The first step for the candidates running in next year’s California Senate race is to quietly try to spook newly appointed Sen. Laphonza Butler into not running at all.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    There is a better chance of aliens landing on my front lawn, knocking on my door, and telling me I won the publishers clearing house than there is of Kamala Harris winning a presidential election.

    This is true only if you’re stuck inside the Twitter bubble and refuse to step outside into real life

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      1 year ago

      I think you’re confusing me for you because:

      • I’m not a Twitter / X user

      • I actually understand the state of American politics, and accept the reality that pandering to normie/centrist/independent political ideology is what wins elections

      • I care more about moving this country forward than virtue signaling about having a female president

      • I understand how uncharismatic and unpopular Kamala Harris was/is/will continue to be

      I actually cannot understand how someone could be so blind to reality. Hillary Clinton already tried to play queen maker on her own behalf while being a historically unpopular candidate because she thought she was OWED her turn in line.

      In the process she propped up Donald Trump as a spoiler candidate, rigged the DNC against Bernie Sanders, and fucked this country into the timeline we have been stuck in for the last (almost) decade.

      I’m not laughing because I know this brand of identity politics camouflaged as faux progressivism leads to failure. I care about political results in the real world, and if you think I’m the one in the bubble you need to wake up and smell the napalm.