All corporate news are scrambling to find some story about Harris/Trump to get the horse race going full throttle. There’s no “her emails”, trump’s schtick is old and smelly, Harris hasn’t obliged with a goof up - there’s nothing to drive the tsunami of clicks a corporate news organization exists to foster.
So they’re fishing. NYT went with “Harris is changing the face of the Presidency even before the election”, which - wtf was that. Others have tried the old reliable “Trump says outrageous bullshit” but to little avail. Even techbro turd Corporal Crayon can’t Animal-House his way into a decent amount of clicks.
So USA Today - the news organization that launched with a specific mandate of keeping the writing at a fifth-grade level - said, “Hey member that crazy lady who voted all over the map? Lets go do a piece on her and make it look like that’s a thing people are doing now. Maybe that will get people to click - to find out what both sides should be doing to swing a clearly confused political example to their side.”
Hey, if it clues in someone else (or a lot of someone elses) who’s still drifting along behind their Wrong Wing family, and allows them to consider woking up from that fever dream and voting in their own actual self-interest, it could be really something. Just putting a chink in the idea that a MAGA mindset is locked in and immutable.
There are far too many defeatists who no matter what Trump says or does will repeat the mantra, “It won’t matter to his base.” His base isn’t a monolith and the individuals that comprise it aren’t immutable.
All corporate news are scrambling to find some story about Harris/Trump to get the horse race going full throttle. There’s no “her emails”, trump’s schtick is old and smelly, Harris hasn’t obliged with a goof up - there’s nothing to drive the tsunami of clicks a corporate news organization exists to foster.
So they’re fishing. NYT went with “Harris is changing the face of the Presidency even before the election”, which - wtf was that. Others have tried the old reliable “Trump says outrageous bullshit” but to little avail. Even techbro turd Corporal Crayon can’t Animal-House his way into a decent amount of clicks.
So USA Today - the news organization that launched with a specific mandate of keeping the writing at a fifth-grade level - said, “Hey member that crazy lady who voted all over the map? Lets go do a piece on her and make it look like that’s a thing people are doing now. Maybe that will get people to click - to find out what both sides should be doing to swing a clearly confused political example to their side.”
It’s - it’s something.
Hey, if it clues in someone else (or a lot of someone elses) who’s still drifting along behind their Wrong Wing family, and allows them to consider woking up from that fever dream and voting in their own actual self-interest, it could be really something. Just putting a chink in the idea that a MAGA mindset is locked in and immutable.
There are far too many defeatists who no matter what Trump says or does will repeat the mantra, “It won’t matter to his base.” His base isn’t a monolith and the individuals that comprise it aren’t immutable.
Fair enough, if it does that - great.
Thanks for the insight and the context, friend.