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No, they (or rather Greg Garrison) typed it up and hit the magic button.

Even when there still was a copy desk in Birmingham (I was a utility player split between them and the preps call center) we did not apply any of our corrections to the same story on AL.com. Those only got fixed if enough members of the public screamed about an obvious blunder.

Not long after they abolished the call center, the copy editing desk was fired en masse and those functions were nominally transferred to New Orleans. In reality all they did was design pages and hit send.

Now there is no more Birmingham News or Huntsville Times or Press-Register out of Mobile, so the online writers are on their own. For that matter, Newhouse doesn’t even own the Times-Picayune any more.

 

That’s an excellent editorial — thanks for sharing.

He zeros in on how Trump’s immigration and tariff policies would be devastating to farming communities in Eastern Oregon, then finishes with the lies and moral failures of Drumpf. Is this the person we want leading our hard-working citizens, our retirees and veterans, our children? Absolutely not!

 

Truly, newspapers and other outlets could do what the guy did for Malheur County and spell it out clearly, plainly and with data (in some cases) showing what could, might, will, possibly happen.

And some voters still will say "Don't care, that's just media bullshit or whatever. I'd rather have him than her and deal with it."

Of course, in 2-3 years when they're struggling and need help, or there's a drought or fires or locusts or Big Whatever is squeezing them, and he ignores them because he doesn't give two fucks about anyone else, they can count on that "she didn't win!" feeling to tide them over.

 

Something else about that Malheur Enterprise editorial: the publisher wrote it in an area that's almost all MAGA people, who worship Trump. That area of Oregon will give at least 75% of its votes to Trump next week. But the editor/publisher of that weekly newspaper wrote the editorial anyway.

Take note, Washington Post and LA Times ...

 

Someone else noted that the last Dodgers world championship happened right before Donald Trump lost an election.

It's also worth noting, perhaps, that in 1988, the Dodgers won a World Series after a thrilling Game 1 walkoff, clinching in Game 5 on the road, and then the sitting vice president was elected president.

 

Yankees lost in 1964 and a (former) VP won....and lost in 1976 and a Dem won...same as in 1960. The Yankees have never lost a World Series the same year the GOP won the WH.

 

It’s not a secret the trump plan will obliterate the economy. People who know better will vote for him anyway. It’s insanity.

 

And the number of people who have kids and grandkids who are bound and fucking determined to vote this cancer back into office, virtually guaranteeing their loved ones will have a worse life than they need to have.

 

So this conversation happened last night at a relative's.

My wife is filling out her ballot.
Teenage nephew: "What are you doing."
Wife: "Filling out my election ballot."
Nephew: "Why are you doing that?"
Wife: "Because I'm a woman, I can vote and I'm voting for Harris for president."


20-year-old neice: "I'm not voting because I don't want to be wrong. I just don't want to be wrong."
Neice's mom: "I'm not voting for that cow."
Wife: "I think she's better than the alternative."
Neice's mom: "I'm not voting for that guy either. I probably won't vote."

It went on a little as my wife tried to explain why she was voting for her.
Neice had no clue as to what the GOP planned or had done. I'm not even sure if she knew Roe versus Wade had been overturned

I sat quietly as my wife expertly explained.
Then I sat sort of disgusted at the apathy and ignorance.

 

It’s going to take having a kid or a grandchild in an iron lung for them to realize that maybe the polio vaccine is a good idea. Or maybe not. They’ll just blame a polio resurgence to some “other” - immigrants, Jews, Black people, etc.

 

Like I told my brother, "You don't care what kind of world your grandson grows up in, so long as we don't have another brown person in the White House."

We don't talk anymore.

 

The people who proudly say "I don't vote" are the ones that just kill me. Even more than Trumpers.

I really am hoping the arc of the moral universe bends a little sharper over the next week. I'm probably emotionally prepared for a Trump win, disgusted by it, but will take comfort that all Americans (including those who voted for him) will share in the catastrophic next four years. And knowing that those who think they have "deals" with Trump, will likely get screwed over. That as he grows more and more decrepit conservative media will continue to debase themselves with their servitude.

But I am optimistic. Harris isn't pulling out of any states. Trump's "its rigged" rhetoric makes me think he knows he's going to lose decisively. The last few election cycles have shown polls to have overestimated Republican support. Harris doesn't seem to be freaking out.