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   Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:03:55 JST Steve Randy Waldman

   • Kartik Agaram

   @akkartik You can say a lot about Biden, but Biden 2020 was not cautious or scripted. Biden's whole career has been a fountain of gaffes. Biden would say bizarre shit (not-un-Trump-like) in 2020, from his record player spiel during the primary to telling people who annoyed him at diners not to vote for him, and almost starting physical altercations. You may think Biden's "Scranton Joe" persona authentic or a put-on, but it was always hanging out. 1/

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     Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:03:53 JST Steve Randy Waldman

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     • Kartik Agaram

     @akkartik I think it's true that Hillary was always going to have a hard time of it. As Kevin Drum put it, she was in fact an unusually honest politician, but the way she retained her honesty was by giving guarded rather than unqualified-and-therefore-imperfectly-accurate statements. 3/

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     Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:03:54 JST Steve Randy Waldman

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     • Kartik Agaram

     @akkartik (Biden was accused of "hiding in his basement" in 2020, doing podcasts — PODCASTS — but not getting out during the pandemic. But when he interacted, he was scrappy, not scripted.) 2/

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     Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 14:04:15 JST Steve Randy Waldman

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     @akkartik There's a tension between perceived straightforwardness (which requires keeping it simple, which may mean misportraying some edge cases) and legalistic accuracy, which requires either careful qualification or restraint. 4/