I wish people would stop doing this I won’t vote for her over Gaza. That said she messed up talking about that flag burning. That’s a protected free speech act. She should have focused on them championing Hamas which is a terrorist organization. They flew the Hamas flag, not the Palestinian flag.
Also glad at the zoom calls. I saw though that the Black woman zoom call participants spent more money on average than the white woman one which had more people. Please let’s get this together.
Biggest headwind I do see is the media doing media shit and way too many people going after her for not having “earned” the nomination which is BS.
I was on the call last night, I tried to donate 3 times and each time it timed out, just donated. But yes per person black women outspent white women, not surprised because white women have been voting against their own interests since we could vote.
Yeah, when they announced 2 million at the end of the call, my friend and I looked at each other and said, "That's not enough! We need to do way better than that!!" We had both already donated via ActBlue and we then donated a third time on the call. And neither of us have any money (she's currently unemployed). But wow. Let's do better!
The count ended up being higher, the organizers say it's $8.5m after everything got processed. I always take the amounts with a grain of salt, but seems like it raised quite a bit.
Yeah. I also saw some “final solution for zionists” signs from those protesters. That’s the truly vile part (and the Hamas flag), not any flag burning.
This will be old news in about two days, so nobody should lose their sleep over it, but yes, they need to find a very good answer for that particular question and stick with it.
"Yesterday, Harris met with Netanyahu, but in a statement afterward, while insisting that America will continue to defend Israel, Harris also made the plight of Palestinians central to her comments while insisting that the way that Israel defends itself is important."
She also told him to get a ceasefire done like yesterday. It is VERY apparent they're going to have her much more up front on political issues through the rest of the term and to that I say: good. Kamala was never going to go full "pro-Hamas," but this is pretty much as forceful a statement as we've heard yet. I fully expect her to turn the screws even harder when she's elected. This is great news.
It's a smart political move, frankly, to have a bifurcated Democratic "incumbency." Biden can be strongly pro-Israel, Harris can be more nuanced. He can do more dirty work as the president, she can do what a candidate needs to do.
JD Vance is advocating for Quiverfull policies. He's talked about parents getting additional votes for their children, for child tax credits to only apply to married families, for additional monies (100%+) to married families for assistance (straight married families of course-don't be absurd) and he actively advocates that couples should not divorce even when a spouse is violent or abusive. This is who MAGA is. This is who they have always been. Make America Great Again intends to take everybody back to a TV sitcom 50s era. Or even a TV sitcom 80s era.
I don't give a damn about the couch story, and it's bad policy to play the right's bad faith argument game. Beat them up on their actual stances which are horrific enough.
Aren't people without kids technically taxed at a higher rate because they don't get the dependent deduction? Shouldn't a VP candidate know this basic fact about tax law?
Okay, that Tik Tok is sending me!! I LOVE it so much. I will be watching it all day, hahaha! So many things are falling into place. (So many things STILL need to fall into place) If this were a 2020 match up with a Trump/Pence ticket, I do not think Harris would have won. Things weren't effed up enough yet. However the confluence of events, rights lost, laws that hasten environmental destruction, the SCOUTUS literally throwing away our Constitution and anointing kings (because you know women would never be allowed to rule), the clear and obvious danger that is Trump, the boldness, hubris, and arrogance that led the Project 2025 author to proclaim a second revolution was underway, victory assured, while threatening death to any who oppose, and the current cherry on top, the pick of JD Vance as VP. - whew! What I think is, it's a shame that all of this had to happen for a Kamala Harris presidency to be possible. Only 100 days. Not a long time at all. But also, energy and momentum can be maintained for 100 days. I am starting to feel hopeful.
I was talking to my friend today, she is from France and we were saying we think the 100 days will actual play in our favor. We can do anything for 100 days. Think of all the 100 day challenges we have done. It will also help keep the younger generations from burning out. Honestly all elections should have no more than a 4 month window. Its exhausting.
