They’ve pinned the YouTube livestream. From their liveblog:
Franken says that work by people to register voters in Minnesota is “the reason I am giving this speech here and not into my bathroom mirror.”
He continues:
This week is about passion. Starting Friday morning, it’s all about work. Hard work.
Many of you have jobs. Many of you have families. Ignore them.
Let me tell you something. Kids love it when their parents aren’t home. They love it!
An eight-year-old kid knows how to use a microwave oven. And let me tell you something else. And 8-year-old kid can teach a 4-year-old kid how to use a microwave oven.
It’s a chucklefest…
Right this minute, proud Bernie supporter Sarah Silverman is making a strong pitch for Hillary. I’m hearing lots of cheers, not many boos. (Could just be my ears/speakers.) Hill-a-ry! Hill-a-ry!
Next up: Paul Simon…
mike in dc
Sarah is my HERO. “You’re being ridiculous.”
Baud
@mike in dc: That was awesome. Where are our trolls now?
Betty Cracker
Simon’s pipes are shot. Or was Garfunkle always the singer?
magurakurin
@mike in dc: It needed to be said. They are being ridiculous. It’s embarrassing. And they don’t realize that they are embarassing Sanders with their behavior.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Sticking pins in their Silverman action figures…
PsiFighter37
@mike in dc: Not a huge fan of Silverman, but I’m glad she told the Busters they’re idiots to their faces.
Lolis
Paul Simon shouldn’t sing anymore.
Major Major Major Major
Andrew Sullivan is losing his shit, so, good news!
magurakurin
@Betty Cracker: Give the guy a break, he’s pretty old.
lamh36
@Betty Cracker: Right…I’m sorry to say, but I sure would have love to have Aretha Franklin…
Truegster
If All Frankin, Sarah Silverman and now Paul F-ing Simon can not get these kids to settle down…they need to go to Defcon Oprah to stop this shit now. Have Oprah behind the Mic, shut this down tonight, no 2nd day if this.
Anoniminous
Crap. fingers aren’t working
patroclus
Man, I wish Art had come out and sang that well!
p.a.
The June joke was that Trump is a Dem mole to destroy the Republican Party. The July ‘joke’ is that Trump is a Putin mole to destroy the US, except no one is laughing.
Omnes Omnibus
@Lolis: He has a new album out. It’s rather good.
Baud
Cuomo wasn’t a bad speaker.
Mai.naem.mobile
@Betty Cracker: Garfunkel sang Bridge Over Troubled Water. I wish he had sang a happier song. Bridge is a downer of a song.
Mnemosyne
I just saw Paul Simon sing “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” after the the Silverman/Franken speeches and I’m thinking, Now we have the people who know how to put on A MOTHERFUCKING SHOW!!!”
dmsilev
@Major Major Major Major: Did he ever have his shit?
Felonius Monk
@Betty Cracker:
I thought maybe my ears were shot, but I guess not.
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: I’ll never forget when she sang at PBO’s inauguration. That HAT!
Manyakitty
@Betty Cracker: One of my friends saw him at the New Orleans Jazz fest this year and she said he totally blew off his set. Maybe he needs to retire.
lamh36
Good on Sarah Silverman…and if you watch the video clip… Al Franken loved when she said it!
different-church-lady
Am… I… a… fuckin’… GENIUS… orwut?
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: his gay stuff is pretty good actually.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Eva Longoria’s pretty good too.
ETA: I’m biased, of course, but I think this is going pretty well
RaflW
I’m pretty sure Eva Longoria is a 100X bigger star that Chachi.
magurakurin
@Manyakitty:
Didn’t he announce a few weeks ago that he is retiring? Come on folks let’s give the a break.
Baud
@RaflW: And cuter.
patroclus
@RaflW: Are you dissing future President Baio?
Baud
Big Dawg is in the House!
Ohio Mom
@Lolis: Paul Simon recently announced his retirement. So evidently he agrees with you.
Me, I’m glad I got to see him one last time.
Lokahi
Alternative to live stream–for AT&T U-verse subscribers, the clean DNC feed with no commercials and all the interstitial videos is in HD on Channel 1215 :)
Punchy
It’s not booing. Theyre screaming Boo’urns. Sando passes for a poor man’s Monty…
Truegster
I own a Simon & Garfunkel cd where they accidentally put Aretha’s version of Bride Over Troubled Water on it and she ruined the S&G groove by making them sound like soulless street musicians compared to her version. Aretha at 75 real watts, uncompressed on a high end stereo is almost a religious experience…not so much with Simon (Obvious Child being the exception).
Mnemosyne
Booker is delivering the speech pretty well, but he needs a better position with the TelePrompTer. He keeps doing a weird side-eye thing.
BlueDWarrior
I think tonight is the first in the long process of whittling down the core of dead enders to it’s absolute minimum. There will always be dead enders, but you can get that number down to a point where it’s entirely negligible.
And I think some of the Bern or Busters were trying to start a chant but it sounded like they were yelled down.
Davis X. Machina
@Ohio Mom:
Can you imagine us
Years from today,
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange
To be seventy…..
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
Silverman 2024!
lamh36
Lordt are these people STILL booing?
Let me tell ya…there will be hell to pay if them folks boo during Michelle Obama’s speech…smh
Ya think Bernie-bros had issues with POC before…smh
Adam L Silverman
@Betty Cracker: That explains why my left hip flexor is acting up!
dmsilev
Democrats tonight: “we’re in this together”
Republicans last week: “Oooga booga booga!”
BruceFromOhio
Corey Booker calling them all out. What a distinction between this and the ferret circus in Cleveland.
Iowa Old Lady
@Truegster: You cannot beat Aretha.
Omnes Omnibus
Booker is doing well.
Adam L Silverman
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve.
Anoniminous
Booker is giving the GOP a major smackdown.
BruceFromOhio
@lamh36: CSPAN is the place to be.
rikyrah
Richard Engel@RichardEngel
An American cyber security expert says Russia hacked DNC emails to help Trump win presidency because he’s seen as pro-Putin, less pro-NATO.
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: I’ll do it!
raven
I don’t care that Sarah jumped ugly on the Bernie’s but they had pretty much shut up until then.
gwangung
@lamh36: if they do, they ain’t gonna be ABY of them by 10:22 in that arena.
Linda
@magurakurin: no they don’t Care That they are embarrassing Sanders. The universe is about their wants, needs and feelings. Everybody else is backdrop. If Sanders rejects their protests, they can always find a new vessel for their purity.
dmsilev
@BruceFromOhio: YouTube stream is another option.
