nbc is live-blogging the democratic natl. convention, or:

Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 5:00pm

or 'A PSA of Dubious Value'. It's not likely by way of a Drinking Game.

according to abc news: Michelle Ma Belle has gone full-Afro: Black Lives Matter?

Here's the nbc liveblog, and it does contain some true (if hilariously 'too late now' jewels, such as this section:

Dems' hunger to break the old political system grows ahead of election

...but also this section on 'Plan Your Vote

...is a new, interactive tool from NBC News and MSNBC, which encourages Americans to plan when and how they will vote, taking into account each state’s coronavirus pandemic restrictions, mail-in ballot rules, early in-person voting and more.

This comprehensive, state-by-state guide includes the most up-to-date information for voters across the country. It's everything you need to know about casting a ballot in the 2020 election, wherever you live. And we'll be updating it as rules change — which could happen right up until Election Day.

Try the tool here.

"NBC News will air a special report from 10 to 11 p.m. ET each night, and MSNBC will have convention coverage from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m., with special coverage beginning at 9 p.m. NBC News Now will livestream the convention each day, with special coverage starting at 8 p.m. And follow us here on NBCNews.com for breaking news, analysis and fact checks."

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Submitted by pindar's revenge on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 5:20pm

They go high

Noses in the air. Screw the hoi-polloi.

Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 6:45pm

hoi palloi? puh-leeeze!

@pindar's revenge

"There's a youth revolution going on in the party," said Howard Dean, who was chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You're going to see a real reform movement — not just in Congress, which will resist for institutional reasons, but you'll see it in the country. And that's what you're going to see at this convention."

Eva Longoria, Kerry Washington, former “Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Tracee Ellis Ross will each emcee a night of the convention, with Longoria on Monday, Ross on Tuesday, Washington on Wednesday and Louis-Dreyfus on the convention’s final day on Thursday.

Three of the four are minorities: Longoria co-founded the Latino Victory Fund and held a “Presidente Finance Council” fundraiser for Biden recently as she continues to bring Hispanic voters into the party. Washington and Ross are both Black American women who have devoted their work to numerous causes uplifting their communities’ voices.

DNC Chair Perez says party's focus this week will be that Trump is 'chronically incompetent'

Democrats tap an array of faith leaders to speak at convention or:hit every base hard.

Submitted by pindar's revenge on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 10:57pm

They have emcee's?

@wendy davis

I would have thought dj's.

It's a hard row to hoi.

Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 7:32am

the salt of the earth,

@pindar's revenge

i tell ya! and yeppers, they went full kinte cloth to show us!

Submitted by pindar's revenge on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 10:34am

There's something happening here

@wendy davis

I read that Stills reprised the song for the donorcrats. Oh well. We all get old. At least he's not a stockbroker (I hope).

xrist, I had a better 'fro than that way back, and I'm White(TM). I didn't pay a hairdresser, tho.

Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 11:24am

double grin.

@pindar's revenge

Submitted by Pricknick on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 5:36pm

Thanks

for the warning but I think I have toe nails to pick and nose hairs to clip.
Nah. I'll skip the hair clipping so as to hopefully block out the smell that emanates from such gatherings.

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Submitted by NYCVG on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 6:01pm

DNC convention? HA!

Demopub? DemoRep? RepubliCrat?

New added speakers: Former NJ Governor Christine Todd Whitman (R)

Former NY Congressperson Susan Molinari (R)

Meg Whitman, CA (R)

Plus Bloomberg and Kasich.

Bernie is alotted 8 minutes and AOC 60 seconds.

IDK what this is but it is not the future I want. Oligarchy united. Progressives excluded.

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NYCVG

Submitted by Shahryar on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 7:27pm

I asked my love is she wanted to see the Repub convention

@NYCVG

"I thought it was the Democrats" she said. But then, upon reflection, she agreed.

This year, more than ever, they've brazenly frozen us out.

Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 8:30pm

The takeover of the Dems has begun!

@NYCVG But oops, the progressives missed the boat. The never Trump Republicans got there first and found the DNC welcoming them with open arms.

Vote purple no matter who, just doesn’t have the same ring, does it?

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

Submitted by Bollox Ref on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 6:15pm

Yeah...

erm, no thanks.

Off for a bike ride. These clowns are best ignored.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by Marie on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 6:15pm

Maybe this will speed up the demise

of quadrennial political party conventions. As the purpose of these affairs became less over time, they also became boring, pre-scripted exercises of no value.

Submitted by Shahryar on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 7:35pm

I just thought something inappropriate

@Marie

the conventions were lively things when the nomination wasn't locked up and the nomination wasn't locked up in those days because the DNC didn't control the outcome.

The mellow version of what I thought is "I hope the people who run the Democratic Party retire". Just between us, though, I thought something more drastic.

Submitted by Marie on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 10:25pm

They were lively when almost all the

@Shahryar power to select the nominee was in the hands of local and state delegates (party officials and VIPS) and state delegations. Candidates wooed delegates before and during the convention. Ordinary voters were irrelevant. Lots of backroom deals -- the public didn't see that liveliness. They did see/hear floor fights among delegates and delegations. Generally the nominee wasn't known until after one or more roll calls when one candidate had received enough votes. Then the process for the VP began.

