No one has put up a DNC thread yet? Well I guess this is it.
Here's the preview of tonight's Democratic convention program, scheduled to take place between 9 PM and 11 PM Eastern. (Organizers say "special guests" not listed here will also be involved.) pic.twitter.com/Q8EM8Q6imD
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 17, 2020
You won’t want to miss @MichelleObama tonight at the #DemConvention!
Like or retweet this tweet and we’ll make sure you get a reminder before her speech. pic.twitter.com/GNDn4L69kM
— 2020 #DemConvention ?? (@DemConvention) August 17, 2020
I’ll look for a good live feed and update this thread when I find it.
Try this one. Let me know if it works or not.
Open thread
TaMara (HFG)
Twitter has all the live feeds and live reactions here:
https://twitter.com/i/events/1291459089076166656
Starfish
Is Meg Whitman the surprise Republican guest? She is irrelevant, and I do not like. The tech leaders as wannabe politicians thing needs to be over.
NotMax
Should be able to embed the C-SPAN feed from YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLCTmwE5CYU
Cheryl Rofer
We also have lots of good stuff, including live feeds, at the upper right on the desktop version. I think in the “hamburger” on the phone version.
Many thanks to WaterGirl.
Yutsano
“DNC coverage will be right back”
Well then…
Oh there it goes.
Elizabelle
Lock and Load. The Drinking McCloskeys are in the news. WaPost.
NotMax
@NotMax
No ads, should be minimal or no cutaways or talking heads.
Baud
@Elizabelle: They won’t be the most offensive people there.
Elizabelle
Found this while I was logging onto C-Span. It’s our first “Pioneer.”
Elizabelle
@Baud: They won’t be recognizable without their guns and the pink polo shirt. And the big beer heiress mansion behind them.
germy
No more Democratic caucuses.
lamh36
FYI, if you have ROKU tv. There is a DNC Convention Channel and it’s gonna be livestreaming the Convention daily.
Just search for DNC 2020
Adam L Silverman
Remember how hopeful and optimistic everyone felt four years ago?
dmsilev
The official DNC feed is live: https://www.demconvention.com/watch-the-convention/
Elizabelle
C-Span link for tonight’s coverage. Eva Longoria up.
The word “decency” has already been spoken.
germy
“We are better than this; America is better than this”
A good way to start.
Another Scott
I’m listening to the CrookedMedia feed while I do other things. The first couple of minutes have been good.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
Roem!
Baud
Joe!
NotMax
@Elizabelle
“Honeybunch, can you make out the writing on this speech they faxed us to read? Oh. Is this thing on?”
//
Elizabelle
Danica Roem within the first four minutes.
And espagnol.
Adam L Silverman
@Starfish: Susan Molinari
Yutsano
Where’s Mary G and Lucia Mama? That was the most inclusive intro I have seen.
laura
The dogs bark but the caravan rolls on.
I have no need for Meg Whitman or John fuckhim Kasich, and I’ll be looking for each and every Forever FLOTUS clip and analysis. I’m voting a straight party ticket. I’m jazzed/stoked to do my part to elect Biden/Harris and reject trump. But I can’t see spending the evening watching a zoom meeting.
TS (the original)
This is so well done – not that I expected less. Designed & presented by competent and caring people
lamh36
Was that Biden’s grandkids doing the Pledge?
dmsilev
Montage of kids singing the anthem. From all states, plus PR, VI, and the Cherokee Nation (and maybe some others I missed). Nicely done.
Elizabelle
Personally, I like this better than your usual convention.
dm
@Starfish: She endorsed Clinton.
Rumor had it she was in the running for Sec. of Commerce in a Clinton Administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/10/21/whats-next-for-meg-whitman-a-republican-in-clintons-corner/
Baud
@Elizabelle:
2 hours per night is a better amount of time.
Martin
@Starfish: My guess is Boehner. Prominent ex Congressman, Kasich would know his thinking.
cain
Like the pledge.. love that the Cherokee Indian Nation was represented as well.
Baud
@Martin:
That would be nuts.
dmsilev
@Elizabelle: Killing off two hours worth of “From the great state of (insert-state-here), we proudly cast our votes for (candidate)” is a definite plus.
Elizabelle
Does Trump have any Democrats endorsing him?
