William Lindsey :toad:
"I revere this office, but I love my country more. It's been the honor of my life to serve as president but in the defense of democracy, which is at stake, I think it's more important than any title... Nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition. So I’ve decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. It’s the best way to unite our nation.”
~ President Biden
William Lindsey :toad:
"If we end up sliding over the cliff into a uniquely American form of fascism, I want it to be unmistakably clear to historians and everyone who comes after us that we knew what was happening. We saw it. We endeavored to prevent it, to arrest the slide, to warn of the perils. We had eyes wide open. We were not blindsided. If it happens, it happened despite our best efforts."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism
/20
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/at-least-we-wont-have-sleepwalked
William Lindsey :toad:
Charles Blow on why we all, and not just Black people, have to form a line of defense for Kamala Harris as she's attacked by racists and misogynists:
"That line of defense, has to be a political force far broader than the Black community because her candidacy, a contest against a man who tried to overturn the results of the last presidential election, represents nothing less than the preservation of our constitutional order."
William Lindsey :toad:
As Maya Boddie reports, lifelong Republican and former Lt. Gov. of Georgia Geoff Duncan, who publicly stated in May that he could not vote for Trump and was supporting Biden, has now come out for Kamala Harris, stating,
"I’m committed to beating Donald Trump….. If that requires me to vote for, speak for, or endorse @KamalaHarris then count me in!"
#KamalaHarris #Trump
/17
William Lindsey :toad:
"Just because Musk says he’s not funneling money to Trump doesn’t make it true. …
Republicans don’t like EVs. Democrats do. And Musk has done everything he can to piss off his customer base.
The problem for Musk is that very few Democrats are now willing to buy a Tesla following Musk's endorsement of Trump in May."
~ Mark Sumner
William Lindsey :toad:
And:
"Biden’s departure allows the Democrats to turn their opponents’ best attack line back on them: Maybe old men whose sentences go off on weird tangents shouldn’t run for president?"
William Lindsey :toad:
"ONE STRIKING THING ABOUT political talk shows on Kremlin-run television these days is the extent to which they mirror the American right-wing media ecosystem. Clips of Joe Biden stumbling or looking befuddled? Check. “Laughing Kamala” supercuts and clips of Harris saying things that, at least out of context, sound cringe or inane? Check. Snide references to woke identity politics in the Democratic camp? Check."
~ Cathy Young
#Biden #Trump #Putin #Russia
/14
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bidens-exit-views-from-moscow-and
William Lindsey :toad:
Helen Lewis brings the shade about Trump and J.D. Vance"
"[Trump's pick of Vance] looks less like a masterstroke and more like the impulse purchase of a luxury good—an expensive handbag bought on a credit card the day before its owner gets fired. Trump should have kept the receipt."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/regrets-about-jd-vance/679220/
William Lindsey :toad:
Wajahat Ali on the stark contrast between Biden's speech last evening and Trump's at the RNC:
"If there ever was an argument to end the dangerous 'both sides'' false equivalence, it was surely tonight. Just compare the speeches of both men. Put the transcripts side by side. Look at the words, the tone, the substance, and the messages of the speeches. There’s no 'both sides.'"
#Biden #Trump #democracy #BothSides
/13
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-kid-from-scranton-makes-good
William Lindsey :toad:
As Lisa Needham reports, FEC chair Sean Cooksey is a Trump appointee, and has made noises about welcoming Trump's FEC complaint. And:
"The FEC took no action against [Trump] for routing payments through his former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, and refused to open an investigation into his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels."
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-legal-challenges-harris-candidacy-bunk
William Lindsey :toad:
"The network, which had moved away after 2016 from airing Trump's rallies at length, later brought on Daniel Dale for a brief on-air fact check. Fox News also aired the rally, sans the fact-checking. MSNBC opted not to broadcast Trump's rally at all."
William Lindsey :toad:
"The forces propelling Biden’s decision were less the gales of the past than the headwinds of the future. We are at a juncture where the very sustainability of the United States as a vibrant democratic republic will be contested at the ballot box. One could imagine that if the stakes weren’t so existential, Biden might have continued to run, or perhaps he would have decided to forgo reelection in the first place."
~ Elliott Kirschner
#Biden #KamalaHarris
/12
William Lindsey :toad:
"The coordinated Harris campaign reported Wednesday morning that they had raised more than $126 million from 1.4 million donors between Sunday afternoon ... and Tuesday evening. FF PAC, also known as Future Forward, the largest outside group supporting Biden, announced $150 million in commitments in the first 24 hours after Biden’s Sunday afternoon announcement."
~ Michael Scherer, Gerrit De Vynck and Maeve Reston
William Lindsey :toad:
"CNN aired 18 minutes of Donald Trump's lie-filled rally Wednesday evening, in which he launched attacks on 'radical left lunatic' Kamala Harris, repeatedly whipped up attacks on the 'fake news media,' and falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged."
~ Oliver Darcy
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #CNN #FoxNews #MSNBC
/10
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17218764480833b411e33298e/raw
William Lindsey :toad:
Andrew Torrez on why the Republical complaint to FEC that Kamala Harris is illicitly taking over Biden's campaign coffers is "horseshit":
"Harris’s name has been on the FEC documents for more than four years, through nine separate filings by the Biden-Harris campaign, which is why virtually every election lawyer agrees that the move is entirely kosher."
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Trump #FEC
/3
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/gop-whines-that-its-no-fair-kamala
William Lindsey :toad:
"I do not have an opinion on who V.P. Harris should select. The good news is that she has a very deep bench to choose from. That should give us confidence—especially compared to the rogues gallery that competed for the Republican vice-presidential nomination."
William Lindsey :toad:
The Political Humor site has gathered a nice selection of commentary and memes centering on reports that because J.D. Vance is so spectacularly unpopular, Trump is trying to replace him.
https://politicalhumor.substack.com/p/jd-vance-is-so-bad-trump-is-panicking
William Lindsey :toad:
"President Biden’s speech isn’t the only thing that has registered lately. Vote.org announced a nearly 700% increase in daily voter registrations in the 48 hours following President Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he would step down. That’s more than 38,500 newly registered voters, and younger voters, those between 18 and 34, make up 83% of them."
~ Joyce Vance
William Lindsey :toad:
"Speaking of JD Vance—or James Donald Bowman and James David Hamel as he was previously known—Axios reported that Elon Musk lobbied heavily for Trump to pick Vance. When Musk was lobbying for Vance, Musk reportedly offered to provide $45 million per month to a Trump Super PAC."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
Musk now denies having committed $45 million/month to Trump.
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-sacred-task-of-perfecting-our
William Lindsey :toad:
"Musk and Trump seem on the way to merging into a single vortex of wealth and power.
Maybe we should call it the Mump — the joining together of two rich and famous narcissists who crave attention, lie through their teeth, enjoy provoking critics, hate labor unions, refuse to be held accountable for anything, and have utter contempt for democracy."
~ Robert Reich
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