It’s another reference for the young’uns, like the Brat thing.
The inspiration for the merch is not hard to locate. Singer Chappell Roan sells similar merch with an almost identical design but for the text that reads “Midwest Princess.”
I noted that Walz said “fertility treatments” and not IVF so much this time. Good tweak.
James O’Keefe has gone undercover at the DNC. So we can expect his usual manufactured bullshit shortly thereafter. Wasn’t he supposed to be in prison?
But at least he’s found a friend:
(Note: this last one is satire. Or what passes for satire on Babylon Bee.)
This is interesting:
A Tale of Two Roll Calls (short video in a Reddit link). Shows a difference between the two conventions. Whoever organized the dem convention and ran it has done a fantastic job at it.
I think she did great. Maybe a tad long but that is nitpicking. Her connecting the little girls who first went to school when segregation was tossed out with Harris was excellent.
Needless to say, I didn’t watch any of the RNC convention
Needless to say, I didn’t watch any of the RNC convention, and the contrast is truly remarkable. The Pubs, of course, have never had any imagination, so this isn’t surprising, but let me help them formulate a response:
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Of course the Dems put on a better party – most of the music business and pretty much all of Hollywood are commies, and in the tank for the Dems!
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The Dems aren’t serious enough, as very well illustrated by the fact that Obama once wore a tan suit! The Pubs take political events seriously, as illustrated below – no pop-rock music here! (Too bad the man of the hour isn’t playing an invisible concertina here, but I guess every dictator has his own signature gestures.)
Less sarcastically, let’s not forget that it’s not over yet – Day 4 coming up!
That was amazing, and actually made me a little teary-eyed with hope.
Also, someone needs to spam The Orange Idiot’s Twuth account with this, AND the parting image of Kamala speaking to TWO sold out venues at once!
So, in thinking about this, all the days so far, what I noticed is, although the quality of speakers varied somewhat, how goddamned good most of them are, and almost more importantly, how normal they seemed. I could see being friends with almost any of them.
Compare that to some of the people on the GOP side. Ted Cruz, DeSantis, and the like. Just personally odious people, as widely acknowledged even in their own party. Ranting idiots like MTG and Boebert. Weirdos like Vance. And Trump, oh god, Trump. The contrast in the quality of people is stark.
I’d take almost anyone who showed up on stage this week as President over any of the GOP, regardless of any particular policy positions they may take. They’d all be so much more sensible.
Kamala also wore one. In fact, I think the specific shade was coconut brown.
Walz sold me last night. Harris 2024, Harris 2028, Walz 2032, Walz 2036. I’ll worry about 2040 when it gets here.
It would have been huge had the Gaza ceasefire been announced this week. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the talks are stalling, I suspect Bibi was convinced by his old buddy and fellow criminal DJT to scuttle them in order to undermine the Harris campaign.
Except that in this specific instance Netanyahu has reportedly agreed to the “bridging proposal” put out by the US Egypt and Qatar (details not publicly released) earlier in the week and it is waiting on a response from Hamas.
Keeping the discussion focused only on the US presidential race political impact, it would be great to have it today, and it will be great to have it next week too.
I was just a teensy bit put off by Walz’s reference to no one in his small hometown going to Yale, realizing that it was an absolute killer line.
I grew up in a Minnesota town 2.5 times the size of Walz’s hometown (nearly 1,000 people at the time!), and while I don’t know of anyone who went to Yale, I did grow up with kids who ended up at Harvard Law and Georgetown Law. A part of affirmative action is finding people from small towns and/or small universities and including them in the mix of legacy admits.
I’m half-expecting the QOP to do a deep dive into the post-secondary paths of people who went to high school with him, and then call him out as a liar if one of them did get into Yale Law.
It was obviously a poke at Vance, but I think it was also a reference to the notion that the Democrats maybe aren’t the elitists that they are portrayed to be.
Hence my ‘realizing that it was an absolute killer line’ bit. And ‘teensy bit put off’ - much like Southerners get annoyed with the ‘dumb hillbilly’ stereotype, the ‘dumb farmer’ bit annoys me. I went to high school with kids who’d I put up against any one for intelligence.
I do wonder how the party with the strongest history of support for and from unions somehow managed to get itself tagged as ‘elitist’, but they some managed it.
I’m not a convention speech guy. There are usually enough cringe moments that make my skin crawl. I didn’t watch the other nights but my wife wanted to check out last night. For the most part it was very smoothly done and many of the speakers were impressive. The message is very focused and concentrated on the issues that effect the most Americans.
One thing I didn’t like was the glossing over of the border and immigration. Like it or not, it’s an issue that has to be addressed this election. I heard some brief “she’s going to fix the border” which can be countered with “why haven’t they fixed it yet?” Every time the issue comes up it has to be hammered home that Trump blocked any border help to further his own ambitions. That needs stated over and over until thats all voters will think about when they hear the word “border”.
I’m not home on my usual set up. Where I’m staying has Roku. I tried looking at ABC and they were just yammering over most of the speakers. I flipped on Fox of all places and it just had the straight feed. Since I don’t have Roku I don’t know if that’s a separate channel they have set up.
That’s the other issue that must be hammered home at every chance. Despite the glitch at the beginning I thought Keenan did an excellent job.
Not a very subtle reference. Resentment of the elites, of intellectuals in general, is a huge driver in certain demographics. MAGA thrives on it. Walz is on the team for many reasons but certainly not least of all because he undercuts that theme. He is not of the Ivy League elites. Not an intellectual class. Not an egghead. (Of course in fact extremely smart and well educated.) He is someone that that demographic can fully embrace as “one of us.” He will highlight that compare contrast every chance he gets.
The more I see and hear him, the more impressed I am with the choice of putting him on the ticket.
I wonder that myself. Went from a party of the working class to the party of the coastal and big city elites. Hopefully that will change beginning now.
Netflix should be available on Roku.
Brian