Jeff JarvisJun 29, 2024
In the ever-more noxious New York Times, Jamelle Bouie is the singular voice of sanity, context, and intelligence, here defending each against the onslaught of Times columnists looking for blood. Skip over everybody else and read him. Gift link.
h/t @CartyBoston https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/opinion/biden-democrats-debate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U0.FAfj._t38zHh8bpfy&smid=em-share
Opinion | ‘Is It Too Late?’ Four Writers on What Democrats Should Do About Biden.

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Show threadJeff Jarvis
.@jbouie: "I’ll be the fly in the ointment of this emerging consensus that Biden should drop out. I don’t think one has to excuse or apologize for the president’s poor debate performance to also observe that the hyperventilating panic obscures the extent to which there are serious, perhaps fatal downsides to Biden leaving the race at this stage."
Jun 29, 2024 at 11:37amWeb
Show threadJeff JarvisJun 29, 2024
Bouie: "But why, exactly, should Harris step aside? Why should Harris not be considered the presumptive nominee on account of her service as vice president and her presence on the 2020 ticket? And should Harris be muscled out, how does this affect a new nominee’s relationship with key parts of the Democratic base, specifically those Black voters for whom Harris’s presence on the ticket was an affirmation of Biden’s political commitment to their communities?"
Show threadMike CermJun 29, 2024
@jeffjarvis Whatever deficiencies Kamala has a candidate can be remedied by her choice of running mate, just as she had done for Biden. Put Buttigieg on the ticket, send him over to Fox News to do hour-long interviews every week between now and November. Problem solved. Because there was not a contested primary, there's no way the party could possibly dump Harris at the convention without catastrophic revolt.
Show threadMargaret MayerJun 29, 2024
@MikeCerm @jeffjarvis 🤮🤢
Show threadVincent Van DinskyJun 29, 2024
@jeffjarvis
Correct answer:
Bouie: If I had to bet actual money, I think Biden stays in and a month from now the race is largely unchanged from where it was on Wednesday.
Show threadMessagingMattersJun 29, 2024
@jeffjarvis @jbouie It’s not an emerging consensus. It’s a combination mainstream media parlor game, and concern trolling.
Show threadShoqJun 29, 2024
@jeffjarvis @jbouie For years, the @nytimes has enabled Trump and MAGAs with their insipid focus on “both sides” that makes its intellectual integrity entirely suspect. But now they step up and try to manipulate the Democratic party and ensure they lose in November. The Times is now a true enemy of the people.
Show threadLenoraJun 29, 2024
@shoq @jeffjarvis @jbouie @nytimes I agree
Show threadDimplesJun 29, 2024

@jeffjarvis @jbouie the value of learning the game of chess is that you not only have to anticipate your opponents next move, you need to think in complex terms about how each move alters the play on the board.
Great players can game out entire games within a game to suss out a win no matter what move they make.

Politics is the biggest chess game on the planet.

Show threadGrandpa DonJun 29, 2024

@jeffjarvis @jbouie

To Media:
FUCK
THE
"EMERGING
CONSENSUS"

Start covering trump like the dire fucking threat he is. Lying fascist sacks of shit, in the bag with SCOTUS, Putin.
We are gonna need a goddamned revolution.