K. Chen: Your regular reminder that the only politics poster you have heard of, professional or otherwise, who has had the wherewithal to actually run for office is Will Stancil

Your regular reminder that the only politics poster you have heard of, professional or otherwise, who has had the wherewithal to actually run for office is Will Stancil

Being ineligible because of residency requirements doesn't count as running.

People who talk all the time about politics and how to win at politics but won't run for dogcatcher are a distinctly non-random, non-representative set.

Shit I forgot I'm apparently supposed to tell @proptermalone.bsky.social before doing violence on the feed.

This is Lee Carter erasure

And Julia Salazar if we count DSApoasting

Salazar was/is a terrible poster. Carter I disagreed with on many occassions but I have to hand it to him that he really is a talented poster and way too online.

Also Laura Loomer

And Cenk Uygur

Legitimately, running for president doesn't count.

Our last president was a politics poster. This theory is full of holes!

“I was gonna run for office but then I got high” is probably an accurate explanation in many cases.

I regret to mention her, but Wu

Oof

Yeah, but that was transparently about gaining clout, so I'm not sure it counts. It's like how you can never be cool when actually trying to be cool.

A few others (David Shor) are at least involved in the process and have some personal stakes

That's fair, Shorism I think was fatally flawed but I always thought Shor descended to posting from the real political contest, like a Prometheus kind of figure.

Yeah, Shor got his start on the Obama reelect and then went to Civis which does data for a lot of big Dem groups. Now he’s a independent consultant

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