Let's go win this, together. pic.twitter.com/vCKpROauyZ
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 29, 2016
Great speech. She's tested. She's ready. She never quits. That's why Hillary should be our next @POTUS. (She'll get the Twitter handle, too)
— President Obama (@POTUS) July 29, 2016
Miss Bianca says:
Secretary Clinton! Madame President-Elect! WOMAN WARRIOR!!My fellow Americans, I was for her before, but now… *now* I feel like lightning just struck twice. First Obama, now Clinton.
We are not worthy. Oh, wait – yes, we are!
Hillary Clinton calls for expanding Social Security, debt free and tuition free college, and opposing unfair trade deals. #DemsinPhilly
— StephanieTaylor (@StephanieTaylor) July 29, 2016
Hillary's nomination isn't just a victory for women. It's a victory for the people who *actually do the work*
— Stephanie (@StephanieWDC) July 29, 2016
Democrats are starting to make this election not Clinton vs. Trump but America vs. Trump
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) July 29, 2016
Some people actually understand what Hillary's about https://t.co/dMOJ543HWl
— Martin Gelin (@M_Gelin) July 29, 2016
My bipartisan Twitter feed tells me Hillary Clinton was at her best attacking Trump. Makes me hope she'll clean his clock in the debates.
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) July 29, 2016
One of the quotes of the night, from @xeni: WE HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS. IT IS LIKE A MOON LANDING FOR WOMEN.
— jodikantor (@jodikantor) July 29, 2016
"Love trumps hate" actually works for both campaigns, if you're not fussy about punctuation.
— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) July 29, 2016
How can it be that I am standing at my kitchen counter sobbing because of the messages being driven at the DNC? Where has the GOP gone?
— Rich Galen (@richgalen) July 29, 2016
former press secretary to Cheney and Gingrich>>> https://t.co/WjxQry0wQh
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 29, 2016
tomorrow, and every day until the heat death of the universe, continues the important work of holding leaders accountable. Tonight: balloons
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) July 29, 2016
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution!” — Emma Goldman
Schlemazel Khan
Stayed up too late to watch that. It was worth it.
Schlemazel Khan
WOW! I don’t think I have ever posted first here before!
Good morning y’all
JGabriel
Hey, Stubby Drumpf, remember that Muslim father whose son gave his life for our country? The one who offered to lend you his copy of the US Constitution, since you clearly haven’t read it? The one who reminded you that Arlington Cemetery is filled with people from all faiths and ethnicities, which you wouldn’t know because you have sacrificed nothing and no one?
This is what long fingers look like.
Now you’ve got even more to feel insecure about, you feckless dipshit.
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
Obama and Clinton caught on camera mocking Trump (photo)
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
Hilarious snapshot of Sanders drooling over Katy Perry (photo)
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
Moms watching speech with infant daughter (photo)
amk
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
Told ya General Allen was a badass (photo)
amk
The Daily Edge @TheDailyEdge
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
I have to admit the Bern-outs are impressive looking (photo)
amk
Bearded Stoner @beardedstoner
Schlemazel Khan
@JGabriel: LOVE IT! Yup the short fingered vulagarian has to be seething
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: thanks for each photo, they are really good
Baud
After the DWS fiasco, the media was salivating about a Dems in Disarray convention, and the Dems rose above it. I still can’t get over how well produced the whole convention was. Amazeballs.
rikyrah
Good Morning ?, Everyone ?
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
Cover NY Daily News (photo)
►Make America Greater!
►Clinton accepts historic nomination
►Lays out vision for U.S., blasts Trump
►NEWS SAYS: Vote Hil, vanquish Done
Hal
Given the melt down a conservative friend was having on Facebook I figured her speech went well.
amk
@Baud: yup. shitshow vs hitshow
J R in WV
Slept like a baby, which is so unusual for me now that I’m old. I’ve watched two conventions every 4 years, never saw anything like this one, which was like a 4 part symphony over the four days. We didn’t get every speaker by any means, but we got most all the highlights!
Starting with Michelle, with one of the best speeches from a bunch of really good speakers, even Tim Kaine did well. Couldn’t believe the Rs who made up their minds he was wearing a flag pin from another country!
Chelsea kept stepping on her applause, could have just stopped talking for a minute so many times and gotten a standing O, but couldn’t bear to be quiet while the arena erupted around her until the end.
