Posted on 08/25/2024 5:04:04 PM PDT by Libloather
I am standing on the floor of an arena in Chicago, waiting for Kamala Harris.
It’s been nearly three hours. There are thousands of us squished together, toppling over, jostling, hot, uncomfortable, straining under the lights. Everywhere I look, there are people holding tall “Kamala” signs, shouting, screaming, panting, roaring. Music is pounding.
It was like this last night, and the night before, and the night before that: a 96-hour psycho war dance.
To get an idea of what has been achieved at this year’s Democratic National Convention — how a party purges itself of one candidate and installs another in the blink of an eye — you need only look across the hall. It is as if a $200 million tornado has blown in, showering 5,000 delegates with new catchphrases, merch, watchwords, ideas, emotions — hope, joy — overnight, while everything else has been clinically erased from memory.
Joe Biden, Jill, Hunter, their deranged Secret Service-biting dog, Commander — all long in witness protection. Mention Biden’s name and they’ll barely respond. And he actually appeared at the convention.
It is as ruthless as it is awesome.
I ask delegates from California, Georgia and Minnesota if they think Harris can now pull it off. It’s her most important speech; the most significant convention in 40 years. All of them scream, “YAAASSS.” She’s brilliant, “amazing,” “Mizz Kamala.”
As for the look — well, it’s convention loopy. Everyone around me is wearing Kamala outfits: pearls, skinny jeans and Converse. Even the men. It’s quite strange to talk to a 6-foot retired web designer called Chuck from Minnesota in pearls, or to a see a male delegate from California sporting a straight-up Queen Mother-grade choker and Kamala make-up.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Dim party is anything but democratic.
However...
I despise all cult of personality crap. INCLUDING when it’s done for Trump. Wake up people! People were wearing fake ear bandages, crying and all sorts of other things at the RNC. It’s garbage. It needs to stop. I support Trump, but this cult crap needs to stop.
Flame away.
It’s so hard to tell if the article was serious or satire.
Not too surprised. I couldn’t expect anyone with a modicum of normality attending that convention.
Nor could I
I agree.
It looks like they have sewed up the pearl-wearing metrosexual vote.
In other words, the girly men.
What she saw was DNC Kabuki. Highly ritual, demanding clear and positive feelings and expressions of cultish joy. No substance.
No explanation of what is the thing Joe quit the race “to save Democracy?” No explanation why he’s still in the WH. No explanation of why she did not take the reigns when Joe quit.
She wants that damn job she’d do anything for it. Not now when she could under 25, but later when she tricks all the idiots who couldn’t vote for her for the DNC nomination to vote in the November election. Contradiction upon contradiction and no one is asking why?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Scumbags like you can’t wait to scream “we do it too”! Everytime somebody points out how creepy dems are.
Why don’t you stfu and go stop this Trump cult you see in your tiny mind instead of going on a message board and crying about it. Loser.
After mere minutes, though, it’s all forgotten — the crowds snap back to unreality, go wild, pour back out the doors and roil through the arena: I see Spike Lee and the Central Park Five being led, like blind people, through the glittering masses. Can any of this last? Has she now peaked? Not if these lunatics can help it.
It wasn’t possible to see every face in the crowd but I wonder if some behind the cameras deliberately picked out the faces without any sign of emotion on them - as if they wished they were anywhere but there. I saw a lot of folks not even smiling. Maybe they were people who had to be dragged into the hall...perhaps those taking the pictures felt the same way!
I didn’t watch the convention but I am sure it was a big multi-camera event. All the cameras feed back to a bunch of monitors where the director sits and decides what feed to use and when. The camera man is told what to look for but the guy at the monitors makes the decisions.
Maybe they were people who had to be dragged into the hall...perhaps those taking the pictures felt the same way!
Its a high school circle-jerk prom.
Speaking of Lunatics. I’m watching FDYB on Dish, the show is called “This Week in White Supremacy “
I thought it was a joke at first but no, they’re serious.
sounds like just a big rave...
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