You have to admit that the DNC is slick. Quite the slick convention they pulled off, with the help of their media colleagues.
You might want to keep track of some of Ace's pieces from yesterday like, The DNC and Its Candidates Have Lied Nonstop. (don't comment on old threads)
In addition to lying about other things, the convention speakers seemed to pretend that the last 3 1/2 years never happened.
Ace on the candidates themselves: KAmala's Speech Indicates the Ultimate Basement Strategy, Keeping All of Her Policy Positions In the Basement and Entirely Undiscussed and Tim Walz: A Real-Life Manchurian Candidate
Remember that we only have about a month and a half until voting starts in some states.
Don't let the "electricity in the air" at the convention demoralize you.
Batya Ungar-Sargon wrote an interesting piece on the convention speeches, Let Them Eat Joy, The DNC was a convention for the rich with some additional commentary on X:
To the extent that a pitch was made to the American people about what a Harris/Walz administration would look like, it was that it would be filled with the joy of the rich and the famous, of Kerry Washington and Hillary Clinton, JB Pritzker and Michelle Obama, Oprah and Pink.
"To be at the DNC was to be told that to be nostalgic for 2019 grocery prices is to be nostalgic for the Jim Crow South. To long for a time when your dollar stretched much further is to crave bloody, back-alley abortions."
From my DNC writeup @AmerCompass
Who is Kamala Harris? What does she plan to do as president? There was gaslighting aplenty as we were reintroduced to a woman we all know, as if she were a blank slate available for projection. Michelle Obama's speech was especially notable on this front:
“[Kamala] understands that most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward,” Michelle Obama said of a woman who dropped out of a primary before a single vote was cast and somehow failed her way to the top of a presidential ticket. “We will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth,” Michelle Obama said of a woman whose father and mother had PhDs. “If things don’t go our way, we don’t have the luxury of whining or cheating others to get further ahead,” the former first lady said of a woman leading a party that just undermined an entire election process to get Joe Biden off the ticket. Not to be outdone, former President Obama spent half his speech demonizing Trump and the other half complaining about polarization.Every accusation with the Democrats is a confession.
RFK Jr. Addresses the Nation
His words and actions do not always seem wise, but yesterday, RFK Jr. really put a damper on the "vibes election" thing the Democrats had going yesterday.
Thanks to Divide by Zero for the link to the transcript of his address to the nation.
Here's an excerpt. You can't argue with most of this:
In the name of saving democracy, a Democratic Party set itself to dismantle it. Lacking confidence that its candidate could win a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself. Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of the signatures needed to get on the ballot the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work, and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions. It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail. It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then, when a predictably awful debate performance precipitated a palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election. They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate.
My uncle and my father both relished debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe to toe with any opponent in a battle of ideas. They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days. This is profoundly undemocratic. How are people to judge when they don’t know whom they are choosing? And how can this look to the rest of the world?
My father and my uncle were always conscious of America’s image abroad because of our nation’s role as the template for democracy, a role model for democratic processes and the leader of the free world. Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based on nothing. No policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly-produced circus. There, in Chicago, a string of Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump 147 times, just on the first day. Who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate? In contrast, at the RNC convention, President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days.
I do interviews every day. Many of you have interviewed me. Anybody who asks gets to interview me. Some days I do as many as ten. President Trump, who actually was nominated and won an election, also does interviews daily. How did the Democratic Party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle? We know the answers. It did it by weaponizing the government agencies. It did it abandoning democracy. It did it by suing the opposition, and by disenfranchising American voters.
What most alarms me isn’t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship, media control, and weaponization of the federal agencies. When a U.S. president colludes with, or outright coerces, media companies to censor political speech, it’s an attack on our most sacred right of free expression. And that’s the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest.
Harris will protect the environment, someday
If she doesn't run out of money.
But nobody seems to be protecting the environment from the all-powerful Houthis at this time.
I met someone recently just before he and his family were deployed to the Naval Air Station in Bahrain. He seemed ready to go. His daughter was excited that the crown prince of Bahrain attended the same school she would be attending.
I think some of our "allies" are interfering with our ability to use our assets in the area. So I don't know if his deployment is doing the country much good at present.
Trump would not have let this happen
Remember that we only have about a month and a half until voting starts in some states.
Music
Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.
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