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I can’t imagine asserting with unwavering confidence that I knew who was or wasn’t the best candidate against Trump.
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Just pissing in the wind and calling it an epiphany
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DangerRangerRabbit
@dangerrangerrabbit.bsky.social
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The fact that these thoughts come from "Obsolete Dogma" should've stopped this thread in its tracks. Stop taking users like this seriously. These are the type of idiot who still think the NYT is the "paper of record."
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Malevolent undersea entity
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It's Bernie
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Estep Nagy
@estepnagy.xyz
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That person is whoever the American people decide in the primary. Full stop.
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Warren Terra
@warrenterra.bsky.social
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The answer is simple and it's time everyone got on board.
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Alex Attinson
@alexatt.bsky.social
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I left this post wanting Vienna Fingers, no other take aways.
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Exkhaniber
@exkhaniber.bsky.social
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Could have been worse. He could have suggested running Clinton again.
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Heart of a Toaster
@bradjective.bsky.social
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I haven't read all of these takes, but the ones I have read all fail to make a case for a specific person. Most don't mention any names. Some list three or four. I know why, but I wonder if the pundits do.
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Two Whoppers Junior
@jasonthee.bsky.social
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Fanfic is easier than journalism
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Doctora Malka Older
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Agree, and also: a democracy that depends on voters picking the person who has the most chance of winning, as opposed to the person they want to govern, is not much of a democracy. [consider this an indictment of 2-party system, electoral college, campaign finance, etc, etc, etc]
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Patrick Bryant
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So many of these takes act like the choice is being made in a vacuum, and that any decision to ditch Harris would not, in itself, have a huge impact on the ability to defeat Trump (by alienating a big part of the base).
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braak
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Especially asserting with unwavering cofidence not just who was the best candidate to beat Trump, but that the guy who *wasn't* is also the guy that literally beat him last time. Like what is the basis for any of this.
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Ed Zitron
@zitron.bsky.social
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I am
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John
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If we're being unsentimental here, then Matt O'Brian should just shut up and vote the party line, no? Whether it's Biden, Harris, or someone else.
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Laure
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If we’re fantasizing… how about Harris-Rosen, Harris-Warren, Harris-Michele Obama (but she’d never run after the poison she endured, Harris-Whitmer
#democrats #elections
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J. D.
@jdetc.bsky.social
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Someone should probably tell him who won the broader Austia-Napoleon conflict long-term.
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@tathompson.bsky.social
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Bless you, sir. It must be lonely to possess integrity and humility in your profession.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this is my fundamental issue with all of these guys. baseless confidence bordering on arrogance. something also tells me that a person of different demographic characteristics with the exact same political record would not be dismissed so easily
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Louisa
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I see— important that the candidate has “the confidence of the party elite.” Not the base.
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Fuzzy Mike
@fuzzymike.bsky.social
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in 2016 and 2020 i thought Bernie had the best shot of winning and in June 2024 i think Harris has the best shot of winning; and I am so sick of pundits telling me i don’t actually think that
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Bethany Doolin
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Choosing to switch horses mid-stream and leaving out the top two candidates as contenders? Giving anyone they stick in the position a couple of months to gain traction? Don't fall for The 'right' is going to push this hard up until July 11th, when Trump gets sentenced. They are worried.
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Jonathan Aul
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Why is this guy reminding me of the progressives who keep insisting, against all evidence to the contrary, that Bernie Sanders would win?
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Lynn Gazis-Sax
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It's also not sentimentality to want the system to work the way people expected it to work when they voted! We haven't had "party leaders pick the candidate" as our system in my lifetime. We specifically downgraded superdelegates because people were pissed that they could theoretically overrule vote
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Al Petterson
@eyelessgame.bsky.social
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Is there literally no one who understands that they all have different imaginary people? And that no real person competes with their imaginary person?
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Chris Fitzgerald
@cofitzgerald.bsky.social
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It helps if you proceed from your own baseless premise and let no thoughts or facts intervene.
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Ceejopolis
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If we are going to live in an imaginary world why don’t we just be unsentimental about making Donald Trump just disappear.
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WIRetiredGuy
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"... confidence OF THE PARTY ELITES ..." And how, pray tell, will that translate Into Votes?
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@rozennkeribin.bsky.social
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Apparently that guy can't either, based on that screenshot at least. Imagine saying that & then *not* immediately naming the best candidate in question. It's only 4 months out dude, it's good that we've got an obvious best candidate to replace Biden but there's no time to be coy re: their identity!
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@drpepsi.bsky.social
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I can the best candidate is Michelle Obama but she’s not interested
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Jesse Berney
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Anyone who didn't learn the lesson of 2016 -- none of us have any idea what the hell is going on -- should never be allowed to express an opinion about politics ever again.
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@djharvey81.bsky.social
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Also, I haven't seen anyone in the "keep Biden" camp arguing from a place anywhere close to sentimentality.
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Todd Berman
@theartdontstop.bsky.social
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"we must save democracy by having the party elite pick the next president"
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Mike Rodriquez
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They get paid by the word and have to say *something*. To the extent I may speak for a rural American (I am, I may), no one pays any attention, *whatsoever* to these folks who prattle on day after day with nothing really to say. Space filler.
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a
@aacoek.bsky.social
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I could honestly say this in 2016 tho.
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Andy Craig
@andycraig.bsky.social
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They have zero concept of epistemic humility.
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JustCynthia
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The confidence of some folks is breathtaking. Must be a great life to have, being confident of everything.
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Brendan O'Toole
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And this isn't even fully that. It's just "it's not Harris." I'd have a lot more respect for "Pritzker would be up by 10 points" speculation than this half-assed "these two are bad, nominate the good one."
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Steve Zorowitz
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I’d like to think there’s some serious private polling going on now, asking questions that are not usually asked in the public ones, and that will never see the light of day, but we’ll see their effects soon enough.
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Real American Hombre
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Especially considering many of these jerks thought Obama was a novelty candidate in 2008, and they were screaming HILLARY!!! in 2016.
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