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: When is the cosplay competition?//
Martin
@Elizabelle: Bill Clinton will miss the balloons.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Martin: Boehner has said it’s not him, had a spokesperson say he’s staying the hell out of this campaign. I think he might actually have been talking about Molinari
ETA: Boehner spox on speculation he might be the Republican set to endorse Biden: “The answer is no. I think he’d rather set himself on fire than get involved in the election. Nothing to see here.”
that was a really good version of the anthem, in my un-musical opinion
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman:
Could we get Londo Mollari instead? If nothing else, would definitely take home the Best Hair award.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Instructions are at the link top right, above Recent Comments.
Roku, Apple TV, Prime, etc. They all have apps and channels.
Yutsano
This is looking so smooth and professional. Nothing like the possible dumpster ? that will be next week.
Side note: my phone automatically suggests flames after dumpster. It’s getting to know me too well.
germy
We don’t have cable TV, so my wife was watching on youtube, but the ABC news feed.
Those fuckers are interrupting the convention, for “brilliant analysis” from people like Chris Christie!
Thank you for this msnbc link; we’re watching it now. They’re actually showing it in its entirety.
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: I don’t mean to be politically incorrect or anything, but we need to be honest, not all the states can be great. Some have to be good, a lot have to be average, and, of course, states like Mississippi are definitely below average.
HumboldtBlue
@dmsilev:
Don’t forget the great Commonwealths!
RaflW
This PA farmer is a great choice (no snark). So far all the ‘regular folks’ have been good.
Yutsano
Of the people, by the people, and for the people indeed! The diversity of humans giving stories is just amazing.
PsiFighter37
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Boehner probably just sits at home, golfs, and smokes a ton of cigars and gets lit on awful red wine every day. He was less than useless as House Speaker.
Crazy to think he was Orange Julius, before that clown in the White House with an even wackier tan showed up.
dmsilev
@Yutsano: They’ve given some real thought about lighting and sound for all of the ordinary-folks-calling-in. As pretty much everyone who has been living the video teleconference lifestyle can testify, that’s not trivial to do well. Not impossible of course, but it takes planning and forethought.
HumboldtBlue
@germy:
I was just gonna say go to MSNBC. But you’re already there.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
We know that first business owner and his business very well. It’s a small village restaurant and catering business. We aren’t going out to eat but we’ve seen that he’s open, with outdoor tables.
Baud
That was a good clip of Joe.
RaflW
@germy: PBS broke away too. So I launched Cspan on the computer. I don’t need the first 4 minutes of the Convention ‘analyzed’ for me. Sheesh.
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: Sadly, a full half of all states are below average.
Martin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Too bad. That would have been fun. Can’t really blame him for wanting to stay the hell out of things.
Baud
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Neat.
PsiFighter37
I am going to have to watch the speeches during the morning when I wake up…with a young kid these days, I can’t stay up until 11 PM anymore…not with a hard 6 AM wakeup time.
Baud
@RaflW: That’s awful for PBS.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@PsiFighter37: that’s not fair, I’m sure somebody with his lobbying contacts and the pot business has a decent red as his daily tipple, and at least a couple of beers after golf
Yutsano
I less than three Representative Gwen Moore. That is all.
EDIT: BRUUUUUUUUCE!!!
SiubhanDuinne
Gwen Moore is great! I’ve not been aware of her, but she’s a hoot. I say that in the most loving and respectful way. Will have to pay more attention to her.
Omnes Omnibus
I love Gwen Moore. That is all.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: He’s a lobbyist for the pot industry these days. Red wine may not be his relaxant of choice.
TaMara (HFG)
Bruce! The Rising!
John Revolta
@Martin: NO BALLOONS??
That’s it. The Party left me. I’m voting Jill Stein.
laura
@Another Scott: doug you elegant bastard! I’m in, I’m moved by the regular people, I’m charmed.
CURSE YOU BIG TENT!
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev:
HumboldtBlue
OK OK, that really works, come on up for the rising.
That works.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: JINX!!!
TaMara (HFG)
@PsiFighter37: Damn, I’m out of the loop. You have a kid now? That’s awesome! Get some rest.
Adam L Silverman
@Yutsano: Two weeks ago I was texting with BettyC and my iPhone autocorrected Ivanka to “Ivana Karen”.
