Y’know, unless and until Barron decides to involve his own ass in politics, I’m not gonna speculate. It’s like, I heard someone talking shit about JD Vance’s wife, and I’m not here for that, either.
It’s this “decency” thing that is so well modeled by the Convention. Doug, and Walz’s family, make it so clear what deeply decent people these candidates are. I’m fine with dragging Trump and Vance (and Coulter and all the rest) through the freaking mud. But their families–at least family members who haven’t signed up for the family business–are off-limits to me.
Man, I usually barely give a glance at these conventions, but if Harris wins, this will be remembered as one of the most amazing and consequential conventions of all time.
It’s amazing, gripping, and we have had countless great speeches.
You’ve got to hand it to the DNC for show production. It seems to me that once Biden dropped out they probably updated it extensively. The DJ roll call was a little too trendy for an old fart like me, but if it helps keep younger voters engaged I’m all for it. Adding entertainment was a genius move, they needed to keep eyeballs on the screen and that works much better than endless speeches from the back benchers. The joy in the arena was palpable and a sharp contrast to the RNC sounding like the old Hee Haw tune “Gloom, despair, and agony on me”
Vance received a scholarship for his first year at Yale, took loans out for the subsequent years. I assume the Peter Thiel-connected tech startups he was hired into after graduation allowed him to pay them off.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, civil rights leader Al Sharpton and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. The singer Pink also will perform. - SOURCE
I’m a little curious why it’s Weingarten of AFT, not Becky Pringle of National Educators Association; the latter union is nearly twice as big. But no complaints, I’m stoked that Weingarten is speaking!
No fucking joke! I’d like to see a documentary later on how they pulled off the coordination of these three (soon-to-be) four five-hour nights of everyone-being-in-the-right-place-at-the-right-time-ness.
At lunch today two friends and I spent a good thirty minutes trying to settle on when the three of us can have lunch off campus next week.
More than that. Have you noticed it seems everyone has a pole with a message on it that changes? The whole freaking stadium has them. Not to mention the placards people wave around over their heads with various (but on message) things that only coalesced into a coherent message after Biden stepped down three weeks ago.
Getting all that printed and to the venue and getting everyone to wave the right poll at the right time and so on…not a simple task. Add in all the graphics on the big screens.
The team who pulled that all together deserves a huge bonus and I hope they get a long vacation after this since they probably have not slept for the last month.
ETA: And did you see they perfectly coordinated Harris appearing on stage in Milwaukee the moment after she officially received the Democratic nomination and her speech in Milwaukee was simulcast in Chicago to the convention there? It all went as smooth as they could want. Amazing.
Agree. The one bad thing that keeps happening is the main speakers going on when lots of people are asleep.
I heard**, it’s the speakers fault and not the producer. For example, Bill Clinton was allotted 12mins and spoke for about 25mins. I think Hakeem Jeffries did something similar. And that aside, you could probably cut some of the speakers out altogether and still get across the same message/theme. But it’s probably too late to make these changes except to beg the speakers to keep to their time allotment and to tell the crowd to limit the extended chants.
They need to finish in time for the 11:00 news. I was telling someone that they should put Kamala on just past the middle of the evening to make sure they make the TV deadlines. I will still stick around to listen to whoever comes after her. (Hell, it’s practically impossible to sleep after these love-fests!) But the organizers never even asked me what they should do!
Yeah, and where the heck are they keeping all those signs and cards until it’s time to use them? On the floor? Okay, cards you can put under your chair, but those poles would seem to be hazardous for all the people milling around.
Hell, I’m an old fart and thought it was going to be terrible, but I loved it. My disappointments were few and mostly trivial…
Some states let the wrong person pick their song. Montana and New Hampshire, I’m looking at you.
Oregon stole Modest Mouse from Washington.
After the Georgia Lil Jon surprise, I expected a couple more of those, especially from California, going last and being Kamala’s home state. Snoop’s got to be rested up, post-Olympics.
Great minds think alike. For decades one of my most frequent go-to lines has been “Most of the world’s problems could’ve been averted had they asked me first.”
