Attribution: Excessive Celebration by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune, UT
Forward Ho!
by Charles Harpur
Forward ho! Forward ho! Soldiers of liberty,
Hope on; fight on; till man’s whole race shall be
Free of all good under heaven’s wide dome.
And doubt not, the earth that has grown old in sorrow
Shall grow young again in the light of that morrow
Predestined to make her fraternity’s home.
Forward ho! Forward ho! Lovers of truth and good!
Think on; write on; till earth’s whole herohood
Stand in one faith under heaven’s wide dome;
And shout to behold all the hilltops adorning
With sunflowers of glory the glow of that morning
Predestined to mark her fraternity’s home.
lest we forget how we got here
Biden passes the torch to Harris | The Seattle Times
by David Horsey
THANK YOU, JOE.
in case you missed it, fell asleep during or in case you want to see it again while sober
The moment that millions around the country have been waiting for took place Thursday at the Democratic National Convention as Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the nomination for the presidency.
recaps by the comics
Stephen Colbert brings a remarkable week of LIVE episodes to a close with one more monologue from the incredible Auditorium Theatre in Chicago following VP Kamala Harris’s historic speech at night four of the Democratic National Convention.
click here for Jon Stewart closes out the last night of the DNC live from Chicago with a recap of the convention, including Kamala Harris’s spotlight moment, Oprah’s cat lady cam, and a roster of speakers as diverse and contradictory as the Democratic party itself. Jon also shows Dems what real joy looks like and tries to make sense of Fox News’s convention coverage.
click here for Fallon show’s Jimmy addresses the latest news, like Kamala Harris officially accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, Oprah making a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention and Trump hosting a January 6 Awards Gala with Rudy Giuliani.
click here for Kimmel show’s Guest Host RuPaul talks about a crazy new product being advertised on TV, a new edition of Drunk Donald Trump, the big finale of the DNC in Chicago, Kamala Harris accepting the party’s nomination, and since she has Ru so inspired – he wrote an entire campaign platform that he thinks will really resonate with America.
Attribution: Rebranding America by Jeff Koterba, patreon.com/jeffreykoterba
Photo by Todd Heisler of The New York Times.
Pitiful. He was still blathering about Biden when they had to talk over him. Trump called into Fox News to rage about Kamala’s speech, only to be cut off by Bret Baier so they could get to Gutfeld’s show.
https://x.com/justinbaragona/status/1826826716955697620
Beep bop – ol’ lost in space guy has cracked in at least two alternate universes, and making this real world somewhat hazardous to people who need help. Seems a bit odd to be trying to type hate messages while doing rant radio.
There were several pics and videos of the elderly person yesterday. Other than a botched makeup job, his skin tone is still looking grey. Is it possible that those who see it without makeup are keeping quiet hoping he goes away?
First poll in the field during Dem convention shows Harris ahead outside margin of error by 6 pts (50-44, Likely Voters)… https://www.outwardintelligence.com/pulse/presidential-race-remains-stable
(NOTE: Biden won 305 electoral college votes in 2020 with just a 3.8 pt popular vote lead)
We have the potential for a blue Tsunami but have to take all the convention energy and push like hell on the accelerator.
Trump’s most ’embarrassing’ attack on ‘Coach Walz’
Popular sports analyst Pablo Torre said on ‘Morning Joe’ it was a “major embarrassment” for Donald Trump to go on Truth Social and blurt, “Walz was an ASSISTANT Coach, not a COACH.”
“What that reveals is that Donald Trump doesn’t know ball at all”, Torre said. “Donald Trump does not know football — it’s embarrassing!”
