One of the compensations of the Covid Time is that some things become available to us that otherwise would have been impossible to get to. I’m participating in a seminar at the other end of the country and a happy hour with interesting people from all over, for example.
And this week, the Democratic Convention.
Yes, some of it would be carried on television, but you’ll be able to dip in any time you want. Here’s the schedule. I’ve bolded people that Juicers will particularly want to hear from and my faves. All times in EDT.
The events will stream online at the DNC’s website, and on social media sites such as YouTube and Facebook. You can also tune on the major broadcast networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, which plan to carry an hour of the convention live each night, from 10 to 11 p.m. on the East Coast.
Monday, August 17 – “We the People”
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Daytime Events: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
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Pre-Show: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Convention Program: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
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Speakers: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Rep. Jim Clyburn, Convention Chairman Bennie Thompson, Rep. Gwen Moore, Sen. Doug Jones
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Keynote Speakers: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Former First Lady Michelle Obama
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Tuesday, August 18 – “Leadership Matters”
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Daytime Events: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
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Pre-Show: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Convention Program: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
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Special Events: Keynote Address, Roll Call Across America
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Speakers: Former Acting U.S. AG Sally Yates, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Former Secretary of State John Kerry, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, Former President Bill Clinton
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jill Biden
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Wednesday, August 19 – “A More Perfect Union”
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Daytime Events: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
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Pre-Show: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Convention Program: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
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Speakers: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Gov. Tony Evers, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford
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Keynote Speakers: Sen. Kamala Harris, Former President Barack Obama
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Thursday, August 20 – “America’s Promise”
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Daytime Events: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
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Pre-Show: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Convention Program: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
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Speakers: Sen. Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Sen. Chris Coons, Andrew Yang
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Keynote Speaker: Vice President Joe Biden
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In addition to the fabulous speakers, performances by John Legend, Billie Eilish, Billy Porter, Jennifer Hudson, Leon Bridges, Maggie Rogers, and Common are expected on all four nights.
Open thread!
germy
No Bloomberg?
Cheryl Rofer
@germy: As far as I know, this is official.
germy
@Cheryl Rofer:
I like the names participating. There will be some great speeches, no doubt.
O. Felix Culpa
I’m a delegate – woot! First time. We’ve already cast our votes for the nominee and platform. A few Bernie supporters are voting no on the platform because it doesn’t include the magic words “Medicare for All,” but I think they’re pissing in the wind.
I am pleasantly surprised about how buoyed I feel about the Biden/Harris ticket. I like our chances, despite Republican chicanery. They’ve overplayed their hand. People don’t like having their voting rights suppressed and I think we’ll see massive turnout as a result. Oh, and we’re working our asses off to make sure that happens.
Ken
Quite a contrast from this leaked Republican Convention schedule:
Monday – “The Greatest President Ever” – introduction, Jared Kushner; speaker, President Donald Trump (6:00 PM – 9:30 PM)
Tuesday – “The Sexiest President Ever” – introduction, Ivanka Trump; speaker, President Donald Trump (6:00 PM – 9:30 PM)
Wednesday – “The Impressivest President Ever” – introduction, Donald Trump Junior; speaker, President Donald Trump (6:00 PM – 9:30 PM)
Thursday – “The First Anointed President Ever” – introduction, Mike Pence; officiant, Jerry Falwell Jr.; speaker, God-King Donald Trump (6:00 PM – 9:30 PM)
germy
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/14/republican-national-convention-primetime-trump-and-federal-properties.html
Ken
@germy: Yeah, I’d seen that report and was riffing on it. I was also allowing for a few more prominent Republicans to remember that they had to wash their hair that week – I expect Joni Ernst is weighing whether appearing with Trump will be a net gain or loss.
Amir Khalid
@germy:
In Trumpworld the spotlight belongs to Trump, and to Trump alone.
Another Scott
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/512200-pelosi-weighing-bringing-house-back-from-august-recess-early-over-usps-issues
Good, good.
I mean it’s ridiculous that administrators have to be told – in no uncertain terms – that wrecking their agency and destroying its purpose is not why they’re there, but it’s good that they’re putting a bill together and are going to vote on it.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ohio Mom
I thought my former governor John Kasich was scheduled to speak? I’d like to be sure to miss him.
Betty Cracker
Where’s Kasich?
NotMax
Looked throughout the DNC site and still have no idea when the actual delegate voting will take place.
