September 7, 2024

Cheney's endorsement defines maga far outside even the extremes the anti-constitutional Bush admin practiced

...that's the point of embracing his endorsement.

It's a perfect storm of opportunity to cast Trump far outside of any acceptable politics, even republican political ideology, and provides a 'permission structure' for republican legislators and others looking for some way out of the maga madness after being cornered for some eight or nine years with an absolute madman.

We don't just want to gain power and control. We want to move our national politics forward into something more productive than just spending all our time parsing and parrying Trump republicans' sophistry and prevarications.

We now have the opportunity to take away the republicans' most effective con; their success in dividing American into the Civil War symbolism of red and blue states, as if only republicans lived in the red ones, and only Democrats in the blue.

Don't boo at our now aligning nemesis because of the turbulent past. Unite and vote for the future! That's what makes us a more perfect nation.

September 5, 2024

Pres. Biden in Wisconsin today, announcing $7.3b for clean, affordable, reliable electricity for rural America

...and a little campaigning for his VP.





The Biden Accomplishments Guy @What46HasDone 10h
President Biden in Wisconsin today, highlighting more of the amazing clean energy accomplishments that the Biden-Harris administration has delivered on.

Vice President Harris was the tie breaking vote to secure this funding.

WATCH:

read plan: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/09/05/fact-sheet-president-biden-visits-westby-wisconsin-announces-7-3-billion-for-clean-affordable-reliable-electricity-for-rural-america-the-largest-investment-in-rural-electrification-since-the-ne/

September 5, 2024

VP Harris off to Pittsburgh PA. for debate prep

📸: Elizabeth Frantz

Sky @skylikeajedi
@VP Harris off to Pittsburgh PA. 🇺🇸🫡


📸: Elizabeth Frantz

September 4, 2024

Kamala Harris made her pitch today for 25 million new small business applications with passion, eloquence, and incentive

Chris Borkowski @cborkowski
Vice President Harris reveals her small business plans at her rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.$50,000 tax cut for new small business.

There's ton of other incentives and access to capital in the plan. She wants 25 million new business applications in her first 4 year term.



Vice President Harris speaks at Throwback Brewery in North Hampton, N.H. today. THREAD

September 4, 2024

Gov. Walz: Every time I hear Donald Trump give a speech, it's like the next screenplay for Mad Max

Acyn @Acyn 1h
Walz: There is deliberate effort by some people to make them believe that things are pessimistic. Every time I hear Donald Trump give a speech, it’s like the next screenplay for Mad Max or something. They are rooting against America….

September 4, 2024

Vice President Harris speaks at Throwback Brewery in North Hampton, N.H. today. WATCH

Seacoastonline.com @seacoastonline
Vice President Kamala Harris to speak at Throwback Brewery in North Hampton, bringing her presidential campaign to New Hampshire for the first time.


Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News




Long lines form (Feb. 18, 2019 around South Church in Portsmouth for a visit by presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris. [John Huff/Seacoastonline and Fosters.com]

SBA @SBAgov
"We had to completely transform our way of doing business."

Watch how woman-owned Throwback Brewery in New Hampshire was able to pivot, grow, and be resilient.
#WomenInBusiness #WomensHistoryMonth

(Their brewery got support to open its current location through a small business credit and installed solar panels using federal programs championed by the Biden administration.)


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Tina MF @TinaMF1
On my way to the Kamala Harris Rally in New Hampshire! Look at the line!!!





Kellie Meyer @KellieMeyerNews · 9m
Young Harris Walz supporters here in North Hampton, New Hampshire. (Taken with their parent’s permission).




Kellie Meyer @KellieMeyerNews
VP Harris will be behind protective glass as she speaks here in North Hampton, NH....her first outdoor event since becoming the Democratic nominee.





Mal Meyer @MalWGME
I’m in New Hampshire where Vice President Kamala Harris is set to lay out a plan for supporting small businesses... Very hot and little cell service. Volunteers have been handing out snacks and water.





