“Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.”
Democrats kicked off their virtual nominating convention Monday with a focused denunciation of President Trump, showcasing dozens of testimonials that culminated in lancing criticism from former first lady Michelle Obama, who cast Trump as incapable of meeting America’s needs and said Joe Biden would usher in racial justice and ease the coronavirus pandemic.
Truncated and conducted virtually because of the coronavirus crisis, the presentation at times resembled an online awards show, and it offered a vivid illustration of how both the pandemic and widespread opposition to President Trump have upended the country’s politics.
Capping the evening was an urgent plea from Michelle Obama, the former first lady, for voters to mobilize in overpowering force to turn Mr. Trump out of office and elect the Democratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Michelle Obama was terrific! She definitely made the case for Trump needing to go. It’s up to us now. That god damn monster has to go.
Mj
Nice to see you on last night’s DNC thread. Small world, I live in New Smyrna Beach as well.
Poobah, I get your point about pre-taping the speech before the vice presidential pick up was made. I suppose I’ll have to cut a little bit of slack for that. My feeling was it was a hell of a good speech. I’m sure we will hear plenty about Kamala in the next three nights.
Stephen Colbert’s animated news comedy Tooning Out The Newswill have you covered for the Democratic National Convention. The CBS All Access series will deliver up to the minute political coverage by hosts and analysts from “Big News,” “Hot Take,” and “Virtue Signal” with breaking news and election updates from the DNC, the network says.
This week’s shows will feature special guests beginning Tuesday, August 18 with Major Garrett, Chief Washington Correspondent for CBS News, followed by Sarah McBride, Democrat Candidate for Delaware in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, August 19, Jennifer Palmieri, political advisor and former White House Communications Director on Thursday, August 20, and Rep. Jim Himes, U.S. Congressman representing Connecticut’s 4th district on Friday, August 21.
Tooning Out The News features a cast of animated characters, led by anchor James Smartwood, lampooning top news stories and interviewing real-world guests, newsmakers and analysts. New five- to seven-minute segments are available Tuesday through Friday, culminating in a weekly full episode.
The series is executive produced by Stephen Colbert and Chris Licht of CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and RJ Fried and Tim Luecke (Showtime’s Our Cartoon President).
my take of the over the air coverage last night, a lot of pundits who thought what they had to say was more important than the convention presentation. And what a bunch of idiots. BTW, I was able to see most of the convention by changing channels came every time the pundits came on.
From the response on twitter Ms Obama is the new “nasty woman”
Jack
Outside of chiding her fellow African Americans for not voting, this is the most important thing she said last night.
but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.
Put aside the outrage over all the stupid evil stuff Trump does, in the end it comes down to Trump and his inability to handle a crises. I loved the little “sad but true” at the end.
Jack
Last night just opened the show. Michelle was classy with a bite, Kasich was effective, Bernie did what he had to do, and there were no major glitches. Fireworks on the way.
Who’s up tonight?
What I loved about last night was that because there was no in person audience… there was no constant stopping of speeches because of applause. Things went fast and efficiently. Rick had to get up early this morning for an appointment… so we were going to bed no later than 11 pm. If this had been a normal convention, there’s no way we would have seen Michelle’s speech… it would have started later than that. We’re both happy that we got to see her…. she was wonderful!
I thought it all went as well as could b expected. What was missing were the segues the audiences kind of provided with their welcoming applause – but I’ll give that up for the loss of the in-speech interruptions.
To give you an idea how effectively DeJoy is trying to make sure that SFB’s crusade against mail-in voting proceeds to deprive the voters of their right to vote – from WaPo:
The Postal Service is in the process of removing 671 high-speed mail-sorting machinesnationwide this month, a process that will eliminate 21.4 million items per hour’s worth of processing capability from the agency’s inventory.
Get that? 21.4 million items per hour fewer than before DeJoy took over.
renee, i agree about the benefit of not having to wait for the clapping, standing ovations, multiple noisy gavel banging and the ignored pleas to hush up. nice to be able to hear the speaker without distraction.
