DNC NEWS: According to CNN's @jamiegangel, there is a block in the schedule tonight and what will occupy that block is only known by a very small group of planners
— That Gay Guy Candle Co. đ„„đŽ (@gayguycandleco) August 22, 2024
The ‘guesses’ on twitter, and I’m sure other social media, mostly range between snark & crackpot. Here’s the official schedule, per ABC’s Chicago affiliate:
… The DNC has run late every night so far, but if previous night programming is a guide, the hope will be for Harris to take the stage in the latter half of the 9 p.m. hour, CT.
The full program for the final night of the Democratic Convention has not yet been released, but Harris-Walz spokesman Michael Tyler did confirm the following speakers for Thursday night:
– Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland
– Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge
– California Senator Alex Padilla
– Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey
– Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin
– Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren
– Arizona Senator Mark Kelly
– Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey
– Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
– Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark
– Illinois Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger
– Georgia U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath
– Colorado U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse
– Florida U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost
– Michigan U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin
– Texas U.S. Rep. Colin Allred
– Arizona U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego
– “The Tennessee Three:” State Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, Justin Pearson
– Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords
– Gun violence survivors and gun safety advocatesA performance by Pink is also confirmed, and she was seen rehearsing at the United Center Thursday afternoon. CNN is reporting The Chicks will also perform Thursday night.
And a number of performance mic checks and Oprah Winfrey’s surprise appearance Wednesday night have fueled speculation about whether there may be another surprise guest tonight. Could it be Taylor Swift? BeyoncĂ©? No one is telling, so we’ll just have to find out…
More snippets from last night:
Actress Mindy Kaling said at the Democratic National Convention that Vice President Kamala Harris taught her to make dosas the first time they met. pic.twitter.com/jrHqTC9e74
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 22, 2024
As "the man from Hope", Clinton labels Harris as "the President of Joy"
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 22, 2024
Buttigieg: And don't even get me started on his new running mate. At least Mike Pence was polite⊠pic.twitter.com/7Uynmt3pdK
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 22, 2024
Oprah Winfrey at the DNC: "We know all the old tricks and tropes that are designed to distract us from what actually matters. But we are beyond ridiculous tweets and lies and foolery. These are complicated times, people, and they require adult conversation."
— Joey Garrison (@joeygarrison) August 22, 2024
Oprah Winfrey said âthere is no American dreamâ without access to reproductive rights during her DNC speech on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/O8DGkSwFMG
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 22, 2024
In our OPRAH voice:
You got a vote!
You got a vote!
You gotta vote….
For Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States! #DNC2024— KAMALA NATION (@KamalaNation) August 22, 2024
Amanda Gormanâs full speech at the DNC pic.twitter.com/7ir11SE5as
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 22, 2024
Jeffries: Donald Trump is like an old boyfriend. Who you broke up with, but he just won't go away. He has spent the last four years trying to get back into a relationship with the American people. Bro, we broke up with you for a reason. pic.twitter.com/Vrrov0k0W1
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 22, 2024
Incredibly fun to speak on the same night at the DNC Convention as my longtime friend Pete. Hey @PeteButtigieg, weâve come a long way from university! Loved seeing you and @Chasten. pic.twitter.com/ChuNsbQvfE
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) August 22, 2024
âAs a father, I refuse to believe our kids are doomed to grow up in a broken America.â
Letâs win in November and give our kids and grandkids the future they deserve. Help us: https://t.co/fpnLccONt0 pic.twitter.com/P9jwEKn5T9
— Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) August 22, 2024
The Democrats have a very deeeeeep benchâŠ.@iamwesmoore is awesome and this is savage ??! pic.twitter.com/RhHKyK4voK
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) August 22, 2024
Comedian Kenan Thompson brought back the âProject 2025" tome as he talked to various Americans who would be impacted by the proposed policies.
âYou ever see a document that can kill a small animal and democracy at the same time?â he said.https://t.co/p8UBOZa3cl pic.twitter.com/05PhI1gFmE
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 22, 2024
Iâm sure this wonât upset Trump. https://t.co/NnFHf6rVx2
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 20, 2024
Baud
LFG!
