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appmanga's JournalJoe Scarborough is doing a better job of defending the Harris campaign...
...than her campaign.
Joe and Mika, along with Jonathan Lemire pushed back on the "Kamala Transgender Surgery" ads by pointing out the current policy is the product of the Trump Administration in compliance with federal law. While I haven't had any indication these ads have been effective, Scarborough points out that if they weren't, the Trump Campaign wouldn't have run some version of them 30,000 times.
Harris' acceptance speech was a home run.
It's one of the best political speeches I've ever heard. Absolutely flawless with no false notes. Optimistic, encouraging, while being pointed and clear about the deficiencies of her opponent. She's become so much better of a politician in delivering her message.
And I have to give kudos to the incredible political instincts of her and Tim Walz. Both gave speeches that were so right-sized. Walz was scheduled to go another half-hour, but he knew he didn't need it, Kamala was so succinct and on-point, it needed nothing more than what she gave.
The two of them are amazing and they will be a transformational team leading this country.
So far...
...it looks like I'm going to be very wrong. The party is falling in behind the Vice-President and it's gratifying to see. Her speech today was compelling and powerful, and the members of the media (who have incredible reason to worry about a second Trump presidency) I've seen sound and look relieved.
I have to say again I don't know another politician who's had the incredible political courage and political instincts of Joe Biden. Should Harris win, and this race is going to be a tough one, it will be hard for me to contextualize just how important this man will have been to this country.
I'm seldom pained about being wrong. I'm human. But to be so wrong in case is just fine with me.
What the anti-Biden Democrats are too inept to campaign on - Part 1
Trump has said he'll pardon those convicted for crimes having to do with storming the Capitol, but he has yet to be asked about pardoning people like Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes. Having these people out of prison to reconstitute themselves as some form of MAGA shock troops should concern all of us. MAGA hasn't been shy about its voter suppression efforts, and there would be nothing to keep an revived and emboldened Proud Boys from performing this task knowing Trump can legally ask his Justice Department to ignore them to focus on other issues like deportation camps. In his first term Trump abused the president's pardon power to free anti-democratic cronies like Roger Stone and Steve Bannon. Do you think he won't use it to have a personal brown shirt army at his disposal?
It looks like some pushback has started.
On Chris Hayes Jamie Raskin sounded positive about Biden staying, and Veronica Escobar of the CHC is unequivocally saying they've asked Biden to stay in. If you've send texts to the White House and your Democratic House member or senator, this is a sign it's working.
Keep it up.
Joe Biden is not "risking" this country, or this election, by staying in this race.
The voters of this country are risking that, as are the cowardly Democrats who are being cowed by the media frenzy and the polling that's a product of it.
Biden is right; there is an "elite" who stand at the forefront of this party, and they are acting as pathetically as any group I've ever seen. Biden leaving this race is sure to bring chaos, and be the end game of those who've gotten Democrats to spend months chasing ghosts. We have something akin to actual Nazis running to take over our government and these chickenshits have no confidence they can beat that back.
I would have thought the feeding frenzy would be over by now.
But it continues, driven by different agendas. Regardless of how the narrative is being pushed, the damage being done becomes exponential as the days go by.
It's this simple: when you discuss Joe Biden leaving this race, no matter who you are, it's damaging. No what how well thought out your mitigation, it's harmful and, at this point, just plain cowardly. And the biggest danger we face in this election is cowardice.
If we're not clearly talking about what could be the truly frightening result of this election, we're doing the wrong thing. If an old man who is more lucid and in emotional control than the vast majority of his detractors is more frightening than the actual loss of our democratic system, you're afraid of the wrong thing. Not understanding the hidden trepidation that's long been driving doubt about Biden has more to do about his vice-president than it does about him is missing the point. Most people polled aren't going to say they're worried about the black lady becoming president, but they will say it's "Biden's age", or "the economy", or other reasons they feel are more socially acceptable long before saying they're afraid Biden might die and leave us with a black lady president.
This whole thing has taken on the dimensions of a propaganda exercise. In the last two days I've seen headlines from supposedly respected and reputable news outlets (which, by definition, leaves out Faux and its ilk) describing Biden "in crisis", "embattled", "feeble", and "flailing" (good job at being neutral, guys). I've shared this link (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/15/kamala-harris-quit-biden-2024/) to Kathleen Parker's opinion piece from March of this year which appeared to have deservedly died without a whimper, but she at least had the guts to give a public facing front to what's been the mindset of more than a few. When it makes no sense how a very successful president has had such challenging polling and approval numbers, it's because the folks who try to set the agenda have lazily bought into the proxy rather than digging deeper for the uncomfortable truth.
This is another of those times where our country has to come to a serious reckoning about what is fears: is it the black lady, or is it the loss of American Democracy? Our Democratic officeholders need to stop the whispering campaigns that are hurting their electoral chances and get to work making the case against Donald Trump because Biden leaving this race will ensure an unrecoverable chaos because getting rid of Biden is the cover for getting rid of Harris. I can guarantee the easiest way for ALL Democrats to make their election prospects worse is to try to scapegoat and dismiss Kamala Harris. The Kathleen Parker piece should show them that.
Democrats have the best story to tell and should be easily coasting to win all over this country, but they continue to roam in a circle like scared children lost in the woods. Democrats need to stop fighting Democrats (something I've heard just about all my life, and I'm not young) and start fighting the MAGAts, and the press, and the naysayers. The what-ifs being thrown around by "concerned" posters in forums like this need to cease. They do us no good. The bottom line is Joe Biden is the nominee and it's best that he remain the nominee. Although our politicians don't believe it, the American people are smart enough and sophisticated enough to understand the stakes if they're put forward to them. There's a huge amount of dread among Democrats, independents, and disaffected Republicans about the return to a Trump presidency, but how can they have confidence in a party in disarray that can't seem to formulate of a cohesive case for their governing? We need to stop the nonsense and get to work on that.
Please.
Instead of being caught up in the Biden drama...
we should be working right now on getting Congressional candidates to commit to supporting a constitutional amendment that says a president has none of the immunity the Supreme Court has just given them. We cannot let the media's shiny object distract or depress us. And do we not know there's one candidate who's committed to indulging his authoritarian impulses while the other he said he does not want the powers and will not use them?
We cannot let "Biden's age" become "Hillary's emails". If you lived through that, you can see the similarities in terms of the media feeding frenzy and the bar to prove fitness for office that continues to rise. Two days ago it was a free flowing interview. Then that and a town hall. Today, it's producing medical records and results of cognitive test. These fucking people could be Trump's campaign workers and too many people are buying in.
Folks, we've got to stop and get to work. Action overcomes emotions. None of us can simply stand on the sideline and fret or, worse, give up. We're months away from dictatorship. Can we just start with putting the pressure on Congressional candidates?
Let's consider something
We have seen what members of an unaccountable, unconstrained branch of government has done. We've seen members of the Supreme Court engage in unethical behavior that would cause any other jurist on the federal bench to be investigated, if not arrested. This Court has now given the president the same level, if not greater, of unaccountability. The president now has carte blanche to commit all manner of abuses.
Today, the current president could legally order the Justice Department to investigate the ethical issues of Alito, Roberts, and Thomas. He could order the IRS to investigate and audit their taxes. He could order Homeland Security to put them on the travel watch list and the State Department to monitor and report their passport usage. All of these would be in his official capacity and could not be questioned, making true the fascist wet dream of the white supremacists in the Republican Party.
If this could happen to them, what do you think can happen to you?
When a lifetime conservative jurist like Michael Luttig...
...can say in very strong terms this decision is crap, and can explain why without using such language, you 've got to pay attention.
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