Matt McIrvin
@Betty Cracker: Simon was not a bad singer back in the olden days, but Garfunkel was the one with the epic pipes.
dr. luba
Anyone watching CSPAN on line? I try to watch, and get an “Authentication in progress…….” message, and nothing more. Suggestions?
Manyakitty
@magurakurin: Could be. If he’s getting tired, though, he could have picked a more energetic song, or maybe just one better suited to his current situation.
Baud
@raven: They reacted because they didn’t like seeing a Bernie supporter come out so strongly for Hillary. She was reacting to them.
Schlemazel Khan
@Betty Cracker:
Sadly the both have gone south, Both could sing though Artie was by far the better singer.
Amanda in the South Bay
@Major Major Major Major: I remember him criticizing court rulings favorable to SSM, whilst personally getting married in a state where the supreme court legalized SSM.
BruceFromOhio
@rikyrah: Really like to understand more about all this. Paint the dumpster fire with a sickle & hammer and the tea-tards will hang the shouting yam out to dry.
raven
@Baud: What did I say?
magurakurin
@lamh36: agreed. If they boo Michelle it truly will be a bridge too far.
eclare
Cory killing it IMHO.
dmsilev
I’m getting the sense here that Booker doesn’t like Trump much.
Manyakitty
@Lokahi: I’m warching it on CSPAN. No commentators, no commercials.
Adam L Silverman
@dr. luba: https://youtu.be/PAUyp6BR6-E
Baud
@raven: I thought you were saying her call out riled them up.
slag
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah. Not bad. Crowd noise is a bit distracting though. What’s up with the sound direction?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@patroclus: Or at least everybody wearing a Garfunkel wig(they did that on SNL when Simon was hosting).
stinger
@Anoniminous: How many people, though, think he’s trying to heal the Berniebro rift? Damn those f*ckers. It should be crystal clear that this convention and this nominee are the opposite of RNC and Trump. But NPR is all about the “chaos on the floor”.
I found a live stream on You Tube, so buh-bye NPR.
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: They damn well better not!
@Adam L Silverman: Ha!
BruceFromOhio
@dr. luba: Watching Booker slay it on CSPAN as I type this. Check out options?
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I’ve already said that I am going to run amok here in California if they act up while Michelle is speaking. If you hear about someone getting arrested for running around ripping up Bernie stickers and yard signs, that’ll be me.
BlueDWarrior
@lamh36: Yeah, if they try to interrupt the FLOTUS’s speech, there will be hell to pay.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@raven: I heard them trying to shout her down almost from the beginning – as soon as she said that she was voting for Hillary.
They deserved the smackdown, and she was actually gentle on them.
Cheers,
Scott.
PsiFighter37
Assholes chanting ‘war hawk’.
Fuck Bernie’s supporters. I fully support closed primaries to keep this jerkoffs out of the process.
Manyakitty
@Adam L Silverman: SNORT!
Mnemosyne
Booker is very smartly ignoring any attempted interruptions and just continuing to talk over them.
Betty Cracker
Did an incipient chant get tamped down?
bupalos
I just don’t get who these bernie fuckers are. How can you be that fucking rude and stupid and self-destructive? I am literally punching myself in the head that I voted for that clown, can’t believe he took it here and can’t believe how stupid these people are. There might be one of these dumb fuckers down there on the floor because of me? How far you gonna take it dummies? Because you’ve already come very close to erasing every little scrap of progress you helped make, and you’re about to tip it into Naderville.
dr. luba
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks. I’m watching YouTube, but paused it at one point and got an hour behind. Was hoping I could find a few speeches I missed on CSPAN. Maybe tomorrow elsewhere.
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: If you need help making bail, give me a ring.
? Martin
@Schlemazel Khan: Paul Simon always labeled himself as a song writer. He knew singing wasn’t his strength.
eclare
@Mnemosyne: Yes, I loved that. Couldn’t tell what they were yelling. But good on him for just powering through.
cckids
@Betty Cracker: Yep. They were either saying “War Hawk”, or “Wart Hog”, it was impossible to tell. Amateurs.
Mnemosyne
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Sarah Silverman is a bad person to try and heckle. She can rip your head off with two sentences
hovercraft
@Betty Cracker:
Yes Garfunkel was the singer, I had to pull up the you tube video because I told the 13 year old I love this song when it began. She turned to me and was like are you crazy. She was mollified by the video.
patroclus
This is a very good speech. Almost like a keynote address.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: They deserved the smackdown, and she was actually gentle on them.
yes, but they’re fragile little flowers, I”m almost tempted to wander through twitter and look and keening in less than 150 characters.
@eclare: I don’t like him much but this is pretty good.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@raven: The way I read your comment, it was if you were blaming her for the BernieBros acting up. I don’t think she can be blamed, myself.
Cheers,
Scott.
Trentrunner
LOL hecklers chanting “Black Lives Matter.”
While Cory Booker is speaking.
Who are these clowns?
Old Dan and Little Anne
Preach!
hovercraft
@Major Major Major Major:
What’s his malfunction?
dmsilev
Now there’s a ‘Blacks Lives Matter’ chant in the background. Sort of matches what Booker was talking about, so OK.
magurakurin
@Manyakitty: you tube is the same
different-church-lady
Soooo… are these idiots actually prepared for the moment when Bernie tells them to vote for Hillary? I mean, that’s gonna be AMAZEBALLS!!!
Anya
What are these asshole Bernie or Bust douchebags booing?
dr. luba
Found it–I think. CSPAN link.
dmsilev
“Trump spews”
BlueDWarrior
@Trentrunner: People who feel like the people they have to agitate the most are the people who are their closest allies.
It doesn’t make any sense to me either…
dmsilev
@Anya: Their existential angst at the fact Bernie lost.
hovercraft
@Betty Cracker:
She said she told her “Church Hat Guy” that she needed a hat for the inauguration and it had to be a show stopper.
Quinerly
@Baud:
Big Dawg looked worried. And very tired. Still love seeing him, though.
Mnemosyne
@Trentrunner:
I think they started doing it while he was talking about police and police shootings. Lame attempt to chime in or to derail?
It took a while for the crowd to get into it, but now they’re with him.
We. Will. Rise.
lamh36
rikyrah
Gary York @GareBearEsq 5h5 hours ago
If those Bernie losers boo Michelle Obama tonight, you will see this white man run across country like Forrest Gump to come for their asses
Baud
@Quinerly: I didn’t get that vibe.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
okay, I would vote for this Cory Booker.
Bernie looks bored.
Omnes Omnibus
Fucking goosebumps.