1968 for the Democratic Party was (approximately) half old-school and half 'democratic' (delegates representing the results primary elections). That was a total ruckus in the convention hall and a police riot in the streets. So, Democrats got reform, primaries or caucuses in all states. There was a presumed nominee going into the convention. The old-school didn't like the results at all. And after two of those election cycles, they added the superdelegates that could override all those pesky primary voters. (And a number of those were needed by Mondale in 1984.)

Still the presumptive nominees held off on naming the VP until the convention. So, that left some surprise during the convention. Dukakis ended that tradition.

From '88 through '04 the power was with the superdelegates, but the DNC was slowly gaining more power. Primary elections became window dressing. Then something weird happened in '08. AA voters bolted from HRC and dragged previously committed AA HRC superdelegates with them. The front-loading of southern states in the primary process put HRC on the ropes, but still she persevered for months and months.

The concession that Sanders got at the '16 convention -- beginning in '20, SDs can't vote on the first ballot -- no longer mattered because after 2008, the DNC assumed the power and SDs can keep their powder dry.

IOW -- for the illusion of voter choice in Democratic Presidential nominations (real only for one and possibly two election cycles), we gave up lively national conventions. Those were at least entertaining for the public and we had no illusions that we mattered.

Submitted by lotlizard on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 2:25am

“He is not the favorite son of any one state —

@Marie
he is the favorite son of (pounds podium) fifty states! Adlai Stevenson of Illinois!”

Followed by almost a half hour of bedlam at the 1960 DNC, with people chanting “We want Stevenson!” and the chairman futilely gavelling for order, muttering into the microphone that “This demonstration has got to stop.”

Of course no one really wanted to nominate Stevenson a third time — it was just theater. But heartwarming emotional theater in honor of an intelligent and decent man who had answered his party’s call and flown two kamikaze missions against Eisenhower.

#5.1 power to select the nominee was in the hands of local and state delegates (party officials and VIPS) and state delegations. Candidates wooed delegates before and during the convention. Ordinary voters were irrelevant. Lots of backroom deals -- the public didn't see that liveliness. They did see/hear floor fights among delegates and delegations. Generally the nominee wasn't known until after one or more roll calls when one candidate had received enough votes. Then the process for the VP began. 1968 for the Democratic Party was (approximately) half old-school and half 'democratic' (delegates representing the results primary elections). That was a total ruckus in the convention hall and a police riot in the streets. So, Democrats got reform, primaries or caucuses in all states. There was a presumed nominee going into the convention. The old-school didn't like the results at all. And after two of those election cycles, they added the superdelegates that could override all those pesky primary voters. (And a number of those were needed by Mondale in 1984.) Still the presumptive nominees held off on naming the VP until the convention. So, that left some surprise during the convention. Dukakis ended that tradition. From '88 through '04 the power was with the superdelegates, but the DNC was slowly gaining more power. Primary elections became window dressing. Then something weird happened in '08. AA voters bolted from HRC and dragged previously committed AA HRC superdelegates with them. The front-loading of southern states in the primary process put HRC on the ropes, but still she persevered for months and months. The concession that Sanders got at the '16 convention -- beginning in '20, SDs can't vote on the first ballot -- no longer mattered because after 2008, the DNC assumed the power and SDs can keep their powder dry. IOW -- for the illusion of voter choice in Democratic Presidential nominations (real only for one and possibly two election cycles), we gave up lively national conventions. Those were at least entertaining for the public and we had no illusions that we mattered.

Submitted by Marie on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 11:49am

Very nice!

@lotlizard Hadn't heard that one before and there are probably many more like it out there that are unknown to all but convention historians.

Submitted by Shahryar on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 8:23pm

omigod, this is awful

are any of you watching? eeeeee...making me cringe.

Submitted by NYCVG on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 8:36pm

@Shahryar I tried. But failed.

@Shahryar I tried. But failed.

No policies.

All platitudes and Hollywood dreck.

Time for something on Netflix.

—

NYCVG

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 5:42pm

Well, if you're going to watch fiction

@NYCVG

it should be good fiction. I recommend The Witcher.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 8:31pm

well i'm out for the night.

i'd brought it mainly for the 'your state by state guide to voting by email' and the self-parody of the liveblog. glad to know that this year you may mean what you say about finally #DemExiting.

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 8:41pm

I'll be sure not to watch.

Tell me, though, how far to the right Joe goes. Next year in Caracas?

—

"the Democratic Party is not 'left'." -- Sabrina Salvati

Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 9:45am

grin. or next year in

@Cassiodorus

La Paz?

Submitted by on the cusp on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 9:07pm

Shahyar, I have it on the tv.

I am just making fun of it all.
Must go take a shower.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by QMS on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 10:28pm

but but the baloons !!

send in the clowns bozo and bezos
I wanna see the bufoons
the all american red white and blue bufoons
tied by strings attached to their dopplganger donors
stealing music from sprinstein
oh the pomp and circumvent!
dancing elephants!
fire breathing trapeze progressives!
men shot up by canons!
something for everyone !!

[video:https://youtu.be/tBu-ewMRhkA]

Submitted by Pricknick on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 10:57pm

Thank you.

@QMS
I've never viewed that version of Murray Head.
Slightly fast but very much chessboard.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 1:31am

Bah. I'd sooner clean out the catbox.

At least that gets rid of some mess and stink!

