Okay, I took a day to be pissed off. I'm past it.

[Iggo]

I wasn’t wrong, but it doesn’t help.

So…yeah.

Onward and forward.

[Walleye]

1. I'm with you, I don't think we'll find out who was wrong and till after the election.

[Iggo]

6. I mean I'm right about what happened to my vote and how I feel about it.

But it happened, and that’s that.

It’s a mighty harmful grudge to hold, and I ain’t gonna.

[Walleye]

9. I was really pissed at Obama when he didn't pick Hillary as his running mate in 2008. I got over about three weeks.

I don’t really hold grudges though because it’s too much work

[ForgedCrank]

2. Tell me

how you did it. I'm not much of a drinker and I don't do illicit drugs, so I'm fighting with myself trying to justify all of this and not be so damned angry about it. It's not like me to be this mad for so long and I don't like it. My normal methods aren't working, not even a long walk with the headphones.

[Iggo]

7. Hard won experience in putting down stuff that's bad for me.

[CoopersDad]

8. At the risk of being alerted upon, you might want to watch the debate again.

And adjust your expectations.

Nobody lives forever, nobody gets sharper with age beyond 65 or 70 years of age.

As capable as President Biden is, how any candidate appears to voters matters, big time.

I love Kamala stepping up, it's an entirely new game and we will win if we adjust.

[CrispyQ]

10. I didn't want Joe to drop out & I totally believed that we'd lose the election with someone else,

but I've changed my mind. I now think we have a better chance with Harris than we did with Biden.

I thought this was all a big-donor agenda, but not anymore. There is a new energy on social media, especially the feminist pages & sites. We remember the punch in the gut of winning the popular vote by +3 million but losing the title back in 2016. It's past time America had a woman president & who better to kick Don's orange ass to the curb than a strong, Black woman?

I do regret the way Biden was treated, the way congressional dems spoke out publicly against him seemed like bad form. I felt they should have waited until they could do so with one voice in support of one candidate. I guess this is the icky part of sausage making.

[Qutzupalotl]

13. For me, it helped to see the party come together so quickly.

Not all of us, but state party chairs and delegations. There is an energy and excitement that wasn't there these last few weeks. We will have the first female candidate running in a post-Roe world … with no phony email scandal or decades of baggage. She can run on continuing the success of Biden's term, while combatting the failures Trump caused.

I did not like the process. I thought it got ugly and disrespectful. As an older guy myself, I hate to see good, capable people cast aside. But look at what is happening after the announcement: suddenly the floodgates are open, there is hope again after a rough three weeks, and most importantly, we are avoiding a contested convention and chaos.

There was a chance we would have lost with Biden; I don't believe we would, but it was there. Now, there is a clear difference to the public between the candidates. One is sharp and gorgeous, the other … just crazy. Prosecutor or felon. I think we can not merely squeak by, but win big across the country, hold the Senate, and take the House. Then we can look at real reforms.

The aura of inevitability Trump was trying to run on — that is gone. They realize they are fucked. Trump can't pull the same move — Trump's running to stay out of prison, so he is stuck. Biden is free to focus on the presidency. Kamala's coming to kick some ass. How quickly the tables have turned! All it took was humility and decency, something alien to the other team. Their squealing tells me this was a good move.

I was all in for Joe, mostly because I thought the alternative was chaos and defeat. I was wrong. So I'm just going to enjoy watching Trump lose everything. That brings a kind of solace.

[CentralMass]

3. It would seem that there is a new political reality this morning.

[Iggo]

4. Yes. And I can deal with that reality, or go yell at clouds.

I’ll deal.

It ain’t the end of the world.

[Demsrule86]

11. We have to win for that to be true...time will tell.

[Attilatheblond]

5. Yes, there is, and we have work to do. Best we be gittin' at it.

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[mvd]

12. That's how I feel

I was upset by how Biden was treated. Still am. But I trust his decision. And I feel optimistic about Harris.