2024 Democratic National Convention

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Very curious to know what this is about. Love her work!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/22/entertainment/ava-duvernay-secret-project-dnc/index.html

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Anonymous wrote:JD Vance is just terrible. Jake Tapper just asked him to respond to Buttigieg's response to his childless people do not have a commitment to the future of this country. (Buttigieg said tonight that when he served in Afghanistan, he didn't have kids and neither did most of his fellow troops, but you better believe their commitment to their country was pretty d--- physical).

Vance botched the supply. He couldn't defend himself other than saying his remark was sarcastic and Buttigieg should be more offended by the job he has done as Transportation Secretary. Like what? Why can't Vance just be a human? Why does he have to keep that smug expression on while he refuses to apologize. Just say "I'm sorry. That comment was tongue in cheek and I hate that I offended so many people."

But he opens his mouth, puts on a smarmy expression and just makes everything worse.

He is a dolt. There is no there there. A ghostwritten book and being backdoored into Yale doesn’t make you smart. He’s a midwit political prostitute.

He is unbelievably dense. I saw some softball video during the RNC where he was showing the green room with the snacks that were there for everyone. He described it as "crap." Something like "There's a lot of crap here to eat" and picked up.a bag of chips or something. He sounded contemptuous and critical of this dumb perk. I thought that he's either one of those people who doesn't know better than to use a word like crap, which is offensive to some people or he's trying to be tough all the time. I think he's trying to act macho or something. And I thought about the people who worked to put together this spread and what a jerk he was being to them. He's just proved to be worse and worse. He can't answer a softball question like "What makes you happy?" He has zero charm, humor or charisma.

Vance is a lifelong fat dweeb incel midwit at his core who seems to think he’s some genius huckster. He is an asset created from thin air. A flyover state prole prostitute; a useful idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:Penn-Wharton and Yale Law School vs.

Imagine thinking any of these rich elitists on either side gives a damn about regular Americans. They despise regular Americans. They pay big bucks so they and their kids never come in contact with regular Americans. Blue team, red team…it’s the same team. And we’re suckers for buying into this oligarch war-mongering illusion of choice theater.

Walz isn’t rich. There were people on this website slamming him for that, saying they don’t trust him to run the country if he wasn’t able to make himself wealthy at his age.

He was talking about his own background. He went to state schools. It's also an obvious jibe at JD Vance. The point is that Walz represents a person for whom public education, the GI Bill and SS survivor benefits helped him and his family better themselves (je referenced all three). The point being that government, public education and public service are useful and important. He's been in congress and become a governor without an Ivy League degree. He is showing what you can do without connections and privilege. He is talking about being from the middle class and not being ashamed of it! It's a decent, honorable life and the Republicans, in contrast, are focusing on taking away the kinds of benefits that have helped people for decades.

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Anonymous wrote:JD Vance is just terrible. Jake Tapper just asked him to respond to Buttigieg's response to his childless people do not have a commitment to the future of this country. (Buttigieg said tonight that when he served in Afghanistan, he didn't have kids and neither did most of his fellow troops, but you better believe their commitment to their country was pretty d--- physical).

Vance botched the supply. He couldn't defend himself other than saying his remark was sarcastic and Buttigieg should be more offended by the job he has done as Transportation Secretary. Like what? Why can't Vance just be a human? Why does he have to keep that smug expression on while he refuses to apologize. Just say "I'm sorry. That comment was tongue in cheek and I hate that I offended so many people."

But he opens his mouth, puts on a smarmy expression and just makes everything worse.

He is a dolt. There is no there there. A ghostwritten book and being backdoored into Yale doesn’t make you smart. He’s a midwit political prostitute.

He seems to have no charisma and little if any emotional intelligence. I find Vance even less relatable then Trump — even though we probably have only 2 or 3 degrees of separation. He carried himself as though he thinks he’s the smartest person in the room — when it’s apparent to most that he’s not. He’s arrogant, mean spirited and offensive. I know several people who are considering getting cats thanks to his comments, so there’s that.

Most memoirs are ghost written. About 80K to the writer. Half up front. Also if you don’t “kill the dog” no one buys the book. Many of the deets are inflated and dramatized. D’uh.

I don't think his was ghostwritten. He was a nobody when he wrote that book - he only became a somebody because of the book. People who have existing platforms get ghost writers - but other people write their book to build their platform. I think he's the latter. I'm sure if he writes another book he'll have help - that first one, though? I'd be surprised.

I thought he was a nobody who made good when I read it too. But now I wonder because of his relationship with Amy Chua. I'm pretty sure she got him his agent or publisher. I can definitely see that there could have been heavy editing if not someone ghostwriting it. If for nothing else than to make the book marketable and to go along with a personna created for a publicist to sell him in the press and to readers and reviewers. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a ghostwriter.

