A friend who lives in The Villages of Florida shared with me pictures of a very large golf group there this morning with dozens of golf carts lined up and all sporting bright and bold Harris 2024 banners.
In the Land of Ron DeSatan with the Chump-loving Geriatrics, this is excellent.
Knowing what I know about The Villages, I am astounded and overjoyed. This is the community where several elderly people were found guilty of voting twice, for Trump.
America is awakening to the horrific enemy facing us.
Many of the people in The Villages vote against their self-interest because they are trapped in their unfounded grievances and hatreds. You could not pay me to live among thousands of miserable boomers. But it was good to see a number of them there who are actually decent people.
I use to wonder why many vote against their interests. Sort of like wondering why minorities support racist political parties ( and women members of a sexist party). But t as you’ve said, its anger and grievance nudged along by populist wedge issues. As soon as the middle class bought into Reagan’s mocking , “ I’m from the govt and here to help you”, that was the end of this American Dream class that didn’t understand the wealthy corporate elites do not care about them. Every social, medical support program that mostly benefitted the lower/working/middle class came from the progressive Democratic Party.
All true. Reagan did a terrible disservice to this country in more ways than I can count. Voting against your self-interest and well-being is common in the South. The working poor here have been lining up to vote for Republicans for decades now, who then proceed to strip them of whatever assistance they need.
I was shocked and thrilled at the same time when I learned residents of the Villages had a large gathering supporting VP Harris…times they are a changing!!
I’ve read over 500 golf carts were involved. If you’re familiar with the ultra conservative ethos of the Villages, you know how significant this is. One Republican participant was recorded saying how tired everyone is of the Trump negativity. They know Kamala will protect Medicare and Social Security. Very exciting.
I live surrounded by, but not in TV (can’t drink the Kool-Aid). Yesterday’s rally was organized by the local Democratic Party and was incredibly well attended. Of course the maggots were out to scream their hatred at them. The local police presence was huge. Check out the video!
Watching Democrats come out of the woodwork in MagaLand in such large numbers is just heartwarming. It feels like we’ve been in hibernation waiting for favorable conditions to finally emerge.
Yes they had a similar one in 2020 for Biden/Harris which was actually a little bigger w/300 golf carts. And while 200 carts showed up yesterday, there are 60K residents in The Villages and many more are Trump supporters. I have a dem friend who actually volunteered at the voting station in 2020 and she said the Trumpers were many and relentless.
That’s great. I am happy and I hope it continues and grows! Probably maybe about 2000 people total if each cart had 4 people. I just know they have 60K living in the community and I don’t want to get my hopes up too much.
We have friends whose sister and brother-in-law moved there a couple of years ago and they are huge Trumpers, especially his sister to the point of in your face. I would love to be there and see her stupid reaction and laugh about it, but I'll probably never see her again and so be it. As a side bar, I have a couple of new T-shirts and one screams STOP PROJECT 2025 and people that look like Trumpers have stopped me and said they like it. The other one is Veterans against Trump and I get the same reaction. By the time the election rolls around they will be worn out. We're going to win this election, we have too.
I have heard that generally speaking, The Villagers are a partying and pleasure-seeking crowd, but wisdom has oft been a feature of the old, and it looks like the real maturity among their group showed itself.
More and more of us will emerge from our funk of depression and disillusionment of having a declining elderly man running against a delusional crazy old man. I don't think I realized how dark I felt until the sun began to shine with Biden's decision and the energy and excitement around Kamala Harris. I realize we are still in the honeymoon phase, but it is a breath of fresh air which will fuel and empower us to work hard and unimpeded until November. Whew.
The early poll numbers are indicative of the significant number of americans who have been tuned out. With the unpopular Biden now..finally..out of the race those folks, mostly double haters, are now re-engaging and will likely be the key to defeating Trump. The Harris campaign would be wise to focus on those voters and we must all do what we can to assist in that process. There is certainly no shortage of ammo when it comes to attacking Trump/Vance. Lets get after it!
I believe wholeheartedly that the polls and media analysis hasn’t caught up with the impact of Harris in the race. Between more young people and women making certain that they vote, the Democratic Party will be in a landslide position. I don’t say this out of hope. I’m surrounded by younger women who are acting as if they woke up out of a bad dream. They are electrified volunteering and voting. Also, the polls and the media keeps getting it wrong, ignoring women’s justifiable anger at the old men who keep trying to push us around and control our bodies. We’ve had it and ‘WE’RE NOT GOING BACK.’
The voting public needs to be reassured she is backed by a real hero who can easily be identified s such and no one fits that mould better than Mark Kelly.
