2024 Democratic National Convention

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Anonymous wrote:It got eerily quiet when Schumer started talking about antisemitism. That really doesn’t make me feel good as a Jew….

Maybe people felt he should have stuck to calling out all ethnic and racial hatred and not qualifying it.

+1. black people have suffered racism forever. Why call out antisemitism? Read the room. There are tons of black people in that room.

There are tons of Jews in the room too.

This topic is contentious. This convention is about unity. Not sure this is the right place to give a speech about it. I hate that jews think one is antisemetic if one doesnt support what Israel is doing. It's like one cannot have a brain and their own opinions and must agree with Israel or else one must be antisemetic.

unless you are Jewish you are unaware of everyday Jews being threatened or feeling threatened by Israel hate. Your take is simplistic. I mean this with goodwill, please do some reading or talking to people.
We need to hear others’ stories—everyone’s.

I'm sure some Palestinian would lend a sympathetic ear.

Do you want to hear their stories, too?

The funny thing is I used to be a staunch R pro Israel. I always supported the right for Israel to exist. I still do. But I also support the right for Palestinians to not be slaughtered and have their own homeland without being second class citizens.

I am the PP and Yes, I do want to hear their stories too. You know nothing about me.

But how many jews want to? What are you and they doing to get Israel to stop? All I hear is how they want more military support which we keep giving, prolonging the suffering.

You think American Jews vote in Israeli elections?

? We are talking about American Jews wanting the US to provide military aid to Israel.

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United for Peace and Justice’s first protest, on February 15, 2003, was in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York City and entitled "The World Says No to War." The protest drew over 500,000 people.
Its second major protest, held on March 20, 2004, to commemorate the first anniversary of the U.S.' attack on Iraq. The event drew over 100,000 people in New York City, plus nearly two million in 700 other cities.
In 2004, the organization wanted to hold a rally on the Great Lawn of Central Park in opposition to the continued occupation of Iraq. The City denied UFPJ's application for a permit, on the basis that a mass gathering on the Great Lawn would be harmful to the grass, and that such damage would make it harder to collect private donations to maintain the Park. UFPJ charged that Mayor Michael Bloomberg was willing to allow other large gatherings on the Great Lawn, but was discriminating against the demonstration so as to curry favor with the Republican Party, which was holding its quadrennial convention in New York City. Nevertheless, a court rejected UFPJ's challenge to the denial of the permit. The major protest was eventually held elsewhere, on Sunday, August 29, 2004, the eve of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. The event drew over 500,000 people, according to The New York Times, and received lead coverage (including a double-sized, vertical front page in New York Newsday) in every major newspaper. In March, 2007 NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne stated about the RNC protests: "You certainly had 800,000 on August 29th."

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Anonymous wrote:Michelle’s line about the affirmative action of generational wealth was a good one.

Perhaps for the dogma believers, but it's mostly nonsense when you consider how well so many immigrants do even when they come with zero wealth and frequently not even speaking English or having proper papers.

Well we do well because we do not take anything to chances because of the fear Michelle spoke about. We work 10 times harder than any other person in the same role. That is a lot of burden to carry our whole life.

That's not a "burden" but an opportunity the US gives us -- a much better opportunity that in most other countries, which is why we come here.

In the Michelle quote she was not comparing opportunities we had in another country to America. We are talking about inequality that still exists in America. I want to have the same opportunity, same second/third/fourth as an American as every other one. I want to have the same risk profile as white man and I would not ever have that. My racial identity does not allow me to learn from making mistakes and I spend a lot of my energy to be as close to perfection as possible in all aspect of my life. This is a burden not just on me, but my my children and their children!

That’s a you problem. Nobody told you to be a perfectionist to be accepted and it’s sad if you think striving for excellence in everything you do is a bad trait or that only white people can make mistakes. I don’t even get what that means. If you want to “make a mistake”, the party for you is the Dems. You can even abort your mistake on a bus for free if you qualify!

