What Democratic supporters are reacting to is not Kamala so much (though she’s great) as the removal of UNCERTAINTY after weeks and weeks of it, and all these open-primary geniuses seem to have completely missed the point that no one wants any fucking more of it. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

alanallport.bsky.social • 230 days ago

What Democratic supporters are reacting to is not Kamala so much (though she’s great) as the removal of UNCERTAINTY after weeks and weeks of it, and all these open-primary geniuses seem to have completely missed the point that no one wants any fucking more of it.

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briankspears.bsky.social•230 days ago

They never seemed to understand that a huge part of the appeal for Biden in the 2020 primaries was that he was perceived as steady and boring, especially compared to Trump.

akhier.bsky.social•230 days ago

I just wanted someone who was an actual politician and acted like it. Boring was a bonus.

briankspears.bsky.social•230 days ago

Yeah I mean Biden was like my fifth choice in the primaries but I was fine with it when he won because what I wanted was someone competent and he fit that description.

tmoney2007.bsky.social•230 days ago

A president you can check in on every 5-20 days instead of one that demanded 24-7 attention has been a welcome change.

justingwallace.bsky.social•230 days ago

It's also the extend (wide, loud, top-down) support for Kamala from all corners of the Democratic political system.

Biden stepped down and immediately handed Kamala the reins. No awkward space for the republicans to flood the zone with shit.

Biden out, she's in, everyone on-board.

heatherdega.bsky.social•230 days ago

Absolutely.

randomjeweler.bsky.social•230 days ago

Yes, I don't want to know about all this. I'm very tired

tmoney2007.bsky.social•230 days ago

I would have taken the uncertainty of opportunity over the feelings of concern about Biden's ability to mount a winning campaign...

Know that there is a solid candidate that the party is coalescing around is better.

chriscardsfan.bsky.social•230 days ago

The donor class are feeling their oats at the moment. Unfortunately for them, they didn’t seem to reckon Harris’s popularity. They, and just about everyone else, believed she was a nonentity. Oops.

joshdobbin.bsky.social•230 days ago

🎯🎯🎯🎯

finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social•230 days ago

Yes that and also we're thinking the more money we give to her now, the more money they can't transfer to another candidate and the less money we now have to donate. We're throwing the steering wheel out the window to demonstrate we aren't gonna tolerate any more bullshit open convention talk

lairddinnaken.bsky.social•230 days ago

If they haven’t suggested that Manchin and Mnuchin fight a death match for best chin they are clearly not great political strategists 😑

cvbell.bsky.social•230 days ago

100 percent.

misterfungi.bsky.social•230 days ago

It’s the idea that you hated both (all three?) old man candidates before and now there’s another sane option.

kedwards.bsky.social•230 days ago

The talking heads are all, “there’s only 15 weeks until the election!” While everyone else is like , “this shit is too long, get it done!”

newsandcoffee.bsky.social•230 days ago

There is something to be said about votes of non confidence in the westminster system, leading to snap elections that can be over in about 30 days.

But that doesn't safeguard against morons and arseholes.

kedwards.bsky.social•230 days ago

Yeah apparently there are. I safeguards against morons and arseholes. This is a major flaw of democracy in general, but one I’m pretty sure we could fix by solving the money-buys-access problem.

newsandcoffee.bsky.social•230 days ago

100% agree.

My personal belief is corporate donors are corrosive and poisoning our countries.

Citizens United was a major turning point to the dumpster fire we see today.

deekeee.bsky.social•230 days ago

I envy places like the UK and France where they have a 6-week election window. I'm already sick of seeing all the candidate signs along the road.

iamiysha.bsky.social•230 days ago

Listening to NPR it’s so many pundits trying to push an open primary. But still a lot of focus on Harris.

08mms.bsky.social•230 days ago

It never seemed like a good idea to me to channel democratic enthusiasm back in to factionalism that needed to then be pulled back together at the last minute, plus that plays right into the “dems in disarray” narrative the lazy press and Trump campaign would love to inhabit.

xanboni.bsky.social•230 days ago

This was my exact thought this morning. Please. No more chaos.

maggiekat.bsky.social•230 days ago

Dem hierarchy paying more attention to the Donor/Powerful Influencer / Media Class than Voters got us n this situation & *now* they want to conduct a performance so no one can say they went around Voters & made an autocratic decision

& we r just - u did it, we r now behind it,so just get on with it