This is not the time to rest on our laurels. Now is not the time to exhale. This is the battle call (metaphorically speaking) for us to amp it up to the max. This is the time to be methodical, focused, determined and ruthless. For WE are going to GET this win.
There are less than 3 months to the finish line. And yes, we who feel full well how this summer has zipped by in the blink of an eye, are well aware that this is not a whole lot of time.
We are filled with gratitude that the DNC has been more than answering the call. It is reflecting where all we lovers of democracy are in this moment. Make no mistake, we are a HUGE majority. This 2024 Democratic National Committee convention is surpassing, by far, all conventions in American history.
The Democrats… no, let me correct that, the AMERICANS, are rising up in numbers much too numerous to count.
It. Is. Epic.
One celebrity after another.. NO. One ICON after another, have made their way onto the stage in Chicago over the past three nights, greeted by thrilled participants; deafening cheers of teary-eyed, happily astonished people (that’s the joy right there) greeting the speakers with standing ovation applause that seemed like would go on for endless minutes. This 2024 DNC convention has been nothing short of unbelievable. We have borne witness to the rolling out of the the carpet to a “who’s who” lineup of the best of the best; of what makes America the great country that it is. This DNC has completely pulled out all the stops and stopped at nothing. We are overwhelmed with thanks, for we fully know this moment calls for nothing less than FULL ON, pedal-to-the-metal power.
Speeches destined for the history books worthy of listening to again and again, are happening. All this during a time when MAGA leaders dictatorially throw school books into dumpsters, attempting to discard our American history and our human right to autonomy and individualism. We are seeing people coming together for democracy in ways that we may have up, until now, only dreamed of and wished for.
This DNC convention is giving us a kind of temporary relief we need and the opportunity to charge up our collective batteries. We have needed to switch our focus from the meanness and terror, of the trauma we feel at the already-proven danger of Trump and the white supremacists, too long so dominant in our minds. We need to plug ourselves in to our fueling stations, re-boot and bring it all in for the strong finish. This convention is exactly what we need to do just that.
The “Trump thing” is absolutely horrifying. This Project 2025 thing reads like an “are-you-effing-kidding-me?” dystopian, severely out-of-touch-with-humanity view of some demented freaks of nature who have an insatiable lust for power and control, and apparently other kinds of weird lust. They make it exceedingly clear exactly what they want to turn these beloved and incredible United States, OUR United States into. The fascistic buffoons want to wipe America off the world map, make it no longer the bastion for a people-powered democracy. They want to rob us of America’s standing and place on the world stage. They want to take away our joy.
But WE are engaged and we are fired up. You can be damn well sure we are not going to let them take nearly 250 years of toil and struggle for our hard earned freedoms away from us.
MAGA dudes, it’s time to face reality. And I don’t mean reality TV.
YOU, MAGA are losing it. You have already LOST it, and fast. And, make no mistake, we already know that you, the MAGAs have moved on to what you will do when you find out democracy prevails and you have failed on November 5th.
We already know your playbook because you have already SHOWN it to us. Yes, in the days leading up to the election 2020 (and in 2016 too), Trump and his minions went about sowing doubt on our voting system that, just like a smooth transition of power, nobody ever had a credible problem with before. Classic authoritarian move. But we-the-people are not that dumb. You have already shown us time and time again who you are and what you are capable of.
We have been through tough times before. Astonishingly, the toughest times in our history have been due to Trump. Yes, MAGA, you have shown us your playbook already. We didn’t even need your more than 900 page Project 2025 to spell it out for us, but at the same time we are really glad you did. Because there is no question what you want to turn America into. And we are not having it.
We watched you, Donald, ignore a global pandemic and just “let people die”. We saw you command that the peaceful BLM protestors in DC that June 1st, 2020 be gassed and shot at with rubber bullets just for being there. We watched you being a “pretend Christian” holding that Bible you had to borrow from someone to hold upside down in front of a church. And what the hell WAS that all about, anyway? I think we still do not know.
We heard you throw America’s intelligence officials under the bus and opting instead to kiss the ring of our enemy, a smirking Vladimir Putin in front of the entire world as you clownishly tossed a soccer ball back to him at your podiums in Helsinki. We saw you succumb to the pressure by a ruthless dictator saying we need to pull America out of NATO. Later we heard you admit, you idiot, that you had no idea going into the presidency what NATO even IS.
We have watched you project your horrific-ness and your criminality, every single time, onto others. We know that you are a rapist and a 34 times convicted felon. Tracking all your crimes has become utterly exhausting. There are so many that we a little lost in the morass.
And now, we are watching and participating as Americans who are standing up in utter defiance. It is the kind of defiance and determination and “failure is not an option” energy that this nation was literally birthed on. It is written and outlined in the pages of our Constitution. Yes, that one. The one you have stupidly promised to throw out and replace with your plan for fascism that is Project 2025.
Now we watching and participating, as, for the first time ever in our history, a brilliant, tough, force-not-to-be-reckoned with black WOMAN prosecutor rises to the top and faces you. Fearless. Backed by us, and on OUR watch. That is a force that has been waiting in the wings. And a force unlike anything you have ever faced before. We can smell your fear.
We are unified, unstoppable and committed. You are weak, failing and a… brace yourself Donald, the word you hate most of all: A LOSER!
Go back to sleep, Donald. The days of white supremacy, patriarchy and making a case for fascism are long over. You cannot keep up. Just admit it.
WE are the ones who are genuinely proud to be Americans. WE are the true Patriots. America is stronger than ever. We have made a quantum leap. And there IS no going back.
What at the DNC Convention has inspired YOU?
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