Leto
Apparently social media is melting down speculating if itâs going be either BeyoncĂ© or Taylor Swift whoâs going to show up and perform. My money is on itâs James Taylor, rescheduled from Monday night.
TBone
As a proud Pennsylvanian, I’m excited to see that Senator Casey is appearing tonight as well as just plain excited for all of it!
He can be sly as well as understated, a classic combo. LFG Bob!
MazeDancer
Easily 80% of the women delegates tonight are in Suffragette White. And many of the men.
Getting some of that 2016 excitement about a woman on her way to the Oval.
Please, Goddess of Justice, help us make it happen this time.
Leto
@TBone: the commercials of his Iâve seen lately have pivoted to: Dave McCormick directly financed Chinese fentanyl! I was like⊠well, thatâs definitely an escalation.
TBone
@Leto: he got the vibes memo this year!
Frankensteinbeck
If you’re keeping a block secret but you already have P!nk on the schedule, anything except Swift or Beyonce will be an anticlimax.
TBone
@Frankensteinbeck: not for me.
Leto
@Frankensteinbeck: Taylor! Taylor! Taylor!
James, that is.
Attapooch
Why does it have to be Swift or Beyonce? I’d try to get them both.
zhena gogolia
Thank God for a new thread!
hitchhiker
Trying to temper expectations, but damn. Every night so far has held surprises and gifts. I really don’t want this to end.
suzanne
@Leto: If it’s James Taylor, I won’t mind falling asleep before 11 PM EST.
ColoradoGuy
Me too!
TBone
@hitchhiker: I hear that but these late nights are kicking my ass.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: My friend who wanted Kinzinger to be the VP pick will be happy.
zhena gogolia
@MazeDancer: And I’m praying to good old-fashioned God
David đKHiveđ Koch
I’m really disappointed. The media promised us 1968 style riots and KAOS and all we got was joy and fun.đ
SiubhanDuinne
@Leto:
Hadnt even occurred to me, but that would make huge sense. I donât mind saving Bey and Tay for Kamalaâs inauguration.
Leto
@Attapooch: because weâre not trying to create a happiness singularity, ending the known universe in one orgasmic go.
On second thought, bring on the singularity!
Baud
@MazeDancer:
If it does happen, I didn’t think we’d be here this soon. Not 2024 or 2028.
zhena gogolia
@David đKHiveđ Koch: There’s one night left.
But seriously, I’m impressed by the organization. I loved the 2016 convention, but it had a lot of booing of speakers.
Jackie
@TBone: As Walz sez⊠we can rest when weâre dead!đ
Leto
@suzanne: so say we all!
@SiubhanDuinne: that would be⊠well, see my comment at 20.
TBone
@zhena gogolia: and I’m praying to ALL the gawds!
David đKHiveđ Koch
@Leto: Somewhere LBJ’s Daisy Ad is smiling
Jackie
Is that Jim Clayburn doing the voice-over?
SatanicPanic
if it’s NOT Beyonce or Taylor Swift someone has done a very poor job of setting expectations
SiubhanDuinne
@hitchhiker:
Same. Iâm loving it all â the speeches, the music, the sheer goddam joy, the love, the optimismâŠ. What a glorious week itâs been.
Mousebumples
Liz Cheney? And she hasn’t told her family yet, so it’s a big surprise? Or Dubya
ETA – don’t love either of them, but I’ll have them as allies, supporting Kamala.
Thylacine
Beyoncé definitely but maybe someone additional?
lowtechcyclist
@zhena gogolia:
He makes all things new!
Baud
Don’t pray, vote!
Jackie
@Baud: đđ»
TBone
@Baud: I’ll be rolling up on my voting location to drop off my ballot(s) wearing my pink Chucks with the sparkly laces, in my Fetterman I Vote In This Hoodie! playing Get This Party Started loudly for the entire parking lot and office interior!
(Hubby ballot makes two)
FelonyGovt
My Rep., Ted Lieu is also speaking.
dmsilev
Moses will return, part Lake Michigan and the traffic on Michigan Avenue, and usher in the Lady of the Lake who will bestow Excalibur unto Kamala Harris
suzanne
@Leto: Taylor Swift was named after James Taylor.
