I 100% second this from @kataclyst, all of this. That was me too.
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I 100% second this from @kataclyst, all of this. That was me too.
I was certain the party would bypass Harris. I was dead wrong.
In particular, I was certain that that there was a shadowy big-donor backroom-string-pulling effort to bypass Harris and nominate some Bloomberg-y type — and I may have been right about that, but if so, they got played.
The afternoon Biden dropped out, I went from horrified to elated in a matter of hours.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by [email protected]
@kataclyst I was also extremely concerned about the press’s role: “trying to manifest Biden dropping out like it's Iraq WMD.”
I think that concern still stands. Huge swaths of the press at best have their heads up their butts about this election, and at worst have editors/execs at the ends of leashes held by oligarchs.
But I grossly underestimated the competence, unity, and planning of Democratic Party leadership.
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@kataclyst @inthehands The first person to feed me the biden-too-old-for-president line wanted Manchin, Phillips, or RFK on the ticket.
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@inthehands @kataclyst To be fair, grossly underestimating the competence, unity, and planning of Democratic Party leadership is generally a safe bet.
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@arclight @kataclyst
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Sven A. Schmidtreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands If this keeps going this well and hopefully leads to a significant and incontestable election win, it’ll end up being one of the most successful political manoeuvres I can think of.
I wonder if we’ll ever learn how much of this was meticulously planned / well executed on the fly / luck.
I exclaimed “oh, f…” - and it wasn’t “fantastic” - when I heard the news and I’m glad I was so wrong. (Not that it’s done but it’s certainly looking better!)
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Sven A. Schmidt last edited by
@finestructure
Agreed, I really hope we eventually get the inside story.I have my guesses but don’t know which parts of the planning spanned weeks vs months vs years — but the groundwork cannot have been a matter of mere hours or days.
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@inthehands @kataclyst That’s what I feared too--some hand-picked “moderate” young business dude. I have honestly never been happier to be wrong.
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@inthehands @kataclyst we were backpacking that weekend so I got to experience the whole thing in the past tense, highly recommended
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@axoplasm
Same here with Walz selection! Came out of the BWCA, and ope, guess my governor is the one! -
Dr. Mastodonocologistreplied to arclight last edited by
@arclight @inthehands @kataclyst
Is it, though?