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

Submitted by Battle of Blair... on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 1:54am

Didn't even know tonight was the night.

But really happy I got to watch One Night In Bangkok video.
I'd completely forgotten that song.
Oh yeah, the convention: meh.

Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 7:50am

i hadn't remembered,

@Battle of Blair Mountain

either, but i'd been bingling for a thing i'd seen at Newsmax or somewhere about amy the klobuchar having introduced a Vote by Mail bill. turns out it was in march, but the first hit was the NBC news vote by mail state by state rules, so...

i clicked into our email provider just now (msn) and the homepage had '6 takeaways from Night One', tra la la. michelle ma belle spoke for 19 minutes, and the portions they quoted about 'we go high, they go low', and her explanation of 'we go for the cold hard truth'...almost made me want to vote for trump./s

this is obscene: relatives of both george floyd and eric garner spoke on behalf of biden (and i assume KopMala (h/t aliasalias)...about the urgency of police reform. iirc, amy the klobuchar will speak, even though her dirty paws were all over george's and others' assassinations by The Po-po. they got some huevos, i'll say that.

and four! count em: four! republican bigwigs spoke for the duo! bernie love was strong, apparently. existential because: trump. now it may be true that it's on him that a reported 170000 amerikans have died of covid-19, but they brought speakers in for a number of them, including a child named skylar.

the musical theme of the night was bruce springstein's the rising. would he have agreed beforehand? beats.me.

Submitted by Fishtroller 02 on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 9:11am

I tuned in here and there....

There was a disgusting (according to the NPR people "courageous") video of a young woman who claims her father died of Covid because he listened to Trump and didn't take the virus seriously. He went out to a bar with friends in FL. Of course her father had no responsibility to think for himself...he was just a Trump zombie. I thought blaming Trump for his death was beyond the pale.

I watched Bernie's speech .... don't exact know what to say. It was half how absolutely evil Trump is and half how Joe is going to fix of all this with his great (compromised) policies. I was beyond sad to see him this way.

And Michelle said, "the Presidency doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are." I said out loud, "you betcha honey, and your husband revealed a lot that I would rather have never seen!"
She's a mess!

Not tuning in anymore. It's an obscene infomercial designed to hide and obscure the truth about Joe Biden. And Judy Woodruff (whose husband Al Hunt wrote an over the rainbow fluff piece on Biden) gushed and gushed about this farce, basically enabling the dems to lie to us. Talk about dangerous to democracy! This fusion of media and political party is what is going to kill this country...um along with the health system lobbyists.

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"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin

Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 11:30am

I had lots of fun last night on the Twit trolling Michelle

@Fishtroller 02

Almost everything she accused Trump of doing just highlighted how her husband did the same things during his 8 year squat in the Oval Office when after he accomplished his goal of becoming president he just preened and lectured us on how presidenting is hard. Boo Hoo.

I asked Michelle how this gobbly gooked comment offered us any idea of how Biden's presidency would pull us out of the economic dive we are in. How it was going to bring back the millions of jobs that are not coming back...ect.

So what do we do now? What’s our strategy? Over the past four years, a lot of people have asked me, “When others are going so low, does going high still really work?” My answer: going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that’s drowning out everything else. We degrade ourselves. We degrade the very causes for which we fight.

But let’s be clear: going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top. Going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation under God, and if we want to survive, we’ve got to find a way to live together and work together across our differences.

And going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold, hard truth.

link

If we want to end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris like our lives depend on it. Register today by texting VOTE to 30330. https://t.co/xPu5o0SYLJ

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) August 18, 2020

end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for Biden. What progress on which issues are in danger of going away Michelle? Possibility is a tad like access isn't it? We can have the possibility of universal health care through access to the ACA? I have the possibility of buying a corvette except that I don't have access to the money needed to buy it nor do I see that happening any time in the future.

Michelle's speech apparently drove people to outright weeping with tears running down their faces. Well that's nice. But it was just more claptrap for the masses that will do nothing for the millions who are on the brink of losing everything they own after the government shut down the country and didn't plan on meeting long term financial help for us.

It was more than that, though. She crystallized the emotional tenor of the nation right now. It was fierce, defiant, empathetic, gentle, angry…...I could go on with adjectives.

Screw your plea for unity Michelle and democrats. It's as empty as the 8 years of Obama. One other thing I kept pointing out was if democrats thought it was too dangerous to hold the convention in public then how in the hell is it safe to send kids back to underfunded schools so that parents have a way to return to work during a pandemic? Chuck said if we don't then we are responsible for the economy not returning to normal. F you Chuck. We refuse to be Capital Stock for the 1%.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9o2PqXaLw&list=TLPQMTcwODIwMjDOShBhEvo...

If you look closely, Michelle Obama's necklace reads V-O-T-E pic.twitter.com/5V5LfujLnW

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 18, 2020

Call now and for $19.95 you too can have this genuine knock off of Michelle Obama's VOTE necklace plus $100 for shipping and handling. Can't afford to pay all at once? We offer a 10 year plan of monthly payments of just $29.95/month at 39% interest. CALL NOW!

