Came across this, and thought it was an interesting passage:
Ben Smith (@semaforben) posted at 8:44 PM on Sun, Dec 15, 2024:
Fascinating debrief from Kamala deputy campaign manager @Rob_Flaherty to @maxwelltani https://t.co/tjCMwJ5qmG https://t.co/2GnTg9C3NB
(https://x.com/semaforben/status/1868487294665330822?t=RoxeTzz–CSCoYWh35PByg&s=03)
Remember, she had a little over 100 days. I think she did a remarkable job.
She is still inspiring others.
Kamala Harris challenged young people to “stay in the fight” during a speech in Maryland on Tuesday, her first major address since conceding the presidential election to Donald Trump last month.
In her remarks, Harris expressed optimism in a future led by many of the young leaders in the room, praising their “passion” and “resolve” in spite of an electoral setback that threatens many of the causes they care deeply about.
“I ask you to remember that this struggle is not new. It goes back nearly 250 years to Lexington and Concord,” Harris told a group of students, recent graduates, volunteers and apprentices at Prince George’s Community College. “Generation after generation, it has been driven by those who love our country, cherish its ideals and refuse to sit passive while our ideals are under assault.
“This fight now, it continues with you. You are its heirs,” the vice-president said.
Since the November election, Harris has maintained a relatively low profile. Next month, the vice-president, in her ceremonial role as president of the Senate, will certify Trump’s victory and participate in the transfer of power. What she has planned next is unclear – but her punchy, optimistic speech made clear she had no plans to remain on the sidelines…
Harris made no mention of her own future on Tuesday, but implied that she too intended to stay civically engaged, drawing inspiration from the tens of thousands of letters she has received in recent weeks.
But she also acknowledged the “disappointment” that has left many people feeling “tired, maybe even resigned”.
“Let me be very clear,” Harris said. “No one can walk away.”
“The true test of our commitment is whether, in the face of an obstacle, do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves?” the vice-president added, drawing a prolonged “mmhmm” from several attendees that made everyone in the auditorium, Harris included, laugh.
The speaking program on Tuesday underscored Harris’s message, which she first delivered in her concession speech, that young people should continue to believe that anything is possible despite seeing her history-making candidacy extinguished by a man who has stoked racial resentment and anti-immigrant backlash…
In Harris’s remarks, she reminded young people that progress is often the hard-won result of everyday Americans pushing their political leaders forward.
“The movements for civil rights, women’s rights, workers’ rights, the United States of America itself, would never have come to be if people had given up their cause after a court case, or a battle, or an election did not go their way,” she said.
“I urge you then, after you have had some rest. In fact, I challenge you to come back ready,” Harris continued, concluding her remarks. “Ready to chart our path to the future, chin up, shoulders back, forever impatient for change”.
Donald Trump is a white DEI hire (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 5:44 AM on Mon, Dec 23, 2024:
In the Age of Trump, the LA Times will quite quickly become unreadable.
Watch it bleed daily readership like CNN has done with viewers.
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1871159867240747077?t=xYqByAnLLK-AVMWwxb_G_g&s=03)
You know, you read stories and you say to yourself..
“Oh, this is going to be a Lifetime Movie or a Netflix limited series”
And, then, there are stories so horrific that I know wouldn’t be able to watch.
The Gisèle Pelicot story is one of them.
The utter horrors that woman has gone through…
Even a documentary would be exploitative of her.
sky (@skylikeajedi) posted at 9:51 PM on Sun, Dec 22, 2024:
We could’ve had Kamala but nooo you had to vote for a man who now wants to invade 3 different countries before he’s even been sworn in.
(https://x.com/skylikeajedi/status/1871040879051616676?t=UWZQkVu9ue4COlu1uH7gSw&s=03)
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 1:11 PM on Mon, Dec 23, 2024:
Roberts: They say Greenland is not for sale, but sometimes things aren’t for sale until they are for sale… https://t.co/R82MpTcIOT
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1871272453521187067?t=98gdqMbDtvpodnr8ijI_vg&s=03)
Tim 🇺🇸 (@trouble_man90) posted at 5:20 PM on Sun, Dec 22, 2024:
If we’re being honest, it’s going to take a very VERY compelling argument to get the base to not make her (the VP) the nominee again if she wants it.https://t.co/jJZtjn42Z4
(https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/1870972832601297044?t=5wg08G01RXI-KZ91TWmTfA&s=03)
Fully vaccinated (@Godlesswh_re) posted at 10:28 AM on Sun, Dec 22, 2024:
I work with white republican women who are married to white conservative men. Almost anything that comes out of their mouths is bitching about everything and everyone. I don’t think I’ve met anyone more miserable than they are.
(https://x.com/Godlesswh_re/status/1870868914978312633?t=i0xEP2fxbm1tBqbl–KiSg&s=03)
Donald Trump is a white DEI hire (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 11:32 AM on Sun, Dec 22, 2024:
I ran across one at the retail job yesterday, and yes, they are all truly miserable and they do suck
all they ever do is make all the non-conservatives around them also miserable as well; I hate their energy
I feel sorry for only the children raised by such people
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1870885183312015445?t=F5ev-z9pVDNTTG0kKkYyzA&s=03)
KAMALA 2028 (@todd_butler) posted at 2:18 PM on Sun, Dec 22, 2024:
When these White Folks are talking about the “Democratic Brand”. They really mean it’s getting too BLACK!! They were pearl clutching about a “TWERK” at a rally than the “RACISM” at the other rally.
