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PsiFighter37
Wow, I didn’t have the video up, and Chelsea sounds like she’d be a dead ringer for a younger version of Hillary.
Baud
So many threads!
Mike J
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo, a coded shout out for increased funding for high speed rail.
Mnemosyne
I vaguely remembered that Chelsea had had her second baby fairly recently, though I didn’t realize it was less than 6 weeks ago.
JPL
@Mike J: Well let’s hope so.
dmsilev
Dinosaurs? We all know those were dragons wiped out by Noah’s Flood.
PsiFighter37
FWIW, definitely not as polished a speaker as Ivanka was, but her anecdotes are far more humanizing.
donnah
Isn’t Chelsea beautiful? She is a confident, radiant, wonderful spokeswoman and I’m glad she’s introducing her mom. I’m sure I’ll be bawling shortly.
Quinerly
Chelsea is great! Fabulous speaker. Better than Ivanka….take that Donald.
eclare
@PsiFighter37: You really wonder if Trump’s kids had ever met the person they were talking about.
Quinerly
@donnah:
I’m worried about Bill,though. Is it that he is about to cry?
Mnemosyne
@Mike J:
Worse — it’s a coded shout-out to Lin-Manuel Miranda. ?
JPL
@PsiFighter37: It’s such a contrast, but in a really nice way. Ivanka didn’t have to worry about common things.
guachi
Chelsea… isn’t a very good speaker.
Baud
@Quinerly: Probably.
dmsilev
YouTube stream is at about 180K viewers, roughly the same as what it was for Obama last night.
Linnaeus
Watching Chelsea Clinton, I’m still pissed off about Rush Limbaugh’s “White House dog” comment all these years later.
Anne Laurie
Chelsea Clinton’s already shared more stories about her mom than all the Trump kids could come up with over four days…
And she was a triceratops booster, like all the best dinosaur fans!
Baud
@guachi: She didn’t need to be.
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: You’ve got a special code book…
Quinerly
Piece in Politico about Chelsea and Ivanka being long time friends.
Schlemazel Khan
Can anyone tell me where I could find Rev Barbers speech? I have been looking but not found it yet. Thanks in advance
PsiFighter37
@Anne Laurie: Psht, brontosaurus were the best!
Mnemosyne
@guachi:
Congratulations, you missed the point.
And I think she’s doing just fine.
Linnaeus
@guachi:
I doubt she’s ever addressed an audience this big. That would put a dent in anyone’s confidence.
dmsilev
@Anne Laurie: Stegosaurus or bust!
HinTN
Public service is about service.
Quinerly
@Linnaeus:
I did too. This should be piped in to him on endless loop.
redshirt
@guachi: What? I think she’s doing great.
guachi
She’s speaking… so being a good speaker is probably a good idea. She’s not terrible, just not very good.
Baud
Uh oh. Dinosaur schism developing.
TheMightyTrowel
@PsiFighter37: No Way! T-Rex all the way! Little arms! Big teeth!
West of the Cascades
@Quinerly: To be fair, Ivanka’s introduction would have been more honestly applied to Hillary Clinton than her dad.
Redshift
@Anne Laurie:
Amen!
TaMara (HFG)
@guachi: She poised, confident, warm and honest. I think that qualifies her as a VERY good speaker.
Linnaeus
@Quinerly:
Yep. Though I suppose the Clintons are over it by now.
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
@Linnaeus: That’s when I stopped getting even minor amusement from listening to Limbaugh. I heard him singing a nasty teasing song making fun of the looks of this 13-year-old girl and could not believe an adult would do such a thing, let alone one with a national forum. He really is a terrible person.
ellie
Cue the haters. Chelsea is sincere, heartfelt, and trustworthy.
aliasofwestgate
She’s doing just fine. Just not as polished as everyone else. Her sincerity works in her favor.
Omnes Omnibus
@PsiFighter37: I have a theory about them.
Mike E
@guachi: Keep digging, you’re a prince!
Linnaeus
Funny, my three favorite dinosaurs have now all been mentioned.
Mike J
@Schlemazel Khan: It will be on the Dem Convention youtube channel at some point.,Media sites will probably get it up quicker.
amk
@guachi: You claimed that in the last 3 days, dems didn’t ‘speak’ to you. quelle surprise.
Mnemosyne
Just got a text message from Hillary, just in case I wasn’t already watching.
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
@Linnaeus: That’s when I stopped getting even minor amusement from listening to Limbaugh. I heard him singing a nasty teasing song making fun of the looks of this 13-year-old girl and could not believe an adult would do such a thing, let alone one with a national forum. He really is a terrible person.
Omnes Omnibus
@guachi: She’s doing just fine. Sincere and conversational.
dmsilev
@Baud: Well, this is one time when we _know_ that Sweet Meteor Of Death will emerge victorious.
redshirt
@Mnemosyne: Wow! You’re really connected!
Run, Lillian!
@Schlemazel Khan: It is on the front page of kos, under DNC thread four.
Linnaeus
@Ceci n’est pas mon nym:
Seriously. Who the fuck picks on a kid on national TV?
Brachiator
Is Hillary speaking directly after Chelsea? She is doing very well, but she sounds so much like her mother that it might be like hearing Hillary speak twice.
guachi
@Mike E: I didn’t realize that I had to think every speaker was great. Sorry I can’t have an opinion that differs form yours! I’ll remember to check with you on what an acceptable opinion is next time.
JordanRules
Oh yes! Morgan voice!
Smiling Mortician
“And Mom? Grandma would be so proud of you tonight.”
Baud
Morgan Freeman!
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: You’d think she has better things to do right now than pound on the Blackberry.
Linnaeus
And of course Morgan Freeman does the voice over.
Mnemosyne
@Linnaeus:
I am not a parent, but I’m pretty sure both Bill and Hillary would be happy to repeatedly kick Limbaugh in the balls to this day over that.