Torre explained being an assistant coach is not a step down from being a coach. Being an assistant coach — you go back and look, and, often, you’re far closer to your assistant coach, to your defensive coordinator, to your D-backs coach, to your line coach. It’s like, man, those linemen on my high school team, they were thick as thieves with the line coaches. They were their own sort of subset there.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-coach-walz/
i hear Caracas is lovely this time of year
Are you voting for the party that will inspires children or the party that attacks children?
i’m voting for Kamala! 🇺🇸
Kamala’s speech flipped 6 of 8 undecided voters in a PA focus group
CNN asked a panel of 8 undecided voters in Allentown, PA to grade Kamala Harris’s speech A-F. The results were:
A 3
B+ 3
B 1
C 1
7 of 8 are now decided: 6 for Harris and 1 for Trump.
12:37 AM · Aug 23, 2024
Um, withdraw from Crimea, get out of Ukraine, problem solved
i won’t pretend to know the mind of Putin, but i’d venture that Russia being invaded 2.5 years after he started the war wasn’t part of the plan
He called into Newsmax in the middle of the night asking the host and her husband to come hang out with him in Caracas. The dude is coming apart. Trump to Newsmax hosts: “Caracas was a very unsafe city, and now it’s safe. In fact, some day the 3 of us will have to go there — bring your husband with us also — and we’ll bring some of the other people that are with you because I like the people that are with you.”… https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1826934665703305390
lol maybe i heard how lovely it is from him
Let’s go YOU, vote blue, i will too 🇺🇸
turn out to vote 🕺 💃 🇺🇸
✌️
Dan Balz has a pretty good analysis at WaPo of the progress of the race so far. CHICAGO — In his history as a candidate for president,Donald Trumphas never experienced anything like the past month. Vice PresidentKamala Harris, a Black and Indian American woman, has pushed the White alpha male to the sidelines of the national conversation, denying him the spotlight he craves and constantly demands. Democrats concluded their electrifying national convention here on Thursday night with Harris as the main event, delivering an address sculpted to keep her on the crest of a wave that has changed the contours of the presidential election. The Democrats are in the game, the former president is in a box, and it’s not clear whether he knows what to do. Trying to free himself from this bind, Trump has plucked from what was once a tested playbook of tricks that in the past has kept his opponents off-balance and himself at the center of attention. But as the campaign now moves to its next phase, the focus on him and how he attempts to regain his balance will be as much or more of the story compared with how Harris navigates the road ahead. Harris defined the stakes of the election in blunt terms in her acceptance speech. “Fellow Americans, this election is not only the most important of our lives, it is one of the most important in the life of our nation,” she said. “In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences — but the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious. … Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.” Meanwhile, as she was speaking, Trump was providing a running stream of criticism on Truth Social, though in the same unfocused and sometimes confusing style that has marked many of his recent appearances. “IS SHE TALKING ABOUT ME?” he wrote in one post. As Harris has glided through the past month, Trump has taken to social media or to friendly media interviews in hopes of setting the terms of the conversation, but that has… Read more »
Now we have to keep on keepin’ on, the hardest part.
If his plane (or the Lolita Express) can take all his shit to Caracas, and he’d like to move there, I can put him in touch with someone who can file the flight plan for him.
This really caught my ear in her speech: “EXPLICIT INTENT”
You can tell this is a prosecutor skilled in persuading jurors to infer intent, and it’s very useful as political rhetoric against the response ‘I didn’t say that’:
That’s how you call out a dog whistler.
Craig, thank you for clarifying the meaning. We’ll take it to the bank.
“Frontier Justice”
What you can expect when your president is an outlaw.
Do we have an extradition treaty with Venezuela?
we don’t recognize the legitimacy of their govt so i doubt it
BiD, yes, but No. We have a treaty but at least as of June this year Venzuela does not honor it. From World Population Review:
“For example, countries that have extradition treaties with the United States, but which are known to often refuse extradition requests anyway include Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Iceland, Switzerland, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.”
So, Jack, in appreciation of your previous expressed aversion to political games, and in contrast to Obama, who (in my opinion) was a guy who played The Game very well (for the right reasons),
Kamala and Walz are not playing games.
