Why can’t people stay in their lane?

Do you mean that black people shouldn't get too uppity and should know their place OP?

How about gay people? Should we all just crawl back in the closet and stop rubbing it in people's faces?

She couldn't even get elected Governor.

Anything is possible after Donald Trump.

It’s about fame.

[quote]Why can’t people stay in their lane?

Why can't people stop typing cliches?

She openly campaigned to get named VP by Biden. Though she claimed then SHE should be President. She's done a great job organizing in Georgia though most of the work was done by other people, notably a white woman whose name escapes me now. She's a long-time Democratic operative.

Stacey's got a massive ego and believed all the gushing media coverage about her.

R1 this could also apply to tons of white people too, like every single Senator of House member under the age of 50. It was actually a compliment to her that she has found her niche and why not continue knock it out of the park? She could transform the country by being the voting guru.

But you sure wasted no time slamming that Race Card on the table.

“I wish people could evolve & look past race.” ...proceeds to bring up race in every conversation...

Also from OP:

"Why can't black people stop having dreams and ambitions and just go back to picking cotton and sitting at the back of the bus?"

R8 how psychotic. This is part of the problem. I can shit on every white person from Dylan Geick to Demi Moore on here, but dare mention a vaunted and “infallible” black woman and you might as well have bed sheets on. YOU are the one who sees race here.

Kamala could absolutely be President, by the way.

“Oh why cause she’s lighter, cause she kinda passes!!?!!???!!??!!??!!!?!!!?”

It's proof of the Peter Principle -- Some people rise to the level of their incompetence.

DL has a weird defensive fixation on Stacey Abrams. It has granted her some entitlement it imagines the country shares. I think it's got something to do with Dreamgirls. Anyway, never look to DL for a rational assessment of a woman in politics. It's all diva shit.

Personally, I think she doesn’t come across as having much of a “warmth” on TV. At least in interviews.

R13 the YASSSS KWEENS love her

R12 she’s competent now but not at a higher level

R14 Stacey has a superiority complex, probably overcompensating for the fact she's obese and dark-skinned and doesn't attract black men.

It’s amazing how all the diva-worshiping YASSSS KWEENS are ready to hand the world over to black women. Black women are hella homophobic, white women see us as accessories at least, black women see us as sewer trash who steal their men and spread the AIDS.

Since we’re going to spew our opinions here, I think she’s a low-ley butch lesbian and very unhappy person, who blames her misfortune on everyone else but takes no personal responsibility, and she’s an insatiable ego monster that will never be sufficed. A real lost cause.

The race card: the great distraction from any POC personality flaws.

Caitlyn Jenner running for governor of California. Hilarious. She couldn't be elected to the Palm Springs city council.

R21 her lane was being a man, a doormat to the K girls and motivational speeches.

She won that election that was completely rigged by the current scum GA gov Kemp. I'd love for her to be president.

For the same reason that idiots like OP use phrases like "stay in their lane" incorrectly.

To state that she wants to be president is NOT an example of not staying in her lane.

One of the reasons facts and data are ignored is that people have come to think things can mean anything they want them to mean, not what they actually do. When something can mean anything, it means nothing.

^^^ one more thing.

As a practical matter, announcing she wants to be president or aspires to be president is actually an example of STAYING IN HER LANE.

Nothing is more one's own business more than planning and aspiring for one's own future.

We were all told we were special growing up.

Everybody who is half-way famous now thinks they would be a great president.

Trump made it there, by hook or by crook and bombed bigly.

R24 / R25 probably serves a mean word salad for parties.

YouTube Psychic Linda G said Stacey was George Washington in a past life.

Stacey Abrams wants to run for President? Meghan Markle isn't going to like that.

I had a totally different reaction to OP’s question. Thinking more along the lines of rock stars wanting to be Oscar-winning actors or supermodels with fragrance lines or Oscar-winning actors showing their paintings in big gallery shows I guess it’s more that creative people are creative, but sometimes it strikes me as greedy.

R30 the “Everything to Everbody” culture bullshit and decline in pride in specialization was the point, but we got derailed by Miss R1 and the rest of the YASSSS KWEENS who like to play poker with race cards, constantly.

FFS - "stay in your lane" means to mind your own business.

