2020 U.S. Presidential elections

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Let's start off with a belly laugh.

Rupert Murdoch Predicts Trump Will 'Crash And Burn' In November Election

News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch is reportedly pessimistic about President Trump’s odds of winning his re-election. According to a...

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[Romana]

Let's start off with a belly laugh.

Rupert Murdoch Predicts Trump Will 'Crash And Burn' In November Election

News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch is reportedly pessimistic about President Trump’s odds of winning his re-election. According to a...

talkingpointsmemo.com

Interesting. Didn't he help get Dump elected in the first place? I wonder what he's up to now?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Interesting. Didn't he help get Dump elected in the first place? I wonder what he's up to now?

Perhaps the Murdochs (and particularly the younger ones) don't think it's in News Corps' interests to have the US run by a clearly crazed far-right kleptocrat, who behaves more like the president of a Central Asian republic than a leader in a democracy, and particularly don't think it's in Fox's interests to be too close to him as he and his administration spiral further out of control.

Tucker Carlson has had Disney and T-Mobile cancel their adverising on his show, after all, and the Murdochs maybe feel this is a good time to cut loose from Trump to avoid going down with him.

 

[Ashiri]

... and the Murdochs maybe feel this is a good time to cut loose from Trump to avoid going down with him.

If they start promoting "never-trumpers" I think that would be a sure sign of their intentions.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Perhaps the Murdochs (and particularly the younger ones) don't think it's in News Corps' interests to have the US run by a clearly crazed far-right kleptocrat, who behaves more like the president of a Central Asian republic than a leader in a democracy, and particularly don't think it's in Fox's interests to be too close to him as he and his administration spiral further out of control.

Tucker Carlson has had Disney and T-Mobile cancel their adverising on his show, after all, and the Murdochs maybe feel this is a good time to cut loose from Trump to avoid going down with him.

If they start promoting "never-trumpers" I think that would be a sure sign of their intentions.

Just last week that Nostrils guy called Fox a liberal news org.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Just last week that Nostrils guy called Fox a liberal news org.

Why does that not surprise me.

 

[Romana]

Perhaps the Murdochs (and particularly the younger ones) don't think it's in News Corps' interests to have the US run by a clearly crazed far-right kleptocrat, who behaves more like the president of a Central Asian republic than a leader in a democracy, and particularly don't think it's in Fox's interests to be too close to him as he and his administration spiral further out of control.

Tucker Carlson has had Disney and T-Mobile cancel their adverising on his show, after all, and the Murdochs maybe feel this is a good time to cut loose from Trump to avoid going down with him.

The Murdochs me precisely what he was when they promoted his candidacy. Perhaps the younger ones didn’t have as much say at the time, but they all knew what they were helping to inflict on us.

 

[Cristalle]

If they start promoting "never-trumpers" I think that would be a sure sign of their intentions.

Then MSNBC would barely have any content.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Murdochs me precisely what he was when they promoted his candidacy. Perhaps the younger ones didn’t have as much say at the time, but they all knew what they were helping to inflict on us.

Yes, but I think "what he was," and remains, to the Murdochs is a good or bad investment.

In 2016, he looked a good buy for them, and probably he has been, but now the next election is approaching, they need to consider their position for the next four years.

It's like TV networks deciding whether or not to renew a reality show that was once an unexpected hit, but has now lost its shine (Duck Dynasty, perhaps), which almost seems a logical culmination of the last few years.

 

[Ashiri]

Just last week that Nostrils guy called Fox a liberal news org.

I'm surprised he's still here.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'm surprised he's still here.

He stated his intent early on. To try to anger people.

 

[Salome]

Yes, but I think "what he was," and is, to the Murdochs is a good or bad investment.

They got their tax cuts, their judges, purged tons of liberal-leaning civic workers from service and dismantled a lot of departments. They don’t really need Trump’s cover anymore and he keeps becoming a bigger and bigger liability.

 

[Clara D.]

He stated his intent early on. To try to anger people.

It'd be better off on Twitter, there you can piss off people and have an echo chamber at the same time.

 

[Ashiri]

He stated his intent early on. To try to anger people.

That's why I'm surprised he's still here.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

That's why I'm surprised he's still here.

I'd say his needs are perverse, and not terribly healthy.

 

[Beebo Brink]

He stated his intent early on. To try to anger people.

A lot of things make me angry these days, but some random emotionally-deranged troll isn't one of them. I can't even muster pity for them anymore.

 

[Clara D.]

A lot of things make me angry these days, but some random emotionally-deranged troll isn't one of them. I can't even muster pity for them anymore.

When society's imploding mid-pandemic a painfully obvious and thoroughly unoriginal troll on the internets is the very least of my worries. The only annoyance it gets out of me is because it's so tedious.

Conservatives are just an endless loop cassette of the exact same talking points over and over again or just all out really stupid abuse (which is also highly repetative -- libtard or snowflake with a random smattering of expletives). Not much for independent thought or original thinking.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

For what it's worth

Forecasting the US 2020 elections

Right now, our model thinks Joe Biden is very likely to beat Donald Trump in the electoral college

projects.economist.com

(Waits for the inevitable complaints from 1600 Black Lives Matter Plaza that The Economist is far-left so unfair extreme socialist antifa no good so nasty fake news).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

But let's hope they all get to vote

‘We’re going to have a catastrophe’: US faces November election fiasco

The chaotic scenes in Georgia’s primary this week could be a foretaste as states fail to take urgent action to secure the vote

www.theguardian.com

This is very worrying.

Experts worry that poll worker shortages, long lines and other delays in processing requests for absentee ballots will only get worse in November, when there will be more voters. Since March, voting advocates have been calling on states to prepare for an election like no other, and quickly implement plans that accommodate a surge in voters casting their ballots by mail for the first time as well as robust turnout at the polls.

One estimate places the cost of upgrading vote-by-mail systems across the country at $4bn.

“We’re just going to have a catastrophe in November,” said Michael McDonald, a professor at the University of Florida who studies elections. “We’ve already passed the point of catastrophic failure. It doesn’t get any better if we have two to three times the number of people who are trying to vote in these polling locations.”

 

[Romana]

For what it's worth

Forecasting the US 2020 elections

Right now, our model thinks Joe Biden is very likely to beat Donald Trump in the electoral college

projects.economist.com

(Waits for the inevitable complaints from 1600 Black Lives Matter Plaza that The Economist is far-left so unfair extreme socialist antifa no good so nasty fake news).

Biden's campaign needs to put out more as with Biden talking more. There's still the perception that Biden can't talk and Dump will out-debate him. This from otherwise intelligent people. They think tCNN is manipulating the clips to make Biden look coherent. And these are not Fox viewers. It's scary. And Dump's people are stressing in pushing the notion that he's actually sharp. They're probably responsible for all of it.
Even if Biden hesitated or flubbed, he'd have to do better unscripted than Dump with his word salad.