….By the end of the evening, I was thinking, damn, this wasn’t a Convention Convention, but whatever it was, it worked. And the moment it started to work was when a 39-year-old woman named Kristin Urquiza appeared on the screen to talk about her father’s having been one of the fatalities of the pandemic. (Urquiza already became something of a star when she blistered Arizona Governor Doug Ducey in her father’s obituary.) Talking straight to camera, Urquiza brought the hammer.
The coronavirus has made it clear that there are two Americas, the America that Donald Trump lives in, and the America that my father died in. Enough is enough. Donald Trump may not have caused the coronavirus, but his dishonesty and irresponsible actions made it so much worse…He voted for him, listened to him, believed him and his mouthpieces when they said that coronavirus was under control and going to disappear…He died alone, in the ICU, with a nurse holding his hand…My dad was a healthy 65-year-old. His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump and for that, he paid with his life.
At an ordinary convention, Urquiza would have told her story from a high podium to a noisy crowd and a lot of the poignancy and emotion of it would have been swallowed up in the vastness of the hall. Monday night, sitting in her living room, talking straight to however many screens were carrying the moment, Urquiza validated the experimental improv nature of the whole evening in a little over three minutes. There was nothing of the balloon drops and funny hats to it. It was a contained and somber exercise completely of a piece with the national mood. It was an intimate virtual gathering in a still-quarantined nation. And it worked, for one night, anyway. It still remains to be seen whether our accelerated nation has the patience for four nights of it.
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As I said, given that the country has the attention span of a gnat, I don’t know whether the country can handle three more days of this muted call to arms, but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t loud and clear.
He’s pardoning Susan B Anthony. Unless that was the Onion
Not entirely sure she needs a pardon at this stage of her life, but I suppose it can’t hurt. Nevertheless, haha if he thinks he’ll gain women voters with such a puerile miasma of conjumbled attempts at actually having “thoughts”. He’s such a cabbage.
but a lot of speakers need the crowd and the spectacle, Barak was that way his best speeches were in front of large crowds imo.
Ms Obama was the only speaker I saw who was totally comfortable with just the camera.
Michelle said to vote in person, if you can. Mail-in ballots are ASAP because of tRUMPco’s federal crime of obstruction of/tampering with the US Mail…not to mention tampering with the election.
I hope the orange asshat finds out just how much everyone hates him, if he is oblivious to it still.
Turn out looks to be a Republican problem, with Trump getting his ass handed to him you could see Republican turn out looking more like an off year election, which is bad news for all down ballot republicans.
Jack
OK kids, listen up. Remember that US Senate committee that made the findings that Manafort, as D’ump’s campaign chair whose “contacts with Kremlin-linked officials posed a “grave counterintelligence threat,” according to the final volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which also found that some of the campaign’s other Russian contacts had closer ties to Moscow’s government and intelligence services than previously reported” is the U.S. Senate committee that is controlled by Republicans in a Senate led by Mertle. Looks like a small indication that the iron grip of the D’ump may be slipping just a scosch. Russia hoax? Hmmm. Doesn’t sound that way.
Even the gop knows he can’t be allowed another term…….the only question now for them is “strategy”, mainly toward the saving of their own complicit little red wagons.
Poobah, 538 is right about the CNN poll. It’s the only poll in the RCP lineup since 8/3 that shows a statistical tie (4 point margin, 4 point margin of error). Even the Hill/Harris poll still in the lineup with the same 4 point margin had only a 1.2 point margin of error).
The nice thing about arenas is that they have restrooms. Some patriotic portapotty company needs to make sure that all polling places have facilities for those in line.