JSmall @JSmallChanges
#KamalaHarris at Throwback Brewery in N.Hampton NH 💙Julia Sinclair of Newmarket talks about her shirt as the crowd gathers to hear VPresident Harris speak





Ross Ketschke WMUR @RossWMUR 2m
Kamala Harris supporters ready for the start of her rally in North Hampton. It’s the VP’s first trip to NH since 2021. We’re expecting to hear Harris outline economic proposals aimed at supporting small businesses. @WMUR9_Politics





Selina Wang @selinawangtv
Harris to announce her economic plan here in New Hampshire. Includes: -expansion of tax deductions for startup costs: from $5k to $50k -reduce red tape and ease regulations, creating standard deduction for small businesses -goal to help start 25 million new small businesses

September 4, 2024

'Joy's not everything, but it's something'

Bill McKibben @billmckibben
Since they're not quite old enough to vote, Marlowe and Ella raised $126 for Kamala and Tim selling lemonade and Red Vines this weekend.

Joy's not everything, but it's something


x.com/billmckibben/status/1831083335205974311

September 2, 2024

VP Harris, Pres. Biden rally w/ members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Pittsburgh WATCH

x.com/cheesemanab/status/1830692029728252107


Ryan Deto @RyanDeto
Hundreds of union members inside the IBEW hall in Pittsburgh. They are having lunch, after marching in the Labor Day Parade. Harris and Biden are scheduled to speak in about 3 hours





Megan Swift @mgswift7
Meet Jean Stevenson. She’s been part of her union — Unite Here Local 57 — for 25 years here in Pittsburgh. @TribLIVE

Stevenson, 52, of Carrick, works at the Wyndham Grand hotel downtown as a banquet server, and she’s working the Biden-Harris event today for a catering company.





Megan Swift @mgswift7 5m
Democratic nominee for Attorney General Eugene DePasquale told @TribLIVE he walked to the Biden-Harris campaign event today in Pittsburgh’s South Side.

“I’m glad I was able to walk here,” said DePasquale, of Uptown. Thread for full interview with @DePasqualePA: x.com/mgswift7/status/1830691003994443963





https://x.com/Acyn/status/1830687260393590926

https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1830687310733811812





Mills Hayes @MillsHayesTV
Dozens of people in Pittsburgh lined up to see President Biden & Vice President Kamala Harris.... @NewsNation

September 1, 2024

The way black people are being questioned incessantly about Trump's racist trope against VP Harris

...by black and white journalists and reporters, alike, who want to make others accountable to it, as well, putting it in our faces as if they're insisting, themselves, that black people need and deserve to hear these things and express their feelings about it to reporters in the context of what a racist believes.

It wasn't enough for them to try & make VP Harris take responsibility for Trump's racist trope, instead of just confronting him on it. Or, taking responsibility themselves and telling viewers what's wrong about asking a black woman to respond to someone questioning her blackness.

Now they're asking every black person they can interview about it; not from any premise of theirs that it's wrong, but that Kamala Harris had some obligation to take heed of a racist taunt intended to be a dogwhistle for other racists who might have some self-conflict or animosity to Kamala Harris's skin color.

I initially thought it might be a function of the ignorance and inner bigotry of the white journos who were pressing this, but seeing black reporters take the same line, I think it's something more than pack journalism here.

The press is more than comfortable taking every racist and bigoted remark and expression out of Trump's mouth and repeating it to us without qualification as if it's some sort of conundrum on how to react and respond.

You don't see headlines that read, 'Donald Trump used a racist trope,' rather, you get headlines merely repeating the slur, offering it up to viewers like one of those spectators you see grinning at the camera in old photos of lynchings.

They not only want us to take responsibility for those, as they confront us with them verbatim without rebuke, they want black people to take charge of the press' own responsibility to clearly oppose those expressions of hatred.

Many in the media are primarily engaged in serving as data mules for the Trump campaign, repeating his charges verbatim, without qualification, as if they don't know any better - especially issues of race as related to Kamala Harris in this campaign.