You can't have a policy debate with Trump because he stands for nothing. The only reason to get on that stage with him is to insult him in real time. Counter everything he said with "That's not what you said before" and quote him *to* him. Bring out the receipts. It would be petty. But, honestly, I think that's what Democrats want to see right now. We want to watch someone punch this bully in the nose.
A friend of mine is an absolute wonk for polls and shared the following: Emerson is routinely off by being red by 5 points.
- Pennsylvania 2022, miss by 7 points
- Arizona, showed dead heat but Masters lost by 5
- Washington state, they projected Murray by 9 and she won by 14
So Emerson showing Kamala down by just a little is actually Kamala winning by their consistent red bias. Does that mean we can stop fighting? Come on. We’re never going to stop fighting, but that’s only because we have so many beloved things worth fighting for, and we will never settle for maybe-best when we can push for definitely-better.
I feel that 100%. I remember how excited I was, and now looking at my I’m With Her shirt makes me tear up, remembering election night and how sick I felt. I brought a six back of Apocalypse IPA to my watch party, thinking it would be ironic, listening to History Has Its Eyes On You from Hamilton.
Then my friend texted “they still haven’t called Virginia this is bad” while I was on the bus and the panic started.
Some big differences now: the left is united, including Bernie. Everyone knows who Trump is so there’s no “well let’s see if he meets the moment” bullshit. Most important for right now: Dustin is right, these gains are all just 6 days in. The enthusiasm
Is high, the money is flush, and we haven’t even had the DNC bump. Gandalf hasn’t arrived yet but we are ready to ride out from Helm’s Deep.
I mentioned in yesterday's post that a Monday poll had the Georgia race at Trump 48% / Harris 47%. A July 8-19 (so, before Biden's drop) poll from the AJC had Trump 7 points over a hypothetical Harris opponent. That's a huge jump. I'd been pessimistic about Georgia staying blue, but I'm growing more optimistic. VP Harris is doing a campaign stop in Atlanta next Tuesday afternoon. Since I'm volunteering with the GPP, I got an "exclusive friends and family invite" yesterday. Turns out over 12,000 people got the link and signed up for tickets. Ha.
I was on the YT stream of the White Women for Harris call last night, and it was wild and kinda brilliant. Most of the speakers made a point of saying we need to follow Black women's lead -- not try to usurp it from them. No excuses. I can't get to Twitter on my work laptop, but @AmandaBecker had a great recap thread.
I was on that call, too. I was worried at first that they would gloss over the 53% of WW who voted for trump. Connie Britton saying that in this election, many WW can "make up for the past" was a refreshing bit of honesty.
And then both Glennon Doyle and Shannon Watts also really hammered the point that historically white women as a whole tend to vote Republican and vote against their best interests because they think the patriarchy might save them. And of course it won’t.
I was on the first hour-ish. It was great. I'd love to attend a smaller, more personal and grassroots-ish call, but the talking points presented were very refreshing.
I know that since he ended up dropping out people have begun to accept a lot of the media narratives going around from a few weeks ago as gospel, but try and remember what it was like day to day during that mess. The media was straight up pulling shit from their asses to keep the pressure campaign going, almost literally running their 'Biden reflecting on dropping out' stories five minutes after running their 'Biden says he's not dropping out' stories. My point being I don't trust a single they say about anyone in the Democratic party anymore, and that goes for the Obamas. They may or may not have been pressuring Biden from behind the scenes or through surrogates or whatever, but as far as endorsing Harris I really do think it was about waiting for Biden to get back in the WH and give his speech out of respect. As for the rest of this good news keep it coming; I'm still recovering from those few weeks of nonstop bullshit so just personally I can definitely use.
The only reason why I believe it is because Joy Ann Reid and Lawrence O’Donnell reported what was going on and that stupid document showing how the primary blitz could go wrong we leaked and sent to reporters.
