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wildcat09

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  1. 1 hour ago, Orale said:

    Not saying you're wrong, but why do you believe Pelosi didn't want Kamala?

    All of her public statements before and after he dropped out. I don't have time to catalogue them all, but this was just a few days ago: 

    Pelosi, Obama, and their donor friends they helped organize their pressure campaign with didn't want Harris to be the candidate because they feared (much like a lot of us did as we were discussing the possibility) that she'd be a weaker candidate than Biden (and the donor friends thought she was too progressive). Carville sure as shit didn't want to run a progressive black woman with similar to worse (at the time) favorability numbers than Biden.

    I'm as shocked as anyone at how quickly and effectively the party rallied behind Kamala and how quickly she's been able to both increase her popularity and effectively diminish Trump in the public eye. I shared their doubts. But one thing I did know before Biden stepped down is that a contested primary would've been an absolute fucking disaster, and it absolutely would've been, while that whole crew was trying to force Biden to step aside but their entire plan for after that was some underpants gnomes nonsense.  Biden and Harris saved us from that insanity and I think we'll likely look back at the 24 hours after Biden announced he wouldn't run as one of the most pivotal moments in American history.

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  2. Just now, Chuckie Finster said:

    Aaaaaannnd CNN's first comments after that speech are about how Biden talked about his legacy more than promoting Kamala.  Easiest decision ever to turn that shit off and go to bed.

    For no real reason I ended up watching on ABC and in the minute or so after the speech that I caught their team praised Biden quite a bit.

  3. On 8/15/2024 at 10:48 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    I love this thread. Goes from please mods don’t move us to the Cloak Room to a de facto Cloak Room thread within 1 page. 

    If the pop ads bother you, talk to @immamac, don’t purposefully drag your shit over here. 

    Can we please talk about something more interesting like Houston drivers running red lights or the new paper plates, “Please be Patient, Student Driver” bumper stickers? 
     

    Thank you all. 

    *CRs thread, bitches about other people CRing the thread* 

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  4. On the double-standards WRT Israel vis a vis other democracies: I'm pretty sure that those of us here who are upset about Israel using mass starvation of a civilian population as a method of war would also be pissed if, say, Canada did the same thing. 

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