Continued from Part 1!
Then, the much beloved, much missed leader of the free world from 2008 – 2016 took the stage:
Michelle walking into the DNC pic.twitter.com/4VCPrtB8cb
— 💫 (@heyjaeee) August 21, 2024
I lowkey want Michelle to open with "Nevermind all that 'we go high.' My bad."
— Naima Cochrane (@naima) August 21, 2024
Folks, it was a barn burner.
“Who’s gonna tell him the job he is currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?” – Michelle Obama pic.twitter.com/tGFvVGMzpO
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 21, 2024
New meme alert https://t.co/KUuWiaWxmj pic.twitter.com/fxvgWGctyB
— Kevín (@KevOnStage) August 21, 2024
"Who's going to tell him the job he's seeking might be one of those 'Black jobs?'"
— Ali B (@wtflanksteak) August 21, 2024
MICHELLE!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/lLrtIIVidr
“The affirmative action of generational wealth” is such a banger
— Jerusalem (@JerusalemDemsas) August 21, 2024
pic.twitter.com/fpYWtWSUiG https://t.co/ntYN5Nr8gA
— Ashley Reese (@offbeatorbit) August 21, 2024
“The affirmative action of generational wealth.” pic.twitter.com/IWvWRqTpCq
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) August 21, 2024
Michelle Obama is fantastic: "We cannot be our own worst enemies. The minute something goes wrong, the minute a lie takes hold, folks, we cannot start ringing our hands. We cannot get a goldilocks complex about whether everything is just right. We cannot indulge our anxieties." pic.twitter.com/wrOy2wJqon
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 21, 2024
Update 19/10. https://t.co/z1r1GwXYsr
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 21, 2024
Michelle Obama has to be the most talented politician to have never run for office, right?
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) August 21, 2024
There are upper middle class professionals with multiple graduate degrees who would gladly commit seppuku if Michelle Obama even hinted that it would please her.
— Bill McKay (@McKay4Senate) August 21, 2024
michelle obama’s speech making me feel like i can fight the moon and win
— Matt Bellassai (@MattBellassai) August 21, 2024
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/5M05bhyaXx
— stas (@yourgirlayedub) August 21, 2024
anyway here is michelle obama’s husband
— David Mack (@davidmackau) August 21, 2024
So today’s convention theme is “men who married well.”
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) August 21, 2024
Michelle Obama handing the stage to Barack Obama was the political equivalent of chugging a pre-regulation Four Loko for every viewer born in the 1980s/early 1990s:
there is a cohort of american millennials for whom the obamas still activate what is basically firmware-level programming
— Robinson Meyer (@robinsonmeyer) August 21, 2024
If you were a teenager in 2008, hearing either Obama speak will activate the sleeper cell cringe liberal within. https://t.co/CzzJfTqQFB
— Rohita Kadambi (@RohitaKadambi) August 21, 2024
Barack looks like every one of my tax dollars paid for that suit. Gahtdamm.
— April (@ReignOfApril) August 21, 2024
first of all there are a couple songs I left off my playlist. let me be clear, the new charley bliss lp is a stunning return to form pic.twitter.com/mYFAXMQCwh
— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) August 21, 2024
This guy sounds creepily similar to Josh Shapiro
— David Klion (@DavidKlion) August 21, 2024
Ok this is a perfect comedic delivery. pic.twitter.com/7ZOUaG9j19
— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) August 21, 2024
Say what you will, really does have that X-factor, how he got so far. Sells a juvenile joke with a face and a little gesture, can’t teach that at President School https://t.co/QDVFTeiVdT
— Mr. Chau (@Srirachachau) August 21, 2024
Gwen Walz’s reaction to Obama’s mention of Tim Walz’s flannel shirts is everything. pic.twitter.com/w3r01ix1G9
— Chris Strider (@stridinstrider) August 21, 2024
Kristen Wiig, boy do I have a job for you come Saturday nights. https://t.co/FGLh5PWSRt
— Samantha Bush (@stillonzoloft) August 21, 2024
But after the jokes, he talked policy…
Obama, in prime time, goes full YIMBY on housing at the DNC and gets massive applause: "We need to chart a new way forward…we need to build more units & clear away some of the outdated laws & regulations that made it harder to build homes for working people." pic.twitter.com/ianbMLWm9t
— Jordan Grimes 🌴🥥 (@cafedujord) August 21, 2024
and dropped the remix of the 2004 DNC speech:
Obama: We live in a culture that puts a premium on things that don't last. Money, fame, status, likes. We chase the approval of strangers on our phones. We build all walls and fences around ourselves, and then we wonder why we feel so alone. pic.twitter.com/gK776b2z2q
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 21, 2024
Probably the most concise/comprehensive attack on Trump-ism (vs. Trump himself).