I tried really hard not to reply because I said I wasn't gonna say anything about Obama, lol. You make a fair point about the media shenanigans. Here's what makes me believe it. First, what @Classic said. Second, his own words in his statement about Biden. "But I have extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges." If he thought it would be Harris, or wanted it to be Harris, he's smart enough to hedge his bets and say something like..."I look forward to making an endorsement soon." That covers both the possibility of what is currently happening, as well as whatever mess would have happened at the convention. Third, his own deeds. So, he has always maintained that he wouldn't endorse until a candidate was nominated because he wanted to be a uniting force. He didn't endorse Biden until Biden was the official nominee. Okay, so why is he doing it for Kamala Harris now? She is still the presumptive nominee. Yeah, my most charitable thought is that he didn't know how to read the room and was very much caught on the back foot.
Is it okay to recommend a podcast? Please check out “I’ve Had It”. These two women consistently hammer trump supporters and use their platform to help those affected by the Republican agenda. They have interviewed AOC and Kamala. But their interviews with favorite drag queens are my favorite. They live in Oklahoma City.
Shannon Watts just posted that the current amount raised from the zoom last night is $8.5 million. It crashed ActBlue so donations have been taking a long time to process. Now we need to turn all this money and enthusiasm into actual activism and voting!
The working theory about the Obamas is that they were trying to remain neutral in case Harris & Biden didn't pull off a smooth transition and a free/broken convention was necessary. That way, Barack could play as a neutral referee if needed. I don't have any reason to disbelieve that. While we on the outside thought it looked wrapped up on Wednesday, I have no doubt there were things we didn't know about getting resolved still.
I wish people would stop doing this I won’t vote for her over Gaza. That said she messed up talking about that flag burning. That’s a protected free speech act. She should have focused on them championing Hamas which is a terrorist organization. They flew the Hamas flag, not the Palestinian flag.
Also glad at the zoom calls. I saw though that the Black woman zoom call participants spent more money on average than the white woman one which had more people. Please let’s get this together.
Biggest headwind I do see is the media doing media shit and way too many people going after her for not having “earned” the nomination which is BS.
Let’s see about the polls next month.
I’m not commenting on Obama anymore. 😶
I was on the call last night, I tried to donate 3 times and each time it timed out, just donated. But yes per person black women outspent white women, not surprised because white women have been voting against their own interests since we could vote.
Yeah, when they announced 2 million at the end of the call, my friend and I looked at each other and said, "That's not enough! We need to do way better than that!!" We had both already donated via ActBlue and we then donated a third time on the call. And neither of us have any money (she's currently unemployed). But wow. Let's do better!
The count ended up being higher, the organizers say it's $8.5m after everything got processed. I always take the amounts with a grain of salt, but seems like it raised quite a bit.
I’m happy with that amount!
Yeah I think it was ticking some activists off because they were like look you all aren’t doing enough till. Keep it moving.
Yeah. I also saw some “final solution for zionists” signs from those protesters. That’s the truly vile part (and the Hamas flag), not any flag burning.
That’s pretty gross. A key part of maintaining high ground as you criticize the modern nazis is… not quoting nazi-classic.
Yep I shook my head.
You see I didn't say a thing about...who, now?
Haha. I’m like I don’t care about Barry.
This will be old news in about two days, so nobody should lose their sleep over it, but yes, they need to find a very good answer for that particular question and stick with it.
They really do! How hard is it?
The WW Zoom raised $8.5 Million according to Shannon Watts the organizer, FYI.
"Yesterday, Harris met with Netanyahu, but in a statement afterward, while insisting that America will continue to defend Israel, Harris also made the plight of Palestinians central to her comments while insisting that the way that Israel defends itself is important."
She also told him to get a ceasefire done like yesterday. It is VERY apparent they're going to have her much more up front on political issues through the rest of the term and to that I say: good. Kamala was never going to go full "pro-Hamas," but this is pretty much as forceful a statement as we've heard yet. I fully expect her to turn the screws even harder when she's elected. This is great news.
It's a smart political move, frankly, to have a bifurcated Democratic "incumbency." Biden can be strongly pro-Israel, Harris can be more nuanced. He can do more dirty work as the president, she can do what a candidate needs to do.