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 11:35am

The biggest insurance and big pharma group were going

@snoopydawg

to run ads against the Public Option that Biden has insisted is better than universal health care. Guess they didn't have to do that since Biden and the dems have backed off on that plan and are just going to strengthen the flawed ACA that leaves millions without access to health care. Bernie said that he was staying in the race so that he could persuade Biden to pick a few of his issues. Well Biden and the delegates said screw you Bernie and your supporters. We will not concede on any issues that we don't feel are in our donor's best interest. They run the country and you guys know it and there is nothing you can do about it. Vote for us anyway because Trump is bad and besides you have nowhere else to go.

Wanna bet?

#13

Almost everything she accused Trump of doing just highlighted how her husband did the same things during his 8 year squat in the Oval Office when after he accomplished his goal of becoming president he just preened and lectured us on how presidenting is hard. Boo Hoo.

I asked Michelle how this gobbly gooked comment offered us any idea of how Biden's presidency would pull us out of the economic dive we are in. How it was going to bring back the millions of jobs that are not coming back...ect.

So what do we do now? What’s our strategy? Over the past four years, a lot of people have asked me, “When others are going so low, does going high still really work?” My answer: going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that’s drowning out everything else. We degrade ourselves. We degrade the very causes for which we fight.

But let’s be clear: going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top. Going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation under God, and if we want to survive, we’ve got to find a way to live together and work together across our differences.

And going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold, hard truth.

link

If we want to end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris like our lives depend on it. Register today by texting VOTE to 30330. https://t.co/xPu5o0SYLJ

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) August 18, 2020

end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for Biden. What progress on which issues are in danger of going away Michelle? Possibility is a tad like access isn't it? We can have the possibility of universal health care through access to the ACA? I have the possibility of buying a corvette except that I don't have access to the money needed to buy it nor do I see that happening any time in the future.

Michelle's speech apparently drove people to outright weeping with tears running down their faces. Well that's nice. But it was just more claptrap for the masses that will do nothing for the millions who are on the brink of losing everything they own after the government shut down the country and didn't plan on meeting long term financial help for us.

It was more than that, though. She crystallized the emotional tenor of the nation right now. It was fierce, defiant, empathetic, gentle, angry…...I could go on with adjectives.

Screw your plea for unity Michelle and democrats. It's as empty as the 8 years of Obama. One other thing I kept pointing out was if democrats thought it was too dangerous to hold the convention in public then how in the hell is it safe to send kids back to underfunded schools so that parents have a way to return to work during a pandemic? Chuck said if we don't then we are responsible for the economy not returning to normal. F you Chuck. We refuse to be Capital Stock for the 1%.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9o2PqXaLw&list=TLPQMTcwODIwMjDOShBhEvo...

If you look closely, Michelle Obama's necklace reads V-O-T-E pic.twitter.com/5V5LfujLnW

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 18, 2020

Call now and for $19.95 you too can have this genuine knock off of Michelle Obama's VOTE necklace plus $100 for shipping and handling. Can't afford to pay all at once? We offer a 10 year plan of monthly payments of just $29.95/month at 39% interest. CALL NOW!

—

Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Submitted by Marie on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 11:47am

The common ground of emotionally

@snoopydawg adolescent political activists:

Michelle's speech apparently drove people to outright weeping with tears running down their faces.

No politician (or rock star or preacher) is worthy of that much emotional investment from their fans. The Trumpsters and Obamacrats are equally stunted.

#13

Almost everything she accused Trump of doing just highlighted how her husband did the same things during his 8 year squat in the Oval Office when after he accomplished his goal of becoming president he just preened and lectured us on how presidenting is hard. Boo Hoo.

I asked Michelle how this gobbly gooked comment offered us any idea of how Biden's presidency would pull us out of the economic dive we are in. How it was going to bring back the millions of jobs that are not coming back...ect.

So what do we do now? What’s our strategy? Over the past four years, a lot of people have asked me, “When others are going so low, does going high still really work?” My answer: going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that’s drowning out everything else. We degrade ourselves. We degrade the very causes for which we fight.

But let’s be clear: going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top. Going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation under God, and if we want to survive, we’ve got to find a way to live together and work together across our differences.

And going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold, hard truth.

link

If we want to end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris like our lives depend on it. Register today by texting VOTE to 30330. https://t.co/xPu5o0SYLJ

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) August 18, 2020

end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for Biden. What progress on which issues are in danger of going away Michelle? Possibility is a tad like access isn't it? We can have the possibility of universal health care through access to the ACA? I have the possibility of buying a corvette except that I don't have access to the money needed to buy it nor do I see that happening any time in the future.

Michelle's speech apparently drove people to outright weeping with tears running down their faces. Well that's nice. But it was just more claptrap for the masses that will do nothing for the millions who are on the brink of losing everything they own after the government shut down the country and didn't plan on meeting long term financial help for us.

It was more than that, though. She crystallized the emotional tenor of the nation right now. It was fierce, defiant, empathetic, gentle, angry…...I could go on with adjectives.

Screw your plea for unity Michelle and democrats. It's as empty as the 8 years of Obama. One other thing I kept pointing out was if democrats thought it was too dangerous to hold the convention in public then how in the hell is it safe to send kids back to underfunded schools so that parents have a way to return to work during a pandemic? Chuck said if we don't then we are responsible for the economy not returning to normal. F you Chuck. We refuse to be Capital Stock for the 1%.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9o2PqXaLw&list=TLPQMTcwODIwMjDOShBhEvo...

