Harris 2024

[Mori Chu]

Harris and Walz are doing a really in AZ today. The Republican former mayor of Mesa is endorsing them. Rumor is that the McCain family may join in doing that soon. Wow.

https://twitter.com/RobbieSherwood/stat ... pl3MA&s=19

Big crowd for the rally:

https://twitter.com/sambbenson/status/1 ... WHKfw&s=19

[Mori Chu]

I read this interesting theory from a few people about Walz. The idea is that a lot of young liberal white women like him because he reminds them of their dad or uncle before they got hooked on Fox News and became an angry MAGA disciple. I think there's something to it; he is folksy and kind and makes dad jokes and just generally has nice midwestern dad energy about him. I bet he reminds a lot of white people of somebody they know, or knew. (thread below)

https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/ ... 7152151796

[Mori Chu]

Prominent conservative writer David French endorses Kamala Harris.

https://twitter.com/judgeluttig/status/ ... qOsWg&s=19

[Kryptonic]

For some it’s not so much they want to vote for democrats but against the republicans to force them to do better in whom they decide to put on a ticket.

[Split T]

I’m glad to see some republicans fighting for a better party

[Nodack]

A wave of Republicans seem to be breaking from Trump because they somehow finally see what he really is and can’t stomach voting for him. I liked the article so much I cherry picked some of his best lines and reposted them.

Lying is wrong. I’m not naïve; I know that politicians have had poor reputations for honesty since Athens. But I have never seen a human being lie with the intensity and sheer volume of Donald Trump.

Political violence and threats of violence have no place in the American democratic process. Yet threats and intimidation follow the MAGA movement like night follows day.

It’s not just Trump’s lies that are contagious, but his cruelty as well, and that cruelty is embedding itself deeply within one of Trump’s most loyal constituencies, conservative evangelicals. It is difficult to overstate the viciousness and intolerance of MAGA Christians against their political foes. There are many churches and Christian leaders who are now more culturally Trumpian than culturally Christian. Trump is changing the church.

How many Republicans would have predicted that voting for a Democrat would be the best way to confront violent Russian aggression and that the Republican would probably yield to a Russian advance? In many ways, the most concretely conservative action I can take in this election is to vote for the candidate who will stand against Vladimir Putin.

While there are voters who are experiencing a degree of Trump nostalgia, remembering American life pre-Covid as a time of full employment and low inflation, there is a different and darker story to tell about Trump’s first term. Our social fabric frayed. It’s not just that abortions increased: The murder rate skyrocketed; drug overdose deaths hit new highs; marriage rates fell; and birthrates continued their long decline. Americans ended his term more divided than when it began.

I’m often asked by Trump voters if I’m “still conservative,” and I respond that I can’t vote for Trump precisely because I am conservative.

The only real hope for restoring a conservatism that values integrity, demonstrates real compassion and defends our foundational constitutional principles isn’t to try to make the best of Trump, a man who values only himself. If he wins again, it will validate his cruelty and his ideological transformation of the Republican Party. If Harris wins, the West will still stand against Vladimir Putin, and conservative Americans will have a chance to build something decent from the ruins of a party that was once a force for genuine good in American life.

[Mori Chu]

Walz responds to the attacks by JD Vance and others on his military service. IMO this is the right response. Briefly defend/clarify his 24 years of service, and say that nobody should attack another person for serving their country. He's the bigger man on this one.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1823468829449822600

[Mori Chu]

More on this:

https://twitter.com/VetsForRL/status/18 ... 6611033387

[Nodack]

The Trump campaign going after Walz’s military record shows just how desperate they are to find some dirt. Trump didn’t serve and insults people who served and now 20 something years in the military wasn’t enough?

Fail Trump

[Superbone]

The Trump campaign going after Walz’s military record shows just how desperate they are to find some dirt. Trump didn’t serve and insults people who served and now 20 something years in the military wasn’t enough?

Fail Trump

And a lot more years than Vance put in. How dare he.

[Mori Chu]

It's pretty pathetic. I see uncles and other relatives of mine on Facebook reposting these things about how ACTUALLY Walz didn't qualify to make staff sergeant or whatever. Like, really? Many of these relatives are people who served in the military themselves. They're really going after another person for their service? Using false debunked talking points? I think this is embarrassing and really shameless.

[Nodack]

It shows how deep they have gone down the Magacult hole.

[Mori Chu]

As much as the past first month of the Harris campaign has been about vibes and vague feelings more than policy, I appreciate that she is starting to pivot toward actual issues that matter to voters. She has talked about reducing price fixing/gouging, and now she's talking about using the power of government to spur the building of more affordable housing. These are good things that lots of people want and care about.

https://twitter.com/conorjrogers/status ... 9021066388

[JeremyG]

She has talked about reducing price fixing/gouging, and now she's talking about using the power of government to spur the building of more affordable housing.

It sounds more like getting government out of the way (“take down barriers and cut red tape”—de-regulation). Is she becoming a libertarian?

[Nodack]

I pretty much tune out all their promises before an election. Kamala is getting some heat for making promises just to get votes. Fox the border? Is that lip service or real? Making housing more affordable? The market does that doesn’t it? Give loans to poor people with bad credit so they can buy a house? That was RFK’s plan and that plan is what led to our last recession. They will both make a bunch of promises that they most likely won’t keep but, people vote for that so…

She isn’t at all close to the Trump level of grandiose promises. Mexico will pay for the wall. Replace Obamacare with something much better. He will zero the National Debt. No more violence in cities. Trump doesn’t even seem to be bothering with any of those promises now. It’s just insults and doom and gloom predictions if he isn’t elected.

[Superbone]

This is hilarious:

https://youtu.be/G2nOaZzj8Jo?si=mQ2zCFORQz-I9zuc

[JeremyG]

Isn’t that illegal for the Lincoln Project to make it appear as if Kamala is endorsing and paying for that ad?

[Superbone]

Isn’t that illegal for the Lincoln Project to make it appear as if Kamala is endorsing and paying for that ad?

I wouldn't think so, it's not an ad.

[JeremyG]

Maybe not technically, but it’s on their YouTube channel and people watching it will think it was put out by the Harris campaign.

[JeremyG]

Thread attempting to prove that Kamala is an alcoholic:

https://twitter.com/nicholelizaq/status ... 05235?s=46

I believe the rumor was started by James Blair of the Trump campaign and it has become a huge topic on X.

https://twitter.com/jamesblairusa/statu ... 93492?s=46