Does anyone on DU have lingering frustrations over Joe's decision?

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88. Interestingly enough, my wife, who can't even vote in the USA, agrees completely

She thinks that he saw the writing on the wall after reviewing his performance on June 27, and, along with his team and that of Harris, immediately started planning and choreographing the hand-off to Harris with exquisite timing. So far, it has all turned out as if following a movie script.

In 2016, while visiting the USA in the summer, when the whole world was convinced that Trump stood no chance against Hillary, she just observed the US media, and told me we were ignoring some serious danger signs. She noted that the TV stations were carrying 40 minutes of Trump ranting uninterrupted and unchallenged, while cutting off speeches by Hillary after 30 seconds. Against all predictions, including mine, she said, "watch out, there is something going on inside your country, and it could turn out to be a surprise disaster." And she was so right. She has hopes for a better outcome this time, but she says we in the USA tend to ignore danger signs until it's too late. Overconfidence is our worst enemy--worse than Republican cheating, "squads," self-aggrandizing "progressives," Fox Noise, or even unexpected revelations like Tim Walz is secretly married to a moose (calm down, he isn't). We should NEVER think it is going to be a slam dunk in our favor, because that is when we are most in danger of being the ones who get slammed and dunked.

Remember 2016--the time to celebrate is the day AFTER we win the election, not the day before the election when we are sure we WILL win the election.