DNC Convention: It's On!

[Missouri_Mike]

One of the DNC speakers said Harris has been black longer than Trump has been a Republican.

BOOM!

Trump was Republican well before she became black this year.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

It's a new day.

move over

It’s not. Fuck off

 

[Dante]

None of that happened under bidumb/harris. If those are his principles he should vote for Trump.

They Called Us "Lucky" (D) Rep Ruben Gallego Harvard grad

The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit

By Ruben Gallego, Jim DeFelice

They Called Us Lucky

From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battal

www.harpercollins.com

Ruben Gallego - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War

At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.

Then, in May 2005, Lima’s fortunes flipped. Unknown to Ruben and his fellow grunts, al Anbar had recently become a haven for al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The bin Laden-sponsored group had recruited radicals from all over the world for jihad against the Americans. On one fateful day, they were lured into a death house; the ambush cost the lives of two men, including a platoon sergeant. Two days later, Ruben’s best friend, Jonathon Grant, died in an IED attack, along with several others. Events worsened from there. A disastrous operation in Haditha in August claimed the lives of thirteen Marines when an IED destroyed their amphibious vehicle. It was the worst single-day loss for the Marines since the 1983 Beirut bombings. By the time 3/25 went home in November, it had lost more men than any other single unit in the war. Forty-six Marines and two Navy Corpsmen serving with the battalion in Iraq were killed in action during their roughly nine-month activation.

They Called Us “Lucky” details Ruben Gallego’s journey and includes harrowing accounts of some of the war’s most costly battles. It details the struggles and the successes of Ruben—now a member of Congress—and the rest of Lima Company following Iraq, examining the complicated matter of PTSD. And it serves as a tribute to Ruben’s fallen comrades, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

With its gripping accounts of some of the war's most costly battles, They Called Us 'Lucky' is a must-read for anyone interested in military history and the politics of war. It offers a firsthand perspective on the Iraq War and the struggles faced by soldiers like Ruben Gallego, who served in the hardest hit company of the hardest hit battalion of the war and occupation.

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2:45 they all walk in -- all the Veterans

WE WERE PROUD TO WEAR THE UNIFORM. AND WE ARE PROUD SERVING OUR COUNTRY IN CITY HALL, STATE CAPITALS, THE U.S. HOUSE, AND THE SENATE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THESE VETERANS REPRESENT THE BEST OF OUR COUNTRY. WE STAND UNITED AS VETERANS, DEMOCRATS, AND PATRIOTS TO FIGHT FOR EVERYONE WHO SERVED. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] POLITICIANS LIKE DONALD TRUMP DO NOT STAND WITH US. THEY CALL PATRIOTS LIKE SENATOR MCCAIN LOSERS. JOHN MCCAIN WAS AN AMERICAN HERO. SHOW SOME RESPECT. PROJECT 2025 WILL SLASH VETERANS BENEFITS AND FORCE VA HOSPITAL SOUP CLOSE ACROSS THE NATION.

SHOW SOME RESPECT. SO FOR THE 18-YEAR-OLD WHO DECIDES TO ENLIST, OR THE FAMILIES LIKE MINE WHO PRAY EVERY NIGHT THAT THEIR LOVED ONES WOULD COME HOME, FOR OUR TROOPS STATIONED THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY, FOR MY MARINES OF LIMA COMPANY, LET US ELECT KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM WALZ, WHO DO NOT JUST RESPECT OUR SERVICE, BUT REVERE IT. BECAUSE THE VETERANS WHO DEFENDED THIS COUNTRY ARE NOT JUST THE REASON WE CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT. THEY ARE THE REASON WE CAN DREAM. AND TOGETHER, TOGETHER WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR VETERANS AND EVERYONE WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY. THANK YOU. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CHANTING "USA"

 

[Dante]

Vice President of the United States of America, and 2024 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris enters the hall -- takes the stage. That smile! That genuine laugh that so many of us love.

History in the making.

Happy Wedding Anniversary Kamala and Doug

 

[Missouri_Mike]

They Called Us "Lucky" (D) Rep Ruben Gallego Harvard grad

The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit

By Ruben Gallego, Jim DeFelice

They Called Us Lucky

From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battal

www.harpercollins.com

Ruben Gallego - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War

At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.