Mike E
@TaMara (HFG): It’s hard to keep on keeping on through the applause interruptions, she’s got that down…
VOICE OF GOD! Morgan Freeman ftw
Run, Lillian!
I love Obama talking about Hillary. Never fails to make me smile.
Sly
God is narrating. The election is over.
Mike J
@Brachiator: Right after this video.
Quinerly
Is that God narrating the film? Ok, we might have gone a bit overboard now.
Linnaeus
@Mnemosyne:
Yes, you’re probably right. But they’re too decent to say as much.
Mike E
@guachi: Don’t bother.
ellie
Chelsea looks like her grandmother.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Hillary, not your bff Jess?
Quinerly
@Sly:
You got there first. Damn.
p.a.
pfffftt. Baryonyx. Accept no substitutes.
Xantar
@guachi:
I actually agree with you that Chelsea is not a good public speaker. But I also think it doesn’t matter.
dmsilev
@Quinerly: Look, all hands on deck means _all_ hands on deck.
Tinare
@Linnaeus: Is there anyone else? His voice is butter.
Baud
Uh oh. Rachel is going to freak out again.
eclare
Yep, voice of God.
lamh36
Chelsea did a good job. She was poise, confident and cool…
She spoke of her mother in endearing terms…something NONE of the Trump children or his wife even attempted to do half as well.
Anyone who felt it was lacking, is just as likely to believe that Donald Trump “speaks to them” more…
Emma
@p.a.: That’s the one with the one humongous claw, right? I have some uses for him about right now…
Baud
@dmsilev: Like Pokémon GO!
Run, Lillian!
@Quinerly:
See, the amazing Morgan voice always makes me think of the penguins huddled together in the arctic.
rikyrah
Chelsea was fine…
whatever Bill and Hillary did……
Chelsea is their best accomplishment…you can see the love they poured into her.
Linnaeus
@lamh36:
I agree that she did fine. I wouldn’t blame her if she felt a little nervous, that’s all. I’d be shaking like a leaf.
Mike J
eclare
@lamh36: Thing to me is she told so many stories, whereas Trump kids told very few. Clear that Chelsea had hands on parents.
Mnemosyne
@Linnaeus:
If you say it ahead of time, he’ll know to be on his guard. It should be a surprise.
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
I loved Bill’s telling of the love story the other day, but my daughter (who will be a reliable top-to-bottom Democratic voter on Nov 8 but is not super-thrilled by Hillary) was underwhelmed by it. For her, she said it came off as Bill saying “me, me, me” with Hillary only an occasional side character in his autobiography.
My daughter’s theory is that reactions to Bill’s speech was generational.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Yes! I feel so special now. ?
FlyingToaster
Just to be dino-contrarian, I vastly prefer ankylosaurs.
lamh36
patroclus
Those poor penguins – I guess I’ll have to vote for Hillary now to help them out.
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
Sigh. I switched to this nym because my usual one for some reason fell into the spam filters.
But now this one is going into moderation on practically every message.
If FYWP isn’t part of the Democratic platform, it should be.
Quinerly
Nice look for her in that crisp blue and white shirt. Do we think that is is her kitchen? We must check out the countertops behind her.
Mike J
Watching Chelsea from backstage.
dmsilev
…and Debbie danced.
Damn.
rikyrah
@LEBassett 38m38 minutes ago Manhattan, NY
Just interviewed a gay man, a Sikh man & a black woman on the DNC floor. They all said they’re afraid of having a president who hates them.
Linnaeus
@FlyingToaster:
Ankylosaurs are cool. Their armor class is like -9.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: I just hope Jess isn’t offended.
Mike E
@Mike J: Rev Barber rocks any house…I’ve had the thrill of hearing him in person twice
patroclus
Chelsea’s got poor taste in dinosaurs – TRex rules!
Mali muso
Lying here in bed watching on my iPad and feeling my 23 week old unborn daughter kicking…feeling very emotional.
Linnaeus
Give ’em hell, Hillary!
Baud
Fight song!
redshirt
What’s this “Chelsea did fine” crap.
She was great!
Just One More Canuck
@Omnes Omnibus: Go ahead, Miss Elk
dmsilev
And, here she is.
Baud
Sweet moment wth Chelsea.
eric
hillary bill and chelsea are red white and blue
?BillinGlendaleCA
@patroclus: TRex has little hands, you know who else has little hands?
ETA: Though I like TRex’s music.
guachi
Hillary has amazing hair. However much she spends on it is worth it.
donnah
Hillary.Is.Awesome
amk
Patton Oswalt
“My 6th child will talk about my 4th wife like this someday,” — Trump, watching Chelsea Clinton right now. #DemsInPhilly
7:42 AM – 29 Jul 2016
Emma
@Mali muso: Mali! How are you doing?
Sarah, Proud and Tall
Pantsuit! Drink!
rikyrah
Awe…Chelsea and Hillary :)
? Martin
I think this convention has officially broken the GOP.
Not saying it’ll re-emerge in any kind of beneficial form, but the GOP that we’ve known is now shattered, and I think a lot of the credit goes to the decades long crusade to vilify Hillary and Obama that has filled the party with people that now look like monsters even to many leading Republicans. Even Ailes is gone and unable to hold it together behind the scenes.
Brachiator
Here we go..
PsiFighter37
History baby.
Baud
@amk: Hahahaha.
Schlemazel Khan
@FlyingToaster:
My favorites are the therapsids, without them there is no us
Redshift
We’re all part of this!
Excuse me, I think I have something in my eye…
rikyrah
Shonda did a great job. :)
Mnemosyne
@Ceci n’est pas mon nym:
Can I ask how old your daughter is? Because, to me, the story was appealing if you’re someone who’s been in a long-term relationship.
