NY Times wimps out: Endorses two candidates for president

Draft Day! wrote:

Hmm if what you’re saying is true about Rojo and censorship, that is a serious offense.

If Rojo approves of censorship, what presidential candidate would you say he supports?

It's not an offence but it's true he probably supports Trump. I think anyone can see that if they come here for a while.

Greg wrote:

Imagine this. (Rojo I'm having fun, I hope you can laugh at this)

Rojo becomes mayor of Baltimore and announces for Baltimorians to direct their civic compliants to his website.

Then you see a whole bunch of threads about what's going on in Baltimore and Rojo is busy watching baseball.

He's at home on the couch and see's urban crime threads and sewage problem threads clicking delete delete delete.

And then he starts a 'Leave me alone, I'm watching baseball' thread- Your mayor of Baltimore, -Honorable Robert Johnson

I love this Greg. Tell me more of your thoughts!

Draft Day! wrote:

Greg wrote:

Imagine this. (Rojo I'm having fun, I hope you can laugh at this)

Rojo becomes mayor of Baltimore and announces for Baltimorians to direct their civic compliants to his website.

Then you see a whole bunch of threads about what's going on in Baltimore and Rojo is busy watching baseball.

He's at home on the couch and see's urban crime threads and sewage problem threads clicking delete delete delete.

And then he starts a 'Leave me alone, I'm watching baseball' thread- Your mayor of Baltimore, -Honorable Robert Johnson

I love this Greg. Tell me more of your thoughts!

OK, next the streets of Baltimore become dissaray. There are riots and it's chaos. But the Orioles are doing ok, they just beat the Yankees 8-2 and Rojo is having a ball.

Rojo has implimented a mandatory civic law requiring 2 miles of distance training per day.

Even some cops have been booted off the force for lying about their 2 miles.

So arrests are increasing in Baltimore.

A handicaped elderly man in a walker states he cannot complete 2 miles let alone 20 yards and is arrested.

He happens to be black. (sorry, that's just how I imagined it)

He dies of a heart attack after the police throw his walker to the ground and he collapses.

Greg wrote:

Draft Day! wrote:

I love this Greg. Tell me more of your thoughts!

OK, next the streets of Baltimore become dissaray. There are riots and it's chaos. But the Orioles are doing ok, they just beat the Yankees 8-2 and Rojo is having a ball.

Rojo has implimented a mandatory civic law requiring 2 miles of distance training per day.

Even some cops have been booted off the force for lying about their 2 miles.

So arrests are increasing in Baltimore.

A handicaped elderly man in a walker states he cannot complete 2 miles let alone 20 yards and is arrested.

He happens to be black. (sorry, that's just how I imagined it)

He dies of a heart attack after the police throw his walker to the ground and he collapses.

Love it. Your imagination is spectacular. I would vote for you for president!!! You have great ideas

sanders or bust

America certainly doesn't have a good track record for distilling its best and brightest for political leadership.

Successful candidates are selected and elected not largely based on merit, but name-recognition and wealth/connections.

It matters more if you're a well-known TV/Film personality (examples; Clint Eastwood, Sonny Bono, Jerry Springer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump) and/or related to others previously elected or connected/rich/influential (examples, Browns, Clintons, Cuomos, Bushes, any Kennedy)

My guess is Democrats eventually decide on a Biden-Warren ticket;

Biden as the old-boy Obama hanger-on just dumb enough and Christian enough and white enough to additionally draw middle-ground Republicans, and Warren to appeal to the feminist voter.

As to how that translates to a 2020 election result, I give the Dems a slight but by-no-means-certain edge over Trump, who is guaranteed to survive impeachment.

Greg wrote:

Draft Day! wrote:

I love this Greg. Tell me more of your thoughts!

OK, next the streets of Baltimore become dissaray. There are riots and it's chaos. But the Orioles are doing ok, they just beat the Yankees 8-2 and Rojo is having a ball.

Rojo has implimented a mandatory civic law requiring 2 miles of distance training per day.

Even some cops have been booted off the force for lying about their 2 miles.

So arrests are increasing in Baltimore.

A handicaped elderly man in a walker states he cannot complete 2 miles let alone 20 yards and is arrested.

He happens to be black. (sorry, that's just how I imagined it)

He dies of a heart attack after the police throw his walker to the ground and he collapses.

I'd move to Baltimore if this happened

New York Times is now a leftist rag managed by leftist political hacks. They lost all credibility a long time ago.

Crooked Hillary wrote:

New York Times is now a leftist rag managed by leftist political hacks. They lost all credibility a long time ago.

