William Lindsey :toad:
Heather Cox Richardson puts her finger on a major theme running through commentary on the DNC this morning:
"After three days at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, I feel like I have seen the political future and its name is the Democratic Party."
William Lindsey :toad:
"Black women know more than anyone what it’s like to be dehumanized and reduced to parts of our whole. We have long been seen as mammies, mules, aesthetics, tokens, and superheroes, oftentimes simultaneously. If we are not in service to someone or something, our value is debated, our competence challenged."
~ Anna Gifty Opaku-Agyeman
#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy #MichelleObama
/9
https://time.com/7013415/michelle-obama-dnc-speech-black-womanhood/
William Lindsey :toad:
"THE BEST ARGUMENTS made for Kamala Harris’s election at the Democratic convention so far have come from the two biggest speakers who’ve never held political office. ...
Both did something that the first night’s speakers failed to truly accomplish: they painted a human portrait of Harris for an electorate still learning about her, then laid out the game plan for the sprint ahead."
~ Sam Stein
#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy #MichelleObama #DougEmhoff
/8
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democratic-convention-2024-night-2-doug-emhoff-michelle-obama
William Lindsey :toad:
"My overarching impression of the third night of the convention is that the future of the Democratic Party was on display, and it was beautiful sight! ...
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are speaking directly to the American people at a pivot point in American history. The press may not like that fact, but there is nothing they can do to stop it."
#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy #media
/6
~ Robert B. Hubbell
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-future-of-the-democratic-part
William Lindsey :toad:
"Well, I’ll take this over that Hulk Hogan freakshow.
Democrats have gathered in Chicago this week, a joyful, exuberant bear hug embrace of American political identity, patriotism, and above all, optimism. It has been a stark contrast with the American Carnage-style anger simmering at the Republican National Convention."
~ Brian Klaas
#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy
/7
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/kamala-harris-and-the-perils-of-primaries
William Lindsey :toad:
“Here is how we do it. Strategize on Sunday, meet the moment on Monday, take it to ‘em on Tuesday, work it out on Wednesday, thank the Lord on Thursday, fight the power on Friday, set it off on Saturday, get a few hours of sleep, wake up the next day and do it all over again until joy, joy, joy comes in the morning."
~ Hakeem Jeffries, quoted by Emine Yücel, Kate Riga and Nicole Lafond
William Lindsey :toad:
"'Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning,' speakers have quoted the Biblical psalm, and they have referred to the vision of the American flag still flying after a night of bombardment during the War of 1812, captured by Francis Scott Key in the national anthem, promising that after our time of national darkness, there will be light."
William Lindsey :toad:
"The Democrats have made their points with the stories of individual Americans who have overcome dark hours in order to move forward. In that storytelling, individuals represent the nation itself."
William Lindsey :toad:
"The many stories in which ordinary Americans rise from adversity through hard work, decency, and service to others implicitly conflates those individual struggles with the struggles of the United States itself. Running through the stories told at the convention is the theme of working hard through a time of darkness to come out into the light."
William Lindsey :toad:
"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
William Lindsey :toad:
"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."
William Lindsey :toad:
"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
/19
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/tim-walz-rocks-dem-convention-with
William Lindsey :toad:
“'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
/17
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-i-hate-my-opponent-harris-debate-prep
William Lindsey :toad:
“'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
/18
William Lindsey :toad:
"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
/16
William Lindsey :toad:
"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."
William Lindsey :toad:
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."
William Lindsey :toad:
"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
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-nomination-of-kamala-harris-for
William Lindsey :toad:
"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
/11
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a61936835/michelle-barack-obama-dnc-speech/
William Lindsey :toad:
'It’s Tim Walz night!
And Mayor Pete might!
And Bill Clinton night no exclamation point."
~ Evan Hurst
#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy
/12
https://www.wonkette.com/p/live-tim-walz-steals-nomination-from
William Lindsey :toad:
"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."
William Lindsey :toad:
"I get that Obama is the former president, whereas Michelle is merely (?) the wife of that former president. She didn’t hold any office; she was just (??) the wife. But for those taking notes (and you really should be taking notes), this is a real-time paradigm shift we are witnessing.
It is the women, Black women in particular, who are now taking center stage."
~ Keith Owens
William Lindsey :toad:
She writes,
"The contrast between Gus Walz’s sincere emotion and the derision it provoked from the right offers a troubling glimpse into the state of political discourse and the depths to which partisan attacks have sunk. This not only highlights the lack of basic human decency in certain right-wing corners of our politics but also raises important questions about how conservatives view emotional expression, particularly from young men, in the public sphere."
William Lindsey :toad:
I'd say this behavior doesn't so much give us a troubling glimpse into the state of political discourse, as into the who these folks are: they're truly bottom-of-the-barrel human beings.
And if we let them game the political system and impose their cruel minoritarian views on the rest of us, then God help us — and shame on us.
#DNC #TimWalz #GusWalz #FamilyValues #Republicans #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism
/24
William Lindsey :toad:
I don't want to publicize these cruel low-life human beings. But, at the same time, we need to know they're out there, and we need to expose the cynical hollowness of their claims that they stand for "God" and "family values" and "morality."
As Parker Molloy says, Trump supporters are now openly mocking Tim Walz's neurodivergent son Gus Walz and his touching display of pride and love at last night's DNC.
#DNC #TimWalz #GusWalz #FamilyValues #Republicans
/22
https://www.readtpa.com/p/right-wing-cruelty-targets-tim-walzs
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William Lindsey :toad:
For understandable reasons — you cannot fake this kind of adolescent emotional response to a parent who is loved and admired — this moment of Tim Walz's son Gus Walz saying "That's my dad!" as he points with pride to his father on stage at the DNC has taken social media by storm today.
William Lindsey :toad:
"Tonight, when Kamala Harris steps to the podium, she will formally launch a new era when women are no longer just the rescue team/cleanup crew, nor will they remain content in roles as the supporting or opening act.
Women, especially Black women, are now the main event. … Truth be told, Black women have been the main event in the Democratic Party for quite some time. But now, that fact is being shoved front and center…."
William Lindsey :toad:
"To no one’s surprise, many on the right, who have lost the ability to recognize or feel this kind of love and devotion, took immediately to mocking this family, and Gus Walz in particular. …
The Blaze, a conservative rag, apparently deleted its tweet, as did Crispi and Coulter, after receiving widespread criticism and seeing the hate pile up in the comments. But they showed us who they are."
~ Jay Kuo
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@wdlindsy @nutmeg William, your reply made me recall this story, “The Divided Blanket,” which I copied when I was 14 from my grandmother’s collection of her favorite poems, quotes, & short stories. (Her version identified its origin as Russian, but I’ve seen more modern versions identified as French). I can’t find it online, so typed it up as an email and took this screenshot…
William Lindsey :toad:
@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?
nutmeg
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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