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    Today it begins, Kamala has reached the point that she's the Democratic Party nominee:

    There's video from today. this link has video from her first public appearance since Biden endorsed her:


    She spent yesterday on the telephone for most of the day. I read that yesterday that she called the party leaders in all 50 states. That would take me three days.

    She's renamed her YouTube channel, that's the where to go for video: https://www.youtube.com/@kamalaharris

    This is her video on her channel from two hours ago:



    To play it, start it, and then move it up to 5:47. This was one of those live videos which don't start at zero.

    I've named this thread General Election 2024 Harris vs Trump

    Trump needs an introduction post as well, a MAGA suporter ought to write it: @Farb, @SaintForLife , @Others, calling for someone to please introduce your GOP candidate for this 2024 general election thread.
     
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    Optimus Prime said:
    Beyoncé has blocked Donald Trump from using her song Freedom, after the track – the central song for the Kamala Harris campaign – was used for a Trump campaign video on social media.

    Trump spokesman Steven Cheung posted the video showing Trump walking off a plane, backed by Freedom. Rolling Stone and Billboard reported that Beyoncé’s record label and publisher moved to block the use, and Cheung’s video has now been deleted from social media.

    Beyoncé has not commented on the incident. She is rumoured to be performing at the Democratic national convention (DNC) on Thursday, but representatives for the singer and the Harris campaign have not commented.

    When asked about it on Wednesday, DNC chair Jamie Harrison did not confirm or deny an appearance, saying: “Every day, she’s in here singing Freedom – at least we hear it across the intercom.”………

    www.theguardian.com

    Trump campaign deletes Freedom video after Beyoncé blocks use of song

    Freedom, the central song in the Kamala Harris campaign, appeared in a Trump campaign video but was contested by singer’s label and publisher
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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    Someone on Twitter said Beyoncé doesn’t play about her music and she has better lawyers than Trump. I guess they knew what they were talking about, lol.
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Beyoncé has blocked Donald Trump from using her song Freedom, after the track – the central song for the Kamala Harris campaign – was used for a Trump campaign video on social media.

    Trump spokesman Steven Cheung posted the video showing Trump walking off a plane, backed by Freedom. Rolling Stone and Billboard reported that Beyoncé’s record label and publisher moved to block the use, and Cheung’s video has now been deleted from social media.

    Beyoncé has not commented on the incident. She is rumoured to be performing at the Democratic national convention (DNC) on Thursday, but representatives for the singer and the Harris campaign have not commented.

    When asked about it on Wednesday, DNC chair Jamie Harrison did not confirm or deny an appearance, saying: “Every day, she’s in here singing Freedom – at least we hear it across the intercom.”………

    www.theguardian.com

    Trump campaign deletes Freedom video after Beyoncé blocks use of song

    Freedom, the central song in the Kamala Harris campaign, appeared in a Trump campaign video but was contested by singer’s label and publisher
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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    I'm not a fan of either, but I hope both she and Swift show up tonight with Harris gear on.
     
    Wasn't sure where to put this

    This thread? Nutjob thread? Education thread?
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    Loudoun County Public School parents got a surprise at a pre-first-day-of-school event when they flipped over a school flyer to find a political message from the county GOP.

    Flyers handed out outside a local elementary school had the calendar of school holidays on one side, but when parents turned them over, they found a very specific message: vote for Donald Trump, Mike Clancy and Hung Cao in the upcoming November general election.

    Next to the “vote for” section of the flyer was a back-to-school checklist telling them to learn about school policies on gendered sports teams and bathrooms, political candidates’ opinions on school choice and to check the content of books in school libraries, among other things. In small font in the bottom right corner, the flyer is attributed to Loudoungop.com.

    One person posted the flyer on Reddit with the comment, “From ‘wow this is convenient’ to ‘wow... this is..?’ during orientation today. To advertise outside of a public school, your party should AT LEAST be in support of public education.”

    LCPS sent out a press release saying that the school system did not know anything about the flyer and that it did not create or endorse the flyers.

    “Loudoun County Public Schools wishes to reaffirm that we do not endorse any particular political party, message, or candidate. While we respect the political process and the right of individuals to express their beliefs, our primary concern is maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for all students and families,” the school system wrote in an email to families in response to multiple complaints...........

    www.wusa9.com

    Loudoun GOP hands out controversial flyer to families at back-to-school event

    Loudoun County Public Schools policy says groups can distribute materials as long as they are 40 feet from the school entrance and are stationary.
    www.wusa9.com www.wusa9.com


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    Optimus Prime said:
    Wasn't sure where to put this

    This thread? Nutjob thread? Education thread?
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    Loudoun County Public School parents got a surprise at a pre-first-day-of-school event when they flipped over a school flyer to find a political message from the county GOP.

    Flyers handed out outside a local elementary school had the calendar of school holidays on one side, but when parents turned them over, they found a very specific message: vote for Donald Trump, Mike Clancy and Hung Cao in the upcoming November general election.

    Next to the “vote for” section of the flyer was a back-to-school checklist telling them to learn about school policies on gendered sports teams and bathrooms, political candidates’ opinions on school choice and to check the content of books in school libraries, among other things. In small font in the bottom right corner, the flyer is attributed to Loudoungop.com.

    One person posted the flyer on Reddit with the comment, “From ‘wow this is convenient’ to ‘wow... this is..?’ during orientation today. To advertise outside of a public school, your party should AT LEAST be in support of public education.”

    LCPS sent out a press release saying that the school system did not know anything about the flyer and that it did not create or endorse the flyers.

