William Lindsey :toad:
"Perhaps what needled me more than anything was that most of the people publicly calling for Joe to step aside were white men, or folks in the so-called 'donor class,' or members of the punditry. Folks who certainly want to win, and who would certainly suffer under a Republican administration, but who wouldn’t feel the full brunt of Project 2025 and –"
~ Michele Hornish
#KamalaHarris #Biden #media
/1
https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/the-grassroots-speaks-with-a-unified
William Lindsey :toad:
"Are some voters going to respond 'Yeah, I hate her too!' and vote for Trump when they weren’t going to do so already? Probably. But maybe, just maybe, there will be even more who are reminded of who this Republican Party is and what it represents, and turn away from it in disgust. We’re going to find out."
William Lindsey :toad:
"To all this, Democrats should say: Bring it on. Show everyone who you really are. Call her a slut, call her a bitch, call her a foreigner, call her a DEI hire. Dump all the rancid contents of your foul little hearts right on the table for everyone to see."
William Lindsey :toad:
"DONALD TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN IS PREPARING a full-scale blitz on Vice President Kamala Harris, with broadsides on her record that borrow from the ad that came to define dog-whistle politics.
The question is not just whether it will work, but whether Republicans—including the former president himself—will have the discipline to keep the racial subtext of their new strategy from becoming the text."
~ Marc A. Caputo
#KamalaHarris #Republicans #racism
/4
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-planning-to-willie-horton-kamala
William Lindsey :toad:
"Kamala Harris is going to be the Democratic nominee for president, and all that pent-up [Republican] vitriol is about to come pouring out. Take the racist bile heaped on Barack Obama, add in the misogynistic fury directed at Hillary Clinton, bake them in the cauldron of the Trump-era American right, and what comes out will likely be the ugliest campaign we’ve seen in a long, long time."
~ Paul Waldman
#KamalaHarris #Republicans #racism #misogyny
/5
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/with-kamala-harris-republicans-can
William Lindsey :toad:
"The grassroots machine that came together over the last two days to lift up Kamala Harris is made, mostly, of women. Women who woke up on a rainy November day in 2016 to listen to a woman in a purple suit tell all the little girls to keep dreaming. Women who began marches, attended rallies, ran for office, and created an infrastructure for activism unlike anything that the Democratic party has ever seen."
William Lindsey :toad:
"especially for those in the news industry – who might actually benefit from what the New York Times Editorial Board considered an 'exciting' contested Democratic convention.
Glaringly, Black women were missing from the calls for Biden to step aside. The graphics showing the legislators calling for Biden to step aside were telling. Most were men. All were white."
William Lindsey :toad:
"A new CBS News/YouGov poll taken after Joe Biden dropped out found that 79% of self-identified Democrats want Kamala Harris to be the nominee. That is the will of the voters. …
The one issue bogging down President Joe Biden’s poll numbers against Trump—his age—is now not only no longer an issue for Democrats, but it’s been completely turned around on Trump, who is the oldest nominee for president in our nation’s history."
~ Todd Beeton
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-biden-trump-2024
William Lindsey :toad:
"Today would be a good day to thank Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. by flooding the White House with hand-written thank you cards.
Hand-written cards and letters were a hallmark of people Joe’s age, and I am sure he would so very much appreciate receiving hundreds of thousands of them.
President Joe Biden
c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500"
~ Pamela Hilliard Owen
#Biden #KamalaHarris
/15
https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/joseph-robinette-biden-jr-is-still
William Lindsey :toad:
Kathleen Culliton reports on how Fox News' Jesse Watters has been pummeled on social media today after he said that Kamala Harris didn't "earn" her run for the presidency, and Americans like "self-made" people.
As X user JerseyJohn said in reply, "Watters fails to mention that Fat--- von Golfcart inherited, then blew $400 million. It doesn't get any more self-made than that."
William Lindsey :toad:
As Culliton notes, quoting Michael Koncewicz, Watters is the son of child psychologist Anne Purvis, daughter of Morton Bailey, publisher of Better Homes and Gardens magazine, and his great-grandfather was publisher of Saturday Evening Post."
"According to the Washington Post, Watters got his entry-level job at Fox News — after being fired for incompetence in three other jobs — when his mom called an ex-congressman who knew someone at the network."
William Lindsey :toad:
"And when Congress passes the law to restore reproductive freedoms, as president of the United States, I will sign it into law.”
Truscott adds,
"You will be able to hear the cheers from every corner of the United States, as the Vice President delivers that line to crowds in the coming weeks."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #abortion #women #ReproductiveRights
/12
William Lindsey :toad:
Last concludes:
"Christian nationalism is a perversion of Christianity. But it’s more than that. It’s a perversion so deep that its adherents seem happy to cut themselves off from the root of their faith. They are seeking first the Kingdom of Don. …
The 'Christian' part of it is an afterthought."
William Lindsey :toad:
Lucian K. Truscott quotes what Kamala Harris told students at a high school in Milwaukee today, to "raucous applause":
“We'll stop Donald Trump's extreme abortion bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own bodies and not have the government tell them what to do."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #abortion #women #ReproductiveRights
/11
William Lindsey :toad:
Leatherwood was then reinstated, but as Last says,
"The fact that Leatherwood’s very Christian statement about Biden made so many Southern Baptists angry is illuminating."
Last points to the list of leading Democrats who expressed dismay at the attempt on Trump's life and said they were praying for him.
Then he notes,
"Go ahead and find a Democrat who objected to their statements of concern and prayer for Trump.
You can’t."
William Lindsey :toad:
Jonathan V. Last reports on what just happened when Brent Leatherwood, head of the Southern Baptist Convention Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, praised Biden's "selfless act" in stepping aside. Within 14 hours, he was fired after Southern Baptist leaders expressed outrage that he praised Biden's selflessness.
#SouthernBaptists #Biden #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #Republicans
/8
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-christian-nationalist-rot-runs
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