Neither our nation, nor the world can afford the creeping fascism that is encroaching on the Western world through the efforts pf Trump, Orban , Putin, Meloni.
Kamala and surrogates should play the age card and refer to Trump as an embittered eighty-year-old man. It forces Trump to deny being that old: "I'm only seventy-eight." OK, I guess that's different then, you're still a deeply embittered old man.
Kamala is doing a great job of attacking Trump's character and moral failures. She should also hammer away at his broken promises. Trump said the following at a bitcoin convention yesterday:
“You need tremendous amounts of electricity...and we’ll get that done. Who would think we can get that done? But we’re going to get it done. We’ll be using fossil fuel to make electricity because we’re going to have to. We’ll be using nuclear. We’ll be doing it in an environmentally friendly way, but we will be creating so much electricity that you’ll be saying, ‘Please, please, President, we don’t want any more electricity. We can’t stand it.’ You’ll be begging me, ‘No more electricity, sir, we have enough. We have enough.'” – Trump, speaking yesterday at a bitcoin convention.https://www.joemygod.com/2024/07/trump-tells-bitcoin-convention-hell-provide-so-much-energy-youll-beg-me-please-sir-no-more-electricity/
Will he fulfill those promises as well as he fulfilled promises to institute a better and cheaper health care plan than the ACA, to pass an infrastructure bill, or achieve 6% economic growth, or that COVID would magically disappear in 3 weeks? ?
No, the promises Trump keeps are to cut taxes for the wealthiest among us and end our hard fought for rights.
Also, is anyone else sick of his referencing himself as Sir? What an a-hole.
Parting shots, what an obvious contradiction, clean energy based on fossil fuels and nuclear power plants? How stuipid does he sound claiming people will beg him to stop producing so much electricity?
Tell your friends that 81% of the electrical power added to the USA grid in 2023 was solar and wind! It is cheaper than fossil fuels and the wind turbines do not KILL the birds Orange Idiot. Most birds are killed by flying into glass windows!!
...and windmills, contrary to the Orange Idiots statements, do not cause cancer.
It is disheartening to realize millions of Americans believe such nonsense. They also probably believe troops under George Washington successfully defended our airports during the Revolutionary War because Trump said so, that atomic bombs should be detonated in hurricanes to break them up, that Mexicans paid for a border wall, that Kim Jung Un is a loveable Teddy Bear, that Putin is a savvy genius and ........
The enthusiasm is real. We are not going back. We are moving forward with the wind at our backs. The future is bright when democracy wins. If VP Harris can keep up the attacks on Trump's character and point out to the American citizens that the rule of law means that nobody, not even former presidents is above it. I believe in this country and I still believe that in our divided houses truth will win the fight over the lies being spread like manure by Trump and his underlings. Truth still matters no matter how many lies are told. We must not let Donald's mendacity and arrogance ever hold office again.
Another hopeful message from Steve---so very welcome. A month ago I was depressed and resigned to losing. Now with an exciting candidate and a real chance to win I can’t help a rising anxiety. What if, despite all the good news, we still lose? I guess I’m a glass half empty person, even though I’ll do my darnedest---writing postcards, donating, volunteering. I just hope it’s enough. I have no confidence in the public at large to see the truth.
Hope is a good thing. That said, your concern is understandable. 63 million voted for him in 2016 and after 4 years of mostly insanity and chaos, and a last nearly year of epically failing to address and acknowledge a once in a century pandemic, that number grew to 74 million.
I doubt a Trump win would be a 'given' if we went to the polls today. Seems a 'tossup' to me, at present, and the 'awakening' is just beginning.
I hope Trump's wacky confessional stream this weekend before the 'Chrisitans he loves' that 'it will be fixed in four years, they won't have to vote' (paraphrasing) resonated loud and strong with Independents and Haley's Republicans and also pierced the media's cynicism and our 'Free Press' muscles up.
Hope is as infectious as despair, and Harris has indeed flipped the narrative to hope. I am extremely grateful. I am hopeful, but not yet confident and definitely not yet jubilant. But I've gotten the best sleep in months this past week, and my mental health is recovering.
I like what I'm reading to be the expected short list of Harris' VP picks. If true, any choice on the list will balance out the ticket. Again, I am grateful.
At risk of pushing my luck, I would be even more grateful if the Democrats would tack to the center. I would feel better if Harris would differentiate between a liberal Democrat and a leftist, and distance her and the party from the leftists.
