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Democratic Convention - who is watching?

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Amused said:
To be honest, I think the transition to Harris was planned for a while. And the timing was strategically delayed until after Trump picked a VP and had his campaign set in stone.
I think Joe's refusals AND his debate failure were all theater until the change could be made.
The timing couldn't have been more perfect.
That's my conspiracy theory. I'm not married to it, but I am banging it like she's mine.
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Can't disagree. They waited until after the RNC and the VP deadline. Also got a lot of press about donors whining.
 
balloonshark said:
AOC had a great speech. She's a natural.

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And the MAGAs who love Trump and seem to praise MTG & Lauren Boebert for always speaking their mind. Universally agree that AOC's dumb as rocks and not fit to work at a Starbucks. A MAGA told me she has no brains at all. I said she was Magna Cum Lude of her class at a respected school

"that's not really impressive, it only requires a B average" And this person thinks Boebert is the future, they had nothing to say when I asked about how it took her 4 attempts to pass the test to get her GED.
 
repoman0 said:
Not true. It requires a GPA in the top 10% of graduates from that year.

Sincerely,

Someone who graduated from the same university one year later than AOC with magna cum laude honors
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I think you missed a bit with that.

Satire…he was referring to a MAGA making that inane comment. I bet QueBert knows the Cum Laude hierarchy and gpa’s to acquire
 
Meghan54 said:
I think you missed a bit with that.

Satire…he was referring to a MAGA making that inane comment. I bet QueBert knows the Cum Laude hierarchy and gpa’s to acquire
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Idk, it’s esoteric and university dependent. Wouldn’t surprise me if a normal person didn’t know. It’s stupid as shit regardless to say it isn’t impressive. I graduated with lots of really smart people with B averages.
 
K1052 said:
I'm not sure I've ever witnessed a larger and more complete political vibe shift in a few weeks time.
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I've never seen anything like this and I'm in my late forties and have been quite political since I was in my teens. And analysts older than me haven't seen anything like it either. It's historic.

Listen, when I kept saying we gotta move on from Biden, putting in a new candidate, and then Kamala, and said it would 'inject energy' into the Dems, I absolutely knew it would because our ex-candidate was a bad one, but I did not dream this big. I mean it's just mind-blowing to see all this in action. I'm giddy.
 
MrSquished said:
I've never seen anything like this and I'm in my late forties and have been quite political since I was in my teens. And analysts older than me haven't seen anything like it either. It's historic.

Listen, when I kept saying we gotta move on from Biden, putting in a new candidate, and then Kamala, and said it would 'inject energy' into the Dems, I absolutely knew it would because our ex-candidate was a bad one, but I did not dream this big. I mean it's just mind-blowing to see all this in action. I'm giddy.
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Can we wait until the end of January to crow?
 
Yep, probably going to be a tight race, especially with "shenanigans" and not talking about the restaurant from Super Troopers.

Hey if it by some amazing miracle turns out to be a landslide Democratic win, I'll take it.

That said, it seems like Democrats were a drought-stricken field and all that was needed was a match. I'm not sure it has much to do with Harris, no slight intended toward her. Her campaign in general seems to be hitting the right notes, hitting Trump where it hurts without devolving to his bitter, insulting level and tone.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Can we wait until the end of January to crow?
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I ain't crowing that we won, but the sheer political change over the last month is historic. I am giddy. But I'm still out here encouraging people to vote, energizing folks, and am still part of a grassroots group where we plan on doing things like canvassing in PA starting in a month. I always tell people my happiness, and then say, now let's put in the work to get it done.
 
K1052 said:
I'm not sure I've ever witnessed a larger and more complete political vibe shift in a few weeks time.
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True, and even still, the election is a toss up at best, due to the stupid electoral college. Lets hope Harris can continue the momentum.
 
ondma said:
True, and even still, the election is a toss up at best, due to the stupid electoral college. Lets hope Harris can continue the momentum.
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It's not just up to Harris, it's up to us too. Michelle Obama gave the greatest speech last night, and she mentioned this, how everything is so good and feels good right now, and how we need to expect setbacks, or a mistake, or just any obstacle, and we can't let it fuck with us, we need to accept the realities of a political campaign and not basically form circular firing squads expecting a 'goldilocks campaign'.

Of course, the way she said it was much much more eloquent than that was. I urge everyone to watch Michelle's speech if you had to watch one, even over Barack's.
 
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Speaking of "rain", here is that most aggressive of songwriters James "Stephen Colbert" Taylor raining fire on the DNC for being bumped from the programming.

 
Seriously, everybody here, go watch this. It's one of the greatest speeches I can remember in decades - it's up there with the best of the best

 
oh noeeeees 😱

actually they were having fun meghan, in fact many of us were having fun at home watching it. it sucked being in the party of terrible people.



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