Yeah, that's not a crazy thing to wonder!

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Anonymous wrote:Penn-Wharton and Yale Law School vs.

Imagine thinking any of these rich elitists on either side gives a damn about regular Americans. They despise regular Americans. They pay big bucks so they and their kids never come in contact with regular Americans. Blue team, red team…it’s the same team. And we’re suckers for buying into this oligarch war-mongering illusion of choice theater.

Walz isn’t rich. There were people on this website slamming him for that, saying they don’t trust him to run the country if he wasn’t able to make himself wealthy at his age.

Walz’s 5 or 6 public pensions make him a de facto multi-millionaire and he is beholden to the same caliber of ruthless and greedy mega donors who control Vance and Trump. It’s theater.

And the point of the tweet was to highlight how phony it is for Walz to snipe the GOP ticket as Ivy elitists when Ivy elitist fat cats who live in the ritziest enclaves in America and send their kids to the most elite private schools have been featured all week by the DNC.

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I just don't understand how or why people believe that a serially bankrupt con man who was born on third base and literally poops on a golden toilet is somehow looking out for them.

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Anonymous wrote:Penn-Wharton and Yale Law School vs.

Imagine thinking any of these rich elitists on either side gives a damn about regular Americans. They despise regular Americans. They pay big bucks so they and their kids never come in contact with regular Americans. Blue team, red team…it’s the same team. And we’re suckers for buying into this oligarch war-mongering illusion of choice theater.

Walz isn’t rich. There were people on this website slamming him for that, saying they don’t trust him to run the country if he wasn’t able to make himself wealthy at his age.

Walz’s 5 or 6 public pensions make him a de facto multi-millionaire and he is beholden to the same caliber of ruthless and greedy mega donors who control Vance and Trump. It’s theater.

And the point of the tweet was to highlight how phony it is for Walz to snipe the GOP ticket as Ivy elitists when Ivy elitist fat cats who live in the ritziest enclaves in America and send their kids to the most elite private schools have been featured all week by the DNC.

Having a pension where you have zero input or control how that pension is invested does not make one beholden to anyone.

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Anonymous wrote:I just don't understand how or why people believe that a serially bankrupt con man who was born on third base and literally poops on a golden toilet is somehow looking out for them.

Because he is a living legend in the grifter hall of fame.

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Anonymous wrote:Penn-Wharton and Yale Law School vs.

Imagine thinking any of these rich elitists on either side gives a damn about regular Americans. They despise regular Americans. They pay big bucks so they and their kids never come in contact with regular Americans. Blue team, red team…it’s the same team. And we’re suckers for buying into this oligarch war-mongering illusion of choice theater.

Walz isn’t rich. There were people on this website slamming him for that, saying they don’t trust him to run the country if he wasn’t able to make himself wealthy at his age.

He was talking about his own background. He went to state schools. It's also an obvious jibe at JD Vance. The point is that Walz represents a person for whom public education, the GI Bill and SS survivor benefits helped him and his family better themselves (je referenced all three). The point being that government, public education and public service are useful and important. He's been in congress and become a governor without an Ivy League degree. He is showing what you can do without connections and privilege. He is talking about being from the middle class and not being ashamed of it! It's a decent, honorable life and the Republicans, in contrast, are focusing on taking away the kinds of benefits that have helped people for decades.

I like Walz but thought this was a miss. He should have underscored how he served Minnesota as a teacher, coach, and public official — in contrast to JD getting rich and famous off a book smearing the Midwest and his own family and then fled to the coast to be groomed by a creepy billionaire. And even as a senator refuses to live there, choosing an elitist DC enclave to raise his kids..

Too many Americans are being duped that Vance’s book was some warm and cozy memoir — it was incredibly cruel, mean spirited and demonized his family. With much of it I suspect to be totally fabricated to create a sensationalized and stylized bio.

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Anonymous wrote:Penn-Wharton and Yale Law School vs.

Imagine thinking any of these rich elitists on either side gives a damn about regular Americans. They despise regular Americans. They pay big bucks so they and their kids never come in contact with regular Americans. Blue team, red team…it’s the same team. And we’re suckers for buying into this oligarch war-mongering illusion of choice theater.

Tax the Rich!

Let’s start with a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains. Dumbest idea ever. But then again we’re taking about Comrade Harris and the Democratic Party so not surprised.

Hedge funds all charge 20% fees on unrealized cap gains and they are supposed to be the highest form of capitalism, amirite?

