A really good website for anyone wantintg to follow the speeches being given at the Democratic National Convention: the Kamala2024 site is making videos of the speeches available on an ongoing basis.
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@wdlindsy I'm happy to accept whatever allies we have in this race.
But I won't accept the message that Trump is an aberration and doesn't represent the GOP of the last 60 years.
Folks like Giles can pretend there's not a straight line from Nixon to Reagan to Bush to Trump; whatever helps them sleep at night. But I won't.
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@Piousunyn Won't it, though?
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@Thad I won't accept that distortion, either — and I don't hear any Democrats calling on us to do so. At the same time, I think we shoot ourselves in the foot if we don't find ways to welcome these "errant" brothers and sisters without raking them over the coals for the part they've played in bringing Trump to us. We all, after all, make mistakes and need others to accept us warts and all at many points in our lives.
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@wdlindsy Cool but can we stop mentioning "Kamala" all the time and say "Harris"?
She's going to be President Harris, not President Kamala.The right is pushing for using her first name because it 1) focus on the fact that she's a woman and 2) tries to diminish her professionalism.
Harris please.
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I believe what you have noted is a fact. (wow that statement took guts!).
I also believe it will continue,
compounded by AI, to the point where there are so many versions of the facts that the truth will become near non-existent.Then, as optimistically noted by GP Harrison in the "Skeptical Inquirer", AI and misinformation could force us into a long overdue cognitive upgrade, where we wake up, grow up and become more rational species.
Looking for the Bright Side of the AI Apocalypse | Skeptical Inquirer
Rumors of impending artificial intelligence (AI) doom got you down? Take heart, there may be light at the end of this tunnel—and not all of it from the head ...
(skepticalinquirer.org)
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@wdlindsy Yeah, fair. If I were to meet Giles face-to-face, I'd thank him for his integrity, not condemn him for supporting everything Trump did short of a coup attempt.
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@Thad And I do agree with you that we should call all these Republicans who are now seeing the light to examine their legacies and see how in many ways they made decisions and advocated for policies that paved the way for Trump.
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@Smalltofeds Let's hope we can become more rational — and wiser and more compassionate.
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@Stinson_108 Thank you for that. There's a good article by Margaret Sullivan in today's Guardian about Luttig's support of Kamala Harris.
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Lifelong conservative Republican Michael Luttig states why, though his policy outlook may differ from Kamala Harris', he will cast his vote for her:
"Almost four years ago now, on January 6, 2021, a stake was driven through the heart of America’s Democracy, and on that day American Democracy was left teetering on a knife’s edge."
#KamalaHarris #DNC #Republicans #Democracy #Jan6 #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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This presidential election is a test of Americans’ commitment to America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law. It is so because the former president and the Republican Party have shamefully made it so."
#KamalaHarris #DNC #Republicans #democracy #Jan6 #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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"The often lofty, at times even noble, policy differences that have been the hallmark of American Politics and partisan debate for almost a quarter of a millennium pale in comparison to the foundational national policy issues of America’s Democracy, Constitution, and Rule of Law."
Thanks to @Stinson_108 for this link.
#KamalaHarris #DNC #Republicans #Democracy #Jan6 #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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"J Michael Luttig has never endorsed a Democrat before. That’s no surprise since the well-respected legal scholar – a retired federal appeals court judge – leans well right of center. …
In an interview with CNN, which first reported his endorsement, Luttig explained that arriving at his decision to back Harris wasn’t complicated."
~ Margaret Sullivan
#KamalaHarris #DNC #Republicans #democracy #Jan6 #RuleofLaw #Constitution
/20Why did this conservative US judge endorse Kamala Harris? | Margaret Sullivan
What matters to Michael Luttig is getting past January 2025 with democracy intact. We can argue later about how to govern
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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"He described it as a simple matter of knowing right from wrong – not merely right from left.
Simple? Maybe so, but also admirable. And at this singular moment for US democracy, all too rare."
#KamalaHarris #DNC #Republicans #democracy #Jan6 #RuleofLaw #Constitution
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@dom Where have I used just her given name? I'm not aware I've done that in anything I've posted myself. If you can point me to such a posting, I'll correct it. I make a point of always calling her by her full name.
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"Faith abounds at the Democratic National Convention, but don’t be surprised. Trump staffers have called the left ‘godless,’ but this year’s DNC painted a very different picture."
Jack Jenkins cites Sen. Raphael Warnock:
“I think it’s important, particularly for those of us in the Democratic Party, to be full-throated in the ways our faith informs our values. We’ve got to be full-throated in resisting this idea of Christian nationalism.”
Faith abounds at the Democratic National Convention, but don't be surprised
(RNS) — Trump staffers have called the left ‘godless,’ but this year’s DNC painted a very different picture.
Religion News Service (religionnews.com)
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"The right is clearly worried about the power of the Obamas to tip the battle for the White House in favor of the Democrats. Over on Fox, Jesse Watters, who believes Barack Obama is the OG destroyer of the GOP, even demanded a new investigation into Obama’s birth certificate, which is about as appalling and desperate a move as I can imagine.
Sorry, Jesse. It’s going to take more than your whining to take down these dragons."
~ Jay Kuo
#DNC #BarackObama
/23Defectors, Dance Parties and Dragons
The themes from Day Two of the DNC have Democrats thrilled and motivated.
(statuskuo.substack.com)
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"It is this very aversion to politics—when combined with a recognition that political activism is necessary—that explains what makes Michelle Obama such a compelling speaker. She can reach ordinary people who aren’t political junkies or hard-core partisans because she has the same outsider perspective as they do."
~ Jeet Heer
#DNC #MichelleObama
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"The First Black First Lady warned everyone. The shit is going to fly. But when it happens, you just have to Do Something to push back on the lies and racism and misogyny."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#KamalaHarris #DNC #MichelleObama #racism #misogyny
/25The Presidency Is a "Black Job" - emptywheel
In the month since Joe Biden endorsed Kamala Harris to be the nominee to replace him, the concerns that America is not ready to elect a Black woman President have largely been silenced. And then Michelle Obama declared the Presidency "a Black job."
emptywheel (www.emptywheel.net)