? Martin
I’ve only seen an hour, but so far they’re doing a much better job of addressing a broader set of issues than I had given them credit for (several references to the heroin epidemic, for example). The heckling is annoying but they really come off as bitter clingers – small numbers, unproductive.
Much less angry than last week. That’s palpable.
hovercraft
So Cory is trying for his Obama moment, and it’s playing well in the room.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I’ve been rather lukewarm about Sen. Booker, this is a great speech.
Iowa Old Lady
@Mnemosyne: Standup comedians have practice at dealing with hecklers. Silverman and Franken could probably do training for D speakers.
Betty Cracker
Booker is KILLING it!
BlueDWarrior
@Quinerly: I think he is rightfully concerned that the true dead enders are going to do something to force a show and incident during Hillary’s speech.
patroclus
This is the best keynoter since, uh, Senator Obama in 2004.
jl
Booker had a very good speech going there. Is he going to try bofo endings until he gets the reaction he wants?
Audience, please chant.
Edit: OK, great ending. Good rousing speech. I thought he got a little long in running up to the finale.
hovercraft
@hovercraft:
I’m not allowed to edit.
He is killin it.
That’s my senator. Jersey Strong.
cckids
@Mnemosyne:
He needed to pause that tenth of a second each time to let them chime in. Good speech though.
Bernie looked waaaaay too grumpy compared to Bill Clinton, though.
Central Planning
@Mnemosyne: I heard the first part of Corey’s speech on the way home from a dinner meeting. It was really good and such a different tone and style from the R convention. I was feeling OK about the general, but things like this make me feel great!
Barbara
I am totally impressed by Booker. I didn’t think he had it in him. “Love trumps hate.”
debbie
@Truegster:
Except she couldn’t have sung it if they hadn’t written it.
rikyrah
Muting Steve Schmidt.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Does Steve Schmidt look like he’s going to cry? More than usual, I mean.
Adam L Silverman
@Betty Cracker: Laugh at my pain. Thanks!
Wormtown
MSNBC is just terrible
PsiFighter37
Assholes are still chanting in the background. I had no idea 50 year-old white people with an unbound sense of privilege could be so annoying…
Kropadope
Man, Cory Booker is killing it.
scottinnj
Bernie – whatever respect I had for you is lost from your supporters. You created this. Ass****
BruceFromOhio
Booker NAILING it. Wow!
Delegates gonna have to self-police to keep the fuckups from fucking it up.
Keep up the “Trump is a fraud,” a ton of material there, the shit writes itself.
“I can do this all day”
– Senator Elizabeth Warren
Shrillhouse
I’ve had a HUGE crush on Sarah Silverman ever since she was on SNL.
If I wasn’t happily married, and she wasn’t totally out of my league, well…
Adam L Silverman
@dr. luba: You should be able to either run the youtube live stream backwards by pulling the slider to the left or you’ll be able to get them tomorrow on the DNC’s youtube site. They’ll have all of Day 1 up.
eclare
Weird music choice, AC/DC?
seaboogie
@Omnes Omnibus: fuck who or what you want, I myself was enjoying Booker’s speech. ;-)
Feebog
Franken was great, and Sarah put the Bernie Bros. in their place. Booker was on fire. I have heard him speak before, but man he ripped it. Republicans, this is how you do it.
Mnemosyne
This woman who was cheated by Trump is making me tear up. I hope her countertops aren’t too “nice” for what conservatives think she should have.
Omnes Omnibus
@PsiFighter37: I’ve got a college reunion next year. I am rethinking my decision to go.
patroclus
Is Michelle gonna come out for the “right to bare arms” tonight?
Schlemazel Khan
@? Martin:
Agreed. I saw them on a an award show about 5 years ago & neither could sing any more. It was sad because they were great & the memory is kinda harmed.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: You’re not that annoying.
Baud
Michelle is up next.
Chris
@mike in dc:
Watching that with two Betnie Sanders supporters, and that line got a cheer. Hopefully enough agree with that. I know most do; I just hope the rest are as fringe as we all hope.
different-church-lady
You know, what they really should do is get a beach ball going, like the bleachers at a baseball game.
Adam L Silverman
@Trentrunner: Middle class white folks from the suburbs. Can I answer anything else for you?
James E Powell
@rikyrah:
He’s one of the few Republicans who I can stand to listen to and he is often right on point with his observations.
lamh36
YES!!
Time for ‘Chellie O!
This video is making me a bit misty eye
Mnemosyne
Is it? Is she really next?
Adam L Silverman
@hovercraft: Other than being Andrew Sullivan?
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: I can try harder.
TheMightyTrowel
Whoever edited this Michelle O video is A+ skilled – it gets the hilarity of kid-talk spot on
rikyrah
Lord, I love our FLOTUS.
Davebo
Two Michelle speeches in two weeks!
Betty Cracker
FLOTUS!
hovercraft
@rikyrah:
He was very complementary said the last time the RNC had a positive speech like that was Arnold in 2004.
Mnemosyne
Standing ovation for Michelle!
Quinerly
@BlueDWarrior:
You don’t have to tell me. I have been watching the Bernie idiots all day. It was terrible outside the convention. They were trying to get a chant of “lock her up” going and some BS delegates were cheering the “Hillary for Prison” Info Wars van. Credentialed Dem Delegates there for BS.
Kropadope
I had to leave, did I miss Warren and Kennedy?
MomSense
I love her!
Mike J
Your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise.
Linnaeus
Good plate music for Michelle Obama.
lamh36
Gosh…I’m gonna miss her!
Literally MY FAVORITE FIRST LADY…hands down.
Schlemazel Khan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I had the honor of hearing Cory speak at the MLK Day lunch in Minneapolis about 5 years ago. It was love at first speech! I could easily see him in the top spot in 2024.
Tinare
Michelle 2024! ?
BruceFromOhio
What a contrast. These are my people, and its so fucking awesome. LOVE YOU FLOTUS
Patricia Kayden
Michelle!!!! Dang it. Going to miss her!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Avis?
Anoniminous
The next speaker looks oddly familiar.
lamh36
FLOTUS Video produced by JJ Abrams
Anya
I am nervous. Seriously nervous.
Keith P.
Michelle doesn’t appear to have aged a day since she’s been first lady. She looks like she’s in her late 20s/early 30s. IIRC Laura Bush looked pretty fresh after 8 years, too.
Eolirin
The official DNC site has a livestream here. It’s a very solid stream, no commentary, and you can jump to any point in the night. (MS Azure Media Services by the looks of it, they’ve really nailed large scale streaming at this point)
patroclus
It may be de ja vu, but it seems to me like I just saw her 2008 speech a week or so ago.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I think I can hear the church ladies giving some “amens” between lines of this speech.