BTW, the schedule given up top can also be watched online via C-SPAN here as well as on their broadcast channel.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
Crouching behind Waldo?
;)
O. Felix Culpa
@NotMax: Delegate voting is done. Deadline for ballot submission was yesterday.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Maybe earlier?
Immanentize
@germy:
That guy makes me want to vomit. Or weep.
Immanentize
@Ken: She might choose to geld him on stage?
NotMax
As FSM only knows whether or not there’ll be a thread where it will fit in later on, gonna take this opportunity to go OT and wish all a happy National Tell A Joke Day.
Another Scott
@Betty Cracker:
Sounds about right to me.
(Dunno if that’s why he’s not listed.)
(via LOLGOP)
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
Why are some of the names in bold?
ETA: It’s been answered and I didn’t read carefully enough.
Alison Rose
This is gonna be great. We really have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to amazing speakers. Whereas the GOP just has embarrassment.
Ken
@O. Felix Culpa: You mean we’re going to miss that great tradition where the state delegations announce their votes, and Alabama launches into what is obviously going to be a thirty-minute speech, and everyone else boos? Then we repeat that 50+ more times?
Hallelujah!
Immanentize
@Omnes Omnibus: You didn’t read the post, I assume.
Alison Rose
@Omnes Omnibus:
Someone didn’t RTFA :P
JPL
@Immanentize: So after trump dissed blacks in suburbs, he feels it’s still okay to support him. He obviously lost his soul.
Omnes Omnibus
@Immanentize: I missed that. Thanks.
West of the Cascades
Bernie notably in plain text.
Immanentize
@JPL: Needless to say, so has Tim Scott.
Immanentize
I read that AOC only has one minute? That can’t be correct unless she is only maybe introducing Clinton? I want to hear many minutes from her.
Ken
BTW I had a moment of sheer horror while skimming the list, and reading “Dr. Jill Biden” as “Dr. Jill Stein.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Immanentize: It wouldn’t make any sense for her to introduce Clinton.
NotMax
Hoping whatever servers the DNC is using for this have about 300 extra firewalls installed to quash outside interference.
geg6
@Omnes Omnibus:
I thought I’d read she was introducing Wilmer.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Tell a joke what, and why are you looking at me when you say that???
geg6
@NotMax:
The server is in Hillary’s basement.
Geeno
Because the Democrats planned on a virtual convention, the convention has great speakers, great entertainment, and will undoubtedly come off with minimal glitches. Because the Republicans couldn’t part with the whole live convention thing, they’re throwing theirs together at the last minute, and it will show.
And there they are – one right after the other for contrast.
lowtechcyclist
@Another Scott:
Do it, Nancy! This shouldn’t be a tough call.
I can’t describe how pissed off I was on Friday to find out that the House Dems had swung into action and scheduled a hearing on USPS – to take place on September 17, over a month away.
I don’t want to be pissed at my own party. So please, Nancy, bring everyone back. This week, if possible. Next week, if not. Hearings as soon as the House Oversight Committee can get a quorum. In prime time, as David Plouffe recommends.
Make sure everyone knows which party’s trying to save the Postal Service, and which party’s working hard to kill it.
Ken
@NotMax: Oh dear. Uncle Cosmo was doing “Tom Swifties” in the late-night thread, do you think it could spread to this one?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@geg6:
Introducing him as a candidate for the nomination, some kind of parliamentary (or whatever) formality
I’m of two minds of on AOC being given more time, on the one hand, she’s obviously a gifted and dynamic speaker, on the other, she’s as likely as not to go off message and send the press into a Dems in disarray frenz
ETA: @Another Scott: I’d like to see a poll of Dem Senate candidates in purple states on whether or not they want her to speak
TS (the original)
@Betty Cracker:
He’s listed in “featuring” for Monday – but is the only one not then appearing in the detailed list.
OzarkHillbilly
They are going there anyway.
lowtechcyclist
@JPL:
Are there still any Republicans who haven’t?
NotMax
@Ken
“Might show up anywhere,” he rambled.
Frankensteinbeck
@lowtechcyclist:
Really? Those hearings can’t accomplish much, and what can be done in terms of publicizing, taking to court, and state level action, is all being done.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid: Donald must always be in the spotlight, at all times, and no one else can share it.
On the Dem convention: will Fleetwood Mac be doing the balloon drop like they did in ’92?
Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: He’s “Uncle Tim” now.
