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Congressional Dish

CD299: DNC 2024

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On the ground coverage of the Democratic National Convention, which was not as joyful and unified as the party wanted it to seem. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via Support Congressional Dish via (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: [email protected] Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or [email protected] Use your bank’s online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Background Sources Ballot Deadline Reuters Fact Check. July 30, 2024. Reuters. Biden’s Speech: Stop Arming Israel Banner C-SPAN. Democracy Now! on YouTube. Rep. Ro Khanna on the Young Turks The Young Turks (@TheYoungTurks). August 23, 2024. AIPAC Spending Joan E Greve et al. April 22, 2024. The Guardian. Gaza Death Toll Malak A Tantesh and Emma Graham-Harrison. August 15, 2024. The Guardian. Harris Speech August 22, 2024. C-SPAN. Music by Editing Production Assistance

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0:00.0

If this is what democracy looks like to these people, lights off on any signs of dissent

0:06.0

while celebrating the voteless anointing of their chosen insiders,

0:10.4

if that's what democracy looks like, we are in a world of trouble.

0:14.0

And no matter how many amazing singers or sports coaches or sports stars or

0:20.0

Oprah's appeared on the stage, I could not shake this moment. I will never shake that moment.

0:27.3

And as soon as the literal sign of disunity was purged from the arena. The lights were turned back on and the

0:34.9

fake unity show continued.

0:37.0

I am so damn tired of being lied too.

0:50.0

I don't think I can't deny it anymore. You can't stick to your story if you think it flies

1:01.0

But I'm not going to buy it anymore.

1:08.0

Hello, my friend and thank you for listening to the 299th episode of this listener supported podcast called Congressional Dish.

1:14.9

I'm your host Jennifer Briny.

1:16.7

And in today's episode, I'm going to tell you today about the Democratic National

1:20.9

Convention, which is the convention that was held to formally

1:25.5

nominate the Democratic Party's nominee for president, and I'm going to talk about it today

1:30.0

because I was there. I was on the ground in the arena, at least most of the time.

1:35.0

And today I'm going to tell you the story of the convention that you probably didn't see on television.

1:40.0

Because from what I've seen of the coverage, the American people who bothered to watch,

1:46.0

seem to have been led to believe that the Democratic Party is in total unity right now.

1:52.0

We all love Kamala. There's so much joy! But on the

1:56.3

ground in events that were literally hidden from public view as much as possible by

2:00.7

the Democratic Party, well it seemed very clear to me that the

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