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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:07:07 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   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.

   #DNC #Democrats #KamalaHarris
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   https://kamala2024.substack.com/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:15 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     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
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     https://popular.info/p/the-fact-checking-industrial-complex

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:16 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "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
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     https://kamala2024.substack.com/p/former-trump-voters-explain-why-theyre

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:17 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     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
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     https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-republican-veterans-are-trying

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:18 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "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
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     https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-welcome-disaffected-republicans

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:18 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     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
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     https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ex-trump-supporters-explain-why-theyre-voting-for-kamala-harris

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:19 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "This week will be gutting for Trump...he is about to face something he never has in his nine years in politics. The Democrats’ convention will cement that he is no longer the main character."

     ~ Tim Miller as quoted by Greg Dworkin

     #KamalaHarris #Trump #DNC #crowds #SizeMatters
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     https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/21/2264341/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Fired-up-and-ready-to-go

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:20 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "By lucky coincidence, the day before the Democratic National Convention opened was the 104th birthday of the 19th Amendment. This milestone in equal rights, the culmination of a half century struggle by brave, often ridiculed and reviled American women to get the vote, was barely noted in the political discourse until Heather Cox Richardson posted late on that day one of her lovely pieces of American history."

     ~ Nina Burleigh

     #KamalaHarris #DNC #women
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     https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/in-chicago-women-who-vote-and-the

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:20 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Democrats are this united today because Biden spent his first term doing the patient coalition-tending work of getting them united."

     ~ Andrew Egger

     #KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats #DNC
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     https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-in-array

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:21 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Michelle Obama reclaimed the role of family—especially mothers—in creating a just and civil society that cares for everyone, not only family members. Her positive vision of the family contrasted with the GOP’s vision that belittles and insults anyone who is not in a traditional marriage with young children (and still of childbearing age able to conceive without medical intervention)."

     ~ Robert B. Hubbell

     #MichelleObama #DNC #family #mothers #children
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     https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-love-redux

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:22 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "See, his limited, narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly educated successful people who happened to be Black. …

     Who’s gonna tell [Donald Trump] the job he is currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?”

     #KamalaHarris #MichelleObama #Trump #DNC #BlackJobs
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:22 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The greatest moment in [Barack Obama's] speech wasn’t a quotable line but rather an exquisite and petty dick joke he unsubtly made with his hands to mock Trump’s obsession with crowd 'sizes.' …

     I'm glad the Obamas finally let loose. The first Black family that ascended to the White House had to bite their tongue for nearly 16 years as the GOP and Donald Trump unleashed racist and Islamophobic dog whistles against them."

     ~ Wajahat Ali

     #BarackObama #Trump #DNC #Size
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     https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-obamas-have-earned-their-petty

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:23 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     “[Kamala Harris] understands that most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward. We will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth. …

     For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us."

     ~ Michelle Obama, quoted by Mehdi Hasan

     #KamalaHarris #MichelleObama #Trump #DNC #BlackJobs
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     https://zeteo.com/p/the-7-best-lines-from-michelle-obamas

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:24 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "But it also meant that Trump, who is obsessed with crowd sizes, would have to see not one but two packed sports arenas of supporters cheer wildly for her nomination.

     He also had to contend with former loyalists and supporters joining the Democratic convention."

     #KamalaHarris #Trump #Wisconsin #DNC #crowds #SizeMatters
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:24 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "His former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, told the Democratic convention tonight that when the cameras are off, 'Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers.' Grisham endorsed Harris, saying: 'I love my country more than my party. Kamala Harris tells the truth. She respects the American people and she has my vote.'”

     #KamalaHarris #Trump #Wisconsin #DNC #crowds #SizeMatters
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:26 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Harris joined the crowd virtually from a rally she and Walz were holding at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Last month the Republicans held their own national convention in that venue, and for Harris to accept her nomination in the same place was an acknowledgement of how important Wisconsin will be in this election."

     ~ Heather Cox Richardson

     #KamalaHarris #Trump #Wisconsin #DNC #crowds #SizeMatters
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     https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-20-2024

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:09:34 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     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
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     https://www.offmessage.net/p/fact-checkers-provide-donald-trump-cover

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:54:33 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "When people said the US was not ready for the first Black woman president, [I responded] that with Dobbs on the ballot, with fascism on the ballot, after several elections in which Black women voters saved the country, a Black woman candidate may be the most logical choice. ...

     Being bested by a smart, beautiful Black woman may be precisely the Kryptonite to Trump’s power the country has been looking for."

     #KamalaHarris #DNC #MichelleObama #racism #misogyny
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:54:34 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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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
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     https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/08/21/the-presidency-is-a-black-job/

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:54:35 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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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
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     https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/defectors-dance-parties-and-dragons

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:54:35 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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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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     https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/michelle-obama-dnc-speech/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:54:36 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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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.”

     #DNC #faith #Warnock
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     https://religionnews.com/2024/08/20/faith-abounds-at-the-democratic-national-convention-but-dont-be-surprised/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:54:37 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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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
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     https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/21/conservative-judge-harris-endorsement

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:54:37 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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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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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:54:38 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     • Robert H

     "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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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:54:39 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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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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     https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25050952-luttig-endorsement

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 02:54:39 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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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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