Hillary did what she needed to do, told her story, what she had done, what she wants to do, why we need to do it, how she thinks we can do it, and why it has to be her (and not Trump) !!!
We’re going to follow the money and see that they pay their fair share! YES! I’m happy to pay my fair share, I just want the folks with serious money to pay THEIR fair share.
Good morning, Everyone!!! Now I’m gonna back to bed to finish out 8 or 9 hours.
Mustang Bobby
What’s the Moanin’ Joe crew saying, or are they too shitfaced on Screwdrivers and shots to comment?
rikyrah
@Schlemazel Khan:
Morning!
Schlemazel Khan
@amk:
A friend posted on FB that Drumpfs convention speech has 13000 views & as of this morning Hillarys has 250000 . . . I think it would be wise for the handlers to hide his twitter machine today or he will get ugly(er)
Baud
Booman
rikyrah
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:
Just dust in my eyes ??
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@JGabriel: I want to Like this. Where’s my Like button?
Mustang Bobby
@amk: Goading Trump into a Twitter-rant is like playing Invisible Ball with a clueless dog. Hours of fun.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I’m watching Morning Joe and Trump’s reaction to the DNC. I’ll sum it up with this: “In your guts, you know he’s nuts”.
Baud
Hillary was great, but the real winner of this election was Austan Goolsbee.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: DWS probably deserves some credit for that.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: They are all over Trump saying republican candidates need to dump him.
raven
Joe says Trump is a big government democrat.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It’s the DNC’s show, so maybe so.
Betty Cracker
Still laughing about Kareem Abdul Jabbar introducing himself as Michael Jordan because he knows Trump couldn’t tell the difference.
Baud
@raven: That level of invective is completely uncalled for.
eclare
@Betty Cracker: That was hilarious.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: Nah, he probably thought Kareem was Roger Murdock.
raven
@Baud: I report, you decide.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Now you’re just trying to kiss up to me after yesterday morning.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: In the words of my ex, “He is such a toad.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
Joe of the Morning was saying the Republicans should “cut Trump loose”.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Sorry Joe, you guys made this mess, you own it. He’s all yours.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Working on the 2024 Baud! coalition.
My motto is, hate people less.
Jeffro
@JGabriel: geez even just thinking about that moment again is making my eyes water .
The Dems are receiving applause all around for running on principles, policies and people with an actual understanding of what this country is all about . She is the right person at the right time
Jeffro
@?BillinGlendaleCA: it would be the principled thing to do, which is why they won’t do it.
In the back of my mind I am a little concerned about what he will tell his supporters between now and November , especially when it becomes clear he cannot win . But I’m going to work through that, stay positive, and not let reacting to trump be my main/motivating thought
?BillinGlendaleCA
That “This is My Fight Song” song is a fucking earworm.
I guess it’s fine to pat ourselves on the back for a great convention today, but after today we need to fight like hell to get Sec. Clinton elected in November.
PsiFighter37
In a normal world, there would be a huge bounce out of this convention. We shall see…
Mustang Bobby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, so that’s the name of that song, huh? I’ve heard it a lot in background and even in some commercials but never knew the name of it.
That’s what I get for not listening to Top 40 radio since 1982, I guess.
Applejinx
Finally catching up… ;)
It’s like an active, shooting war against being a neo-whateveritis asshole hypocritical soulless monster. With a WWII plucky loveable interracial interfaith cast on the side of the good guys, and casting call’s open, all hands on deck. It’s goddamn IRRESISTIBLE.
And it’s not even fake. I think people wouldn’t be crossing these streams if they didn’t ‘get it’. We are actually going to go ‘america fuck yeah!’ against all Bernie Sanders’ pet demons, and a bunch of other problems he didn’t prioritize. The Clinton administration are going to be able to crossbreed radically progressive AND jingoistic ‘U! S! A!’ shouting, and get away with it. I wouldn’t have believed that possible but I’m seeing it, and I think it’s going to work.
Bernie’s now mainstream, and not particularly effective compared to what the Democrats are fixing to do. I completely understand how sad he is. He’s Al Shepard to John Glenn. Turns out the first suborbital space flight was cool but people went bonkers over the first orbital space shot, and there was nothing Shepard could do about it other than let the BIG hero sweep everybody up in his wake, inclusively.
