Hello there, and welcome to: “Back to Bed with Susie Bright.”
This is the week of July 26, 2024. If you can consider subscribing, thank you.
I am STOKED. And I’m surprised I’m this stoked.
Kamala Harris - talk about the right time. It’s like she was made in the kitchen for just this moment.
I love her energy, freshness, GenX sense of humor, and absolutely zero tolerance for Trump nonsense.
Maybe the most: Her depth-charge understanding of how women have HAD IT UP TO HERE.
I’ve got a lot to cover on this show:
Generation Jones? - Yes, me too!
Harris’ Berkeley parents, like mine, came to UC and met each other in a midcentury campus of great idealism, and a sense of colonial shift. My mom and dad were Sanskrit scholars, which was considered a “must” classical language at the time. I’m very interested in Kamala’s mother’s Madras (now Chennai) background.
Kamala means “Lotus” in Sanskrit, and the first person who finds me a “LOTUS FOR POTUS” t-shirt gets a big kiss!
I am very curious how her presidency would regard Modi, the current rightwing Hindi-nationalist “strong man” of India. Kamala’s Indian grandfather would have been appalled by Modi — he taught her the caste system and discrimination had no place in liberated India.
Here’s a few remarks of her memories of him and early years in India. Obviously made a big impression . . .
California insider note: I voted for Loretta Sanchez when she and Kamala fought for the same Senate seat! At the time, I opposed her Tough Cop routine. Now, with Trump, “law and order” zealot is perfect!
Also on today’s show, I’ll talk about Joe Biden’s health and what we can expect to see next.
And, what about the VP choices and their surrounding gossip of the moment?
I have a few takes and no matter what— they can each keep dragging JD Vance by the beard every day!
Finally, the most important part: Us. This election is not a spectator sport. I have some organizing and conversational tactics to share, whether you’re dealing with apathy, assholes, or nihilism. ;-)
We are going to turn around the idea that this is happening “to us” rather than our lives making the difference.
I don’t have a “Drunk Racist Uncle” who disrupts Sunday dinners— although I sure laugh at the Saturday Night Live renditions.
Instead, I have a lot of friends who think politics has nothing to do with them, that there’s no difference between the candidates, or that it’s all a load of crap. I also have many friends on the Left, who simply are judging whether this is worth sinking their leverage into. Considering the alternative: Yes.
What I do is start with that little grain of truth in their disposition, and go from there. This is a popular front, oldschool, and we have our work cut out for us.
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Clits Up!
Susie
Susie on Kamala, Joe, the VP Dating Game— Oh yeah, & Us!