JD Vance is advocating for Quiverfull policies. He's talked about parents getting additional votes for their children, for child tax credits to only apply to married families, for additional monies (100%+) to married families for assistance (straight married families of course-don't be absurd) and he actively advocates that couples should not divorce even when a spouse is violent or abusive. This is who MAGA is. This is who they have always been. Make America Great Again intends to take everybody back to a TV sitcom 50s era. Or even a TV sitcom 80s era.
I don't give a damn about the couch story, and it's bad policy to play the right's bad faith argument game. Beat them up on their actual stances which are horrific enough.
Aren't people without kids technically taxed at a higher rate because they don't get the dependent deduction? Shouldn't a VP candidate know this basic fact about tax law?
Has everyone seen the great Harris for President press release from yesterday? Trump is "old and quite weird" https://x.com/jbendery/status/1816481857313120580
Yep. I’m glad they are calling out his age. It can’t matter for one and not the other.
And I'm thrilled they're calling out his weirdness! It's such a relief to see a political campaign just speak the plain truth.
Okay, that Tik Tok is sending me!! I LOVE it so much. I will be watching it all day, hahaha! So many things are falling into place. (So many things STILL need to fall into place) If this were a 2020 match up with a Trump/Pence ticket, I do not think Harris would have won. Things weren't effed up enough yet. However the confluence of events, rights lost, laws that hasten environmental destruction, the SCOUTUS literally throwing away our Constitution and anointing kings (because you know women would never be allowed to rule), the clear and obvious danger that is Trump, the boldness, hubris, and arrogance that led the Project 2025 author to proclaim a second revolution was underway, victory assured, while threatening death to any who oppose, and the current cherry on top, the pick of JD Vance as VP. - whew! What I think is, it's a shame that all of this had to happen for a Kamala Harris presidency to be possible. Only 100 days. Not a long time at all. But also, energy and momentum can be maintained for 100 days. I am starting to feel hopeful.
I was talking to my friend today, she is from France and we were saying we think the 100 days will actual play in our favor. We can do anything for 100 days. Think of all the 100 day challenges we have done. It will also help keep the younger generations from burning out. Honestly all elections should have no more than a 4 month window. Its exhausting.
You can't have a policy debate with Trump because he stands for nothing. The only reason to get on that stage with him is to insult him in real time. Counter everything he said with "That's not what you said before" and quote him *to* him. Bring out the receipts. It would be petty. But, honestly, I think that's what Democrats want to see right now. We want to watch someone punch this bully in the nose.
A friend of mine is an absolute wonk for polls and shared the following: Emerson is routinely off by being red by 5 points.
- Pennsylvania 2022, miss by 7 points
- Arizona, showed dead heat but Masters lost by 5
- Washington state, they projected Murray by 9 and she won by 14
So Emerson showing Kamala down by just a little is actually Kamala winning by their consistent red bias. Does that mean we can stop fighting? Come on. We’re never going to stop fighting, but that’s only because we have so many beloved things worth fighting for, and we will never settle for maybe-best when we can push for definitely-better.
I think we learned a lot from 2016, and hopefully good news doesn't make us complacent, but just makes us want to fight harder.
I feel that 100%. I remember how excited I was, and now looking at my I’m With Her shirt makes me tear up, remembering election night and how sick I felt. I brought a six back of Apocalypse IPA to my watch party, thinking it would be ironic, listening to History Has Its Eyes On You from Hamilton.
Then my friend texted “they still haven’t called Virginia this is bad” while I was on the bus and the panic started.
Some big differences now: the left is united, including Bernie. Everyone knows who Trump is so there’s no “well let’s see if he meets the moment” bullshit. Most important for right now: Dustin is right, these gains are all just 6 days in. The enthusiasm
Is high, the money is flush, and we haven’t even had the DNC bump. Gandalf hasn’t arrived yet but we are ready to ride out from Helm’s Deep.
