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DNC Night 3 - Live Discussion

article image placeholderWatch Live: DNC Day 3 - Featuring Speeches from Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, & Hillary Clinton
Hello to all the swell casters out there. This is Taylor. Happy Wednesday. Tonight is Day three of the Democratic National Convention from home, and there are a number of what you might call heavy hitters scheduled to speak this evening. Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren will be speaking. And at some point during the coverage, twoterm President Barack Obama will give us his thoughts on the nomination of his former VP, Joe Biden as this year's presidential nominee for the Democratic Party

Let us know your thoughts! #dnc2020 #election2020 #politics https://youtu.be/XbQNpmkE8l8

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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 0:48
Well, I really, really hate that our only choices to choose from is Biden Kamala Harris, who I really don't like. It's a sad day. It's a really sad day, but I guess we have to pick from the lesser of the two evils. And to be honest, I wish they had a an option of none of the above only option, but they don't. But I'll be here watching
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@marlove22
Marla Liebling
@marlove22 · 0:21
Well, I would have loved to have heard who the gentleman would have picked when he said that it was the lesser of two options between Biden and Trump. But he did so that's frightening to me
@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 1:00
But, I mean, I'm still undecided right now, and it's scary to me, too, because all of the candidates, none of them are any good. And the choices they've given us is bullshit, but it's the American system. It's the only system we got. So I guess we got to just work with something that we know is broke instead of trying to fix it. So, I don't know
@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 1:30

Obama's speech is the one I really want to hear.

I'm expecting it to be very pointed, and I'm expecting it to be pretty relentless. So that's the one I'll be watching for tonight. So I'll be interested to see how Hillary Clinton positions hers. I'm not sure whether she's going to leave a lot of this alone and knowing that Barack Obama is going to be attacking a lot of it. But I'm sure she has a couple of things to say as well. So it'll be curious to see that
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:03