Kay
@Another Scott:
Oh, I’m glad. Trump handed them an absolute political gift. The postal service is popular. Tens of millions of people rely on it, but they also LIKE it.
While it’s important to process and to Democrats that Trump screwed up the mail to attempt to cling to power, the only thing that needs to get thru to the public is “Trump screwed up the mail”.
He handed this to us. Accept the gift! :)
sdhays
@germy: No Lindsey? All that time shoved up Dump’s butt and no love in the middle of the closest general election he has probably had since…ever?
geg6
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I don’t know that she’d go off the rails, actually. She has seemed quite the team player to me. She’s not my cup of tea politically, but she hasn’t said or done anything horribly divisive or bad mouthed anyone in the leadership that I’m aware of. Yeah, she loves Wilmer, but she’s there, she’s backing Biden/Harris by participating in the event and she has forged a relationship with Pelosi. She’s not stupid and doesn’t seem willing to throw that away for throwing verbal Molotov cocktails.
Kay
Also, just to put the bow on the package, Louis DeJoy is Devos-level horrible and corrupt. I mean seriously, I don’t know what more they need. This is an in-kind contribution the Democratic Party. They may have to list it on campaign finance forms.
Doug R
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been a star for sure.
BUT: She won a district that is solidly Democratic and she parachuted into Kansas to back a Bernie bro running against Sharice Davids. Fortunately Sharice beat AOC’s candidate and BEAT the Republican in the general, flipping the vote by about 17 points.
HOWEVER: AOC has been good about backing Pelosi in her plays and she passive/aggressively complained about her minute, quoting a poem about it. So a minute for a first term Congressperson? Sounds about right.
gkoutnik
When I was a delegate to the DNC in 2012, on the night of the vote (half-hour speeches by each state) we got to the arena and there were “Reserved” signs on most of the seats we’d been sitting in all week. While the one-night political luminaries from our state hogged the good seats, near the podium, most of us ordinary delegates – whose votes the luminaries would report and speechify about – had to sit two states away.
As I remember, our state’s report was given by the Speaker of the Assembly, who was later indicted for corruption and, I think, is currently in jail.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy: I followed some twitter links to a reporter for the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
It might not be good politics for Joni Ernst to be giving a speech that, I’m sure, is vetted to make sure nothing distracts from puffing up the Presidential ego, like talking about what bad shape much of Iowa is in. Judging from my own politics-dominated media bubble– MSNBC, NPR, twitter– this story isn’t getting enough attention.
Lapassionara
I just saw that the House will reconvene soon for hearing on USPS, week after next
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Ken: The more Trump appears to the public, the worse he looks. So bring it on, Rs.
Kay
@gkoutnik:
That’s interesting. I wonder if it’s up to the state party. I was there in ’08 and that didn’t happen. I didn’t stay in my seat that much though. Just as an aside the Louisiana delegation was complete chaos but also the happiest people in the room, by far. I had delegation envy.
Doug R
@NotMax:
Non-GMO gluten-free risotto recipes are lined up ready to jump in.
SiubhanDuinne
This is nothing but class:
He’s by far a better person than I’ll ever be.
gwangung
@Doug R:
I wish people would give this up.
This was a primary, WITHOUT an incumbent. Ergo, it’s a free for all and it should be fair game to support who you want, with no penalty for doing so. It’s precisely the situation where she endorse without doing any damage.
Ladyraxterinok
@Cheryl Rofer:
Could you guys post a prominent link to this post at the side, please! For those like me who have a bit erratic relationship with our tablets. And internet in general.
Getting old is the pits
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Not only did he say the words, he probably meant them.
Kay
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m glad though. I would be horrified if the future president behaved any differently. I know Trump or the low quality hires would never reciprocate, but it doesn’t matter. I want him to behave decently.
For all the bullshit you hear about his “gaffes (!)” Biden understands the ceremonial role of President very well.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
For real. My reaction on the news was that the fat ass White House squatter was probably scheming all week to get his brother’s portion of the Trump inheritance. That would be totally in character for him.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The vermin of the Village will go off into a “Dems in disarray” rant anyways. It’s part of the permanent narrative that they will never deviate from.
Wipe them out. All of them.
On edit: OzarkHillbilly already made the point.
NotMax
@Villago Delenda Est
Hey, it’s 2020.
“Alexa, drop ALL the balloons.”
