• freagle
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    1 month ago

    My paranoia says that this is a deliberate “leak” to show Kamala is the enemy of the barons, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so this is actually intended to mobilize voters for Kamala

    • iie [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Victor Manuel Rocha, a US diplomat who spied for Cuba, pulled a similar maneuver

      Rocha’s off-the-cuff remark weeks before the 2002 Bolivian general election threatening to cut American aid to Bolivia over Evo Morales’s support for the coca-growers movement has been credited with boosting Morales’s Movement for Socialism party in the 2002 Bolivian general election — after that, Morales called Rocha his best “campaign manager”

      Shoutout to Manuel Rocha