Yutsano
OH GAWD JOE AND BARACK AT JOHN LEWIS’S FUNERAL!!!
germy
They love the sound of their own voices.
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: iPhone knows.
Adam L Silverman
@HumboldtBlue: It’s not MSDNC for nothing!//
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: Okay, that’s why they had a frame of all white kids. I wondered! ?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
was that Springsteen and Patty? just like folks?
germy
Does this end at 11:00 tonight?
Baud
Watching Republicans for Biden night will be more difficult than I anticipated.
Another Scott
The Crooked feed (on the sidebar) is very good. I’m just listening, but no interruptions for analysis and interpretations.
Bruuuce’s “Rise Up” was just used very effectively. [eta:] or The Rising or whatever. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@germy: EST. Yes.
dmsilev
DC Mayor up.
Elizabelle
Eva Longoria is a great host.
Martin
@dmsilev: Yeah, it’s not really hard or expensive, but it’s a specific expertise that not many people (relative to those that suddenly need it) have. A couple hundred bucks gets you a pretty professional setup.
I have to think it’s a lot less work to get these folks setup than it is to organize a physical convention. Large events like that are such serial undertakings, so you have to do it so rapidly, and there are so many moving parts.
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev:
lamh36
Honestly, I like the format minus the cheers or boos or near silence of an audience, plus ya know it’ll end on time!
I like the opening and I like the use of Eva Longoria as a sort of MC
@WaterGirl: Yup, I’m watching on my Roku TV.
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
I just sparked a 30-comment family text thread with that.
Elizabelle
John Lewis. Was alive about a month ago.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: C-SPAN baby!
NotMax
@germy
By tomorrow they’ll have more of a feel for this and break to analyze the first two minutes.
//
WaterGirl
I am watching at the Crooked Media link (top right) and I also have CSPAN on the TV at the same time. They are covering identical stuff, no pulling away for other junk on CSPAN.
Yutsano
@dmsilev: She can bring the fire but oh man she needs teleprompter practice.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: He’s a functioning alcoholic. He’s drunk from the time he gets up to the time he gets up.
WaterGirl
@germy: Yes, it ends at 11 ET.
janesays
@lamh36: Yes, those were Biden’s grandchildren.
lamh36
Springsteen’s The Rising is such a great and timeless song!
Elizabelle
@Adam L Silverman:
Laughing.
MisterForkbeard
I’m attending the first parent/teacher conference of the year, having to do with how school is supposed to work for my kindergartener. How’s this going for everyone else – good to watch, or just eh?
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: I don’t know if she will going higher in the ranks in the House, but she is a great Rep. for Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
WaterGirl
@MisterForkbeard: worth it to watch!
Yutsano
George Floyd’s brother is amazingly powerful just from speaking his pain.
#SayTheirNames
MazeDancer
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes.
Thought the whole Bruce vid was great
Elizabelle
These lovely gentlemen were in Richmond VA just a few weeks back. At the Robert E. Lee Monument.
dmsilev
@Martin: I’m sure the Republicans will do just fine next week. All they need to do is mail the right equipment to their speakers.
Oh, wait…
piratedan
i can understand why they’re trotting out GOP name holders. Doing their best to indicate just how beyond the pale rump is, for any of those folks still too embarrassed to come right out and state that they will not vote for Trump. These folks are designed to give those folks cover, to let them know that they are not alone.
Its not a biggie for me but it plays the bipartisan card that so many inside the beltway must be played in the name of bipartisanship (Democrats only edition) to give these asshats one less hypocritcal card to play.
We know who our team is and know what they hope to do and this is day one, nothing wrong with recognizing that there is a common opponent imho.
MomSense
Leon Bridges!
Baud
I like us.
Yutsano
I have no idea who this singer is but I like. Plus saxophone!
EDIT: thank you MomSense! I’m way out of touch with pop music.
Amir Khalid
@Another Scott:
Rise up? As in My City of Ruins?
Kay
Why must I listen to Chris Christie? I had hoped he’d be serving his sentence.
Think how quiet it will be when we finally crack down on white collar crime.
Omnes Omnibus
Leon!
@Yutsano: Leon Bridges. Your homework is to listen to as much of his work as possible before tomorrow. You will thank me.
Baud
@Kay:
Turn on MSNBC. They’ve only added a chyron. No talking heads.