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) August 21, 2024
Trump, Obama says, represents a broader societal drift toward isolation, fame-thirst & need "to chase the approval of strangers on our phones."
(Which is what posting on this site is all about 🙂) https://t.co/0OZy0T9DuG
You look at both the YIMBY section of his speech and this dig at cancel culture and you see that Obama doesn’t just deploy some ineffable “charisma,” he displays refreshing ability to think independently of the progressive borg. pic.twitter.com/2szVn4Ck2Q
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 21, 2024
yimbyism, cell phones being bad…is this a political speech or the table of contents of the atlantic…
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) August 21, 2024
Barack Obama has the unique ability to both calm us about our state of affairs and convince us we need to act – the balance to inspire without making us feel overwhelmed by the sheer scope of it all. He reminds us who we are as humans and how much we can (and will) do together.
— Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) August 21, 2024
I’m being very serious when I say that if there were no term limits, he would still be President lmfao https://t.co/81cJW7kFDV
— A🦁 (@itsYDG2) August 21, 2024
michelle and barack obama pic.twitter.com/vUa3DquJcZ
— jesse spector (@jessespector) August 21, 2024
Another successful night in the books.
I love the DNC because it’s the Eras Tour for liberals
— Simone (@girlpowertbh) August 21, 2024
We will build statues of Nancy Pelosi https://t.co/oPnDWiDjCI
— Giuseppe (@theJoeMichaell) August 21, 2024
[Ice-T voice] Turns out the DNC is laced with hope and nostalgia for the Obamas. Kids are calling it libmaxxing.
— Louis Peitzman (@LouisPeitzman) August 21, 2024
Alright, a few non-politics segments to keep it interesting.
These crazy kids just can’t figure it out.
The BEFORE trilogy, but it’s about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez reuniting every 20 years to give it another go https://t.co/rFpda6wvuY
— Isaac Feldberg (@isaacfeldberg) August 20, 2024
flags at half mast at dunkins across the country tomorrow 😦 https://t.co/2xJ7De4DRB
— khlo (@khlo_alexandria) August 20, 2024
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck when they get married again in 20 years pic.twitter.com/YN5pDQuct8
— Tom Zohar (@TomZohar) August 21, 2024
https://t.co/VeLFBQ3s6H pic.twitter.com/kTzcouo9ls
— keira (@kettlevinyl) August 20, 2024
Remember how Algerian boxer Imane Khelif announced she was taking legal action against JK Rowling and Elon Musk for online harassment?
if imane khelif really made jk rowling stop posting insane shit about trans people every day, then we should give her a nobel prize on top of the olympic medal
— John DiLillo (@JohnDiLillo) August 19, 2024
As someone who has been sued for a tweet, let me just say that deleting your posts in a panic is definitely the right thing to do and surely done under the advice of top flight legal counsel https://t.co/zHtYVzIcvT
— Will 🦥 Menaker (@willmenaker) August 21, 2024
Memory charm backfired https://t.co/M7yeHBdlNu
— Dave Jorgenson (not JD Vance) (@davejorgenson) August 21, 2024
Harry Potter finna be saying Allah-u-akbar when we finished with her https://t.co/239nU5HKtn
— Melech. (@MelechThomas) August 20, 2024
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