…and yet, them good vibes 😎 👍 🇺🇸
today’s meme…
Fmr Fox & Newsmax host Eric Bolling w/an epic rant today:
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1826999252490297824?t=4ch4B6LFYwuq4IfOtdYyCg&s=19
HA!
I’d much rather they concentrate on his time as representative and governor than all that coach business. A whole group of people never cared a fig about high school sports.
Yes, the line from Walz’ speech they should use in ads is banning books v banishing hunger.
https://www.newsweek.com/while-republicans-ban-books-their-schools-were-banishing-hunger-ours-opinion-1827152
Written by Tim Walz in 2023!
“While Republicans Ban Books in Their Schools, We’re Banishing Hunger From Ours”
Sturg – I understand how you could feel that there’s too much focus on the football coach aspect, but the act of coaching is much bigger than sports, and if calling him “coach” makes folks feel like they know him, all the better.
Overnight ratings for the acceptance speeches of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Seven networks combined:
Harris – 15.0 (10:30-11:15p)
Trump – 12.3 (10:30-12m)
Difference: 22%
Desperate
He’s shown how his administration will be for women’s reproductive rights – and it ain’t great. He apparently forgets that he said he was proud he was able to get rid of Roe and that he endorsed some sort of punishment for women who sought an abortion. He’s an ass and needs to pick a horse to follow. From Dana Milbank’s column today: “At a time when Trump has caused millions of American women to lose their rights, …”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/22/beyonce-blocks-trump-use-of-her-song-freedom-kamala-harris
“Trump campaign deletes Freedom video after Beyoncé blocks use of song”
“Freedom, the central song in the Kamala Harris campaign, appeared in a Trump campaign video but was contested by singer’s label and publisher”
Ha! I can’t believe they were even stupid enough to try this. Oh, wait! It’s another attempt to distract from PROJECT 2025. It’s exactly why they tried it. They knew what would happen and that the media would scurry to that story.
…gotta identify Walz quick, was a relative unknown 3 weeks, ago, election in 10.5 weeks, “Coach” works 👍
James Carville says North Carolina is more likely than Georgia to go for Harris. He then said “we know some head shots are coming at them(our ticket) but we will go on.”
Not all left of center folks were happy at the Chicago party:
https://progressive.org/latest/the-dnc-fiddles-while-the-world-burns-benjamin-davies-20240821/?fbclid=IwY2xjawE1o8hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSPzdlwdHN-jpFM-O5nnOhS3CGsox14wkw0fc2C_ggcRdnFXvbNa52PtjA_aem_4iboAcxJWr76-nmnpO0s4A
I noticed in Trump’s comments about going to Caracas. No mention of Melanoma being there too. Just Trump the host and her hubby. I guess Melanoma and Barron are not going
Dex
We are in the general election, what the wing nuts want isn’t relevant. They can get on board or totally lose out. If they cause the Democrats to lose this year they will be pariahs for the rest of their lives. Just look at Kennedy jr. he can’t even go to a family reunion any more.
Jack
Dex, you’re right, not all left of center folks were happy about the DNC not featuring the problems in Gaza. But the DNC had a more immediate concern – producing a strong introduction of the new Presidential candidate and her relatively unknown running mate. If Democrats would like to alienate more moderate folks in the coalition in order to please arguably the farthest left wing faction of the party (although in truth I do not support Israel’s approach to the war and agree we could probably tap their brakes a bit) we’d better practice saying President Trump without throwing up in our mouths a little every time we say it.
Besides, the CODEPINK writers at the Progressive focusing on Israel/Gaza represent only one viewpoint about only one of dozens of issues progressives care about – and only a narrow sliver of the Democratic Party. And fuhchrissake, selling arms to Israel is not waging war on Gaza. That is a distinction that seems too fine for the authors of that article to grasp.