ETA: Spoke too soon.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@MisterForkbeard: A balm for the soul. A couple of hours of peace and hope, a rest from the steady diet of rage and despair. A reminder of just how many we are, and what good people we have on our side.
Michelle will be the icing on top of that. Just her existence helps.
germy
Oh, now MSNBC is cutting in?
Another Scott
@Amir Khalid: Mumbly Bruce is Mumbly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-fiRgbpr4 (4:28)
Of course, my hearing isn’t the greatest either, so…
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Kay:
CSPAN on TV
or
the CSPAN stream
or
The crooked media stream
All 3 have nothing but convention, no talking heads
PsiFighter37
@TaMara (HFG): Yes…she’s almost 1 year old now. Kinda crazy how fast (and at times, insanely slow) it has gone.
Elizabelle
@germy: C-Span is the best. No interference.
https://www.c-span.org/convention/?party=dnc
cain
@Adam L Silverman:
They will always be average until they kick Republicans out – and get some folks who can help focus on the issues that the state of Mississippi need addressing.
Yutsano
@germy: It was a very short interruption to give folks an idea what’s coming.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
Damn he has a gorgeous voice.
germy
@Yutsano: Yes, I was grateful for that. The briefest of interruptions.
lamh36
FYI…
Each night will have a female MC!
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: Retro in the best way possible.
guachi
I’m watching the Joe Biden’s YouTube channel feed and it has no talking heads, thankfully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hNCHcJkmw
Adam L Silverman
@HumboldtBlue: See if you can rope Cole into that. He loves those family text threads!
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well the Philly crowd on that thread loved her so Milwaukee (ites?) are fortunate.
Omnes Omnibus
Showing Joe listening to the people. Clever.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: I don’t know the Tuesday person.
HumboldtBlue
@Adam L Silverman:
Hah! We have a huge advantage over Cole, there are six of us and only one of Dad so he’s pretty pliable.
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: It’s funny because it’s true.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: She is on the series Black-ish and is Diana Ross’s daughter.
Yutsano
“We have to not settle down.” John Lewis is smiling from the next existence from that.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
For those without TV or otherwise impeded from watching, there’s also C-SPAN radio.
Just sayin’.
Baud
Some of this live. With glitches and all.
germy
All the great music, and the artists don’t sue us.
cain
@Yutsano:
I read that as MomSensei !
Yutsano
Rep Jim Clyburn!!!
MisterForkbeard
@WaterGirl: Durn. I’ll have to watch it after this is over.
I’ll save commentary on remote Kindergarten for an open thread, but it’s interesting. Glad to hear they’re taking it seriously and have though through how to keep kids engaged for 3 hours a day.
Elizabelle
Jim Clyburn. The Godfather.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Is there a link, or do you need a radio app?
CaseyL
OK, can we have this kind of convention from now on, even after we can gather in person again? This is really really good.
Losing the crowd and crowd noise is a plus. I would say, an unmitigated plus.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: Tracee Ellis Ross is an Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe winning actress for her role on ABC show Black-ish and is actually pretty well known Black actress/personality in her own right, but some folk may know her mother Diana Ross.
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: The DNC probably had to turn some people away.
dmsilev
@CaseyL: But no balloons! Oh, the humanity!
Baud
@CaseyL:
I’m surprised they didn’t do fake crowd noise like in baseball.
lamh36
Yutsano
@CaseyL: I agree. This is lifting me up even more than a noisy crowd ever crowd. Except I would like the nominees to have that crowd.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Oh, I know who she is now, I just didn’t know her name. Good choice. Thank you!
edit: I had no idea her mom was Diana Ross!
Omnes Omnibus
“We know Joe, but, more importantly, Joe knows us.”
germy
@lamh36: She recently starred in a movie about a singer (did her own vocals and very well) but it got lost when covid closed the theaters.
Baud
It’s nicer when no one is booing our people.
MomSense
@Yutsano:
First album is especially good – The River makes me cry every time
Elizabelle
@Omnes Omnibus: Liked that.
jnfr
@Elizabelle:
Blagoevitch
germy
MSNBC cuts in again. Enough!
Thankfully, brief.
Elizabelle
@MomSense: Will give it a listen. Had heard of “Leon Bridges” but had not heard him. He was marvelous.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
You got Cuomo Time After Dark coming up!