Any hecklers better be prepared to be tackled by them if they even think about interrupting.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tinare: Why do you hate her?
eclare
I can’t believe she will be gone in a few months.
Baud
Birther smackdown.
lamh36
Damnit…has Michelle Obama AGED BACKWARDS!!!
Mnemosyne
@patroclus:
I see what you did there.
Betty Cracker
She’s bringing it.
Helen
Oh Michelle is bringing it!
Mai.naem.mobile
I love Michelle!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Trump trolling. I love it.
ETA: This speech, at least this part of it, could be recut into HRC’s Trump and kids ad
dmsilev
@lamh36: Well, we always knew Barack has a time machine, so maybe he gave Michelle the keys.
bupalos
My god. Michelle is a ?@#!ing treasure. I can’t tell any of you without kids the wavelength this thing resonates on for me.
Schlemazel Khan
@Linnaeus:
I didn’t recognize the song.
Tinare
@Omnes Omnibus: True shouldn’t wish that on her.
slag
First Lady Michelle forever!
rikyrah
FLOTUS: “Our motto is: When they go low, we go high.”
Corner Stone
Head snap.
Fuck the haterz.
ThresherK
@PsiFighter37: Not giving my age, but I channel my white guy annoying privilege into harmless pastimes, such as joining a FB group trying to get major league baseball back in Montreal.
I’d invite Bernie Bros to join me but I really don’t want their help.
Mnemosyne
Any attempts at chants seem to be getting squelched PDQ.
scottinnj
I wonder if we may be electing the wrong former first lady.
MomSense
My 12 year old told me that if they boo Michelle we are driving all night to the convention.
rikyrah
Who will shape out children’s lives for the next 4 o 8 years…”
Linnaeus
@Schlemazel Khan:
I just liked the way it sounded.
As a Midwesterner, I love the hint of nasalness in Michelle Obama’s speech.
PsiFighter37
Good – some straight talk for the Berniebusters.
Mnemosyne
Ooh, Berniebro smackdown!
Hit ’em again, Michelle!
eric
@Mnemosyne: when you go at the queen, you best not miss
slag
“So much bigger than her own desires and disappointments!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Bernistas in Peter Pan hats applauding as Michelle explains life to them!
Schlemazel Khan
Nice shot at the bros! Thank you ma’am, may we have another?
rikyrah
LOL
Joy Reid ✔ @JoyAnnReid
Some folks tried to start a “Bernie” chant while Michelle was talking and got shushed quick. #DNCinPHL
Keith G
See. They can behave when necessary.
But to the point, so Michele is the second best public speaker in the country. Right?
Omnes Omnibus
Damn. She is slaying.
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
What a woman.
Baud
Suck it Twitter!!!!
debbie
I can’t wait for her tell-all book to come out!
lamh36
Joy Reid ✔ @JoyAnnReid
Some folks tried to start a “Bernie” chant while Michelle was talking and got shushed quick. #DNCinPHL
Corner Stone
140 characters.
rikyrah
@JuliaHass
Not to be dramatic but if anyone dares boo Michelle Obama I will rage-teleport to Philadelphia and tear out their still-beating heart.
Keith P.
Wow, I’m glad I tuned in for this speech. Michelle is kicking some serious ass. And I’m glad she brought up Hillary not getting angry/disillusioned after losing to Obama (this is when I became a fan of Hillary)
eclare
Booyah! Issues cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.
dmsilev
Oh, snap.
Trump is running towards his twitter-machine as we speak.
Tinare
Damn she is so awesome!
Omnes Omnibus
@Keith G: In the top three.
patroclus
Michelle is just slamming Trump up one side of the head and down the other.
debbie
Am I the only one crying?
Corner Stone
She is amazeballs.
TS
Out of the park – best speech ever
lamh36
that ether, as the kids say!
Corner Stone
@debbie: No, I found the dusty mop a few minutes ago. Dammit.
BlueDWarrior
To say I will be sad when Barack and Michelle leave the White House for the last time (as residents) is a gross understatement…
eclare
@debbie: No. Damn dust.
dmsilev
Melania Trump sure wrote a good speech for Michelle to deliver.
Anoniminous
This is a great speech
Emma
“You need to be steady, and measured, and well informed”. Can we just find her something to do while Barack writes his memoirs?
Jill
@MomSense: Love
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: “Rage-teleport,” LMAO! Gonna steal that!
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: I have allergies.
slag
@Anoniminous: Amazing speech!
And delivery!
danielx
Damn. I wrote this back on TBogg’s site back in 2012 and it feels like i could have written it six months ago. Maybe not today*.
. For all those who believe that a genuinely liberal candidate for president is going to magically draw hordes of liberal voters out of whatever woodwork they’ve been hiding: bullshit. The country has been moving, or been moved, farther and farther to the right for the last forty-odd years, due to a sustained effort on the part of the Republicans. And it’s worked. If they wanted to maintain power in the face of changing demographics and other factors, they were going to have to establish infrastructure and do a host of other things, and they’ve done them. Witness: forty years ago RalphNadertheasshole was taken seriously as a national political figure. Just a couple of months ago Rick Santorum and Rick Perry – both halfwitted rightwing religious fanatics – were taken seriously as national political figures, and if that doesn’t tell you something about which direction the country has gone you need to be checked for a pulse. Forty years ago they would have been classified with Lyndon LaRouche. The Republicans have got a lot more money and have been working to a long term plan, more or less.
*Edit: did not see Rs goinng completely off their rockers.
PsiFighter37
@lamh36: Probably went over their heads, given how clueless they are.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: I think Ivanka locked his gold phone away.
rikyrah
One Chele @OneChele
.@FLOTUS is like “y’all gon get this good word today”
Turgidson
In a sane country, FLOTUS alone would be worth a 10pt bounce.
MomSense
@Keith G:
Barack called her “the closer”. She is irresistible especially in person.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: No, but I blame the smoke from the wildfire.
lamh36
Keith P.
Geez, this is just the day 1 speech. We’ve still got The Big Dog and Barack on deck this week. Gonna be some kickass speeches this week.
Anoniminous
Takes a Village!!!
lmao
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dmsilev: Hah! :applause:
damn, this show has come a long way in a few hours.
Is this the best speech Michelle has ever given?
Quinerly
@debbie:
I’m crying too.
Omnes Omnibus
“…house built by slaves…”
Mnemosyne
@Keith G:
I’ve heard several attempts to interrupt her but, damn, she knows exactly the rhythm to speak at in order to drown them out over and over again.