It doesn't mean what you fools keep thinking it does.

R32 it has multiple meanings and depends if you’re talking on a macro or micro level. It could apply to Kim Kardashian getting into law or at work someone in accounting telling someone from shipping to not get involved with their books or Stacey keeping her focus on voter turnout, where she excels, and not on obtaining national office where she would not.

THANK you, r33.

Dayton, OH Mayor Nan Whaley wants to be Governor now. When she first appeared in the media (after a mass shooting) I was taken aback by her disheveled appearance (ratty hair, etc.). Then she started appearing more groomed and poised. So I guess she's using her response to a tragedy as a springboard to bigger things.

R35, they almost all do. It's a series of trade ups... and in fairness better to build a track record and name rec than simply announce I will be Queen or King or what have you.

I work adjacent to the city political levels. What I have seen has sickened and disgusted me. These people are not quality. You get one Barak Obama out of every thousand of them, maybe ten thousand, based on what I've seen. Half of them plainly didn't get enough love in their childhood.

OP, what you don’t understand is whether it’s Stacey Abrams or Josh Hawley, you’re dealing with people who’ve spent their whole lives being the best and the brightest in the room. Once they find themselves in positions of power, they exist in echo chambers where everyone tells them how great they are. They have no reason to think they can’t fail because on their world it happens so rarely.

Besides, a black man with the middle name “Hussein” was elected President over a war bet during two wars. He pretty much proved anything is possible...so there really is no lane to stay in.

OP has a LONG history of racism here at DL.

that's an old thing though r26. Every Senator looking in a mirror saw a President for about 200 years. Though in fairness, at least they'd gotten somewhere politically before deciding to take that next step.

R1, it's racist of you to suggest that Ms. Abrams' goal cannot be questioned, although the OP is being racist by using the term "stay in her...... lane."

To me, any person believing she or he is qualified to be president shows peculiar pride, a severe lack of self-perspective, and an embarrassing pride. But that's the nature of politics.

well, that is just one of those things r40. Really? Nobody, absolutely nobody ever in any way is ever qualified to be president? That's what you believe?

R38 has a long HERstory of homophobia here at Datalounge since she defected from LSA.

OP I'll first address your lazy bitch ass for not even linking interview you are referring to.

Next, I'll drag you for taking her comments totally out of context. This is not announcement that she's running for president one day. She goes on to explain she simply holds it as an ambition because she wants to set an example for young women and people of color, who may think they can't pursue their aspirations.

And as I have told you bitches on several occasions, Stacey Abrams has created her own fucking lane and freeway. She does not need the confines of being a public elected official to continue doing the work of the Lord and getting democrats like Joe Biden elected (who had a slim chance in hell without Stacey Abrams and Jim Clyburn).

I agree. I hate how people who lose elections stick around forever now. I blame this on Sarah Palin and her trashy family. Now all political losers want to be celebrities.

Fuck off r44. And what have you done to get Joe Biden elected besides vote (if you even did) and talking shit on the internet. Right, nothing.

R45 what have you done, you fat ass fucking cunt?!

Awww op. Do successful black women scare you?.

R47 no, I pity you, living in your own delusions. Just because you screech and scream 13 paragraphs at 90mph and shutdown anyone doesn’t make you right. I’m sure you’re bobblehead’ing right now. You’re a psycho cunt and I’m sure everyone hates your fat ass.

AMERICA HATES WOMEN LEADERS!

No, stay in your lane, woman! Put make up on woman! You caused that nice man to flip out and murder you, Karen! Get your body looking great and satisfy me woman. You cannot do anything a man can do, woman. When you're old you're useless. Just be a sweet woman. You have no brain, no leadership qualities. EVERYTHING you earned was because men were nice enough to give it to you. Have the babies, take care of the children, you muscleless, slow, emasculated creature.

Why can't Stacey Abrams be president one day? She has a lot of future ahead of her. If you're worried she doesn't have the right look a la Kamala Harris or some good looking male, I can easily see her as a Golda Meir type comfort candidate. Maybe we'll be mature enough as a country to not worry about looks some day.

R49 man, you bought the feminist agenda hook, line and sinker...

Gay men get tossed aside in society too, but we rise up. Good luck with your eternal victimhood.