James Taylor is where rizz went to die.
Kent
I listened to James Taylor way back in the early 1980s.
In contrast to say Neil Young, had James Taylor produced anything new and interesting in this century?  Or is he still living off his 1970s hits?
Baud
@dmsilev:
Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
TBone
@dmsilev: đđ
Baud
Jesus. They didn’t block off hidden time for James Taylor.
ETA: Maybe it’ll be Jesus.
dmsilev
@Baud: Look, we were promised a coronation, and thatâs what weâre going to get
narya
I finally got around to watching Walz’s speech today, and, damn, he understood the assignment and completed it with an A+. The love on his family’s faces definitely made it dusty in here.
narya
@Baud: No moistened bints for us!
SatanicPanic
@Baud: hell no they didn’t, that would be nuts. 80% of the audience couldn’t name one of his songs.
No one’s mentioned Charli XCX. It might be her.
Baud
Via reddit, nice photo.
realbtl
If I’m JT there’s no way in hell I’m going on with these expectations floating around.
MisterForkbeard
@Thylacine: Beyonce, and then surprise guest Mike Pence will dance out onto the stage and endorse Kamala Harris because “she won’t try to have you murdered”
ssdd
@Baud: JFK jr.
Another Scott
@Baud: If he weren’t 86 years old, the obvious choice is…
Anthony Hopkins.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@MisterForkbeard:
Mike Pence would be wild.
I think I head George W Bush as a probably humorous suggestion.
Ken
The most out there mystery guest speculation I’ve seen: Melania Trump.
Hey, she’s not been campaigning for her husband.
FelonyGovt
I like Alex Padilla but heâs not much of an orator.
Baud
@Ken:
Would probably invalidate the prenup.
scav
@Baud: Ok, what if it’s Simone Biles in a sparkly outfit tumbling in and sticking the landing while holding a ceremonial broadsword in one hand and a tiara in the other? Â Water for the synchronized swimmers as backup might be a bit of an ask though . . .
Mousebumples
@Ken: what about Barron? Announce he’s 18 now (I think?) and moving in with Tiffany – and voting Dem.
Mousebumples
@scav: her husband does play for Da Bears. They probably have a local place in Chicago.
SatanicPanic
@realbtl: I don’t think there’s anyone in the world who in their right mind would want to walk out to an audience expecting Beyonce or Taylor Swift.
KatKapCC
@Ken: Melania, and she’ll be also be carrying a giant book, but instead of Project 2025, she’ll open it to reveal the divorce papers she just had served to Trump.
I loathe her, but it would bring me great glee if she ditched him publicly before the election.
BR
Interesting point made by Jason Johnson on Michael Steele’s podcast — he pointed out that the cable networks have realized that Harris can give them as big of ratings as Trump. But NYT and WaPo can’t get in on that action so they’re the ones that are mad now.
raven
@Baud:
Now, I go down to Speaker’s Corner,
I’m thunderstruckThey got free speech tourists,
police in trucks
Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong
There’s a protest singer, he’s singing a protest song
Manyakitty
@Baud: Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
Has anyone seen Sen. Ossoff? He’s very quiet.
LFG!!!
Baud
Ted Lieu is hilarious.
KatKapCC
ROFL!! AI joke from Ted Lieu :D
schrodingers_cat
@Frankensteinbeck: Some people were speculating that secret person will be Bush or Pence or Romney.
Mousebumples
@Manyakitty: I was wondering the same thing. I saw Warnock, I know, but he may have other family commitments or something?
wjca
Or merely say: “I just got back the results of the DNA paternity test, any I’m relieved beyond belief to say . . . the pool boy did it!” (Utter meltdown in progress.)
KatKapCC
@schrodingers_cat: GWB: “Remember when I said ‘That was some weird shit’ about Trump’s inaugural speech? Yeah folks, it’s only gotten worse.”
Mousebumples
In all seriousness, probably Queen Bey.
cain
@Ken:
Damn that would turn Trump world into an uproar.