I don't think there was much negative press about the NYT before Trump began to say 'The failing NYT' or other dumb things like 'Fake news'.

You can easly spot those influenced by him becuase they use his phrases.

Rojo refers to 'Fake news' in a YouTube video about Bolt and a 40 yard dash.

Ronaldo refers to 'Fake news' when referring to his rape or assault accusation. Easy to spot those influenced by Trump.

Even though I try not to use his phrases, I have been influenced by Trump. I have noticed my online communication to use more exlamation points at times, particularly on Twitter. But it's a habit I worked to break. Because I realised I was sounding like Trump. Trump does sound decisive (at times) in his rhetoric, but if you believe it, you become more like him. I try not to.

rojo wrote:

What the hell?

The Huff Post wrote:

The New York Times editorial board endorsed Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) in the race for the Democratic presidential primary after interviewing the top nine contenders on issues that are most important to voters in this heated election year.

It was a perplexing endorsement, since the two senators are running on significantly divergent platforms. Warren is one of the most progressive candidates in the race, while Klobuchar is a moderate.

So basically they were afraid to upset their really liberal readers as well as their more more moderate readers so they endorsed two candidates to try to make everyone happy? Is that how everyone else reads this?

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/new-york-times-endorses-warren-klobuchar-041128419.html

The Oscars and Democrats picking a leader is the same process . You start with a wide scope of diversity and opinions , then at the end , the white people will pick a white person . #white

If you say so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Print media died years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE8T6qX-L5U

Draft Day! wrote:

Greg wrote:

OK, next the streets of Baltimore become dissaray. There are riots and it's chaos. But the Orioles are doing ok, they just beat the Yankees 8-2 and Rojo is having a ball.

Rojo has implimented a mandatory civic law requiring 2 miles of distance training per day.

Even some cops have been booted off the force for lying about their 2 miles.

So arrests are increasing in Baltimore.

A handicaped elderly man in a walker states he cannot complete 2 miles let alone 20 yards and is arrested.

He happens to be black. (sorry, that's just how I imagined it)

He dies of a heart attack after the police throw his walker to the ground and he collapses.

Love it. Your imagination is spectacular. I would vote for you for president!!! You have great ideas

Thanks, ok, I was thinking Rojo has now been mayor for a year.

Things in Baltimore are not so good. There was a flood, there's lots of potholes and there's a roach infestation in the public housing. Things are definitely getting out of control.

City councillors have no answers but one man seems to be missing.

Alas, it's Rojo, who hasn't attended one city meeting since he was voted in.

1 year later Rojo has been voted out. He's now doing color for the Orioles and is repsonsible for calling the foul balls.

The New York Times has been uncertain about Warren, negative because she has supported progressive causes, positive because she is an accomplished woman who was a Republican for many years. After some early support, most NY Times articles mentioning Warren have been negative--which happened when she started rising in the polls. They are essentially trying to undermine Bernie Sanders' campaign, because they do not want someone who has been consistent for decades as a champion of progressive causes. Sanders will actually try to get done what he says he will do. If Warren was in a two person race with a moderate after Super Tuesday, they would endorse the moderate. Amy Klobuchar has managed not to spend out her campaign resources but has not exactly caught fire. The editorial is quite dishonest when it claims that she has advocated basically the same policies as the others. In fact, she throws cold water on every policy that would have a major impact on enormous social problems--policies that have been executed successfully in other countries or even this one (free college, for instance, a policy that carried through the 1950s and 1960s; Medicare is an example of a very successful policy that would only be extended to the rest of the population, as they do in many places).

i can see you are a very literal person... gonna just let this one go.

fake news is a real thing. they push a narrative. not facts. it is good that people recognize this and learn to look deeper than headlines to form an opinion.

Trump is a funny guy. i think most people just find amusement in his phrases, which hold more than a grain of truth.

These democrat “men” can’t wait to vote for another hillary clone.

Democrats are “funny”

high school xc coach wrote:

i can see you are a very literal person... gonna just let this one go.

You haven’t got a proper comeback.

Trump says sometime, you echo it.

All the while Trump, his family and cronies are happy to help the NYT.

Idiots like you are literal ones who are easily played.

Treadhead wrote:

high school xc coach wrote:

this is why they are are referred to as "the failing new york times"

lol@ endorsing a person who is polling at around 3%

This is why you’re uninformed and so easily manipulated.

https://fortune.com/2019/02/06/new-york-times-trump-nyt-subscriptions/

Trump talks to the NYT plenty, what he says and does are two very different things.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/us/politics/trump-interview-transcripts.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/politics/trump-interview-excerpts.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview-transcript.html

Liberals are ruining this country