[Closed] 2020 Election and the Transition

@jeanne-mayell @dolphinspirit

I’ve noticed a lot more pro-Markey stuff than pro-Kennedy stuff on my FB feed. I’d vote for Markey, but I’m moving out of state in a week. I really don’t want voters in Massachusetts to indulge Kennedy’s sense of entitlement both as a white male and as a Kennedy.

Are any of you planning to watch some of the Democratic convention?  It begins tonight.  I'm looking forward to hearing Michele Obama, Corey Booker and Bernie Sanders speak.  Also, John Kasich is supposed to be speaking and endorsing Biden.  

Yes, I am.  It should be interesting for sure. 

Michelle Obama was wonderful tonight.  She was authentic and spoke from the heart.  

She is remarkable.  

I also liked the Amtrak story a lot. 

While Michelle was going "high" tonight, I noticed live viewer comments from a local news station carrying it on the internet. Really low, bottom feeder low comment.

Whatever happens, we can't go there everyone. We can't become bottom feeders.

Also adding, Yang was great giving post commentary on the evening.  He is so refreshing to listen to. I also liked how Sanders spoke. 

Posted by: @lovendures

I also liked how Sanders spoke.

I can only hope that those who supported him will follow him to support Biden.

Randy Rainbow just made a fun new video.  

Kamala.  (Camelot) 

He used the same music for "Kavanaugh"  back during his confirmation hearing. It works for both really well.  

He put in a brief photo of Maya Rudolph which was fun to see.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RbKStEFNT8&feature=youtu.be

Marco Rubio tweeted this tonight about Eva Longoria:

"Brilliant move! No one is more in touch with the challenges & obstacles faced by everyday Americans than actors & celebrities."

Did he forget who our president is?

@dannyboy. Thanks for posting. I think the images I posted of a woman soaring to the top but then falling like a stone isn't Kamala but Elizabeth Warren, and it already happened when she lost the nomination. Sometimes readings are correct but with the wrong timing and that reading was over a year and a half ago, as I recall, and the event already happened. There is still much hope for this coming election.

Today, August 18, 2020, is a very important day for the collective.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which made it possible for people to vote regardless of their gender.

One hundred years ago, in Nashville, a young man from a small town of Niota, TN, came to vote on this issue.  At this point, 35 states had ratified the amendment, but 36 were needed to make it into law.  Out of the states who had not yet voted, Tennessee was the only one willing to take up the issue before the end of the legislative calendar.

The area was very contentious.  Activists on both sides marched around the capital building.  Women who supported voting rights begged and pleaded with the representatives as they walked in.  On the other side, people argued that if women were allowed to vote, then they would demand fair voting for African Americans, Prohibition against Alcohol, and more pro-labor support, which threatened the rich corporate owners.  Threats of violence and kidnapping were rampant.  In short, the environment was filled with tension not unlike today, with both sides promising anarchy if they lost.

It was in this environment that young Harry Burns, the youngest representative in Tennessee at the time (who had just won his first election and was therefore the most junior of the representatives) came into the building.  He was wearing a red rose on his lapel.

The Suffragists were disappointed, of course.  If you wore a yellow rose, you were signaling that you supported women's right to vote.  A red rose meant that you opposed it.  A white rose meant that you were undecided.  This was basically a new type of "War of the Roses" playing out.

Tennessee held a vote to see if the vote on the 19th Amendment should be "tabled" (delayed), until the next session, which meant that the 19th Amendment likely wouldn't be ratified in 1920, as many states were trying to delay the vote as much as possible.  Twice they voted, and twice the vote came back as 48-48.

It was a tie vote.  So Tennessee had to vote on the 19th Amendment.  This was much to the dismay of all the representatives who hoped to avoid the decision, as they knew that they faced election in just a few short months, and now would be on record on a deeply contested issue.

They went through the vote again on this issue.  Everyone who voted for the 19th Amendment to be voted on predictably voted "aye," while those who wanted to delay the vote (least they receive backlash from back home) voted "nay."  The votes were basically the same as they were before.

Except for one.  Harry Burn, only 24 years old at the time, changed his vote from "nay" to "aye."

Many were shocked and thought they misheard him.  Why would a young, Republican representative from a very conservative state and without the same power structure in place that many of his colleagues had, would take this stand?

The answer lay in a letter he kept in his pocket.  A seven page letter from his mother, Febb Burn, who asked her son to vote for the Amendment.  

Harry Burn faced political pressure not much different from today.  Yet he listened to his mother and his conscience.  He voted yea, and freed American women from political bondage.

The Knoxville New Sentinel said it best:

There is a young man from Niota

who for precedent cares no iota

he sprung a surprise

when he flopped to the 'ayes',

and enraptured the feminine voter!

