'Ludicrous': Donors leave call with Kamala Harris frustrated and annoyed
'Ludicrous': Donors leave call with Kamala Harris frustrated and annoyed
The gathering of about 300 donors was meant to calm concerns but instead upset several who said it was badly organized but didn't blame Harris herself.
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I'm gonna put myself in the shoe of some absurdly rich person who is donating to the Democrats who is on this call.
“Please help us turn down the volume on this conversation publicly,” Melissa Morales, founder and president of Somos Votantes, said on the call, according to a transcript obtained by NBC News. “It’s time to stop the leaks and the rampant rumors. Your message has been heard and received. But every day that we continue this publicly chaotic conversation, we come closer to a loss — no matter who the nominee is.”
Well... I can understand feeling a little cynical about "your message has been heard." Like, has it? It doesn't feel like it has. But I do have to say, I don't see how any person could disagree with the logic that yes, talking to the media about how much Joe Biden sucks and you can't support the Democrats anymore is (a) unlikely to lead to the Democrats suddenly embracing a winning strategy and (b) going to hurt the Democrats in this election. I think the way she said it gets pretty directly to the heart of what these people need to hear.
That didn’t sit well with some on the call.
“These are donors who are not used to getting admonished and told what to do,” the source said.
Those donors can go straight off and fuck themselves. "How dare you point out that I am fucking things up, I'm too important to have to listen to that" is exactly what the DNC has been doing for years. We don't need more of it in the equation.
Those donors can go straight off and fuck themselves.
Unfortunately, they are the real power in this country. They are the king makers. Our political system is largely just a competition between two factions of wealthy elites. If not a true oligarchy, it's very oligarchic.
You’re right, we should start throwing them in the river while they bleat about how they are too important for things like that to happen to them, and then start holding publicly funded elections.
I am sure it is no coincidence that after Biden raised corporate taxes significantly and spent 2 trillion dollars on working people and climate change, they are suddenly so eager to switch to someone else (without particularly being bothered about who that other person should be and how they might fare in the election against Trump and playing up signs of weakness from the Biden side to argue for replacing him).
we should start throwing them in the river while they bleat about how they are too important for things like that to happen to them
Sounds like we need to start up Throw Ted in the River Day. https://youtu.be/djgRuzqVyJA?si=f3b4z_1aOkBZEjj6