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In reply to the discussion: A NYT opinion column that nails it. [View all]ancianita
(38,580 posts)27. Exactly.
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The NY Times encouraged and supported, actively, Trump, both in 2016 and in 2024. Fuck that "but her emails..." "old...
NNadir
Sunday
#4
And yet you did not correct the post that accused them of not endorsing Harris
maxsolomon
Monday
#52
This piece makes a too-common, WRONG assumption about who "we" are. 22% of Americans is NOT who 78% of Americans are.
ancianita
Sunday
#10
i love what you wrote but where are you getting the 22% number (and the 78% number)? nt
orleans
Sunday
#32
76,510,127 / 244,666,890 eligible-to-vote equals 31.3% of those eligible to vote voted for tRump
nmmi
Monday
#47
If you want to use a university from Florida, run by Sasse/Fuchs, I'm not going to argue about eligible vote numbers.
ancianita
Monday
#57
Sure. I live in Florida and since covid, don't trust Florida's govt or RW universities. I use other sources.
ancianita
Monday
#74
Sorry, but as I patiently pointed out, not everyone who is over 18 can legally vote - e.g. non-citizens. a lot of felons
nmmi
Monday
#75
If you want the electorate population, you have to do the math as shown in my posts above.
ancianita
Monday
#76
Uh, err, you forgot that many felons can't vote. And the undocumented population is a subset of non-citizens
nmmi
Monday
#77
I do, too, since it's the bigger population that, divided into Trump votes, shows them as a percent of
ancianita
Monday
#58
Oh please. The NYT is ust about as complicit in not going after the 'weaving', white supremacist asshole that is tsrump.
brush
Monday
#63
Seems to me the NYT bashed Biden/Harris as much as you allege it declared trump unfit.
brush
Monday
#70
I still subscribe to the NYTimes because they have some great writers and reporters (and the crossword and games), but
LymphocyteLover
Monday
#65
Can you point at a single mainstream US newspaper whose priorities weren't "warped"?
maxsolomon
Monday
#69
I don't know. My local paper avoids partisan politics as much as they can. Seemed like the Philadelphia Enquirer
LymphocyteLover
Monday
#83
OMG yes! The people most under-represented in the media are regular sane Democrats like us!!!
LymphocyteLover
Monday
#64