My husband and I have been together for 16 years (10 married), so I thought it was a great speech.
Quinerly
She sure doesn’t look evil to me.
amk
And the big moment has arrived.
FlyingToaster
@Linnaeus: They’re like a little tank with a steggie’s spikey tail.
redshirt
Look at that large group of yellow shirts to Hillary’s left. Right near the stage.
Mnemosyne
I’m crying. I didn’t think I would cry.
sigaba
@? Martin: Wow JPod having a religious experience over there.
dmsilev
@Quinerly: Just wait until she rips off her skin face mask and starts feasting on the audience.
Mali muso
@amk: feeling great, thanks! Baby girl is kicking and dancing with excitement for our first woman president! :)
Smiling Mortician
I’m all verklempt.
MomSense
I didn’t expect to be so moved by this moment.
Gavin
Clinton Derangement Syndrome finally makes sense to me.
The reason why R’s have been insane about her for 30 years? The reality is that she’s actually as good as the amplitude of their negativity.
If she sucked, they wouldn’t put in the effort. The more effort they put into trying to bury her… simply shows how good of a leader she is.
Baud
@dmsilev: I wouldn’t mind seeing her going after the Bros like that.
Davey C
And the shouting has already started. Stupid idiots. Crowd isn’t having it though!
D58826
Thought Big Dawg was going to cry a couple of times when Chelsea was talking
Omnes Omnibus
Nice zinger at Bill.
p.a.
@Emma: how many angels on the head of a pin; how many Trumpists on a Baryonyx claw…
Anoniminous
Bill looks very fetching in his pantsuit. He’ll make a nice FGOTUS.
(FGOTUS?)
cortanya
LOVE This!!! The DNC was so on point with this whole convention. What a great build up!
Dog Dawg Damn
Waiting for those asshole Baud! Supporters to start dinging their cowbell. Fucking douchebags. Go back to your bunkers or wherever you came from
Schlemazel Khan
I think we broke BJ. It went all to heck there for a bit & then wouldn’t let me in at all
PsiFighter37
Haven’t heard any Berniebros really heckling yet.
dmsilev
The one and only Joe Biden. Thank God; I don’t think we could have dealt with two of them.
Mike E
Everybody’s beaming
ETA except the Bern, heh
amk
@Omnes Omnibus: Yup. LOL.
Baud
@Dog Dawg Damn: I will tear them a new one if they do that. I’m no Bernie.
Mnemosyne
Ooh, fuck you, Bernie. You can’t even crack a smile when people THANK YOU?!?!
Your grandmother would be ashamed of you right now.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Bernie shout out. CLASS ACT. More than that asshole deserves from her.
guachi
Hillary has become a much better speaker than before. She’s doing a fabulous job modulating her voice. It’s really easy to let it get away from you in an arena this big and then you end up with the Marine General, which is great for 10 minutes, not 60.
Mali muso
Bernie looks so sour.
D58826
@Anne Laurie: My nieces just loved the movie Land Before time with Sara the Triceratops.
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
@Mnemosyne: She’s 33.
She’s also skeptical about whether the Republican party will die. She’s a historian and I keep drawing hopeful parallels to the death of the Whig party, but she’s of the opinion that the two parties have put too many obstacles in the path of third parties and it’s now practically impossible for one of those two major parties to be replaced by another.
mike in dc
She looks radiant tonight. All she’s missing are wings and gleaming silver armor.
amk
shout out to yellow shirters.
TheMightyTrowel
Great comment on the tweeter comparing Hill’s white pantsuit to the white attire worn by the suffragettes during their protests
PsiFighter37
@Mnemosyne: Bernie’s a little bitch. Fuck him.
Steeplejack (phone)
Bernie still with the resting bitch face!
Emma
@p.a.: indeedy. I wonder if we could aim a small herd in the right direction. Have the raptors ready for the leftovers.
Baud
It’s going to be so awkward when they do the citizens arrest now.
Schlemazel Khan
@Gavin:
I don’t know how she or Bill kept going in the 90s with all the shit that was flung at them. They not only kept going they succeeded in doing better. I admire them for that, I couldn’t have done it. President Schlemazel would have made Nixon look like a piker if he had to endure that.
eclare
@Mnemosyne: I know! Smile Motherfucker!
redshirt
Can you imagine Bernie as President? It’s laughable.
? Martin
@Gavin: Yep. Shame that so many Democrats have bought into the Republican hatred.
Mnemosyne
@redshirt:
Interestingly, I just saw a shot of several of them holding signs that say “Intersectionality Matters.” Not sure if they’re genuine or clueless.
amk
she is doing great.
JPL
@MomSense: I didn’t think I’d be up.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@guachi: I noticed that as well, best I’ve seen her speak.
MomSense
@Steeplejack (phone):
Ha!
sigaba
@Mnemosyne: Sounds like something out of a Chris Guest movie.
goblue72
@PsiFighter37: Based on the various journalist Twitterings, appears the deadenders are a shrinking group. I’m sure they’ll still try to drop a turd somewhere, but it will go mostly un-noticed.
Mike J
Quinerly
@redshirt:
Can you imagine Bernie people putting on this convention? Laughable.
Mike in NC
I actually cried when Bill Clinton got elected, because defeating GHWB meant an end to fucking Reaganism.
dmsilev
Once again America is under threat. And by odd coincidence, Donald Trump and Louis XIV have the same taste in interior decorating.
JPL
@Mnemosyne: What does that mean? I’m a tad afraid to google it.
MomSense
@JPL:
Here we are and she’s doing the damned thing!
Dog Dawg Damn
They will at least learn that you can’t predict who is going to win 8 months out.
? Martin
@Schlemazel Khan: Yep. Had Limbaugh called my 12 year old daughter a dog, he’d have been ended right there.
