• @Rapidcreek
    link
    383 months ago

    Kamala Harris is getting support from every major Democratic constituency — from progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren to establishment types like Hillary Clinton to moderates like Rep. Josh Gottheimer. There is no real opening for a rival.

      • @Rapidcreek
        link
        203 months ago

        Matter of fact it is very democratic. It’s called a coalition of members. Performative whining doesn’t matter.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        153 months ago

        The convention will be open, none of the delegates are obligated to anyone anymore. Marianne Williamson just won’t get any of them because her campaign has been a joke from start to finish.

      • @jj4211
        link
        63 months ago

        It’s as close as they can get under the circumstances.

        In 2020, they picked Biden and by extension his choice in running mate during primaries. In the general election, people voted for Biden with Harris. If Harris was an unacceptable “almost president”, the voters had chances during the general election in 2020 and again in the 2024 primaries.

        The democratic approach formally declares that Biden gets to pick the president, and he picks Harris.

        • @Cryophilia
          link
          63 months ago

          “truth” as in “truth social” lol

          • @HomerianSymphony
            link
            03 months ago

            No, they’re right. The Democrat voter base wasn’t enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton in 2016, partly because they felt she had gone through a coronation rather than a proper primary. Democrats like to be involved in the process of picking the nominee, and they chafe when they feel the process isn’t fair.

            It would be better for Kamala Harris if she has a legitimate competitor and has to go through a debate or two.

            Harris is a good debater. She should be fine.

            • @jordanlundM
              link
              33 months ago

              You’re going to get heat for using the Fox phrasing “Democrat” instead of “Democratic”, but I get where you’re coming from. :)

              If the DNC phrases this as another “Her Turn” election, she’s done.

        • @return2ozmaOP
          link
          -263 months ago

          It’s no longer about democracy. It’s just politics as a team sport now.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    313 months ago

    She has zero political experience, biggest claim is being attached to Oprah, and several claims of toxic environment which led to her campaign manager leaving. She doesn’t have a good poll turnout. Zero chance.

    • @HomerianSymphony
      link
      -15
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      several claims of toxic environment which led to her campaign manager leaving

      They say that about every female politician, including Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris.

      Heaven forbid that a woman raise her voice sometimes.

          • @HomerianSymphony
            link
            2
            edit-2
            3 months ago

            Her campaign was collapsing anyway because it wasn’t doing well and they were running out of money. I suspect that was the bigger issue.

        • @HomerianSymphony
          link
          1
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          Just google “politician abusive to staff” and count how many women pop up on the first page of results.

          No one cares if a man raises his voice to his staff. When a woman does it, it becomes tabloid and blog fodder.

          Men particularly feel indignant if a female boss chastises them.

      • @lennybird
        link
        English
        33 months ago

        I’m just waiting for Jill Stein and Tulsi Gabbard to quickly switch parties, too.

        Also, fuck Joe Manchin.

      • @HomerianSymphony
        link
        03 months ago

        She’s running in a Democratic primary. It’s not possible for her to take votes away from the Democrats.

      • @HomerianSymphony
        link
        43 months ago

        They call her crystal lady, but she’s more of a “power of positive thinking” lady.

        She says she’s never even owned a crystal.

        • @Dkarma
          link
          13 months ago

          She’s wearing rings…

    • @Linkerbaan
      link
      -243 months ago

      Non Zionist Democrat that Democrats have been trying to get off the ballot.

  • @Ensign_Crab
    link
    English
    123 months ago

    Marianne, you got tarred as a nutjob in 2020. That’s not going away, no matter how unfair it may be.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      163 months ago

      I love how up until yesterday, they posted about every poll like it was decree, and today, polls be damned, Oprah’s spiritual advisor needs a shot.

      Honestly though, I do hope it’s an open convention, even though Harris looks like she’s got backing from all angles.