Patricia Kayden
dmsilev
@Baud: Can we use a sitcom laugh track next week?
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: I didn’t make that connection to Diana either.
Full service blog, indeed!
Cheers,
Scott.
Elizabelle
@jnfr: Ah. The quality people. The convicted.
germy
Cuomo’s proud of that graph.
lamh36
@CaseyL: Agreed.
Baud
“the division created Trump”
cain
I’m liking this convention so far.
germy
“Trump didn’t create the division. The division created Trump.”
NotMax
@WaterGirl
There’s a C-SPAN Radio app, and also a live stream.
Also available on Sirius XM (channel 132, IIRC) as well as over the air for those in the D.C./Baltimore area at 90.1 FM.
Origuy
@germy: Was the movie The High Note? It’s available on Prime.
dmsilev
Cuomo pointing out that Trump is just a symptom. The GOP and the conservative movement are the disease.
Doug R
@PsiFighter37:
Boehner is an investor in a legal weed company. Someone’s got to test the product
Omnes Omnibus
Cuomo is good in an attack role.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy: great lin
ETA:” Of course we will wear masks, because we are smart, and because I care about you an you care about me”
lamh36
cain
I giggled when Cuomo said the I word – incompetent.
jnfr
@Elizabelle:
She really is. It’s definitely a plus for the DNC that so much creative talent is progressive.
lamh36
That Andrew Cuomo is good ain’t he!
He is bringing it!
dmsilev
“Of course we will wear masks, because we are smart.”
germy
@Origuy: Yes, The HIgh Note.
A talented singer as well as an actress.
Elizabelle
Tee hee.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Xin loi, motherfuckers!
Mike in NC
Does Senator Duckworth have an appearance scheduled at this thing?
Baud
I like the D20 logo.
dmsilev
@Elizabelle:
jnfr
@MisterForkbeard:
I got totally sappy at the opening with people and kids singing, and that was embarrassing. Then they had a prayer to Jesus and I was able to get suitably cranky again.
Regular people and music are great. BLM segment was really necessary. I’m liking it so far.
Elizabelle
A Trump voter. Dead of COVID.
HumboldtBlue
@lamh36:
That’s perfect.
dmsilev
@Baud: Roll 8 or higher on a d20 to make your saving throw against Fascism.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike in NC: Thursday.
scottinnj
Can I vote for this young woman for anything? Very powerful
lamh36
“His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump.” — daughter of man who died from COVID. WOW. #DNC2020
Barbara
His only preexisting condition was believing Donald Trump. Whoa.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
This is powerful testimony
Betty Cracker
“His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that he paid with his life.”
BOOM!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@jnfr:
come sit six feet away, et cetera et cetera. I get that we’re a minority so I roll my eyes and roll with it, but it was unpleasant jolt to me, too, after one of the best renditions of the anthem (which so often… is not well done) I’ve heard in a long time.
Baud
Rapinoe!
NotMax
Talking about her father who died from COVID-19. “His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump.”
Bullseye.
Elizabelle
Will put up the link tomorrow morning. Sharon Stone (actress) lost her grandmother to COVID; her sister and BIL are suffering from it now.
She put up a video (twitter??) advocating voting for Biden.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Megan!
Barbara
Megan’s in the house!
O. Felix Culpa
When I cast my vote for Joe Biden, I’ll do it for my dad.
Betty Cracker
Rapinoe!
Another Scott
Kristen brings the truth.
This is a great presentation. Inspiring, unafraid to tell the truth.
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
I was hoping for red, white, and blue hair from Rapinoe. That’s it. I am voting Stein.
Elizabelle
Love Megan’s purple hair. It suits her.
Loving this Vietnamese-American nurse.
“We know there’s a Round Two coming.” *shiver
SiubhanDuinne
@Barbara:
What a powerful line.
germy
@Betty Cracker: The networks that cut away for their own babbling analysis don’t understand that the speeches from our regular citizens are just as powerful as the big names.
WaterGirl
CNN apparently broke away from Megan R. boo
Omnes Omnibus
Another “I” word, ineptitude.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
I’m loving the stories, and the infinite number of beautiful colours we humans come in. The Dems are doing a very good job.
Adam L Silverman
Good!
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: @WaterGirl: C-SPAN.