I’m not saying it’s the best idea but it’s not the dumbest (the pass thru tax deduction Trump got might be one of the dumbest).

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Anonymous wrote:Penn-Wharton and Yale Law School vs.

Imagine thinking any of these rich elitists on either side gives a damn about regular Americans. They despise regular Americans. They pay big bucks so they and their kids never come in contact with regular Americans. Blue team, red team…it’s the same team. And we’re suckers for buying into this oligarch war-mongering illusion of choice theater.

Tax the Rich!

Let’s start with a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains. Dumbest idea ever. But then again we’re taking about Comrade Harris and the Democratic Party so not surprised.

The Biden-Harris plan would tax unrealized capital gains *for people with more than $100 million in net assets*

PP, do you have over $100M in assets?

If not, why do you care?

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Anonymous wrote:Penn-Wharton and Yale Law School vs.

Imagine thinking any of these rich elitists on either side gives a damn about regular Americans. They despise regular Americans. They pay big bucks so they and their kids never come in contact with regular Americans. Blue team, red team…it’s the same team. And we’re suckers for buying into this oligarch war-mongering illusion of choice theater.

Walz isn’t rich. There were people on this website slamming him for that, saying they don’t trust him to run the country if he wasn’t able to make himself wealthy at his age.

Walz’s 5 or 6 public pensions make him a de facto multi-millionaire and he is beholden to the same caliber of ruthless and greedy mega donors who control Vance and Trump. It’s theater.

And the point of the tweet was to highlight how phony it is for Walz to snipe the GOP ticket as Ivy elitists when Ivy elitist fat cats who live in the ritziest enclaves in America and send their kids to the most elite private schools have been featured all week by the DNC.

Sounds like FOMO here.

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How is trump going to stop street crime in Chicago? Guess the same way he is going to cut energy prices in half. Or build a wall.

Make a promise then claim he did it and hope no one notices he’s still full of it.

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Anonymous wrote:JD Vance is just terrible. Jake Tapper just asked him to respond to Buttigieg's response to his childless people do not have a commitment to the future of this country. (Buttigieg said tonight that when he served in Afghanistan, he didn't have kids and neither did most of his fellow troops, but you better believe their commitment to their country was pretty d--- physical).

Vance botched the supply. He couldn't defend himself other than saying his remark was sarcastic and Buttigieg should be more offended by the job he has done as Transportation Secretary. Like what? Why can't Vance just be a human? Why does he have to keep that smug expression on while he refuses to apologize. Just say "I'm sorry. That comment was tongue in cheek and I hate that I offended so many people."

But he opens his mouth, puts on a smarmy expression and just makes everything worse.

He is a dolt. There is no there there. A ghostwritten book and being backdoored into Yale doesn’t make you smart. He’s a midwit political prostitute.

He seems to have no charisma and little if any emotional intelligence. I find Vance even less relatable then Trump — even though we probably have only 2 or 3 degrees of separation. He carried himself as though he thinks he’s the smartest person in the room — when it’s apparent to most that he’s not. He’s arrogant, mean spirited and offensive. I know several people who are considering getting cats thanks to his comments, so there’s that.

Most memoirs are ghost written. About 80K to the writer. Half up front. Also if you don’t “kill the dog” no one buys the book. Many of the deets are inflated and dramatized. D’uh.

I don't think his was ghostwritten. He was a nobody when he wrote that book - he only became a somebody because of the book. People who have existing platforms get ghost writers - but other people write their book to build their platform. I think he's the latter. I'm sure if he writes another book he'll have help - that first one, though? I'd be surprised.

I thought he was a nobody who made good when I read it too. But now I wonder because of his relationship with Amy Chua. I'm pretty sure she got him his agent or publisher. I can definitely see that there could have been heavy editing if not someone ghostwriting it. If for nothing else than to make the book marketable and to go along with a personna created for a publicist to sell him in the press and to readers and reviewers. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a ghostwriter.

I'll never forget Chua's full support and endorsement for Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court justice even after Kavanaugh was credibly accused of sexual assault by Christina Blasey Ford (and again later by Debra Rodriguez). It wasn't until years later when her husband Rubenfeld was accused of sexual harrassment that I saw she had a pattern of propping up and accusing problematic men. She sucks.

* propping up and defending problematic men.

(sorry typo I meant defending not accusing)

Kavanaugh was not “credibly accused” of sexual assault. His accusers had no definitive evidence except their testimony. Next.

This is the reason most rapists get away with it. It’s one of the reasons most victims don’t press charges. It’s a PROBLEM, not a sign of innocence.

Last I checked, politically motivated trials aside, US citizens are innocent until proven guilty. In this case, it’s a he said she said thing.