This is fun!
Remember where we were a week ago?
We were a party divided, our base was telling George Clooney to eat shit and we were hating on each other over which way we should go. We were spending days fighting with the New York Times over their attacks on President Joe Biden, and important issues like abortion rights and Trump wanting to be a dictator were hardly part of the discussion at all. The media was actually telling us about Trump’s new tone.
We weren’t even talking about what a loser Jalopy Dizzynards (JD) Vance is. Well we were, but not like this week.
And then this weekend two political earthquakes hit. The first was President Biden making the monumental and selfless decision to step aside for his Vice President, capping off the most successful first term in modern history with an unrivaled act of political sacrifice. Things have moved so fast since then it’s easy to forget just how breathtaking this was.
But so was what happened next.
In a matter of HOURS, Vice President Kamala Harris and her team rallied damn near the entire Democratic Party around her candidacy, blasting past fundraising records and lining up crucial endorsements and sending a giant goddamn lightning bolt of energy into a Democratic Party that had been fighting with itself and increasingly fearing the future.
Ever since, we’ve been singing in the shower, dancing in our living rooms and reading the news with both eyes open instead of just peaking through our fingers. This shit is fun!
Thanks to Biden’s selflessness and Harris’s fire, we are happy warriors now, braced but eager for the ugly battles to come, daring our opponents to come at us and envisioning a victory so rare it has never been done before. We’re hearing from friends and relatives who have a new pep in their step. Social media is fun as hell again. Everything is.
We’ve been given a gift — we’ve been given the opportunity to stop fascism and make beautiful history with one move. The excitement of the last few days tells us this is not a gift we are willing to squander. The pundits and the Trump campaign will tell us this is a “honeymoon” phase. And they might be right. But honeymoons are fun. And right now politics is too.
For the last several years — ever since that orange dingus was crapped down that escalator — there has been a dark cloud over politics. We’ve had celebrations and wins, but the losses have hung over everything. And when it comes to setbacks like the overturning of Roe, the losses will continue to hang over everything.
Still, there is a renewed sense of hope out there. We can breathe again. We can smile and enjoy the fight again. We can see passion and enthusiasm in our fellow lovers of democracy, and we can be inspired by it and enjoy it and share it. We can laugh again. Especially now that we know how much it pisses off Republicans.
We will forever be grateful to President Biden. Not just for his remarkably successful first term, but for helping to create this great and wonderful moment.
Now we’re ready to fight like hell for Vice President Harris. And it’s a pleasure to do so.
It’s great that Biden and Harris pulled this off. Agree that it has energized many people. It has me wishing that our election cycles were 100 days. I think people can amaze that better and it feels like the enthusiasm and energy will last for that time. Having said that, the corporate media seems to have learned nothing and they are gonna spin, and manipulate instead of report factual information. We will need to be watchful of them as well as the republican shenanigans. It was still dastardly and George Clooney and the donor class can still eat sh!t
If you listened to any of Trump rally speeches from more than a couple weeks ago, you'd know that all the supposed problems we're facing - high inflation, high immigration, immigrant cannibals like Hannibal Lecter, wars in Ukraine and Israel, high cost of gas, etc - were all the fault of the "worst President in history-Joe Biden." But now we find out all these problems weren't the fault of Joe Biden at all - they were all the fault of Kamala Harris, the great mastermind behind Biden. I'd bet anything if Kamala would somehow lose the nomination and say Gavin Newsom was the nominee, we'd find out that it wasn't Kamala after all but it was Newsom behind the scenes causing all the supposed issues. Want to bet?