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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 236 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Once Biden stepped aside and endorsed Harris, Trump's entire campaign strategy was upended, making him the oldest candidate on the campaign trail and exposing faults in his logic.

Wtf, "exposing faults in his logic"? Why do the media continue to do everything they can to portray Trump as a reasonable man making logical plans for how best to govern?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 75 points 6 days ago (47 children)
[–] Lon3star@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago

Just like the LA Times owner refusing to let the Editors endorse Harris

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A combination of "The owner of the company is a right winger" and "We need to make both sides look equally incompetent, even when one side is shitting himself and the other side has actual policy."

Used to it was just the latter, now we also have the former.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Hey now, to be fair it's just "persistent anal leakage".

Looking forward to MAGA folks bringing patriotic Chinese-made black butt towels to his rallies.

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[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Hoping if he wins they won't be "cancelled" as a free press?

[–] Zolidus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Do you mean Drowsy Donald?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 64 points 6 days ago

Saved you a click: they shared the video of him nodding off but added a lullaby.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 88 points 6 days ago (5 children)

OK so I don’t have Twitter and I have social media blocked basically so I wanted to see the ad, right? I went to YouTube to pull it up.

It was really bizarre - if you search for “Harris ad trump sleeping” you get about 100 - OK 20 of the exact same clip from any number of local TV stations (most of the Fox) where Trump claims Harris is sleeping. And one - exactly one - MSNBC clip, which runs for 12 minutes talking about “exhausted” trump, and doesn’t even show the Harris ad. The Harris ad did not appear in the search at all.

Now I’m not “signed in“ there, I don’t have cookies or anything so I’m just some random browser showing up asking to see the Harris ad and seeing 90% Trump ads.

I don’t know what else going on at YouTube, other than it’s awful and worse than ever, and appears to be subsumed with Trump crap.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I tried finding the Harris interview on Fox there, and just like you, there were so many videos uploaded by randos that could have easily been manipulated, so I just went to the actual Faux website to watch it. Google wants Trump to win so they can buy their way to total dominance.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Not just that, but I was watching some video about i dunno, some kinda hardware, or something - nothing even particularly recent or popular - and the comments underneath it were so obviously and horribly bots. They all used the exact same words, they all used the exact same phrasing, and they all had different user names. Just one after the other, probably 100 of them

So I think YouTube has abandoned attempts to make it good - or even usable - probably for profit reasons. Enter russia4trump

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Basically in the same situation as you, but I follow a mastodon clone of the KamalaHQ xitter account. If I share the mastodon link, it takes you to the xitter post to watch the video, but in the mastodon app, it plays directly.

FWIW: https://bird.makeup/users/kamalahq/statuses/1848764783132053811

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

YouTube did this the last TWO elections. They always show Trump stuff. Even when I'm signed in, they show me Trump stuff.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Every comicsands.com post is just a chain of orange, "Privacy Badger has replaced this X (Twitter) widget" boxes for me.

Thanks Privacy Badger. Do better Comicsands.

[–] JWBananas@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (8 children)

The video was a tweet. You won't find it searching for an ad. It was embedded in the article.

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[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have occasional narcoleptic spells. I'll just nod off for a few seconds at a time.

But I'm not running for president while pretending that I'm the healthiest person to ever have been healthy.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't sound narcoleptic to me. That sounds very normal.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean, if it's a one-off thing, sure, but I'll suddenly spent an hour of my afternoon fighting off mini-naps at work

[–] Deadful@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Sleep technologist with 18y experience here.

I don't mean to nitpick, but you're likely just sleep deprived. You probably don't get enough sleep or the quality of your sleep just isn't very good because of an issue like sleep apnea. When your sleep sucks, a simple bump in blood sugar from lunch is enough to throw you into a neck-breaking tailspin. The more you know... 🌠

Huh

Bloody hell, from making a joke to actual advice. Sleep quality might be the issue, because I've tried various sleep lengths, no caffeine, no hectic stimulation or all the other advice you'll read online. I'll have that checked out. Thanks for the tip!

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[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sleepy Don.

So many lawsuits would drain anyone.

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[–] karl_chungus@lemm.ee 46 points 6 days ago
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

LOL remember when Sleepy Joe was the decrepit old man challenging young, virile Rambo Trump?

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

There will forever be conspiracies about how Biden always planned on being a one-term president and was never serious about winning the nomination.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That poopy diaper is so nice and warm it puts you right to sleep.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How dare you make me visualize that

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago
[–] buycurious@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

She should hit Trump back with some nicknames like what Trump does to other people.

Sleepy Don. Meatball Don.

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