https://bit.ly/329dqQd @Mtwadamela

Mtwa when you get a moment not on this topic, but do read this article goes a lot towards explaining your with Harris, but I would ask that you read the last few paragraphs which talks about Pence's record when it comes to criminal justice reform. So you really have to look at Pence's record on criminal justice reform as well. Yes, I do agree on the lesser of two evils and don't lose sight of the fact that really this is about Biden
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 1:06
But yeah, I can't wait either. I'm actually going back and forth between this and the NBA basketball games. I love basketball and it is the playoffs, but I'm going to try to catch Barack. Hopefully I'm going to have my notifications turned up on my phone, too, because I know you all will be talking about it as it goes on, so I'll hear it and that swell. Remind me to get back back on here and listen to what everybody else is saying
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 1:39
Does it feel better to have a white man screw over me or a black woman screw over me? To me personally, it feels worse if a black person screws over me because I don't really expect or want that. I kind of expect that from whites, but I don't really expect it from my own. But I know it happens. I'm not stupid. I'm not naive, but this is really a tough one for me. It really is because neither one of them
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@mkliebmann
M.K. Liebmann
@mkliebmann · 4:04
I'm somebody who came out very early in support of her, and then she kind of gravitated towards this sort of neoliberal identity politics. And what do I mean by neoliberal identity politics? So neoliberal identity politics is fundamentally different from when we talk about identity politics because it really refers to the concept of black faces in high places. And I don't really like saying that so much as a white person because I'm aware of the racial sensitivity of framing it in such a way
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 0:49
A lot of us are just going get caught up in how she looks and her smile and all that s*** and not knowing that she will throw your a** under the prison and swallow the key, see something else
@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 0:46
I'm just totally disgusted because they're all they're bringing up all these black celebrities. And, you know, the pressure is on, like, we're all supposed to vote for her just because she's black. And I'm just this is just one black man. I'm not going out like, like that this time. I'm sick of that. These politicians take advantage of us because we want that clown Trump out of office
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 3:07
They were taking out dining tables and chairs out of day rooms and putting bunk beds in there. They were bringing mobile homes, trailers onto the yards and setting them up as doctor's office because it was so many people in there. The medical service was pure s***. People were dying. It was just all f***** up. And she helped keep it going. And then, of course, she's going to turn around and try to deny it
@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 1:12
They're not going to do nothing for us, period. They're not doing nothing for us. This is for them. What are they doing for us? Nothing. Every four years. They come by and kiss some babies and take some pictures and we fall for it every time. It's it's disheartening and it's disgusting. I mean, really, truly, it is. But I don't know. It's
@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:35
It's the same choices I think we face in daily life, professionally. Personally, there are so many choices where we just have to choose between a rock and a hard place. But we still have to make the choice between a rock and a hard place. And I'm hoping that what we hear today and what we hear tomorrow. I really liked everything I heard from Jill Biden yesterday. Personally, I thought that she really showed me a window into who Joe Biden as a human really is
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 2:01
Maybe Kamala will say something. I'm going to be listening. Maybe she will say something and then maybe if she owns up to that s***, own up to it. If you want people like me, you know what I'm saying? To even consider voting for you after all that bullshit you done did to us. You need to convince me. You need to go on address it. Get the elephant out the room. Address that s***
@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 1:20
I do not want to see that black woman or not. If you're telling me as a black man, the only way we can have a black female as President is it's got to be heard. And I would say, let's not have a black female President
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 0:54
So that alone tells you that the whole thing is rigged. It's set up and it's rigged. And then they want us to play along every four years. They want us to play along, wave the flags and sing the songs and shake hands and take pictures with them and and sing their praises like they're going to really change s***. And we know they're not going to change anything
@mkliebmann
M.K. Liebmann
@mkliebmann · 3:49
We don't have ranked choice voting. We have two parties and an Oligarchy in charge of both. So yes, some people who live in States that play are going to have to make a choice between the two. And what I will say to that effect is that for our Supreme Court, we cannot afford another four years of Donald Trump. But please do not expect me in the state of California to have to choose between the lesser of two evils because I don't need to
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 3:14
A real change, not just voting for the lesser of two evils. Because I'm with you. I don't want to vote for the lesser of two evils. I'm sick of that because too many times the lesser of two evils turns into the greater of two evils. This whole system, we have choices. You're right. We have choices
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@mkliebmann
M.K. Liebmann
@mkliebmann · 2:28
It's one thing to have to get people riled up to go out and do their duty in States that matter and vote out Donald Trump. But it's a step too far when you really try to make the argument built on and a stack of playing cards of lies, a Howie of cards, if you will, that Joe Biden, that his policies with Kamala Harris are somehow going to take back power from Oligarchs. Give me a break
@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:26

President Obama 🙏

Just wanted to say that President Obama's speech was extremely inspirational. And I think he made the best argument I have heard till date on the importance of this election and the need to vote. So I just want to say thank you to President Obama
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 4:27
And she fits the mold of what I think America would because she has to be good looking and Kamala's beautiful. She's a pretty woman, and that's part of her appeal. And it's not her fault. It's not her fault. She looks the way she looks. It's the world's fault for showing favoritism towards people that are really good looking. And that's just the way it is. So in that aspect, she's a good person pick
@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 3:49

Is the discussion of policy or plans gone from this process?

But I think we run the risk of that, and then it's always going to become an attack of the other party, and the pendulum will just swing wider and wider. And that really came home to me tonight that we haven't talked much policy at all. And I think that may be gone for good in the foreseeable future. And that'll be a spade
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 4:36
Yeah. I gotta agree that it's not about policy. You know, most most of the people that I listen to and I talk to, very few of them are saying they're voting for one of the candidates because of policies and they can articulate the policies. Most of it just has to do with Howie. I like him or he's funny or he says this or he does that. That's just the way it is. That's just the world we live in
@Howie
Howie Rubin
@Howie · 0:42
Hey, Martha, I just want to tell you that I admire you for your willingness to speak out and to be on a hot seat. I have a couple of questions that I would like to ask you. Number one is if you had your choice of candidates, who would you pick to be running for President and vice President in the United States?
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