Baud
@goblue72: Fingers crossed.
dmsilev
FDR Callout!
Linnaeus
Love the FDR reference.
amk
to all those media morons who 24×7 kvetch about her ‘voice’,
take that, you, bitchez.
sigaba
@JPL:
I think you have your answer. I have twelve units in Gender Studies from a private liberal arts university and I’D have to google it to give you a good answer.
Quinerly
@Steeplejack (phone):
Bernie, Bernie…Bernie Who???
JPL
Tim Kaine better be careful with that flag, cuz he almost whacked Bill with it.
hmm maybe that was the plan
Major Major Major Major
eric
great tweet “Clinton’s white garb reflects her transformation into an even more powerful wizard, a la Gandalf.”
Schlemazel Khan
@Mike in NC:
It is not dead yet but 8 years of President Clinton and a Dem Senate (with the House coming along later) can put a stake in its fucking black heart. A big shout out the the Drumpfenstein monsters for their assist
dmsilev
OK, some fucktards tried to start a chant, and it just got drowned out.
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: And a decoder ring. And a membership card that says: “keep on your person at all times”.
JordanRules
@Mnemosyne: Oh geeeez. That is just too rich.
Already classless and beyond clueless.
redshirt
Fucking assholes.
eric
Al Giordano @AlGiordano
A quarter million are watching this on the YouTube channel where 13,000 watched the GOP nominee’s speech.
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
I’m pretty sure the way that turned out was, “What’s the Secret — OW!”
Quinerly
@eric:
But no flag pin. I’m concerned.
PsiFighter37
Sounds like the Berniebros must be trying to heckle her, given the Hillary chants that don’t really sync up with what she is saying.
hedgehog mobile
Did not expect to start sobbing when she came on stage. Wish my mom was here.
amk
great potshots at deadbeat donnie.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Mike in NC: And oddly enough, I remember when Bush the Lucid was the one who termed Reaganomics Voodoo economics during the 1980 primaries.
Baud
@hedgehog mobile: Me too.
Major Major Major Major
Wonder what that attempted heckling was about.
SiubhanDuinne
Can’t. Stop. Crying.
Mali muso
Loving this continuous theme of I vs. WE
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Who cares? We came together to stop it.
Misterpuff
Who ever produced this convention should get to run MSNBC for a year…it would kill FOX News.
Schlemazel Khan
@? Martin:
Truman threatened to punch a music critic in the nose & called him an SOB. All he did was trash her in a music review. Mush Lamebrain’s body would have been found in the intercoastal with his junk in his mouth
amk
no fricken flagpin. way to go, hillz.
PsiFighter37
@JordanRules: I had to look up what intersectionality was. Talk about having their heads up their asses.
Fair Economist
She is killing it.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Mnemosyne:
That’s the study of gridlock right?
amk
It takes a village.
LOL.
dmsilev
This speech, and this whole week, is so so so different from last week’s Cleveland Steamer.
Baud
You didn’t build that 2016!
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Well a boy can wonder!
Very good point about not trusting people who say “i alone can [fill in the blank]”
Mike J
@JPL: Intersectionality means that the fights for women;’s rights and gay rights and rights for black people are not separate fights, they are all facets of the same struggle. It’s the thing that Bernie never understood and actively campaigned against.
JPL
@Quinerly: Not even a Honduras pin.
I’m so pleased because she is killing it with this speech.
Run, Lillian!
@Mnemosyne: Absolutely clueless. Hillary had the intersectional campaign and Bernie was the one who couldn’t really expand his appeal outside of white voters. It is a major reason why he lost.
Those BOBers are just lost.
Omnes Omnibus
@Fair Economist: Damn right.
different-church-lady
@Bill E Pilgrim: In a way, yes.
dmsilev
@Major Major Major Major:
Me me me me me me me Bernie me me me me me
Poopyman
Was that Bill laughing in the background in the It takes a Village part?
Emma
@Bill E Pilgrim: Comedy gold. What the bleeping bleep is intersectionality?
lamh36
@Davey C: Ironically, Bernie & his bros & all their shenanigans did more to make avg Dems feel sympathetic and defensive of HRC than anything else
Gavin
@? Martin:
And here’s the thing. R’s are energetic also! Never forget or doubt that for a second. Defeating Trump will take every ounce of effort.
But the thing that genuinely scares them about HRC.. is not only that she is more energetic than them, but also that she deliberately chooses to use that energy for OTHER people, which they simply can’t comprehend – because their entire “party” is based on FYIGM.
guachi
Stronger Together is a good phrase for the candidates themselves (Kaine/Clinton) and I’m With Her works for her supporters.
Might as well go all in on the message. “Stronger Together” is basically the Democratic ideal.
Baud
@lamh36: Yep.
Omnes Omnibus
Bill looks so damned happy.
Major Major Major Major
@Run, Lillian!: Lefties gonna lefty
amk
And there is your acceptance.
The big moment
Fair Economist
Even Bill is in awe.
PsiFighter37
LOL Terry Mac is WAY too excited.
Mali muso
She’s so radiant. Loving the white suit. :)
Kay
Kasich’s strategist:
Khizr Khan really got to Republicans, I think.
Quinerly
Is the Republican Party missing some of their flags? All of their flags?
Major Major Major Major
@Emma: See Mike J @215: “Intersectionality means that the fights for women;’s rights and gay rights and rights for black people are not separate fights, they are all facets of the same struggle. It’s the thing that Bernie never understood and actively campaigned against.”
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Mike J:
BINGO. Bernie set out to divide that all up, to give mediocre white men the advantage again. He and his Stans will never understand how deeply counter-revolutionary that is.
Linnaeus
Hey, where are the poles with the names of the states on them? Are those gone this year?
Baud
@Kay: I hate feeling good thoughts about Kasich.