NBC News: DNC v. RNC ratings (Nielsen)
DAY ONE
DNC: 20 million
RNC: 18 million
DAY TWO
DNC: 20.8 million
RNC: 14.8 million
DAY THREE
DNC: 20.2 million
RNC: 18 million
Pogo
Also code pink has almost zero votes in any battleground state.
I can see why they are more than a little irritated, their threatened “days of rage” just didn’t happen. They look kind of like fools. I think this is one of the major outcomes of this convention. Not what happened but what didn’t. The dog that didn’t bark.
Jack
sweet…
Gym Jordan…. Coach.
And that gop speaker of the house who got jail time. Hastert?
Tuberville.
Why waste time explaining how our coach is not like their coaches.
I don’t mind coach if they don’t run it into the ground. I for one don’t like coaches. End of story. I’m sure there are many more.
But basically.,…,keep going as low ong as it works. I be there with it.
and I LOVE the idea of calling Walz “coach”. Playing sports teaches us how to be part of a team… how to give your very best… how to respect your opponent… and most importantly, how to win or lose gracefully.
It’s obvious that trumpy did NOT play sports…
But as in all walks of life… some coaches are better than others. Just look at Sturg’s above post.
NEW: @FiveThirtyEight forecast
Chance of winning
🟦 Harris: 58%
🟥 Trump: 41%
Electoral Votes
🟦 Harris: 287
🟥 Trump: 251
Swing States (chance of winning)
MI – 🔵 Harris 63-37%
WI – 🔵 Harris 61-39%
PA – 🔵 Harris 56-44%
NV – 🔵 Harris 55-45%
AZ 🔵 Harris 53-47%
NC – 🔴 Trump 52-48%
GA – 🔴 Trump 53-47%
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
I’m with Renee.
All the way coach.
(But please …….keep the football metaphors to a minimum? Purty please? lol
Looks like something has knocked substack off line.
My 401k is going gangbusters today. Mostly in the small cap Russel 2000. up over 3%. That is good news for the future.
Jack
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/politics/trump-businesses-campaign-spending-invs/index.html
“Between his three presidential campaigns, Trump and associated political groups have funneled more than $28 million in campaign donations to his businesses – helping convert the enthusiasm of his political supporters into personal profit.”
“Other Republicans have followed suit, spending millions at Trump’s properties in an apparent attempt to curry favor with the former president and signal their allegiance to him to GOP voters.”
“Some of the candidates who’ve spent the most money on Trump businesses in recent years have been new politicians who won the former president’s endorsement despite a lack of past electoral experience or success, including Moreno, former Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker and Arizona Senate hopeful Kari Lake.”
Tuberville and Hastert demonstrate in spades that JUST because you were a coach doesn’t mean you were (a) smart or (b) have any integrity. And Gym Jordan – throw (a) & (b) into the mix and add asshole et voila – you get Gym.
Carville said if Harris attains 282, she will have a hard road as President. He said she needs a massive blow-out to really establish herself as a strong President. I heard him say that and I cringed…if she gets 270 I will be happy as a clam. Reagan won 49 states, Nixon similarly had a blow-out victory in 1972, but everyone is acknowledging 2024 will be a tight race. Let’s just not have another 2000 fiasco. And definitely not another 2020 ; we need a blow-out big enough to squelch and smash Trump’s movement forever and amen. But just get 270 for a start. I keep hearing snippets about the state I live in, Ohio, being possibly in play. Bink mentioned it, possibly in jest last week, but now I hear it popping up daily, here and there. Don’t believe it. These bastard Republicans here won’t allow it. They will close polling places, cheat, throw out votes, anything and more. Ohio Blue? Things gotta change.
Selling rockets and arms to Israel while Netanyahu is running the show has to be considered contributing to the genocide in Gaza and the North. In 10 months, 50,000 dead Palestinians from US arms make the USA complicit. How can you view it otherwise? Human life is cheap over there when the IDF will blow up families by the dozen to kill one Hamas leader. It is sick in the worst definition of the word.
