Political forces begin to move on new California Sen. Butler as she mulls a run | CNN Politics
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The first step for the candidates running in next year’s California Senate race is to quietly try to spook newly appointed Sen. Laphonza Butler into not running at all.

The first step for the candidates running in next year’s California Senate race is to quietly try to spook newly appointed Sen. Laphonza Butler into not running at all.

  • katy ✨
    1·
    1 year ago

    There is a better chance of aliens landing on my front lawn, knocking on my door, and telling me I won the publishers clearing house than there is of Kamala Harris winning a presidential election.

    This is true only if you’re stuck inside the Twitter bubble and refuse to step outside into real life

    • Riccosuave@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      I think you’re confusing me for you because:

      • I’m not a Twitter / X user

      • I actually understand the state of American politics, and accept the reality that pandering to normie/centrist/independent political ideology is what wins elections

      • I care more about moving this country forward than virtue signaling about having a female president

      • I understand how uncharismatic and unpopular Kamala Harris was/is/will continue to be

      I actually cannot understand how someone could be so blind to reality. Hillary Clinton already tried to play queen maker on her own behalf while being a historically unpopular candidate because she thought she was OWED her turn in line.

      In the process she propped up Donald Trump as a spoiler candidate, rigged the DNC against Bernie Sanders, and fucked this country into the timeline we have been stuck in for the last (almost) decade.

      I’m not laughing because I know this brand of identity politics camouflaged as faux progressivism leads to failure. I care about political results in the real world, and if you think I’m the one in the bubble you need to wake up and smell the napalm.