Chris
Tying Republican and Trumpian individualism to the British monarchist ethos of “one man has all the power” was well done. I’d like more of that from more people.
cckids
@Mnemosyne:
I wish I could believe it’s a generational thing about not getting emotional in public; keeping that stiff upper lip.
But I don’t. He’s just an ungracious old crank.
Baud
@Chris: Agree. Being in Philly makes it perfect.
Omnes Omnibus
@Linnaeus: They are there.
Major Major Major Major
@Linnaeus: I think they switch to people’s names after the roll call?
Old Broad in California
She’s doing great.
I keep crying. Scared my daughter. She came over to hug me.
Bill E Pilgrim
Andrew Sullivan must be the most ego-filled holiday dinner table roastable on this planet.
Schlemazel Khan
@Baud:
I am going to be really pissed if he makes me think well of him
Emma
@Major Major Major Major: I saw it, but the comment system wouldn’t let me edit my comment!
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
All the makings of a great chant!
Are they the guys wearing the emergency vests? All along, I’ve assumed they were ushers.
sigaba
https://twitter.com/NateGoldman/status/758836007714164738
Run, Lillian!
@Kay: Maybe because of this?
(I hope my linking worked!)
Linnaeus
@Omnes Omnibus: @Major Major Major Major:
Okay, I guess I just didn’t see them.
Kropadope
@Major Major Major Major: They’ve been switching them in and out like crazy. Almost like they had some carefully choreographed system of signs.
Major Major Major Major
@Emma: So yeah intersectionality is real and we believe in it here! It’s Bernie who doesn’t, smdh
randy khan
@Mali muso:
My wife and I concluded he’s a cinch for Grumpy if they ever do a live action version of Snow White.
dmsilev
@Bill E Pilgrim: I think we all hope Hillary and her team aren’t reading Sullivan.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bill E Pilgrim:
I’ll just have the potatoes, thank you.
Capri
Hilary is being Hilary. Love it.
Mike J
“I sweat the details of policy.”
THAT is what I want to hear.
Quinerly
@Old Broad in California:
My dog is trying to crawl in my lap I am crying so hard. He weighs 80 lbs.
Emma
@Schlemazel Khan: Think positioning. He still has hopes.
And damn it, thinking that makes me feel petty.
Poopyman
@Schlemazel Khan: Relax, that was John Weaver, not Kasich himself.
Richard Mayhew
My daughter is going to be exhausted at camp tomorrow but I am so happy she is seeing this
patroclus
@Kay: Donald Trump isn’t fit to shine Khizr Khan’s shoes.
amk
she owns the policy wonk bs that the msm morons have been peddling.
cortanya
Loving Hillary tonight!! The details are a big deal! Damn right
Mali muso
It’s not just a detail if it’s your kid…and it should be a big deal to your president too.
Magatha
@guachi:
Yep, we were picking on you about Chelsea, but never mind that. You are exactly right about Hillary – she’s worked hard on her speaking skills and damn, is that clear tonight! She’s brought it all together. I’d be happy to listen to her for the next eight years.
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
Cheney’s Press Secretary
Mike E
Sweating the details…good theme
TheMightyTrowel
Changing hearts and laws was the quote of the night for me. Fuck all those people who feel things so deeply they can’t get off their purity pony to vote.
dmsilev
This is who she is, which is why this speech works so well.
Baud
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: Good.
Mike in NC
HRC isn’t wearing a flag lapel pin the size of a tea saucer, so she must be a terrorist!
/ wingnuts
dmsilev
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: I hope someone replied that his boss helped to kill it.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Linnaeus:
Bah, what does Rush know about women?
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
Baud
@dmsilev: this.
Omnes Omnibus
“I am a detail-obsessed nerd. So fucking what? I am really fucking good at it.”
Smiling Mortician
I really like the way she’s inviting non-Dems to join the winning team.
amk
And there. She has played the woman card. Eat that, rethugs.
Misterpuff
Hillary has dry mouth but won’t pull a Rubio
MobiusKlein
@Mike J: yup.
We all know that sci-fi 1/2 hour Magic Foxes are fun, but we know real world results take sweat and pain.
JordanRules
@Mali muso: So well said!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: He’s married enough of them.
amk
No ceilings. The sky is the limit.
dmsilev
I am my mother’s daughter and my daughter’s mother.
Wait, I know the answer to this one. That means she’s her own brother, right?
The Fat Kate Middleton
OMG. Love her! Also in tears. “The first woman to be nominated for President … The sky’s the limit. “
Matt McIrvin
They are all swinging for the rafters this week.
Mali muso
When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit!
Miss Bianca
Damn…just got home and streaming isn’t working. I so wanted to watch this in real time!
goblue72
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: George RR Martin will have finished Game of Thrones before you all will be finished bitching & moaning about Sanders.
Kay
@Baud:
Someone here said Trump has to do all those events by himself, and that’s true. He’ll have like… the leader in the Ohio House, who is just awful. He literally spends all day fighting with people on Twitter.
You really need more than one person and not just in a constitutional, abstract way either.
Mai.naem.mobile
Ugh I looked at Twitter. So many hateful nasty comments about Chelsea. I wish I hadn’t even looked.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
There you go – that’s why she won. THANKS OBAMA!!!
Linnaeus
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Less than nothing.
Ben Cisco
Shoutout to PBO!
Baud
@dmsilev: Brothers cousins sister.
rikyrah
@Schlemazel Khan:
Here you go
Betty Cracker
“My mother’s daughter and my daughter’s mother.”
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Is there a choice of an alternative entree? I’m good with the soup, salad, sides, but I think I’d rather just have the beef or the fish. Chickenhawk doesn’t do it for me.
Major Major Major Major
@Miss Bianca: CSPAN! Radio (kqed.org works for me)! YouTube!
LAC
@guachi: you still fucking here?
