Monday, July 29, 2024

Wheels Up!

It's not an accident that Lady Liberty and Lady Justice are women!

And away we go! 

Last time I wrote, just one week ago, Joe Biden had just stepped aside and endorsed Kamala Harris in her candidacy for president of the United States.

It didn't take long for things to take off! The excitement has been electric this week. Have you felt it?

Clay Bennett



THE SUPPORT
There has been an unmistakeable buzz from coast to coast.

In the first 24 hours after Joe's announcement, Kamala raised $80 million. It was a record, and soon hit the $100 million mark. 


Mira Sharf

Within 48 hours, Harris already had enough delegate support to ensure her nomination next month. 

There were several Zoom calls last week with different groups including Black men, Black woman, and white women. The call with white women brought in 164,000 women and broke Zoom with the record-breaking number women on the call. There were so many participants that Zoom's servers couldn't handle all the traffic. 

These events signed up about 170,000 volunteers to help in swing states, and donations totaled in the millions. 

White dudes get their chance tonight (Monday July 29).

The endorsements are flying in.
Just about all the top Democrats have endorsed Kamala Harris, from Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies. Late in the week, the Obamas joined the club. 

Barack Obama told her, "We called to say Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office." Michelle added, "I can’t have this phone call without saying to my girl, Kamala, I am proud of you. This is going to be historic." I'll say! Whoooo-hooooo!

Other groups are also rallying behind Kamala. Notably, former candidate Nikki Haley voters are throwing their support behind Harris, much to Haley's dismay. Haley sent a cease and desist letter, but that isn't deterring the group. 

Polls are zooming up.
Indeed, America is watching. Just watch us win this thing.



The BRAT Summer


There has been an organic upwelling of fan videos and fun-sized informationettes, from memes to TikTok videos. It has been so much fun! Let's look at some! 

"BRAT summer" refers to English singer Charli XCX's comment, "kamala IS brat" which refers to her summer sensation album. Here is an explanation of the phenomemon for us oldsters.

You'll see a lot of coconut tree references, too. A few years ago, Kamala made an off-the-wall comment about a saying her mother was fond of. "You think you just fell out of the coconut tree?" Once mocked for it, now her supporters have embraced it. The brat has collided with the coconut, with the signature font of brat and coconut trees plastered across the internet in the iconic shade of chartreuse.

Here's the mother of them all, coming a little early in the game (July 3, weeks before the baton was passed):



And more:
Let Stephen Colbert summarize this and other stuff:


Tangentially, Beyoncé has given Kamala permission to use her song "Freedom" as she sees fit during the campaign. This is big. Queen Bee does not do this often! 

The VP Hunt Continues 
The Harris campaign is vetting several people for her VP pick. She'll have to make quick work of her decision, as the Democratic National Convention starts in just 24 days. I outlined the folks being looked at in my last post. All of them are good choices.


 The Campaign

Boom. Done.


Alexandra Bowman

THE OTHER SIDE
The Mango Mussolini is saying it louder now. Believe him when he says he will be a dictator. At a campaign event before so-called Christians, he said, "Christians get out and vote. Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians."

And believe that there is seriously something wrong with his brain.

A 100% real quote.














JD VANCE vs. THE CHILDLESS CAT LADIES 


Mr. VP Candidate Vance has pissed off a whole bunch of women, many of them childless cat ladies, when he said in a F*cker Carlson interview in 2021 that Kamala is one of the “childless cat ladies” who "are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too." He went on: “If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”
Meme by Big Sister Resister Pagrs!


Ann Telnaes


You are playing with fire, my dear sir, if you dare to piss off this childless cat lady.





Let's unpack this precious viewpoint, shall we? The childless cat lady trope is steeped in a long, dark history of misogyny. I'll let this woman explain.




Vance really really dislikes people who don't have kids. He has said that the tax rate should be higher for those without children, and that people should have extra votes if they have kids. 

The whole Repug party has a narrow definition of a family and of women's roles (Project 2025, by the way, will work toward mandating that definition). It is an un ugly viewpoint. If they want to piss off woman, the largest voting bloc in the nation, as well as LGBTQ folks, childless by choice folks, or anyone with a chosen family that is not within that narrow definition, then they are doing a great job. 

I'm pissed off. Are you?



JD VANCE AND THE AMOROUS FURNITURE
And then there is the weird thing about JD f*cking a couch. Some troll posted that Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy" described how he put a latex glove between the cushions of a sofa and ummm .....well, he be pushin' the cushion. 



It is completely false, but the idea has taken off, and the meme makers have been having a field day. Even the Associated Press got egg on their face when they tried to debunk the rumors and headlined a now-deleted story, "No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch." In a classic Streisand effect, the AP provided ample oxygen to the rumor. 

It's too good a phenomenon not to give it more oxygen, so here ya go. Sorry not sorry.















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Here's another great breakdown by late night's best, Stephen Colbert.

 




Let's go, Resisters! Let's get this thing off the ground! This is the moment!





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