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You are here: Home / Elections 2024 / Open Thread: Michelle Obama Speaks in Atlanta

Open Thread: Michelle Obama Speaks in Atlanta

by Anne Laurie|  October 29, 20248:58 pm| 15 Comments

This post is in: Elections 2024, Kamala Harris for President, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

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WATCH LIVE: Michelle Obama hosts get-out-the-vote rally with Kerry Washington, Shonda Rhimes https://t.co/gENSBiAuIY

— PBS News (@NewsHour) October 29, 2024

I’m called away for the moment, but here’s another space to discuss the wonderful women we have the chance to uphold!

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15Comments

  1. 1.

    Baud

    October 29, 2024 at 9:04 pm

    We do have some amazing women leaders. (just like at Balloon Juice).

  2. 2.

    KatKapCC

    October 29, 2024 at 9:07 pm

    Hmm…the YT video wants me to sign in.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    October 29, 2024 at 9:09 pm

    Via reddit.

    ‘I was the director of the Michigan Republican Party. I will vote for Kamala Harris.’

  4. 4.

    Scout211

    October 29, 2024 at 9:11 pm

    @KatKapCC: Click on the You Tube icon on the bottom left of the screen.  Usually it will let you view it when you click over to You Tube to view.

    ETA: You Tube is getting picky about free viewers especially on embeds.  I finally logged in using an old gmail account to view a recent video but I still am getting that prompt.

  5. 5.

    KatKapCC

    October 29, 2024 at 9:13 pm

    @Scout211: Right, but just saying that the embed seems to be acting up.

  6. 6.

    Melancholy Jaques

    October 29, 2024 at 9:16 pm

    @Baud:

    That kind of thing has to be adding up to something good for our team. I can’t believe every single R voter is unmovable.

  7. 7.

    Ksmiami

    October 29, 2024 at 9:17 pm

    True story: Shonda and Jake tapper are both Dartmouth class of 91 alums

  8. 8.

    Baud

    October 29, 2024 at 9:19 pm

    @Melancholy Jaques:

    I like to think so. I see it everywhere. There was some of that in 2020, but nothing like the level I’ve seen this year.

  9. 9.

    p.a.

    October 29, 2024 at 9:33 pm

    I’ll take their votes, then they can fuck off.  Most were the institutional Republican Party, which was MAGAtRump without the open fascism of the Orange Queens interloper.  Better clothes and vocabulary covering the same shit.  (Well to their credit I don’t think they’ll fellate Putin like the current leader.)  They want their party back from the Booberts, MenacingMarges etc that they thought they had harnessed.  They don’t have the numbers, balls, whatev to do it from the inside, so they have to bring down the structure to whack the occupants, even though they are the architects.  Then they’ll start again.  It was only 6 years between Watergate (Noxin’s resignation) & Reagan.

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    lamh47

    October 29, 2024 at 9:34 pm

    Another GREAT photo from the speech tonight!

    x.com/flywithkamala/status/1851426497547886892

  11. 11.

    lamh47

    October 29, 2024 at 9:39 pm

    @flywithkamala

    While Kamala Harris prosecuted her case, Michelle Obama had Atlanta line dancing before her GOTV rally. Joy is spreads much quicker than MAGA hate.
    x.com/flywithkamala/status/1851435930655117511

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 29, 2024 at 10:12 pm

    @p.a.:

    I’ll take their votes, then they can fuck off. Most were the institutional Republican Party, which was MAGAtRump without the open fascism of the Orange Queens interloper. Better clothes and vocabulary covering the same shit! 

    Shout it from the rooftops!

  13. 13.

    Melancholy Jaques

    October 29, 2024 at 10:39 pm

    @lamh47:

    Awesome! I want more!

  14. 14.

    hitchhiker

    October 29, 2024 at 11:11 pm

    @Ksmiami: You just reminded me — TIL that Francis Ford Coppola went to the same high school/military thing as donald trump. They were there together when Coppola was 17 and donald was 13.

    Back to normal conversation, because this means nothing but I just found it strange to think about.

  15. 15.

    DougL

    October 30, 2024 at 12:16 am

    @hitchhiker: Coppola used Donald Trump as the basis for the Fredo Corleone character I believe.

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