What I legitimately do not get is that nearly all of the criticisms of Kamala Harris are based on her past as a prosecutor and all of the concerns, critiques, memes, rage-Tweets and so on are based on that history (which was mixed, she did some bad things and some good things as well), but the Biden/Harris criminal…

I actually agree with that. I very much remember how “Gush/Bore, they’re basically the same person” was a thing in the media. In retrospect, the environmental lawyer and the guy who ran an oil company may not have been the same and were actually quite different on the one issue that’s going to matter the most in the…

WELP. That was a longish thinkpiece to circle around trying to rationalize not being thrilled by Harris, simply because she does not meet your Blackness and wokeness purity test. This does not surprise me at all, but I am vastly disappointed nonetheless. I am NOT sorry she is not as melanated as you want her to be.

I am old enough to remember all three of the elections you mentioned. Weirdly enough, I don’t remember any of them being lost because people on the internet criticized the Democratic candidates. As much as I might personally think Ralph Nader sucks (because he does,) he’s still not in my top 5 of reasons that we had…

So judging from the comments on here, there’s just not really a way to offer criticism of a Democratic ticket (which I’m voting for.) You just can’t do it or you personally want Trump to reign forever. Even if it’s not so much criticism as it is personal feelings surrounding something you are told is supposed to mean…

Or maybe too many of us have seen where this nonsense leads. 2000, 2004, 2016. 

Anything to depress the vote. Trump is a literal fucking fascist but eh...we’re not super excited about the Dem choice. So, you know, guess we’ll stay home and watch the downfall of America. 

I like this comment. Why does Kamala have to be perfect for this to be inspiring? She is far from perfect, which puts her in the company of exactly every politician ever. Still something to cheer. 

I’m sorry. Maybe I’m in a bad mood (in fact I know I am), but what even is this about? I don’t understand how, as a Black woman, you can’t be completely excited about her nomination. I am a Black millennial who cried actual tears (!) when I voted for Obama in 2009 because I never thought I would see a viable, Black…

Esther, RBG is 87 and has reoccurring cancer. How long does she have to drag herself to work because of people like you?

Agreed. It was heartbreaking when Abrams essentially had the election stolen from her, and she does have experience, but it is not a lot compared to the national name-recognition and level of experience Harris has.

For the zillionith time, Stacey Abrams, brilliant perhaps, was utterly unqualified. Harris was/is easily as ambitious as Abrams. There was no mistaking Harris’s desire of the position. But Abrams lost her race for governor & served in the state legislature. Which meets maybe 40 times a year. No, just no. Karen Bass…

“Joe Biden, hardly a man who has inspired excitement”

The only issue I have with this generalization is this: the way our primaries work out, we didn’t have a lot of options that hadn’t already left the field when I got to vote. I honestly think that maybe our primaries worked before a 24h news cycle and social media—but now it’s not really easy to tell who the preferred…

Yeah Esther even states that “Most vice presidential picks are based on a careful calculus of a candidate’s strengths and weaknesses—a VP is meant as filler to shore up some of those perceived gaps”. So I don’t undertand why she then goes on to reduce them into being “pawns”.

I’ve said it before here, and I’ll say it again. This is a hugely historic choice, and the VP pick being a black-asian woman is a big deal. VP is not Secretary of State (sorry HRC). The US has a looooong history of VPs become Ps. Fourteen (14!), many of whom D’s really like. Biden (likely, jinx), Bush I, Ford, Nixon…

She (Ashley Reese) was challenged on this by a reader and her response was to essentially say that Jezebel isn’t a legitimate publication and that they can’t be sexist because some of their best friends are women.

It feels like this article-- and many others-- are completely disconnected from the basic fact that Biden won the nomination decisively in large part because he was the overwhelming choice of female voters...especially female voters of color. 

It was The Bachelor: VP Edition, a wry acknowledgment that the sideshow flattened women who are powerful in their own right

VPs are generally not announced until right before the convention. As I check my watch, it looks to be before the convention this year as well.