ScalziJul 22, 2024

I've written a longish take on the last couple of days, including about how what looked like (and initially was) Democratic panic over Biden morphed somewhere along the way into a rope-a-dope strategy against the GOP, and whether Harris can win (spoiler: yup):

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/07/22/biden-harris-trump-and-2024/

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Biden, Harris, Trump and 2024

Slow news weekend, am I right? Some thoughts on the current state of things, in no particular order. 1. I was not a fan of the idea of Joe Biden leaving the race, and I still have my suspicions tha…

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Show threaddogzilla

@scalzi @lisamelton Fully agree, and I used the “rope-a-dope” analogy myself yesterday. I think that means we’re both “of a certain age”.

An interesting implication of this is that someone in the Dem party is Machiavellian AF. My guess is Nancy “the shiv” Pelosi. I take comfort in that idea, given what we’re up against.

Jul 22, 2024 at 5:43pmWeb
Show threadJosh Ourisman Jul 22, 2024
@dogzilla @scalzi @lisamelton whatever else I might have to say about Pelosi: she does Baltimore proud with her absolute ruthlessness.