NotMax
@Baud
Diff’rent strokes. I find it both too busy and too blah. Doesn’t ‘pop,’ just sort of sits there.
Baud
USPS video.
The Moar You Know
@dmsilev: Good on him for pointing that out. IF we win, a lot of people are going to take the attitude that the war is over and we can all go home. When in reality, it’s just starting. We’re going to be fighting these people for the rest of my life, and I’m not that old. It’s gonna be long. But we have to do it and we have to win.
Baud
Maine!
Barbara
Lacking a leader who cares. Yep. Thanks Michelle Boyle from my hometown for telling it like it is.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
If you love Megan Rapinoe, then you’ll love this touching and badass podcast she recently did on ESPN (link)
SiubhanDuinne
Sara Gideon. Word for a Democratic Senate.
JPL
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Can’t wait to see how the repubs react to this. They will have people who lived by taking quack medicine.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s neat that she introduced the music act.
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: Here you go:
dmsilev
@Baud: I understand Susan Collins is concerned.
SiubhanDuinne
Should I have heard of Maggie Rogers? I haven’t, but I do like her singing.
lamh36
Hmmm…good to know –>
Elizabelle
@Adam L Silverman: Thank you.
jnfr
I’m feeling sappy again. I want to feel more hopeful than I do. I think that’s why Biden pulled head, really. I mean, not because of =me=, but you know.
Baud
@lamh36: I hope they treat the RNC that way.
jnfr
@Elizabelle:
Trump’s type.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, I’m doing CSPAN on TV and the Crooked Media stream on my laptop.
Crooked mentioned that CNN cut away, thought I would warn folks off of CNN.
TS (the original)
@WaterGirl:
Thank you for the side links, I just go there, select the day/event & click on watch the livestream. No commentary, no ads.
And I’m still impressed with the technology – I knew they could do it – but this is beyond excellence.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Love the locations they’ve put people in, not just a bunch of home offices on Zoom. This is about as slick a live event as you could produce in the era of Covid.
MisterForkbeard
@lamh36: It appears to be getting a lot of attention from news orgs.
Also a lot of screeching from Trumpists yelling about how Democrats are just about hate, ignoring the previous hour of hopeful messages.
West of the Cascades
I am really enjoying this, in a way I never have previous conventions. Not having a live audience lets the messages of the people speaking come through more intimately and clearly, and the music interludes have been pitch-perfect so far
Having to actually listen to what people are saying amplifies the Democrats’ message. By contrast, without mindless screaming acolytes (and a virtual convention tossed together over three weeks), the Trump convention is going to suck balls when you actually can hear what their messages are.
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev:
germy
that woman from michigan is on now.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: She’s young and talented.
Kattails
@Adam L Silverman: saw this already from a different link, it’s RAW.
Elizabelle
That woman!
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: We’ll add it to your monthly invoice.
RedDirtGirl
Is the sound delayed for anyone else? Never mind. Just refreshed.
Another Scott
@SiubhanDuinne: Yup, we need to win everywhere. Joe can’t do it alone. (As we all know, but people watching need to take it to heart too.)
Cheers,
Scott.
HumboldtBlue
Bruce, the bike-riding community involved 60-plus Census worker just knocked on my door to remind me about the census and he was thorough.
Listened to me as I stammered “snorgle-did-it-borgle-florgle-got-it-right-here” and then made sure I was a confirmed contact.
I gave Bruce a real piece of my thanks.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Beautiful!
aliasofwestgate
I may live in WI now, but i helped vote Gov Whitmer into office when I lived in MI and i’m glad of it. XD She remains awesome.
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: She’s good, but my heart belongs to drunk Jennifer Granholm.
Adam L Silverman
@Kattails: Yep.
Elizabelle
Bret “Bedbug” Stephens might be on board.
Headline at the FTF NY Times. Have not read the column.
Bertintx
I’m on ATT U-verse in Austin and found DNCTV on channel 1212
jnfr
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
We are not alone! I saw other eyerolls at it too.
O. Felix Culpa
Science, not politics or ego, will drive their decisions.
Barbara
@Adam L Silverman: This is just horrible, although I’m not sure it’s fair to expect Steve Bullock to personally call her back. What a shocking loss.