Nina
The professional Taylor Swift plane stalkers insta account says her private plane just landed in Chicago. Um, not that I follow the professional Taylor Swift stalkers…
Mousebumples
@wjca: đ
Geminid
@KatKapCC:
Melania: “Donald? You’re fired!”
schrodingers_cat
My governor Maura Healey has a speaking slot this evening. I bet she will talk about their time as the AGs for their respective states. I was on a Zoom call with MH once and she had some anecdotes about their time as AGs. IIRC they are good friends.
Mousebumples
@Nina: đ
Baud
@Nina:
Hmm. They did all this secrecy but didn’t hide her plane info?
cain
@Mousebumples:
It’s gonna be most of Trump’s former cabinet.
KatKapCC
@Mousebumples: If so, that’s gonna be wild. They’re going to blow the roof off that place.
SatanicPanic
@Nina: no way. No fucking way. I really hope it’s true.
Baud
Well, kudos to the DNC for creating the buzz.
schrodingers_cat
@KatKapCC: Yeah I remember but tankie left loved that American carnage shit.
Baud
@cain:
Bill Barr!
rikyrah
Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) posted at 6:06 PM on Thu, Aug 22, 2024:
Democratic Convention unveils new Kamala Harris ad narrated by Morgan Freeman https://t.co/y2aOfV3J1H
(https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1826757942907207884?t=U5WNQ7eacNXSdJ4JawoT6g&s=03)
MisterForkbeard
@schrodingers_cat: Pence would be the real get. Former VP that repudiates his own president on live television? Yeah.
Also, won’t happen. Pence knows MAGA will murder him. And the Dems couldn’t trust him to not go out there and publicly repudiate Harris, which would absolutely make Pence a rising GOP star again.
MazeDancer
@Jackie: Morgan Freeman.Voice of God.
Mousebumples
@Baud: đđ
Maybe that’s what the bee post was about. Bzzzz.
SatanicPanic
@Baud: i see what you did there
Frankensteinbeck
@Mousebumples:Â and @Nina:
I am too pessimistic to think this is true, but oh my fucking god, it would be hilarious if Beyonce and Swift heard the speculation about them performing together at the DNC, thought “That would be EPIC” and contacted each other to see if the other would agree.
Elizabelle
@wjca: Â Poor Barron looks just like young Donald Trump in recent photos. Â More than either older son. Â No question of paternity, alas.
rikyrah
32 out of her 36 line sisters will be there tonight. AKA’s are going to show out!đ©·đđ©·đ
Delk
Itâs Susan Sarandon!
FelonyGovt
::: Shallow alert::: Â Joe Neguse is really good looking.
schrodingers_cat
@MisterForkbeard: People are just making wild improbable speculations at this point.
Thylacine
@FelonyGovt: Thatâs my rep!
schrodingers_cat
@FelonyGovt: Young Emhoff was quite hot!
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Welcome to Internet discourse!
Old School
@Baud:
That would be worth it just for the crowd reaction when they announced, âPlease welcome George W. Bush.â
KatKapCC
Perfect song choice for Kamala! “Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent, gotta kiss myself, I’m so pretty” :D
frosty
@Baud: Ha! I knew that would be coming. After all, you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
M31
I heard a guy (think he was from the Marine Band) who played Flight of the Bumblebee on the tuba
in tempo, it was awesome
3Sice
I was promised cops beating up on hippies, and got this instead:
https://x.com/Chicago_Police/status/1826728442530070985
WaterGirl
@Frankensteinbeck: Dolly Parton might like to have a word.
Bill Arnold
@SatanicPanic:
Could be “and”, as noted in a comment above. That’d be wild.
Starfish
@FelonyGovt: I am sure his wife and daughter agree.
Leto
@WaterGirl: oooo, thatâs a good choice!
Starfish
@Thylacine: You are in my district?
Frankensteinbeck
@WaterGirl:
You are correct. Dolly Parton would not be a disappointment.
Leto
And just when you thought the WankPanzerâs QC couldnât get any worse:
Tesla Cybertrucks are being delivered to customers covered in dirt and full of trash
Baud
@Leto:
“I think it’s a return.”
