Osita Nwanevu

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Osita Nwanevu

I wrote about the election and the American project. www.ositanwanevu.com/will-america...

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

They would not have won the election on their own, but I'm laughing very hard about the influence the No Labels people would be wielding right now if they hadn't been bullied away.

Like, does she not perceive...a tension here? bsky.app/profile/adam...

“I personally knocked Biden out of a 1987 election” “Ok grandma it’s time for bed”

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hmm

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Michael Tae Sweeney

Dems: Well, Biden is not viable, obviously. But it'll be alright. There's a big field and primary voters are sure to gravitate towards someone who is not Bernie Sanders. Voters: We are scared and would like to vote for the two white men we have heard of, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Dems: 👁️👄👁️

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Most normal genAI guy

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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Charm City Slicker (57-33)

The entire strategy was to eke out a solid 20 to 30 something percent plurality and it was a viable one for the purposes of winning that primary as long as the field was divided, which it was for a remarkably long time. But it was never a mass movement and folks need to come to terms with that.

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Michael Tae Sweeney

It's embarrassing!

We've known what's what about Biden from the jump. What we're learning fully now is how lazy the people running the party are. Purely reactive, a faith things will work themselves out till the last minute. Ironically, we saw this when they finally rushed to put Biden over Sanders in the first place.

President Biden’s campaign had a bright fund-raising spell immediately after Thursday's presidential debate, but many big donors were alarmed by his shaky showing. Some floated interventions and wondered about how to reach Jill Biden.

Major Democratic Donors Ask Themselves: What to Do About Biden?www.nytimes.com Some floated interventions and wondered about how to reach Jill Biden. Others hoped the president would bow out of the race on his own. Many came to terms with the low chances that he will do so.

Does not speak highly of the left's power that we keep getting washed by these guys!

Everything's complicated and my hesitation about replacing Biden up to now has been informed by polls showing other candidates not doing much better. But a lot of people seem remarkably certain that Harris specifically could not win a general election for reasons I think they should say out loud.

There's a very specific personal vulnerability there that I'm surprised hasn't come up much on the right, but my sense is that doubt here is more about, uh, demographic concerns that haven't really been fleshed out or justified explicitly. Could be wrong.

This is very valid and true, but if the choice is between her a guy who cannot reliably complete sentences without a teleprompter...I dunno, man. bsky.app/profile/lewm...

To be fair, the last time she was in a national election, everyone thought she would be a formidable candidate but she did terribly, and was widely considered a surprisingly poor campaigner. So there is a data point.

Anyway, if Biden stays in, which seems likely, I don't think telling people "no, he's fine, actually" for the next several months is tenable. I don't know what you say instead. But openly lying to voters over and over again about something they know to be untrue probably hurts Dems long-term. So.

This is what the numbers have looked like for ages. Again, not especially promising for anyone. The question is whether anyone else would be more likely to gain ground between now and November. bsky.app/profile/perr...

Interesting. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/6/...

Laying my cards on the table: I think a black woman can definitely win and also that Harris is weak. She's tied to the Biden record and a mediocre campaigner; the Willie Brown thing is genuinely messy. Zero chance GOP opps don't know about it; the fact they haven't used it yet does scare me a bit.

No chance that we get an open contest now if Biden steps aside. It's him or Harris as a practical matter, so all of the above would have to be weighed carefully against Biden's own weakness. Not at all clear who comes out ahead. Ideal thing would be to go back in time and have a primary. So it goes.

But my broader concern is that this conversation is latently freighted with assumptions about demographics and electability that are worth confronting and that will affect other candidates moving forward. Can't confront them if people aren't saying what I think many are thinking.

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Keyboard Wario

This seems like the actual choice to me because I think what establishment Dems want more than anything else is to avoid disruption, which is why they've carried Biden this far in the first place. I don't think an open contest is likely.

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cnm.bsky.social

It is not.

Me when I miss a deadline:

Writing is not linearly productive. You can write something no one wants and spend months or years on it; it’s not wasted time. It’s time spent learning how to do things you’ll put into practice elsewhere, so long as you don’t get discouraged and stop.

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i don't even get where you go from here as the editorial board of the new york times. if biden doesnt step down and polls stay stable, then what? do you just keep insisting he should step down anyway? write another editorial being like we were wrong? pretend it never happened?

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post malone ergo propter malone

Partially because if the legislature was less dysfunctional, you could rework the judiciary. The judiciary being less corrupt or winning a Dem appointed majority on the Supreme Court bench would not help with the legislature much at all.

The funny thing is that The Beatles were on drugs almost from day one. By 1963, they had been playing the red light district in Hamburg on speed for years. "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You" -- this was a sound and energy that had been honed by amphetamines.

the beatles burst on the scene with i like girls girls like me lyrics and five years later they were all f-d up on drugs in india, writing like they're f-ing yoda. it was great.

Yes, The Beatles tried some new things and were very influential, but they were never the vanguard of avant-garde music; by the late 60s, experimentation was happening everywhere. But the early stuff was revolutionary, indebted as it was to Chuck Berry et al. An atom bomb. bsky.app/profile/jody...

I got a theory that early Beatles is better than late Beatles anyway. No one did that straight rock n’ roll as good as them.

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Don't think I knew the Census Bureau thinks the South includes Delaware