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This is pretty much what I was arguing before it happened.
Never been so glad to be so wrong.
They're right that it was risky but they are massively over estimating incumbent advantage and the power of a massive advertising budget. It must have been a very hard call for the DNC to make.
Also hasanabi has no leg to stand on here. He makes a living off stealing other peoples content and spamming out delusional political takes. He is one of the morons people shouldn't listen to.
What delusional takes has Hasan had? Also swapping out Biden definitely wasn't a risk, no one really wanted him, they just didn't want Trump. Which was shown by the big bump Kamala got after Biden dropped out, that bump matches actually a lot with one of the things Hasan talks about. The fact that a faceless democratic politician is much more popular than Biden in polls. Biden was actively hurting the Democrats chances both on the national level and down the ballot. It wasn't a risk to get rid of him, it was obvious that he was hurting Democrats chances overall.
What delusional takes has Hasan had?
In his infinite wisdom and understanding of international affairs Hasan predicted, several times, that Russia would never invade Ukraine, was never going to invade Ukraine in the first place and all warnings from the West were lies to stoke up international tensions.
Days before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Biden consistently polled like trash. He was losing to Trump which is insane.
People genuinely believing Geriatric Genocide Joe was the best candidate was astounding. Liberals really just repeat whatever propaganda they heard on CNN last night without thinking about it.
Hasanabi has great political takes. Unlike the bulk of political content creators he doesn't have to correct his entire world view being wrong every 3 months.
First of all pretty Palestine is not on the ballot it never was and never will be, that "issue" is so far down on peoples list. The main problem with Biden was his perceived cognitive ability. This was always just republican propaganda because Trump is as senile if not more than Biden and it never mentioned. That is obvious to anyone who doesn't get news through headlines and soundbites.
Secondly polling slightly behind Trump doesn't mean he was going to lose. How many times have polls accurately reflected anything. Biden polled lower than Trump in 2020 and still won. Haris still polls -14 vs Trump in some polls.
Hasans political takes are not based in reality he doesn't have to correct his world view because it will never be implemented and can therefore never be proven wrong. He can forever hide behind the true communism has never been tried meme.
Very few believed Joe wast the best choice, they just really didn't want Trump, hence the popularity of Harris despite not being incumbent.
Twitter is such a great site to read threads. all you need to do to understand what's happening is to read in order of 5, 4, 1, 3, 2.
I get the logic was sound at the time but the logic seems to assume that this is all a game with predefined rules and strategy.
Like yeah, incumbents typically won before, but would that hold up when everyone had an audible groan about voting for Biden?
I feel like most of political strategy could be replaced by just trying to understand the people voting, rather than bundling up correlations into strategy and blindly following them.
Like I feel like if you talked to most random average people, they'd have told you about the oppressive hopelessness they're feeling. Maybe they don't know why they feel that, but the general mood from everyone is that nothing's actively good is going to happens.
So of course getting a new candidate with a hope themed campaign will reawaken our passion, incumbent be damned.
I still argue this point.
It's like
You know, this is risky and we can't afford this risk
but it was great
but risk is more than anecdotes
The odds are the odds; and those expressing concern know the odds. For god's sake, we mandate smoke detectors, people.
Having said, that, of course I hope this changed effort succeeds in preserving democracy so we can vote on issues we should be able to debate -- whether a seditious felon can try to run the country should be a brief joke before we confirm people have rights and safety and health and well-being and other detail-ridden goals we should have been addressing in the last decade instead of this mess.
PugJesus won’t like this one
How long until he chides someone for being a fascist enabler for not being a Democrat bootlicker?
I can’t stand the “never criticize a dem or you’re helping the republicans” crowd, it’s how we ended up where we are now. Dems got complacent and ratcheted to the right to appease a “broader base” (how did that work out?)… give the people strong social policies and you will win in landslides
I was wrong too. And I am glad people didn't listen to me.
I was convinced this was true because the message was constantly shoved down my throat