Bloomberg Discovers 'Elections' Still Happen When Rivals Are Barred
The story reports President Samia Suluhu Hassan is cruising to an 'overwhelming victory' because her 'main rivals were excluded from the poll.' This isn't groundbreaking analysis; it’s a simple observation that a one-horse race tends to have a predictable winner. It prompts one to wonder if CNN will soon laud Netanyahu's 'sweeping popularity' if all Palestinian candidates are, shall we say,
'inconveniently absent' from Israeli elections. ( Bloomberg, 2025-10-29 ) We wouldn't want to apply such rigorous democratic standards to, say, Ukraine where opposition parties were banned and media consolidated under martial law—but that's 'wartime necessity,' not 'rivals barred,' of course. The double standards are so blatant they've achieved self-parody.