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@goblue72:
You and him and his Stans need to get woke.
guachi
@Magatha: I had the pleasure of seeing Hillary in Denmark, SC in an elementary gymnasium.
Her speech was poor. I think (like tonight) her voice was a bit hoarse. Then she did Q&A and she… was… AMAZING!
Talking-with-you Hillary is something you should all go see. Hillary Town Hall in your area? GO!!!
Miss Bianca
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: Oh…I love that. Yes!
@Major Major Major Major: Thank you!
Quinerly
@Smiling Mortician:
I do too. I remember when Republicans weren’t all insane. Be nice to get something done again.
Mike J
Mnemosyne
And I am LOVING that this is totally a Unity Party.
Bernie never understood that “Obama’s Third Term” sounded pretty goddamned good to a whole lot of us.
Wow, she’s climbing onto Kay’s hobbyhorse about work! This is awesome!
Baud
“We are the party of working people.”
Poopyman
Chanting as she goes over Bernie’s signature topic. Nice.
amk
@LAC: LOL.
Linnaeus
“Democrats, we are the party of working people”.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Gin & Tonic
@goblue72: Or before he cracks a fucking smile.
Major Major Major Major
hey cool soonergrunt retweeted me
Emma
@Mike J: And looks killer in it!
Baud
Supreme Court!
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
@Miss Bianca: Did you try the official Dem Convention website? I’ve had great luck with that all week.
rikyrah
I love these GOP Tears:
Rich Galen
@richgalen
How can it be that I am standing at my kitchen counter sobbing because of the messages being driven at the DNC? Where has the GOP gone?
Adam L Silverman
@goblue72: Everyone needs something to do till he finishes and the book finally comes out!//
Schlemazel Khan
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
All of them beards
He learned nothing of value, they were only a front door for his closet
dmsilev
The Onion: “Hillary Clinton Holds Infant Grandson Upside Down By Ankle In Front Of Convention Crowd”
Grumpy Code Monkey
Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens.
Baud
“I believe in science.”
amk
She is hitting all the right notes.
Mike J
I believe in science!
Ben Cisco
“I believe in science.” That laugh tho
the Conster, la Citoyenne
I BELIEVE IN SCIENCE!!! Suck on that Republicans.
scav
Science!
Poopyman
SCIENCE!
dmsilev
I believe in science.
It’s really really sad that that’s actually an effective partisan attack line.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@goblue72: Nope. Bernie is done. Over. Irrelevant.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: Awesome. I knew her and her very cool husband Otto, when I was in Columbus.*
*I didn’t know them well, but I bumped into them at local Dem things.
JordanRules
Oh I love the laugh Hillary.
I believe in Science!!!
Mali muso
It’s wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and hand out pink slips with the other hand. BOOM!
LookingForACanadian
@guachi: what?
NoraLenderbee
“Wall Street must never be allowed to wreck Main Street again.”
Yes.
debbie
@Mike J:
That is too funny. Bet it’ll be all over the news in Columbus.
Schlemazel Khan
@goblue72:
We will always have you here to remind us why – thanks for that
Mike E
“And, I believe in science! What’s up with that guy’s hair, am I right?”
guachi
This week is the America I want to see. I am so proud that the Democratic Party I joined at the age of 10 in 1984 has turned into this.
It’s the party of a hopeful America.
It’s the party of a strong America.
It’s the party of a diverse America.
It’s the party of a caring America.
I have never been prouder to be a Democrat.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: Looks better on Congresswoman Beatty!
goblue72
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Give me a fucking break. I precinct walk for the party every election. I will be doing it again this year. Shove it.
Miss Bianca
I’m getting chills – listen to those cheers!
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
Did I hear Science actually got booed at the GOP convention?
Linnaeus
Here’s the big unity plug.
dr. bloor
@Mike J: I hope she tells everyone she got it at Filenes Basement for under a hundred.
Major Major Major Major
Quiet down, children, an adult is speaking.
Mike J
“He spoke for 70-odd minutes – and I do mean odd”
amk
This is your campaign.
contrast that with me, me, me lie of a campaign from the other side.
dmsilev
@Ceci n’est pas mon nym: Climate change certainly did.
Schlemazel Khan
@rikyrah:
since Spanish is now in vogue – I wish you much grass for your father
Adam L Silverman
@Poopyman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FIMvSp01C8
Major Major Major Major
okay i LOL’d
guachi
lol.
odd.
lol.
dmsilev
Donald Trump tweetstorm in 3…2…1…
Mnemosyne
Ha! A challenge directly to men to support equal pay for the women in their lives.
amk
dt spoke for 70 odd minutes, I do mean odd.
ouch.
sigaba
@Ceci n’est pas mon nym: BernieBros all coughing measles on each other no doubt.
patroclus
She cracked a joke!! 70-odd minutes and I do mean odd!
Mali muso
Trump spoke for 70 odd minutes and they were…odd.
LOL!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@goblue72:
Bernie lost for a reason. It’s important to understand why – and it wasn’t because of DWS.
Misterpuff
Hillary channels Bob Hope….
Poopyman
@Adam L Silverman: Heh! You got it.
James E Powell
She’s getting better as she goes along.
I really feel for her, she’s following Bill, Joe, & Barack. This must be how Ringo felt.
amk
bs clapped, bs clapped. miracle.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Is Bernie even capable of smiling?
sigaba
@dmsilev: Trumps people seem to have developed a strategy where they let him blow steam in the morning with some crazy nonsense that totally jams the news front pages, and then when the speeches are actually happening he’s down on a few hundred milligrams of midazolam IV.
PsiFighter37
I feel like there hasn’t been any heckling – certainly not enough to get picked up on the teevee. The Berniebros must have fallen asleep.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@guachi: “Talking-with-you Hillary is something you should all go see. Hillary Town Hall in your area? GO!!!” totally agree – been there. It was amazing – and those other things you said? Beautiful.
