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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 06:05:20 JST Paul Cantrell

   • kat

   I 100% second this from @kataclyst, all of this. That was me too.

   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.

   #uspol https://spore.social/@kataclyst/113007685540310220

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 06:09:42 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • kat

     @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 an oligarchical leash.

     But I grossly underestimated the competence, unity, and planning of Democratic Party leadership.

     #uspol

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     Sven A. Schmidt (finestructure@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 06:54:55 JST Sven A. Schmidt

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     @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 Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 06:54:55 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Sven A. Schmidt

     @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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     Molly B (mjibrower@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 07:03:06 JST Molly B

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     • kat

     @inthehands @kataclyst That’s what I feared too--some hand-picked “moderate” young business dude. I have honestly never been happier to be wrong.