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Biden For President

Open Thread: Biden Live and He’s Mad, Nancy Up Next

by TaMara (HFG)|  January 7, 20212:02 pm| 197 Comments

This post is in: Biden For President, Open Threads, Politics

I believe Nancy will be speaking next. I don’t have a link for that.
Nancy has a link for that:

I will speak with reporters live at 2 pm ET at the Capitol following yesterday’s assault on our American democracy.

Watch here: https://t.co/2fi357l3G3

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 7, 2021

Open thread

ETA: She posted it to Twitter, where I’m sure you’ll be able to watch after the fact:

Yesterday, American democracy came under attack — but we refuse to be bullied into abandoning our duty to work #ForThePeople. https://t.co/6KoVAVbZh7

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 7, 2021

Open Thread: Biden Live and He’s Mad, Nancy Up NextPost + Comments (197)

Biden Town Hall Thread

by WaterGirl|  September 17, 20208:48 pm| 159 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Biden For President, Biden-Harris 2020

I could not find a link, but at least we can talk about the town hall.

 

Biden Town Hall ThreadPost + Comments (159)

Democratic National Convention, Night Two: Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  August 18, 20208:45 pm| 438 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Biden For President, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

Biden just now to the Florida delegation to the convention, via Zoom, on Trump:

"I used to think it was because he was callous, but I think it’s because he’s just not smart enough to know what to do. I really mean it. I just don’t think he has it in him to know what to do.”

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) August 18, 2020

Racism. Kids in cages. Manufacturing recession.

Also, remember that Biden was ahead of Trump in polling even pre-pandemic. https://t.co/ltfZMg7nBa

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 18, 2020

Then the DNC did their job right. Conventions, to the extent that they matter politically, are about creating a television show that the networks will carry as much of as possible. https://t.co/EHPx5XOb8L

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) August 18, 2020

It was 26 million for DNC 1st night in 2016. And 23 million for RNC 1st night in 2016. https://t.co/633QpnxxY6

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) August 18, 2020

Snark!

convention was an unqualified success https://t.co/6VyezACUHK

— counterfactual ?? (@counterfax) August 18, 2020

ETA: (Click on pic to embiggen) —

DNC releases full schedule for night two of the Democratic Convention.

One notable addition: former President Jimmy Carter pic.twitter.com/SZrgN7m7Tw

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 18, 2020

Democratic National Convention, Night Two: Open ThreadPost + Comments (438)

Readership Capture: Snippets from Last Night’s DNC Convention

by Anne Laurie|  August 18, 20209:02 am| 73 Comments

This post is in: Biden For President, Proud to Be A Democrat, Readership Capture

"We are the United States of America. There's not a single thing we cannot do if we do it together." #DemConvention pic.twitter.com/SLdNN4Oxdv

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 18, 2020

Michelle Obama: "Right now, kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another. They're looking around wondering if we've been lying to them this whole time about who we are and what we truly value." https://t.co/rZszrWoObu #DemConvention pic.twitter.com/1GSwZ0zUPj

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 18, 2020

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“We always hear that line about this being the most important election of our lifetimes, but this year it really is,” Eva Longoria says in #DemConvention opening speech. https://t.co/0UJrAu7xky pic.twitter.com/fpSgfl8j1f

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 18, 2020

This isn't the most important election of your lifetime, it's the second most important. 2016 was the most important and we blew it. But this will probably remain the second most important of your life for a very long time.

— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) August 18, 2020

"A president’s words have the power to move markets," Michelle Obama says. "They can summon our better angels or awaken our worst instincts. You simply cannot fake your way through this job…Being president doesn’t change who you are; it reveals who you are." #DemConvention pic.twitter.com/YjDEMyZBZ9

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 18, 2020

Kristin Urquiza: “My dad was a healthy 65-year-old. His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that, he paid with his life.”

Watch full #DemConvention video here: https://t.co/4BZ4fsYUyf pic.twitter.com/31SklQE6MY

— CSPAN (@cspan) August 18, 2020

Sen. @BernieSanders: "To the millions of people who supported my campaign this year and in 2016 … If Donald Trump is reelected, all the progress we've made will be in jeopardy. At its most basic, this election is about preserving our democracy." #DemConvention @Newsy pic.twitter.com/FwDzZDs382

— Lauren Stephenson (@StephensonNews) August 18, 2020

Doug Jones, with the picture of the four bombing victims for whom he got justice. This is very effective.#DNC2020

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 18, 2020

‘Action begets action, progress begets progress’ — Gov. Whitmer on Obama and Biden saving the auto industry pic.twitter.com/8daD3h0W83

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 18, 2020

We're 45 minutes through but it's only now dawning on me how much faster this moves when there's no walking to/from stage. No pauses whatsoever, no "huh that was good/bad!" breathers.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 18, 2020

Beto "there is no calvary, we are the cavalry!"

