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Whenever I start feeling there's no way Trump could possibly win I have to remind myself there is a large segment of the US electorate (like my sister) that only watches Fox News and has never heard this quote. Or has never heard about Trump's dissing of Medal of Honor recipients. Or heard that Fox itself had to pay $500MM+ to Dominion Voting for deliberately lying about it and the whole 'stop the steal' disinformation campaign.
But not hearing the burgeoning list of Trump's illegal and immoral behaviour is not as bad as repeatedly hearing the lies and distortions that Fox actively spews. My sister vehemently believes Joe Biden is an evil, corrupt man! Come on....Joe may have his shortcomings but if there is a more honest, empathetic man in Washington I'd like to meet him.
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Republicans for Kamala is taking off and includes some high profile former office holders and staffers. This is more than just the usual handful of mid level and obscure officials.
At least three former governors including Jim Edgar of Illinois (1991-1999) have publicly announced their support for the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Nine days into her 2024 candidacy, Vice President Kamala Harris picked a couple of notable Republican endorsements: Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan threw his support behind the Democrat fairly quickly, and John Giles, the mayor of Mesa, Arizona’s third-largest city, endorsed her soon after. Given the state of the cotemporary GOP, it’s not easy for any Democratic candidate to pick up cross-party backing, so this represented a decent start. But hanging overhead was an obvious question: Would other Republicans soon follow? The question received a rather emphatic answer over the weekend. NBC News reported: >> The Harris campaign on Sunday unveiled more than two dozen endorsements from Republicans, including former governors, members of Congress and Trump administration officials. Many of the endorsements came from politicians who were already openly critical of former President Donald Trump, including former Republican Gov. Bill Weld of Massachusetts; former Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-Va.; and former Trump administration press secretary Stephanie Grisham.<< Those names are, of course, just a sampling. According to a press statement from the incumbent vice president’s campaign, Republicans for Harris includes endorsements from former Trump White House officials Stephanie Grisham and Olivia Troye; former Secretaries Chuck Hagel and Ray LaHood; former Governors Jim Edgar, Bill Weld, and Christine Todd Whitman; former U.S. House members Rod Chandler, Tom Coleman, Dave Emery, Wayne Gilchrest, Jim Greenwood, Adam Kinzinger, John LeBoutillier, Susan Molinari, Jack Quinn, Denver Riggleman, Claudine Schneider, Christopher Shays, Peter Smith, Alan Steelman, David Trott, and Joe Walsh; and former GOP State Chair and State Senator Chris Vance, among others. “As a proud conservative, I never thought I’d be endorsing a Democrat for President,” Kinzinger said in a written statement. “But, I know Vice President Harris will defend our democracy and ensure Donald Trump never returns to the White House. Donald Trump poses a direct threat to fundamental American values. He only cares about himself, and his pursuit of power. “That’s what we saw on January 6 when he sent a mob to overturn our lawful election, who violently attacked law enforcement and ransacked our nation’s Capitol in the process,” the former member of the Jan. 6 committee added. “There’s too much at stake to sit on the sidelines, which is why I wholeheartedly endorse Kamala Harris for president. Now is the time for us all to unite to save our democracy and defeat Donald Trump one last time.”
#republicans for harris#republicans for kamala#jim edgar#christine todd whitman#chuck hagel#bill weld#geoff duncan#stephanie grisham#olivia troye#adam kinzinger#ray lahood#joe walsh#chris vance#kamala harris#kamala 2024#pro-democracy#pro-constitution#election 2024
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Matt Gertz at MMFA:
Fox News did not air a second of the speeches from alienated GOP leaders and former Trump officials who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris at this week’s Democratic National Convention. The DNC speakers included former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who spoke in prime-time before Harris’ Thursday keynote; former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan; former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham; Olivia Troye, who served as a homeland security aide to former Vice President Mike Pence; and Mesa, Arizona, Mayor John Giles.
MSNBC and CNN treated those speeches as newsworthy, airing each of them in full, according to a Media Matters review of the networks’ convention coverage. But Fox hid the content of all of those speeches from their viewers, often displaying the video on screen without audio as the network’s on-air hosts and guests offered commentary. It’s not hard to figure out why: Fox is a Trumpist propaganda organ that helped the former president purge the GOP of his critics and is working tirelessly to return him to the White House. The network typically shies away from highlighting dissension in the party’s ranks. Fox virtually ignored former Vice President Mike Pence’s refusal to endorse Trump and former House Speaker Paul Ryan’s denunciation of the former president as “unfit for office” — both of which originated in Fox interviews.
Guess which network refused to show speeches from Republicans and former Trump supporters that spoke at the DNC? It’s GOP propaganda outlet Faux “News.”