She is a pro.
Betty Cracker
Amazing speech.
slag
@Turgidson: At least.
SgrAstar
@Truegster: eeeeeeek! Love Defcon Oprah. Absolutely quaking in my boots…um, sandals. Oprah could really bring down the hammer.Mjollnir? ?
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: Actually he’s holding a rally in NC. He’s doubled down on the NATO thing and taken it a step further. He stated that we actually have to leave the NATO Alliance and after two days the rest of the members will call us up and beg us to come back. There was also a strange comment about women.
ThresherK
I can’t describe how good this is.
When does Melania start giving it?
Linnaeus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Hard to say. Her 2012 speech is hard to beat.
Truegster
Melania will not be able to deliver it with this much emotion in 4 years.
Corner Stone
I just got verklempt. Hardcore.
dmsilev
@lamh36: I apologize on behalf of all of California.
Kropadope
Michelle Obama is incredible and she’s really selling the “influence on the children and the family” message.
Quinerly
I think Michelle made Bill tear up a bit.
Keith G
I am not sure that another speech this week can be the heart and soul of this week other than this one. How?
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: I read about that at TPM. I’m vacillating between ‘stupid’ and ‘evil’, though ‘both’ is certainly a possibility.
Baud
Bill is thrilled.
BruceFromOhio
Chills. Tears. Holy cow, has she turned this around.
Let’s get to work.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Hear me! We need to do what we did eight eyes ago, and four years ago, knock on every door, get out every vote…
Fan-fucking-tastic
Let’s get to work!
Corner Stone
@Keith P.:
If they waterboard this speech I may be fucking dead. D. E. D. DEAD.
Mnemosyne
@debbie:
Nope.
Manyakitty
@debbie: Nope. She had me going from her first point. Smart, gorgeous, classy
Omnes Omnibus
Big Dawg is looking happy.
Betty Cracker
I feel sorry for the people who have to speak after FLOTUS. She slayed.
patroclus
Fantastic! The highlight of the convention so far!! Michelle is great!
Corner Stone
HOLY FUCK
rikyrah
I can’t believe it’s the last time for us and FLOTUS.
Davebo
Michelle was always good but damn! Girl is nailing it. Forceful yet graceful. I’m 52 years old but she reminds me of my own Mother scolding and encouraging me.
The jabs at Trump were clear, yet not callous. I especially loved the 142 characters line.
Omnes Omnibus
I would not want to go on after that speech.
lamh36
Ya’ll saw that last look @FLOTUS gave…
CRUSHED IT!!!
#DemsInPhilly #DemConvention
inventor
And THAT’S how THAT is done!
Awesome woman.
dmsilev
Warren up next.
hovercraft
I love her. Just that. I love her.
Patricia Kayden
Great speech! Michelle knocked it out of the park!
Melania is furiously taking notes.
debbie
I haven’t cried at a convention speech since Ted’s “the hope never dies” speech.
Davebo
@rikyrah:
I seriously doubt this will be the last time. She’s going to be golden to Democrats hopefully for decades to come.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I want a chyron to tell me what the chants are
ETA: Poor young Kennedy, They needed a musical or video interlude after Michelle
bupalos
Dunno. I’m a dad of 3 girls. But that might be the single best speech I’ve ever heard. Ever. From anyone. I wish they had saved it.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Joe Kennedy is my Congressman. He’s so cute – good segue into Liz.
celticdragonchick
@Adam L Silverman:
What. The. Fuck.
Keith P.
Jeez, again, that was in INCREDIBLE speech! That was as good a case for *any* candidate that has been made this year. And the personal stuff was powerful stuff.
rikyrah
I get the feeling that Warren is going to take a switch to Ferret Head.
I mean, she went out back and picked it herself.
Omnes Omnibus
@rikyrah: She isn’t done as a force for good. She’ll just do it some other way.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: He’s just there to introduce Senator Warren. Who apparently is still waiting for him to turn in that one last overdue homework assignment.
Linnaeus
This is a killer lineup up tonight. Of course. Because it’s way better on one day than the Repubs could do in a year.
liberal
Hillarious #1
Hillarious #2
sigaba
I need a cigarette. And now a poor schmuck Kennedy has to follow that.
Edit: Oh okay then, on with the show.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Quinerly: Big Dawg was loving it.
slag
@bupalos: Yeah. It’s hard to imagine it getting better from here.
Baud
That right wingers hate Michelle is all you need to know about them.
Kropadope
I was wondering where he was going with that school anecdote for a little bit. That was very funny.
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: There’s a partial point there: that our NATO allies and partners have to have enough capacity to actively participate in their own defense, even if that is just to buy enough time for us to arrange the strategic lift to get us, the Canadians, and the rest of the alliance there. That’s not an unreasonable position. Nor is it an unrealistic one. This is, however, not what Trump is proposing. And he certainly doesn’t get that the Baltic states are meeting their commitments because they’re scared to death that Putin will roll over them. As for Ukraine, while I’m not for starting a war with Russia, I think it was a failure on the part of the US not to provide them with the weaponry and the resources to defend themselves. This is not the same thing as us defending them.
Mnemosyne
Okay, this is an AWESOME intro by Joe Kennedy.
This is how a child of privilege should turn out.
BruceFromOhio
@rikyrah: I have a feeling she’s going to be around for awhile, freed from the necessary responsibilities of the Executive Branch, and carrying on as she sees fit. And I look forward to that.
And now Senator Warren. Wow, am I happy to be a Democrat tonight.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman:
Of course there was.
amygdala
Michelle O dropping the mike and now Elizabeth Warren? Girl power 2016!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dmsilev: yeah, but I think we/they needed some kind of sorbet after MRO and before SPW
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: He actually did the damned thing.
Patricia Kayden
@lamh36: Really? How dare they!
PsiFighter37
Warren starting off with coddling the fee-fees. Ugh
hcarthagen
I am a bit tired of every speaker sucking bernie’s cock
cckids
@Tinare:
I’m pretty sure Michelle Obama would have a root canal with no anesthesia on live TV before she’ll run for office.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Keith G
@hcarthagen: It’s called playing the adult.
Kropadope
Man am I happy to ghave voted for the last two speakers and the husband of the one prior.
Betty Cracker
What are those fucking assholes chanting?
Corner Stone
What are these white guys chanting each time?
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I was saying earlier that Bernie basically has to come on after Prince and David Bowie warmed the crowd up for him. He’d better bring his A game, or he’s going to fall on his face.
rikyrah
@blacksnob 9s10 seconds ago
I feel like when Michelle leaves the WH black folks are going channel Effie from Dreamgirls talkin’ about “no way I’m living without you.”
dmsilev
OK, who are the jackasses in the background, and what are they chanting?
bupalos
That speech was genius. They’ll be studying this speech for years.
