Pete Buttigieg is a brilliant communicator. A great speech both in content and delivery. Here's how he wrapped it up.

Oprah hits JD Vance (without mentioning his name) for the "childless cat ladies" remark

"That is the best of America" -- Oprah pumps up the crowd with her endorsement of Kamala Harris, emphasizing that both of Harris's parents were immigrants

Oprah: There's a certain candidate who says if we just go to the polls this one time, we'll never have to do it again. Well you know what? You're looking at a registered independent who is proud to vote again and again because I'm an American and that's what Americans do.

Oprah: We are Americans. Let us choose loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to any individual. Let us choose over optimism over cynicism. Because that's the best of America. Let us choose common sense over nonsense. We won't go back. (note the people crying in the crowd)

cool hype video for Tim Walz, including testimonials from his former students and members of the Gay-Straight Alliance he advised

Wes Moore: "I joined the Army when I was 17. In fact, I had to ask my mom to sign the paperwork for me because I don't have bone spurs."

Wes Moore: "Loving your country does not mean lying about its history."

Buttigieg: "Here's a sentence I never thought I'd hear myself saying. I'm Pete Buttigieg, and you might recognize me from Fox News."

Buttigieg starts in on Trump, then says, "don't even get me started on his running mate. At least Mike Pence was polite. JD Vance is one of those guys who thinks if you don't live the life he has in mind for you, you don't count... America is ready for a better kind of politics"

Buttigieg: "The existence of my family is just one example of something that was literally impossible as recently as 25 years ago when an anxious teenage in Indiana wondered if he'd ever find belonging in this world ... that didn't just happen. It was brought about."

Here's the entirety of John Legend's performance with Shiela E. at the DNC. I'd like to think Prince would be proud.

Tim Walz's old football team is in the house!

Walz gets a big reception

Walz: "It's the honor of my life to accept your nomination for vice president of the United States ... thank you for bringing the joy to this fight."

Tim Walz ticks through his upbringing, including the early death of his father, and says: "Thank God for Social Security survivor benefits and thank God for the GI Bill that allowed my dad and me to go to college and millions of other Americans."

Walz: So there I was -- a 40-something high school teacher with little kids, zero political experience, and no money running in a deep red district. But you know what? Never underestimate a high school teacher.

Walz on his tenure as governor of Minnesota: "While other states were banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours." And then he says about reproductive rights: "We're got a golden rule -- mind your own damn business."

Walz: I know guns. I'm a veteran, I'm a hunter. I was a better shot than most of the Republicans in Congress and I got the trophies to prove it. But I'm also a dad. I believe in the 2nd Amendment, but I believe our first responsibility is to keep our kids safe.

adding the excellent Tim Walz hype video to my thread 👇

Walz on Project 2025: It's an agenda that does nothing for our neighbors in need. Is it weird? Absolutely. But it's also wrong. And it's dangerous.

Walz: "I don't know about you, but I'm really to turn the page on these guys. We've got something better to offer the American people."

"Health care and housing are human rights. And the government stays the hell out of your bedroom!" -- Walz ends his DNC speech on a rousing note, and the music afterward is Neil Young's "Keep On Rocking in the Free World," which is one of the greatest rock songs ever IMO

OMG I missed Walz's son Gus crying and saying "that's my dad!" when his dad shouted him out. What a moment.

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