Post the youtube embed of the DNCC in the main post, tonight, for people to watch. There are dozens of media companies providing them.
i realize Jack was just grumbling, last night, and trying to suggest the lack of Big 3 network coverage limits the influence of the DNCC, but it’s not 1975🤷♂️
“One of the things the post office loses so much money on is the delivering packages for Amazon and these others. Every time they deliver a package, they probably lose three or four dollars,” he said. “That’s not good. They have to raise those prices — OK — not for the people to pay, but for Amazon and those companies to pay.” – trump
The 1st thing they teach you in business school is the supply and demand curves. The SECOND THING they teach you in BUSINESS SCHOOL is that businesses pass increased costs onto consumers.
trump is so incredibly stupid and mendacious.
Post office is a service……have they looked into how much that other service, known as The United States Armed Forces loses per year? I’m pretty sure the Coast Guard by itself loses an ass of money since they can’t sell all those drugs they confiscate.
would have been more fitting to the time to have overturned mnuchin’s decision and let the harriet tubman $20 be issued. pigs would fly first though since that would have meant dissing his favorite general
“The Committee found that Manafort’s presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for the Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign. The Committee assesses that Kilimnik likely served as a channel to Manafort for Russian intelligence services, and that those services likely sought to exploit Manafort’s access to gain insight [into] the Campaign,” the committee found.
[…]
“Taken as a whole, Manafort’s high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services … represented a grave counterintelligence threat,” the committee found.
Strother Martin: After the war, Martin moved to Los Angeles and worked as a swimming instructor and as a swimming extra in water scenes in films.[3] He earned bit roles in a number of pictures and soon gained frequent character roles in films and television through the 1950s, having appeared in such programs as the westernanthology series, Frontier on NBC and the syndicatedAmerican Civil War drama Gray Ghost. He was cast in 1955 as Landry Kersh in the episode “Shadow of God” on the ABC religion anthology series, Crossroads. He gave a memorable performance as a man with learning difficulties in the “Cooter” episode written by Sam Peckinpah in the third season of Gunsmoke (1958).
DeJoy, a former logistics executive and ally of President Trump, took office in June and swiftly made organizational changes to the nation’s mail service, cracking down on overtime hours and banning extra trips by postal carriers trying to ensure on-time mail delivery. The result was mail delays in localities across the country that ensnared prescription medications and election mail during some mid-summer primaries.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the purpose of logistics is to move stuff from one place to another when it needs to be there. Aren’t the bean counters (like CFOs) the ones who insist on doing away with overtime hours and banning extra trips to save money?
So I wonder if the Senate Intel Committee findings about Manafort influenced DeJoy’s reversal? From WaPo:
The U.S. Postal Service will halt its controversial cost-cutting initiatives until after the election — canceling service reductions, reinstating overtime hours and ceasing the removal of mail-sorting machines and public collection boxes, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced in a statement Tuesday.
The declaration comes as lawmakers prepared to question DeJoy and USPS board of governors Chairman Robert M. Duncan in a Friday hearing in the Senate and at a Monday hearing in the House on those policy changes, which have caused mail slowdowns and threatened to jeopardize ballot collection during the November election. (Continues)
My take is he knew his chestnuts were about to get roasted over an open mic. Either he’ s gone next week or he and Lardius have something else cooked up to fuck with mail-in balloting.
dejoyk says he’ll cease reduction of sorting machines and collection boxes, but will he also replace those machines and boxes that he already ‘reduced’ ?
Let’s get AOC out of the way & hope she doesn’t give Repugz too much to use.
Old Man -They just made a movie about Iran/1953. Damned oil and regime change…connect the dots to today’s terrorism.
Well, except for Orange Julius.
That needs to become a thing, what you said. “tRUMP isn’t President, he’s Putin’s suicide bomber.”
XR, That was real? I seriously thought that was a joke. I don’t think she cares (or tells tales) or would accept a pardon if Lardius offered one – or anyone else for that matter.
“Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.”
[Michelle Obama]
wapo:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/us/politics/democratic-national-convention-recap.html
“Vote like your life depends on it.”
the alternative:
What gives me joy this morning is thinking there is no way SFB did not watch at least a part of her speech, and it made him turn purple.