Mali muso
Listening to her hit all the important themes, I can’t see what Bernie fans word have to complain about. It’s a progressive laundry list.
seaboogie
@JordanRules: She giggled – that was great!
amk
@James E Powell: She is killing it.
PsiFighter37
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Now that I think about it, perhaps he’s grumpy because he has no idea how to keep Jane from complaining about not living the high life anymore.
redshirt
@?BillinGlendaleCA: He’s a miserable troll.
divF
I just got home, and am listening to Hillary. Stunning.
“Deal me in.”
Emma
I finally figured out why Bernie looks so sour. All these shout-outs from Hillary really mean: we got you by the short and curlies. Play ball or else.
Miss Bianca
Paid family leave!! That’s my President!!
Major Major Major Major
Deal me in!!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@PsiFighter37:
I’m watching CSPAN and haven’t heard any of their nonsense.
seaboogie
This speech is awesome – and Hillary is killing it! I love it when the camera pans to Bill and Chelsea and they both look so delighted!
Luthe
Affordable child-care!
different-church-lady
@PsiFighter37: Maybe they’re just stunned by her AWESOME!
James E Powell
@PsiFighter37:
I’m not hearing anything really. An occasional shout, but nothing understandable.
Amir Khalid
@goblue72:
The disappointment in Bernie as a candidate and a person, particularly from those Democrats who started out supporting his idealism, seems to me both real and well-justified. But this is really not the time to pick up that argument again.
dmsilev
@PsiFighter37: There have been a few oddly placed chants which I assume were to drown out hecklers. Like right now, for instance.
Mnemosyne
@James E Powell:
And yet Ringo was the one that the other three still wanted to work with even after the band broke up.
PsiFighter37
Seems like some heckling getting shouted down again. The farters must’ve awoken at the mention of their dear leader.
redshirt
Morons. Idiots.
Paulites.
scav
Here we go!
amk
Now, she is going after the deadbeat.
Don’t boo, vote.
Loving this.
Grumpy Code Monkey
TAX AND SPEND!
FUCK YEAH!!! We are the motherfucking Democrats, and this is what do!
different-church-lady
@redshirt:
Eight year olds, Dude.
Schlemazel Khan
@PsiFighter37:
Every time they they the get drown out by HILL O RY!
Mnemosyne
@PsiFighter37:
I’ve heard several attempts, but the people around them are drowning them out.
dmsilev
Fresh thread up.
amk
Who ever wrote this speech, did a great job.
Miss Bianca
She is ON Trump. And now…national security!
Ken
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Maybe he got Botoxed to look better for the convention?
Adam L Silverman
@amk: Same thing for whoever delivered it.//
What?
Mike in NC
Drumpf denounced as the shitbag that he is.
Omnes Omnibus
Shout out to diplomacy.
batgirl
@PsiFighter37: Those weird breakout chants of Hillary are to cover up the Bernie assholes.
cckids
@James E Powell:
I’m wondering if some of the “Hillary” chants are happening to drown out other shit. If so, more, please.
sigaba
@Mnemosyne: Daily Kos reports that the floor whips actually have a systematic list of counter-chants designed to drown out Bernie chants.
Sounds oddly like something Hillz would do, doesn’t it :)
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Schlemazel Khan: Kudos to the whips in the crowd.
Mike J
Mike E
@Mnemosyne: And whom drummers everywhere emulated! Rock steady
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
I look forward to the debates, assuming Trump doesn’t chicken out.
I don’t know how you debate someone who is willing to say anything, lie about anything, make up facts willy-nilly. But I believe that this Hillary will fricassee him without breaking a sweat.
She’s always had a ready laugh and a warmth that comes across in small-group settings (I was lucky enough to hear her once in a small room). What we’re seeing here is her finding her stride on the big stage. As she said a few minutes ago, “I was always more comfortable with the service part than the public part”.
Davis X. Machina
From the Twitter thing:
Also
TheMightyTrowel
@Adam L Silverman: you can lose the sarcasm bars. It’s a dick move to constantly attribute all of a woman’s successes to the people around her. I see this happen all the damn time. I once heard two old dude profs talking about a conf presentation by a mid career woman who’s A+ amazing. they decided between them that her talk was successful because of a project one of her male phd students was doing as part of her bigger research. They were wrong too.
NoraLenderbee
@Grumpy Code Monkey:
This is my new motto.
Isn’t it amazing that we can SAY this again, and be cheered?
Anne Laurie
New post up top, with the Voice of God (Morgan Freeman) video!
amk
@Adam L Silverman: see my posts above. :)
Davey C
“No, Donald, you don’t.” More of this please.
Ben Cisco
@Poopyman: SCIENCE!
JordanRules
@Davis X. Machina: Ha!!! Love these tweets and the ones DKoch posted above! So emotional.
Miss Bianca
@Mike E: Damn straight! But he swings, too (the beat, that is).
seaboogie
BoB’ers must finally be realizing that Hillary is doing such a comprehensively awesome job at understanding the scope of the situation that our President must deal with, and that the right person has won our nom.
amk
A small nitpick about ‘working across the aisle’
I would have preferred if she had said please give me a congress that I can work with.
The rethugs are treasonous.
Ben Cisco
She is absolutely ETHERING him.
Moar please.
Mnemosyne
Wow. Calling Trump out on being thin skinned. I almost feel sorry for him.
Almost.
amk
a man you bait with a tweet is not a man you can let play with our nuclear weapons.
boom.
Ben Cisco
Hair Furor may be stroking out at this very minute.
Smiling Mortician
Oooh! She just called Trump a “little man.”
James E Powell
@Mnemosyne:
Truly. My favorite Beatle.
amk
She is simply burning the deadbeat.
