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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOkay, I'll say it. After the speech that Kamala is giving right now
No one is going to challenge her from our side. I predict a united front against cheato from everyone now. Even the Machin types.
It is so good. I have to say, I am so glad she is wasting no time showing her chops
to everyone and getting everyone psyched.
She's my homie, so it's not surprise to me. But I am so proud.
SunSeeker
(54,063 posts)I'd love to see her speech!
senseandsensibility
(20,398 posts)Hope someone posts it soon. Unbelievably good, and they are raving about it on Nicole's show. I mean, even Tim, the former republican, was smiling ear to ear.
ecstatic
(34,519 posts)Skip to 18 minutes in if you only want to see her remarks.
https://www.youtube.com/live/WgIvqD7R8Ro?si=9EXAzvTIpZVKbnyv&t=1118
SunSeeker
(54,063 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,912 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,458 posts)TBF
(34,754 posts)LymphocyteLover
(6,980 posts)Thanks
llmart
(16,331 posts)I am all in for our next President Harris! She is an amazing speaker with a winning smile, but don't mess with her. She cannot be intimidated by the likes of tsf and his cultists. Put a fork in him. He's done.
electric_blue68
(18,723 posts)Rubyshoo
(1,959 posts)NowISeetheLight
(3,991 posts)I was supporting her anyway. But after watching this performance I'm like "YOU GO GIRL!". She nailed it. I think a lot of MAGAts on the Trump side are thinking "Oh Crap" right now.
Squidly
(867 posts)And it's GLORIOUS!!!!
Irish_Dem
(59,727 posts)I agree, there is no doubt.
She is the one.
I like the part where she nails Trump to the wall, smiling the whole time.
Trump will go insane.
SunSeeker
(54,063 posts)Love it!
Irish_Dem
(59,727 posts)honest.abe
(9,238 posts)Irish_Dem
(59,727 posts)Two traits Trump associates with weakness.
He uses a chain saw, she uses a surgical scalpel.
He will be missing body parts and won't even know it.
FireChild
(10 posts)joshcryer
(62,507 posts)I must say I like her a lot.
Jrose
(1,359 posts)senseandsensibility
(20,398 posts)I heard he got a specially dyed orange one.
smb
(3,594 posts)llmart
(16,331 posts)tavernier
(13,284 posts)And bless Joe but he doesnt have the ability to pause and emphasize and modulate, the way a well trained speaker will do to keep the attention of the audience. Kamala has that knack.
It will take more than good speeches, because they will do whatever they can to derail her and the voters. I hope we will be sufficiently armed.
senseandsensibility
(20,398 posts)But she showed that she can do offense without being cruel.
mamajudi
(52 posts)Being a CA, SoCal resident...I love her too. Voted for her the first time she ran state wide and each time since. She sounded wonderful... She's gonna kick donnie's keister... With Joe calling in, I found myself choking up...with pride and love for them both.
senseandsensibility
(20,398 posts)It was so emotional, but emotional in a good way for a change! Welcome to DU. I'm also a Californian and have supported Kamala for a long time.
FireChild
(10 posts)and former resident, currently in the PNW. I was living in the Bay Area '05 to '12 when Harris was DA and coordinated/ attended many meetings between her and my boss. Also coordinated others with former Mayor Newsom, former Mayor Willie Brown... it was a small world and my boss had a lot of connections. I couldn't be more thrilled to see Kamala where she is now, on the precipice of becoming our first female President! I easily see Newsom becoming President somewhere down the line. I've thought so since back in those days.
Cheers to Kamala Harris!
pinkstarburst
(1,557 posts)leftieNanner
(15,744 posts)She washed away a good deal of my political anxiety.
Love her!!!
DENVERPOPS
(10,158 posts)Republican Politicians, Republican Trump Humping Voters, the KKK, and woman haters all getting humbled by a woman, especially a black woman...........Oh My, it would be priceless......
llmart
(16,331 posts)He was afraid of Hillary because she was a strong woman but he ain't seen nothin' yet!
Javaman
(63,196 posts)From Kamala. I havent had that feeling for a very long time. Obama was close, but Kamala is just so differently wonderful.
I have such a fantastically good feeling about her being president. Things are going to change. Good things, great things.
Xolodno
(6,760 posts)They were the only two others who could make a decent play at it, with them out, it was effectively over. But won't be surprised if they make a cabinet post. But first, have to make sure Harris wins.
Squidly
(867 posts)Last I saw, he still hadn't. That would be the last domino.
Big Blue Marble
(5,487 posts)She is Obama 2.0 Fired up and ready to go.