I am sure Barack and Michelle don’t think like that about mistakes and excellence. All the Democrat success story politicians used Republican ideals. I am also confused when the Dems say generational wealth= Republicans. Republican voters are largely poor. Trump voters are mostly poor not the moneyed elite. Trump is rallying at backwater towns in flyover USA, not at $25,000/plate Hampton and Beverly Hills dinner parties with donors .

The oligarchs/moneyed party and generational wealth party is the Democrat party. They get more donors and donations than Trump-largely from billionaires.

You have to be joking? Trump is courting money from big donors like Elon. He has to. He's got too many big legal bills.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-biggest-donors-far-much-110117997.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-liberal-san-francisco-high-dollar-tech-fundraiser-2024-06-06/

Venture capitalists David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya, as well as Sacks' wife Jacqueline, held the reception and dinner with Trump at the Sacks' swanky mansion in the Pacific Heights neighborhood, ...The gathering - where top tickets were $500,000 per couple - was sold out, a source with knowledge of the fundraiser told Reuters. It raised some $12 million, according to Republican National Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon and another source.

Then there are those big corporations donation millions to Trump. They have basically bought Trump. You can assure that he will be looking after them more so than the guy who makes $25K year.

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Anonymous wrote:I watched bits of this convention. It’s all about the feels. Which is great. I realized that for me, since 2026, politics has been about dread. This feels like it’s going back to being fun. People are having fun. There is a sense of optimism. Who knows what the final result will be in November but I am glad to see that at least one party is not currently caught up in the doom and gloom. We need something positive.

+1 That is exactly right. I didn't even realize what a dark cloud had been hanging over us - over ME - for the last ten years until I started feeling it lift, over this last month.

When Biden was elected, it was relief. But the threat of Trump was still hanging over us. For the first time in almost ten years, this last month it's felt like we are finally freeing ourselves of MAGA.

I am far from cocky. But I do feel hopeful. I feel optimistic, for the first time in a very long time.

100%.

It feels like the fever is breaking.

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Anonymous wrote:President Barack Obama:

“We chase the approval of strangers on our phones; we build all manner of walls and fences around ourselves and then wonder why we feel so alone. We don’t trust each other as much because we don’t take the time to know each other.”

“We still coach Little League and look out for our elderly neighbors, because the vast majority of us don’t want to live in a country that’s bitter and divided. We want something better. We want to be better.”

- he said, from BEHIND the wall around the convention center,

- before he retired to his WALLED HOME in upper N.W. DC (the Obamas had the wall built right before they moved in, BTW).

Sad troll is sad.

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If anyone would like to see a mic dropped, picked up again, then body slammed back to the ground, look up last night's speeches by the Obamas.

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Anonymous wrote:Michelle’s line about the affirmative action of generational wealth was a good one.

Perhaps for the dogma believers, but it's mostly nonsense when you consider how well so many immigrants do even when they come with zero wealth and frequently not even speaking English or having proper papers.

Well we do well because we do not take anything to chances because of the fear Michelle spoke about. We work 10 times harder than any other person in the same role. That is a lot of burden to carry our whole life.

That's not a "burden" but an opportunity the US gives us -- a much better opportunity that in most other countries, which is why we come here.

In the Michelle quote she was not comparing opportunities we had in another country to America. We are talking about inequality that still exists in America. I want to have the same opportunity, same second/third/fourth as an American as every other one. I want to have the same risk profile as white man and I would not ever have that. My racial identity does not allow me to learn from making mistakes and I spend a lot of my energy to be as close to perfection as possible in all aspect of my life. This is a burden not just on me, but my my children and their children!

Michelle is tiresome. How did she not get the same opportunity? She was practically the preferred nominee of everybody pre-Kamala without political experience mind you.

Last nights speech proved if she did enter politics, her approval/poll numbers would decline in a tailspin

If you don't understand what the PP was saying then you are clearly white and likely a male.