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Narrated by god?
Old School
The Taylor Swift Jet Tracker has her in Nashville.
Baud
Bob Casey up.
Geminid
@FelonyGovt: Neguse is another member of the talented House Class of 2018. So are four other of tonight’s speakers: Reps. Elissa Slotkin, Colin Allred and and Lucy McBath, as well as Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. Andy Kim, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Lauren Underwood spoke to the convention earlier this week. That was a very talented group of Democrats who are beginning to make their mark.
Baud
@Old School:
She’s picking up Dolly!
David đKHiveđ Koch
surprise guest:
Jimmy Hoffa delivering the Teamster Union endorsement
Baud
Liz Warren up.
HumboldtBlue
James Fallows on the depth of the Democrats’ bench.
KatKapCC
Lots of love for Liz :D
Elizabelle
@Leto: Â the WaPost commenting software will not allow âwankpanzer.â Â (Ask me how I know.). Theyâre OK with Incel Camino, though.
Rolling Raccoon Crib might work too.
SiubhanDuinne
JFC but Bob Casey is an uninspiring speaker. Maybe Liz W will be better.
Baud
People are really happy Casey is off the stage.
TBone
Snort! Bob Casey bringing up diapers was not an accident! đ
He might not be a rip roaring public speaker, but he knows how to shiv (and legislate) effectively.
EarthWindFire
@FelonyGovt: Let me join you at the shallow end of the pool.
KatKapCC
I like how she said “the felon” like she really wanted to say “that MFer”.
Hungry Joe
POSTCARD UPDATE
Still waiting on the next batch of 200 from Postcards to Swing States, so Iâm helping Ms. Joe with her Postcards for Sherrod Brown.
Yesterday â 3. (Too much time eaten up watching some great TV out of Chicago.)
Leto
@Elizabelle: those are all acceptable substitutes. Incel Camino does have special ring to it đ
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: I was wondering why I hadn’t seen 23 and Meemaw
(h/t Black Twitter) yet.
Another Scott
@Baud: [ rofl! ]
Cheers,
Scott.
Scout211
Oooh, couch burn. Go Liz!
David đKHiveđ Koch
Jamie Gangel is CNN’s dedicated republican whisperer.
The surprise guest has to be a republican. i’m thinking Liz Cheney.
KatKapCC
COUCH JOKE
Leto
Liz got couch jokes! And itâs layered!
SiubhanDuinne
Liz with the couch jokes đ€Łđ
FelonyGovt
Couch joke!
Baud
@David đKHiveđ Koch:
I don’t know why they’d keep that secret.
M31
lol Liz Warren with the couch joke
remember when one of those creepy ‘gotcha’ journalists tried to start a story that she’d fucked a Marine to exhaustion? lol it was classic
Warren posted the next day a shout out from her alma mater, saying “Go Cougars” hahahahahaha
beef
I heard a rumor it would be Jimmy Carter, but that seems unlikely since his grandson already spoke.
HumboldtBlue
“I know a couch commando when I see one.”
Go on, Rep. Crow!
KatKapCC
OMG I just choked. Couch commando!
David đKHiveđ Koch
@Baud:Â â
yeah, it doesn’t compute. but it has to be someone with a high profile, but I just dont see Pence or Dubya appearing, so that leaves Cheney or Chris Christie.
WaterGirl
@David đKHiveđ Koch: We’re supposed to be super excited about a republican outcast?
Baud
@David đKHiveđ Koch:
Pence is the only one I can see keeping secret and I agree it won’t be him.
JPL
@David đKHiveđ Koch: that’s what I thought but it would be a letdown
Chief Oshkosh
@Baud: OMG, a fellow sufferer… :)
SiubhanDuinne
Dolly and Taylor S seems unlikely in the extreme, but OMG WHAT IF????!?!?!?!
tam1MI
Just turned on the convention in time to see my state’s very own Elissa Slotkin! :)
JPL
If Liz and her dad appeared together they be booed
Manyakitty
@schrodingers_cat: Hakeem Jeffries made me tingly yesterday with that speech. Whooooo!