:)
Chyron HR
@O. Felix Culpa:
Wow, they Stole The Nomination from Bernie is the dead of night. Shameful, and just one of the many reason I’m voting for Ye.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m sure he did.
Omnes Omnibus
@gwangung: I agree with you, but then I think I have less of a problem with AOC than a number of people here do. I think she can be a star in the party. That being said, she is now a freshman from a blue district in a blue state. She’s getting a short but high profile speaking slot, and that seems just right to me.
Groucho48
Looks like the Yang Gang’s whinging about his being disrespected and given no slot at the convention worked.
Villago Delenda Est
@Ladyraxterinok: “What a drag it is getting old” is the line. Unless you’ve forgotten it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kay:
It’s one of the things I like most about him — his fundamental decency.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus: Contrast if you will with Donald’s own statement, which, as usual, reeks of insincerity.
Kay
50 to 41%, which is essentially unchanged. Good. I think violence and looting around demonstrations is bad, politically, so I was afraid Trump could capitalize on that, to some extent. I think the violence and looting is driven by malicious actors too (of various kinds) and not driven by BLM, so it would be a shame if it got traction.
NotMax
@geg6
(shoves blank sheet of paper and a Sharpie into brother’s hand) “Just sign here. I know you’re not up to it so I’ll fill in the details later.”
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Ken
“Yes, Max. I’m dropping all the baboons now.”
gwangung
@Omnes Omnibus:
I quite like her, as well. And I agree, for a freshman Rep, a one minute gig at the convention is appropriate.
At the next convention, with two more terms under her belt, she can expect more.
@Groucho48:
From a representation standpoint, and from a policy standpoint, Yang has a good argument to be given a speaking spot.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Doug R:
I’m ambivalent about her, but I didn’t that as passive-aggressive. It was a nod to Elijah Cummings, who read that poem on the House floor in his first remarks as a member. I saw it as saying she would try to do what she could with the time she had, then and in the larger sense. When she’s good, she’s very good.
Kay
@SiubhanDuinne:
He is decent that’s true but I would like to go back to a time where it was the norm for the President to say something normal in response to an event. I’m not asking for a high standard. This is the ordinary standard anyone would use in public. Trump and the Trump Administration are way below that and I feel like it’s important to remember that, or the standard itself is gone. They have to be a one time (downward) departure from what is the norm.
Doug R
@gwangung:
Sharice Davids is Ho Chunk nation, a lawyer a MMA fighter and LBGTA+.
Backing the white dude who parachuted in and “struggled” to vote for Hillary was not a good look.
SiubhanDuinne
@Villago Delenda Est:
Recall the oft-reported story (most recently in Mary Trump’s book, but I had read variants of it for years) that at his own father’s funeral, Donald made his eulogy all about himself, stressing that Fred Trump was so proud and supportive of his, Donald’s, great success. If he speaks at Robert’s funeral, I expect we will hear nothing less.
NotMax
@Ken
Now that’s entertainment!
:)
Omnes Omnibus
@gwangung: A lot of people have a good argument for being given a speaking speaking slot and in a live convention would have been given one.
Hungry Joe
@Ken: “Mr. Chairman! Mr. Chairman! The great state of Alabama — the heart of Dixie, pride of the South, home of the Crimson Tide — casts its votes unanimously for the next President of the United States, GOVERNOR GEORGE CORLEY WALLACE
NotMax
@Hungry Joe
“Can y’all hear me though this hood?”
//
Ken
@Omnes Omnibus: I wonder how many of these speeches will be live? I can see good arguments for pre-recording the speeches, including the ability to upload them to a server as a backup in case of networking problems.
The downside would be pearl-clutching and couch-fainting by select members of the media.
Ladyraxterinok
@Kay:
Someone who knows well how Postal Service is organized and how it works planned this whole thing.
Who was it?? Certainly not Trump
Ladyraxterinok
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
My son and my ex live in central IA. Son’s neighborhood was one of worst hit in town. They were without power fron Monday until sometime yesterday.
University starts Monday. Not sure what’s online and what’s in class
He seems to be able to work from home
IA and OK are in contest to see which GOP governor, legislature can do worse job during virus!!
The Moar You Know
Don’t understand why Bernie’s speaking. I won’t be watching any of it.
Mr. Kite
Come on. You really think there is 50/50 chance of AOC “to go off message” in a speech TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
You hold her in astonishingly low regard despite calling her “gifted”. You think she doesn’t know this could be her Obama at the DNC moment? You think she’s a child?
