“It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest. He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities – wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline – that he most lacks,” the New York Times editorial board writes in an urgent plea to those tempted to unsubscribe after a period of increasingly stupid fecklessness and both-siderism aimed at quelling right wing fury that will never actually be quelled, no matter how much of the remaining goodwill from their actual readers they’ve pointlessly incinerated to the benefit of no one.

And STILL these fuckers lead into their endorsement with a qualified “For this reason, regardless of any political disagreements voters might have with her, Kamala Harris is the only patriotic choice for president” and “She may not be the perfect candidate for every voter, especially those who are frustrated and angry about our government’s failures to fix what’s broken – from our immigration system to public schools to housing costs to gun violence. Yet we urge Americans to contrast Ms Harris’s record with her opponent’s,” before finally getting to “There is also an optimistic case for elevating her, one that is rooted in her policies and borne out by her experience as vice president, a senator and a state attorney general” in the eighth paragraph of their subscriber retention piece.