If you look closely, Michelle Obama's necklace reads V-O-T-E pic.twitter.com/5V5LfujLnW

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 18, 2020

Call now and for $19.95 you too can have this genuine knock off of Michelle Obama's VOTE necklace plus $100 for shipping and handling. Can't afford to pay all at once? We offer a 10 year plan of monthly payments of just $29.95/month at 39% interest. CALL NOW!

Submitted by Fishtroller 02 on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 12:54pm

So Michelle wants some "cold hard truth"?

@snoopydawg

I don't think so.

#13

Almost everything she accused Trump of doing just highlighted how her husband did the same things during his 8 year squat in the Oval Office when after he accomplished his goal of becoming president he just preened and lectured us on how presidenting is hard. Boo Hoo.

I asked Michelle how this gobbly gooked comment offered us any idea of how Biden's presidency would pull us out of the economic dive we are in. How it was going to bring back the millions of jobs that are not coming back...ect.

So what do we do now? What’s our strategy? Over the past four years, a lot of people have asked me, “When others are going so low, does going high still really work?” My answer: going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that’s drowning out everything else. We degrade ourselves. We degrade the very causes for which we fight.

But let’s be clear: going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top. Going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation under God, and if we want to survive, we’ve got to find a way to live together and work together across our differences.

And going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold, hard truth.

link

If we want to end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris like our lives depend on it. Register today by texting VOTE to 30330. https://t.co/xPu5o0SYLJ

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) August 18, 2020

end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for Biden. What progress on which issues are in danger of going away Michelle? Possibility is a tad like access isn't it? We can have the possibility of universal health care through access to the ACA? I have the possibility of buying a corvette except that I don't have access to the money needed to buy it nor do I see that happening any time in the future.

Michelle's speech apparently drove people to outright weeping with tears running down their faces. Well that's nice. But it was just more claptrap for the masses that will do nothing for the millions who are on the brink of losing everything they own after the government shut down the country and didn't plan on meeting long term financial help for us.

It was more than that, though. She crystallized the emotional tenor of the nation right now. It was fierce, defiant, empathetic, gentle, angry…...I could go on with adjectives.

Screw your plea for unity Michelle and democrats. It's as empty as the 8 years of Obama. One other thing I kept pointing out was if democrats thought it was too dangerous to hold the convention in public then how in the hell is it safe to send kids back to underfunded schools so that parents have a way to return to work during a pandemic? Chuck said if we don't then we are responsible for the economy not returning to normal. F you Chuck. We refuse to be Capital Stock for the 1%.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9o2PqXaLw&list=TLPQMTcwODIwMjDOShBhEvo...

If you look closely, Michelle Obama's necklace reads V-O-T-E pic.twitter.com/5V5LfujLnW

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 18, 2020

Call now and for $19.95 you too can have this genuine knock off of Michelle Obama's VOTE necklace plus $100 for shipping and handling. Can't afford to pay all at once? We offer a 10 year plan of monthly payments of just $29.95/month at 39% interest. CALL NOW!

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"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin

Submitted by aliasalias on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 1:54pm

I had to unblock Michelle Obama to read it

@snoopydawg but I couldn't stand the dreck from Mrs Empty Suit, nor her drooling supporters for long so I blocked her again, so she joins Mr. Empty Suit in my 'blocked list'(very few politicians aren't on it).
Snoop I tried to find your comments but there are many others using the snoopydawg name but with numbers.

#13

Almost everything she accused Trump of doing just highlighted how her husband did the same things during his 8 year squat in the Oval Office when after he accomplished his goal of becoming president he just preened and lectured us on how presidenting is hard. Boo Hoo.

I asked Michelle how this gobbly gooked comment offered us any idea of how Biden's presidency would pull us out of the economic dive we are in. How it was going to bring back the millions of jobs that are not coming back...ect.

So what do we do now? What’s our strategy? Over the past four years, a lot of people have asked me, “When others are going so low, does going high still really work?” My answer: going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that’s drowning out everything else. We degrade ourselves. We degrade the very causes for which we fight.

But let’s be clear: going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top. Going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation under God, and if we want to survive, we’ve got to find a way to live together and work together across our differences.

And going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold, hard truth.

link

If we want to end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris like our lives depend on it. Register today by texting VOTE to 30330. https://t.co/xPu5o0SYLJ

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) August 18, 2020

end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for Biden. What progress on which issues are in danger of going away Michelle? Possibility is a tad like access isn't it? We can have the possibility of universal health care through access to the ACA? I have the possibility of buying a corvette except that I don't have access to the money needed to buy it nor do I see that happening any time in the future.

Michelle's speech apparently drove people to outright weeping with tears running down their faces. Well that's nice. But it was just more claptrap for the masses that will do nothing for the millions who are on the brink of losing everything they own after the government shut down the country and didn't plan on meeting long term financial help for us.

It was more than that, though. She crystallized the emotional tenor of the nation right now. It was fierce, defiant, empathetic, gentle, angry…...I could go on with adjectives.

Screw your plea for unity Michelle and democrats. It's as empty as the 8 years of Obama. One other thing I kept pointing out was if democrats thought it was too dangerous to hold the convention in public then how in the hell is it safe to send kids back to underfunded schools so that parents have a way to return to work during a pandemic? Chuck said if we don't then we are responsible for the economy not returning to normal. F you Chuck. We refuse to be Capital Stock for the 1%.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9o2PqXaLw&list=TLPQMTcwODIwMjDOShBhEvo...