      • @Ensign_Crab
        link
        English
        83 months ago

        Oh, Williamson can try. I don’t begrudge her. She’s just not gonna win because she’s seen as the nutjob and has been since 2020.

        • Twinklebreeze
          link
          113 months ago

          Is she not? I remember her being pretty nutty.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            83 months ago

            Yeah she kinda cray cray.

            I’ll be blunt: I don’t want someone who thinks “crystal energy fields” are a thing anywhere near the nuclear football. It was harrowing enough having the orange nutjob in charge of it for 4 years.

            • @HomerianSymphony
              link
              1
              edit-2
              3 months ago

              She says she’s never even owned a crystal, and the whole “crystal lady” thing is a media smear.

              None of her books say anything about crystals.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                63 months ago

                Ok, I’ll be more blunt:

                I don’t think a “spiritual advisor” has appropriate or pertinent experience to lead anything outside of a spiritual or religious organization.

                • @HomerianSymphony
                  link
                  13 months ago

                  That’s not the only thing on her résumé. Back in the ‘80s, she formed a charity for people with AIDS called Project Angel Food, and a lot of her support today comes from gay men who remember Project Angel Food.

                  Project Angel Food is still running today, but Williamson is no longer involved.

  • @jordanlundM
    link
    13 months ago

    This just in… Delusional candidate is… still delusional.

    The only candidacy that could be stopped by medication in the correct doses.

  • @gAlienLifeform
    link
    -2
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Unless there’s a plan to hold fifty primary votes between Harris and Williamson and anyone else in the next few weeks, pass. I think Marianne would make a great president, but I don’t like party nominees being chosen by delegates at the convention at the last second, it’s not democratic.

    Of course, there is a lot about the last three Democratic primaries that weren’t democratic, but at this point that’s a problem for 2028.

    e; actually, it’s probably a problem for 2026

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    -433 months ago

    There needs to be an open convention. NO one voted for Harris as President, assuming the job is hers is usurping the democratic election process. I could have sworn we were told we need to elect a democrat to preserve democracy

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      413 months ago

      The party candidate selection process has nothing to do with Democracy.

      The parties themselves have nothing to do with democracy. There’s nothing in the constitution about Democrats or Republicans, or their parties.

      All the parties are is a group of people that agree to put one name forward for their candidate. How they choose the candidate is entirely up to them, it didn’t used to be done via state wide primaries, it used to just be a bunch of old dudes at a convention picking someone.

      The democracy part is that anyone is allowed to put their name on the ballot for president if they meet the basic criteria, usually a minimum number of voter signatures and a filing fee. This is done for each state they want their name to be on the ballot for.

      • @grue
        link
        English
        03 months ago

        I mean, that’s not entirely true: the Democrats and Republicans have privileged positions with regards to ballot access, debate planning, etc.

        If the parties were truly private organizations, there would be no such thing as primaries, let alone ones administered by the state government on their behalf.

        That’s not to say I agree with the disinformation trolls, though: right now is very much not the time to bitch about the system because that only serves to help the fascists.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        -43 months ago

        You are legally correct, and morally wrong. If we had ranked choice voting it would be an entirely different situation.

        As long as we are trapped in a two party system this is entirely unacceptable and frankly just cause for revolution.

        I find it both hilarious and infuriating how supporters of the Democratic establishment make this argument when it suits them, then turn around and chastise third party voters. If our only real choice is to vote for one party or the other, then we either have control over who gets nominated or we live in a thinly veiled oligarchy.

        • @mean_bean279
          link
          English
          153 months ago

          They aren’t morally wrong. Just because something is a fact that they’re stating doesn’t mean they agree with it. Those are the rules of the game and they’re simply stating them.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -73 months ago

            In the context they are offering a legalistic justification to a moral issue. The Democrats are not the party of democracy if they don’t, at a minimum, have an open convention.

