Is anyone on here REALLY voting for Kamala ? Why should I vote for Kamala?
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If you have investments then when wall street wins, you win too.
You do know Cornell west is also on the ballot.Niggas at Trump rallies like..
“I’m not one of THEM! I’m a GOOD black!”
"Give me control over a nations currency, I care not who makes its laws." -- Mayer A. Rothchild [i.e. Rothschild]
Words don't hurt me. Do they hurt you Kamala coon?
ok...so...what....you flipped a coin or something?
Statement couldn’t be further from the truth
how many critical endorsements did trump lose???Not a good look
Not they, "at the last minute Soon-Shiong overruled its leadership and said there would be no endorsement in the primary race"
Not a good look
I had to do a double take..
Washington Times?? No, that's the right-wing publication
LA Times, thats the liberal one.
Obviously from my posts on this thread, I'm no Kamala supporter.
But I don't hate her.
How could the LA Times not endorse her??
What the hell is going on.
Weird right bro? At least we know where Trump stands right?I had to do a double take..
Washington Times?? No, that's the right-wing publication
LA Times, thats the liberal one.
Obviously from my posts on this thread, I'm no Kamala supporter.
But I don't hate her.
How could the LA Times not endorse her??
What the hell is going on.
Who's the new owner of the L.A Times? A South African born billionaire who cozied up to Cheeto in his first term...
sound familiar?
Nah this one ain't the electric asshole Apartheid Clyde...he's Patrick soon-shiong the Billionaire son of Chinese immigrants born in South Africa...interesting right?
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Not a good look
I had to do a double take..
Washington Times?? No, that's the right-wing publication
LA Times, thats the liberal one.
Obviously from my posts on this thread, I'm no Kamala supporter.
But I don't hate her.
How could the LA Times not endorse her??
What the hell is going on.
The owner of the Los Angeles Times has blocked the paper from endorsing a candidate for president this year.
Last week, the LA Times published its electoral endorsements for the 2024 election. And while the paper noted in its first line that it is “no exaggeration to say this may be the most consequential election in a generation,” that was the only mention of the presidential race in its endorsements.
The paper’s editorial board, which has endorsed Democratic candidates in every presidential race since it first endorsed then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, was preparing to do so once again this election.
But according to two people familiar with the situation, executive editor Terry Tang told editorial board staff earlier this month that the paper would not be endorsing a candidate in the presidential election this cycle, a decision that came from the paper’s owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a doctor who made his fortune in the healthcare industry.
The paper did not explain its decision, though it noted at the bottom of its online endorsement page that “the editorial board endorses selectively, choosing the most consequential races in which to make recommendations.”
An LA Times spokesperson told Semafor, “We do not comment on internal discussions or decisions about editorials or endorsements.”
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It wouldn’t be the first time since he bought the paper in 2018 that owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong had overruled the wishes of the paper’s editorial board. In 2020, the paper met with Democratic candidates for president for interviews with the intention of making a pick in the race. But after deciding to endorse Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic presidential primary, at the last minute Soon-Shiong overruled its leadership and said there would be no endorsement in the primary race (the paper endorsed Joe Biden in the general election).The paper also raised eyebrows over several local endorsements it made in recent election cycles of candidates supported by Soon-Shiong’s daughter Nika, whose progressive politics on racial justice and the war in Gaza have at some points heartened and emboldened some on staff and and other points caused friction. At the time, the paper told Politico that there was no involvement from Nika Soon-Shiong in the endorsements.
Still, it wouldn’t be the first time that the LA Times has declined to endorse candidates in a presidential general election. From the mid-1970s until 2008, the paper declined to endorse any presidential candidates following internal dissent over the decision to endorse Richard Nixon for reelection months after the Watergate break in, a decision the publisher Otis Chandler said he later came to regret. Before that, the Times had a near century-long streak of Republican presidential endorsements dating back to the paper’s founding in 1881.
Notable
- Patrick Soon-Shiong is a South African and American businessman, investor, medical researcher, philanthropist, and transplant surgeon. He is the inventor of the drug Abraxane, which became known for its efficacy against lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer. He was portrayed as a brilliant, boundary-pushing inventor and businessman in a New Yorker profile published after he bought the paper.
