I don’t think the only reason someone massively rich would run is for more money. I think a lot just do it for their oversized egos.

Menefee also benefited from more than $5 million in outside spending from a super PAC aligned with cryptocurrency industry leaders, Protect Progress. Outgoing Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who unsuccessfully ran for the Senate this year, appeared in one of the group’s ads supporting Menefee. Green has harshly criticized the flood of megadonor money, while Menefee has said he thinks campaign finance laws should be changed to ban super PACs.

78 is too old, but young crypto tools aren’t really moving in the right direction.

That’s because Tulsi’s proclaimed anti-war principles were always bullshit. She rose to national prominence calling for more drone bombing in the middle east on Fox News.

People think she started political life when she spoke against the DNC for Bernie, but she’s been a shitty opportunist the whole time. Nothing she’s ever proclaimed as a principle was about anything more than promoting Tulsi Gabbard.

I have a hard time believing someone with these social deficiencies has a low friction social life.

Just a guess: Are a lot of people in your life overly sensitive?

Don’t do it outright, make a show of it just being about the Epstein files. “I asked both candidates for their position on pedophilia by the elites and only one supported exposing and prosecuting pedophiles.”

I’m sure we could crowdfund a matching donation.

Or wasn’t present. Lotta old people in the Senate. Or people who are happy to not have to go on the record for a vote.

[Homer:] Craziest take so far.

These wreckers are spinning themselves up for some truly astounding AOC stupidity.

Because that isn’t the vote total?

I don’t know how you came to that number or how someone up voted a simple factual error. You can just read the article. It was 49-50.

Different people will. This is a single poster expressing both beliefs.

Oh, I’m sorry. I thought your original response was mocking that take. I try to assume good faith so someone writing that sincerely didn’t make sense.

Harris losing in 2020 wasn’t a catastrophic loss. She just quietly slid into irrelevance and a different Democrat won both contests. None of her supporters suffered for her loss. Nearly every Democrat has suffered for her failure in 2024.

Even the chuddiest chuds I know don’t express anything remotely like that opinion. Racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia are all either open topics or simmering just below the surface of political discussion, but not the sex of a politician. Nevertheless, the hand-winging centrists are sure there’s a wellspring of otherwise gettable voters that are driven by that single issue. And its salience magically rises and falls depending on whether there’s a popular female progressive.

If you remember the 2020 primary, the “can a woman really win” questions really ramped when Warren was briefly leading, not when Harris looked like she was the hot up and comer. There’s nothing legitimate behind these concern trolling campaigns, just establishment centrists showing how similar to Republicans they really are.

None of that at all compares to being a black “non-American” “Muslim” post 9/11. And it’s irrelevant, because even thinking demographics is the guiding light for potential Democratic voters is just demonstrably untrue.

None of that matters if you’re charismatic and have a good platform that speaks to a brighter future. Those two traits are worlds more valuable than what all you hand wringers dredge up whenever the black man or the Hispanic woman start capturing people’s attention. We heard all the same things in 2008.

None of this is really about any of that, it’s all just #3. Obama and AOC both campaigned on moving left, so all the blather from centrists about civil rights and “the future is female” evaporates in an instant and they reveal they’re all just mini Steve Bannons looking for whatever naked bigotry they think can foreground to prevent progress.

No, he had a black Muslim African father, an active campaign to paint him as not-American (with a heavy subtext of not-white), and the middle name Hussein when trying to succeed the War on Terror president. And Republicans (including Trump) tried their damnedest to make that define him. And then Democrats won a supermajority.

Obama had way more to overcome, but all that stuff is irrelevant if you have charisma and a popular platform.

These people proactively enforcing the preferences of bigots just act like Barrack Hussein Obama never existed.

Yeah. Her argument was that she was Joe Biden, but younger and more diverse. But Joe Biden was LOSING. Even before his debate performance. And he only barely won in 2020, which also should have been a blowout.

It’s not the blackness or the femaleness, it’s doubling down on shitty uninspiring politics. An old white male Joe Biden was going to lose even worse than the middle aged black female Joe Biden.

Literally no one’s legislative achievements are impressive. Being able to pass anything either requires a large majority and a full party effort or for it to be a non-controversial bipartisan bill. It’s not a body where individual lawmakers make legislative achievements.

Perhaps her place should be in the public focus, pushing policies and initiatives, while others might be better suited to the legislative positions to support what she’s publicly advocating for.

Like as president?