• Hux@lemmy.ml
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    She looks like Steven Tyler having an allergic reaction to shellfish.

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    Lol. They buried the lede:

    Guilfoyle discussed unverified Newsmax’s reporting that Biden would step aside without endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee.

    “Unverified”? Is that a polite word for “made up”? If Biden did step aside he would be Kamala’s biggest cheerleader.

    Fucking vote

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      The rumor I’m hearing is that he doesn’t want to be accused of “kingmaking” and instead will call for a brokered convention rather than picking her directly.

      Note, this is only a rumor.

      The illusion of choice is going to be necessary because she won’t get the support otherwise.

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      I think it’d be hilarious in a dystopian way if he bowed out, endorsed her, and she nominated him as VP

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      Yeah, there’s a lot of reporting right now that tries to force others to do what they say. Like yesterday there was an article saying that Pelosi plans to publicly push Biden to step down. How would they know this?

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      To my knowledge it’s only unverified because the people saying it are doing so on the condition of anonymity. The idea seems to be that they want to go into an open convention with Biden at most saying something like “I have the utmost faith in the delegates to pick the best candidate to be our nominee,” because if he’s too involved in the choice whoever ends up being the nominee will have that looming specter of the narrative of Biden’s cognitive decline haunting them. “How could he pick a good replacement when he doesn’t even know where he is?” and all that.

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        IMO, this is being pushed by media, but as soon it happens it is almost guaranteed that they will immediately switch to build rhetoric that democrat voters were cheated and the party just picked up their candidate.

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        Unverified to you means “verified by a source that prefers to remain anonymous”?

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          Be skeptical of unverified and unverifiable sources. Sure the sources could be anonymous democrats; but they could also be Republican political operatives telling friendly journalists something that wouldn’t be credible if it had their name on it.

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            Fully on board with that. It’s why in journalism you see an indicator of closeness make it a more relevant source description. Like “democratic senator”, “someone close to the president” etc. Moreover you have to question the publishers alignment and dedication to truthfullness.

            But if people lack the critical reading skill to already mistake “unverified” with “anonymous source [of function/closeness to the subject] according to [insert news agency]”, that is just trying to find truth in a statement ment to give you doubt.

            Edit: On alignment of the publisher: “Newsmax TV holds a conservative political stance, broadcasting many programs hosted by conservative media personalities. CEO Christopher Ruddy has compared the network to Fox News.”

            Fox News itself said not to consider it actual news reporting.

            Why would a reliable source close enough to the president to know the truth about campaign aspirations go to a Fox News clone?

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    “As a person of bronzer, I certainly have the lived experience to speak for my fellow people of color.”

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      I’m so confused. I just read the article looking for this quote to see if it is satire. Why am I only just now hearing about Biden stepping aside, and why is it from the RNC???

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    Holy shit.

    I’m instantly reminded of Nietzsche’s “when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

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    She looks a bit like my cat after I spray him with the water bottle. Not that it matters. What she says is more important than the way she looks, and she only speaks in fascist screed.

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    I’m betting most of y’all don’t know that she was Gavin Newsom’s gal back when he was the mayor of San Francisco. What a strange, strange world.

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      Half of her was. The other half was added by an apparently below-average plastic surgeon.

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    Newsmax host Rob Schmidt asked Trump campaign surrogate Kimberly Guilfoyle to speak on behalf of Black women after the network reported that Joe Biden would not seek the Democratic presidential nomination.

    (FTA)

    Wait? Did I miss something???

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          Maybe. I was too tired to look, but now I have to. I’ll edit this post with what I find.

          Edit: Seems to just be rumors based on what people ‘close to Biden’ have said. All it really boils down to is that he is not 100% set on staying in the race anymore. Again, all rumor. I believe more Democrats have stepped up in asking him to leave the race, and it looks like they postponed his nomination until August. I’m fucking exhausted, so sorry if I mixed some shit up.

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    I really hate when people wear their Halloween costume all year long. Oh wait… Oh shit! That’s actually her face!