It’s now up to Clinton to be inclusive and allow Bernie to follow along in his own revolution. Consider that reality if you’re mad at Bernie for looking cranky. His only hope for being ‘the leader’ again would be if she failed, sold out, went back on what’s being promised. I see his sourness as evidence he’s convinced she won’t do any such thing. It must be very obvious to an insider like himself.
Bernie is now Hillary’s pet sparrow, bear that in mind if you’re mad about him looking sour. The only hope he’d have for fame and relevance is if Hillary did NOT do his whole platform 1000 times harder and better. I think he’s lost all control of it and it’s now mainstream Democrat and in their name, not his. And crossbred with patriotism GOP-style.
‘tax and spend’ WILL WORK. I don’t think there’s ever, ever been such fertile ground for doing it. It will also reboot the economy (like, properly, not pretend) and that will make the rich richer. It’s basic Mark Blyth anti-austerity theory: pump your GDP, and only trim deficits when you’re in surplus. It worked for Bill and will work for Hillary. It is as much a political act as an economic one because austerity is based on poorbashing and the punishing of anyone not rich, to motivate them (which is pants-on-head retarded ™ Yahtzee)
This could be really, really big.
NorthLeft12
I did not watch the convention last night, but am/will be catching up on the highlights throughout today.
It’s funny how things work out, but Pres. Obama was the exactly right person to lead the US in 2008, and now I think Ms. Clinton is the exactly right person to take over and lead the US for the next eight years. Funny how that works out.
Kudos to Hillary for sticking to it after what was a bitter defeat back then. The lady has guts and vision. She will make a very fine President.
MattF
Dems have learned a new trick– move leftwards and attract Republicans. Not bad for an old dog.
Raven
@Mustang Bobby: outfit studio
Listen to This Is My Fight Song – Single by OutFit Studios on @AppleMusic.
https://itun.es/us/6-lo9
debbie
@JGabriel:
Speaking of Arlington, they still haven’t pulled that NRA ad with the Benghazi soldier strolling the rows and bad-mouthing Hillary. I thought photographing cemeteries was illegal.
OzarkHillbilly
Awwwwwww….. poor rightwingkillallthedarkpeoplewarmongeringnutjobs have a new source of butt hurt:
Poor babies.
Betty Cracker
@Applejinx: As we all know, nothing will come of our progressive platform without down-ticket success. That’s got to be the message from everyone who influences Democratic voters for the next 100 days.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Applejinx: John Glenn never walked on the moon, Al Shepard did(also hit a golf ball).
Splitting Image
@Baud:
I’ll drink to that.
debbie
@Hal:
Most of the ones on my feed are going to go Libertarian. Ha!
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
What a bumper sticker that would make!
Shalimar
Looking at Trump’s series of tweets after Clinton’s acceptance speech, they are all written by someone on the staff. None of them have his distinctive pattern of speaking.
Percysowner
To top it off, Trump told Fox News he won’t release his tax returns, pretty much ever. As he says, he really hasn’t gotten any pressure to. Maybe the press should do something about that?
Baud
@Splitting Image: Right. No more excuses. At the beginning, people were worried about what type of campaign Hillary would run. Well, she’s running about as good as a campaign as we could have hoped for. So it’s put up or shut up time.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie:
News to me. I’ve been photographing cemeteries all my life, including National cemeteries. Erik Loomis at LGM has been doing a Erik Visits an American Grave, series with a pic of the graves of various luminaries from history, both well known and little known. (interesting stuff)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: That’s from the 1964 Johnson campaign(obligatory fuck LBJ for raven).
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Let’s use it. I want a 1964 type landslide.
Applejinx
@Betty Cracker: Yes. Absolutely. I am just over the moon that (unless I missed something?) Clinton is ready to actively, brazenly run with the ‘class warfare’ tax and spend thing that WILL WORK and is the only thing that will work.
I totally trust her to also do the justice-aligned things Bernie was weak on. All my black friends have been uniformly and patiently pro-Hillary, from long before this point.
But I’m starting to really believe we are ALSO going to bail Main Street and cause our GDP to explode. Nothing less will do. neo-style capitalism is failing hard: it’s all a stocks bubble, bonds are in the shitter, nobody is investing capital because there’s nothing to invest capital IN, other than ‘financial instruments’ which are another bubble of toxic swamp gas.