Michelle Obama was terrific! She definitely made the case for Trump needing to go. It’s up to us now. That god damn monster has to go.
Mj
Nice to see you on last night’s DNC thread. Small world, I live in New Smyrna Beach as well.
Craig
It was lovely seeing MJ last night. I would be curious what the count was from out our fan club in the clouds
Best question so far for the convention of greedy old perverts, when is Putin scheduled to speak?
Poobah, I get your point about pre-taping the speech before the vice presidential pick up was made. I suppose I’ll have to cut a little bit of slack for that. My feeling was it was a hell of a good speech. I’m sure we will hear plenty about Kamala in the next three nights.
BB, based on his response this a.m. looks like he watched some of her speech.
the hill quotes him along with the twit’s other tweets:
Craig,
I watched to the end of the Convention. I just did it from my bed which is not computerized.
Did tRUMP just try to go high? He’s fallen, and he can’t get up. Stay down, you monster.
Robert, his brother, wasn’t jealous of him, he says. His niece, Mary, wasn’t jealous of him, either.
a livelier take on the convention in case c-span, pbs, etc coverage is too blah and boring for you
deadline:
and colbert’s monologue on dnc 1st night
my take of the over the air coverage last night, a lot of pundits who thought what they had to say was more important than the convention presentation. And what a bunch of idiots. BTW, I was able to see most of the convention by changing channels came every time the pundits came on.
From the response on twitter Ms Obama is the new “nasty woman”
Jack
Outside of chiding her fellow African Americans for not voting, this is the most important thing she said last night.
Put aside the outrage over all the stupid evil stuff Trump does, in the end it comes down to Trump and his inability to handle a crises. I loved the little “sad but true” at the end.
Jack
Last night just opened the show. Michelle was classy with a bite, Kasich was effective, Bernie did what he had to do, and there were no major glitches. Fireworks on the way.
Who’s up tonight?
Dems have A-list celebrities, Republicans have bikers and Klansmen. Oh, and Skid Rock, Nugent, and Baio. One group they don’t have are the Farmers.
What I loved about last night was that because there was no in person audience… there was no constant stopping of speeches because of applause. Things went fast and efficiently. Rick had to get up early this morning for an appointment… so we were going to bed no later than 11 pm. If this had been a normal convention, there’s no way we would have seen Michelle’s speech… it would have started later than that. We’re both happy that we got to see her…. she was wonderful!
He wasn’t supposed to win but the Russians threw him a curve ball and the Fatty went into the fire.
I thought it all went as well as could b expected. What was missing were the segues the audiences kind of provided with their welcoming applause – but I’ll give that up for the loss of the in-speech interruptions.
To give you an idea how effectively DeJoy is trying to make sure that SFB’s crusade against mail-in voting proceeds to deprive the voters of their right to vote – from WaPo:
Get that? 21.4 million items per hour fewer than before DeJoy took over.
And for all the bigot piggies life is getting worse.
The idiot really thinks he moved the capital to Jerusalem.
Nixon, Reagan, Bush 2, and this one…..plot THAT curve……
Hint: it starts at zero and goes down.
renee, i agree about the benefit of not having to wait for the clapping, standing ovations, multiple noisy gavel banging and the ignored pleas to hush up. nice to be able to hear the speaker without distraction.
I did miss the funny hats and happy hugging drunks though.
good critique at esquire:
Jack Palance in “Shane”, and Lee Marvin as Liberty Valence got nothin’ on this guy.
bob, yep who cares if they’re not enthusiastic as long as they vote for joe. a nose held here and there irrelevant.
Let’s hope turnout is high enough to off-set voter suppression and other forms of Republican cheating.
i’ll bet trump pardons another special forces war-criminal, today, to further bolster the private army he is building.
