Heather Cox Richardson puts her finger on a major theme running through commentary on the DNC this morning:
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"What’s more, the obstacles faced by Black women daily are embedded into the structures and systems that line the pockets of the powerful. Despite our struggles being woven into the lives of everyone else, despite fighting for democracy time and time again, we are continually left behind.
Perhaps the Black woman who understands this most is Michelle Obama, a Black girl from the South Side of Chicago whose ordinary life led to extraordinary circumstances."
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"For years, Republicans lived in public terror that Michelle Obama would run for president. They used her name as a talisman to quell the jelly in their bellies, and then as the wick on the gaslight they used to gin up the rubes. Tuesday night’s speech showed definitively that the GOP was lowballing the risk of her getting involved in politics at this level. They don’t have anyone in her weight class, & now everybody knows it.
~ Charles Pierce
#DNC #MichelleObama
/11Republicans Don’t Have Anyone Who Even Approaches Barack and Michelle Obama’s Weight Class
When they go low, we go for the jugular.
Esquire (www.esquire.com)
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'It’s Tim Walz night!
And Mayor Pete might!
And Bill Clinton night no exclamation point."
~ Evan Hurst
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"In every way, she’s his antithesis. She was a prosecutor; he’s a convicted felon also indicted for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election. She’s kept her ideals; he’s kept his cynicism. She wants an inclusive America; he wants an exclusive one. She uses the power of joy and hope in politics; he uses the power of fear and revenge."
~ Robert Reich
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"The only way to beat him is by playing an entirely different game — a game that draws on qualities that are the opposite of his, that appeals to those aspects of the American character diametrically opposed to his."
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Joyce Vance features voices of two Republicans who spoke yesterday at the DNC about why they will not vote for Trump: Olivia Troye, former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism advisor to v-pPence, said,
"Four years ago, I resigned from the Trump administration. As a Republican who dreamed of working in the White House, it was a hard decision."
#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump #Republicans
/15Dump Trump
On a night at the Democratic National Convention headlined by former President Bill Clinton and current vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, news broke that Robert F.
(joycevance.substack.com)
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"But as an American, it was the right one. I saw how Donald Trump undermined our intelligence community, military leaders, and, ultimately, our democratic process. Now, he's doing it again, lying and laying the groundwork to undermine this election."
And former Lieut-Gov of Georgia, Geoff Duncan:
"If Republicans are being intellectually honest with ourselves, our party is not civil or conservative. It's chaotic and crazy. And the only thing left to do is dump Trump."
#DNC #Republicans
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“'This is just the way I am. I hate my opponent. I hate my opponents,' Trump told a confidant who advised the former president to consider backing away from calling the vice president 'stupid' or 'dumb' at their high-profile standoff in a few weeks, which he has done repeatedly.Trump explained to the confidant that he’s treating Harris the same way he did Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton."
~ Marc A. Caputo
#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump
/17Donald Trump: ‘I Hate My Opponent’
He’s ready to go personal in next month’s debate against Harris. Advisers are urging restraint.
(www.thebulwark.com)
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“'Hillary, Joe, Kamala. It doesn’t matter. I just hate them.'
To another adviser, Trump was blunt about taking on Harris: 'I’m going to be mean.'”
#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump
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JustRosyreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy It's just an endless dumpster-fire with him:
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"Our campaigns are dominating the trends on social media, garnering billions of impressions over the last two weeks. We are also pressing forward with our rapid response coverage to get ahead of the mainstream media’s pro-Trump agenda."
~ Scott Dworkin
#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/19Tim Walz Rocks Dem Convention With Powerful Acceptance Speech
This is how it's done
(www.dworkinsubstack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to JustRosy last edited by
@JustRosy Yes, he can get over his lizard-brain fixations to save his soul, can he? Just trapped forever in those cycles of resentment and rage.
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"Today we were able to get CNN to change a bogus headline in only 24 minutes, and tonight we trended #AmericaNeedsWalz to fight back against the media’s constant attacks on Tim Walz, already garnering over 100 million impressions."
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Kierkegaanks regretfullyreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy He needs to call his opponents stupid because of the cognitive dissonance between his boundaryless narcissism and the knowledge that he is a world class olympic fucking idiot
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"Addicted to horse-race election coverage, the political press just can’t stop looking for ways to give Trump every single benefit of the doubt, all in an effort to create some supposed level playing field.
Case in point – check out the so-called fact-checkers."
~ Justin Baragona
#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/20The Washington Post's 'Embarrassing' Fact-Check Shows Why 'Both Sides' Journalism Always Fails
Plus, Fox News not bothered by its anchor peddling an election lie, and a right-wing troll gets trolled.
(zeteo.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Kierkegaanks regretfully last edited by
@Kierkegaanks Well-stated. You're right.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to SufferForMe 🆘 last edited by
@sufferforme Thanks for the link. Listening now!
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nutmegreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Daniel Dale at CNN disappointing as well.
It seems once you're sucked into the propaganda outlets, you let go of journalistic standards.
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@nutmeg They are almost all very thoroughly embarrassing themselves right now. I will never unsee the way they descended on Biden, an aging man trying to remain in good health, and surrounded him like sharks sensing blood in the water — something they have never done to Trump. I ask myself who raised people who can behave this way? And whether they, most of whom are on the younger side, ever reflect on the fact that they, too, may one day be old and would not want that treatment?