Netanyahu must be replaced, but how? His cabinet of zealots have him covered. Joe Biden is so sick of that guy…me too. You?
Bernie and AOC spoke at the convention and both endorsed Kamala Harris. They were speaking to progressives.
Elizabeth Warren, popular with progressives and moderates and heart and soul of the party IMO, endorsed Harris. Think Palestinians will be better off under Orange Adolf? Nope.
Carville may have stayed out of the way and kept them between the ditches, but it was Perot who got us Clinton He had a beef with bush 1. Probably some Texas thing. James, I like the way you keep pitching but. um, Well, go ahead then if you must.
RFKjr blaming NATO for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine??? Trump can have him.
“Ukraine is a victim of this war and it is a victim of the West”
that damned West with its defense of self-autonomy and opposition to murderous tyrants
tell me you’re a Russian plant without telling me you’re a Russian plant
Somehow Yellowhammer News has begun appearing in my feed. I didn’t ask for it and may resort to blocking it, but seeing their disinformation disseminated as “news” is quite a shocker.
We’re in for an exhausting siege of lies.
https://yellowhammernews.com/trump-sees-betting-odds-soar-amid-dnc-disaster/
Have y’all noticed an “AI overview” when you do a search, lately? If you then go to the specific website you wanted, the info is not what the AI showed.
RFKjr: “Vice President Harris declined to meet or even speak with me”.
A good reason to vote for her.
A sad ending to a sad story. You got it, Live Kennedys.
The operative word is “ending”.
Bobby Brainworms is a felon (heroin), so he belongs with the orange felon, Trying to shake down Harris for a cabinet position first, too. Hey, Adolf! You weren’t even Bobby Brainworms’ first choice. Loser!
3rd try the charm. Mr. Ivy ‘n me are off to continue the dancing in Denver tonight with Gipsy Kings.
Is the chump campaign flotsam or jetsam?
here is a clip from today of top Republican goof James Comer admitting on Fox that “the United States has the strongest economy in the world”
his words, not mine, share widely
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1826990685976703353
BiD I’ve seen those AI summaries, and you are right. Ivy, not that betting odds mean shit, but Yellowhammer doesn’t seem to understand what betting odds are. Here’s from 3 hours ago from the Las Vegas Review-Journal: Harris entered the DNC, which took place Monday through Thursday, as a slight favorite to win the White House. But Trump supplanted her as the favorite Tuesday, when he surged to the -113 favorite over Harris at Pinnacle, a respected offshore sportsbook that is not regulated in the U.S. Trump also was the +100 favorite Wednesday over Harris at London-based Betfair Exchange, which reported more than $53 million pounds, which equates to $70 million U.S. dollars, has been wagered on the election outcome. Betfair also reported that more money has been bet on Trump than on Harris, though more wagers have been placed on Harris. “Their odds have completely flipped in the last 24 hours, and the betting market is now as tight as it has been since April, when Joe Biden and Trump were neck and neck,” Betfair spokesperson Sam Rosbottom said Wednesday. “With just under three months to go until polling day, we’re expecting to see plenty more swings and movement on the market in that time as the campaigns ramp up.”Harris has a 50 percent chance to win the election, which equates to +100, according to electionbettingodds.com, which averages live odds from FTX.com, Betfair.com, PredictIt.org, Smarkets.com and Polymarket.com. Trump’s chances are 48.2 percent, or +107, at the site where his chances were as high as 67.9 percent (-211) after a failed assassination attempt July 13. Yellowhammer was apparently reporting odds that were in the middle of the DNC. Dex, of course the weapons we sell Israel contribute to the war, but we aren’t fighting. And I don’t condone the bomb the place to rubble approach taken by Israel, and like I said, I think we could tap the brakes if we were so inclined, but there are international security concerns that I could only speculate about and to take action lies with folks WAAAYYYY above my pay grade. … Read more »
Sturg, I go with flotsam. Best I can tell the ship is his. Biden on the other hand – many (some of us) would say he’s jetsam.