If you look closely, Michelle Obama's necklace reads V-O-T-E pic.twitter.com/5V5LfujLnW

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 18, 2020

Call now and for $19.95 you too can have this genuine knock off of Michelle Obama's VOTE necklace plus $100 for shipping and handling. Can't afford to pay all at once? We offer a 10 year plan of monthly payments of just $29.95/month at 39% interest. CALL NOW!

Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 08/19/2020 - 8:25am

thanks for all of this

@snoopydawg

i guess/s. but this, OMG:

Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top.

guess she couldn't quite channel mlk, jr. far enuff to add:

'I may not make it the mountain top with you...'

#13

Almost everything she accused Trump of doing just highlighted how her husband did the same things during his 8 year squat in the Oval Office when after he accomplished his goal of becoming president he just preened and lectured us on how presidenting is hard. Boo Hoo.

I asked Michelle how this gobbly gooked comment offered us any idea of how Biden's presidency would pull us out of the economic dive we are in. How it was going to bring back the millions of jobs that are not coming back...ect.

So what do we do now? What’s our strategy? Over the past four years, a lot of people have asked me, “When others are going so low, does going high still really work?” My answer: going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that’s drowning out everything else. We degrade ourselves. We degrade the very causes for which we fight.

But let’s be clear: going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top. Going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation under God, and if we want to survive, we’ve got to find a way to live together and work together across our differences.

And going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold, hard truth.

link

If we want to end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris like our lives depend on it. Register today by texting VOTE to 30330. https://t.co/xPu5o0SYLJ

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) August 18, 2020

end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for Biden. What progress on which issues are in danger of going away Michelle? Possibility is a tad like access isn't it? We can have the possibility of universal health care through access to the ACA? I have the possibility of buying a corvette except that I don't have access to the money needed to buy it nor do I see that happening any time in the future.

Michelle's speech apparently drove people to outright weeping with tears running down their faces. Well that's nice. But it was just more claptrap for the masses that will do nothing for the millions who are on the brink of losing everything they own after the government shut down the country and didn't plan on meeting long term financial help for us.

It was more than that, though. She crystallized the emotional tenor of the nation right now. It was fierce, defiant, empathetic, gentle, angry…...I could go on with adjectives.

Screw your plea for unity Michelle and democrats. It's as empty as the 8 years of Obama. One other thing I kept pointing out was if democrats thought it was too dangerous to hold the convention in public then how in the hell is it safe to send kids back to underfunded schools so that parents have a way to return to work during a pandemic? Chuck said if we don't then we are responsible for the economy not returning to normal. F you Chuck. We refuse to be Capital Stock for the 1%.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9o2PqXaLw&list=TLPQMTcwODIwMjDOShBhEvo...

If you look closely, Michelle Obama's necklace reads V-O-T-E pic.twitter.com/5V5LfujLnW

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 18, 2020

Call now and for $19.95 you too can have this genuine knock off of Michelle Obama's VOTE necklace plus $100 for shipping and handling. Can't afford to pay all at once? We offer a 10 year plan of monthly payments of just $29.95/month at 39% interest. CALL NOW!

Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 08/19/2020 - 11:10am

"Y'all can meet me at the top of the mountain"

@wendy davis

Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top.

Oh Michelle didn't you know 'Mericans are lazy and will not take the harder path to the top of the mountain, but will cut the path shorter if they can? Good grief what does that even mean?

Collin Powell who lied us into war in Iraq was a speaker at the DNC shitfest last night. Keewrist just how low are dems going to go to show that they don't give a rat's ass about those further left? Or in truth what dems used to stand for? Clinton's sellout to the Koch brothers is complete after this convention.

Oh for gawd's sake listen to Kerry saying that our troops can't continue hiding in the White House bunker. WTF John? So far Trump has been at least giving lip service to bringing the troops home and he has not sent them into another bogus war like Biden/MyBoss did. 3 times.

Listen to the others who................I can't finish this cuz it's disgusting and depressing that the dems are openly shitting on what's left of their party. The republicans they featured says so much about them. How anyone can take part in this farce of voting is just so damned mind boggling. Democrats twice rigged their primary to get the person people least wanted at the top of their ticket. You going reward them with your vote just because Trump's bad?

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1AnYNG-f_4&list=TLPQMTkwODIwMjDnE36Mso5...

Collin Effing Powell who has the blood of millions on his hands? That Collin Powell should be too embarrassed to show his face in public again and yet there he was. Listen to his hogwash.

—

Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 08/19/2020 - 12:42pm

Colin Powell, then

@snoopydawg

Ke-rist: madeleine albright must have felt dissed! i remember ilhan omar kissing her ring on twitter...ran into some fun stuff on the convention by ajamu baracka, iirc he's simply @ajamubaracka; what a peach he is!

might have time to watch the video later; thanks.

Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 08/19/2020 - 4:56pm

'michelle obomba:

@snoopydawg

not as cringe-worthy as the others'. forget spit-takes, at my age, thank the gods for inventing panty liners! Kotex U! Kotex U! i want the pennant! : ) thanks, it think.

the berne: nero fiddled while rome burned (like trump)! so does trump: #aSsholery.

