Video News Open Thread: Stephen Colbert and the DNC, Days 2 and 3

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Welcome to Video News! My apologies for no official DNC video news open thread yesterday. But Oreo the Diabetic Pootie had a crisis at 3 AM yesterday, so Ginger and I were up half the night. Oreo and Ginger seem to have recovered in full, so we have resumed normal function.

Gratuitous Oreo and Ginger photo:

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So. A lot of folks were mad at Colbert for being insufficiently anti-Hillary last time, so be forewarned: In the first two videos, he is still insufficiently anti-Hillary. So if you want to watch him to see what went on at the convention yesterday and the day before, please proceed, here he is. If you don't want to watch him, I'll place one of the good punchlines just below each video.

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"Democrats brought out the Big Dog, potential First Ladies' Man Bill Clinton."

I really think that's how everyone should refer to him from now on! If we must put up with Her: "The President and the First Ladies' Man".

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"President Wonder Bread" versus "The New McDonald's Angry Meal"

I do recommend that you watch this video below. You may decide that Stephen Colbert redeems himself:

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"The Lesser of Two Evils," or is it "The Evil of Two Lessers"?

In other news, Bernie spoke to Texas Democrats yesterday! A 99er asked me to post this in our news thread, so glad to do so, here he is! It's a mixed bag, but he sure did get a nice reception. No offense to Texans, but I didn't realize how pro-Bernie you were! The YouTube video has faint sound but I couldn't figure out how to embed from Facebook and I don't know if you can listen there if you aren't signed up. So if you can, here's the link to the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TexasDemocraticParty/videos/10154425530404802/

If you cannot access that and want to hear Bernie, here is the video from YouTube - hold your computer up to your ear (or hold your ear down to your computer, whichever is easier). Enjoy!

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This is an open thread. Please feel free to add videos in the comments, discuss the DNC, Colbert, politicians, video news, pooties, other furbutts, plans for the future, whatever rocks your world!

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Lily O Lady's picture

don't have to. He is currently on my "Dead to Me" list although I still have fond memories of "the Character."

Whatever he does from now on to criticize Clinton is too little too late. Colbert damned a very good man with faint praise when it counted. Maybe this election is comedy gold for him, but it's left many of us with a terrible dilemma.

Thank you again, ec!

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

detroitmechworks's picture

the "Let's ALL pay attention to Trump" train.

Kept laughing about how hilarious it was going to be.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

elenacarlena's picture

Thanks for the music!

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elenacarlena's picture

For me, I want to know what's going on at the conventions without spending significant time actually watching the conventions. So Stephen's 6-minute or so blurbs fit my schedule. And provide an occasional chuckle. For those who don't want to watch him even then, I'm extracting a few chuckles. One more day, though, and it will all be over for another four years! (Unless Her Heinous or Mr. Tribblehead gets indicted; then do we have to have another nominating convention?)

Comedians do make gold out of strife and sadness. Sometimes you have to laugh or cry. I think I read somewhere that they are sometimes conflicted about that. I, for example, do a great Sarah Palin impression and was kind of hoping Trump would pick her as VP. But of course that would be a disaster for the country. OTOH, the whole process has been a disaster anyway.

Oh, I should mention John Oliver was also on Stephen's show last night, but it was also disappointing and not, in my viewpoint, interesting, other than the fact he was there.

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Lily O Lady's picture

look, fearing to be disappointed. I'd like to remember him from before all this mess started.

I understand wanting to get an abbreviated run-down, though. Thanks again, ec!

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elenacarlena's picture

network he was mostly about how Tim Kaine reminds him of a stepdad. Meh. I didn't embed it because regardless of political view, I just didn't think he was very funny this time.

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JekyllnHyde's picture

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A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma

elenacarlena's picture

and the repeated "that's a good question". Wicked!

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My mute button is worn down to nothing. I do understand that the foreign policy section of Clinton the Second's speech was pretty hawkish.

Trump will likely stumble into a war. She will go in with her legion of neocon flying monkeys with eyes wide open.... We live in terrifying times.

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elenacarlena's picture

the President is an idiot and bully, or go to war strategically?

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riverlover's picture

When the symptoms of hypo- and hyper- were explained to me, I thought they sounded the same. I just guessed low and went on. Hope all is back to normal.

Pup Skya got spayed and chipped today, and she is pissed! Awake and will not acknowledge by eye contact mean vet and tech. She will come home tomorrow. A Cairn terrier who I hope will say "There's no place like home!"

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Lily O Lady's picture

he was already a year or so old. He's not destructive and never marks territory in the house, so we have been reluctant to have him neutered. A cat we rescued many years ago never seemed to forgive us for having her spayed, so that adds to the reluctance.

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riverlover's picture

ro risk first heat, especially because she is a little bit of a roamer, pulling breakouts from fenced enclosures. So it was time, and now she is microchipped and I can send proof to her breeder and get AKC registration papers and also register her in NY as a neutered female, saving me 10 bucks a year and be legal. So all good for me.

Unless you want to breed him, why not? It should inhibit a little call of the wild, if you know what I mean.

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elenacarlena's picture

And yet.... I have had a few special pets who I wondered, after the fact, if they should have had children. Like Ginger my genius psychic. She could have had genius pooties scattered all over the world by now! Who knows how much of a better world it might be?

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Lily O Lady's picture

what kind of dog to breed him with. We just don't want to earn his undying enmity. He's such a sweetie that he might still love us, but we're not quite sure.