Adam L Silverman
@TheMightyTrowel: I think she’s doing amazing. I was just being a smartass playing off of AMK’s post, wasn’t meaning to be offensive. I fully expect that she wrote most of it. That’s why I had the sarc tags to make sure people knew I wasn’t being serious about her not being good at this.
And what you described is one of the things that pisses me off the most. Another is when they exploit their grad students.
FlyingToaster
@Mike J: What the??? And, honestly, she looks better (i.e., human) in it, too.
MomSense
Loving this speech.
Mike E
She’s right about the tweet baiting…if there’s one person who’s troll-proof, it’s gotta be Hillary, after all these years
Credenzal Jocularity
@Poopyman: She blinded ME!
Ben Cisco
She is en fuego.
TheMightyTrowel
@Adam L Silverman: @TheMightyTrowel: tried to edit, failed FYWP – tone here a bit harsh. i’m agreeing with your sarcasm but suggesting that the post you’re reacting to was a dick move not your post
Grumpy Code Monkey
This is the Democratic Party of the 1960s. Socially liberal and hawkish like a motherfucker.
Christ, we need to take back Congress.
cortanya
Anyone think Donald is going to try to somehow avoid debating her?
cmorenc
She’s doing far better than I even hoped she would if she had a good night.
peej01
Hamilton reference!
James E Powell
This is an amazingly liberal – or progressive if you prefer – acceptance speech. I can’t remember one this affirmatively liberal.
Emma
That was an asskicker of a speech.
sigaba
Long speech.
Not bad at all, Bill Clinton always gave great long speeches, and PBO gives supreme speeches which seem to be meticulously timed out to 45 minutes.
Adam L Silverman
@TheMightyTrowel: I figured that out after I replied. Been a long week! No worries here.
mike in dc
I am pleased. Should be a nice bump next week. She did what she had to do. She’s not a natural orator, but she came across well.
sigaba
@cortanya: I give 3 in 8 odds he attempts to avoid a debate. 1 in 8 a debate never happens and Hillz mocks him mercilessly into the ground for it.
divF
The families come up moment is unprecedented. But they have staged it well.
RandomMonster
I only caught the last 20 min or so, but I thought she was focused, smart, emphatic at the right places, and generally poised and polished. I haven’t seen her speak in a while, and she’s developed some nice chops.
James E Powell
For little kids, kicking balloons off a stage is awesome good fun.
seaboogie
@amk: Prolly on the bus trips and campaign speeches – all that grass-rootsy stuff that she is good at and that Trump will not even attempt.
seaboogie
@James E Powell: I hope that some news org contrasts that in photos with Barron looking like a hostage onstage at the end of the RNC!
seaboogie
@peej01: She knows how to get Mnem’s vote!
Seth Owen
@cortanya: He would be a fool to debate her. On
The other hand, he IS a fool.
Still, if he can get away without releasing his taxes I am sure he can try getting away with skipping the debates.
The most likely scenario, though, is one debate and he skips the rest.
Mike in NC
Nicole Wallace is a wingnut twat.
randy khan
@Mike in NC:
She softened it a bit on the second round, but still it was pretty jarring.
Captain C
@Kay: Trump is no way winning Ohio.
No One You Know
@Baud: My home town! And, finally, I am a recurring campaign donor now. (Better late than never.)
prob50
@Linnaeus:
Me too. I was wondering if anyone else remembered that. That was the first time I fully realized what malignant piece of crap Limbaugh was.
Applejinx
@Gavin:
President Clinton does have to actually do that. Not just meme it.
On the bright side I think she’d prefer to. In our country’s history, it has not always been a winning strategy to aspire in that direction. For decades, it was the kiss of death. I have some cautious hopes that this orgy of repurposed patriotism is worth its orchestration: I see some decent people in my circles (not busters) going ‘ummm Reagan was bad, remember?’ but I’m not sure their alarm is warranted.
I’m reminded that at the close of WWII, we were all ‘America FUCK YEAH’, but the country believed in things. It wasn’t a matter of ‘jingoistic automatically bad, power automatically corrupt’. Maybe it was the contrast with where Germany was at. Maybe we’re there again, but Germany is here among us.
Dibs on being ‘the Allies’ and not ‘the Axis’…
Applejinx
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: That guy’s not Bernie’s guy. _I_ am Bernie’s guy, backing Clinton like he wanted.
Applejinx
@Emma: They do. He’s done, politically. It may be because he’s figured out the Clinton administration are going to be able to crossbreed radically progressive AND jingoistic ‘U! S! A!’ shouting, and get away with it. I wouldn’t have believed that possible but I’m seeing it, and I think it’s going to work.
It’s like an active, shooting war against being a neo-whateveritis asshole hypocritical soulless monster. With a WWII plucky loveable interracial interfaith cast on the side of the good guys, and casting call’s open, all hands on deck. It’s goddamn IRRESISTIBLE.
And it’s not even fake. I think people wouldn’t be crossing these streams if they didn’t ‘get it’. We are actually going to go ‘america fuck yeah!’ against all Bernie Sanders’ pet demons, and a bunch of other problems he didn’t prioritize.
He’s now mainstream, and not particularly effective compared to what the Democrats are fixing to do. I completely understand how sad he is. He’s Al Shepard to John Glenn. Turns out the first suborbital space flight was cool but people went bonkers over the first orbital space shot, and there was nothing Shepard could do about it other than let the BIG hero sweep everybody up in his wake, inclusively.
It’s now up to Clinton to be inclusive and allow Bernie to follow along in his own revolution. Consider that reality if you’re mad at Bernie for looking cranky. His only hope for being ‘the leader’ again would be if she failed, sold out, went back on what’s being promised. I see his sourness as evidence he’s convinced she won’t do any such thing. It must be very obvious to an insider like himself.