- Tensions between the paper’s owner and its staffed peaked in 2022.
- The former editor of the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Merida, left after clashing with the Soon-Shiong about a dog bite that involved a friend of the owner.
Who is Nika Soon-Shiong
Nika Soon-Shiong, the daughter of the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, has been thrust into the spotlight recently for her activism while grumbled about privately by some senior staffers over her informal role as “special advisor” to the paper, where she’s been focusing on newsroom diversity and its coverage of criminal justice issues.
While Oxford University’s 2022-23 academicterm begins October 9, Soon-Shiong’s term as a member of WeHo’s Public Safety Commission is not set to expire until February. She was appointed to the panel in September by the city’s outgoing councilmember, Lindsey Horvath—who later won an endorsement from the Times Editorial Board in her campaign to succeed Sheila Kuehl on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors.
While the paper’s editorial board insists that it operates independently, its endorsement of other Soon-Shiong-supported candidates has raised eyebrows in some quarters of the paper. “I think there’s a general sense around here that she has pushed the paper steadily leftward even though she doesn’t have an official position here,” says a veteran Times editor. The complaints reached a fever pitch in April with the Editorial Board at the paper’s surprise endorsement of Kenneth Mejia, the 31-year-old dark-horse candidate for L.A. city controller who has drawn criticism for publicly defending Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad against charges that he gassed his own people and his 2020 branding on Twitter of Joe Biden as a rapist.
Nika, the elder of the two-sibling Soon-Shiong family, has made no secret of her own political opinions, occasionally issuing critical tweets about Times stories and reporters that fall short of her standards. The Stanford grad and one-time consultant to the World Bank Group recently helped convince a 3-2 majority of the WeHo City Council to support a proposal that will divert $3.6 million from the sheriff's budget, urging the Council to make an example of the LASD on behalf of all “opaque, inefficient and unaccountable law enforcement agencies” in L.A.
The council’s vote to replace five armed Sheriff’s deputies with dozens of unarmed, blue-shirted “security ambassadors'' prompted sharp criticism from pro-police elements in the city, who pointed to reports that the city’s crime rate has grown by 38% in the past year. George Nickle, the captain of the Eastside Neighborhood Watch Group and 17-year West Hollywood resident, trashed her proposal to cut as many as 10 deputies from the local station, dubbing Soon-Shiong the “WeHo Ivanka.”
In response, Horvath, who shares Soon-Shiong’s view of law enforcement reform, characterized such criticism of her appointee as “rooted in racism, sexism, and othering of people in the community who had a different point of view.”
sounds like the daughter has daddy's ear...
@5:20 woman doesn’t make sense, Trump will do the same as Biden/Harris and blindly support Israel.
People will continue dying over there.
I thought they would mostly vote third party, etc Jill Stein, or not vote.
No surprise. All those dark-skinned foreigners will do anything to undermine us and distance themselves from their skin tone.
Undermine you? Cant they just be mad about Biden-Harris allowing Israel to genocide without pushback?
So much bullshit here it's ridiculous. That old man has spent his whole life getting punked and pussified by Chaldeans and Arabs in Michigan and is scared to fight back.
As far as the video, there are core issues that were highlighted here:
- Cultural conservatism - I'm sorry for the BGOL alphabet crew, but LGBTQ/feminism/abortion and all that shit does not fly with many people of immigrant backgrounds, especially Islamic. It really doesn't fly in the real Black community either; it's just that GOP racism is seen as a greater threat.
- War and genocide in Palestine (and Lebanon) - that shit really ramped up under Biden, as as that woman said, she's a one-issue voter when it comes to that. People seeing Israel go buckwild with no consequences. Now, would it or will it be the same under Trump? It probably will, as the Zionist lobby heavily influences both sides.
Yeah vote Trump. I have my popcorn ready to watch as they cry while their cousins and aunties are getting murdered by Israel.
Isn't that what is happening now under Biden???
Yes, but the only reason Israel has not committed worst war crimes is because Biden threatened to stop giving them weapons. Trump would do the opposite. It's not perfect and the US will help Israel regardless of who is in power but at least the Dems are more sympathetic to civilian casualties.
Go on, explain.