PsiFighter37
Assholes chanting ‘we trusted you’.
Someone should sock that jerk in the mouth. I’d be happy to do so.
Emma
Good Christ, Warren came out swinging.
dogwood
@Betty Cracker:
She was supposed to be the last speaker tonight, but Bernie didn’t like that idea. It would have been a perfect way to end the evening.
amygdala
@Betty Cracker: I think it’s “we trusted you.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: We. Trusted. You
Betty Cracker
@Truegster: Not in 4,000 years.
dmsilev
@PsiFighter37: She has a bit of moral authority with some of them. It doesn’t hurt.
Mike J
@Linnaeus:
Last Monday’s lineup.
M31
lol I couldn’t figure out what they were chanting, nice job assholes
hcarthagen
If Trump wins this election, Bernie should literally fall on his sword and commit suicide.
LAC
@rikyrah: Gurl. You and me both. Asses will be stung.
slag
@Corner Stone: I think they’re all just excited they caught a Pokemon. Or something equally imperative.
Baud
@dogwood: Agree. Now I’m sad about the change.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: And that’s ignoring Booker. Al Green?
Mister Papercut
@Betty Cracker:
Sounded to me like “We trusted you.”
Anne Laurie
@debbie:
Hell, I cried.
dmsilev
@PsiFighter37: Maybe the floor whips should have actual whips. Or electric cattle prods.
Xantar
@dmsilev:
It kind of sounds like, “Free Constitution! Free Constitution!”
I’m choosing to believe they’re just big fans of giving everybody a pocket Constitution.
PsiFighter37
@dmsilev: Those jerks don’t see anything but blind betrayal. I bet they’ll start chanting the same shit when Bernie says to vote for Hillary.
gogol's wife
@hcarthagen:
Right. Literally.
Quinerly
@PsiFighter37:
I couldn’t tell what they were saying. Fucking assholes.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Film at 11…
Iowa Old Lady
@Mnemosyne: Yeah, if he just does his stump speech. he’s going to look silly. He may regret asking to have his speech moved last.
Linnaeus
@Mike J:
My point exactly. You could give the Republicans 10 years and they couldn’t match what the Dems are doing just tonight.
gogol's wife
I got too nervous while watching Booker, so turned it off, so I missed Michelle.
Hope it’s on YouTube tomorrow!
Now Warren is making me nervous because the jerks are chanting.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dogwood: yeah, I really doubt Bernie can match that kind of poetry, and the night should’ve ended with poetry. IMHO.
Keith P.
@Adam L Silverman: I’ve always viewed NATO (well, not always…more like the last 20 years or so) not so much as a mutual defense pact, but a means for the US to further box in the Soviets/Russia by gradually signing on its neighbors. What is the point otherwise to having, say, Estonia? The fees are just to have skin in the game, but Trump makes it out like they should be towing the load (but they can’t, which is why they want in NATO)
magurakurin
@Betty Cracker: we trusted you
Run, Lillian!
Kos is saying the the hecklers can and should have their credentials pulled, but I guess it is Bernie’s call.
I hope they get these fuckers out of there by tomorrow.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It is amazing.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: “He stated that we actually have to leave the NATO Alliance and after two days the rest of the members will call us up and beg us to come back.”
Wow, just like Brexit!
dmsilev
@Iowa Old Lady: Hopefully the meeting he had with his delegates served as a wake-up call. We’ll find out in a few minutes.
MomSense
@Iowa Old Lady:
That’s what I think.
cckids
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Me too. Your damn CA smoke has infiltrated Vegas.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@PsiFighter37: Or just a sock in his mouth.
Corner Stone
@gogol’s wife:
Booker burned it down but MO crushed everything. Ever ree thing.
That is a must see speech.
Mike J
@gogol’s wife: Dem Convention will have every speech.. Livestream available too.
Trentrunner
@amygdala: Were they holding boomboxes over their heads playing “In Your Eyes”?
Run, Lillian!
@Iowa Old Lady:
That is what he is going to do- give his stump speech. He has no other gear. Thankfully it is late and at the end of the night.
Michelle is the belle of tonight’s ball.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
While she’s going after both-sides-ism, I hope she brings up the Garland nomination. I’m betting Professor Warren (Harvard Law), just might.
ETA; Berniebots now trying to disrupt Warren.
Omnes Omnibus
“We’re coming for you.”
MomSense
I think I may have called it. By the time Sanders speaks, it will be 11:00 and most of the country will miss it.
And WTF with the idiotic chanting? They sound pathetic.
Davey C
What are people chanting?
PsiFighter37
Berniebros are the worst. They are demonstrating it on live television.
M31
another chant? wtf
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
Tinare
Maybe they’ll go horse after tonight.
Joel
Disappointed that that crew couldn’t keep their shit together, but the speakers have powered right through it.
pseudonymous in nc
“we trusted you” deserves a response of “you fuck ups”
Just One More Canuck
@ThresherK: Now that’s a worthy cause
dmsilev
Trump’s twitter feed is sadly quiet tonight. Just one tweet, and it’s pretty lame:
Hopefully, he’ll work himself up into a good froth after Warren is done beating up on him.
BruceFromOhio
Oh man, I hope the shouting yam is having a fucking coronary.
Quinerly
@MomSense:
It’s been like that sporadically. Bad at the beginning. Booed Barney Frank. It’s a lot better now. But I’m a bit shocked by the chants directed to Liz.
lamh36
So we agree… QUOTE of the night “Bernie or Bust…you’re being ridiculous”
SPEECH of the night: @FLOTUS
YES!
Mnemosyne
Elizabeth Warren is questioning Trump’s manhood. On national teevee.
Keith P.
Elizabeth Warren makes a perfect attack dog. She reminds me of a few of my college professors (and I loved college)
PsiFighter37
Good God, those clowns literally booed all over her applause lines. Jesus F’ing C.
Catatonia
EW came to kick ass and chew gum and she,s all out of gum.
jl
@Run, Lillian!: Unlike the GOP, I assume the HRC people have worked out the best plan for tonight. If all Bernie knows how to do is give his stump speech (which is what I heard him give this morning, when he should have moved past that and prepared his people for the convention floor), Warren is speaking now to provide the best set-up for it.
At least the die-hards willing to disrupt things seem to have been whittled down to a very few jerks who can’t make any impact.
Run, Lillian!