Seriously, this is vile accusation. Or just unthinking stupid. I can’t tell anymore.
Yutsano
@Mr. Kite: Your opinion has been duly noted.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I honestly can’t tell if this is sincere incoherence, or a parody of the kind of cult-y histrionics “AOC” inspires among the emo left and Rose Twitter, but that cult following, even though it’s not her fault, is one of the reasons I’m so ambivalent about her.
Omnes Omnibus
@The Moar You Know: Boycotting because Bernie is speaking? Uninterested? Packing to move to some future country?
Groucho48
@gwangung:
I’m indifferent as to whether he gets a slot. But, saying a guy who got, what, 2% of the vote and no delegates and who has never been very active in Dem politics was snubbed by not being given a prime time speaking slot is a reach.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Groucho48: Andrew Yang is like reality TV, or Will Ferrell movies, something with a popularity I will never understand. Isn’t he a glibertarian tech bro with one hobby-horse that appeals to the aforementioned emo left?
Emma from FL
Am I the only one in the political universe that doesn’t give a good goddamn about AOC? She’s made some bad moves, she’s made excellent ones. She will either grow her political influence or she won’t. She wants to throw a fit, let her. She’ll be toast and that’s that. I think she’s smart enough to know that third parties are not the way to real political power and that’s what she would end up with. So let her have her minute and see what she makes of it.
And guys? the MSM will always be ready to skewer democrats. No missteps required, so can we just stop worrying?
CaseyL
I’m not usually a big fan of conventions, usually just watch the formal nominating night. But this year is different, so I may watch a lot more of it.
satby
It was a completely shitty look for a self identified progressive, but completely consistent with Bernie’s white guys first approach. It appears AOC has wised up a little since.
Alison Rose
LOLOLOL speaking of AOC, Ralph Nader has a sad that MEAN LADY WON’T LISTEN TO MY VERY IMPORTANT AND HELPFUL IDEAS!!!!!
Never mind the fact that she’s way more successful politically (and probably every other way) than that douchebag ever was.
Kay
@Ladyraxterinok:
I’m glad you asked because I have a theory!
It’s the guy on the postal governing board who is out of Kentucky. He’s McConnell’s guy. But DeJoy will do fine as a stand in for whoever is running this.
Villago Delenda Est
@Alison Rose: The guy with the blood of over 3,000 US soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis on his hands? That Ralph Nader?
Omnes Omnibus
Nader was a significant player in the ’60 and ’70s. I would say that in his prime he had a lot more influence than AOC has had so far in career. None of this denies that by 2000 he was a has-been trading on on his reputation.
satby
@Kay: DeJoy’s entire career (since 1983) has been in logistics, so he doesn’t need McConnell’s stooge to know how to break things. He’s got the specialized knowledge to do an excellent job of hollowing out the USPS.
Amir Khalid
@Villago Delenda Est:
Fleetwood Mac? You guys really need to move on from the Clintons.
moonbat
If Biden crushes DT on Election Day at least partially on the strength of the Obamas’ advocacy I want Barack to send a very nice card to DT with a very presidential inscription that boils down to: “Tell Cersei it was me.”
zhena gogolia
@The Moar You Know:
He was the candidate who did the best against Biden. I can’t stand him, but I don’t see why it’s inappropriate for him to speak.
Alison Rose
@Omnes Omnibus: I mean, whatever good he did about Pintos or whatever was pretty overshadowed by later fucking the country over to soothe his Trump-sized ego.
Ruckus
@Alison Rose:
Pretty sure that rethuglicans are not capable of embarrassment. It’s a rethuglican party rule that one can’t be embarrassed by anything political and be a member, no matter how crass, asinine, harmful to the out groups – or just harmful, insane or racist it is, stated or especially voted upon by the owners.
Ruckus
@JPL:
Difficult to lose something one never had in the first place. And having a soul is also prohibited by rethuglican rules, makes accepting those things I listed above go down a bit easier.
NotMax
Addendum to the list.
NotMax
FYI (NYT link).
Ruckus
@geg6:
I think that AOC is more than smart enough to see that being a lone anything in congress gets one nowhere. It’s supposed to be a deliberative body that works by consensus, not tin pot dictator rule. And she is far more than smart enough to know that. So many BS supporters seem to think it works by shouting the loudest, but it really doesn’t.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken:
@NotMax: “Open up the baboon bay doors, Alexa.”