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elenacarlena's picture

it will last at room temp?) and had to warm it up, then give him a shot (shoot the syrup down his throat). At 3 AM, of course I was dead to the world. Ginger woke me up by, finally, digging her claws into my wrist and trying to pull me up! Left deep scratches, but it was effective. So I went to check on Oreo, to find him struggling but unable to stand, swinging his head back and forth. I helped him stand and put his food bowls right in front of him while he leaned against my leg for support, but still he swung his head back and forth as if he didn't know what food was for. So I had him lie down again, went and prepared his syringe of syrup, put him on my lap and shot it down his throat. Fifteen minutes later, he was eating on his own. By dawn he was fine and has seemed fine since.

The vet thinks he is recovering from diabetes! Cats do that sometimes. Apparently it's not a sudden process, but gradual. So he was fine on 8 U of insulin until his first crisis. Then he was fine on 4 U until his second crisis. Then he was fine on 2 U until now. Now we have to go to 1 U. Maybe another month or two he can come off entirely. I hope!

I don't know how long Ginger was monitoring the situation before she woke me, but when I lay down to try to go back to sleep, she draped herself over my hip, went limp, and was asleep in seconds, as if "Finally! I'm exhausted!" We think she's the reincarnation of Lassie. Wink

Poor Skya. The pooties loved their postop narcotics, so the pissedness didn't last long. I'm sure she'll be glad to be home!

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In the pantry and it has been fine.

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elenacarlena's picture

that he'll never need it again; but when he does, he needs it fast.

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Cachola's picture

Sorry, I don't want to read the whole thread again. But if we are their site says it keeps indefinitely. How do I know? I looked it up because I have a bottle (non refrigerated) that's at least 5 years old.

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Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

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in the fridge, good, that will make it a lot easier to use in an emergency (cold, it wouldn't be sucked up by the syringe; I had to warm it first).

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CS in AZ's picture

and their need for insulin may wax and wane over time. This makes management very tricky! My vet told me about some cat patients they see who need insulin only during certain times of the year.

I'm glad your kitty is ok and has a friend watching over him. FYI you can also rub some caro syrup directly on the gums to get some sugar absorbed into their system fast during a crisis. I've had two dogs with diabetes, I know how stressful it can be to keep them in balance!

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elenacarlena's picture

Did the vet say if they tend to need less in summers?

I did know about the gums. He has never gotten to the point of complete unconsciousness except the first time, when I didn't know what it was and so took him to the vet. So I have been able to get him to swallow a decent size amount the times after that.

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they still think we're going to vote for them???
NO WAY.
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"Quite possibly the biggest sore winners ever." Maybe we can get it sung by Tom Petty.

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Lookout's picture

...and it's really kinda sad but worth the watch
Clinton gets the nomination - 6 min from Democracy Now
John Lewis for Clinton, Tulsi for Bernie, Bernie's bother, and finally Bernie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9H19sr8qZo
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If you missed Bernie's speech here it is at about 30 min I won't embed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0tVD87cZew

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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do they all sound insincere? Maybe it's the nature of political speeches. But to my ear, nobody sounds like they have their hearts in it.

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are sick at heart. I must admit it saddens me, but I'm dusting myself off and moving on.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

What Are the Bernie or Bust Protesters Planning for Hillary’s Speech? They Won’t Say.

“There’s a lot of talk about a lot of things,” said Jose Caballero, a Sanders California delegate from San Diego who serves as an ambassador between the state’s Clinton and Sanders delegates. “We all talk [at the closed-door meetings] about what actions we’re going to do—make sure we’re not being disrespectful … or not being seen as rabble-rousers,” he added, noting that the criticism of Sanders delegates from the convention’s first session had been received. “So we’ve been very disciplined about how we’ve been protesting the last couple of days—very visual, not as loud.”

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"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

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characterization though. I doubt they're that. If they were, why would they still be there? Bernie is gone. I think they're more the "get everything possible into the platform" and "hold Hillary's feet to the fire" people.

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Apparently, on Sunday Judicial Watch learned (doesn't say how) that instead of Clinton thinking her server would be convenient, that someone (not known who) TOLD HER it would be convenient.

He also says the new emails (from Comey) should come to them before long.

Ah, found the story - Judicial Watch: Depose Hillary Over New Email Server Admission

Judicial Watch, in a new legal filing with the U.S. District Court in D.C., argues Clinton told CBS News' "60 Minutes" in an interview aired July 24 that "it was recommended that it would be convenient" for her to use private email for her State Department work.

"Other people did have – other secretaries of state, other high-ranking members of administrations, plural – and it was recommended that it would be convenient, and I thought it would be," she tells CBS News' Scott Pelley in the interview. "It's turned out to be anything but."

Clinton’s statement constitutes "new information," Judicial Watch argues.

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Even under oath, I doubt that anything she says can be trusted. She lies constantly, with and without reason, about anything and everything under the sun. Even when the truth would serve her better, she lies, lies, lies. It's as if it's a compulsive behavior - and maybe it is.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

elenacarlena's picture

receive and release thousands of Clinton emails under the FOIA more interesting than the "new story" she told on 60 minutes. I find that to be a little bit of a stretch, but IANAL. If I said "I did it for convenience," that doesn't rule out that someone told me it would be convenient. Especially if Clinton didn't know much about computers, which she claims sometimes, then how would she know if someone didn't tell her?

But to be able to examine all the emails the FBI did, that would be delicious. Hopefully we'll find the pay to play scandal there.

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But I do think it's a distinction WITH a difference in light of her having said 'it was allowed' - not a point they raise here (but goodness knows their briefs go on for many tens of pages, so they could well have argued this).

The other thing is that so much of what seems SHOULD stick never does. Maybe something which seems unlikely to stick actually will. Throw it ALL at the wall, I say. We only have a few months left to get her replaced on the ticket (I'm ambivalent about whether that's my first choice at this point, but it seems the most efficient line).

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