I mentioned in yesterday's post that a Monday poll had the Georgia race at Trump 48% / Harris 47%. A July 8-19 (so, before Biden's drop) poll from the AJC had Trump 7 points over a hypothetical Harris opponent. That's a huge jump. I'd been pessimistic about Georgia staying blue, but I'm growing more optimistic. VP Harris is doing a campaign stop in Atlanta next Tuesday afternoon. Since I'm volunteering with the GPP, I got an "exclusive friends and family invite" yesterday. Turns out over 12,000 people got the link and signed up for tickets. Ha.
I was on the YT stream of the White Women for Harris call last night, and it was wild and kinda brilliant. Most of the speakers made a point of saying we need to follow Black women's lead -- not try to usurp it from them. No excuses. I can't get to Twitter on my work laptop, but @AmandaBecker had a great recap thread.
I was on that call, too. I was worried at first that they would gloss over the 53% of WW who voted for trump. Connie Britton saying that in this election, many WW can "make up for the past" was a refreshing bit of honesty.
And then both Glennon Doyle and Shannon Watts also really hammered the point that historically white women as a whole tend to vote Republican and vote against their best interests because they think the patriarchy might save them. And of course it won’t.
Glad to hear that! I missed some parts of it, saw just the end of Glennon Doyle's part.
I was on the first hour-ish. It was great. I'd love to attend a smaller, more personal and grassroots-ish call, but the talking points presented were very refreshing.
I know that since he ended up dropping out people have begun to accept a lot of the media narratives going around from a few weeks ago as gospel, but try and remember what it was like day to day during that mess. The media was straight up pulling shit from their asses to keep the pressure campaign going, almost literally running their 'Biden reflecting on dropping out' stories five minutes after running their 'Biden says he's not dropping out' stories. My point being I don't trust a single they say about anyone in the Democratic party anymore, and that goes for the Obamas. They may or may not have been pressuring Biden from behind the scenes or through surrogates or whatever, but as far as endorsing Harris I really do think it was about waiting for Biden to get back in the WH and give his speech out of respect. As for the rest of this good news keep it coming; I'm still recovering from those few weeks of nonstop bullshit so just personally I can definitely use.
The only reason why I believe it is because Joy Ann Reid and Lawrence O’Donnell reported what was going on and that stupid document showing how the primary blitz could go wrong we leaked and sent to reporters.
I tried really hard not to reply because I said I wasn't gonna say anything about Obama, lol. You make a fair point about the media shenanigans. Here's what makes me believe it. First, what @Classic said. Second, his own words in his statement about Biden. "But I have extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges." If he thought it would be Harris, or wanted it to be Harris, he's smart enough to hedge his bets and say something like..."I look forward to making an endorsement soon." That covers both the possibility of what is currently happening, as well as whatever mess would have happened at the convention. Third, his own deeds. So, he has always maintained that he wouldn't endorse until a candidate was nominated because he wanted to be a uniting force. He didn't endorse Biden until Biden was the official nominee. Okay, so why is he doing it for Kamala Harris now? She is still the presumptive nominee. Yeah, my most charitable thought is that he didn't know how to read the room and was very much caught on the back foot.
Is it okay to recommend a podcast? Please check out “I’ve Had It”. These two women consistently hammer trump supporters and use their platform to help those affected by the Republican agenda. They have interviewed AOC and Kamala. But their interviews with favorite drag queens are my favorite. They live in Oklahoma City.
Shannon Watts just posted that the current amount raised from the zoom last night is $8.5 million. It crashed ActBlue so donations have been taking a long time to process. Now we need to turn all this money and enthusiasm into actual activism and voting!
And votes! I am happy about the vote.org stats they just posted. New voters in FL, OH, and TX.
It was announced at the end of the call there $2 Million was raised last night
The working theory about the Obamas is that they were trying to remain neutral in case Harris & Biden didn't pull off a smooth transition and a free/broken convention was necessary. That way, Barack could play as a neutral referee if needed. I don't have any reason to disbelieve that. While we on the outside thought it looked wrapped up on Wednesday, I have no doubt there were things we didn't know about getting resolved still.