• Ech@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Harris’ takeover has been an an absolute success, but anyone claiming they knew it’d work out this way is lying or delusional. Just because we hit the low percentage chance that it all worked out doesn’t mean people were wrong for thinking it was most likely a bad idea because all available history and information basically assured that it was.

    That said, anyone that got vitriolic about it (on either side, tbf) can get bent. This is all uncharted waters right now. Being a dick about it either way isn’t helping anything. Let’s not pretend to know that anything is certain.

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      2 months ago

      I knew that Harris would be a better candidate than Biden.

      You’d have to be proverbially blind to not have seen it.

      Did I know it would be this wildly successful? Not so much. I knew it could be, and I knew Harris would be better than Biden.

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        2 months ago

        I’m with you and all, but shouldn’t we wait before considering it a victory?

        Plenty of racists and sexists out there who won’t say a word about Harris publicly but will vote for Trump the second they enter the booth no matter what.

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          2 months ago

          I’m not declaring victory- I’m saying Biden had almost zero chance of beating trump.

          If he had lost like four of any of ten states, he’d have lost I. 2020. He won the EC by a razor’s edge.

          And that was with all the shit of his presidency fresh. He’s had four years to retcon things, to shore up his base. And Biden had 4 years to fuck around on messaging.

          He was and is taking a beating there- and some of it is actually legitimate (Gaza for example.)

          Harris… it’s going to be a tough fight, but it’s her campaign to lose. Which is a night-and-day difference.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah let’s maybe hold off on the victory laps until after the election. This thing is on a knife’s edge still and we got a lot of work to do still to get her over the line.

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        2 months ago

        Still a knife edge, but there’s more space on this knife edge.

        Though that debate performance. …. She was always going to eviscerate him… but she did it with style….