the press is failing us — just when we need them the most

they’re ignoring what’s vital and wasting our time on frivolous shit

hey, remember when Joe Biden was old?

for a while there, it was the biggest story in America. you couldn’t pick up a newspaper — or turn on your TV — without hearing about how Joe Biden is old. so fucking old! ancient! how did this happen? how can someone be this old? how is he even still alive? so ollllld!!!

the press hounded Joe until he finally dropped out of the race. but here’s the thing: Joe Biden could have avoided all this controversy just by being A Very Special Boy, like Donny Convict is — because if you point out to any of the worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled media that Donny is old, too, you’re going to get an earful of well of course he is. so what? cut the guy some slack.

yesterday, the Daily Beast attempted to answer the question why is Donny holding so few hate-rallies?

the Beast expends 390 words on what to them is essentially a seven-word open-and-shut case: people get old, what’s the big deal?

What a difference eight years makes, especially at his age. Donald Trump is holding way fewer rallies than he did during his previous presidential runs, in part because he’s older and enjoys staying in at Mar-a-Lago.

gosh, Daily Beast — thanks for explaining that.

in the piece, there’s no mention of the fact that Donny is a demented old dotard who can no longer fill an auditorium — or get through a hate-rally without meandering through incoherent hallucinations about sharks and batteries and the late, great Hannibal Lecter. and we certainly get none of the oh my god, how can anyone this old lead a country hyperventilation that we got during any of the Joe must go hysteria.

all we get is a dry and uncritical recitation of here’s what a Trump Campaign spokesman told us — but the Beast did manage to end the piece with a gratuitous smack in the face to Harris and Walz.

Trump is also doing a bevy of non-rally events this year, Leavitt noted. He often does work-from-home TV and podcast appearances, as well as press conferences. In total, he and running mate JD Vance have done more than 70 such events, plus additional sit-downs with conservative commentators, while Harris and her running mate have done only a handful.

ohhh, Donny’s working from home. that’s some awesome fucking turd-polishing right there, Daily Beast.

Kamala and Tim don’t have time to hold fake press conferences — or hawk worthless “commemorative coins” from a golf motel — they’re too busy doing public events.

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after a weekend of poll after poll showing Kamala steadily widening her lead over Donny, the New York Times released numbers that had us all heading out to the ledge.

Voters across the Sun Belt say that Donald J. Trump improved their lives when he was president — and worry that a Kamala Harris White House would not — setting the stage for an extraordinarily competitive contest in three key states, according to the latest polls from The New York Times and Siena College.

the numbers don’t make one bit of sense. the Times wants us to believe that Donny’s disastrous debate resulted in a ten-point shift in Arizona — in his favor.

In Arizona … Mr. Trump is ahead, 50 percent to 45 percent, the poll found. A Times/Siena poll there in August found Ms. Harris leading by five percentage points.

seriously? Arizona’s voters were so overwhelmingly seduced by THEY’RE EATING THE DAWGS that they’re now solidly in Donny’s camp?

look, I’m not a math guy and I don’t know shit about polling methodology. put a gun to my head and I still couldn’t tell you what a crosstab is — but I do know when I’m being force-fed a narrative.

I don’t want to be one of these nitwits who rejects every piece of bad news as “fake” — that’s the other side’s thing — but don’t piss on my head and tell me it’s raining.

Times/Siena polls are famous for being out of whack. they’re consistent outliers.

here’s what Andrew Villeneuve wrote a year ago, about another set of screwy Times/Siena numbers.

Republican voters were oversampled in these polls

The word “oversampled” doesn’t appear in either Shane Goldmacher’s writeup of the poll results or Nate Cohn’s writeup. However, if you open the actual dataset, look through it, and read the endnotes, a key fact should become immediately apparent: Republican voters were oversampled in these polls.

It’s irresponsible of the NYT to not state this upfront in all of its coverage. This is an important design choice that they made, and it ought to be explained.

so please, everyone, come back off the ledge. one outlier poll does not a narrative make.

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here’s another big ball of who gives a shit from the Times.

evidently, in 2000, when Kamala was San Francisco’s assistant district attorney, Kimberly Gargoyle — of all people! — was looking for a job in the DA’s office and Kamala told her to fuck straight off.