— Dirk_Dane (@Dirk_Dane) August 18, 2020

Amy Klobuchar: "The president may hate the Post Office, but he's still going to have to send them a change of address card in January" https://t.co/yradm5wGff pic.twitter.com/kFem5zqYsP

— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 18, 2020

It will be interesting to see how these themes contrast with the GOP’s message that Death’s hand touches us all and the brain damage test is too hard.

— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) August 18, 2020

Concerning John Kasich:

Every convention, left and right, makes room for prominent opposite-party Defectors. They're like war trophies and the first, least watched night tends to be devoted to showing off who has captured more royal nephews.

It doesn't mean they're writing the platform.

Chill out.

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) August 17, 2020

oh, don't give any of them money. Or follow them if they get in a half-decent zinger. They get to speak because there's a small but undeniable bloc of hapless Obama-Trump voters who can be read the right combination of words to flip again.

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) August 17, 2020

Joe Biden says this year’s election is “The Battle for the Soul of the Nation,” but we're calling it something else. #LateShowLIVE pic.twitter.com/XERfo0wI4q

— A Late Show (@colbertlateshow) August 17, 2020

It's almost as if there is a difference between a national political party's quadrennial event for the purposes of nominating the President of the United States and a contest between folks from Pittsburgh and Tampa about who can carry a ball further without getting CTE. https://t.co/2eVZKqhEIp

— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) August 18, 2020

I was skeptical about the watchability of tonight’s DNC bloc but that was two hours of pretty darn tight programming.

In a way, this format suits the attention-challenged (e.g. me) better than a traditional DNC.

1/

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 18, 2020

Now I’m looking forward to the next three nights.

Two hours. In and out.

Paced well. Good production values.

Well done – especially given the limitations.

3/3

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 18, 2020

Snark aside, dealt a tough hand, #DemConvention night 1 was a success — focused on ordinary people and the crisis of the country at the front, speeches were mostly tight, production slick, no *major* tech fails and Michelle was a smashing clean-up batter.

— Dave Catanese (@davecatanese) August 18, 2020

the entire political press doing shit tier mst3k during the DNC is kind of a bad look when you are a normal person who is able to recognize that yes, there are actually stakes to this election

— guy caligiuri (????????????) (@mmcgrath42) August 18, 2020

I think a lot of political journalists are feeling frustrated because this American schlock was always the bread and butter of political conventions, but we were too busy schmoozing and reporting to pay attention until the keynotes. Now we have to watch everything. #DemConvention

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) August 18, 2020

I'd suggest they not quit their day jobs, but in reality, we'd probably be better off if a lot of them did.

— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) August 18, 2020

Checking on Trump-world Tweeters, and if the measure of success here is that they're losing their minds, the Dems did pretty well tonight.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 18, 2020

And finally, Billy Porter did an awesome job with the closer, and it’s nice he threw us Boomers a little treat…

Thanks @theebillyporter + Steven Stills for helping us close night one of the #DemConvention! ??

So much more to come! Come back tomorrow ??https://t.co/NEJtNqxFPV pic.twitter.com/vqXfLCUVfk

— 2020 #DemConvention ???? (@DemConvention) August 18, 2020

Readership Capture: Snippets from Last Night’s DNC ConventionPost + Comments (73)

Tuesday Morning Open Thread: The Resistance Continues

by Anne Laurie|  August 18, 20207:16 am| 80 Comments

This post is in: Biden For President, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Readership Capture, Trumpery, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It

Goddess bless the Belarussians, and I wish the Dropkick Murphys would do a cover of this as a fundraiser…

The song, by the way, is "Change" by the Soviet rock icon Viktor Tsoi. It includes lyrics such as, "Change! Out hearts demand. Change! Our eye demand. In our laughter and in our tears and in the pulse of our veins. Change. We await change."
Never heard it with bagpipes, though.

— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) August 17, 2020

On this side of the water:

"If we have any hope of ending this chaos we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it"

Former First Lady Michelle Obama says President Trump is "clearly in over his head" #DemConvention https://t.co/YDgIk0iQdP pic.twitter.com/jpISzOoOF7

— BBC North America (@BBCNorthAmerica) August 18, 2020

Vote. Vote like your life depends on it because it does. pic.twitter.com/W6rrODXmXt

— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) August 18, 2020

On Tuesday, at 8:30pm et, there’s an event that it’s important we show up to. It’s for #TeamBidenDisabilityCoalition. If Rep. @AyannaPressley isn’t enough of a draw for you, I want to pitch you on another reason: we need @TeamJoe to take us seriously https://t.co/jNn6CjsLiv

— Matthew Cortland, Esq (@mattbc) August 16, 2020

Meanwhile, the Squatter-in-Chief tried to spoil the mood by throwing a rally in Oshkosh. He was, as per usual, disgusting. And intent on provoking religious terrorism, because he figures that’s a positive for his side. He also (once again) attacked immigrants; lied about comparative coronavirus statistics; and made what the pundits will assure us is a ‘joke’ about running again in 2024 after his successful 2020 term “…because they spied on my campaign. We should get a redo of four years.”

Every day, another disgrace, another international embarrassment, but…

This is epic. By @briantylercohen pic.twitter.com/sWjCbbJcXT

— Really American ???? (@ReallyAmerican1) August 16, 2020

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Save the Post Office!

by Anne Laurie|  August 17, 20207:36 am| 133 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Biden For President, NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It

pic.twitter.com/2Qjle7G8Xw

— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) August 12, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she is recalling the chamber later this week to work on postal service legislation. Democrats have accused President Trump of trying to hamstring the cash-strapped Postal Service to suppress mail-in voting https://t.co/L0l3yuQBiR pic.twitter.com/BOxJdfkzhN

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 17, 2020

Per the Washington Post:

… Democrats also warn that slowed postal delivery is delaying prescription medicines mailed to veterans and Social Security checks for the elderly.

“Alarmingly, across the nation, we see the devastating effects of the president’s campaign to sabotage the election by manipulating the Postal Service to disenfranchise voters,” Pelosi said in a letter to colleagues.

She warned that the “lives, livelihoods and the life of our American democracy are under threat.”

Pelosi wants the chamber to vote on a bill sponsored by House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) that would require the Postal Service to keep up its current delivery standards until the end of the year.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) also issued a statement calling on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to bring the Senate back to act on legislation once the House passes it.

“I call on Leader McConnell to bring the Senate back into session to quickly act on the House’s legislation that will undo the extensive damage Mr. DeJoy has done at the Postal Service so that people can get their paychecks, medicines, and other necessities delivered on time, and to ensure our elections will remain completely free and fair,” Schumer said…

So Joe Biden can now run on saving the Postal Service. That's a gift – the equivalent of a two-foot putt in politics. Donald Trump probably knows about two-foot putts. Or does he cheat on those too?

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) August 15, 2020

This is like a Delphic oracle. https://t.co/PfTTvSBZf1

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) August 16, 2020

Donald Trump has had a lot of failures in his career, but he knows how to do one thing well: inherit something great and squander it. And never take any responsibility. pic.twitter.com/mDTSFogeUW

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 15, 2020

Monday Morning Open Thread: Save the Post Office!Post + Comments (133)

The Democratic Convention

by Cheryl Rofer|  August 16, 202010:15 am| 146 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Biden For President, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

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”

  • Daytime Events: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

  • Pre-Show: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

  • Convention Program: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM

    • 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

    • Keynote Speakers: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Former First Lady Michelle Obama

Tuesday, August 18 – “Leadership Matters”

  • Daytime Events: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

  • Pre-Show: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

  • Convention Program: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM

    • Special Events: Keynote Address, Roll Call Across America

    • 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

    • Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jill Biden

Wednesday, August 19 – “A More Perfect Union”

  • Daytime Events: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

  • Pre-Show: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

  • Convention Program: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM

    • Speakers: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Gov. Tony Evers, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford

    • Keynote Speakers: Sen. Kamala Harris, Former President Barack Obama

 

Thursday, August 20 – “America’s Promise”

  • Daytime Events: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

  • Pre-Show: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

  • Convention Program: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM

    • Speakers: Sen. Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Sen. Chris Coons, Andrew Yang

    • Keynote Speaker: Vice President Joe Biden

 

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.

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