Chris Perkel

Creative Director of COACHELLA and STAGECOACH livestreams. Director of CLIVE DAVIS: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES (Netflix), FOREMAN (Epix), and others.

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

When you eat unsalted seaweed snacks you realize you never loved the seaweed at all. You love salt.

[Coachella @coachella]

Yuma.wav 🪩🦈

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

@franklinleonard Every time like clockwork. We pivot to the middle and win (Biden) it’s evidence we need to move right. We pivot to the middle and lose (Harris) and its evidence we need to move right again. Coincidentally the donors are rich and we’ve lost the working class. When do we go left?

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

It’s like getting a cancer diagnosis, beating it and then 4 years later having a relapse but now it’s everywhere. Feels like all you can do is move into acceptance.

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

Bernie Sanders in 2003.

Worth the watch.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

It was naive to believe that if Kamala Harris avoided discussing her race and gender, that if she evaded so-called identity politics, that she would nullify the liability of being a Black woman seeking the presidency in a country where racism and misogyny are embedded in the culture. This is a country that responded to a multiracial electorate sending the first Black president to the White House with a *minority* of the white vote by electing an openly white racist man over the person who could have become the nation's first woman president.

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

@bqueener @RadioFreeTom They’re easily duped because both parties let them down — the gap never shrinks no matter who is in office, it just grows less fast.

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

@theashleyray I agree but doubt Biden woulda won, he was just profoundly unpopular and unable to advocate for his record.

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

@MattGertz That floating pile of garbage is the bus @TonyHinchcliffe was thrown under. These guys support a man that will sell them out on a dime. Dumbasses.

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

@KamalaHQ He sounds tired and weak.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

News flash: On Tuesday night, regardless of what the vote tallies say, Trump will declare victory. 

He will claim the only reason he may lose is “vote stealing.”

Undermining the legitimacy of an election is how demagogues destroy faith in democracy.

Kamala for President.

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

Best ad I’ve seen.

[LeBron James @KingJames]

What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

@JohnSaponaro Cmon, guys. Bartman cost the Cubs the game (or at least that was the perception). Thats why he was vilified. Extremely dumb take.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

"Garbage"?! Fox News is OUTRAGED by this hateful rhetoric from the president

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

Had this EXACT thought.

[Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan]

Those anti-trans ads they’re showing during the World Series are the kinda thing they’ll put in movies 30 years from now to show what a mean, bigoted time 2024 was

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

100k foot view of the WaPo situation:

I suppose it’s possible that Bezos sincerely formed, in his private thoughts, the principle that presidential endorsements are bad, and the timing of this articulation ~just happened~ to coincide with this principle being *obviously* advantageous to his company Blue Origin. It’s … possible!

But, as a general matter, if you come up with a personal principle at the very moment when that principle is most convenient, the price you pay for that convenience is that nobody will trust you. Nor should they.

To make a ludicrous but I think sort of helpful comparison: My principle on kitchen hygiene is I don’t think my kitchen countertops need weekly scrubbing. That’s the sort of thing to make clear to my wife when the counters are clean. If I articulate this principle for the first time 0.5 seconds after my wife tells me to scrub the kitchen counters on a day when I'm kind of busy, *of course* she won’t believe me. She *should not* believe me. It would be sort of touchingly hilarious if she did!

“We don’t endorse presidential candidates” is a defensible position. Coming up with that principle during the editing process for a Harris endorsement days before your company is scheduled to meet with Donald Trump is not a decision whose timing deserves anybody’s trust. And the media environment is too competitive for news organizations to carelessly set fire to their integrity without enormous consequences.

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

@RyanGirdusky I can’t go on live tv, racistly accuse my fellow panelist of being a terrorist and joke about his death, without blowback… WE USED TO BE A REAL NATION!!!

[greg. @mistergeezy]

GO AWF Ana Navarro!!!!

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

Bernie gets it.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I’ve been all over the country in the last month.

And I get asked the same question, over and over again:

“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”

Here is my answer:

[Chris Perkel @ChrisPerkel]

@notcapnamerica Not what you think of as a cover. It was written by a songwriter and released by another artist without gaining traction. Basically tried a second time with her.