#2024 DNC#Adam Kinzinger#Olivia Troye#Geoff Duncan#Rich Logis#John Giles#Stephanie Grisham#FNC#Fox News#Media Bias#Kamala Harris#2024 Presidential Election#2024 Elections
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Nicki Swift: 'Donald Trump Accidentally Confirmed He Doesn't Talk To Melania
Source:Nicki Swift talking about Donald J. Trump’s lack of communications with his gorgeous, baby-face wife, Melania. Source:The New Democrat “While Dr. Phil McGraw mostly let Donald Trump vent about his hush-money trial on “Dr. Phil Primetime,” another of the topics discussed was how Donald’s guilty verdict has impacted Melania Trump. But, from the sounds of it, all that the former president can…
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#2016#2016 Presidential Election#2024#Alvin Bragg#America#CNN#David Pecker#District Attorney Alvin Bragg#Donald Trump&039;s Hush Money Trial#Dr. Phil McGraw#Erin Burnett#Hush Money Trial#Jake Tapper#Juan Merchan#Judge Juan Merchan#Karen McDougal#Manhattan#Manhattan District Attorney#Michael Cohen#National Enquirer#New York#New York City#New York County#Nicki Swift#Phil McGraw#Republican Party#Stephanie Clifford#Stephanie Grisham#Stephanie Winston Wolkoff#Stormy Daniels
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Trump pretty obviously has contempt for those who swallow what he sells.
Trump is constantly reminded that he is a loser. He takes that shame out on everyone.
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Short, Sweet, And To The Point
Sometimes it doesn’t take 1,000 words to make a point, as Keith shows us in his post yesterday. Guess who came to dinner?
#Democratic National Convention#former President Barack Obama#Republican National Convention#Sidney Poitier#Stephanie Grisham
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Cold-ass bitch. No sympathy for her.
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Melania is one 'pissed off spouse'
So much for ‘stand by your man’! He’s a liar’s liar The faceless bureaucrats at Blaska Policy Werkes understand why Blaska’s political party will endorse Donald Trump for President next month (the clock is ticking!) in Milwaukee. Cheap gasoline, pure cussedness, and Joe Biden. What my non-tenured pencil-necked geeks cannot understand is why the man hasn’t won the lifetime achievement award…
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Paige Skinner at HuffPost:
Stephanie Grisham, Trump’s former White House press secretary, came out strongly against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention. Grisham started her short speech by saying that not only was she a Trump supporter, she was also a “true believer” and one of his “closest advisers,” and that Trump’s family was her family. “I saw him when the cameras were off,” Grisham said. “Behind closed doors, Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement-dwellers.” She said that one time while Trump was at a hospital visit to see dying patients, he was upset that the camera wasn’t on him. “He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth,” she said. “He used to tell me, ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie, say it enough and people will believe you.’” An apparent screenshot of text messages between Grisham and first lady Melania Trump appeared on a large screen as Grisham spoke. The messages show Grisham asking Melania Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, if the first lady wanted to tweet that there is no place for lawlessness and violence.
Grisham said Melania Trump simply responded, “No.” Grisham said she was the first senior staffer to resign that day, as the DNC crowd applauded. “I couldn’t be a part of the insanity any longer,” she said. Grisham never held a typical White House briefing while Trump’s press secretary. On Tuesday, she said that she’d “never wanted to stand at the podium and lie,” unlike Trump.
Former Trump Admin Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham spoke at the DNC in Chicago last night highlighting the reason why she didn’t hold press conferences is that she “never wanted to stand at the podium and lie.”
Grisham revealed why she quit the Trump Administration and left his orbit: Melania Trump refused to respond to her request to post a tweet a message that there is no place for lawlessness and violence in the wake of the insurrection that her husband Donald helped incite with his lies about the 2020 election outcome.
#2024 DNC#Stephanie Grisham#Melania Trump#Donald Trump#Kamala Harris#Capitol Insurrection#Trump Administration
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Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in her remarks that she wasn't just a Trump supporter, but a "true believer." She’s now backing Harris.
Grisham said that she was the first senior White House staffer to resign on Jan. 6.
"I couldn't be part of the insanity any longer. When I was press secretary, I got skewered for never holding a White House briefing. It's because, unlike my boss, I never wanted to stand at that podium and lie," she said.
Follow our live coverage of the DNC: nbcnews.to/3X9UWgl
So many Republicans are voting for Democrats. America hates Trump
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* FAMOUS INDIVIDUALS WITH YOUR MOON SIGN.
If you’re looking for suggestions on which authors and music artists to check out next, look to your moon sign! In Western astrology, the moon is said to represent your subconscious mind, emotions, and inner personality, so it is widely believed that we tend to relate to media by artists who share our moon sign.