Pluvious
(4,809 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(800 posts)Harris has always been able to bring it. This election just got WAY more entertaining. All of Trump's plans just melted like an ice cube in an active volcano. Po 'ting, he should consider fleeing to Russia soon.
Sky Jewels
(8,827 posts)His bestie Vlad might just be getting desperate enough to send a 78-year-old junk-food engorged dementia-riddled convict to Ukraine.
Squidly
(867 posts)For the debates. Shes going to clean his clock. I'm betting whoever is the VP pick will do the same to boot licker boy.
Traildogbob
(10,195 posts)To see a presidential candidate with a beautiful smile, and can laugh out loud from the gut. Instead of the red faced hate, rage and lies and calls for killing opposition.
We need a whole lot of happiness and positivity in this country.
The hate, civil war threats, killing and non stop treats of violence are getting real sickening.
Kamala is the drug we need to heal!!!
And the intelligence to lead.
Sky Jewels
(8,827 posts)I don't know why Biden was so ineffective at that. It was beyond frustrating. There was a mountain of material there -- conman, criminal, convict, coup d'etat architect, tax evader, treasonous Putin-fluffer, pedophile/Epstein buddy/daughter-fucker wannabe ... the list goes on. I'll never understand why Biden seemed to keep all the powder dry at all times. Thank [nonexistent] god that he stepped down and Kamala stepped up!
Traildogbob
(10,195 posts)Love it! Nonexistent😂😂
Not a low road to talk some trash right back at his vile ass. While grinning.
newdayneeded
(2,493 posts)Sky Jewels
(8,827 posts)llmart
(16,331 posts)I feel the same way. She is a breath of fresh air and I hope the cultists will crawl back under their rock when she's in charge. I want a great blue tsunami in November. I've said it a gazillion times on here and to family - it will be the women that will take tsf down and it will tick him off royally for that reason alone.
Traildogbob
(10,195 posts)He may stroke and do the world a favor.
I have not felt this hopeful in a long time. Not dissing Joe, he is and has been amazing, best in my lifetime.
Joe needs to live a stress free happy life. He has served us so well all these years, while dealing with loss after loss in his personal life. Time to just be the loving caring grandfather, husband and dad.
But the Machine has been brutal at attacking him, and sure seemed to be a winning strategy.
He has earned the respect of a nation, not this Trump Fox evil hate.
All this Harris energy feels so good.
Upthevibe
(9,251 posts)republianmushroom
(18,179 posts)42 months and counting (including foot dragging)
KentuckyWoman
(6,891 posts)She's going to kick Don's butt from NY to California. Which I expected but that just sort of drove it home.
Thanks for posting.
EllisWhy
(11 posts)Great to see someone actually punching back against these bullies and jerks. The high road is a great ideal that I wish we could follow, but 8+ years of MAGA's bullying and disregard for rules/decorum, we have to punch back. The whole "MAGA" thing is about strength, nothing more. It's time to meet them on their terms (or their complete lack of terms).
And we should ridicule them for their weakness and hypocrisy when they start crying that they're being treated the way they treat others.
summer_in_TX
(3,294 posts)I want to watch it again sometime.
Nicolle Wallace was part of special coverage of the speech and shared anecdotes from her covering Kamala's 2020 campaign as well as more recently. A lot of Kamala's events have happened while her show was on the air.
What struck me was she noted the love Kamala just has as part of who she is, just like Joe Biden has. The panel noted how much she truly loved and how loyal she was to Joe, fighting for him to get to stay the nominee right up until he made the decision and informed her. Often the news media got leaks from other dems or their staff members. Nothing like that at all from the VP.
You can tell in the video the love in the room for one another.
Remarkable.
OAITW r.2.0
(28,667 posts)Never missed a beat.
Maru Kitteh
(29,233 posts)A whole big BUNCH of emotion came rolling out, listening to her and Joe Biden express what was so obviously, genuinely, heartfelt respect, love, and affection for each other.
usonian
(14,628 posts)Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
wryter2000
(47,602 posts)You from Oakland? Same here.
senseandsensibility
(20,398 posts)East Bay. So proud of her! I have campaigned, donated, and volunteered for her for about 15 years now. Been lucky enough to have met her a few times. You and I are probably not surprised by what's happened in the last 48 hours unlike many!
Funny to see the talking heads explode.
wryter2000
(47,602 posts)Everyone in CA knows she's brilliant.
Martin68
(24,735 posts)Seinan Sensei
(744 posts)Because, well ...
I don't even want to think about it