The Fig Economy: Had a guy tell me just like fifteen minutes ago that Harris has no constituency and to the extent she does, all of them would just fall in line behind whomever the convention picked that wasn’t (and shouldn’t be) her.

it’s been a few days now and that “black jobs” thing is still all over my tiktok

I do find it's interesting how little the Black base of the democratic party is considered in the elite discussion of Biden dropping

the implicit (and sometimes explicit) assumption that black voters will simply fall in line behind what white op ed columnists and a few white anonymous party insiders tell them to do is really, really fucking gross, man, and i am seeing it everywhere

Had a guy tell me just like fifteen minutes ago that Harris has no constituency and to the extent she does, all of them would just fall in line behind whomever the convention picked that wasn’t (and shouldn’t be) her.

Say you don't know any PoC without saying you don't know any PoC.

And women. I hear a few being offered the VP slot almost like they know two guys who never actually ran for a National Office might be the best out there.

I garbled that. But the Dem wish casting out there is full of untested saviors.

What a dumb mf.

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