NotMax
WaterGirl, humbly suggest you specify in the sidebar that it’s C-SPAN Radio Live Stream, so as not to confuse with the video stream also linked there, a bit above.
Elizabelle
John Prine!
Baud
Republicans for Biden up.
SiubhanDuinne
Well, for some reason “In Memoriam” must have stirred up a dust storm in here.
mrmoshpotato
@lamh36: PBS is carrying it live (so is their YouTube channel).
Baud
“stable enough”
germy
@Elizabelle: My wind got cut off when I heard him. And seeing the face of the nurse who killed herself.
Omnes Omnibus
Stable enough….
dmsilev
Now the apostates appear…
Baud
The GOP clips are mercifully brief.
WaterGirl
I’m adding all the links and info as we go, so please keep sharing them.
Origuy
I lost it when I heard John Prine’s voice.
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: Dusty at your place too, eh?
Elizabelle
Donald Trump has no idea how to run a business, let alone an economy. — Meg Whitman
MisterForkbeard
@Baud: Welp, gotta admit I’m slightly curious about who they got from the Republican end. Whitman and Kasich aren’t that interesting.
dmsilev
OK, literal crossroads for John Kasich.
Omnes Omnibus
Christ, I still can stand Kasich.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Do you have a link?
Baud
@MisterForkbeard:
W.!
germy
Will trump get any democrats to speak at his convention?
Maybe Alan Dershowitz.
Barbara
@Baud: No keynotes, but short statements. Just the right note.
Quinerly
@Elizabelle: ?
Kay
John Kasich standing in a field. I deserve a medal for this.
MisterForkbeard
@germy: That one crazy Democratic congresswoman from Florida, maybe? The one that keeps winning with lots of Republican money but is just batshit insane and also loves Trump?
EDIT: Maybe Nina Turner or Briahna Joy Gray? I’m sure both of them would LOVE the chance.
cain
I hope that the ratings are noted because we can literally do an attack ad that simply crows about how much bigger our ratings are.
TaMara (HFG)
I’m liking this (and MSNBC has been unobtrusive).
These Republicans for Biden are good. No matter what you think of them – they aren’t talking to us, anyway.
Uncle Cosmo
@Doug R:
dww44
@germy: I thought it was an ER doctor who took her own life.?
Kay
Or the rolling lawns of an estate. In New Hampshire, probably.
Adam L Silverman
So the freak out about letting the four Republicans talk was sound and fury signifying nothing. It was short, sweet, and to the point. And the cognitive hook for Republican leaning Independents and on the fence Republicans in terms of giving them permission to go ahead and vote for Biden to put country over party is worth the five minutes or so it took on the program.
TS (the original)
@Barbara:
Kasich way too long & trying to say the GOP is still a viable option in politics.
cain
Kasich isn’t not doing that bad.
germy
@MisterForkbeard:
Tara Reade!
SiubhanDuinne
@mrmoshpotato:
Sorry, can’t read your comment. There’s something in my eye.
Marcopolo
Evening everyone. This format is working much better than I thought it would. Don’t miss the crowd stuff at all. And it’s moving a lot faster. I’m also really liking the short speeches—no doubt because my attention span has been destroyed by modern society :).
Anyways, the only downside is I did not prepare adequately. I totally forgot to buy snacks of any kind to munch on while I watch.
Also too, you think a live crowd would have booed Kasich off the floor after his AOC comments?
NotMax
Wondering if maybe Mary Trump will be one of the “surprise speakers?”
O. Felix Culpa
@TaMara (HFG): I am too. My in-laws are conservatives from Ohio. This is exactly the kind of thing that will speak to them.
Lyrebird
@Elizabelle: Good, RNC can have those thugs.
We have BRUCE.
That’s all I need. Not that I needed anything to go all out for Joe!
WaterGirl
I just added a new thread so the phone peeps don’t get too much of a workout with a long thread.
Baud
Damn, all these Republicans are all white. Such a contrast from the Dem part of the convention..
Elizabelle
Now, we see the white males.
The regretful Trump voters.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: PBS News hour – DNC Night 1
lamh36
@Kay: someone pointed out a literal “fork in the road”!!
smh…LOL
MisterForkbeard
@germy: How did I miss Tara Reade? My god. Yes, she would be perfect. And totally on-brand for Trump.
Elizabelle
There’s that word again. Decency.