            • @mean_bean279
              link
              English
              73 months ago

              Mate, there isn’t enough time or words to even delve into this with you, but that’s not what morality is. Whether you agree with the current rules and legal system or not is not part of your morals when you’re simply stating the options legally.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                -33 months ago

                LOL, yeah. You definitely don’t have the words. I’m guessing you haven’t studied much moral philosophy. If it helps, I didn’t accuse them of being immoral themselves.

        • @slickgoat
          link
          123 months ago

          This is not the time for electoral reform. This is the time for voting. The only thing that will keep the orange sludge out of the White House at this point is unity.

          After this dumpster fire is over, please advocate for reform.

          • @Ensign_Crab
            link
            English
            23 months ago

            After this dumpster fire is over, please advocate for reform.

            …to see why it’s not yet the time for reform then, either.

            • @slickgoat
              link
              03 months ago

              Because at this time a big argument for reform would steal the air out of what is the most critical election since the 1960s.

              • @Ensign_Crab
                link
                English
                23 months ago

                Because at this time a big argument for reform would steal the air out of what is the most critical election since the 1960s.

                Yup. And once this election has passed, there will be a new reason that it’s not the time for reform.

                • @slickgoat
                  link
                  -13 months ago

                  I’d be more worried about a Trump administration if I were you.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -13 months ago

            Another point I should make is that your instinct that Democratic unity is critical to winning this election is exactly on point. However, the idea that reformers are obligated to make all the concessions before debate even begins is establishment standard operating procedure. These are not only the best moments to advance reform, they are the only moments.

            We got all the same criticisms in 2020 (and 2016 and 2012…), but I’m pretty confident in saying that the Biden presidency benefited greatly from the pressures brought in 2020. We elected the furthest right Democrat of the past 50 years (by legislative record) and got the most progressive president of the past 50 years.

            We also got the same criticisms way back in last week (and last month, and last year) when arguing that Biden should drop out.

            • @slickgoat
              link
              13 months ago

              All I can say that the country’s attention span is tightly limited. Focus on reform right now you will take the air out of a wafer thin possibility of a Dem win. If you fail, how much reform are you going to get from a Trump government? About a cap full of warm piss worth.

              Yes, reform is badly needed. Of course it is, but the house is actually on fire right now. Can’t you see that? Flames and everything, with the supreme court, project 2025 and a Trump administration about to possibly enact martial law? A protracted conversation about complex administrative, legal and electoral changes - all of which will be challenged and lied about by the other side, will bring tears.

              Anyway I’m done with the argument. But if it all goes pearshape, the reform purest will be the ones who will have detailed the tottering election.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                13 months ago

                Of course I see that! The house is on fire precisely because Democrats have failed to reform. If I might stretch your analogy, there are mad arsonists running around the house throwing molotov cocktails everywhere. Maybe we need to address the question of why these fires keep happening.

                You “establishment purists” are insufferable.

                • @slickgoat
                  link
                  03 months ago

                  Ok, start your reform with all fifty states, because they are the ones who control Federal elections. Yes, reform the red states too. Should be easy. Go ahead, knock yourselves out. Enjoy. Let the house burn to the ground while you run around getting petitions signed which will be ignored by the state assemblies.

                  Jebus Christo…

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -33 months ago

            Wait until the Democrats haven’t maneuvered us into yet another crisis moment? No, I don’t think I’ll do that. I’m well past 50 and haven’t seen an election yet that wasn’t the most existential of my lifetime. Can’t wait to see what comes after Trump. I will advocate for reform always and especially in the moments when people are paying attention to politics.

    • @jj4211
      link
      83 months ago

      The thing is, she’s as close as you can get to an elected candidate in this circumstance. An “open” convention doesn’t mean everyone gets to vote, it means the relatively smaller set of die hard party members get to ignore their primary voters and decide what they want to do.

      The only presidential candidate that won the votes was Biden. He then chose Harris as a running mate, which meant the general population voted for her to be the president if a man in his 80s has to step down.

      Yes might have been better for him to have stepped aside before the primaries, but he we are, with the VP being the only choice people plausibly got to vote on.