Then, in May 2005, Lima’s fortunes flipped. Unknown to Ruben and his fellow grunts, al Anbar had recently become a haven for al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The bin Laden-sponsored group had recruited radicals from all over the world for jihad against the Americans. On one fateful day, they were lured into a death house; the ambush cost the lives of two men, including a platoon sergeant. Two days later, Ruben’s best friend, Jonathon Grant, died in an IED attack, along with several others. Events worsened from there. A disastrous operation in Haditha in August claimed the lives of thirteen Marines when an IED destroyed their amphibious vehicle. It was the worst single-day loss for the Marines since the 1983 Beirut bombings. By the time 3/25 went home in November, it had lost more men than any other single unit in the war. Forty-six Marines and two Navy Corpsmen serving with the battalion in Iraq were killed in action during their roughly nine-month activation.

They Called Us “Lucky” details Ruben Gallego’s journey and includes harrowing accounts of some of the war’s most costly battles. It details the struggles and the successes of Ruben—now a member of Congress—and the rest of Lima Company following Iraq, examining the complicated matter of PTSD. And it serves as a tribute to Ruben’s fallen comrades, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

With its gripping accounts of some of the war's most costly battles, They Called Us 'Lucky' is a must-read for anyone interested in military history and the politics of war. It offers a firsthand perspective on the Iraq War and the struggles faced by soldiers like Ruben Gallego, who served in the hardest hit company of the hardest hit battalion of the war and occupation.

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2:45 they all walk in -- all the Veterans

WE WERE PROUD TO WEAR THE UNIFORM. AND WE ARE PROUD SERVING OUR COUNTRY IN CITY HALL, STATE CAPITALS, THE U.S. HOUSE, AND THE SENATE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THESE VETERANS REPRESENT THE BEST OF OUR COUNTRY. WE STAND UNITED AS VETERANS, DEMOCRATS, AND PATRIOTS TO FIGHT FOR EVERYONE WHO SERVED. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] POLITICIANS LIKE DONALD TRUMP DO NOT STAND WITH US. THEY CALL PATRIOTS LIKE SENATOR MCCAIN LOSERS. JOHN MCCAIN WAS AN AMERICAN HERO. SHOW SOME RESPECT. PROJECT 2025 WILL SLASH VETERANS BENEFITS AND FORCE VA HOSPITAL SOUP CLOSE ACROSS THE NATION.

SHOW SOME RESPECT. SO FOR THE 18-YEAR-OLD WHO DECIDES TO ENLIST, OR THE FAMILIES LIKE MINE WHO PRAY EVERY NIGHT THAT THEIR LOVED ONES WOULD COME HOME, FOR OUR TROOPS STATIONED THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY, FOR MY MARINES OF LIMA COMPANY, LET US ELECT KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM WALZ, WHO DO NOT JUST RESPECT OUR SERVICE, BUT REVERE IT. BECAUSE THE VETERANS WHO DEFENDED THIS COUNTRY ARE NOT JUST THE REASON WE CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT. THEY ARE THE REASON WE CAN DREAM. AND TOGETHER, TOGETHER WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR VETERANS AND EVERYONE WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY. THANK YOU. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CHANTING "USA"

As a real Marine who saw combat the speech had to make his skin crawl. Can you imagine how much of your soul you would have to give up as a combat marine to go on national tv and give that speech for a man who not only ran from his service, but then lies about his rank? Rubin has to be soaking in a hot tub of bleach right now. How sad. This may actually be worse than Walz and his stolen valor. A combat vet sinking to this level.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Vice President of the United States of America, and 2024 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris enters the hall -- takes the stage. That smile! That genuine laugh that so many of us love.

History in the making.

Happy Wedding Anniversary Kamala and Doug

The cackle?

 

[Dante]

As a real Marine who saw combat the speech had to make his skin crawl. Can you imagine how much of your soul you would have to give up as a combat marine to go on national tv and give that speech for a man who not only ran from his service, but then lies about his rank? Rubin has to be soaking in a hot tub of bleach right now. How sad. This may actually be worse than Walz and his stolen valor. A combat vet sinking to this level.

