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Hekate

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31. I'll miss Joe & am glad I have my 2 coffee mugs & T-shirt. Glad I donated. Nothing is wasted.

Mon Jul 22, 2024, 02:18 AM

Jul 22

A couple hundred bucks toward a Democrat as good and decent as Joe Biden — it will be put to good use by future POTUS Kamala Harris.

This last month has been absolute hell for us here, hasn’t it? I guess it was around 10:00 my time (maybe later; I dawdle when I wake up) when I was making some breakfast and my husband (who was probably looking for Fareed Zakaria’s program) said Biden had dropped out. I already had DU up on my iPad and nothing was here yet, so I flipped on MSNBC in my kitchen and got Katy Tur with a succession of intelligent guests.

It was when Rachel Maddow was roped in for early comment that I finally got a good grip on the potentialities of the situation. She had the usual nice things to say about Joe Biden, but it was also she who turned my thinking around by going on at length over how panicked and furious Trump and his whole campaign had to be at that very moment.

She was in a state of unholy glee over that prospect, and over the choice of JD Vance, who was chosen for an ideology so rabid that in her words, people will vote for a protein shake before they vote for Vance once they get to know him through our eyes. Trump is stuck with Vance, and the RNC is over and he has utterly squandered his chance to obsess over anything but his many personal grievances, his snake fable, and Joe Biden’s supposed feebleness. Trump is now the oldest person by far in this campaign. And Joe has taken “age” off the table for the Dems.

I did not expect to be able to feel any optimism on this day, and I did not expect to be able to pivot like this. Amazing.

Now all the Dems have to do is start running ads about Project 2025 …

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Only Joe Biden could engineer a "fuck you. I'm out" this brilliant [View all] sheshe2 Jul 21 OP

He is the ultimate pro. Respect. Klarkashton Jul 21 #1

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. sheshe2 Jul 21 #8

+1. Love the "Don't mope, VOTE!" Silent Type Jul 21 #2

🙂 sheshe2 Jul 22 #18

Yup! we will be naming schools and health clinics after him for a generation. lapfog_1 Jul 21 #3

Catapulted from excellence into greatness. nt The Unmitigated Gall Jul 21 #4

Oh yeah, everything went so smoothly Prairie Gates Jul 21 #5

Wtf did you want? JFC Klarkashton Jul 21 #9

Um.. 542532 Jul 22 #37

The end was clear... sheshe2 Jul 21 #12

The end? or pause? mamajudi Jul 22 #19

End. Pause. Start. sheshe2 Jul 22 #21

But that does not mean we can't grieve: speak easy Jul 22 #25

I see it as a fiasco, and our democracy still teeters on the precipice Martin Eden Jul 22 #41

🤔 ColinC Jul 21 #6

Well Colin... sheshe2 Jul 21 #13

At this point my mind might actually be blown 😂 ColinC Jul 21 #14

I was out all day. sheshe2 Jul 22 #16

The timing was certainly serendipitous. Ocelot II Jul 21 #7

Agreed. For whatever reason it's all good. Klarkashton Jul 21 #10

That took some hours to sink in, but now I am pretty sure it was a brilliant move Hekate Jul 22 #24

I think the last several weeks was part of the plan also all along KS Toronado Jul 22 #32

Wasted their whole convention attacking the wrong person. Bahahaha nt still-prayin4rain Jul 21 #11

Saw a post from Trump on his social media (cough cough) platform Attilatheblond Jul 22 #20

ROFLMAO!! They are so freaking dumb! Harris is about to mop them up!! nt still-prayin4rain Jul 22 #22

They are dumb AND a bunch of immature, entitled spoiled brats Attilatheblond Jul 22 #23

That's a riot! 'SORRY NO REFUNDS' emulatorloo Jul 22 #27

Think he made the final decision in the last day or two onandup Jul 21 #15

Perhaps, I don't know. sheshe2 Jul 22 #17

++++++++ emulatorloo Jul 22 #26

We agree on that onandup Jul 22 #40

Just listened to Heather Cox-Richardson say the same thing in a slightly more elegant fashion GoneOffShore Jul 22 #28

I don't think there was any gamesmanship here with Biden. He was in it to win it. valleyrogue Jul 22 #29

Proud to be a Dem! SunSeeker Jul 22 #30

I'll miss Joe & am glad I have my 2 coffee mugs & T-shirt. Glad I donated. Nothing is wasted. Hekate Jul 22 #31

Ultimate Dark Brandon move C_U_L8R Jul 22 #33

And he is all out of ice cream... Hekate Jul 22 #38

"And it's not like he won't be right next to her as highest level advisor" Cha Jul 22 #34

I wonder if I can still get a Dark Brandon lawn sign Mossfern Jul 22 #35

Yeah, This is Priceless! Cha Jul 22 #36

Sad and good in so many ways UpInArms Jul 22 #39