He’s pardoning Susan B Anthony. Unless that was the Onion
Not entirely sure she needs a pardon at this stage of her life, but I suppose it can’t hurt. Nevertheless, haha if he thinks he’ll gain women voters with such a puerile miasma of conjumbled attempts at actually having “thoughts”. He’s such a cabbage.
You’re right, Mr. S.- trump is pardoning a dead person.
i can’t wrap my head around this guy’s stupidity, pardon my inaccurate prognostication.
Kids in cages- no pardon for you! Maybe after you die!
Fun quotes: Willie Nelson to Bob Dylan:
”After you die they HAVE to leave you alone.”
Roger Stone to the Cabbage:
“I beg your pardon.”
but a lot of speakers need the crowd and the spectacle, Barak was that way his best speeches were in front of large crowds imo.
Ms Obama was the only speaker I saw who was totally comfortable with just the camera.
Michelle said to vote in person, if you can. Mail-in ballots are ASAP because of tRUMPco’s federal crime of obstruction of/tampering with the US Mail…not to mention tampering with the election.
I hope the orange asshat finds out just how much everyone hates him, if he is oblivious to it still.
I noticed a modicum of the old Jackie-O whisper, too. That was nice.
Turn out looks to be a Republican problem, with Trump getting his ass handed to him you could see Republican turn out looking more like an off year election, which is bad news for all down ballot republicans.
Jack
His whole life has been spent knowing full well that everyone hates him. He’s always taken great pleasure in rubbing their noses in it.
Michelle was most definitely the star of the night, but this Biden AMTRAK video was awesome
OK kids, listen up. Remember that US Senate committee that made the findings that Manafort, as D’ump’s campaign chair whose “contacts with Kremlin-linked officials posed a “grave counterintelligence threat,” according to the final volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which also found that some of the campaign’s other Russian contacts had closer ties to Moscow’s government and intelligence services than previously reported” is the U.S. Senate committee that is controlled by Republicans in a Senate led by Mertle. Looks like a small indication that the iron grip of the D’ump may be slipping just a scosch. Russia hoax? Hmmm. Doesn’t sound that way.
Even the gop knows he can’t be allowed another term…….the only question now for them is “strategy”, mainly toward the saving of their own complicit little red wagons.
Poobah, 538 is right about the CNN poll. It’s the only poll in the RCP lineup since 8/3 that shows a statistical tie (4 point margin, 4 point margin of error). Even the Hill/Harris poll still in the lineup with the same 4 point margin had only a 1.2 point margin of error).
They apparently have now made contact with “the wall” as per USPS. And he’s already tweeted about Saving the Post Office.
He’s such a cabbage
I hear Anderson Cooper is shredding some MyPillows over on CNN.
Meanwhile, Dolly Parton is a National Treasure.
For the arenas as polling places to work they will need working voting machines and poll workers
The nice thing about arenas is that they have restrooms. Some patriotic portapotty company needs to make sure that all polling places have facilities for those in line.
Public restrooms are disease vectors- avoid like the plague.
BTW I learned last night CSPAN only teevee option for uninterrupted convention coverage.
Post the youtube embed of the DNCC in the main post, tonight, for people to watch. There are dozens of media companies providing them.
i realize Jack was just grumbling, last night, and trying to suggest the lack of Big 3 network coverage limits the influence of the DNCC, but it’s not 1975🤷♂️
You have to pay for cable to have access to C-Span.
“One of the things the post office loses so much money on is the delivering packages for Amazon and these others. Every time they deliver a package, they probably lose three or four dollars,” he said. “That’s not good. They have to raise those prices — OK — not for the people to pay, but for Amazon and those companies to pay.” – trump
The 1st thing they teach you in business school is the supply and demand curves. The SECOND THING they teach you in BUSINESS SCHOOL is that businesses pass increased costs onto consumers.
trump is so incredibly stupid and mendacious.
Sally Yates speaking tonight. Attorney General? Her first task should be indicting citizen Trump.