Unless I miss my guess, Hillary is boldly going for the ONLY solution to it all, and It. Will. Work.
Again, worked for Bill. This is not hypothetical, and the ground is way more fertile this time around. It’ll be AMAZING.
raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Thank you, thank you very much!
Shalimar
@OzarkHillbilly: I have totally forgotten the details, but iirc there was a huge controversy about Republicans using Arlington in a campaign ad after 9/11. Apparently, there is some kind of policy against it.
debbie
@Mustang Bobby:
The song was fine the first gazillion times I heard it.
You don’t need to listen to pop stations to have heard it too often. It is everywhere.
Mustang Bobby
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s okay to photograph them, but there’s a rule about using national cemeteries for political ads: Don’t.
Shalimar
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: This is my album of Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. It’s where the Confederate unknowns were buried in front of The Lion of the Confederacy. My ancestor from the 11th Tennessee is most likely buried there. This cemetery has Bobby Jones and Margaret Mitchell, a Jewish section and a Union Army section. It’s the scene of all kinds of special events including a big Halloween gig.
Shalimar
VA filming policy
Basically, you can’t use national cemeteries in political ads.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Dunno if this has already been mentioned (you folks talk too much for me to keep up ;-), but Noam Chomsky was a coauthor with David Halle of a great piece in June on Lesser Evil Voting that needs to be shared.
Read the whole thing.
It’s not an exhaustive list (it’s too short to be) but it makes a strong case. It’s good ammo to use in your battles with your Bernie or Bust friends.
Cheers,
Scott.
raven
Less than a mile from the heart of downtown Atlanta, a hidden treasure, a secret sanctuary, welcomes you. This garden cemetery, founded in 1850, is the final resting place of many of Atlanta’s settlers, builders, and most noted citizens like Bobby Jones, Margaret Mitchell, and Maynard Jackson. It is also a showplace of sculpture and architecture, and a botanical preserve with ancient oaks and magnolias. Here in this peaceful place the full scope of the city’s rich and fascinating history unfolds before you.
Baud
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Glad to see Noam is on board.
Matt McIrvin
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I just learned that Glenn testified in 1962 against hiring women as astronauts. Boo. He came around, though.
liberal
@JGabriel: he died on Iraq, so no, he didn’t actually die for his country. He died for an illegal war of aggression.
raven
@liberal: You are a fucking scumbag.
debbie
@Shalimar:
Which is why I don’t understand why it’s still on the air. Where’s the FCC?
MomSense
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:
Wow! Such a sweet photo.
Gin & Tonic
@liberal:
msdc
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: I gotta be honest with you, after the Sanders crack I was expecting that to be a picture of Sam the Eagle.
OzarkHillbilly
@Shalimar: Sounds to me like there is an unwritten agreement to not use National cemeteries for political purposes seeing as there are men and women of ALL political stripes buried there. And for good reason. Propping up a campaign on the backs of the fallen is just unseemly. But a law against photography? Every family in America with a brother/sister/father/mother/etc buried in one would be paying fines/doing jail time. I just don’t see it. (Ken Burns would be doing life w/o parole for “The Civil War”)
Shalimar
@liberal: Most of us manage to be anti-war without shitting on soldiers. Fuck off.
Aimai
@Schlemazel Khan: so so worth it!
Hoodie
@OzarkHillbilly: This is the face of privilege in America today. It’s fascinating about how many Repubs/Cons view everything through the prism of an entitlement to having their emotional needs met, i.e., Bradley Cooper has to satisfy some imaginary character in their narrative. I was watching Hillary’s speech on MSNBC last night, and couldn’t help but laugh when Nicole Wallace expressed her disappointment that the speech made a strong bow to progressivism and didn’t cater to her type of country club Republicanism, seeing how they have been displaced by Trump in the GOP and need a home. This was, after all, the Democratic convention, right?
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: When we buried my buddy in Arlington I took some pictures and, believe me, if it had been illegal the Arlington folks would have let me know.
Baud
@Hoodie: Nobody puts the GOP in a corner.
Shalimar
@OzarkHillbilly: It is a violation of VA policy, but I don’t see any actual means they have of enforcing policy other than unwritten cultural agreement that it is beyond the pale. Since when has the NRA ever cared about violating cultural traditions?
