Post AkKRTQnF3BdIAbNvaC by tb@tldr.nettime.org
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 (DIR) Post #AkKRTQnF3BdIAbNvaC by tb@tldr.nettime.org
       2024-07-26T16:33:49Z
       
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       It’s barely been FIVE days since Biden stepped down, and there’s no way on earth that Harris could have accomplished more. Yet the NYT’s lead editorial insists “she needs to do more, and she needs to do it quickly.” Um, like what? “Ms. Harris ought to challenge Mr. Trump to a series of debates or town halls,” they say — as if the problem was her failure to do so rather than Trump ricocheting between sawed-off insults, beaten-bully threats, and desperate efforts to moonwalk out of debates? If their editorial was honest, it’d say, “Donald, sit down, shut up, and grow the fuck up.”This points to how and why the NYT *needed* to pretend away the jaw-droppingest moment in a jaw-dropping week: the Harris campaign’s statement that used actual words that actually mean something to describe Trump. The NYT’s shadowplay election “journalism” depends, utterly, on the Dems doing the same: pretending Trump is real, pretending the GOP aren’t fascists, pretending hopelessly stacked decks are fair, pretending corruption is legitimate. If indeed the Harris campaign continues, whether consistently or just occasionally, to call Trump what he is, the NYT will *have* to cover it — but doing so risks having to address their own real complicity.We’ll see. Note that I haven’t said one good word about Harris. I’ve never liked her as a politician, and her record is SUPER problematic. But whether you, I, or anyone else “like” non-fascists (a) is a luxury we can no longer afford, and (b) was always a pretty bankrupt way to think about politics anyway. Harris has my absolute, unequivocal support, and she will until *she* is sitting in the Oval Office and Trump is not — and is on his way to jail.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkKRTRwqkwudkgt7CK by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2024-07-26T17:01:18Z
       
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       @tb We should set our sights high -- get her in office, then think about 2028, and preemptively prepare for a union-driven general strike in May 2028. That gives the dems time to get their shit together. And fucking hold them to it.https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/shawn-fain-uaw-organizing-national-strike/https://wdet.org/2023/11/06/uaw-president-shawn-fain-calls-on-other-auto-worker-unions-to-align-contract-expiration-dates/https://inthesetimes.com/article/may-day-2028-general-strike-working-classhttps://www.aft.org/resolution/supporting-uaws-call-align-contract-expirations-may-1