Emily Starr Alfano

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[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

Wow. BRUTAL words for her fellow liberals from Democratic strategist @JulieRoginsky on CNN:

“I’m going to speak some hard truths...We are not be party of common sense, which is the message the voters sent to us...When we address Latino voters...as Latinx, for instance, b/c that’s the politically correct thing to do, it makes them think we don’t even live in the same planet as they do. When we are too afraid to say that, hey, college kids, if you're trashing the campus of Columbia University b/c you’re unhappy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that is unacceptable. But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we do not know what to say when normal people look at that and say, wait a second. I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so they can burn buildings and trash lawns, right? And so on and so forth. When we put pronouns after names and say she/her as opposed to saying, you know what, if I call you by the wrong pronoun, call me out. I am sorry. I won't do it again. But stop with the virtue signaling and speak to people like they’re normal. There is nothing that I'm going to say to Shermichael that I’m not going to say to your or I’m not going to say to somebody else. I speak the same language to everybody. But that’s not what Democrats do. We constantly try to parse out different ways of speaking because our focus groups or polling shows that so-and-so appeals to such and such. That’s not how normal people think. It is not common sense and we need to start being the part of common sense again. Joe Biden is not responsible for that, neither is Kamala Harris. That is a problem that Democrats have had for years. I’ve been banging the drum on this for I don’t know how — probably ten years on this. We need to get back to being the party of common sense that people look at us and say we understand you. We appreciate what you say because you speak our language. And, until we do that, we should stop blaming other people for our own mistakes.”

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Here @nytimes we fixed this for you

[Susan For San Jacinto City Council @ifudontlike2bad]

Frightening reality. Very well said. I've been screaming about this. Unfortunately, people will find out the hard way.

[sae ❤️‍🔥 @trytrytrytaylor]

do they not realize trump was working under obamas economy and biden is working under trumps economy

[Matt Stehman @MattStehman]

For anyone who wonders why republicans attack education so fiercely, tonight is your answer.

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.

As a nation, we collectively failed her—and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.

It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures—we will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.

I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.

I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.

I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.

We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.

There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.

I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.

I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently are—but I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

Republicans clearly know how to speak to low information voters. They do so through lies about what to expect and easy to digest messaging that results in these same voters voting against their own self interests. I can say with certainty that those who voted for Trump will not be better off as a result.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

People - including top US journalists, perhaps especially top US journalists - don’t quite get how bad it’s going to be. How beyond term one it’ll be. How bad the Musks and RFKs will be.

I don’t think even I fully accept how bad it’s going to be and I have been shouting how bad it’s going to be for years.

[Tom Zohar @TomZohar]

My generalized anxiety teaming up with my current very specific anxiety:

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Notice Donald Trump stops posting about fraud when he thinks he’s ahead.

Fuck that guy.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i don't think its healthy for a nation to be held hostage by the hallucinations of a rabid cult that lives in an entirely separate reality.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

Whatever the result, it will never not be absolutely terrible that it’s even this close.

[Rob @RealityRobbed]

She's about to have an absolutely incredible couple of days.

[Megan @Megan_With_No_H]

My agenda today:

• Vote
• Drag Show
• Abortion at lunch
• Vote again
• Sex change in a prison bathroom
• Put tampons in the men's room
• Cast some spells while listening to Taylor Swift
• Eat pets for dinner in Springfield
• Take "illegals" to vote

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Donald Trump closes by calling Nancy Pelosi "an evil, sick, crazy b-.” (Trump mouthed the last word. “It starts with a ‘B’ but I won’t say it. I wanna say it!”)

JD Vance closes by calling Kamala Harris "trash."

If you're voting for Trump-Vance, this is who you're voting for.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.