#13

Almost everything she accused Trump of doing just highlighted how her husband did the same things during his 8 year squat in the Oval Office when after he accomplished his goal of becoming president he just preened and lectured us on how presidenting is hard. Boo Hoo.

I asked Michelle how this gobbly gooked comment offered us any idea of how Biden's presidency would pull us out of the economic dive we are in. How it was going to bring back the millions of jobs that are not coming back...ect.

So what do we do now? What’s our strategy? Over the past four years, a lot of people have asked me, “When others are going so low, does going high still really work?” My answer: going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that’s drowning out everything else. We degrade ourselves. We degrade the very causes for which we fight.

But let’s be clear: going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty. Going high means taking the harder path. It means scraping and clawing our way to that mountain top. Going high means standing fierce against hatred while remembering that we are one nation under God, and if we want to survive, we’ve got to find a way to live together and work together across our differences.

And going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold, hard truth.

link

If we want to end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris like our lives depend on it. Register today by texting VOTE to 30330. https://t.co/xPu5o0SYLJ

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) August 18, 2020

end the chaos and division—and keep alive the possibility of progress on the issues we hold dear—we’ve got to vote for Biden. What progress on which issues are in danger of going away Michelle? Possibility is a tad like access isn't it? We can have the possibility of universal health care through access to the ACA? I have the possibility of buying a corvette except that I don't have access to the money needed to buy it nor do I see that happening any time in the future.

Michelle's speech apparently drove people to outright weeping with tears running down their faces. Well that's nice. But it was just more claptrap for the masses that will do nothing for the millions who are on the brink of losing everything they own after the government shut down the country and didn't plan on meeting long term financial help for us.

It was more than that, though. She crystallized the emotional tenor of the nation right now. It was fierce, defiant, empathetic, gentle, angry…...I could go on with adjectives.

Screw your plea for unity Michelle and democrats. It's as empty as the 8 years of Obama. One other thing I kept pointing out was if democrats thought it was too dangerous to hold the convention in public then how in the hell is it safe to send kids back to underfunded schools so that parents have a way to return to work during a pandemic? Chuck said if we don't then we are responsible for the economy not returning to normal. F you Chuck. We refuse to be Capital Stock for the 1%.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9o2PqXaLw&list=TLPQMTcwODIwMjDOShBhEvo...

If you look closely, Michelle Obama's necklace reads V-O-T-E pic.twitter.com/5V5LfujLnW

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 18, 2020

Call now and for $19.95 you too can have this genuine knock off of Michelle Obama's VOTE necklace plus $100 for shipping and handling. Can't afford to pay all at once? We offer a 10 year plan of monthly payments of just $29.95/month at 39% interest. CALL NOW!

Submitted by Marie on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 11:37am

Obscene and factually suspect, IMO

@Fishtroller 02 @Fishtroller 02

There was a disgusting (according to the NPR people "courageous") video of a young woman who claims her father died of Covid because he listened to Trump and didn't take the virus seriously. He went out to a bar with friends in FL. Of course her father had no responsibility to think for himself.

Exploiting dead people, who can no longer speak for themselves, is almost always unseemly. The daughter's claim that her father's only preexisting condition was believing Trump is false. WRT cornonavirus, he had two obvious preexisting conditions: 1) age 65 and 2) obese. While it was stupid for such a man to go to a karaoke bar in late May, he may not even have contracted the virus there considering that it was more than eleven days (near the outer limit from infection to illness before he felt ill and sought medical attention. He was tested that day and got his positive results the next day (fast turnaround compared to most that are tested). Then he went home -- apparently without any medical guidance. Five days later he went to the ER, only placed in ICU several days later, and died four days after being in ICU. Unknown is if he infected anyone else (his SO tested positive w/o symptoms, but she could have passed it onto him).

There's no valid excuse for the Trump admins pathetic handling of the epidemic, but there's also no evidence that a D POTUS would have done all that much better.

Submitted by Fishtroller 02 on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 12:53pm

Thanks for all the informational details.

@Marie

I would be willing to bet that if this man had made it through, he would still have voted for Trump.

This whole farce is intended to add wood the pile at the feet of Donald Trump while the mobs scream to burn him. I think the Dems should be called out for promoting this girl's tale and using her politically.

—

"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin

Submitted by Marie on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 1:27pm

Both sides pull these disgusting stunts.

@Fishtroller 02 Their team always cheers when they do and the other team is too emotional to rationally critique the stunt and end up screaming "commie/liberal/hollywood/woke" or "racist/fascist/idiot." Tasteless and classless; just like WWW. These stunts probably change nothing in the minds of voters, but their applause or OMG encourages the perps to continue debasing society and government.

Submitted by randtntx on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 9:40am

Completely impossible

for me to watch that 'convention'.
I can handle this and it is apropos to boot:

Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 9:53am

lol;

@randtntx

'Waterloo' nailed it!

Submitted by randtntx on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 10:32am

Best thing

@wendy davis about the Democrat party is it makes us feel like we win even as it insures we loose. It's really good that way.

Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 11:21am

'some of us', perhaps. ; )

@randtntx

i #DemExited long ago. got in some major trouble long ago at the FDL readers diaries for publishing 'I've been van Jonesed and DemocRatted'...etc': ha! found it: June 18, 2012, lol.

looks like the rest of the title was: ProgressiveCauCussed and LibrulFatcatted Till I’m Blind. yeah, they suspended it, had a caucus with miz jane hamsher, later allowed it back in.

first paragraph's funny even now:

I’ve been DavidPlouffed and Axelrodded, HopeyChanged and TrumkaDahDahed….Well, I’ve paid all the dues I wanna pay… I learned the truth from Carlin and Zinn …and I just discovered some DemocRats have tapped my phone!

well, you can hear the S & G tune that accompanies it.

but yes, in this crazy contest: Waterloo!

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 11:14am

the show that never ends

welcome back my friends
when did politics become entertainment?
musta mist it somewhere along the way...

[video:https://youtu.be/Wa60v32WAkY]

Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 3:11pm

thought this would be a good place to slip this in

https://skepticlawyer.com.au/2020/07/01/the-toll-in-black-lives-is-why-t...

I saw something on https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/ about the #BlackLivesMatter organization sacking a guy who criticized Kamala Harris on Twitter and insisting that she is "a black queen" (whatever the hell that means, might want to double-check Burke's Peerage), but the post is now too far down my search engine frigging broke down after I'd scrolled down too far trying to find it again.

Anyway, here's a Creamsicle for dessert:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/ibp1nz/goddamn_he_just_fu...

—

In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Wed, 08/19/2020 - 8:40am

"Black Queen" makes me think of the Wild Cards series

@The Liberal Moonbat

in which "to draw the Black Queen" means to die, usually horribly, of the alien virus.

Maybe somebody needs to rethink their messaging?

—

There is no justice. There can be no peace.

Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 08/18/2020 - 4:42pm

zounds; given the comments, i'm glad i put this up,

and it seems to be more than 'a PSA of dubious value'. i'll have to come back and read some of snoop's and others' after i fashioning the loaves for their final proofing.

today's 3-loaves-of-bread day, and another day of mis-fires by appliances, etc. but i did get a rest, and peeked into wsws and found:

‘Democratic convention opens with appeal to right-wing Republican support’, Patrick Martin, 18 August 2020, wsws.org

a few bits and bobs:

Sanders was given a prominent position in the evening’s proceedings, second only to Michelle Obama. He went beyond even his groveling endorsement of Hillary Clinton in 2016—which has been repeatedly attacked by the Democratic Party establishment as insufficiently enthusiastic. He declared the election of Joe Biden to be the solution to all the social and political evils of modern America and, above all, to the growing threat of authoritarian rule emanating from the Trump White House.

“As long as I am here, I will work with progressives, with moderates, and, yes, with conservatives to preserve this nation from a threat that so many of our heroes fought and died to defeat,” Sanders said.

Claiming that the Democratic party had embraced “progressive” ideas such as universal health care and free public education, Sanders declared, “Many of the ideas we fought for that just a few years ago were considered radical are now mainstream.”

This is a ridiculous fraud. Joe Biden was the Senator from Delaware, the corporate tax evasion capital of America. His entire life has been dedicated to the defense of the social interests of Wall Street, consummated by his stint as vice president under an administration that funneled trillions to the banks, declared crooked bankers “too big to jail” while it allowed millions of families to lose their homes. Harris is a vicious ex-prosecutor and California Attorney General who dragged non-violent drug offenders to prison and presided over the nation’s largest prison population.

The unofficial slogan of their campaign, bluntly stated in private by Biden to wealthy donors in New York, is “nothing would fundamentally change.”

Sanders spoke only minutes after the appearance of former Ohio Governor John Kasich, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, and three other former Republican politicians, including billionaire CEO Meg Whitman.

Michelle Obama, the final speaker of the evening, was extravagantly praised for her address, which was devoted to a purely personal denunciation of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as incapable, incompetent and indifferent. This is not a hard case to make, but in comparing Trump unfavorably to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, she avoided the central question—thrown back at her by Trump in a tweet the next morning—if the record of the Obama administration was so wonderful, how did Trump get elected in the first place.

The Democratic Party explanation for the 2016 debacle, made implicitly throughout the speeches and videos Monday night, was that Trump won because white workers are racist. There was not a hint from any speaker that the Obama administration, by bailing out Wall Street and imposing the burden on the backs of working people, by continuing and expanding the wars of the Bush administration, alienated large sections of workers, black and white, which allowed Trump to win his narrow victory in the Electoral College.

Urquiza’s remarks were deeply affecting, but equally angry statements could have been recorded from those who lost parents in New York nursing homes because of the negligence of Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, or from the bereaved survivors of workers who died after being forced back into Michigan auto plants under Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Instead of a place in the rogue’s gallery of coronavirus criminals, however, Cuomo and Whitmer were given featured speaking slots Monday night which they used to denounce Trump for the mounting death toll from the pandemic. Meanwhile, they falsely claimed that their own approach—in two states with nearly 40,000 fatalities and 600,000 infections combined—had been successful and humane.

holy hell, i hadn't heard she'd spoken last night!

Similarly, two brothers of George Floyd spoke movingly about his murder by Minneapolis police, recalling his compassionate and generous nature. Other speakers described their participation in the mass protests that erupted after Floyd’s killing on May 25.

This was followed less than an hour later by the appearance of Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, given a featured slot to sing the praises of Biden. As the top prosecutor in Hennepin County before her election to the Senate, Klobuchar refused to prosecute a single Minneapolis police officer for violence against the people of that city.