OzarkHillbilly
@Shalimar: So it’s actually a written policy. Good.
Mustang Bobby
@Shalimar:
Or exploiting veterans for their own devices.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly:
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: The next thing is that I’ll get told it wasn’t legal to mix my dad’s ashes with his beloved black lab and bury the in the National Cemetery in Phoenix.
Baud
@Mustang Bobby: Remember when the GOP wore purple bandaids at their convention to mock an injured soldier and no one cared.
Ask me again how Trump became their nominee.
Anya
@Mustang Bobby: I checked online yesterday to see what they were saying about Obama, Kaine and Biden’s speeches. I felt they were avoiding to say anything negative for fear of being booed by the Dems standing behind them. So they said mildly positive things. But today, I am assuming their hatred of Hillary will be stronger. I watched two or three segments and I realized how much I dislike that whole crew.
Baud
@Anya: Hillary is the more immediate threat. That’s the only difference.
raven
Do you remember when they locked the gates of Arlington and kept Gold Star Mothers out? They did open them the next day when we went back for a memorial service.
Shalimar
@Anya: When Willie Geist isn’t even among the 3 biggest assholes on the set, your cast might have issues with likability. I still remember when Willie was a neophyte learning how to be a smarmy fratboy from Tucker Carlson.
Anne Laurie
@OzarkHillbilly: As a tweeter I can’t find at the moment said: Ryan Cooper is also not a genetically-enhanced racoon!
Matt McIrvin
@Hoodie:
Certain progressives too.
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
Hillary did a great job. The TV talkers are all morons. BTW, how did the citizens arrest pan out.
JPL
@raven: There is an annual Halloween tour at the cemetery, that is suppose to be spectacular according to my sons.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: While looking at a map I noticed just a few miles away from me, down an all but empty gravel road just like so many other Washington County gravel roads, I noted the designation for a cemetery near an intersection. I always visit cemeteries where ever I find them and resolved to visit this one too. So I’m driving down the road, get to the intersection and… no cemetery. I turn around and drive back. Still no cemetery.
Hmmmm…. Many times in my wanderings I have stumbled across a cemetery that isn’t on the map, but never have I seen one on a map that wasn’t there on the land. So I drove by the location again only this time I noticed what had appeared from the road to be nothing but a pile of trash had a grey granite marker on it. I got out and walked up to a pile of old brittle plastic flowers and faded flags and read the inscription:
“Here lies an unknown Civil War soldier”
Not even noting Union or Confederate.
Baud
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: Bros had to be chanted down a few times, but were otherwise a nonissue.
Betty Cracker
@Anne Laurie: LMAO!
Mali muso
What a night! This pregnant lady is normally in bed by 8, but I couldn’t miss sharing this historic event with my unborn baby girl. Sitting in bed watching from my iPad, she was kicking and dancing up a storm! The audio was near my belly, so I’m gonna say she likes the sound of her future President’s voice.
So proud to be a Democrat!
gogol's wife
@JGabriel:
He was so great. I am still thinking about him and probably always will. So inspiring.
D58826
@Baud:
Well a few remained true to their infantile behavior
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Have you seen Ang Lee’s “Shout at the Devil” about the Civil War in Missouri? Those were some confused dudes.
Anya
@Baud: Exactly. I expect a lot of praise for Obama to tell us how much Hillary sucks in comparison. The same way all the Rs were praising Bill Clinton. They are so transparent.
@Shalimar: I remember a segment he did in 08 where he went to West Village and interviewed people on the street to show how intolerant liberals were of conservatives. Basically, bunch of liberals on the street saying Sarah Palin sucks was similar to righwing nut jobs being hateful and racist towards Obama and Michelle.
gogol's wife
@Baud:
I wish TV programming were that good every night! I was glued to CSPAN.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Baud: Yeah, who ever ran it should get lots of kudos for a job well done. She probably has a great future.
Cheers,
Scott.
(What do you mean “we too often eat our own”??)
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Ha!
gogol's wife
@Baud:
I’m sorry, but a bunch of cute Irish guys are ahead of you in line: Kaine, Murphy, Ryan — and Brown, although I don’t know if he’s Irish.
