After last night
Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/22/2024 1:23:12 PM
The third evening of festivities at the Democratic National Convention culminated in the acceptance speech of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The preceding speakers pushed him out of prime time and into proximity with the George McGovern Memorial time slot. Walz was to be the last speaker during the 9:00 p.m. hour (EDT). Oprah Winfrey made a “surprise appearance.” Her star turn was not listed on the hourly schedule released by the DNC. It must have contributed to the lateness of the hour at which Walz appeared. Walz took the spotlight a little after 11:00 (EDT). I think they intended for him to appear before then, but that’s the way it went.
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Last night, Kamala Harris repeatedly asserted that she would "chart a new course," or "chart a new way forward." For that, one would expect a chart or two.
Harris competently delivered a well-received but nearly substance-free acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. At 37 minutes, give or take, it ran long enough for the occasion without tiring the audience, in the hall or on television. And mirablile dictu, we never got the ubiquitous Harris incantation, "what we can be, unburdened by what has been."
Which in this case was rather ironic, since at least a third or more of Harris' speech was devoted to what has been -- her "personal story."
Kamala Harris Accepts the Democrat Nomination
for President With More Lies, Lessons
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Thursday night, Kamala Harris took the stage in a blue pantsuit to accept her party's nomination for President of the United States. The excited audience kept chanting "Kamala" and "USA"; she thanked them and said, "We got to get to some business! Thank you all."
According to Politico, Vice President Kamala Harris planned to lean into her personal biography, and that is what she did. While mention was made of her father Donald Harris, it was her mother Shyamala Gopalan's "values" that Harris constantly referred to as her guiding principles throughout her speech. As I wrote throughout this four-day-long, DNC reinvention fest, everything from the single-mother schtick
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'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
This quote by Mark Twain... or Abraham Lincoln — it's still unclear as to who said it — is not advice that Democrats thought to take, because the more they opened their mouths during the DNC, the more people seemed to sour on them.
While it was always inevitable that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz would suffer what I call the "Disney dip" or what others are calling the "sugar high," it would appear the DNC sped the collapse. According to the website Polymath, the largest website that deals with betting
After last night
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The third evening of festivities at the Democratic National Convention culminated in the acceptance speech of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The preceding speakers pushed him out of prime time and into proximity with the George McGovern Memorial time slot. Walz was to be the last speaker during the 9:00 p.m. hour (EDT). Oprah Winfrey made a “surprise appearance.” Her star turn was not listed on the hourly schedule released by the DNC. It must have contributed to the lateness of the hour at which Walz appeared.
Walz took the spotlight a little after 11:00 (EDT). I think they intended for him to appear before then, but that’s the way it went.
The FBI is investigating an incident at a delegate buffet breakfast at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago where live maggots were thrown on the food.
"Multiple unknown female offenders are alleged to have entered a building...and began placing unknown objects onto tables containing food," the convention's information center said in a statement. "The offenders are believed to have then left the area. One victim was treated and released on-scene. Along with CPD, FBI-Chicago is assisting in the investigation."
No one claimed responsibility for what the FBI called an "attack." Got to watch those maggots, man. They can be vicious.
"We were all coming down to breakfast, and there were these two women
The Democrats continue to drag out their convention and milk it for every bit of earned media they can wring out of it. That process continued last night with the address from their newly minted Vice Presidential candidate, Tim Walz. The press was eating up the appearance of Walz's family in the audience, particularly his sobbing son who proudly declared, "That's my dad!" You can't really blame them because it was a rather touching moment and Walz's family is acting as if they still can't believe he's in this position. (Trust us... many of us can't believe it either.) Walz's speech was nothing for the history books, but
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology just admitted its first class since the Supreme Court decision which put an end to affirmative action. As expected, the number of minority students dropped.
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Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey is emphatically urging Americans to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the 2024 presidential election.
Friday morning — the morning after the finale of the Democrat’s convention, which ended with Harris delivering the 12th shortest acceptance speeches in modern history — Deep State figure James Comey let the country know that he was in his feels in the aftermath.
“Kamala Harris made me feel like it’s finally morning in America,” Comey said. “Everyone who cares about the rule of law and America’s indispensable role in the world should vote for Harris and Walz.”
“I will,” Comey vowed:
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Pelosi waved to the crowd as she took the DNC stage and
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A member of the Texas Democratic Delegation was robbed at gunpoint during the party's national convention, according to a report.
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The FBI is investigating an incident at a delegate buffet breakfast at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago where live maggots were thrown on the food.
"Multiple unknown female offenders are alleged to have entered a building...and began placing unknown objects onto tables containing food," the convention's information center said in a statement. "The offenders are believed to have then left the area. One victim was treated and released on-scene. Along with CPD, FBI-Chicago is assisting in the investigation."
No one claimed responsibility for what the FBI called an "attack." Got to watch those maggots, man. They can be vicious.
"We were all coming down to breakfast, and there were these two women