    “Loudoun County Public Schools wishes to reaffirm that we do not endorse any particular political party, message, or candidate. While we respect the political process and the right of individuals to express their beliefs, our primary concern is maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for all students and families,” the school system wrote in an email to families in response to multiple complaints...........

    www.wusa9.com

    Loudoun GOP hands out controversial flyer to families at back-to-school event

    Loudoun County Public Schools policy says groups can distribute materials as long as they are 40 feet from the school entrance and are stationary.
    www.wusa9.com www.wusa9.com


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    Handing out political material outside the school isn’t a huge deal - EXCEPT that it seems they went out of their way to make it look like the school produced the flyer. That’s terrible.
     
    Here is a thread that tracks new voter registrations, particularly since Harris went to the top of the ticket. It’s several tweets, but I found it worth reading. It is just another way to gauge voter response other than polling.





     
    all that's missing are the bars. How pathetic is it that a pro-gun guy is hiding from bullets while talking to a pro-gun crowd shot by a pro-gun guy?



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    Minnesota Governor Tim Walz used the potency of a single word to help propel himself onto last night’s Democratic-convention stage as Kamala Harris’s pick for vice-presidential nominee. Only a few weeks ago, in late July, he branded the Republican ticket as “weird,” and they have been reeling since. But weirdness is a negative quality, the opposite of which, of course, is normalcy, and that is exactly what the DNC tried to project on its third night.

    The introduction of weird took one of the central subtexts of modern American politics and made it text. Ever since Richard Nixon declared himself the champion of the “silent majority” (the other side apparently being the noisy minority), the normal/weird divide has pretty much worked to Republicans’ benefit. When Democrats were labeled as latte-drinking or chardonnay-sipping, they were essentially being called weird.

    I’m not sure why such great beverages were slurred in the process, but for the GOP, characterizing opponents as out-of-touch coastal elites has been a winning strategy for a long time. Remember John Kerry windsurfing? Remember Barack Obama eating exactly seven “lightly salted” almonds every night? Weird.

    If the flipping of this script began with Walz’s epithet, the convention is completing the turnover. In the lead-up to Walz’s nomination-acceptance speech, viewers heard Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg describing in great detail a typical dinner at his house, “when the dog is barking and the air fryer is beeping and the mac and cheese is boiling over and it feels like all the negotiating experience in the world is not enough to get our 3-year-old son and our 3-year-old daughter to just wash their hands and sit at the table.”

    Amy Klobuchar, one of Minnesota’s U.S. senators, told us about the chicken-Parmesan dinner her mother-in-law brought over to Tim and Gwen Walz’s house when their son was born. “That’s what we do in America,” she said. “We look out for our neighbors.” Even Bill Clinton, famously a former aficionado of McDonald’s, mentioned that Harris had spent more time there than he had—back when she was slinging burgers, probably the most normal job in America. The Latte Liberals have become the Casserole Liberals.

    Then there was the orgy of normalcy around the VP nominee, a former high-school football coach whom Klobuchar lovingly called a “dad in plaid.” One of his former students introduced him this way: “Tim Walz is the kind of guy who you can count on to push you out of a snowbank. I know this because Tim Walz has pushed me out of a snowbank.”

    During the student’s speech, and to the sounds of a school marching band, the members of the state-championship-winning team that Walz once coached all walked onto the stage, now middle-aged men stuffed into their old jerseys. Even the sight of Gus Walz, Tim’s teenage son, weeping in the audience as his father spoke, mouthing the words That’s my dad, was like the ending of a feel-good sports movie that a family might sit around and watch on Thanksgiving.

    Barack Obama set the tone for all this hominess in his address on Tuesday night when he spoke about his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, and his grandmother Madelyn Dunham, the Kansan who raised him. The two women came from very different backgrounds, but, he said, they “shared a basic outlook on life—strong, smart, resourceful women, full of common sense.” Talking about people such as them, he segued into a Norman Rockwell sketch that could easily be delivered by the grandfatherly actor Wilford Brimley:

    Many of them toiled every day at jobs that were often too small for them, and willingly went without just to give their children something better. But they knew what was true and what mattered. Things like honesty and integrity, kindness and hard work. They weren’t impressed with braggarts or bullies, and they didn’t spend a lot of time obsessing about what they didn’t have. Instead, they found pleasure in simple things—a card game with friends, a good meal and laughter around the kitchen table, helping others and seeing their children do things and go places that they would have never imagined for themselves.
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    By associating Democrats with the qualities—hardiness, unpretentiousness, hopefulness—embodied in his speech by two women across a racial and geographic divide, Obama was laying a claim to normal. Harris’s parents, Walz’s parents—they possessed these qualities too, Obama said.

    The country’s extensive common ground is spoken for not by the Republicans, he was not so subtly telegraphing, but by the Democrats. What his countrymen “yearn” for, he said, is “a return to an America where we work together and look out for each other.” (Could Make America great again be too far behind?)..............

    www.theatlantic.com

    Who’s Normal Now?

    At the convention, Democrats are working to reclaim the flip side of weird.
    www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com

     
    MT15 said:
    I have seen people on Twitter saying that the surprise guests tonight are 🔥🔥🔥. And that’s a direct quote, lol.
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    If it's Twitter, then it probably won't be someone boring like GWB or Pence. It'll be some type of celebrity. Swift is my guess, because she's the biggest celebrity in the world, and she has a desire to debunk the meme that she wants her fans to vote for Trump.
     
    Swifties on Twitter say her plane landed in Chicago this afternoon. But they may be just trying to wish it into existence.

    I think the gap is a musical number by Beyoncé myself. Seems more likely, and some are saying that Swift was really spooked by the attempted attack in Europe.
     

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