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Anonymous wrote:I watched bits of this convention. It’s all about the feels. Which is great. I realized that for me, since 2026, politics has been about dread. This feels like it’s going back to being fun. People are having fun. There is a sense of optimism. Who knows what the final result will be in November but I am glad to see that at least one party is not currently caught up in the doom and gloom. We need something positive.

+1 That is exactly right. I didn't even realize what a dark cloud had been hanging over us - over ME - for the last ten years until I started feeling it lift, over this last month.

When Biden was elected, it was relief. But the threat of Trump was still hanging over us. For the first time in almost ten years, this last month it's felt like we are finally freeing ourselves of MAGA.

I am far from cocky. But I do feel hopeful. I feel optimistic, for the first time in a very long time.

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Me too but I'm also scared we are in a bubble and there are large parts of the country and population that are either too dumb, racist, won't cross party lines, don't care, actually like Trump and he'll win again.

It feels like the fever is breaking.

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone would like to see a mic dropped, picked up again, then body slammed back to the ground, look up last night's speeches by the Obamas.

Both Obama speeches were excellent, packed with such powerful and effective lines like diamonds strung on a necklace. I plan to replay them for my kids.

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What a "JOYFUL" convention its been so far!

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Anonymous wrote:I watched bits of this convention. It’s all about the feels. Which is great. I realized that for me, since 2026, politics has been about dread. This feels like it’s going back to being fun. People are having fun. There is a sense of optimism. Who knows what the final result will be in November but I am glad to see that at least one party is not currently caught up in the doom and gloom. We need something positive.

+1 That is exactly right. I didn't even realize what a dark cloud had been hanging over us - over ME - for the last ten years until I started feeling it lift, over this last month.

When Biden was elected, it was relief. But the threat of Trump was still hanging over us. For the first time in almost ten years, this last month it's felt like we are finally freeing ourselves of MAGA.

I am far from cocky. But I do feel hopeful. I feel optimistic, for the first time in a very long time.

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Me too but I'm also scared we are in a bubble and there are large parts of the country and population that are either too dumb, racist, won't cross party lines, don't care, actually like Trump and he'll win again.

It feels like the fever is breaking.

That's why we can't get complacent. But I mean - last night they filled TWO stadiums. In the midwest. We are guaranteed nothing but I'd rather be us than them, right now.

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Anonymous wrote:I watched bits of this convention. It’s all about the feels. Which is great. I realized that for me, since 2026, politics has been about dread. This feels like it’s going back to being fun. People are having fun. There is a sense of optimism. Who knows what the final result will be in November but I am glad to see that at least one party is not currently caught up in the doom and gloom. We need something positive.

+1 That is exactly right. I didn't even realize what a dark cloud had been hanging over us - over ME - for the last ten years until I started feeling it lift, over this last month.

When Biden was elected, it was relief. But the threat of Trump was still hanging over us. For the first time in almost ten years, this last month it's felt like we are finally freeing ourselves of MAGA.

I am far from cocky. But I do feel hopeful. I feel optimistic, for the first time in a very long time.

100%.

Me too but I'm also scared we are in a bubble and there are large parts of the country and population that are either too dumb, racist, won't cross party lines, don't care, actually like Trump and he'll win again.

It feels like the fever is breaking.

I think the PP captured the essence of what's happening with many people: finally feeling like we can get free of MAGA. I feel it myself - a renewed sense of optimism and dare I say it - hope.

I hope the other poster is wrong about the sexist racists who won't cross party lines but that's why democrats can't get complacent.

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Michelle Obama: "Who's gonna tell [Trump] that the job he is seeking might be one of those Black jobs?" Excuse me? This racist rhetoric is a huge turn-off. It was apparent since 2008, though, that Michelle -- unlike Barack -- is racist.

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What was the crowd chanting after Obama’s flannel shirt comment? I couldn’t make it out and from his reaction it must have been funny.

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone would like to see a mic dropped, picked up again, then body slammed back to the ground, look up last night's speeches by the Obamas.

They ripped Trump a new one. The walls of Mar a-Lago are permanatly ketchup-stained.