Gin & Tonic
@David đKHiveđ Koch:Â â
Silly jackals, the surprise guest is Baud!
David đKHiveđ Koch
@Mousebumples: What bee post?
twbrandt
@tam1MI: she was very good!
Leto
@M31:
I remember that! I also remember not a single person who thought that was a negative. Weirdoâs.
Leto
Yes⊠google FUBAR⊠luuul
Another Scott
Taylor’s “Shake it off” was just played.
Catchy!
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
Wow.
SiubhanDuinne
Okay, Iâm very sorry, but FFS, MSNBC, this is by no possible stretch of the imagination âBreaking News,â as your huge chyron has it:
Thatâs just stupid and makes us not trust you even more than we already donât.
Another Scott
Rev. Sharpton is bringing the fire.
Good, good.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Hey, it’s news to me!
The Audacity of Krope
I missed Warren, have to catch her later. Gottdamn MBTA construction got me coming home an hour late.
MA representing tonight. I recently moved to Kathleen Clark’s district. I never heard her speak before.
Princess
Interesting whoâs not speaking â Mark Warner, Adam Schiff, Michael Bennet. I mean, there isnât time for everyone but Iâd think Schiff as a guy running for a new senate seat, a decent public speaker, and key to the impeachment would get a slot. Or maybe I just missed him.
narya
@SiubhanDuinne: theyâve had that on the chyron all week.
Baud
@Princess: I don’t think he spoke. Maybe because he’s considered a shoe in?
geg6
@Frankensteinbeck:
Agreed.
tam1MI
Al Sharpton’s still got it. He’s set the convention on fire!
KatKapCC
Yessssss. The Exonerated Five. Take that, Trump.
geg6
@Attapooch:
That place would melt down. Â Chicago would be having an earthquake. Â I would love it!
Scout211
Whoa. Central Park five telling truths.
Baud
Sharpton and Warnock should have a preach off.
The Audacity of Krope
@Princess: Schiff could be…controversial right now. I sure as shit don’t want to hear from him. Bennett less so, literally ran a Presidential campaign four years ago on “let’s not try anything new.”
BR
Oh, are we all forgetting about Jacinda Ardern? Wasn’t she going to show up?
dr. luba
@tam1MI: She brought it, too! Â Go Michigan!
Leto
45 wanted us un-alive.
MFâerâŠ
David đKHiveđ Koch
DNC is pulling out all the stops
Mousebumples
@David đKHiveđ Koch: at #70
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/08/22/thursday-evening-open-thread-gearing-up-for-a-really-big-closing-act/#comment-9331614
A WH staffer posted just a đ to her personal Twitter page.
Manyakitty
@Princess: Sherrod Brown isn’t there, either.
wjca
a) Shiff doesn’t need a leg up for his election campaign. b) He doesn’t need a slot to give him more national exposure. c) California is already a lock. d) There are plenty of other rising stars who can be helped more by an appearance.
zhena gogolia
Wow!!!
Baud
@Manyakitty:
He stayed away to help his reelection chances. Also Testoe.
Allred will be speaking tonight though.
Scout211
That was powerful. Tears.
M31
1) wow
2) fuck Donald Trump
SiubhanDuinne
@narya:
Didnt know that. I often donât bother to look at the screen, just have it on as background noise much of the time. I’m fine with it if they want to promote MVPâs acceptance speech. But calling it âbreaking newsâ? Come the fuck on.
tam1MI
Where are the demonstrators? Are they invisible?
tam1MI
We may disagree on other things on this blog, but we can all come together in our mockery of Elon Musk! :)
The Audacity of Krope
Easily mistaken for dumpsters, after all. See their history with raccoons.
Leto
@tam1MI: this is the way.
Scout211
Another DNC thread upstairs
Princess
@Manyakitty: I expect thatâs his choice. Brown probably wants distance from Harris.
Manyakitty
@Baud: that makes me think Texas is more in play than otherwise suggested.
David đKHiveđ Koch
@Mousebumples:Â â
Bee is the well used nickname of Beyonce.
Would be incredible if she shows.