And I wish I could vote for Rev. Barber!
gogol's wife
And how about Xavier Becerra? Loved him!
gogol's wife
@Applejinx:
“It’s like an active, shooting war against being a neo-whateveritis asshole hypocritical soulless monster. With a WWII plucky loveable interracial interfaith cast on the side of the good guys, and casting call’s open, all hands on deck. It’s goddamn IRRESISTIBLE.”
Ha ha, so true.
p.a.
@OzarkHillbilly: I believe doing rubbings (a thing for a while I guess) of stones is discouraged, if not illegal. Never heard photos a no-no.
raven
@p.a.: Except at the Wall.
“REQUEST A NAME RUBBING
If you are interested in receiving a rubbing of a name on The Wall, please fill out our form below. One of the VVMF’s incredible volunteers will go to The Wall, do the rubbing, and send it to you at the address you list. This service is provided free of charge thanks to the many supporters of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
Please allow 30 days for the rubbing to be received.”
p.a.
@raven: remember conervatives’ critique of the VVWM as an unAmerican disgrace and insult to the troops? To paraphrase TV Hawkeye, it’s their wrongness that’s so right about them.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I know it as “Ride with the Devil” and own the DVD. The author, Daniel Woodrell, is a favorite of mine. He is an Ozarker as well but he lives in the SW corner of Misery, I believe Stone or Taney Co. He also wrote “Winter’s Bone”.
Yeah, those guys were some kind of fucked up.
ed_finnerty
@raven: Ride with the Devil ?
raven
@ed_finnerty: Duh, Shout at the Devil was Lee Marvin
JPL
@Mali muso: That will be a story you share with her, over and over.
Jeffro
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:
He is impressive as heck. Mrs. Jeffro & I heard him speak out in CO earlier this summer, and his command of global politics, economics, and security was just tremendous.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I loved the scene where they captured the Union mail and had Tobey Maguire read some of the letters. When the mother/author wrote about not being able to understand slavery they just looked at each other. . .
OzarkHillbilly
Heh, Florida police strike again:
Something tells me the poor guy is white. Just a feeling I have.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: I’ve never read “Winter’s Bone,” but the movie was awesome. I remember thinking “this Jennifer Lawrence person has talent!”
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: They gots good dirt up there.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: He actually is a white dude! Saw him on TV!
raven
@Betty Cracker: Did you read about the dude in Georgia who won three million in the lottery and invested it in meth!!!
“A Georgia man, who won $3 million playing the scratch-off lottery, funded a crystal meth ring with a portion of his winnings, according to authorities.
Ronnie Music, Jr., 45, of Waycross, Ga., used money from his 2015 lottery prize to purchase methamphetamine with the intent resell it, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia said in a statement Tuesday.
“Music decided to test his luck by sinking millions of dollars of lottery winnings into the purchase and sale of crystal meth,” United States Attorney Ed Tarver said in a statement. “As a result of his unsound investment strategy, Music now faces decades in a federal prison.”
Baud
@raven:
LOL
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: The book is well worth the read. He captures the hills and hollers and the inhabitants perfectly. We can be some toothless recalcitrant sonsabitches. Same here about Jennifer Lawrence. I’ve liked most everything she’s done (haven’t seen them all) and thought she was absolutely genius in “Silver Linings Playbook” (and Cooper was right there with her). Got to see “Joy” next.
D58826
@JGabriel: And true to form Ann Coulter tweeted her usual bile about this gold star father. I tear up every time I think of his speech, and I normally have well plugged tear ducts.
gene108
@Baud:
It helps, when the best and brightest in entertainment business are on your side.
Getting Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz, and Katy Perry to fill time between speakers was just par for the course at this convention.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker:
It was this line that gave it away. I can’t imagine a black man who thinks this is terribly note worthy. Of course, having been on the wrong side of such encounters a time or 2, I could say the same.
Dork
@OzarkHillbilly: Wait…theyre surprised a Hollywood actor is liberal? Man, theyre WAY dumber than I gave them credit for.
danielx
For all that has been written and said about Hillary Clinton, the most outstanding thing about her is that she’s still standing (yes, I know about the Elton John song). She’s taken everything that has been thrown at her and she keeps coming on, doing her job through thick and then, doing it well. and maintaining a graceful persona throughout.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: He is white, it was on our local news here in LA last night.