R50 she doesn’t have the IT factor, a je ne sais quoi.

R51 Yes, but she's not a gay man. Of course gay people have a right to exist with respect and dignity.

R53 ok

[quote]and getting democrats like Joe Biden elected (who had a slim chance in hell without Stacey Abrams and Jim Clyburn).

He's living up to it.

You can thank Donald Dump for this. Because it seemed impossible that he could ever become president and it actually ended up happening, now EVERYONE thinks they should be a leader. Caitlyn Jenner, Matthew McConaughey, The (dumb) Rock, etc.

So massive now? Like no one had an ego in the past?

Do you remember Ralph Nader? He didn't have any more qualifications to be president than Stacy Abrams did

Stacey'll have to go to Dr. Now in Houston and get her stomach stapled. The US doesn't elect obese Presidents. - Chris Christie

If Stacey Abrams needs to stay in her lane, then so does Pete Buttigieg. And he can now help her repave that motherfucker.

Stacey and her fellow Georgia activists failed to head,-off the GQP dominated Georgia Legislature from passing that voter suppression bill. There should have been protests at the start of the effort. The Republicans were sneaky about it though.

I think Pete is in a good place for him actually. Applying practical knowledge to practical issues.

OP has a point. Not everyone NEEDS to be president. It's actually a sign of a country descending into shit if it believes that the only way to make a difference is to be president. That that is the one and only choice for anybody it likes.

I usually don't go in for political conspiracies, but I do think her loss in that GA Governor's Race was fishy, and she running against the guy who was in charge of the state's elections.

I think what's great about this country is that anyone can be president. If she's willing to put in the work and do what's required to be president, then why not?

Because they’re texting, Op.

OP, why is she wrong to try? Often people run for the Oval Office not because they seriously think they can win but because they want a higher national profile: look at Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris.

[quote]Why can’t people stay in their lane?

Like the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

And yes, we've covered Pete Buttigieg. It's okay. He's okay. We don't need to all work out our anger and bitterness about Mayor Pete anymore, thank you.

Same goes for Stacey Abrams r67. So THREAD CLOSED

My, my, my: the control freaks are gathering!

[quote] though most of the work was done by other people, notably a white woman whose name escapes me now

Everything about this sentence is insane.

Why can't someone like that just stay home?

For those of you screeching about wokeness etc.

*A quick check of OP's posting history will reveal the repeat racism and the use of the word "lefties" and other cuntery...

OP meant exactly what he said in the OP post. i.e. "Why can't these people stay in their lane and know their place?". Trolling again...

I'm sure that OP is unaware that Abrams earned degrees from Spelman (B.A.), University of Texas Austin (Masters of Public Affairs) and a law degree from Yale University. That education alone makes her more qualified than 65% of the members of Congress and most of our past Presidents. She has written 10 books (eight novels), founded a nutrition company, has had a legal practice, was a deputy attorney for the city of Atlanta, served in the Georgia legislature for 11 years, most of those years as the minority leader in the Georgia General Assembly, in addition to her amazing success in registering Democrats in her state and getting them to vote. I agree that she would have trouble winning the Presidency in the US, because the electorate is, by and large, poorly educated, ignorant, and racist. She is not photogenic, and I'd guess that a full quarter of the electorate chooses candidates purely on the basis of looks and/or having seen the face and name on TV. But that's not on her. That's on US.

Now if Marjorie Taylor Greene or Lauren Bohbert or Madison Cawthorne announced a potential run for President, OP's question would be valid.

[quote]I'm sure that OP is unaware that Abrams earned degrees from Spelman (B.A.), University of Texas Austin (Masters of Public Affairs) and a law degree from Yale University. That education alone makes her more qualified than 65% of the members of Congress and most of our past Presidents.

Why? -- qualified for what? My aunt was a professional student, she had numerous degrees, in 25 years she never had a job. I guess by your standard she would have one of our greatest Presidents.

r74, Invalid comparison. Your aunt did not get her degrees from prestigious institutions, I feel quite certain, judging from her nephew's inability to formulate a logical argument, and did not follow up that education with an illustrious career both in law and in politics. Your "rebuttal" was a huge fail. Try again.

So R73, what you're saying is, she can't keep a steady job?