Shame on you

Like DJT, you are incapable of showing respect.

 

[g5000]

Trump was Republican well before she became black this year.

She didn't become black this year, you dumbass gaslighted fuckwit.

In fact, in 2020, to prove he wasn't racist, Trump pointed out he had donated to Harris's campaign for California Attorney General. And in making that point, he called her a black woman!

"I'll note that Kamala Harris is a Black woman and he donated to her campaign," Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson said Tuesday in a call with reporters. "So I hope we can squash this racism argument."

Donald Trump made campaign donations to Kamala Harris years ago. His campaign says it's proof he's not racist.

Ivanka Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin also gave money to Harris in the past.

www.cbsnews.com

Here's an article written during her Senate campaign:

Kamala Harris, a ‘Top Cop’ in the Era of Black Lives Matter​

As she campaigns to become only the second black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the California attorney general is trying to chart a middle course on the Democratic Party’s most contentious issue: criminal justice.



And now Kamala Harris's own words:


She brought up her daughters, in the late ’60s and early ’70s, in a black neighborhood in Berkeley, sharing a house with a friend who ran a small preschool. “She had two black babies, and she raised them to be two black women,” Harris says of her mother’s choice of community.

 

[g5000]

The cackle?

There's that hate which is going to make you losers lose.

 

[g5000]

Trump was Republican well before she became black this year.

Your post reminds me of that time I was in a helicopter crash with Willie Brown.

It is positively mindblowing the way you tards STILL parrot Trump's lies without engaging a single brain cell in critical thought.

No wonder he lies to you every day.

You BEG for it!

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Shame on you

Like DJT, you are incapable of showing respect.

I have no respect for stolen valor Tim, he’s the one who lied about his career. He deserves none.

What respect I may have had for Gallego for his service he went up on that stage and shit on it himself defending valor thief Timmy.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Your post reminds me of that time I was in a helicopter crash with Willie Brown.

It is positively mindblowing the way you tards STILL parrot Trump's lies without engaging a single brain cell in critical thought.

No wonder he lies to you every day.

You BEG for it!

Can you produce a single news article from her days as a DA where she claimed black not Indian?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

She's killing it. No doubt about it.

Can you produce a single news article from her days as a DA where she claimed black not Indian?

I guess she was "brown enough", that nobody asked. Does this bother you?

When little girls see her running for President, and think, "she's brown"... does that bother you? What about grown women? She is reeling them in, you know. In droves.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

She's killing it. No doubt about it.

I guess she was "brown enough", that nobody asked. Does this bother you?

When little girls see her running for President, and think, "she's brown"... does that bother you? What about grown women? She is reeling them in, you know. In droves.

By that measure I’m brown enough to run as black. Are we really running a presidential election on what little girls see race wise? Have we arrived to the point in this country a white woman can be in government for years claiming to be Indian, and an Indian can decide to be black because it’s the race of race.

We could actually discuss policies but you democrats know that’s a losing hand.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

She's killing it. No doubt about it.

I guess she was "brown enough", that nobody asked. Does this bother you?

When little girls see her running for President, and think, "she's brown"... does that bother you? What about grown women? She is reeling them in, you know. In droves.

Oh, BTW. You can’t. That’s why you went on this rant.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

By that measure I’m brown enough to run as black.

Then try it. Do you think it would work? Why, or why not? Do I really have to parse these not-so-fine points? Come one, you're not stupid.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Then try it. Do you think it would work? Why, or why not? Do I really have to parse these not-so-fine points? Come one, you're not stupid.

It would work as long as I ran as a democrat. I could be a woman and a lesbian too.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It would work as long as I ran as a democrat. I could be a woman and a lesbian too.

But not as a Republican?

gee... why not?

(prepare for every answer except for the correct answer)

 

[Dante]

The cackle?