    • @Ensign_Crab
      link
      English
      53 months ago

      Given the evident consensus, an open convention will yield Harris as the nominee.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        53 months ago

        Cool. Let’s have an open convention then.

        I’m fine with Harris winning at the convention - I’m not fine with the DNC coronating her beforehand.

        • @Ensign_Crab
          link
          English
          53 months ago

          Oh, I agree. And given Harris’ statement about wanting to win the nomination, I think that’s where it’s going.

    • @Cryophilia
      link
      53 months ago

      We literally did vote for Harris to be president. That’s the main job of the vice president.

    • @AIhasUse
      link
      -283 months ago

      You miss the part where many democrats are so terrified of the image that has been painted of Trump that they would vote for a resurrected Hitler if they were told he was wearing a blue button.

      • @mycodesucks
        link
        283 months ago

        Democrats didn’t paint that image. Trump did.

        When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

        • @AIhasUse
          link
          -113 months ago

          How interesting. So when trump tells you he will fight for democracy, you believe him. What a confusing world you must be living in.

          • @mycodesucks
            link
            133 months ago

            That’s not what I said, and don’t put words in my mouth.

            It’s not what he says he’ll do, it’s what he says he is. He is a petty dictator who can’t stomach dissent or disagreement who will happily use anyone to further his own ends, and will happily take whatever interpretation of reality puts him on top, even if it means intentionally misreading and misinterpreting things.

            But I don’t have to tell you that. You seem to be quite well-versed in that technique yourself.

        • @TheDeepState
          link
          -163 months ago

          The Democrats are telling me that they are an oligarchy that only cares about keeping power.

          • @mycodesucks
            link
            123 months ago

            One of these two will have power in November. That is reality. The democrats are the lesser of two evils. People living in reality don’t have the luxury of choosing non-existent options, and have to pick from what is possible.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        6
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        With one hand your ignorance can cover the sky. How impressive! Now talk to me about EMTALA, or Griswold, or Obergefell—and we’re not even touching the thrilling possibilities of executive action. People who are paying attention (and aren’t straight white men devoid of empathy) are taking this seriously. Maybe you should investigate why.

        • @AIhasUse
          link
          -43 months ago

          The side calling 100k+ dead foreign brown kids a “single issue” is so much more empathetic than the evil white man pointing out how awful it is. Cirque du soleil may have an opening for their new mental themed acrobatics show if you are interested.

          • @grue
            link
            English
            33 months ago

            than the evil white man pointing out how awful it is

            Why are you lying? Trump’s position on Israel is that it should “finish the job” [of genociding the Palestinians].

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            33 months ago

            Okay. What is your plan to stop it? Omit the magic beans. I have allergies.

            Lay it out step by step.

            • @AIhasUse
              link
              -33 months ago

              As soon as they started using our bombs and tax money to blow up safety camps for displaced citizens, we should have quit giving them everything they asked for. If we must, we should be lending them money, not straight giving them billions in free bombs. That would be the simplest start. It is clear they are way beyond selPalestine.

              I find it very hard to believe that the most peaceful president in nearly everyone’s lifetimes is going to go nuking palestine. I know there’s a bunch of people who are convinced he is, I just don’t buy it.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                33 months ago

                This is not a plan.

                We know what is happening in Palestine is an atrocity. Who stops the sale of arms and bombs. How do we get them into office? Outline how this works practically. What levers of power are we throwing to get the result we want? Be specific.

                Just saying because we should stop selling is cheap. 1/3 of the cointry doesn’t care, another 1/3 likes the genocide. How do we outmaneuver them?

                Because not voting blue, and not having anything more concrete than ‘because we shouldn’t’ doesn’t save a single Palestinian but comes with the doorprize of 10 year olds forced to have their rapist’s baby, and open season on trans people, blank checks to corpos, the end of public schools, etc. Performative morality is a blight.