The chant is aimed at Warren- they are saying “We trusted you”, according to kos liveblog.
dogwood
Those delegates have 3more days to suck up all the media attention. Then they’ll be history. They’ve shown they won’t unite, so they just need to be ignored. So sorry that they feel disrespecting good people is some kind of high moral ground.
Mike J
MomSense
@Quinerly:
Oh they’re furious with her for betraying their cause and endorsing Hillary.
Anya
I don’t get these stupid asshats chanting “we trusted you” to Warren. What did they want her to do? California delegation should be embarrassed.
Betty Cracker
Good line about the Trump infomercial!
?BillinGlendaleCA
“Great Trump hot air machine…”
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
MomSense
@PsiFighter37:
I’m embarrassed for them.
dmsilev
“Great Trump Hot Air Machine” and a goofy hat.
Twitterstorm incoming..
Captain C
I’m going to invest in aloe vera futures after all these burns on Trump.
patroclus
Warren is far more substantive in her speech – actually discussing policies (and the lack thereof from Trump). This is very effective.
Brachiator
@hcarthagen:
Sorry. You cannot hold Sanders entirely responsible for this.
The purity idiots are free floating morons. You can hear it in some of the sad attempts to counter Warren. These people do not live in the real world.
They want utopia or bust.
Warren is killing it, but the most stubborn purity fools will not be moved.
jl
@MomSense: they are idiots. When did Warren promise them anything?
pseudonymous in nc
@Anya:
I’m sure a bunch of them are the SF purity pony-riders who want to primary Nancy SMASH every two years. Utter fuckers.
Baud
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: Aw.
Quinerly
@dmsilev:
Booker is an unmarried man in his 40’s. Trump wants to gossip. Lame!
Davey C
Can somebody post a video of FLOTUS’ speech? I missed it.
hovercraft
@Baud:
They’re just jealous.
Mike J
Keith P.
@Catatonia: At the rate she’s going, after this speech she’s going into an alley to beat the shit out of Keith David just cuz he won’t wear her glasses.
hcarthagen
I love and admire Warren, but this is not an electrifying speech. Sanders dead enders heckling is certainly not helping.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
dr. luba
@gogol’s wife: Catch up now here. Link.
EZSmirkzz
Hmmm.
Elizabeth’s thumbs are longer than Donald fingers.
Strange things you notice on TV.
hovercraft
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Good luck with that.
dmsilev
@Quinerly: That’s even lamer than I thought.
jl
@Mike J:
” Reading Bernie’s prepared remarks. He leans right the hell in on endorsing Hillary. ”
Hope he had some help writing the speech. Sanders has trouble explaining himself, as opposed to preaching.
Davey C
@Davey C: Nevermind. Found it. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/michelle-obama-dont-let-anyone-say-america-isnt-great
Baud
@Davey C: Tamara just posted in in the next thread.
Cacti
@Brachiator:
Sorry. You cannot hold Sanders entirely responsible for this.
You’re right.
I only hold Sanders “99%” responsible.
geg6
@debbie:
Yes. This.
Run, Lillian!
@Mike J:
Good news! Prove me wrong Bernie. Please prove me wrong.
magurakurin
@hcarthagen: she might be turning it down for Bernie’s sake. She’s a pro. Doesn’t want to make him follow a barn burner.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dr. luba: tamara put it on the front page, upstairs
Quinerly
@MomSense:
I know. I unfriended a bunch of them on my FB feed. I just thought they might be too chicken to disrespect her in person.
Anoniminous
She’s a vastly different kind of speaker than FLOTUS but just as effective.
Omnes Omnibus
@hcarthagen: It is a very good, substantive speech. She isn’t Michelle, she isn’t Barack; she isn’t Bill. Few are.
hcarthagen
@magurakurin: Fair point. Hadn’t thought of that.
Barbara
@patroclus: Between the lines you can also hear her refuting the idea that racial and gender exclusions don’t have anything to do with class warfare: it’s how those in power divide people in order to divide the spoils amongst themselves.
Adam L Silverman
@Keith P.: There was a push, post Soviet Union to expand the alliance. There was even some talk of bringing Russia in, which didn’t go far for a variety of reason. Putin is not necessarily wrong that the US and the EU, often using NATO as a vehicle, took advantage of post Soviet Russia when it was weak. We ruthlessly pushed our own interests to what we thought was our advantage. From Putin’s perspective, and those of the ideologues he relies on and his supporters, Russia has legitimate grievances and Russia’s current foreign policy is intended to reverse this because Russia now has the wherewithal to do so. Eventually something is going to give because it will have to give. Either noses will get bloodied, both sides will take a step back, and a decision will be made to try something else. Or noses will get bloodied, both sides will try to press advantage, and blood will spill and treasure spent.
The above said, the post Soviet Union purpose of NATO was not formally/officially about boxing Russia in. It may have worked out that way, that may have been the unofficial policy, but that wasn’t the official one. NATO reorganized itself to do disaster response, emergency management, and humanitarian assistance missions. Also, peace making and keeping operations. But most of all the deeper purpose of the alliance is to bring the European states, and their military personnel, and bind them together through joint NATO exercises and assignments and professional military education in order to change the dynamic on the continent. A dynamic that brought us the Thirty Years War, WW I, and WW II. And for 70 years it has worked. Perhaps the time approaches when the something that gives is dangling the carrot to Putin of NATO inclusion. Perhaps its time to bind the Russians into the same cooperative system now shared by the US, the Canadians, the British, the French, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians, etc. Certainly the situation now is not working well as we have a poisonous dynamic and poor relations.
different-church-lady
@dmsilev:
Gosh, nothing at all creepy about that.
Keith G
When Michele spoke of the young boy who wanted to touch the the president’s hair, it was this
debbie
@hcarthagen: @hcarthagen:
She is laying out the facts. That’s plenty electrifying.
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: But without the posh accent, the good ale, and the fish and chips!
Joel
@Brachiator: “As with Christianity… the worst advocates for Socialism are its adherents”
George Orwell
gogol's wife
@Corner Stone:
Yes, it’s amazing.
Emma
@patroclus: That’s her strength. Why I wanted her to stay in the Senate. A wonk with an attitude.
sigaba
Welcome Keith Ellison. A MOOOOOOSLIM!!11!!1!
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
I’m setting the over/under on the length of Sanders’s speech at 8 hours.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anoniminous: Agreed. And If I were a speaker, I would incline toward giving her type of speech.
Bobby D
This is a perfect demonstration of why I don’t go to the conventions.
I’d have punched a few of these chanting jerks by now.