Ms. Harris was an assistant district attorney in the city. Ms. Guilfoyle was in discussions to join the office. Ms. Harris was calling, according to Ms. Guilfoyle, to suggest there was no job for her there.

“She pretended to be a member of the hiring committee, which didn’t exist,” Ms. Guilfoyle said in a recent phone interview.

twenty four years later, the Times desperately wants this to be a scandal, and so they’ve dutifully typed up Gargoyle’s version of the story.

why? again — who gives a shit?

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the Washington Post can fuck all the way off.

seriously? “space czar?” how in the name of Buck Rogers is this an actual campaign issue? the author of the piece, by the way, is a Trump Administration toady. so yeah, fair and balanced.

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now, riddle me this: why is a Fox News reporter the only one asking Donny actual hard questions?

yesterday I wrote about Sharyl Attkisson holding Donny to account for his fascist plan to put women and children on busses and ship them off to detention camps.

speaking of that, did you know that Donny wants to give all migrants their own serial numbers?

pretty weird how every time Donny gets a wild idea, the Nazis did it first. just a coincidence, I’m sure. did anyone in the mainstream media even take note of this? nah.

but I digress. here’s another clip from that interview, and holy shit — check out Donny’s incoherent fever-swamp answer to Attkisson’s question, “what are the specific mechanics of how prices come down? you know, the steps that would be taken in a second term for you?”

“First of all, she can’t do an interview. She could never do this interview because you ask questions like give me a specific answer. She talks about her lawn when she was growing up. This woman is not equipped to be president. She’s not equipped to deal with President Xi, who I was very, I took in hundreds of billions of dollars with him and Putin. We had no war with Putin. Remember, and I’m just gonna go off just for this. With Bush, they took a lot. Russia. With Biden, they’re trying to take everything. With Obama, they took a lot. With Trump, Russia took nothing. Just remember that, you know, it’s a little, a little chart. But what happened? And when you look at what took place was so sad, when they took over, they cut the oil way down and oil started going through the roof. It was gonna go to $10 a gallon. It was gonna go to numbers that nobody’s ever seen. And so they went back to the Trump drilling, they said, ‘let it go back’. That was the only good thing. But they stopped because I would be there, but four years later, I would be triple what the number was. Right now they’re just about even where I was. But they only did that because of the fact that they eventually have an election coming up.”

“And you remember at the beginning what happened. That’s one of the reasons that Putin went in because it went to $100 a barrel instead of $40 a barrel. And he could fight all the wars he wants with those kind of numbers, cause he’s a big seller of oil and gas. So what happens is they went back to what I was doing, just said reopen. Just reopen. It wasn’t hard. It’s so crazy what they wanna do. They’re gonna destroy lives. They’re gonna destroy the, what they have done to this country. And especially in the sense of allowing millions and millions of people come in because that’s something, you know, we can fix the gasoline situation and we can fix the, anything.”

now check out Attkisson’s response, and get ready to pick your jaw up off the floor.

“do prices come down magically because it’s not them?”

again, why is Sharyl Attkisson the only reporter asking Donny to explain the specific mechanics of the half-baked bullshit he spews during his hate rallies? why is she the only reporter with the nerve to dismiss Donny’s word salad with a sarcastic quip?

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check out Handsy McPussygrabber at a hate-rally yesterday. try not cringe as you listen to his creepy message to women.

“I am your protector. I want to be your protector ... you will no longer be abandoned, lonely, or scared. you will no longer be in danger ... you will no longer be thinking about abortion”

adjudicated rapist says what?

could Donny be any more sinister sounding? this is some Norman Bates shit right there. I am your protector is what a deranged serial killer tells you before he chains you to a radiator in a dank basement.

at least twenty-six women have credibly accused Donny of sexual misconduct. I’m pretty sure that zero of them consider Donny a “protector of women.”

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finally, here’s another thing Donny did yesterday. at grocery store photo op, he pulled out a hundred-dollar bill and handed it to a prospective voter.

what a guy, huh? by the way, there’s a word for handing cash to a voter. that word is bribery. but it’s all in a day’s work for America’s Con-Artist-in-Chief.