I hope Michelle and Barack Obama's messages, along with everyone else supporting Harris and Walz inspires people to get out and vote. We can't just sit back and hope for change that makes our lives better if we don't vote for leaders who are empathetic to the struggles of all Americans, and committed to lifting them up, not keeping them down. We need a leader who was raised on the American dream, and not a silver spoon. We need leaders who embrace diversity, civil rights, women's rights, and justice for all, and not leaders who want to deny them their freedoms and opportunities. We need to inspire hope and not fear. We need to open our arms and embrace others as our brothers and sisters, as Americans, and as our equals. Hatred never unites people, and it certainly doesn't bring peace, humanity, and good will towards your fellow Americans. I believe most Americans are good people, and my hope is that those good people vote with their hearts this election. There is such a huge contrast between the leaders running for office. The DNC speakers have talked about love, positivity, and hope and love for our country, and our fellow Americans. Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon in the little town of Howell, Michigan Trump stood before the media to lie about crime, and fabricate fictions about violent immigrants. Make no mistake when I say he chose that small town for a reason. Just last month white supremacists marched through downtown Howell chanting “Heil Hitler.” Later that day, another demonstration was held on a highway overpass, featuring a swastika flag and people chanting, “We love Hitler. We love Trump.” In the 1970s and ’80s, at the peak of the city’s links to the white supremacist movement, Robert Miles, the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, had a Howell mailing address and was known to hold rallies on a nearby farm property. Rewind to 2020, when Trump announced that he planned to resume holding his political rallies starting in Tulsa on June 19, the celebratory day of Juneteeth. Yeah, Tulsa, the site of one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history: the 1921 race massacre, where as many as 300 black people were killed by mobs of white people. Sure, he finally changed the date after the backlash, but make no mistake, he knew what he was doing when he planned that rally to begin with. There is no coincidence that Trump chooses towns with such an ugly racist past where people of color could not simply work hard, and live their lives without the fear of hate, violence, and death. You will not hear Trump condemn white supremacists. There have been many instances in the past few years when he could have, should have, yet didn't. No, instead, he chooses to light the fire with fear mongering and hateful rhetoric. It's calculating, dangerous, and not something that makes our country better. Love is always better than hate, and this country needs Harris and Walz to lead us forward, making changes and policies that embrace and unite us all. We don't need to return to the darkness, full of hate, lies, and ugliness that divided Americans. Nobody should feel superior because of their wealth or skin color. I want leaders who want to give us what we need to help us reach our dreams, regardless of who we are, what we believe, what religion we practice, and who we choose to love or marry. My hope is that nobody gets complacent, gives up hope, and just doesn't vote because they have given up. Anything is possible if we work together as Americans, striving to set an example for the world. One where Democracy works, and love, equality and hard working Americans make our country rise to heights we've never seen.
Amen!! Were so much better when we work together, and there are moderate republicans who do this, unfortunately their numbers are dwindling. Boy oh boy can Michelle Obama tear you a new one yet she is respectful, I would not want to let that lady down if I was working for her, she is the type of person you would run through a wall for.........................so dam inspiring
Trump is so out of juice at this point, he had a mumbling appearance yesterday and literally nobody even noticed, because he had it...in a parking garage, before a crowd of 25 bored-looking sheriffs Honestly he sounds like he's sedated? Is he being administred tranquilizers?
His speech was as monotone and full of false facts and lies as always. Nothing new. Same old tiring BS, just a different day. Doom, gloom, lie, repeat. It's like he is trying to lull them into a hypnotic state of boredom before filling their heads with propaganda and lies. He lied about crime, lied about Democrats not funding police, and left out plenty of facts. He sure as hell didn't tell the story about how he calls those guys in red hats Patriots who were beating police, spraying bear spray in their faces, and beating them with flag poles as he sat back and watched it for hours. Then, he plays the J6 anthem at his rallies, like they should be cheered and treated like heroes. He also flat out lied about Democrats not wanting to support police. Biden has stood with law enforcement his entire career, and worked to ensure law enforcement serves all communities his entire career. Kamala was a prosecutor. Good grief. They condemn all violence and hate, unlike Trump. He also twisted and destroyed facts on crime and immigrants with a twist of racism. Then again, don't think for a moment he chose that little town with KKK history that's over 90% white without a calculated reason. FACT SHEET: 80% of House Republicans Propose Defunding COPS as President Biden Insists on Funding the Police https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/doc...ding-cops-president-biden-insists-funding-the
"I am sleepy today -- not as sleepy as sleepy Joe, who they backstabbed and also dropped out of a window and he still did not wake up -- anyway, I am sleepy today because I watched. Not one, that would be bad enough, everyone thinks so. No, I watched two Obama speeches. Very sleepy." (that's actually too coherent for 2024 Trump)
Actual quote from yesterday: But all he would have to do as president or her is say, close up the border and it’s closed. But they don’t want to close the border because when they first took over, I had built hundreds of miles of wall and I had 200 miles of wall in addition to what I said I was going to do because certain areas needed it. As we closed areas, other areas became very, very strong in terms of people wanting to come through. So I bought 200 additional miles. It would’ve taken about three weeks to erect it. We’re all set to erect it, then we had a terrible election take place, terrible election. And everybody here knows that. (35:20) And I realized that they don’t want to do it. And they actually sold that. And that was designed to the highest specifications of when you look at the steel, it’s steel, it’s concrete, 5,000 pound concrete inside and then rebar. And it also has a lot of technology wires and things in it for high technology. It was designed to the highest specs of the border patrol. (35:43) I wanted actually concrete plank. I would’ve done a beautiful job with precast like you have in parking garages, long span. It’s called long span precast. But they had to be able to see through. I understand that. They needed certain things that you can’t do with concrete plank. So we did that, and very expensive to do because you needed all sorts… In other words, they wanted the steel, they wanted the concrete. It’s all different methods of very hard to cut it, very hard to do it when you have different substances. And then very powerful rebar inside. (36:15) And what happened is, as soon as they came in, they sold it for 5 cents on the dollar. They sold this stuff. Somebody made a lot of money because that steel is very valuable. But they sold all of that hundreds of miles of stuff. You saw it stacked up for a long period of time where they stacked it up in an area because Texas wanted to use it and finish the job. We built hundreds of miles. But Texas wanted it. They would’ve paid for it. They refused to sell it to Texas. They refused to sell it to Arizona. And they refused to sell it to anybody. They sold it to the junkyards, I guess, and 5 cents on the dollar.