Post office is a service……have they looked into how much that other service, known as The United States Armed Forces loses per year? I’m pretty sure the Coast Guard by itself loses an ass of money since they can’t sell all those drugs they confiscate.
he’ll probably pardon her dollar too & reissue it
would have been more fitting to the time to have overturned mnuchin’s decision and let the harriet tubman $20 be issued. pigs would fly first though since that would have meant dissing his favorite general
I have a pet theory that most songs are come up with while walking, walkbeat gives you that rhythm.
looks like the senate committee found one of the witches the Rump accused the house of hunting for
the hill:
chris wallace praised michelle & other on faux news crudgingly agreed somewhat
Strother Martin: After the war, Martin moved to Los Angeles and worked as a swimming instructor and as a swimming extra in water scenes in films.[3] He earned bit roles in a number of pictures and soon gained frequent character roles in films and television through the 1950s, having appeared in such programs as the western anthology series, Frontier on NBC and the syndicated American Civil War drama Gray Ghost. He was cast in 1955 as Landry Kersh in the episode “Shadow of God” on the ABC religion anthology series, Crossroads. He gave a memorable performance as a man with learning difficulties in the “Cooter” episode written by Sam Peckinpah in the third season of Gunsmoke (1958).
Pay attention to the “paid for by” at the end.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1294867322088431616
Trump isn’t president, he’s Putin’s suicide truck bomber. – Mr Man
It bears repeating.
Also, he won’t be at the Capitol on Jan, 20, 2021, he’ll either be in Moscow or Riyadh. Or, dead by suicide, ala hitler. 😷
The man, Strother Martin that is, could chew and spit tobacco like no one else. Loved him as Percy Garis in Butch & Sundance.
Why do I find the following to be ridiculous?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the purpose of logistics is to move stuff from one place to another when it needs to be there. Aren’t the bean counters (like CFOs) the ones who insist on doing away with overtime hours and banning extra trips to save money?
Did Susan B. get out yet ? Maybe trump can have her old cell.
So I wonder if the Senate Intel Committee findings about Manafort influenced DeJoy’s reversal? From WaPo:
My take is he knew his chestnuts were about to get roasted over an open mic. Either he’ s gone next week or he and Lardius have something else cooked up to fuck with mail-in balloting.
dejoyk says he’ll cease reduction of sorting machines and collection boxes, but will he also replace those machines and boxes that he already ‘reduced’ ?
Lock him up.
Did I miss the pardon of someone great?
Yes, Mr Pogo, Susan B. Anthony.
Let’s get AOC out of the way & hope she doesn’t give Repugz too much to use.
Old Man -They just made a movie about Iran/1953. Damned oil and regime change…connect the dots to today’s terrorism.
Well, except for Orange Julius.
That needs to become a thing, what you said. “tRUMP isn’t President, he’s Putin’s suicide bomber.”
XR, That was real? I seriously thought that was a joke. I don’t think she cares (or tells tales) or would accept a pardon if Lardius offered one – or anyone else for that matter.
Cool. Colin Powell is going to be featured speaker tonight.
We arewaiting to hear if we have to evacuate for fire. No one wants us because COVID
Oh, gosh! Crackers, I hope you don’t have to evacuate.
Damn KC, you’re talking some serious shit. Hope you and Mr. Cracker fare well.
NEW THREAD
LOLOL @ Vicente Fox!!!
I’m fairly certain that the repubes will somehow have a jazzy, glitzy virtual convention. And it’ll be full of hate and fear mongering.
Look like Trump TV is hedging their bets some.
I hope the DNC fits in all the Ugly American stuff the orange bucket of lard has done like this:
Wasn’t it at NATO that the fat, orange, bucket of lard rode in a golf cart because he couldn’t even walk 600 feet? Need a pic of that.
He’s not very healthy! I can dance further than he can walk.
G7 leaders took a stroll in Sicily — and Trump followed them in a golf cart
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-golf-cart-g7-sicily-2017-5