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   Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 06:15:16 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

   Look, this is the most engaging Democratic politics has been since 2008

   It’s not inevitable that it translates to final victory, but what an opportunity

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     Selena Larson (selenalarson@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 06:15:17 JST Selena Larson

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     @danilo I find it so funny how certain people are like “we’re doomed” meanwhile all my group chats are like let’s gooooooooo

     There are a lot more people galvanized by this than doomsdaying imo

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 06:15:46 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     • Selena Larson

     @selenalarson and when you look at the polling…

     It’s democracy working!

     SO MANY PEOPLE WANT NEITHER TRUMP NOR BIDEN

     now they can… have that?

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 12:24:49 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     But perhaps the part that has me most hopeful right now is that tiktok is EXPLODING with Kamala memes from real creators

     You can't buy the zeitgeist at any price, and she's just got it

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 12:24:50 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     I guess I offended a sentient dog with this, but I stand by the analysis
     😂

     Energy is a necessary precursor to victory

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 12:24:50 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     Kamala Harris has raised, in half a day, almost $50m per ActBlue. The biggest fundraising day of the whole cycle

     Engagement is now translating into action, as a viable path forward becomes clear

     https://x.com/actblue/status/1815198823771165179

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 12:51:05 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     This is somewhat to be expected, but you would only know about this if you're actually engaged with TikTok, the bleeding edge culture laboratory carefully maintained by an opaque algorithm, and with the dying gasps of Twitter

     The MOMENT maneuvering on behalf of Harris began, something strange happened among both leftists AND young people

     It was as if everyone kind of looked at each other, grinned, shrugged, and said “why not? this could ACTUALLY work”

     Despair was replaced by possibility.

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 07:27:20 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     Harris set the one day campaign donation record and collected all the delegates she needs to win the nomination

     Starting to think there was a lot more to all of this than just the New York Times thumbing the scales

     https://apnews.com/live/biden-trump-election-campaign-updates?taid=669eb7f2e491b3000172e4d0&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 07:27:21 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     WILD

     The ActBlue fundraising total for yesterday FINALLY puts us back in line with the peak energy single-day of 2020, AND ECLIPSES IT, a month and a half earlier in the cycle

     https://observablehq.com/@rdmurphy/actblue-ticker-tracker

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 07:27:21 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     Here’s one where the artist paints Kamala onto a dollar bill in time lapse, using the classic Obama hope gaze

     We are living in an absolutely different universe than we were last week. So…

     https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNuQgLJE/

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 07:27:22 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     waking up with the heady feelings of hope and possibility that we now have enough positive incentive to actually win this thing

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 07:27:22 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     This is wild.

     ActBlue donations totaled $61m for the week ending July 20.

     In the single day since Biden stepped back and the party started coalescing around Harris, ActBlue collected over $83m

     https://observablehq.com/@rdmurphy/actblue-ticker-tracker

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 07:27:23 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     It was yet another Extremely Online Meme to be inside.

     We were existing in the context. We were unburdened by what had been.

     Winks and nods to Harris's idiosyncratic rhetorical style became shibboleths, made all the more sparkling by the intransigent stridence of those who were committed to going down with the Biden ship.

     And so the question becomes:

     Is THIS the pattern Kamala enjoys across the board? Do her poll numbers bloom as more voters go through this same evolution?

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 07:27:23 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     Meanwhile, now that there’s a seat open, the surrogates have a renewed fighting spirit.

     Everyone is going to hit the morning and Sunday shows with vigor, competing for the VP slot.

     By making room for the next generation, Biden has given the next generation new reasons to fight and win.

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 07:27:24 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     I watched the transformation play out in my own mind

     “Kamala's weird. And she's a cop, I don't know…"

     But the contrast between Harris and Trump is irresistible. She's got energy and a sharp edge honed from a long career working her way up the system.

     Suddenly, Harris was looking PRETTY good.

     They say the healthy antidote to nihilism is absurdism, and it was in this spirit that the KHive suddenly grew into a big tent.

     Coconut memes everywhere. Irony transmuted to conviction.

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 07:28:37 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly this is really the vibe I get too

     It feels like a successful referendum against gerontocracy that’s injecting energy above and beyond the fundamentals