Alexa: You sure about that, buddy? Are you really sure? Well, if you insist!
Madness ensues.
Ruckus
@Villago Delenda Est:
You left out, “but it sure beats the alternative.”
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
That link really, really deserved a pre-clicking graphic content warning.
Yutsano
@NotMax: So…they’re going to try to persuade the people who are watching the Democratic convention to install ad blockers? I understand they might be aiming for the undecideds watching but a blanket buy like that is unsubtle at best. But again these have been shown in the past to not be smart people so…sure.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Sorry.
WARNING: GRAPHIC madness ensues.
J R in WV
@West of the Cascades:
Bernie Who?
We let non-Democrats speak now?
;-)
Spanky
Just a reminder about newcomers speaking at the convention from 2004, via Peggy Noonan (11/4 article following the election):
NotMax
@Yutsano
Not to mention making the ads on Hulu unskippable serving to piss off some number of Hulu customers.
Ruckus
Folks, the democratic party accepts opinions from all directions and as a political party rejects those that are outside of it’s agreed upon goals. It isn’t perfect, it is after all made up of humans with differing view points. But it works because it accepts those differing views, unlike the opposition, which falls into line behind a totally moronic, racist, self-indulgent asshole, who couldn’t imagine his way out of a paper bag, let alone find an actual way out.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax:
Good argument to click and cost the Trump campaign some coin.
Msb
Are the evenings going to be recorded? I’m in the wrong time zone to see them live.
Emma from FL
@NotMax: Democrats should boycott youtube and tell them so. I will.
J R in WV
@Betty Cracker:
“Good argument to click and cost the Trump Campaign some coin…”
Some things are past the pale, Betty. I just can’t do that for you. Sorry.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: I’m not a huge you tube watcher, but in the last couple months trump is far and away the most common ad I see, which is odd cause I’m often looking up Sarah Cooper or that JD Cauvin (?) guy
Emma from FL
Having found out that there is no way to contact an actual Youtube customer service, I found there’s a Firefox add-on for blocking youtube ads. Is it worth it?
thruppence
I’ve ordered my Biden/Harris swag online. We’ll see how long it takes to get it through the Trump-throttled USPS.
Anya
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t see her going off script. She’s smart enough to not gift Trump anything they can use to undermine the nation’s only hope of saving the country from the ongoing destruction at the hands of the ignorant psychopath and his allies.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Trump spends a lot of money on digital ads. Did it in 2016 also.
Omnes Omnibus
@J R in WV: The people speaking are people the Biden campaign believes it needs to let speak either because of who they are, what they have done, or what they might do in the future. Are you a better arbiter of those things than they are?
Baud
Hillary will be all class in her speech but I’ll pretend it’s her anger translator talking.
mrmoshpotato
Fuck the what? I miss having adults running the government.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
do those lists reflect the actual schedule ? Kind of surprised Harris isn’t closing out her night
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Is Keegan-Michael Key available?
PJ
@Groucho48: This schedule is erasure of Tom Steyer! What does is say about the “big tent” of the Democratic Party when they ignore Steyermaniacs!
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
They’d make a fine Hillary.
Uncle Cosmo
@NotMax: The Trumpublican Convention will climax by dropping 99,000 Griftballoons, each with a commemorative 1-ruble note inside featuring Mango Mussolini’s mugly ug. (Total cost <$2,000 – these are cheap barstids.)
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
2016 was the same. Veep, then Obama.
Omnes Omnibus
@Groucho48: Isn’t he on the list for Thursday?
trollhattan
@Baud: @mrmoshpotato:
Wanda Sykes. Somebody needs to make this happen.
Uncle Cosmo
@Ken: If one should occur to me in the course of this thread, it most certainly will. At which time you will be cordially invited to whine your no-taste-in-humor arse off about it.
And if not, not. :^p
Yutsano
@Uncle Cosmo: Hast du etwas Zeit für mich/Singe ich un Lied für dich…
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: As if Trump has feelings like a normal person.
I commend Joe for writing that, but I’ll bet Trump’s first, second, third, fourth and fifth thoughts were about how his brother’s death was going to affect Donald J. Trump.
WaterGirl
@Yutsano:
And to make sure that people watch the convention somewhere other than on YouTube. Don’t open the Washington Post, don’t watch Hulu, etc.
Villago Delenda Est
@PJ: Who?
WaterGirl
@Emma from FL: YES