Despite some threats from the opposition, Burn went on to win reelection in November 1920 and served his state for several more terms.  Also, the country never devolved into the anarchy promised by those who keep trying and failing to limit others with lies and fear.  Women went on and voted without it resorting to conflict.

Sometimes light workers come from the most unlikely of places.  And even in this dark time when conflict seems all but certain, we may be surprised to find that the actions of one person or even a small group may tip the balance to light when we least expect it to.

So I was without power for over a week, (but we have a generator) but was really tough was not having cable/Internet. When the guy came to fix it this weekend we got to talk to him and it turns out he said he voted for the Orange nightmare in 2016, but that he was definitely not doing so this time - he was voting for Biden AND he said he didn't see how he could ever vote republican again!! (YAY) (he usually did I guess). We happen to have a couple crazy neighbors. One of them came up to him and started talking to the cable guy. We came back to talk to him some more and he said to us "your neighbor is batshit crazy!  Our neighbor is a tRumpus supporter and she told our cable guy that she heard [removed] These folks who are staunch supporters, many of them seem to be believing the QAnon stuff too. It's nuts!!!!! ? ? ? 

@allyn Oh Allyn, thank you so much for this post, it brings joy to my hart and a promise to our future. as always you are a light in an dark time.  Thank You.

Tonight’s convention with the vote from all the states warmed my heart. Jill And Joe’s story is Beautiful and a story of hope and wholeness. We need this.

I nearly cried the last 15 minutes of the DNC and I never really ever watch the conventions - so boring. I have new found respect for Jill Biden - wow what a strong, kind woman. And who knew she was such a hottie too? Where I nearly lost it was when she remarked that while Beau lay dying, the Secret Service agents around them, who are not supposed to make any personal comments, would whisper to her as she walked by them, "We're praying for all of you, we're so sorry."

IMHO they should keep this TV format going forward, there's no reason for a long, boring, in person convention.  The only time I bailed a bit was during the delegate vote roll call - I went to clean up my kitchen (left at Florida, was back by Ohio).

 My only complaint is that I still hate John Kasich. Sorry, nice of you to drop by at a crossroads with your anti-fascist comments, however your theocratic leanings and anti-choice legislations are still there and in the way of modern progressivism. So thanks, and now piss off.

@Laura-f That speech, thank you for posting about it.  I just watched it and, through the tears, I am now so inspired.  Going to "put my shoulders back" (her words) and move forward to a hope-filled future. 

@paul-w. Paul, it is so nice to see you posting here again.  I hadn't realized you were back!  The only "fact" I know about Clinton and women, other than what we learned about him and Monica Lewinsky, is from a friend of mine whose husband worked at a high level during his administration 25 years ago.  She said that when she was at a presidential function, Clinton made everyone in the room feel like she was the focus of his attention.  That is a womanizer trait, and I am NOT a fan of womanizers, but it has zero to do with underage girls.

@triciact I am also acquainted with a frustrating number of Q supporters. Every day I write a post I do not post out of sheer frustration. As I said before, I seek the magic words for the damage being done and to shake them out of it. I don't have them. Today though I see some echos in Michelle's speech. Her motto when they go low we go high meant a lot of people ignored the damage rather than faced it. The same with the guru, the aliens that will save us from ourselves, the Big Daddy in the sky spirituality we find safety in. I think we are learning no one is coming to save us, it is us that must empower the change. Our inner child that seeks comfort is wounded and as it grows and heals into the wise part of us taking responsibility for that change seems possible.

For every area of growth required there is a Q saying that holds people inactive, angry or suspicious. 

I too spent a few years living above it all. It's not really safer or more productive. 

There is a time to back away and focus on who really is ready. 

@laura-f

Loved loved this reply. I cried all the way through her speech.  Loved it and her! 

Kamala is a beautiful goddess, wow I have such positive chills looking at her and hearing her.  

Obama, wow wow wow, it’s beyond amazing.  He’s so poetic and inspires your attention. 

share the love and light 

Everyone was fantastic, especially KAMALA AND OBAMA. 

BUT the speech that made me cry was Gabby Giffords,  She is from my home state.

I knew who she was before she was shot in the head.  I remember exactly where I was when the shooting occurred.  I spent the day in prayer for her and the others shot.  I remember how her husband  Astronaught Mark Kelly got on a plane to fly to her, not knowing for hours if she were alive or dead.  I remember the media announcing she had died while he was in mid-flight.  I remember being amazed at her recovery. I still am.  

She will always be an example of how to NEVER give up.  

I am so happy Biden asked her to speak.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/gabby-giffords-recovery-resilience-dnc/index.html