I love me some Professor Senator Warren, gave mutiple times to her campaign (and I’m nowhere near Mass) . These rude BernieChildren need a stern talking to…or a swift kick in the @#%.
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: He’s now threatening to do a tell all expose book on his potential VP picks based on the information they turned over to his campaign for vetting. He now owns all of these guys because he has the information to destroy them. Nice reputation you got there, be a shame if anything happened to it.
PsiFighter37
Keith Ellison yelling about the public option…uh, yay?
different-church-lady
@Mike J:
They’re going to boo Bernie. They are going to boo their own candidate. Nice job, numskulls.
rikyrah
@Keith G:
Almost 8 years in, and to me, that is still THE picture of the Obama Presidency.
Chris
All right, Bernie. This is your last big moment in the spotlight. For the love of God, Zeus and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, do NOT fuck this up.
jl
Ellison good choice to introduce Sanders.
Cacti
@different-church-lady:
Time for Dr. Frankenstein to face the monster he made.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
If the GOP had any sense, they would just concede now to keep this jackass out of the WH.
Mister Papercut
I have less than no interest in hearing Saint Bernard. (And I even voted for him in the primary.)
I just want Michelle to come back out and give us at least four hours of “And another fucking thing…”
MisterForkbeard
Ellison is busy pumping up the Berniacs. I’m not hearing as many boos when he said they had to elect Hillary as I was hearing before. But that was one hell of an awkward speech towards the end.
Seriously, this video of Bernie highlights is a little odd.
Omnes Omnibus
Simon and Garfunkel again?
Mnemosyne
@hcarthagen:
IIRC, it was supposed to be Warren, Sanders, and Michelle Obama, but Sanders asked for the closing spot and the DNC agreed.
I don’t think it was a great decision on Bernie’s part, but what’s done is done.
It took Ellison a bit of time to warm up, but he ended better than he started.
Barbara
Okay, America is one of my favorite songs.
BruceFromOhio
Gotta build bridges if you want people to get from there to here.
Sheesh, and this is only the first night.
ETA: And again what a contrast to the Republican National Ferret Circus that just concluded in Cleveland.
jl
@PsiFighter37: It’s in the platform. He’s trying to remind them to continue to work for what they’ve won, not act like shitheads and crap it all away with tantrums.
Emma
@different-church-lady: Actually it might be a good thing. He should experience the monster he unleashed.
Quinerly
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:in that case I need more beer and a couple shots of small batch rye.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: Gov. Bill Clinton tried that in 1988.
Omnes Omnibus
Okay, Bernie. Let’s see what you got.
Keith G
A long Democratic nightmare is over?
danielx
@Brachiator:
True dat. They’re reacting pretty much like the Republicans who believed their asshole Tea Party reps and senators could defy the laws of mathematics and repeal Obamacare, impeach Obama, etc. Like three year olds being told they can’t have something, and going off the deep end about it.
Do these douchewaffles really and truly think Bernie would win against Donald Trump?
Mary G
Bernie gets 12 minutes of prime time. Talk fast, Bernie, because after today you are going away if I have anything to say about it. Hopefully after the roll call tomorrow the dead enders will figure it out.
Davey C
Jesus, people. Let him speak.
Chris
@Mister Papercut:
Michelle Obama as Inspector Colombo?
Mnemosyne
At least he’s smart enough to start with a shoutout to Michelle Obama.
This may finally be his concession speech.
Mister Papercut
@Chris:
That was an unintentional reference, but now that you mention it, I would watch the shit out of that.
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
gawd, the endless laundry list is nauseating.
Linnaeus
Okay, I laughed at the $27 line.
Quinerly
I overpaid. I want my fucking 50 bucks back. He’s giving his stump speech.
Quinerly
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:
Gag me. I have come to loathe this man.
Corner Stone
@slag: My son caught Pokemon all across AZ over the last couple days. He’s waiting to get a few water spawns over the next few days in FL. Of course, he’s 11. So….
BruceFromOhio
You motherfucker. “Me, me, me.” Better pull it out of the fire soon, or it’s ugly forever.
Please, be clear.
cmorenc
Where the Hell is Bernie going with this? I hope this first part of his speech is his way to build a bridge his supporters can gladly walk across to support and vote for Clinton and defeat Trump, and not just a self-aggrandizing infomercial for his “revolution.”
OK here it goes…”this election is not about Clinton, Trump, or Sanders, but {about where the country needs to go”).
Omnes Omnibus
@BruceFromOhio: He is heading there.
seaboogie
Bernie emo orgasm in process.
Chris
Acknowledging Obama’s accomplishments after coming into the worst situation since the 1930s.
… THANK you.
cmorenc
Took Bernie awhile, but he’s headed in the right direction now.
WELL, THERE IT IS. FINALLY: “Hillary Clinton MUST become the next President of the United States” delivered in full-throated finger-wagging classic Bernie style.
Chris
… and now Hillary endorsement. There we go.
magurakurin
outstanding Senator Sanders….get you a case a beer for that.
NoraLenderbee
He;d better say her name NOW.
. . . Yeah. ABOUT TIME ffs.
Linnaeus
Bernie’s hitting his groove now.
Old Dan and Little Anne
Is Mika B. sitting next to Bill Clinton or am I hallucinating?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Old Dan and Little Anne: I think that’s Cecile Richards, head of Planned Parenthood
(and daughter of the late great Ann)
bupalos
Shots of weeping bernie people is almost scary. Like time for the padded room scary. At least most of them are so young you can crack it up to hormones and stupidity.
NoraLenderbee
“Hilary Clinton will carry out everything in my stump speech, which I will now deliver in its entirety.”
Last eyeroll, I promise. Thank goodness he’s going all out for her.
BruceFromOhio
I REALLY LIKE WHAT HE IS SAYING.
THE ALL-CAPS DELIVERY IS WEARING ME DOWN.
CLEARLY I AM NOT WORTHY.
Old Dan and Little Anne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: aha! Cheers. Watching the today’s transformation from 5:00’til now has been quite the show. Fuck trump and the republicans.
Davebo
Did Bernie just endorse Michelle? He didn’t blow it but he was clearly the weakest of tonights speakers.
I get the need to sway his supporters but honestly he could have done so much better than the standard Bernie stump speech followed by, essentially, “Oh yes, and also vote for Hillary”.
I give it a B- but then he had tough competition.
Davey C
Why the fuck do these completely secular political events end with religious benedictions. Do other countries do this? It’s really weird.
danielx
most excellent…..by comparison with 1st night in Cleveland, superlative
Omnes Omnibus
@Davebo: He was speaking to the BernieBros.
Aimai
@ThresherK: i lold