Me, too, Kevin. I was in such empathy with President Biden though. He wanted to finish the work he had started but simply ran out of time. I want it never to be forgotten what a hero he is for rising above personal ambition to pass the baton. Something completely foreign in Trump, who is willing to destroy a country for his own pride.
There actually would be an economy, but it'd be governed by monopolist, corporatist crony capitalism. You can probably guess who the crony oligarchs would be.
Change? This is unleashed optimism. We, at last, have someone who is fully able to stand up to Trump and his minions, go toe-to-toe with him and, dare I say it?, kick his ass. At last, it’s a real race. Watch for two more bumps in the polls: when Kamala names a running mate and after the convention. The longer Trump looks and sounds desperate, the sooner his fans will realize that the emperor has no clothes. If we all get into this, there is hope.
By now, we all expect trash talk from Donald Trump; or “boy talk” as Melania so understandingly called it. This “boy” is in his late 70’s, lusts after his own daughter, had sex with Karen McDougle and Stormy Daniels while Melania was home with baby Barron. No way is Donald Trump fit to be held up as a respectable human being.
A friend who lives in The Villages of Florida shared with me pictures of a very large golf group there this morning with dozens of golf carts lined up and all sporting bright and bold Harris 2024 banners.
In the Land of Ron DeSatan with the Chump-loving Geriatrics, this is excellent.
Knowing what I know about The Villages, I am astounded and overjoyed. This is the community where several elderly people were found guilty of voting twice, for Trump.
America is awakening to the horrific enemy facing us.
I suppose someone handed them a copy of project 2025 and didn’t want to say goodbye to Medicare and Soc Sec.
Nor should they not want to.
Many of the people in The Villages vote against their self-interest because they are trapped in their unfounded grievances and hatreds. You could not pay me to live among thousands of miserable boomers. But it was good to see a number of them there who are actually decent people.
I use to wonder why many vote against their interests. Sort of like wondering why minorities support racist political parties ( and women members of a sexist party). But t as you’ve said, its anger and grievance nudged along by populist wedge issues. As soon as the middle class bought into Reagan’s mocking , “ I’m from the govt and here to help you”, that was the end of this American Dream class that didn’t understand the wealthy corporate elites do not care about them. Every social, medical support program that mostly benefitted the lower/working/middle class came from the progressive Democratic Party.
All true. Reagan did a terrible disservice to this country in more ways than I can count. Voting against your self-interest and well-being is common in the South. The working poor here have been lining up to vote for Republicans for decades now, who then proceed to strip them of whatever assistance they need.
I was shocked and thrilled at the same time when I learned residents of the Villages had a large gathering supporting VP Harris…times they are a changing!!
Agreed. I hope the pics are genuine.
They are, there are videos with audio!!
They are on fire for Harris
Great news!
It was all over the internet yesterday, swarms of golf carts driven by the ladies of The Villages, all voting for Kamala!
I’ve read over 500 golf carts were involved. If you’re familiar with the ultra conservative ethos of the Villages, you know how significant this is. One Republican participant was recorded saying how tired everyone is of the Trump negativity. They know Kamala will protect Medicare and Social Security. Very exciting.
https://www.villages-news.com/2024/07/27/excited-crowd-in-the-villages-shows-up-for-kamala-harris-rally/
I live surrounded by, but not in TV (can’t drink the Kool-Aid). Yesterday’s rally was organized by the local Democratic Party and was incredibly well attended. Of course the maggots were out to scream their hatred at them. The local police presence was huge. Check out the video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae5tiYxXgjA
Watching Democrats come out of the woodwork in MagaLand in such large numbers is just heartwarming. It feels like we’ve been in hibernation waiting for favorable conditions to finally emerge.
I swear I just got goosebumps seeing the video!!
Yes they had a similar one in 2020 for Biden/Harris which was actually a little bigger w/300 golf carts. And while 200 carts showed up yesterday, there are 60K residents in The Villages and many more are Trump supporters. I have a dem friend who actually volunteered at the voting station in 2020 and she said the Trumpers were many and relentless.
500 showed up yesterday.
That’s great. I am happy and I hope it continues and grows! Probably maybe about 2000 people total if each cart had 4 people. I just know they have 60K living in the community and I don’t want to get my hopes up too much.
Wow this is really shocking and just great news !!!
We have friends whose sister and brother-in-law moved there a couple of years ago and they are huge Trumpers, especially his sister to the point of in your face. I would love to be there and see her stupid reaction and laugh about it, but I'll probably never see her again and so be it. As a side bar, I have a couple of new T-shirts and one screams STOP PROJECT 2025 and people that look like Trumpers have stopped me and said they like it. The other one is Veterans against Trump and I get the same reaction. By the time the election rolls around they will be worn out. We're going to win this election, we have too.
