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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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
"Republicans who have soured on their party and its swing to the far right since the ascension of Donald Trump have found a new home and presence at the Democratic convention this week."
~ Joe Perticone
#KamalaHarris #Trump #DNC #Republicans
/11Democrats Welcome Disaffected Republicans With Open Arms
Plus: The glorious return of the political boater hat.
(www.thebulwark.com)
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EtherAndRhumreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@wdlindsy I don’t wish ill on good people, or most of the bad ones, but i dont think he can join his ex-wife as a tax evasion scheme soon enough. He might agree, too - he looks tired.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
Bess Levin highlights a video played on opening day of the DNC, in which people who voted for Trump in the past state why that's no longer possible — to wit:
"We’ve seen what Donald Trump really is, and it disgusts me to my core.”
#KamalaHarris #Trump #DNC #Republicans
/12Trump “Disgusts Me to My Core”: Ex-MAGA Supporters Tell the World Why They’re Voting for Kamala Harris
“Voting against Trump and for Kamala Harris is the right thing to do.”
Vanity Fair (www.vanityfair.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
Wajahat Ali talks to Sam Van Kopp, co-founder of Republican Veterans Against Trump, who is seeking "to reach out to fellow life-long Republicans to vote against a twice-impeached vulgarian who has repeatedly denigrated and mocked veterans and soldiers, referring to those who were wounded as 'suckers' and 'osers.”'
#KamalaHarris #Trump #DNC #Republicans #veterans
/13How Republican Veterans Are Trying to Convince GOP Voters To Vote Against Trump
As Donald Trump continues insulting our veterans & taking a sledgehammer to our democracy, a group of Republican voters are stepping up to convince their community to finally defeat him this November.
(thelefthook.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
"I'm a lifelong Republican, but I feel more at home here than in today's Republican Party. The Grand Old Party has been kidnapped by extremists and devolved into a cult. The cult of Donald Trump. Trump doesn't know the first thing about public service!"
~ John Giles, Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona
#KamalaHarris #Trump #DNC #Republicans
/14A message from former Trump voters who'll vote for Kamala now because they're tired of Trump's bullshit
It's nice to see that there are still some Republicans left who are not completely insane. Welcome! And thank you! ❤️
(kamala2024.substack.com)
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Piousunynreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@wdlindsy When a Republican says 'women should enjoy the rape' seems telling enough for me of how demented they are.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
And, as many of us celebrate what appear to us to be promising and remarkable things happening with the Democratic party, things that point to a brighter future for us all, the mainstream media remain ever ready to pop the balloon in any way possible.
As Judd Legum notes, one current strategy is to employ fact-checking in a hair-splitting way that gives cover to Trump's toxic lies, while attacking Democrats.
#Democrats #Republicans #Trump #media
/15The fact-checking industrial complex
Holding powerful people accountable for lying is an important task for the media.
(popular.info)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by [email protected]
Why do the media insist on behaving this way (see /15)? Brian Beutler's explanation:
Mainstream media fact checkers actually often mangle facts to give cover to Donald Trump, as they "embrace pedantry, fallacious logic, and outright misinformation to insulate Trump from accurate Democratic attacks."
They do this because they WANT to give Trump cover. And we can expect endless media slams against the DNC for that very reason.
#Democrats #Republicans #Trump #media
/16Off Message
Because vigorous internal debate isn't a weakness—it's essential. Click to read Off Message, by Brian Beutler, a Substack publication.
(www.offmessage.net)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Piousunyn on last edited by
@Piousunyn For sure. What an odious perspective, too.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to EtherAndRhum on last edited by
@EtherNRhum I agree. Well-stated.
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Piousunynreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@wdlindsy Be amusing to see what the MSN does with Trump not being the main character?
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Thadreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@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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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Piousunyn on last edited by
@Piousunyn Won't it, though?
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Thad on last edited by
@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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Domreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@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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Ken Larsonreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
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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Thadreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@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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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Thad on last edited by
@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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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Ken Larson on last edited by
@Smalltofeds Let's hope we can become more rational — and wiser and more compassionate.