"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."

#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy
/2

"'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."

#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy
/3

"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."

#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy
/4

“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

#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy
/5

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/walz-shows-his-real-guy-roots-as-he-skewers-republicans-definition-of-freedom

Walz Shows His Real Guy Roots As He Skewers Republicans’ Definition Of Freedom

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was given a euphoric reception as he walked...

^TPM

"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

"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

Kamala Harris and Democrats in Array

Over two pivotal weeks, Harris completely reset the presidential race. The DNC has now been masterful. What lessons can we learn from the trailblazing, joyful candidate who didn't win any primaries?

^{Brian Klaas (The Garden of Forking Paths)}

"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

Dem Convention Night Two: The Non-Pros Steal the Show

Michelle Obama and Doug Emhoff introduce Kamala Harris to the country.

^{Sam Stein (The Bulwark)}

"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/

Michelle Obama’s DNC Speech Was a Reclamation and Proclamation of Black Womanhood

In her DNC speech Michelle Obama reminded America that Black womanhood matters.

^{Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (Time)}

"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."

#DNC #KamalaHarris #MichelleObama
/10

"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/

Republicans Don’t Have Anyone Who Even Approaches Barack and Michelle Obama’s Weight Class

When they go low, we go for the jugular.

^{Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)}

'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

LIVE: Tim Walz Steals Nomination From Harris, Gives It Right Back, He Was Just Foolin'

Night 3 of the DNC!

^{Evan Hurst (Wonkette)}

"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

#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump
/13

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-nomination-of-kamala-harris-for

The president we need

74 days to make it happen

^{Robert Reich}

"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."

#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump
/14

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."

#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump #Republicans
/15

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/dump-trump

Dump Trump

On a night at the Democratic National Convention headlined by former President Bill Clinton and current vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, news broke that Robert F.

^{Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)}

"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

“'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

Donald Trump: ‘I Hate My Opponent’

He’s ready to go personal in next month’s debate against Harris. Advisers are urging restraint.

^{Marc A. Caputo (The Bulwark)}

“'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

"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

Tim Walz Rocks Dem Convention With Powerful Acceptance Speech

This is how it's done

^{Scott Dworkin (The Dworkin Report)}

"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."

#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/20

"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

#DNC #KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/20

https://zeteo.com/p/the-washington-posts-embarrassing

The Washington Post's 'Embarrassing' Fact-Check Shows Why 'Both Sides' Journalism Always Fails

Plus, Fox News not bothered by its anchor peddling an election lie, and a right-wing troll gets trolled.

^{Justin Baragona (Zeteo)}

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.

#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #GusWalz #FamilyValues
/21

https://youtu.be/xY97_C2-b6M?si=K-VlNE1Q1gnHmgHr&t=13

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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Right-Wing Cruelty Targets Tim Walz's Son Gus After Heartwarming DNC Moment

Right-wing figures mock neurodivergent teen for showing emotion at DNC.

^{Parker Molloy (The Present Age)}

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."

#DNC #TimWalz #GusWalz
/23

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

"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

#DNC #KamalaHarris #MichelleObama #women #Black
/25

https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/michelle-unleashed

Michelle unleashed...

Issue #710 The Choice, Thursday, August 22, 2024

^{Keith Owens (We Are Speaking)}

"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…."

#DNC #KamalaHarris #MichelleObama #women #Black
/26

"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

#DNC #TimWalz #GusWalz #FamilyValues #Republicans
/27

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/freedoms-feels-and-fight

Freedoms, Feels and Fight

Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention packed a wallop.

^{Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)}

"Her surge is at least partly due to the pent-up desire of many young voters, people of color, and progressives for a champion who will push a new set of values. I would vote for a ham sandwich over Trump, but many voters are desperate to win something larger—for all of us. If Harris and Walz prevail, we will."

~ Joan Walsh

#DNC #KamalaHarris #YoungVoters #progressive #BlackVoters
/28

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-democrats-election/

Kamala Harris Is Meeting the Moment | The Nation

The Democrats’ sudden reversal of fortune is not as shocking as it seems.

^{The Nation}