#presidential endorsement

[aanews69]

Immerse yourself in a shocking twist of political allegiances as we delve into the unexpected shift in union politics. In a riveting turn, the mighty Teamste...

[isawthismeme]

Nicky Jam removed his endorsement!

[mutopians]

before we get an official announcement on who is replacing biden as the nominee, im just going to put this out there: do not mess this up. i don't care how little you like politics. i don't care if this new nominee isn't your first choice.

our alternative is trump. third party splits the votes, and abstaining is just going to fuck the entire united states over. your vote (AND support) matters, and i better see anyone who doesn't want trump to be elected and the United States to become a fascist, authoritarian regime throwing their full support behind this new nominee.

we have three months to go. we're in crunch time. if you don't want to lose your rights, support this new nominee with everything you've got.

edit: just in case this somehow wasn't obvious, this is NOT the post to be a pessimist on. don't say we're fucked. say TRUMP is fucked. we can't go back and change the nomination timeline, but we can absolutely support our new nominee and ensure they get elected.

[ferdifz]

Reverse psychology...

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(A speculative yet baseless suspicion of intent)

“Obviously” the other billionaires are just afraid of retaliatory Leon. Or are angling for that Donnie tax break, based on a historically unreliable promise.

Like yeah sure Jeff Bezos is historically afraid of Elon Musk. Or Jeff Bezos historically believes Finals Trump's promises. Does that sound right?

Or, Jeff Bezos fears the stupidity of voting Americans?

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Anyways yeah naah man, you don't want billionaires to tell you how to think or how to vote. That's sketchy as hell.

[trendynewsnow]

LA Times Editorial Board Head Resigns Over Presidential Endorsement Controversy

Resignation of LA Times Editorial Board Head Over Presidential Endorsement Controversy The head of The Los Angeles Times’s editorial board, Mariel Garza, announced her resignation on Wednesday following a controversial decision made by the newspaper’s owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, to suppress a planned presidential endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris. In an interview with The Columbia…

[davidaugust]

Harrison Ford Endorses Kamala Harris

[contemplatingoutlander]

It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president

Isn’t this what a newspaper is supposed to do?

I love that The Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri took it upon herself to endorse Harris for her paper after Bezos pulled the plug on the editorial board doing so. This is a gift🎁link, so feel free to read the entire article. Below are some excerpts:

The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! [...] But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny.  [...] Well, that world [the baby will be born into] will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! [...] I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself! [color/ emphasis added]

How far The Washington Post has fallen into the "darkness" it used to work so hard to ward off to help keep our democracy alive.

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[dawnsiren]

Fun Fact: the pic Taylor Swift used in her endorsement post?

Not only is it with her cat, to diss Vance

That picture? That’s from her TIMES Person Of The Year article!! That Trump was super pissed and jealous about lmao

[ryansmokeshow]

Hey guys it's Ryan and I have an important message for you. I know you guys don't follow me for politics but it's a big issue and it's really important to me this year. I don't care if anyone doesn't like this political post because I know I'll regret it forever if I don't make it. I'm a blue collar hard working American guy and I fully 100% endorse Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for President and Vice President this year. I have been really scared and depressed about the possible outcome of Trump winning again and I hope you guys take into consideration that Trump is an evil man with ideas to ruin this country. I hope you guys heed my plea and vote a Democratic ticket because it's time to put country over party and elect Harris-Walz. Thank you for reading this guys. Please vote blue 2024!

[aunti-christ-ine]

[tomorrowusa]

Tuesday night was not good to Donald Trump. First he loses the debate....

Debate Disaster: Trump’s Seething, Unhinged, Incoherent Onstage Meltdown

...then Taylor Swift endorses Kamala and Tim.

‘I’ve Made My Choice’: Taylor Swift Endorses Kamala Harris for President

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[m-a-d-e-l-e-i-n-e]

This is why I hate group projects

[thashining]

Kamala Harris, will protect your right to disagree with her

[justinspoliticalcorner]

The choice for president has seldom been starker. On one side is Donald Trump, a felonious and twice-impeached conman, raring to finish off the job of dismantling American democracy. On the other is Kamala Harris, a capable and experienced leader who stands for traditional democratic principles. Nevertheless – and shockingly – the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have decided to sit this one out. Both major news organizations, each owned by a billionaire, announced this week that their editorial boards would not make a presidential endorsement, despite their decades-long traditions of doing so. There’s no other way to see this other than as an appalling display of cowardice and a dereliction of their public duty. At the Los Angeles Times, the decision rests clearly with Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the ailing paper in 2018, raising great hopes of a resurgence there. At the Post (where I was the media columnist from 2016 to 2022), the editorial page editor David Shipley said he owned the decision, but it clearly came from above – specifically from the publisher, Will Lewis, the veteran of Rupert Murdoch’s media properties, hand-picked last year by the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos. Was Bezos himself the author of this abhorrent decision? Maybe not, but it could not have come as a surprise. All of this may look like nonpartisan neutrality, or be intended to, but it’s far from that. For one thing, it’s a shameful smackdown of both papers’ reporting and opinion-writing staffs who have done important work exposing Trump’s dangers for many years. It’s also a strong statement of preference. The papers’ leaders have made it clear that they either want Trump (who is, after all, a boon to large personal fortunes) or that they don’t wish to risk the ex-president’s wrath and retribution if he wins. If the latter was a factor, it’s based on a shortsighted judgment, since Trump has been a hazard to press rights and would only be emboldened in a second term. [...] Some news organizations upheld their duty and remained true to their mission. The New York Times endorsed Harris last month, calling her “the only patriotic choice for president”, and writing that Trump “has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest”. The Guardian, too, strongly endorsed Harris, saying she would “unlock democracy’s potential, not give in to its flaws”, and calling Trump a “transactional and corrupting politician”.

Margaret Sullivan at The Guardian on the cowardly abdication of the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times by refusing to endorse a Presidential candidate (10.25.2024).

The egregious and cowardly actions done by both the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times deciding to sit out the Presidential endorsements process this election is craven and cowardly, as both papers were set to endorse Kamala Harris (D). Even the New York Times, for all their faults, got it right by endorsing Kamala Harris.

[theblsckdog]

Taylor Swift you will ALWAYS have my support, i will never doubt you.

i've never charged anything from her unlike the swifties who NEVER give her the benefit of the doubt, i knew she would support Kamala, it was very obvious and if you didn't expect that from her i'm sorry to break that to you but we're not fans of the same person.

im so glad that i haven't been with false moralism here or on Twitter, as well with the issue of Austria, i just waited for the right moment and she positioned herself as she did with Kamala. people need to stop being so immediate, just learn to wait and live.

she's still the same person as she was and she stands with the same principles and that's not defined by who her friends are or who she's dating.