I WILL BE A PRESIDENT WHO UNITES US AROUND OUR HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS. A PRESIDENT WHO LEADS AND LISTENS. WHO IS REALISTIC, PRACTICAL, AND HAS COMMON SENSE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND ALWAYS FIGHTS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. FROM THE COURTHOUSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE, THAT HAS BEEN MY LIFE'S WORK. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

AS A YOUNG COURTROOM PROSECUTOR IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, I STOOD UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AGAINST PREDATORS WHO ABUSED THEM. AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA, I TOOK ON THE BIG BANKS. DELIVERED $20 BILLION FOR MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILIES WHO FACED FORECLOSURE, AND HELPED PASS A HOMEOWNER BILL OF RIGHTS, ONE OF THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE NATION. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

I STOOD UP FOR VETERANS AND STUDENTS BEING SCAMMED BY BIG FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES. FOR WORKERS WHO ARE BEING CHEATED OUT OF THEIR WAGES, THE WAGES THEY WERE DUE. FOR SENIORS FACING ELDER ABUSE. I FOUGHT AGAINST THE CARTELS WHO TRAFFIC IN GUNS AND DRUGS AND HUMAN BEINGS. THREATENING THE SECURITY OF OUR BORDER AND THE SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITIES.


AND I WILL TELL YOU, THESE FIGHTS WERE NOT EASY, AND NEITHER WERE THE ELECTIONS THAT PUT ME IN THOSE OFFICES. WE WERE UNDERESTIMATED AT PRACTICALLY EVERY TURN. BUT WE NEVER GAVE UP. BECAUSE 2HE FUTURE IS ALWAYS WORTH FIGHTING FOR. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND THAT'S THE FIGHT WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW. A FIGHT FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

 

[Dante]

I see the hate is out in full force. Democrats have learned nothing since their vile rhetoric got Trump shot and nearly assassinated. These are evil people.

Hate? What part is hateful?

KAMALA HAS SHOWN HER ALLEGIANCE TO THIS NATION. NOT BY SPEWING ANGER AND BITTERNESS, BUT BY LIVING A LIFE OF SERVICE, AND ALWAYS PUSHING THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY OPEN TO OTHERS. SHE UNDERSTANDS THAT MOST OF US WILL NEVER BE AFFORDED THE GRACE OF FAILING FORWARD. WE WILL NEVER BENEFIT FROM THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OF GENERATIONAL WEALTH. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

IF WE BANKRUPT THE BUSINESS, OR CHOKE IN A CRISIS, WE DO NOT GET A SECOND, THIRD OR FOURTH CHANCE. IF THINGS DO NOT GO OUR WAY, WE DO NOT HAVE THE LUXURY OF WHINING OR CHEATING OTHERS TO GET FURTHER AHEAD. NO. WE DON'T GET TO CHANGE THE RULES, BUT WE ALWAYS WIN.

IF WE SEE A MOUNTAIN IN FRONT OF US, WE DO NOT EXPECT AN ESCALATOR TO TAKE US TO THE TOP. NO. WE PUT OUR HEADS DOWN. WE GET TO WORK. IN AMERICA, WE DO SOMETHING. AND THROUGHOUT HER ENTIRE LIFE, THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE SEEN FROM KAMALA HARRIS. THE STEADINESS OF HER UPBRINGING, THE HONESTY OF HER EXAMPLE AND YES, THE JOY OF HER LAUGHTER AND HER LIFE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

IT COULD NOT BE MORE OBVIOUS. OF THE TWO MAJOR CANDIDATES IN THIS RACE ONLY KAMALA HARRIS TRULY UNDERSTANDS THE UNSEEN LABOR AND UNWAVERING COMMITMENT THAT HAS ALWAYS MADE AMERICA GREAT. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

UNFORTUNATELY, WE KNOW WHAT COMES NEXT. WE KNOW FOLKS ARE GOING TO DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO DISTORT HER TRUTH. MY HUSBAND AND I SADLY KNOW A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. FOR YEARS, DONALD TRUMP DID EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER TO TRY TO MAKE PEOPLE FEAR US. HIS LIMITED, NARROW VIEW OF THE WORLD MADE HIM FEEL THREATENED BY THE EXISTENCE OF TWO HARD-WORKING, HIGHLY EDUCATED, SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE WHO HAPPEN TO BE BLACK. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

I WANT TO KNOW. WHO IS GOING TO TELL HIM THE JOB HE IS CURRENTLY SEEKING MIGHT JUST BE ONE OF THOSE BLACK JOBS? [CHEERS 2ND 2PPLAUSE]