Trump Arizona rally now underway. Supposedly he and JFKjr appear together at 7:00 p.m.
https://www.youtube.com/live/BnWLy3srSkE?si=9UW0hFyEgRlH1pX8
JD Vance is completely normal
Amping up his dwindling base with “fight,fight, fight” signs. I’m convinced Harris will win by a wide margin, but I’m also convinced that The Heritage Foundation’s orange, tool will throw all of the dirty tricks and violence they can at it.
there’s no such thing as a “wide margin” anymore
that’s no reason not to try for one, of course 😃
totally normal Charlie Kirk at the trump rally elucidating us all with his deep grasp of economics 😆
So today i encountered many less-than-chipper Republicans and made sure to share some apolitical joy, and encouraged my Dem-leaning pals not to bother arguing policy with such folk online and instead amplify Kamala’s message, hopefully that was helpful 🤝
Ok enjoy the trump/kennedy rally, i advise against wearing a bear costume if you are attending ✌️
(it would be amusing if JD got fired in a half an hour)
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-accused-crime-benjamin-netanyahu-call-ceasefire-hamas-1942248
“Donald Trump Accused of Committing ‘Massive Crime’ With Reported Phone Call”
“Donald Trump has been accused of violating federal law by the American Muckrackers PAC after allegations were made he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the ceasefire deal the U.S. is helping negotiate between Israel and Hamas.”
“The former president allegedly made the call on August 14, according to Axios, and repeated in Reuters, which cited two unnamed “U.S. sources who were briefed on the call.”
“This claim was reported again by PBS host Judy Woodruff on Tuesday, who said, “the reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the PM of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign.”
“Both Netanyahu’s office and Trump denied that the call took place.”
“If Trump did make the call, there has been suggestions that this would potentially break the Logan Act, which prohibits unauthorized private citizens from negotiating with foreign governments on behalf of the U.S.”
“During a press conference in New Jersey on August 15, Trump denied the phone call happened and said the last time he spoke to Netanyahu was when the Israeli PM visited him at Mar-a-Lago on July 26. “I did encourage him to get this over with. You want to get it over with fast. Have victory, get your victory, and get it over with. It has to stop, the killing has to stop,” Trump said.
“In his press conference last Thursday Trump criticized the Democrats’ calls for a ceasefire.”
“He said: “From the start, Harris has worked to tie Israel’s hand behind its back, demanding an immediate ceasefire, always demanding ceasefire…”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/middleeast/taliban-law-women-voices-intl-latam/index.html
“Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public”
“Among the new rules, Article 13 relates to women: It says it is mandatory for a woman to veil her body at all times in public and that a face covering is essential to avoid temptation and tempting others. Clothing should not be thin, tight or short.”
“A woman’s voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public.”
The Kennedy family will have to be more vocal. Most folks will never read that statement. They need to start campaigning for Kamala. Schlossberg speaking at the DNC didn’t do much, because his last name isn’t a hyphenate.
if you haven’t, i strongly encourage you to view and share the JD Vance clip i posted above, it’s important, as it depicts how utterly out-of-touch the person who has a relatively good possibility of being a heartbeat away from the Presidency of the greatest Democracy in the history of the World is
We can’t let that happen (obviously)
You, whoever you are, deserve better
it is imperative we not give the nuclear codes to a guy who doesn’t know how to order donuts
Yeah, like he wanted a cookie for telling her he was running gut VP, and all he got was “Okay…”Nobody cares, JD.
Then he interrogates them about their employment history, like it’s any of his business.
He can’t even order donuts like a normal person. Glazed, cinnamon rolls, and “whatever makes sense.” Are we sure he’s from this planet?
The only thing that makes sense is voting for Harris.
ps – She doesn’t want to be seen talking to him. Ha!
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