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I 100% second this from @kataclyst, all of this. That was me too.

I was certain the party would bypass Harris. I was dead wrong.

In particular, I was certain that that there was a shadowy big-donor backroom-string-pulling effort to bypass Harris and nominate some Bloomberg-y type — and I may have been right about that, but if so, they got played.

The afternoon Biden dropped out, I went from horrified to elated in a matter of hours.

#uspol spore.social/@kataclyst/113007

Spore by Project Mushroomkat (@kataclyst@spore.social)@fivetonsflax@tilde.zone @mattblaze@federate.social I’ll bite. I didn’t think he should drop out, because I couldn’t imagine the Democratic Party doing anything sensible. I thought there’d be a disastrous fight, a mini-primary, and total disarray. I was wrong. How they handled everything was amazing. From announcing after the Sunday shows, to trickling out the endorsements, to picking Walz. Amazing.
Sven A. Schmidt

@inthehands If this keeps going this well and hopefully leads to a significant and incontestable election win, it’ll end up being one of the most successful political manoeuvres I can think of.

I wonder if we’ll ever learn how much of this was meticulously planned / well executed on the fly / luck.

I exclaimed “oh, f…” - and it wasn’t “fantastic” - when I heard the news and I’m glad I was so wrong. (Not that it’s done but it’s certainly looking better!)

@finestructure
Agreed, I really hope we eventually get the inside story.

I have my guesses but don’t know which parts of the planning spanned weeks vs months vs years — but the groundwork cannot have been a matter of mere hours or days.