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Autumn's JournalWhite Women Answer The Call: Kamala Harris Zoom Event Shatters Records And Raises Over $2 Million
The historic virtual event broke the record for the largest Zoom meeting ever and raised over $2 million in just under an hour.
The Zoom call, organized to rally support for VP Kamala Harris, featured high-profile speakers, including pop star Pink and actress Connie Britton. As the number of attendees swelled, the platform struggled to handle the load, eventually crashing and displaying a black screen with the message, “We’ll be right back.”
The technical glitches didn’t dampen the spirits of the participants, who remained enthusiastic and committed to the cause.
“We weren’t kidding when we said we broke Zoom,” quipped attendee Erin Gallagher when the video chat resumed. The event’s organizer, Shannon Watts, later posted on social media, “Kamala just broke Zoom again,” celebrating the historic turnout.
This massive mobilization of “White Women: Answer the Call” comes on the heels of a similar show of support from “Win With Black Women.” That virtual event saw over 44,000 Black women earlier in the week, who joined a zoom call to back VP Harris. The “Win With Black Men” zoom call swiftly followed the next day. Both events raising upwards of $1 million in the time frame of just a few hours
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2024/07/26/white-women-answer-the-call-kamala-harris-zoom-event-shatters-records-and-raises-over-2-million/
Elaine Kamarck a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution serves on the
Democratic Party Rules and Bylaws Committee says Biden can be replaced and has named who she thinks could replace him
What’s below are excerpts of a longer conversation conducted by phone
Is it unprecedented for a president to face this kind of challenge?
KAMARCK: No, it’s not unprecedented. You had it with (Jimmy) Carter. An incumbent president who everybody thought was going to lose, and so there was a check to him (by Sen. Edward Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention in 1980). Certainly LBJ (in 1968) was forced to step down, or he thought he was forced to step down, by a bad showing in the New Hampshire primary and his inability to win over the trust of the anti-war movement. So, yes, presidents have been in trouble before. They’ve never been in trouble for this reason, and never so late in the process.
Is it too late to replace Biden?
KAMARCK: No, it is not too late to replace him. Sort of legally, according to party rules, he could be replaced anytime up to the roll call at the convention. Politically, it’s very hard to replace him, because with the exception of his vice president, none of the people mentioned have risen to national stature. And their ability to talk to the Alabama delegates, as well as the Maine delegates as well as the Utah delegates is very truncated. And they don’t have time to develop it. We’re just running out of time.
(NOTE: Governors like Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer, Maryland’s Wes Moore and California’s Gavin Newsom are popular in their states and seen as potential future presidential candidates.)
So you think the only viable replacement is Vice President Kamala Harris?
KAMARCK: That’s right. That’s not according to the rules or anything, but realistically… think about who these 4,000 people are.
First of all, they’re all very loyal Biden people. So this would require Biden dropping out. Secondly, because she’s been a vice president, she knows them, right? My guess is, of those 4,000 people, she’s actually met a lot of them. That’s not the case for anybody else who’s been mentioned.
The 2028 bench is a very strong bench, which is good for the party, but none of them have gotten out of their states yet.
Should Democrats be talking about all of this right now?
KAMARCK: I think we have to be talking about this. And I think we have to be looking at him carefully. … None of us get to see the president every single day, so it’s very, very hard, and that’s why I think Democrats are taking their time to think about this. I went to the Democratic congressional retreat in February, sat 20 feet away from the president and watched him answer questions from Democratic members of the House. He was fantastic. I didn’t see any signs of mental fatigue or fogginess or anything like that. I thought he was fantastic.
That very day that I was there, the Hur report came out. It was a very surreal experience to see this report come across the wires on my phone, and to be watching the man who was quite in command of everything. I think there’s a human element to this that everybody’s missing, which is that these things can develop quickly. It’s really hard to tell how serious it is when you’re not with him every day. And so people are being cautious.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/biden-replacement-process-dnc/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
I think it would be very risky and I'm not sure Harris could beat Trump.
Biden's speech on supreme court actions.
Jon Stewart's Debate Analysis: Trump's Blatant Lies and Biden's Senior Moments
Fake normalness....remain upright??? 
U.N. Climate Chief Says Two Years to Save the Planet
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Governments, business leaders and development banks have two years to take action to avert far worse climate change, the U.N.'s climate chief said on Wednesday, in a speech that warned global warming is slipping down politicians' agendas.
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-04-10/u-n-climate-chief-says-two-years-to-save-the-planet#:~:text=April%2010%2C%202024%2C%20at%209%3A36%20a.m.&text=LONDON%2FBRUSSELS%20(Reuters)
Yet last year, the world's energy-related CO2 emissions increased to a record high. Current commitments to fight climate change would barely cut global emissions at all by 2030.
Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change said the next two years are "essential in saving our planet".
"We still have a chance to make greenhouse gas emissions tumble, with a new generation of national climate plans. But we need these stronger plans, now," he said.
Speaking at an event at the Chatham House think-tank in London, Stiell said the Group of 20 leading economic powers - together, responsible for 80% of global emissions - urgently needed to step up.
Liberals Need to Be Radicals
The agenda for Biden’s next term must go deeper to restore the American dream.
Media commentators are mystified about why Joe Biden has not gotten more credit for an improved economy, with inflation down nearly to pre-pandemic levels and job creation setting records. The reason is
not hard to grasp. None of the recent improvements have altered the basic situation of most Americans, in which reliable careers are scarce, college requires the burden of debt, health coverage is more expensive and less reliable, and housing is unaffordable.
The American dream of a good job, decent health care, homeownership, college education without crippling debt, and a better life for the next generation was once within reach of most Americans. Now, it’s far harder to attain. Even with a two-income family, the cost of good child care is excessive.
The remedies are all necessarily radical. Biden’s State of the Union address was directionally and rhetorically right. He called for containing Big Pharma to reduce drug prices, raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations to finance broad benefits such as housing down-payment subsidies and affordable child care, as well as protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare. But in a second term, and in his campaign to earn a second term, Biden needs to go a lot deeper.
Since Jimmy Carter, mainstream Democrats in the White House and Congress have been complicit in the corporate erosion of the American dream. They agreed to mixed public-private approaches that resulted in systems that were inefficient, lucrative to for-profit players, and impenetrably frustrating to ordinary citizens. Consider four emblematic cases of policy dead ends that now require radical remedies.
I believe that Biden is the only man who can fix this mess we are in.
This is my youngest Granddaughters first election.
We were getting ready to take our ballots to the drop off and she comes in and says "Here Grandma, another vote for Uncle Joseph."
Joseph was my Mom's brothers name.
In case anyone doesn't know, I adore that girl.
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