Doug Jones!
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
These short speeches are effective; they’re direct and straight to the point.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: I will say that it was short enough that I did not have time to sharpened chop sticks in the pencil sharpener and put my eyes out. So that’s nice.
Alison Rose
Doug Jones’ tone of voice sounds like he’s trying to sell me new carpeting.
Quinerly
@Adam L Silverman: couldn’t agree more. Very well done, imo.
Kay
Doug Jones! I love him.
Adam L Silverman
@Barbara: That may be, but my guess is someone on his staff will reach out and try to set up a call.
Yutsano
Senator Doug Jones bringing some fire! I REALLY want him to be re-elected!
Kay
@Alison Rose:
I like that about him :)
SiubhanDuinne
@cain:
I was just wondering that. If the ratings and reviews are good, Trump’s twitter feed is gonna be LIT!
trnc
@germy:
Does he still call himself a democrat? If so, I would really prefer he switch parties.
Another Scott
I know it’s too much to expect that these Republicans will actually do more than say that it’s all Donnie’s fault, that there’s nothing wrong with the GOP. But, still, it’s grating when they say that it’s not about party, that we all have to be respectful and listen to each other and find a better way forward and…
Still, it’s good that they’re willing to speak up against Donnie. And I recognize I’m not the audience.
Cheers,
Scott.
Barbara
@TS (the original): Agreed. He was too long.
Adam L Silverman
@germy: He’ll keep his underwear on too!
germy
@trnc: He made a career on Fox being the “even the democrats say” guy.
Marcopolo
@dww44: She was one of the featured photos during the in memory segment.
jnfr
@TaMara (HFG):
I thought they made their points but were still unobtrusive.
There’s a lot going on tonight in this Convention show.
germy
@Adam L Silverman:
Well, around his ankles is technically “on”
mrmoshpotato
PBS is now taking to reporters. Switching to Joe Biden’s YouTube stream.
Senator Klobuchar is up.
trnc
Yeah, but when was the last time Dersh was caught on camera saying anything most democrats actually say?
Adam L Silverman
@MisterForkbeard: She’s been publicly begging the RNC for week’s to get on the convention program.
Marcopolo
@trnc: Mr. Illinois hair, Rod Blagovich. Except he’s more of a pardoned felon than Democrat.
HumboldtBlue
@Adam L Silverman:
Nah, Kasich is still a fuckbag.
Adam L Silverman
@Alison Rose: Go for the Berber!
Kay
@lamh36:
I do give them credit. I, for one, would have trouble doing it.
I had an R (female) judge tell me she’s voting for Biden today. “I just hope he doesn’t go too far LEFT”
I wasn’t feeling generous enough to reassure her. I’m not her mom.
HumboldtBlue
@Another Scott:
Yeah it’s fucking enraging, but medicine is medicine.
God-fucking-dammit.
MisterForkbeard
@Adam L Silverman: I bet they might do it. They’re scrambling to put something together for the convention, and they’re behind by a lot in the polls. “Put Tara Reade back in the news” is probably a good idea for them, given the situation.
She’s full of shit, but it gives them another run at Biden and to pretend that Biden’s a rapist, Kamala doesn’t care, etc and to do it on a national platform that will get a lot of media attention.
Adam L Silverman
@HumboldtBlue: I’m not saying he’s not. But that doesn’t change the point of what they did and the effect it will have.
germy
@MisterForkbeard:
horrible.
HumboldtBlue
@Adam L Silverman:
If it brings one conscientous voter to vote for Biden I’m good.
It’s all performance.
Kattails
Where the hell is Bernie? that’s a lot of cordwood behind him. (Practicality rules)
Marcopolo
As I listen to Wilmer I picture him leaning out of an open window of some high rise trying to talk one of his more fervent supporters off the ledge & into the voting booth. Hope it works!
trnc
@MisterForkbeard:
She got a lot of media attention a few months ago, and it didn’t really work out for her. I doubt she moves the needle if she gets a spot.
SFAW
@dmsilev:
Would you rather have turkeys, Mr. Carlson?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Powerful choice of closing song. Raising those echoes of 1968 many of us have been feeling all year. And I saw at least one peace sign.
MisterForkbeard
@trnc: The goal would be to get the media talking about it again, which they’d do.
But it might still backfire tremendously.