(https://x.com/todd_butler/status/1870926956159697147?t=opeSsgUliPZldD6_kTNoNg&s=03)
Bill Madden (@maddenifico) posted at 6:02 PM on Sun, Dec 22, 2024:
This might be why Trump is so butthurt over the Panama Canal. He used to license his name to the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama where oligarchs bought condos they never lived in but were used to launder Russian gangster money, drug cartel money and people-smuggling money. Like all things associated with the corrupt conman, it was a failure and in 2018 the property was taken over by a new owner who subsequently had the Trump crime family ousted as manager and the Trump name — which was about as popular a symbol as the Nazi swastika — was removed from the building.
(https://x.com/maddenifico/status/1870983181035556939?t=0-6qGCcEEHuW6Mljke2bPw&s=03)
Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) posted at 11:22 AM on Sun, Dec 22, 2024:
Hakeem Jeffries on whether Democrats will save Mike Johnson from being ousted, “ There will be no Democrats available to save him, or the extreme MAGA Republicans from themselves.” https://t.co/rxFbBXloBB
(https://x.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1870882496146972891?t=Cx9juGuwPrkcJ99nhw-pNg&s=03)
Minding My Black Business (@lacadri34) posted at 7:11 AM on Mon, Dec 23, 2024:
If Rep. Granger was a BW, nobody would have found it acceptable for her to be paid to live in a nursing home? There would be calls for an investigation, requests for people to resign, pay the money back etc. I’m sickened by the racism in America & how it drives processes.
(https://x.com/lacadri34/status/1871181915472244822?t=5ydlCO4w-gNHNk2xd3WrpQ&s=03)
Donald Trump is a white DEI hire (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 7:00 AM on Mon, Dec 23, 2024:
the next Democratic president, if we’re allowed to have one, will probably be another centrist triangulator navigating his way around the minefields of white public opinion, but this is what you get when you didn’t put the brown lady to the left of him in charge years ago
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1871179168358289752?t=Ah4ZDenUBa_1JxfUcdYcsg&s=03)
Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) posted at 0:16 PM on Sun, Dec 22, 2024:
Donald Trump’s transition team is pushing to pull the US out of the World Health Organization on the first day of his administration.
MaKe AmEriCa SicK AgAiN.
Jfc.
(https://x.com/ArtCandee/status/1870896277116096820?t=kB8uDPz8bf60kWQdswdPRA&s=03)
LadyGrey 🇦🇲🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@TWLadyGrey) posted at 7:54 AM on Mon, Dec 23, 2024:
The way Biden delivered for progressives and they just let him rot on the curb has got to be one of the most depressing betrayals in history.
I’m just in shock. But, it’s a movement of entitled children who just want mommy to buy the next new toy for them so it’s not surprising.
(https://x.com/TWLadyGrey/status/1871192663090938363?t=CkFgwD0D_jCwA9ULnqpvbA&s=03)
Sofia_la_first (@sofia_firs14276) posted at 8:00 PM on Sun, Dec 22, 2024:
‘Auntie Maxine’ Waters BLASTS ‘Organized Plot’ to get Biden to step aside from the Presidential race. @MaxineWaters WE LOVE ❤️ YOU! THANK-YOU for always having #JoeBiden’s back! We will never forget your loyalty to him! God Bless you! ❤️ ! https://t.co/HsoCzbTGGa
(https://x.com/sofia_firs14276/status/1871013059172368861?t=2_qXxyDavBDbqmnZ0ftVxA&s=03)
Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) posted at 11:14 AM on Mon, Dec 23, 2024:
Netanyahu: “You can’t be president of the US last time I checked, but assume you are.”
Elon Musk, interjected: “Not officially.”
Netanyahu responded: “Not officially. OK, so you’re the unofficial president.” https://t.co/Q5JBR8JREE
(https://x.com/YourAnonCentral/status/1871242932315132150?t=EDme93moC7NyJq6ZJkZiag&s=03)
Candidly Tiff 🪷💛 (@tify330) posted at 9:11 AM on Mon, Dec 23, 2024:
Y’all can be mad it me for saying it but the Biden Campaign basically didn’t do much from April 2023 – July 2024 in terms of persuasion. They were relying on the WH record solely but by 2023 R’s took over the House. The media narrative became about Biden’s age and Inflation. 🧵
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1871212131535999483?t=AMlAyj89xngOODuGAr3SRA&s=03)
Donald Trump is a white DEI hire (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 6:05 AM on Mon, Dec 23, 2024:
we now come to understand that “2024” was probably lost 2 years ago when Senators Manchin & Sinema killed “Build Back Better” & the child tax credit, and if you look at it that way you don’t feel so bad about how 2024 played out
Dem voters want to know we’re fighting for them
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1871165192811520369?t=p4oxMJp5FrkmIXC2rEedsw&s=03)
Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) posted at 11:03 AM on Mon, Dec 23, 2024:
The only thing worse about the House Ethics Committee report saying Matt Gaetz paid an underage girl for sex is the realization that so many other Republicans were ready to hide that shit.
(https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1871240157950554209?t=TavEuvOMmVmMSkW4G7uABA&s=03)
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 4:01 PM on Sun, Dec 22, 2024:
So Gaetz is supposedly going to get revenge on his former House Republican friends by exposing all their darkest secrets after they release his ethics report tomorrow? Stop threatening us with a good time. 🍿 https://t.co/zoQwbTG2a3
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1870952830972076153?t=hGxxdd_ei32_9kzyD_hJVA&s=03)
Peanut and I finished the double feature of
The Bishop’s Wife
The Preacher’s Wife
She said…
’ Nobody is going to convince me that either woman is going to choose their husbands over Cary Grant and Denzel Washington in their prime.”
BWA HA HA HA H HA HA HA HA HA
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