Our today’s dose of inspiration to GOTV!
Yes, Trump Is The Ugliest Political Thing We’ve Ever Seen. That’s Why We Have An Election To Go Win and Cannot Let Up by Simon Rosenberg
I’m In Raleigh, NC Today at 5pm ET, The Hopium Community Gathers Tuesday
(OK, here’s a snippet. I’m trying out the embed link they provide.)
JUL 19, 2024
Happy Friday all. I’m writing to you today from Raleigh, North Carolina where I am excited to be spending the weekend campaigning with Anderson Clayton, Josh Stein, Governor Cooper and the good Democrats and Hopium community members who are busting their ass to turn this state blue this November.
The Republican Convention is over and last night Donald Trump gave the longest, most bizarre and worst speech at a party convention in American history. Friends of mine from across the country who are not that involved in politics reached out to me shocked at how bat shit crazy he sounded, how long he went on, how unfit and unwell he so clearly is. That he was oh so weak not Trumpian strong. Here at Hopium none of this was a surprise. We’ve been talking about him from Day 1 here. We know he is a rapist, fraudster, traitor and felon. We know he is far more extreme and dangerous now than he was in 2016 or 2020. We know that this danger to our democracy, our freedoms and our future became far more manifest when he picked pro-Russia extremist JD Vance as his running mate and heir apparent. To us here at Hopium we didn’t need to hear a single word of that terrible speech last night to know what they are fighting for, what they want for this country:
They want Putin to win, the West to lose. The border to be in chaos, and migrants to keep flowing into the country. Americans to lose even more rights and freedoms. The planet to warm faster. 10 year olds to carry their rapist’s baby to term, and for more women to die on operating room tables. Tens of millions to lose their health insurance. More dead kids in schools. Verified rapists in positions of authority. A restoration of pre-Civil Rights era white supremacy. Huge new tariffs which will raise prices on everything and wreck the global economy which has made us prosperous. Big new tax cuts for their wealthiest donors and tax increases for every day people. Books banned across the US. Seniors to pay more for insulin and prescription drugs. Foreign governments free to pollute our daily discourse and harass our citizens. Teenagers to work night shifts in meat packing plants and not go to school. The minimum wage to stay at $7.25. Mass arrests and mass deportations of immigrants long settled in the US. Insurrectionists to be pardoned. To end American democracy for all time.
Hannibal Lecter. Future GOP meetings in Russia-allied Venezuela. Hitler’s “poisoning the blood.” Autocratic leaders of China, Russia, Hungary and North Korea heaped with praise and respect. J6 criminals are “hostages.” Another embrace of QAnon, a violent cult calling for the jailing and assassination of Democrats. It was all there, ugly as it fucking gets, extreme, nothing held back. Another confirmation of why we are all working so hard to win the election, and why hard-working people of this great country deserve much better than this Putin-loving lunatic. (snip-More; the Hopium follows this)
Scottie's Playtime 
Hi. Ali great post. I love it. More people need to see that list. Wow, we need the democrats in office to stop fighting each other and fight the republicans. The more they push this the more damage they do. At this point I think poor Biden would have won but now these Dems have given voters pause. Hugs. Scottie
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I’d love to take credit for more than passing it along; Simon Roseberg does so much work putting those together every day, while coordinating the other work he does.
Voters aren’t paused, but they’re pissed. They want to know what whoever are going to do, so we can move on and get it done. Mostly, though, they want the Biden-Harris ticket to start hitting the campaign hard again. Voters are not paused-I see it all over, not just in Hopium. Even the mainstream media report it now, but they both sides the story. People aren’t as dumb as media treat them, though. It’s why subscriptions are declining.
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Hi Ali. Well you had to read and then make the post. But yes that is my read, the voters want this interparty fighting crap to end and for the Dems to get to work telling people what they are going to do to counter tRump and project 2025. If the dems lose, it will be the fault of the interparty attacks on Biden. Hugs. Scottie
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