Rumor is they can't get him get off the Epstein jet. He keeps asking when they're going to take him back to his favorite island.
Not sure if you wrote that or if that's an excerpt from one of the speeches last night (I haven't watched yet), but that was extremely well said. If you did, that belongs in a "Letters to the Editor" somewhere--at the very least.
Thank you. The facts of the Tulsa and Howell racist past and the Nazi rallies in Howell were from articles, but I tied it all together with my own opinions and beliefs, which are not unlike many of the speakers I've listened to at the DNC. I felt the need to express how I feel, and what I believe from the bottom of my heart. I do agree with the Obamas. We can't sit back and hope for change and expect things to just change without doing anything. That's why I'm encouraging everyone to vote, and hopefully for the one wanting to take us forward, not backward.
Hakeem Jeffries cracked me up in this speech, starting right around 3:15 to 4:25, where he says, "Donald Trump is like an old boyfriend, who you broke up with, but he just won't go away. He has spent the last 4 years spinning the block, trying to get back into a relationship with the American people. Bro, we broke up with you for a reason." Then later on he says "Donald Trump can spin the block all he wants, but there's no reason for us to ever get back together. Been there, done that. We're not going back." Classic!
At the moment, Democrats have found people and a theme that connects in ways that the Republicans can't. The message of positivity and moving forward are beating the message of be angry and afraid.
I'll just put this here. When it comes to politics, it's still TV that drives the agenda. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/tv-still-runs-politics/679550/ TV Still Runs Politics Just about every major development in the current presidential campaign started as a television event. ... Outside of NFL games, nothing on television attracts as large a crowd as the traditional nightly newscasts. Every night, an average of almost 19 million people combined watched ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, and CBS Evening News during the 2023–24 TV season. Although that’s several million fewer people than watched the big three 10 years ago, the rate of decline is far slower than that of just about everything else on television, broadcast or otherwise. More people now watch the evening newscasts than the networks’ prime-time entertainment programming. Pretty good for 6:30 p.m. If anything, cable news has been even more resilient, despite some cyclical ups and downs. During the first quarter of 2024, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC attracted about as many viewers on average as they did eight years ago. That’s despite the fact that millions of households stopped subscribing to cable over the same period. The explanation isn’t much of a mystery: The cable-news audience is dominated by older viewers, the cohort least likely to give up cable for streaming apps. The rest of the cable industry wishes it had the news channels’ relative stability. USA Network, for example, has lost 75 percent of its nightly audience over the past 10 years; FX and the History Channel have lost about two-thirds. Relying on an older audience does make TV news less attractive to most advertisers, who want to reach and influence younger consumers. The reverse is true for political campaigns. Old people vote in far greater numbers than young people, making them a highly coveted target audience for anyone who wants to get or stay elected. As a result, cable news remains the de facto town square and community soapbox. As Jack Shafer put it in Politico Magazine early this year, “Cable has become the place that candidates toss their hats into the ring, where they launch trial balloons for new policies, where the debates that once took place in House and Senate chambers are now often conducted under studio lights, where evidence to impeach presidents is first presented, and where Supreme Court nominees are first vetted.” Television more broadly is where political campaigns will still spend the bulk of their war chests to persuade voters. Many local TV stations, if not their viewers, will benefit from the projected $16 billion in ad spending by presidential, Senate, and House candidates and their allied PACs this cycle. The demand for airtime in swing states, in particular, is so strong that some stations expect to sell all of their available commercial slots this fall. The future of political advertising likely belongs to TV, too. Digital sources now claim about a quarter of political ad spending, but their continued growth is in question, according to Travis N. Ridout, a co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political ads. “Campaigns are questioning the value of social media ads” for several reasons, he told me. The primary one is the format itself. Political ads make relatively complicated arguments in favor of a candidate or a policy, demanding more attention than the average commercial for Tide or Taco Bell. But ads on Facebook or Instagram can be easily ignored. People quickly swipe or scroll away; they don’t have their sound on. People ignore TV commercials, too, but the medium is more immersive; it arrests a viewer’s attention with sights and sound that fill the screen without distraction. Instead of being rendered obsolete by social media, TV news has achieved a sort of symbiosis with it, in which television is the dominant species. Michael Socolow, a professor and media historian at the University of Maine, told me that Walz’s and Vance’s appearances on cable shows created the clips that then seeded social media. The combination of old and new media worked in concert to raise their profiles, certifying them as plausible choices. “It’s not cable TV per se” that matters, Socolow said, but the meme culture that it feeds. Television’s future “is through viral-meme creation and social-media circulation.”
OMG, that's awesome. Pillow guy said he was going to do it, I didn't think he would follow through....................does he think he will go in and change people`s mind with his lies and falsehoods, the dude is a joke