Wow! in the Villages, of all places! Things are indeed looking up and moving up.
It was over 200 golf carts!!!!! 200, in The Villages of all places; just amazing
I have heard that generally speaking, The Villagers are a partying and pleasure-seeking crowd, but wisdom has oft been a feature of the old, and it looks like the real maturity among their group showed itself.
WOW!!!!!
More and more of us will emerge from our funk of depression and disillusionment of having a declining elderly man running against a delusional crazy old man. I don't think I realized how dark I felt until the sun began to shine with Biden's decision and the energy and excitement around Kamala Harris. I realize we are still in the honeymoon phase, but it is a breath of fresh air which will fuel and empower us to work hard and unimpeded until November. Whew.
I had the same feelings. I really diid not realize that I was actually depressed. The darkness has lifted. Thank you Kamala!
I KNEW I was depressed, just almost a feeling of lost hope, of inevitability. ☹️
But now I’m so hopeful & just dancing with excitement
It may be the honeymoon phase, but, I believe it’s the beginning of a very good marriage. The joy just keeps growing.
My sentiments exactly. Thanks for sharing
The early poll numbers are indicative of the significant number of americans who have been tuned out. With the unpopular Biden now..finally..out of the race those folks, mostly double haters, are now re-engaging and will likely be the key to defeating Trump. The Harris campaign would be wise to focus on those voters and we must all do what we can to assist in that process. There is certainly no shortage of ammo when it comes to attacking Trump/Vance. Lets get after it!
I believe wholeheartedly that the polls and media analysis hasn’t caught up with the impact of Harris in the race. Between more young people and women making certain that they vote, the Democratic Party will be in a landslide position. I don’t say this out of hope. I’m surrounded by younger women who are acting as if they woke up out of a bad dream. They are electrified volunteering and voting. Also, the polls and the media keeps getting it wrong, ignoring women’s justifiable anger at the old men who keep trying to push us around and control our bodies. We’ve had it and ‘WE’RE NOT GOING BACK.’
Do you read Jess Piper in Missouri? Her article today talks about just that! Young women getting involved, people coming out in big numbers!
Absolutely I read Jess Piper, been following her since I stumbled across her on Xitter about a yr ago!! She’s the bomb. 💣
The voting public needs to be reassured she is backed by a real hero who can easily be identified s such and no one fits that mould better than Mark Kelly.
Neither our nation, nor the world can afford the creeping fascism that is encroaching on the Western world through the efforts pf Trump, Orban , Putin, Meloni.
Our children depend on us.
Kamala and surrogates should play the age card and refer to Trump as an embittered eighty-year-old man. It forces Trump to deny being that old: "I'm only seventy-eight." OK, I guess that's different then, you're still a deeply embittered old man.
Not just embittered. Sick with greed and narcissism
Keep posting, Steve. Keep fighting for the light. We’re with you.
Kamala is doing a great job of attacking Trump's character and moral failures. She should also hammer away at his broken promises. Trump said the following at a bitcoin convention yesterday:
“You need tremendous amounts of electricity...and we’ll get that done. Who would think we can get that done? But we’re going to get it done. We’ll be using fossil fuel to make electricity because we’re going to have to. We’ll be using nuclear. We’ll be doing it in an environmentally friendly way, but we will be creating so much electricity that you’ll be saying, ‘Please, please, President, we don’t want any more electricity. We can’t stand it.’ You’ll be begging me, ‘No more electricity, sir, we have enough. We have enough.'” – Trump, speaking yesterday at a bitcoin convention.https://www.joemygod.com/2024/07/trump-tells-bitcoin-convention-hell-provide-so-much-energy-youll-beg-me-please-sir-no-more-electricity/
Will he fulfill those promises as well as he fulfilled promises to institute a better and cheaper health care plan than the ACA, to pass an infrastructure bill, or achieve 6% economic growth, or that COVID would magically disappear in 3 weeks? ?
No, the promises Trump keeps are to cut taxes for the wealthiest among us and end our hard fought for rights.
Also, is anyone else sick of his referencing himself as Sir? What an a-hole.
Parting shots, what an obvious contradiction, clean energy based on fossil fuels and nuclear power plants? How stuipid does he sound claiming people will beg him to stop producing so much electricity?
Thank you, Sir!😁
Tell your friends that 81% of the electrical power added to the USA grid in 2023 was solar and wind! It is cheaper than fossil fuels and the wind turbines do not KILL the birds Orange Idiot. Most birds are killed by flying into glass windows!!