Baud
@Manyakitty:
There was buzz about a good poll recently.
Manyakitty
@Princess: I guess. He’s my senator and I’ll vote for him but I’m not excited about it.
MagdaInBlack
@The Audacity of Krope: Sitting in traffic tonight, 2 cars up in the next lane was the 2nd Cyber “Truck” I’ve seen in the area. If you want to make them even uglier, paint them matt charcoal, like this one was.
Tesla S in front of me had a bumper sticker ” I know he’s a jerk, but I haven’t bought gas in years.”
Manyakitty
@Baud: in that case, let’s get Coach and the football star to make a few stops.
I also love that we stole “Coach” from tubby. El. Oh. El.
Manyakitty
@MagdaInBlack: that bumper sticker is legit funny đ€Ł
The Audacity of Krope
@MagdaInBlack: Driving down the freeway last week I wanted to switch lanes but someone was passing me on the left, so I wait. Then I see it, the Batmobile from a Batman production that was ultimately rejected for being too angular and abstract.
No, just a Cybertruck.
Oh, and gotta love that bumper sticker.
MagdaInBlack
@Manyakitty: Lol, yeah, it made me laugh too
BR
Trump’s skin looks like it’s melting:
https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us/post/3l2duply6wx2n
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3l2duyffy4y2z
Ksmiami
@SiubhanDuinne: more likely Beyoncé
MagdaInBlack
@BR: I’m watching his speech now. I see he is no longer coloring his hair.
Fake Irishman
Has anyone heard from Cole since last night? Imagine him rolling across that stage on his riding mower.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@BR:
He looks pretty bad in that photo. I can’t tell what that round pin is he’s wearing
Fake Irishman
Whoever it is, it wonât top the time that Clint Eastwood debated a chair at the 2012 RNC.
The Audacity of Krope
@Fake Irishman: The post upstairs is by Cole.
The Audacity of Krope
@Fake Irishman: Clint Eastwood debating a chair where he put fake policy and foul words in the mouth of Barack Obama is the perfect metaphor for theÂ
modermcontemporary Republican Party.FelonyGovt
@BR: He looks VERY unhealthy (she said hopefully)
Fake Irishman
@Baud:
That Texas race is intriguing. I know that weâve all written it off and are trashing Colin Allred because heâs not embracing Harris or has a bad ad strategy or something. But the polling hasnât been bad and it is interesting that he has a prime speaking slot at the DNC. Letâs see how he approaches it.
Fake Irishman
@The Audacity of Krope: but was it from Chicago?
The Audacity of Krope
@Fake Irishman: There is no way to know for sure…
Fake Irishman
@Fake Irishman:
Ok, Standard-issue three minute speech, but he sure wasnât running away from Harris.
Geminid
@TBone: Senator Casey might be underrated by Dems outside the Keystone State, but Pennsylvanians reelected Casey by over 600,000 votes in 2018 so they must like what they see.
Geminid
@Princess: Mark Warner is not up for election this year. Besides, people are finding it hard enough to stay awake already.
geg6
@FelonyGovt:
Yes, yes he is.
Lyrebird
@Baud:Â â
 re: “buzz” – excellent, almost laughed as much as the Rimsky-Korsakov tweet.
YouTube link for people not familiar. Might not float your boat, but will not sting.
Thanks@Mousebumples! â
Ken
@BR: Ear’s healed up nicely, though. You’d hardly believe a bullet passed through it.
Citizen Alan
@Baud:Â I would love to see Jesus descend from Heaven to give a speech about religious pluralism and compassion towards the poor before endorsing Kamala Harris. And then every conservative Christian in the country can overtly deny Jesus instead of just tacitly.
The Audacity of Krope
The Peter Party.
Citizen Alan
@SiubhanDuinne: The fact that MSNBC would post that chyron is literally the most persuasive evidence I’ve seen that Biden is going to sneak back in and reclaim the nomination.
Citizen Alan
@The Audacity of Krope:Â My personal conspiracy theory is that, on his deathbed, Clint Eastwood will confess that he did that chair routine with the intention of ruining the RNC because he was secretly an Obama supporter.