimate concerns that Mr Trump may present a danger to the country, its strength, security and national character – and that a compelling Democratic alternative is the only thing that would prevent his return to power.

    It said it was a “national tragedy that the Republicans have failed to … [set] aside their longstanding values” and ignoring what former Trump officials “have described as his systematic dishonesty, corruption, cruelty and incompetence”, and urged American voters to “perform a simple act of civic duty in an election year: listen to what Mr Trump is saying, pay attention to what he did as president and allow yourself to truly inhabit what he has promised to do if returned to office”.

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    42·
    1 year ago

    They also declared Biden unfit to run. Which translates as imploring the high-minded liberal centrists they envisage their audience to be to stay home and sit this one out. Meanwhile, the MAGAts will be voting.