...and windmills, contrary to the Orange Idiots statements, do not cause cancer.
It is disheartening to realize millions of Americans believe such nonsense. They also probably believe troops under George Washington successfully defended our airports during the Revolutionary War because Trump said so, that atomic bombs should be detonated in hurricanes to break them up, that Mexicans paid for a border wall, that Kim Jung Un is a loveable Teddy Bear, that Putin is a savvy genius and ........
I’ve heard that those Republican bitcoin bros are saying that he’s really weird. And they’re right, he’s weird & demented
The enthusiasm is real. We are not going back. We are moving forward with the wind at our backs. The future is bright when democracy wins. If VP Harris can keep up the attacks on Trump's character and point out to the American citizens that the rule of law means that nobody, not even former presidents is above it. I believe in this country and I still believe that in our divided houses truth will win the fight over the lies being spread like manure by Trump and his underlings. Truth still matters no matter how many lies are told. We must not let Donald's mendacity and arrogance ever hold office again.
Let’s go into these next 100 days with 👁️👁️ eye wide open 🇺🇸👀
Another hopeful message from Steve---so very welcome. A month ago I was depressed and resigned to losing. Now with an exciting candidate and a real chance to win I can’t help a rising anxiety. What if, despite all the good news, we still lose? I guess I’m a glass half empty person, even though I’ll do my darnedest---writing postcards, donating, volunteering. I just hope it’s enough. I have no confidence in the public at large to see the truth.
Hope is a good thing. That said, your concern is understandable. 63 million voted for him in 2016 and after 4 years of mostly insanity and chaos, and a last nearly year of epically failing to address and acknowledge a once in a century pandemic, that number grew to 74 million.
Since 2016, 30 million baby boomers are not with us anymore! No dead people voting for Trump!
So it’s a numbers game right? We can do this..get out the vote!
Sure we can and agreed. A numbers game in the right places that gets us to 270.
It’s all about Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin..
And a Harris/Cooper ticket might go a long way..
2 seniors here in PA...Kamala all the way. Our city is blue surrounded by red.
I doubt a Trump win would be a 'given' if we went to the polls today. Seems a 'tossup' to me, at present, and the 'awakening' is just beginning.
I hope Trump's wacky confessional stream this weekend before the 'Chrisitans he loves' that 'it will be fixed in four years, they won't have to vote' (paraphrasing) resonated loud and strong with Independents and Haley's Republicans and also pierced the media's cynicism and our 'Free Press' muscles up.
Thank you Steve, the
Lights are on high beam for Kamala Harris and the Dems. Let’s keep the positive vibes and get out the 💙💙votes for a win in November
Hope is as infectious as despair, and Harris has indeed flipped the narrative to hope. I am extremely grateful. I am hopeful, but not yet confident and definitely not yet jubilant. But I've gotten the best sleep in months this past week, and my mental health is recovering.
I like what I'm reading to be the expected short list of Harris' VP picks. If true, any choice on the list will balance out the ticket. Again, I am grateful.
At risk of pushing my luck, I would be even more grateful if the Democrats would tack to the center. I would feel better if Harris would differentiate between a liberal Democrat and a leftist, and distance her and the party from the leftists.
Me, too, Kevin. I was in such empathy with President Biden though. He wanted to finish the work he had started but simply ran out of time. I want it never to be forgotten what a hero he is for rising above personal ambition to pass the baton. Something completely foreign in Trump, who is willing to destroy a country for his own pride.
Go Kamala! Go Blue all the way!
Kevin, we Democrats stand for freedom and the other side wants a dictatorship! There will no economy if we turn into a dictatorship!
There actually would be an economy, but it'd be governed by monopolist, corporatist crony capitalism. You can probably guess who the crony oligarchs would be.
Don the Con and the rest of his grifter family!!! That guy has NOT worked an honest day in his whole life!!!
Change? This is unleashed optimism. We, at last, have someone who is fully able to stand up to Trump and his minions, go toe-to-toe with him and, dare I say it?, kick his ass. At last, it’s a real race. Watch for two more bumps in the polls: when Kamala names a running mate and after the convention. The longer Trump looks and sounds desperate, the sooner his fans will realize that the emperor has no clothes. If we all get into this, there is hope.
By now, we all expect trash talk from Donald Trump; or “boy talk” as Melania so understandingly called it. This “boy” is in his late 70’s, lusts after his own daughter, had sex with Karen McDougle and Stormy Daniels while Melania was home with baby Barron. No way is Donald Trump fit to be held up as a respectable human being.