♈️ ARIES MOON
WRITERS:
Gore Vidal
George R. R. Martin
Nicholas Sparks
Rick Riordan
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Christopher Paolini
MUSICIANS:
P!nk
Whitney Houston
Céline Dion
Selena Gomez
Rihanna
Tupac
♉️ TAURUS MOON
WRITERS:
Jodi Picoult
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hans Christian Anderson
Clive Barker
George Bernard Shaw
Aldous Huxley
MUSICIANS:
Pharrell Williams
Kelly Clarkson
Bob Dylan
Demi Lovato
Christina Aguilera
Pitbull
♊️ GEMINI MOON
WRITERS:
C. S. Lewis
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Orson Scott Card
Franz Kafka
Margaret Mitchell
R.A. Salvatore
T. S. Elliot
MUSICIANS:
Ella Fitzgerald
Florence Welch
Art Garfunkel
Billy Idol
Sia
Tina Turner
♋️ CANCER MOON
WRITERS:
George Orwell
Liu Cixin
Brandon Sanderson
Cassandra Clare
Diana Gabaldon
Lois Lowry
MUSICIANS:
Tchaikovsky
Taylor Swift
Kurt Cobain
Halsey
Aretha Franklin
Janis Joplin
♌️ LEO MOON
Oscar Wilde
Holly Black
Geraldine Brooks
James Dashner
Jack London
Ta Nehisi Coates
MUSICIANS:
Lana Del Ray
Paul McCartney
Queen Latifah
Niall Horan
Bruno Mars
David Bowie
♍️ VIRGO MOON
WRITERS:
Leo Tolstoy
John Grisham
Claudia Gray
Isabel Allende
Xiran Jay Zhao
Douglas Adams
MUSICIANS:
Dolly Parton
Nicki Manaj
Madonna
Lorde
Bo Burnham
Lizzo
♎️ LIBRA MOON
WRITERS:
Jane Austen
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sylvia Plath
William Shakespeare
Maya Angelou
R.F. Kuang
MUSICIANS:
Ariana Grande
Charli XCX
Bruce Springsteen
Jay-Z
Harry Styles
Fergie
♏️ SCORPIO MOON
WRITERS:
Veronica Roth
Edith Wharton
V.E. Schwab
Harper Lee
Keira Cass
Meg Cabot
MUSICIANS:
Lady Gaga
Tyler the Creator
Cyndi Lauper
Beyoncé
Bob Marley
The Weeknd
♐️ SAGITTARIUS MOON
WRITERS:
Stephen King
Victor Hugo
Marie Lu
Suzanne Collins
Samantha Shannon
Adam Silvera
MUSICIANS
Hozier
Freddie Mercury
Adele
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Chappell Roan
John Legend
♑️ CAPRICORN MOON
WRITERS:
Sarah J. Maas
J.M. Barrie
Jeff Shaara
Joyce Carol Oates
Stephanie Meyer
Angie Thomas
MUSICIANS:
Frédéric Chopin
Neil Diamond
Jon Bon Jovi
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Stevie Nicks
Donna Summer
♒️ AQUARIUS MOON
WRITERS:
Margaret Atwood
Leigh Bardugo
Louisa May Alcott
Seth Grahame-Smith
Anthony Horowitz
S.E. Hinton
MUSICIANS:
Cody Simpson
Marilyn Monroe
Britney Spears
Billie Eilish
Tim McGraw
Carrie Underwood
♓️ PISCES MOON
WRITERS:
Toni Morrison
Edgar Allen Poe
Malcolm Gladwell
Lisa McMann
Alice Oseman
Philippa Gregory
MUSICIANS:
Kenny Chesney
Elvis Presley
Frank Sinatra
Prince
Kendrick Lamar
Sabrina Carpenter
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
August 20, 2024
Heather Cox Richardson
Aug 21, 2024
At Chicago’s United Center today, the delegates at the Democratic National Convention reaffirmed last week’s online nomination of Kamala Harris for president. The ceremonial roll-call vote featured all the usual good natured boasting from the delegates about their own state’s virtues, a process that reinforces the incredible diversity and history of both this land and its people. The managers reserved the final slots for Minnesota and California—the home states of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and presidential candidate Kamala Harris, respectively—to put the ticket over the top.
When the votes had been counted, 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. 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. 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.”
Trump spoke glumly to a small crowd today at the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office in Howell, Michigan.
It was almost exactly twenty years ago, on July 27, 2004, that 43-year-old Illinois state senator Barack Obama, who was, at the time, running for a seat in the U.S. Senate, gave the keynote address to that year’s Democratic National Convention. It was the speech that began his rise to the presidency.
Like the Democrats who spoke last night, Obama talked in 2004 of his childhood and recalled how his parents had “faith in the possibilities of this nation.” And like Biden last night, Obama said that “in no other country on earth, is my story even possible.” The nation’s promise, he said, came from the human equality promised in the Declaration of Independence.
“That is the true genius of America,” Obama said, “a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles.” He called for an America “where hard work is rewarded.” “[I]t's not enough for just some of us to prosper,” he said, “[f]or alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga.”