MattF
@D58826: She’s really gone odious. There was a period a few years ago when, for reasons never explained, her jaws were wired shut. I’m guessing it was a punch in the mouth.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@liberal: DIAF, asswipe.
Baud
@danielx: Agreed.
SFAW
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Their strength is as the strength of ten because their heart is pure.
And their braims is empty?
OzarkHillbilly
@MattF: I thought it was to shut her up. (yes I know, could be taken as a misogynistic comment, but if she were a man it would be just as deserving)
SFAW
@liberal:
AUMF?
You never get tired of being an asshole, do you? Maybe you should offer your services to Deadbeat Donnie, he probably needs someone to stand in for him, when he’s all assholed-out for the day.
Have to start referring to you as Kagemusha, the Shadow Asshole.
Anne Laurie
@MattF:
She’s desperate. Breitbart’s Milo Y-whatever has taken over her Bold Contrarian slot on the college Young Repubs circuit, because he’s younger & edgier & has 40-odd interns to keep his social media profile up-to-the-second. If Coulter can’t gin up a bunch of Oberlin students or Oakland anarchists to throw a media-catching hissyfit at her, she’ll be reduced to doing dinner theatre at Mar-a-Largo.
Anne Laurie
@SFAW:
The Japanese word for stupid is aho, pronounced Ah-hoe.
“It’s not what you think, I’m just saying you’re not very bright.”
Luthe
@raven: If he has to face the music for that, is he looking in a mirror?
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
This is an actual headline I saw this morning. I will not provide a link to the site but click bait etc.
D58826
@liberal: He died for his country.. period full stop. The politics of the war were above his pay grade. He answered the call of his ‘adopted’ country by joining the Volunteer army and in Lincoln’s words gave the last full measure of devotion to it. He didn’t have to join the army. He could have just gone about his business as a civilian. Or if there had been a draft he could have hidden in Indiana (dan Quale) , Texas (W), Georgia (Newt), Wyoming (Darth Vader Chaney) and a long and disgusting list of people willing to invest other peoples children in war.
It is hard to forget his father’s dignity when in a quiet voice ripped ‘old little hands’ several new ones.
So I will do something here that I normally resist on the blog because I think adult engagement is better than childish invective but in this case GO TO H*****LL
geg6
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch:
Okay, I’m as verklempt at that this morning as I was when it hit me that Hilz killed it (no, she’s no Obama but she killed it in her own way) and that the DNC has now re-claimed the mantle of the meaning of America. The party of optimism and can-do. This convention was a home run in every way, including making her enemies on both the right and left looking like the assholes they are. Somewhere, Will Rogers is wondering if he was wrong all along…Nah, he wasn’t, but the whole production was amazeballs.
Micheline
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: Of course, it would be Huffington Post.
burnspbesq
@gogol’s wife:
Next best thing: support Roy Cooper, the Dem candidate for governor of NC.
Soylent Green
If we don’t retake the Congress, none of these progressive initiatives will have legs. If we don’t reverse the age-old trend of Dems not voting in midterms, everything will revert in 2018 to full-court GOP obstructionism. It’s great that we are in the pole position to keep the White House, but so much more is needed to end the stalemate. We need to fracture that insane political party into little pieces. Maybe in time they will come back together like the terminator in T2, but not until we can get some real progress made. The enemy is not just Trump, it’s the ability of the other party to keep gumming up the works for years to come. GOTFV!
ruemara
Every time I read our resident Bernie proselytize, I react with the same fascination I reserve for my roomie, who believes everything cooks best at high.
I rather detest Fight Song but I do think Hilz and the DNC killed it. I care more and reacted more to the people who spoke who didn’t hold office. That’s what this is all about. Can’t wait to volunteer for the local Dems table.
D58826
@Soylent Green: Your right. Trump is just the modern GOP ID unbound and with a twitter account.
WaterGirl
@amk: Love #TrumperTantrum – hope that sticks.
WaterGirl
@Baud: They go low, we go high?
J R in WV
@liberal:
The illegal war of aggression can only be blamed on the Commander-in-Chief George Walker Bush. The individual soldiers sent to Iraq went there on behalf of their oath of service to the constitution of the United States of America. I still remember taking the oath in March, 1969.
So Captain Khan died in service to the constitution of the US, and also too, screw you, you despicable and ignorant ratfuquer.