They're waiting for her to cast her blackness in the terms Donald Trump set, not her own heritage which she amply described in her nomination acceptance address at the convention.

The media wants the VP to star in the racist shitshow Trump has cast for them. They're so eager for that performance they've taken to trying to get others to act out their cynical, banal narrative on her behalf.

THEY'RE RIGHT THERE, on the air to refute or denounce any of it, but they refuse to. All they're interested in is making the Democratic candidate accountable for each and every projection of theirs - and every projection is a parrot of Trump's sordid rhetoric.

August 30, 2024

Madam Vice-President, are you in favor of 'wind all over the place?'

...Trump gave another incoherent speech in Michigan yesterday, at the same time Kamala Harris was succinctly laying out policies most Americans support in her CNN interview.

However, most of the press this morning has been focused on some changes the VP has made over time in some of her views, without bothering with the correctness of them or agreement with her policy positions by most Americans.

They couldn't fault her for substance or even style, so they've taken to making an issue over her willingness to move legislation and initiatives forward in the face of a political system that may not agree with her on every issue, or how to move those concerns forward in the national legislature.

What VP Harris communicated in her CNN interview is her principled ability to reason through seemingly intractable political posturing to enact solutions to the nation's challenges.

That political normalcy from Kamala Harris was starkly contrasted against the backdrop of the former republican president showing up to his own rally an hour and 27 minutes late for what his campaign billed as a 'speech on the economy and manufacturing.'

Trump in Michigan:

“I've got thousands of people outside trying to get in. They never say Trump's a great speaker. I don't even want that, but I must be a great speaker...If I were a Democrat, they'd say, ‘He's the greatest that ever lived. He made Abraham Lincoln look like nothing.’”

"Some people don't eat bacon anymore. This was caused by their horrible energy. Wind. They want wind all over the place. When it doesn't blow, we have a problem."

...attacking his former rival:

“Biden was supposed to go to the White House, but he never got there. He went to Delaware, and he’s laying on a beach sleeping all day long,” Trump said. “No, seriously, who the hell wants to sleep? And who wants to sleep in public? He’s sleeping.”

Here's the most cogent report available:

...there hasn't been a thing reported about the 'economy' or 'manufacturing' that Trump said yesterday at any point that makes a lick of sense, but we're going to drill down on what the press wanted Kamala Harris to say about the nonsense Dana Bash asked her about; not the substance and competence she demonstrated in that interview almost all of the media has insisted she needs to do for them.

What the press does with the political product coming out of these two campaigns is a dangerously practiced double standard where things said by Trump which would disqualify most other presidential candidates are presented to our Democratic nominee as serious inquiries which deserve a response; like Bash asking about Trump's racist rhetoric about the VP's blackness.

What's coming from the next interviewer in line? Questions about Abraham Lincoln's wind problems with bacon? Seriously.

They take these absolutely nutty remarks Trump makes before crowds, not making any sense as he rambles between subjects, unable to keep track of one thought to the next, and fills in the blanks for him to confront our candidate with that contrived propping of Trump's insane babbling to try and make it a campaign issue against her.

The convicted felon who was found guilty by a jury of defrauding an election is allowed attacks by the media about his Democratic rival's "economic reign of terror committing one financial atrocity after another," in a projection that claims he was merely criticizing his rival for 'favoring renewable energy over fossil fuels.'

No mention that drilling and oil production in the U.S. is at record rates, or that the U.S. is mostly energy independent under the leadership of the Biden/Harris administration.

No mention at all that this was yet another rambling, incoherent speech to a crowd by Trump which did not, at all, address ANY of the economic or manufacturing concerns the campaign (and media) said was supposed to be the focus of his speech and appearance.

Is the VP going to get a question about this?

"Madam Vice-President, how do you respond to Trump's charges that, the reason 'people don't eat bacon anymore is caused by their horrible wind energy?"

"Are you in favor of 'wind all over the place?"