He described that ingredient as “[a]belief that we are connected as one people. If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother. If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It's that fundamental belief—I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper—that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. ‘E pluribus unum.’ Out of many, one.”
Obama emphasized Americans’ shared values and pushed back against “those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.” He reached back into history to prove that “the bedrock of this nation” is “the belief that there are better days ahead.” He called that belief “[t]he audacity of hope.”
Almost exactly twenty years after his 2004 speech, the same man, now a former president who served for eight years, spoke at tonight’s Democratic National Convention. But the past two decades have challenged his vision.
When voters put Obama into the White House in 2008, Republicans set out to make sure they couldn’t govern. Mitch McConnell (R–KY) became Senate minority leader in 2007 and, using the filibuster, stopped most Democratic measures by requiring 60 votes to move anything to a vote.
In 2010 the Supreme Court handed down the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, declaring that corporations and other outside groups could spend as much money as they wanted on elections. Citizens United increased Republican seats in legislative bodies, and in the 2010 midterm elections, Republicans packed state legislatures with their own candidates in time to be in charge of redistricting their states after the 2010 census. Republicans controlled the key states of Florida, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio, and Michigan, as well as other, smaller states, and after the election, they used precise computer models to win previously Democratic House seats.
In the 2012 election, Democrats won the White House decisively, the Senate easily, and a majority of 1.4 million votes for House candidates. Yet Republicans came away with a thirty-three-seat majority in the House of Representatives. And then, with the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, making it harder to protect Democratic voters.
As the Republicans skewed the mechanics of government to favor themselves, their candidates no longer had to worry they would lose general elections but did have to worry about losing primaries to more extreme challengers. So they swung farther and farther to the right, demonizing the Democrats until finally those who remain Republicans have given up on democracy altogether.
Tonight’s speech echoed that of 2004 by saying that America’s “central story” is that “we are all created equal,” and describing Harris and Walz as hardworking people who would use the government to create a fair system. He sounded more concerned today than in 2004 about political divisions, and reminded the crowd: “The vast majority of us do not want to live in a country that’s bitter and divided,” he said. “We want something better. We want to be better. And the joy and the excitement that we’re seeing around this campaign tells us we’re not alone,” he said.
And then, in his praise for his grandmother, “a little old white lady born in a tiny town called Peru, Kansas,” and his mother-in-law, Marion Robinson, a Black woman from the South Side of Chicago, he brought a new emphasis on ordinary Americans, especially women, who work hard, sacrifice for their children, and value honesty, integrity, kindness, helping others, and hard work.
They wanted their children to ��do things and go places that they would’ve never imagined for themselves.” “Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican or somewhere in between,” he said, “we have all had people like that in our lives:... good hardworking people who weren’t famous or powerful but who managed in countless ways to leave this country just a little bit better than they found it.”
If President Obama emphasized tonight that the nation depends on the good will of ordinary people, it was his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, who spoke with the voice of those people and made it clear that only the American people can preserve democracy.
In a truly extraordinary speech, perfectly delivered, Mrs. Obama described her mother as someone who lived out the idea of hope for a better future, working for children and the community. “She was glad to do the thankless, unglamorous work that for generations has strengthened the fabric of this nation,” Mrs. Obama said, “the belief that if you do unto others, if you love thy neighbor, if you work and scrape and sacrifice, it will pay off. If not for you, then maybe for your children or your grandchildren.”
Unlike her husband, though, Mrs. Obama called out Trump and his allies, who are trying to destroy that worldview. “No one has a monopoly on what it means to be an American,” she said. “No one.” “[M]ost of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward,” she said. “We will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth. If we bankrupt a business…or choke in a crisis, we don't get a second, third, or fourth chance. If things don't go our way, we don't have the luxury of whining or cheating others to get further ahead…we don't get to change the rules so we always win. If we see a mountain in front of us, we don’t expect there to be an escalator waiting to take us to the top. No, we put our heads down. We get to work. In America, we do something."
And then Mrs. Obama took up the mantle of her mother, warning that demonizing others and taking away their rights, “only makes us small.” It “demeans and cheapens our politics. It only serves to further discourage good, big-hearted people from wanting to get involved at all. America, our parents taught us better than that.”
It is “up to us to be the solution that we seek.” she said. She urged people to “be the antidote to the darkness and division.” “[W]hether you’re Democrat, Republican, Independent, or none of the above,” she said, “this is our time to stand up for what we know. In our hearts is right. Not just for our basic freedoms, but for decency and humanity, for basic respect. Dignity and empathy. For the values at the very foundation of this democracy.”
“Don’t just sit around and complain. Do something.”
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
#Letters From An American#Heather Cox Richardson#politcal history#grace#poetry#Democratic National Convention#The Obamas#history#American History#Citizens United
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