Miss Bianca
@JGabriel: Oh, what is wrong with me this morning…you made me laugh, but looking at that photo made me cry – and I haven’t even listened to his speech yet. I know I’ll be in a puddle of tears.
Miss Bianca
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: I’m starting to love the NYDN.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I confess to having a crush on Goolsby. I have liked him every time I’ve seen him on TV, but those spots were perfect. I’m not saying Idris Elba has to move over, but Goolsby is so likable and his timing is perfect.
Miss Bianca
@Betty Cracker: They got Kareem? And delivering that sick burn? Holy cow, I think I’m going to have to go back and watch the whole damn convention!!
Mike E
@Applejinx: Al Shepard overcame Ménière’s disease and landed on the Moon, thus restoring faith in NASA after the near program-ending disaster of Apollo 13…yer analogy needs some work
Bill
Last night Secretary Clinton gave us a clear vision of what her Democratic party looks like. Above all inclusive. Plenty of room for people of all colors, faiths, genders, and sexual orientation. Even room for conservatives. Strongly progressive on domestic issues. Serious and strong on national defense.
She reminded us that while America isn’t perfect, it is already great. But that we all can – and should – work to make it greater.
I was truly inspired. (Something I didn’t expect.)
BR
@WaterGirl:
I missed the Goolsbee vids — anyone have a link?
Uncle Cosmo
@liberal: He died for your right to have gastrointestinal inversion surgery, so you could talk through your ass & blast shit out of your mouth. Enjoy, fuckhead.
Dadadadadadada
@JGabriel: Comment of the year. Mr. Khan was REALLY something, wasn’t he?
WhatevsTrevs
@debbie:
You do need to mention you haven’t listened to Top 40 radio at all in over 30 years to burnish your hipster credentials though. That includes never admitting that you’ve heard one of *those* songs before.
Seanly
@debbie:
Not illegal for private photography. It’s very bad form to use the dead for a political ad.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/busted-veterans-affairs-office-calls-out-nra-for-anti-clinton-ad-using-national-cemetery/
RE: Hillary’s speech – I thought it was good, but not the barn-burners like some of the other ones. She hit many of the right notes – outreach to the more-rational Bernie fans, outreach to Democrats & like minded people, and antagonizing her psychopathic opponent.
Mike E
@Uncle Cosmo: lol
Miss Bianca
Thanks for the shoutout, AL, btw! Am flattered!
I have been thinking about what Cole said the other day about Obama – that Obama made him want to be a better man, a better person. Listening to Hillary Clinton last night gave me something of that same feeling.
I am thinking about all the times I backed down, didn’t rise to a challenge, was thin-skinned or small-minded or faint-hearted enough to let insults get to me, misunderstandings and set-backs drag me down. In short, when I let circumstances make me afraid or reactive.
I look at Hillary Clinton and I see a woman who has NEVER backed down or buckled under the weight of history, events, circumstances that would break most of us.
Receiving the applause and cheers of a great crowd of people, and the NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
I am not going to be ashamed of what I haven’t managed to accomplish. But I am going to be looking at HRC for every day of my life for these next few years and saying, “damn. Look at what SHE’S doing. What’s *your* excuse?”
That is all. Thank you.
Feebog
The current gap in women voters is around 24%. I wonder how much higher this convention and HRC’s speech may have pushed it. Speaking as an old guy, I just don’t think a lot of men appreciate what this means to middle aged and above women. Every woman who has been passed over for a promotion, even though she was better qualified. Every woman who has worked for less pay then their male counterparts. Every woman who has to put up with casual sexism from lunkheads. Every mother who has hopes and dreams for their daughters. Every woman who has waited on tables and been stiffed on the tip because women don’t need as much as men. And on into infinity.
Gemina13
A friend whose older son is in the Navy admitted that Khizr Khan’s speech brought him to tears. Every parent of a soldier knows the risk, and none want to trade that Blue Star for Gold.
So we were all gleeful for him when Mr. Khan held up his pocket Constitution and not only pwned the Apricot Fluff Disaster for not reading it, but informed him, “You have sacrificed nothing.”
The rat bastid hasn’t dared retort yet. Nor has that slimy son of his.
Miss Bianca
@Gemina13: OK, I’m loving “Apricot Fluff Disaster”. I obviously have to up my invective game.